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Alaska Senator Ted Stevens has a problem! It's not that he was found guilty of seven felony corruption charges, and that he faces reelection just next week, and the entire Republican party is calling on him to resign. No, it's that he's stuck in Washington DC getting convicted of crimes and he can't debate his opponent, who is in Alaska! The solution? They are just going to dump this debate on the internet, as if it was a big truck. And the debate will get in line, and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material. [HuffPo]
Because it's a lovely spring Friday (with birds and sun and loud, thumping reggaeton) and because I'm on a never-ending quest to ruin this website, I thought I'd post another video blargh by everyone's favorite Broadway nut, Craig Stevens. Yeah, yeah. I know. He's a made-up character named after a voice teacher at NYU, but whatever. The videos are funny and depressing. In this installment the lil' diva recounts adventures at Spamalot, worries about work, gushes about some warbly Wicked actress, and reveals that (unbeknownst to him) he was hoodwinked by rascally Scientologists. Enjoy it after the jump. Or go outside.
Slate film critic Dana Stevens is temporarily off my shit list for correctly noting that "The Host" was one of the best 10 movies of 2007—I'd forgotten that! And it so was! Bonus: Remember how great Anthony Lane's review was? (And also Dana is A-OK for giving an honorable mention to the DVD release of "Idiocracy." Temporarily!) [Slate]
The subway hero who interceded on behalf of two Jews who'd been taking a beating for having had the temerity to offer up "Happy Hanukkah" as a response to "Merry Christmas" turns out to have been, of all things, a Muslim! The Post nails the nuanced situation by offering up "PEACE TRAIN" as the paper's cover today, referencing both the Q train where the situation occurred and the controversial decision of musician Cat Stevens (b. Steven Demetre Georgiou) to convert to Islam. Also, this is something that went down during the alleged hate crime: "One of the group immediately hiked up his sleeve to reveal a tattoo of Christ. 'He said, 'Happy Hanukkah, that's when the Jews killed Jesus.'" [NYP]
You know what? The Village Voice got it right with Rob Harvilla's review of Sufjan Stevens' precious and surely annoying symphony about the BQE. Hey Sufjan, how are those 46 other albums about every single state going? Yeah? I bet you're sorry you ever went down that path, aren't ya pal.
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TMZ.com: One of the scientists on Johnny 5's side, Fisher Stevens, ate at Mr. Chow on Friday night. "Short Circuit" cast member is alive!Timid Fisher kept his cool after a TMZ photog told him that "Repo Man" was one of his favorite movies -- even though... Read more