Hollowood

Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Sad news today - the death of James Doohan, aka Scotty on the original Star Trek series.

Via Llama Butchers

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

A not guilty verdict in a court of law does not necessarily mean the defendant is innocent of the crime for which he was accused.

And that’s all I’ll say about yesterday’s Jacko news.

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Today’s new odd celeb couple: Renee Zellweger and Kenny Chesney - married Monday.

I predict their marriage will suffer the same fate as Julia and Lyle’s. However, I pray that they manage to keep it together.

He’s a shorty, right? Isn’t she really tall? Not that there’s anything wrong with tall women being with short men. Maybe she’s just lean and petite and merely looks tall on screen.

Via: OTB

Thursday, April 28, 2005

Tom and Katie.

My first thought was - ew.

He’s 42. She’s 26.

Ew.

Although they are pretty together. But ... ew.

Friday, February 04, 2005

Via Rocket Jones, I learned of the death of Ossie Davis. Sad, indeed.

Generally speaking, it seems that the American political Left just doesn’t get it yet - why they keep losing. Dr. Joyner has a great post that touches on “Fascists and Nazis, Republicans and Democrats.”

On Fascism:

“Islamo-fascist" is not used merely to describe a set of ideas with which, presumably, virtually all Americans disagree. Rather, it describes the political credo that motivates a terrorist movement and its sympathizers. The facist label is used because the fascsist ideology, like Islamism, required an absolute fealty to a dogma issued by a central leadership, a totalitarian worship of that idea, and terroristic violence to kill or intimidate the opposition.

On Janeane Garofalo/Nazism:

“The inked fingers was disgusting,” said Garofalo, who is one of the hosts on the Air America radio network. “The inked fingers and the position of them, which is gonna be a ‘Daily Show’ photo already, of them signaling in this manner [Nazi salute], as if they have solidarity with the Iraqis who braved physical threats against their lives to vote as if somehow these inked-fingered Republicans have something to do with that.”

Given that, if Garofalo’s policy preferences had been enacted, Saddam Hussein would still be in power, this is an odd position indeed. All taxpaying Americans had something to do with the Iraqi vote, in that we financed it. Congressional Republicans have more to do with it than most, given that they supported the policies that led to the Iraqi elections against considerable political opposition at home.

He includes a bonus link to Victor Davis Hanson, who says:

If the American Left is furious over the loss of most of the nation’s governorships and legislatures, the U.S. House, the Senate, the presidency, and soon the Supreme Court, the Europeans themselves are furious over America’s power — as if Red America is to Blue America as America is to Europe itself. Thus how can a mongrel culture of Taco Bell, Bud Light, and Desperate Housewives project such military and political influence abroad when the soft, subtle triangulation of far more cultured diplomats and sophisticated intellectuals from France, Germany, and Scandinavia is ignored by thugs from Iran, North Korea, and most of the Middle East? Why would the world listen to a stumbling George Bush when it could be mesmerized by a poet, biographer, aristocrat, and metrosexual of the caliber of a Monsieur Dominique de Villepin? Why praise brave Iraqis lining up to vote, while at the same hour the defeated John Kerry somberly intones on Tim Russert’s show that he really did go into Cambodia to supply arms to the mass-murdering Khmer Rouge — a statement that either cannot be true or is almost an admission of being a party to crimes against humanity if it is.

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Perhaps the result of this frustration is that European intellectuals damn the United States for action in Iraq, but lament that they could do nothing in the Balkans. Democrats at home talk of the need for idealism abroad, but fear the dirty road of war that sometimes is part of that bargain — thus the retreat into “democracy is good, BUT...” So here we have the global throng that focuses on one purported American crime to the next, as it simmers in the luxury of its privilege, education, and sophistication — and exhibits little power, new ideas, intellectual seriousness, or relevance.

Ouch, indeed.

Go read the whole thing, as they say.

Tuesday, January 25, 2005

The short list can be found here.

I am gratified to see that The Passion ... was nominated for cinematography, make-up, and original score, although it’s a crying shame that the film and/or Mel Gibson weren’t recognized further. I do think that it’s an Oscar-worthy film on it’s artistic merits nevermind the spirituality of it.

What’s a shame also, is that because of the subject matter, so many in Hollowood missed out on a very good movie. Their shunning of it because it was religious and controversial is typically hypocritical and their loss.

I was also gratified to see that F-911 was shut out. Thank you, Academy.

Sunday, January 23, 2005

I, like many in my generation, grew up with Johnny Carson. So it was with great sadness that I learned that Johnny has died. I mourned his retirement and have missed him ever since in my infrequent late night TV viewing. He was one that I would stay up to watch on occasion. He was class and sweetness and humor all wrapped in one man and he was not replaced in Leno or Letterman, although both have tried to match his success.

Thanks for the belly laughs and tears of mirth, Johnny. We will miss you.

Saturday, January 08, 2005

Because apparently I missed the earth-shattering news of last night.

Hollywood glamour couple Brad Pitt (search) and Jennifer Aniston (search) have split, his publicist confirmed Friday.

“We would like to announce that after seven years together we have decided to formally separate,” the couple said in a statement.

“For those who follow these sorts of things, we would like to explain that our separation is not the result of any speculation reported by the tabloid media,” the actors said.

Courtesy: Lawren

Friday, January 07, 2005

Bill Whittle waxes philosophic about Michael Moore, Hollowood, and politics and manages a fantastic analogy to Pippin with the palantir in the process. There’s too much good stuff to excerpt, so just go read the whole thing.

By the way, Bill, The Love Boat guy is Fred Grandy.