PR-Inside.com Entertainment News (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
African-American actor BRANDON T. Jackson has hailed his TROPIC THUNDER co-star Robert DOWNEY JR. for his portrayal of a black man in the comedy. The Iron Man star plays a Caucasian actor who dyes his skin dark in order to land a film role written for an African-American. Jackson admits he had reservations about Downey’s character, Kirk [...]
Entertainment - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Robert Downey Jr. is earning praise for his portrayal of a white actor who plays an African-American character in the movie within a movie in Tropic Thunder. ...
The LiveDaily MP3 Blog (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
(LiveDaily.com) This week's LiveDaily Weekend podcast features tour, ticketing and music news about Robert Plant [ tickets ] & Alison Krauss [ tickets ] , Enrique Iglesias, The Who, the Eagles, Coheed and Cambria, Hanson, Lindsey Buckingham, Alan Jackson, James Blunt, Kid Rock, New Kids on the Block, Chris Isaak, Sugarland, Beck, Reba McEntire, Kelly Clarkson, Farm Aid, The Police, Guns N' Roses, B.B....
Right Wing News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Over at the Smirking Chimp, Ernest Partridge is riffing about evil, In words consistent with what I have read of, and about, Gustav Gilbert, he is portrayed in the 2000 TV film "Nuremberg," as telling the Head Prosecutor Robert Jackson...
Shining Light In Dark Corners (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
AlterNet1. World peace cannot be achieved without human rights and accountability. According to Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, chief American prosecutor at the Nuremberg Tribunals, "The ultimate step in avoiding periodic wars, which are inevitable in a system of international lawlessness, is to make statesmen responsible to law." Moving in that direction will be impossible unless such responsibility...
Stereohyped (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008 | Other
Brandon T. Jackson, Robert Downey Jr.’s black (in real life) costar in Tropic Thunder, the movie in which Downey plays a white actor who undergoes a surgical procedure to make himself black, says that the controversial-ish role is fine with him. “When I first read the script, I was like, ‘What? Black face?’ But when [...]
The Viking Age (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The Vikings go into camp with 80 men on their roster, and will have to trim that to 53 by the time the season starts. The current position-by-position breakdown follows the jump (depth chart positions subject to debate in some cases; starters in italics): Offense Quarterback Tarvaris Jackson Gus Frerotte John David Booty Brooks Bollinger Running Back Adrian Peterson Chester Taylor Maurice Hicks Albert...
The Indypendent (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The Exiles directed by Kent Mackenzie Milestone Films, 1961 “I’m not going to let you know how scared I sometimes get of history and its ways,” declares Jackson Jackson, the young Spokane (Wash.) narrator of Sherman Alexie’s “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” (from Ten Little Indians), “I’m a strong man, and I know that silence is the [...]
Pepys' Diary (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
As soon as up I among my goldsmiths, Sir Robert Viner and Colvill , and there got 10,000 l. of my new tallys accepted, and so I made it my work to find out Mr. Mervin and sent for others to come with their bills of Exchange, as Captain Hewett , &c., and sent for Mr. Jackson , but he was not in town. So all the morning at the office , and after dinner, which was very late, I to Sir R. Viner's , by...
UPTOWNflavor (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
You Are Cordially Invited To Join Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe and Council Member Robert Jackson At a Ceremony To Name the Promenade at the Heather Garden In Honor of Stan Michels In Recognition of His Years of Dedicated Public Service and Steadfast Support for Our Parks Thursday, July 24, 2008 4:00 p.m. Fort Tryon Park Margaret Corbin Circle Fort Washington Avenue north of West 190th Street RSVP:...
BlogHer (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Rep. John Conyers has announced that next week, he will hold hearings on "serious credible allegations of misconduct" by the Bush administration over the last several years. Those allegations include evidence of torture reported by Physicians for Human Rights last month. In the Preface to that report, Ret. Major Gen. Antonio Taguba asserted:
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Activist shareholder Eric Jackson has some advice for all the little guys out there holding Yahoo shares: Come August 1, split the difference on the Yahoo board between the current directors and Carl Icahn’s alternative slate. If a majority of the board is replaced, the poison-pill severance package might be triggered. So [...]
Unfortune (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Activist shareholder Eric Jackson has some advice for all the little guys out there holding Yahoo shares: Come August 1, split the difference on the Yahoo board between the current directors and Carl Icahn’s alternative slate. If a majority of the board is replaced, the poison-pill severance package might be triggered. So [...]
FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Another TV spot for Ben Stiller’s “Tropic Thunder” is online. Ben Stiller as Speedman, Jack Black as Jeff ‘Fats’ Portnoy, Robert Downey Jr. as Kirk Lazarus and Brandon T. Jackson as Alpa Chino are in the action. “Tropic Thunder” will be released in theaters August 13th 2008. Ben Stiller, Brandon T. Jackson, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., [...]
The Right Perspective Podcast Blog (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Frank & John go full throttle against Jessie Jackson's hypocritical use of the dreaded "N-Word"... SE Cupp and Brett Josphe talk about their book, " Why You're Wrong About The Right "... The battle against Marxist dictator Robert Mugabe's expropriation of farms reaches a bloody new level... your phone calls and more at 718.761.9996. Right Click and "Save As..." to Download
