Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Instead of the usual free improv set on Sunday night at Second City, unsuspecting audience members were treated to a very, very funny reunion of Second City's cast, circa 1969.Some of the performers, such as the movie director Harold Ramis, the inspired comic actors Joe Flaherty and Brain Doyle-Murray andthe Hollywood producer Eugenie Ross-Leming, have gone on to major showbiz careers. They showed...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Instead of the usual free improv set on Sunday night at Second City, unsuspecting audience members were treated to a very, very funny reunion of Second City's cast, circa 1969.Some of the performers, such as the movie director Harold Ramis, the inspired comic actors Joe Flaherty and Brain Doyle-Murray and the Hollywood producer Eugenie Ross-Leming, have gone on to major showbiz careers. They showed...
Arbitrary and Capricious (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
The Cougars actually won this weekend. To mark the occasion, here's John Candy singing the Wazzu fight song , from " Volunteers. " I was living on the Palouse at the time the movie came out, and a few of my law school classmates labeled me, " Tom Tuttle from Tacoma ." For the life of me, I don't know the reason why. (Thanks to Ken Levine )
Movie-Moron (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
What makes celebrity deaths particularly eerie and poignant is that often their final work only comes to light after they have gone. In the case of movie stars, it’s their last film that’s released months after they are buried/cremated/blasted into space. Cinema provides a form of immortality, and watching these farewell movies really is like seeing a ghost on screen. Heath Ledger was not the first....
Mike Lynch Cartoons (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
Mike Lynch is a magazine cartoonist. His clients include Reader's Digest, Playboy, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, the New York Daily News and many others. He's the National Cartoonists Society National Representative.
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
So Cook loves his upcoming movie (opening this Friday), in which he co-stars with Jason Biggs, Kate Hudson, and Alec Baldwin as a jackass-for-hire who takes women on legendarily bad dates and sends them running back to their exes. What are the other movies the comedian/actor loves, namely his five...
By Ken Levine (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
So I understand VOLUNTEERS is still a cult classic at Washington State. Written by me and my partner, David Isaacs, here is one of my favorite scenes. John Candy, hilarious as Tom Tuttle from...
Pho's Akron Pages (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
In the classic vulgar comedy Stripes, John Candy gets talked into Um, it was the Eighties. Anyway, the best bit is when he hits one of his opponents who cries "You hit me and I'm a girl." He lets his guard down to apologize and she decks him. I don't entirely trust AOL's embed code, but here goes. Warning, not entirely SFW. "You hit me and I'm a girl" seems to be the running slogan for the McCain /...
Yeeeah! (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Kristen Bell in a bikini for all you pervs. (Bastardly) Keira Knightley has a surefire way to dispel those anorexia rumors. And no, it’s not “eating.” (Holy Moly) An moving ode to John Candy. (Pajiba) Evangeline Lilly… naked?! (Mr. Skin) Chris Kattan wasn’t the only one cheating during his two-month marriage! (Celebitchy) Lisa Rinna nips [...]
World Hum (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Slow travel is well and good. But there’s something irresistible about a great travel race movie. World Hum Travel Movie Clubbers Eva Holland and Eli Ellison share their favorite vicarious thrill rides.
Pajiba (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
It's relatively easy to be a funny fat guy. All you do is stand there, jiggling your chins, yelling, playing the punchline punching bag, and you'll get the laughs. But it's not always easy to be sweet. John Candy could bust your gut and break your heart with just a smile. He specialized in working stiffs, guys named Chet or Gus or Jack, who busted their ass in thankless menial jobs so they could put...
JesseGersten.com (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
It has been brought to my attention that Tiger Penises have barbs on them (apparently I found that so impressive that I decided to capitalize the word penis). I didn’t believe the jibber jabber, so a Google search was done to prove me wrong. While learning the true extent of my wrongness, I found the [...]
Musical Stew Daily (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Taken from Ween’s excellent Chocolate & Cheese album. We played this ad nauseum while driving cross country to Idaho in the spring of ‘95. I couldn’t believe the broad scope of music genres on that album. They were one of my instant favorites. From Wiki: Chocolate and Cheese was Ween’s fourth studio album, originally released by Elektra [...]
Out Of Left Field (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Fast facts: A team with an up and down season last year, after beating Guelph the final week of the season to ensure a playoff spot they nearly took the conference finalists out the following week. A team with Defensive issues last season returns with 15 of 23 dress players on Defence and 13 of 21 on Offence (7 of 12 starters on both sides of the ball), which is a good sign for this younger squad
That's Enough of That! (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
A news item in the Internet edition of the Jamaica Observer today ran a story that declared: “Jamaicans yesterday gave praise and thanks to God for the outstanding performances of the country’s athletes at the Beijing Olympics […]”. Sod that. I had nothing to do with it. If they want to give thanks then let them thank [...]
