dBTechno (Free subscription) | 12/29/2008
Ghost Blu-ray Review Paramount Home Entertainment Released: December 30, 2008 Ghost, the highly-popular romantic film starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, and Whoopi Goldberg, is finally ready to launch on the Blu-ray format thanks to Paramount Home Entertainment. Ghost has been praised time and time again as an absolutely tremendous romantic film, and it is about to receive more praise from [...]
LabLit.com (Free subscription) | 12/07/2008
A soundbyte about the Science and Entertainment Exchange
ABC News (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
A new initiative aims to improve the scientific accuracy of movies and TV shows.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Cairo - British actress Julia Ormond talked like an Egyptian on Monday at a press conference held in Cairo on the sidelines of the Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) which kicks off late on Tuesday. Shukran, sabahul khair ya Masr (Thank you, g...
nichtszusagen (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
****½ Airplane! Comedy. Directed by: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker. Starring: Kareem Abdul-Jabar, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Julie Hagerty, Robert Hays, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Barbara Billingsley, Maureen McGovern , Ethel Merman ... We rented this from Netflix. I'm thinking we should probably just buy it--it's definitely worth a place in our movie library. Airplane! is, if I'm not...
What On Earth Is That Smell? (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
ZAZ = David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker - makers of Airplane! and The Naked Gun movies
The American Conservative (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
Well it looks like Christopher Hitchens, the Cromwell of our Age, is jumping on the Obama bandwagon. That’s not so surprising (esepcially after Obama’s groveling to AIPAC), it’s just a wonder what took him so long. Indeed, knowing Hitchens, it must have taken a lot of Brandy Alexanders to tolerate Sarah Palin. I guess he’s [...]
Reeling (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
An American Carol, director Jerry Zucker's comedy unapologetically aimed at conservative audiences, earned $3.8 million in ticket sales over the weekend. Meanwhile, Bill Maher's documentary Religulous, a plea for liberal viewers who consider themselves non-religious to stand up and be...
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
This week, Ghost Town hits theaters, spinning the tale of some moody apparitions (including Greg Kinnear) that haunt a regular guy (Ricky Gervais). Thus we thought it was high time we pick out some memorable big-screen specters for your ghoulish pleasure.
Texas Hold 'Em Blogger (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
David and Jerry Zucker, both Shorewood natives, and Jim Abrahams gave us this classic sitcom, Police Squad, which spawned three full-length theatrical movies as well, all of which starred the incomparable Leslie Nielsen as Lt. Frank Drebin, as did the TV series. Here’s an episode of the TV series: You have to watch more than once to [...]
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
The new head of Canada's oldest department store chain, Bonnie Brooks, will bring a sense of fashion, style and glamour to the job, industry observers say.
mac.ro (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Posted by Dennis Sellers Ghost is the 99 cent “Movie Rental of the Week” at the iTunes Store . It’s the 1990 supernatural love story directed by Jerry Zucker and starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Apparently, someone still shops at the Bay, or at least buys the muddled retailer itself.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
The Bay is getting a new wardrobe.
MND/BlogWonks: Your Alternate Daily (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Canada’s oldest retailer, Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), will be transferred from one American owner to another. NRDC Equity Partners, owners of U.S. department store Lord & Taylor, will purchase HBC from the estate of Jerry Zucker who died in April. In 2006, the fate of HBC was first in doubt when Zucker had bought it for [...]
