Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
You've seen the last of "The Riches." FX has cut its ties to the family of grifters headed by Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver. FX did renew "Sons of Anarchy," which is "Hamlet" set in an outlaw biker gang. "The...
The Intelligence Daily (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
(The Intelligence Daily) -- While America's attention has shifted to the economic meltdown and the presidential race between corporate favorites John McCain and Barack Obama, The Wall Street Journal Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) National Applications Office (NAO) "will proceed with the first phase of a controversial satellite-surveillance program, even though an independent...
Zap2it.com - News (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
FX cancels the series after two seasons The con is off for FX and "The Riches."
E! Online (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
At least Minnie Driver will have more time to spend with her baby boy. A rep for FX confirmed Tuesday to EW.com that the network has pulled the plug on The Riches, the critically lauded...
Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Warren Ellis -- LEVERAGE 1.01 I've watched the pilot episode of Leverage that Ellis reviews here, and it is good. Very good. It's a smart heist & caper show with a team of antisocial misfits that are unique non-stock characters. I'm damn excited for when this airs. LEVERAGE is a Caper Show. The first episode introduces us to The Best Insurance Investigator Ever, who’s now on the skids after the insurance...
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
A new week brings a new contributor. Please welcome Daniel Schneier to the team. Dan recently caught two HT favorites and filed this report... When Catskills natives, Simone, Ian and James Felice left home to a peddle music for pocket change on the New York City subways, they banded with some dicey local musicians and honed their craft hustling cross-town commuters by the thousands. A group of modern...
RegnYouth Archives (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Following Under The Blacklight’s retro AOR sound which brought Fleetwood Mac’s classic period to mind, Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis has turned her attention back to her solo work and unleashes her Acid Tongue on this new release. It seems Lewis has turned back up on a dusty back road, dealing in the kind of gritty [...]
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Blue-collar dramas can run the risk of devolving into trashfests, serving up formula jokes about trailer parks, and "Easy Money" seems to flirt with that notion in the opening minutes of its debut episode Sunday night.
WuzzaDem (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
If you suspect that you are being hustled by one or more world-class grifters (or their unwitting shills), here are a couple of indicators that suggest you are indeed getting plucked, or are about to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Ride Fast & Shoot Straight (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
The ogman comments on cons, grifters and professional thieves. Short cons are for fast money, long cons are for big money and multi-generational ponzi schemes are for all of the money. ☮
Neanderpundit (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Most young men at some time or another run across a guy playing three card monte. Ten minutes later, broke, and a little wiser, they move on. I grew up on the other side of that classic short con, watching people I was related to hustle marks at lightning speed, separate the fresh scrubbed rube from [...]
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
I can't think of many in Hollywood that can even come close to Angelica Huston. Her father, the legendary John Huston seemed to have passed on his talent to this great and fascinating actress. She had worked often early on, but it was her Academy Award winning role in PRIZZI'S HONOR that really started her eclectic career. To just name a few of her films would be ridiculous since she has appeared in...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
Actress DIANE LANE is contemplating quitting acting for good - because she is sick of the bland movie roles she is offered. The actress wants to ditch her nice girl ...
Later On (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
Via Crooks & Liars: Crooks & Liars provides a transcript of the video, with this note appended: Make sure you buy: “The Shock Doctrine” It’s so chic of conservatives like Sullivan to blame the American people for the economic crisis, because as Sullivan stated on Real Time, millions and millions of people took out loans on homes [...]
Wilson's Blogmanac (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
"If incorporating personal details into an RFID (radio-frequency identification) chip implanted into a passport or driver’s license may sound like a 'smart' alternative to endless lines at the airport and intrusive questioning by securocrats, think again. "Since the late 1990s, corporate grifters have touted the 'benefits' of the devilish transmitters as a 'convenient' and 'cheap' way to tag individual...
