RightWingBob.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
With names like Gary Sinise, Pat Boone: this is clearly a wave that has only begun to crest. Full story by Amy Fagan in the Washington Times. “It’s a growing movement, and word is getting out that there’s many of us in this business …,” said 1950s singer Pat Boone, one of the few conservatives to [...]
Music Musings and Miscellany (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The concept is simple. Take the 96 biggest hits of 1957 on the American R&B chart, arrange them chronologically and stick them on four CDs. Job done. And that is precisely what Acrobat have done here. Unlike the Boulevard Vintage series of year-themed Rhythm and Blues collections (which go back to 1947 but have yet to [...]
Ghost of a flea (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Notes on Hollywood's conservative underground. Gary Sinise and others have formed a network of entertainers...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
* 1955: Rock Around the Clock, Bill Haley & His Comets * 1956: Hound Dog, Elvis Presley * 1957: Love Letters in the Sand, Pat Boone * 1958: Summertime Blues, Eddie Cochran * 1959: See You in September, the Tempos * 1960: Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
1. The oil companies will lower gas prices before the election and then increase them right after the election. To add insult to injury, station...
World-O-Crap (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
A court case has been filed on behalf of a 28-year old chimp, and Pat Boone thinks it’s a madhouse, a madhouse…! Matthew’s lawyer says he only wants his client to be treated like a human child, to be declared a person, and granted four of about 50 rights enjoyed by Europeans: the right to [...]
Dial "M" for Musicology (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Julian Sanchez has tagged us with the challenge of naming the five most embarrassing tracks on our iPods. Jonathan has weighed in against the very concept of guilty pleasures, and for me being a musicologist means never having to say...
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
The "Mamma Mia" musical is likely to join a growing list of Broadway musicals that have made the successful stage-to-screen translation.
scanners (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
View image Color can be used sparingly -- even in family-friendly animation. I don't hear NPR's movie critic Bob Mondello all that often anymore ('cause I'm not in my car as much as I used to be), but I've never...
The First Post (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
City of Men can be viewed as a companion piece to 2002's City of God, the documentary-style account of life amid the lawless backstreets of Rio de Janeiro directed by…
Geezer Music Club (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
I’ve always wondered what it is about certain songs that seem to just grab you and hang on, becoming a favorite from the very first time you hear them. In a way, that type of song reminds me of a stubborn and unpredictable bulldog that clamps his teeth into your pants leg and won’t be [...]
Draven99's Musings (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Back in 1959 Pat Boone starred in a big screen adaptation of the classic Jules Verne novel. Now, nearly 50-years later we have traded in Pat Boone for Brendan Fraser, and dropped the adaptation in favor of inspiration. On top of that, they have dropped the idea of high action and adventure in favor of a gimmicked flick that cashes in on the renewed interest in 3D film processing. The end result is...
www.OSIR.org.in (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
The best land for farming corn, wheat and soybeans looks remarkably the same around the world, though the results could hardly be more different. From the Argentine pampas to western Ukraine to central Illinois, the topsoil is flat, dark and deep. It Source: www.chicagotribune.com ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’ offers visual appeal [...]
TAG Blog (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
In search of James Mason and Pat Boone ... And the b.o. is indisputably tangy this time of year. Hellboy blasts through the #1 with a $13,770.000 tally, and we've got ourselves another strong comic book opening. ( Hancock slides to a competitive #2.) On the animated front, Wall-E drops to #4 -- behind Journey to the Center of the Earth 3-D -- and now has $151 million in the piggy bank. Kung Fu Panda...
GamePolitics.com (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
In a commentary for WorldNetDaily , singer Pat Boone frets that video games are part of a social upheaval which will cost America its very soul: [While the presidential race takes place], there's another campaign in full swing, one perhaps even more crucial, one that will certainly determine the future of our country. One that will determine the direction and morality of our young. One that quite...
