The awful truth: Our President is Forrest ...
Deadspin (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
The awful truth: Our President is Forrest Gump [Chicago Tribune]
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Sexin’ Up Ping-Pong
Truemors (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sure, Forrest Gump got a packed house for his ping-pong match, but for the ladies of table tennis, it’s time for a makeover. “We are trying to push the players to use skirts and also nicer shirts, not the shirts that are made for men, but ones with more curves,” noted the VP for the [...]
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Table tennis to get a lot sexier
The Sports Culture (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Ping pong has never been very exciting unless Forrest Gump was playing it or if it was called beer pong. But like many other “sports” that don’t take a lot of athletic ability, it cracked its way into the Olympics. The table tennis gurus have finally realized that sex sells and want players to dress sexier. And [...]
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Crush That Fly!”: A Compendium of Eclectic Movie Quotes
Biodun Iginla's Weblog (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Biodun Iginla, BBC News “As soon as you’re born, your life makes a beeline for the drain.” –Fat City Ever pick up one of those “comprehensive” movie quote books full of lame, predictable and stale quips from classic flicks like Citizen Kane and Casablanca (or even crap like Forrest Gump)? Hey, I love those films too, but [...]
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A Beijing cab on a road to nowhere
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
BEIJING -- Taking a cab in China is much like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates -- you never know what you're gonna get. Or where you're gonna end up.
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Mogul Wife's Leaked Chick-Lit Attempt Continued: We Found the Sex Bits! [Exclusive]
Gawker (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Yesterday, we introduced you to the leaked chick-lit manuscript of mogul wife Leslie Zemeckis, who is married to Forrest Gump director Robert Zemeckis. Our publishing elf dubbed in "exhausting" as...
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Mogul Wife's Chick-Lit Attempt Continued: We Found the Sex Bits! [Exclusive]
Gawker (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Yesterday, we introduced you to the leaked chick-lit manuscript of mogul wife Leslie Zemeckis, who is married to Forrest Gump director Robert Zemeckis. Our publishing elf dubbed in "exhausting" as...
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A link-love(ly) day
La Vie Quotidienne (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Blog awards have been rarer so far this year than in my first year of blogging, except for Reema’s ‘Ms Most Serious Blogger‘. As Forrest Gump’s mother would say, serious is as serious does. So I have to start paying serious attention to what I have been doing to this blog. My blog friend, La Belette [...]
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Culture Vulture: Jokes and offense depend on context
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... who have won Oscars for playing mentally disabled characters who were also gifted - Tom Hanks in "Forrest Gump" and Dustin Hoffman in "Rain Man" - in contrast to Sean Penn's Oscar-losing turn in "I Am Sam." "We don't live in times when labeling and humiliating others is funny," Timothy Shriver, chairman of Special Olympics, wrote in a Washington Post op-ed article urging a boycott....
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The Dark Knight Beats Star Wars: Clone Wars and A New Hope
/Film (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
... film of all time. Then E.T. came and knocked the movie off the top spot. Jurassic Park and Forrest Gump knocked the film further down the all-time list to #4. But in 1997, Lucas rereleased the movie as part of the Special Edition trilogy release, which put A New Hope back on top of the list. But not for long, Titanic came later that year and knocked Star Wars back to the #2 slot,...
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Apple is worth more than Google
the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Nick Farrell the Inquirer , Thursday 14 August 2008. 09:01:00 Life is like a box of fruit pastels AFTER CENTURIES in the computing industry, fruit-themed toymaker, Apple is finally worth a fair bit of money. In the movie Forrest Gump, the character of the same name made a fortune on the back of investing in Apple in the early days....
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Fog city..............
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
... appalling! Soon came across the waterfront and walked and walked and walked ....I kinda felt like forrest gump only in slow motion even more so when i saw the Bubba Gump shrimp place! The piers were very nice with loads of shops and restaurants etc..... on the end of one pier i could see Alcatraz which seemed much smaller than i had imagined! Tried out a Mcdonalds which was...
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Protest over Use of the Word 'Retard' in Stiller's 'Tropic Thunder' Misses the Target
Alternet (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
... time, and if you're like me and never even went to see Tom Hanks give his 3-hanky performance in Forrest Gump or Sean Penn's moving turn in I Am Sam because you already knew what his performance would be like -- poignant and yet dignified in its restraint, after all -- as Downey's character in the movie notes, "he didn't go full retard" -- then you'll enjoy Tropic Thunder.Call me...
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Emerging Church at Greenbelt Festival: My Session and Others
TallSkinnyKiwi (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
... voluntary visit to a church in 1968 signaled the beginning of the emerging church movement. Like Forrest Gump, Andrew is the accidental witness who tells the story the best he can but remains mostly clueless." I submitted the titles of my two sessions at Greenbelt Festival . They will be hosted by Church Mission Society and there is still time to edit them if you can think of something...
