July 2008
| 7/31/08 |
Tales of two SoCal bookstores. posted by terrymcca (0 comments) Thanks to Kevin Roderick of LA OBSERVED (a Los Angeles media website) for including this link... |
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| 7/30/08 |
SALON's Andrew O'Hehir interviews filmmaker Courtney Hunt (FROZEN RIVER). posted by terrymcca (0 comments) I saw the film FROZEN RIVER with Melissa Leo and Misty Upham about a week ago and recommend i... |
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| 7/30/08 |
LOS ANGELES TIMES on San Francisco poet August Kleinzahler. posted by terrymcca (0 comments) Here's a link to a recent LOS ANGELES TIMES article on San Francisco's sometimes-impatient-wi... |
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| 7/29/08 |
Jon Voight's conservative talking points. posted by terrymcca (0 comments) With the exceptions of supporting roles in Michael Mann films (HEAT, ALI), Jon Voight has met... |
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| 7/28/08 |
Teaser trailer for Oliver Stone's W. posted by terrymcca (0 comments) The official teaser trailer for Oliver Stone's George W. Bush docudrama W. is now on YouTube:... |
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| 7/28/08 |
On Shia LaBeouf's current troubles. posted by terrymcca (0 comments) Here's the AOL snark link to Shia LaBeouf: The Beef Is Sauced! DUI Bust |
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| 7/25/08 |
BEYOND BAROQUE chapbook archive: remembering the living, the dead, etc. etc. posted by terrymcca (0 comments) Here's a link to the (obviously not recently updated) BEYOND BAROQUE chapbook archive: http:/... |
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| 7/24/08 |
Young Turks' Cenk Uygur on Bush's comments on economy to the have-mores. posted by terrymcca (0 comments) Here's a link via HOLLYWOOD ELSEWHERE to Young Turk Cenk Uygur taking a little over nine minutes ... |
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| 7/23/08 |
Random notes: Katie Couric, BEYOND BAROQUE and the end of book review sections in newspapers. posted by terrymcca (0 comments) 1. A familiar technique in TV journalism is to keep asking a question you want answered... |
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| 7/21/08 |
RIP: AT THE MOVIES WITH EBERT AND ROEPER posted by terrymcca (0 comments) The Walt Disney Company has decided to end Roger Ebert's long-running movie reviews show in i... |
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| 7/18/08 |
MILLHOUSE: A relevant film in the wake of the Obama controversy. posted by terrymcca (0 comments) Time to mention something from the past that's relevant in the wake of the controversy over t... |
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| 7/16/08 |
FOX NEWS' Chris Wallace: Comedian. posted by terrymcca (0 comments) From yesterday's issue of THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, I found this quote from Fox News' Chris Wal... |
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| 7/15/08 |
SALON's Gary Kamiya on Barry Blitt's satirical NEW YORKER Obama cartoon. posted by terrymcca (0 comments) Here's a sane article about Barry Blitt's satirical cover art appearing on this week's THE NE... |
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| 7/13/08 |
FOX NEWS and their tribute-of-sorts to Tony Snow. posted by terrymcca (0 comments) Tony Snow presented an amiable face to the public (except when he was irritated by liberal co... |
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| 7/13/08 |
Brendan Fraser: subject of one of the all-time great celebrity puff articles. posted by terrymcca (0 comments) Brendan Fraser, occasional actor (GODS AND MONSTERS, THE QUIET AMERICAN, CRASH, SCHOOL TIES) ... |
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| 7/11/08 |
Phil Gramm's "whining" remark. posted by terrymcca (0 comments) For those of us of a certain age with long memories, ex-Senator (and John McCain's "economic ... |
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| 7/10/08 |
Elaine May: Another example of older women in Hollywood who need to avoid plastic surgery. posted by terrymcca (0 comments) Unfortunately, I don't have a screen-grab or a link, but I want you to take my word for it: l... |
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| 7/9/08 |
A DGA member stands naked in contempt: re the SAG/AMPTP negotiations. posted by terrymcca (0 comments) Years ago, when I worked as a background actor/occasional stand-in, I was aware that some ass... |
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| 7/8/08 |
More random notes a la Larry King. posted by terrymcca (0 comments) 1. Doesn't the Barack Obama that's "moving to the center" in punditspeak remind one of ... |
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| 7/6/08 |
Saying goodbye to Jesse Helms, uber-racist. posted by terrymcca (1 comments) Not so long ago, I read a Michael Kinsley definition of the word "gaffe"; it boiled down to s... |
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| 7/3/08 |
Another POETIX editorial posted by terrymcca (0 comments) Here's another column from the POETIX.net poetry site: http://poetix.net/garcia_... |