Ace of Spades is an ex-lawyer and wannabe screenwriter who figured the best way to get an in into Hollywood was to rant about liberals, the media, and advocate for the War on Terror. A moron, in other words.
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Letterman vs. O’Reilly (and Limbaugh, and the Republican Party, and the War on Terror…)
by Ace of SpadesKids, you might not believe me, but there was once a point when Dave Letterman was considered funny.
You know what really destroyed Letterman for me? For years Letterman coasted on the same gag — “Look at how much precious network time I’m wasting with comedy bits intended to go nowhere and provide zero entertainment to the audience.”
Now, the thing of it was, we, the loyal Letterman audience, thought we were in on the joke. We laughed along with Dave as he wasted our time, because we were digging that he was also wasting the network’s time. All those “found comedy” moments that yielded nothing but awkward silence and stilted interaction with deli owners. (more…)
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Obama Appoints Minister of Culture
by Ace of Spades
Meet Obama’s new Culture Warrior:
President Barack Obama has established a staff position in the White House to oversee arts and culture in the Office of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs under Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser, a White House official confirmed. Kareem Dale, right, a lawyer who last month was named special assistant to the president for disability policy, will hold the new position.
“It’s a big step forward in terms of connecting cultural and government with mainstream administration policy,” Mr. Ivey said in an interview on Friday. … (more…)
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You know what’s sad? About documentarians?
They brought on Bill Maher to add some glamor and sexy to their lot.
They would have had on Michael Moore but they didn’t want to pander too obviously.
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Re: Where the Hell is Peter Gabriel?
He did not show up because he was “offended” that each song he sang would be shortened to 65 seconds for the medley.
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Kevin Klein called the Joker’s terrorist rampage “mischief.”
They can’t even call it terrorism when it’s in a Batman movie, for God’s sake.
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Re: Not Attacking Specific Segments of the Public…
I get the feeling Jackman is a conservative, or at least not liberal. And he, apparently, is running this show.
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Seriously, I’m a fan of Hugh Jackman’s, but the man simply can’t sing.
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Dark Knight loses again.
Okay, I guess the Academy feels (as I did) that all of the best picture/oscar sweep hype about TDK was way overblown, and just plain silly, and they’re overreacting against it now.
That, or they just decided there’s no way they’re giving out trophies to a comic book movie.
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Dark Knight loses again.
Again, I didn’t think the film was all-that, but the critics did, and so did the public. Usually Hollywood tosses a bone to its moneymakers in these categories.
Why is it getting shut out of even the consolation prizes of the technical awards?
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They really are making the stages and backdrops and theater look kinda cheap, aren’t they?
I don’t think I like it, and it does not reassure me financially.
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Art direction is kinda a cool category.
Props are manly, right?
Dark Knight loses again. I wasn’t a big fan but what up? The Oscars seem to have it for TDK.
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You know how good looking and charming Hugh Jackman is? He’s starred in a musical and has done musical numbers for the Tonys without a single person pointing out he can’t sing.
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by Ace of Spades
The Oscars wouldn’t be as objectionable if they were more fun and less serious. It’s the pontificating and lecturing about the importance of and seriousness of their Craft (capital-C, note) that rankles.
When the best screenplay nominees are mentioned, for example, we will have to suffer through the same crap we hear every year, that the screenwriter channels our dreams into a blueprint of a movie, or a madness into a vision, or hope into reality, or all this other lecturing, hectoring nonsense.
Less solemnity, more acknowledgment that these people just happen to have terrific jobs and have a fun playing crazy make-’em-ups in front of cameras. (Chris Walken said that — Crazy make-’em-ups — referring to sketches on Saturday Night Live.)
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I demand that a true Best Picture not insist upon itself, like the Godfather, which I did not care for. I have not seen it — indeed, I’ve seen none of these movies — but I suspect Benjamin Button insists upon itself.
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Hollywood Needs an Anti-Oscars
by Ace of SpadesNot an anti-Oscars, per se. But a different award show.
If journalism is the first draft of history, the Oscars are the sloppy, last-minute first draft of establishing a canon of great films. The Oscars tend only to celebrate a certain kind of movie. A “big” movie, if not in budget or ticket sales at least “big” in terms of themes and prestige. Crap movies like Out of Africa are routinely nominated for best picture (and often win), whereas the *real* best movies of any particular year are entirely overlooked as far as official recognition. (more…)
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Mike’s Message
by Ace of Spadesby special Big Hollywood guest correspondent Michael Moore.
Hi, gang. Michael Moore here. I’ve been thinking a lot about patriotism lately. I had an interesting conversation with my friend Joe about this, and I thought I’d share it.
So me and Joe are sitting around at Mavis’s diner talking. ”I’m not sure how a Man of the Left should handle Obama’s Presidency,” Joe confides.
I ponder this question as I crush a large joint of mutton down my enormous feeding orifice. The
bones crack and pop like July fireworks as my massive tusks rend the meat and even work the bone into a thick paste of calcium and keratin. (more…)
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Porn Industry to Congress: Hey, We Want a Bailout, Too
by Ace of SpadesHard to believe they’re on the level, but who knows these days.
With the financial industry, auto makers and more getting assistance from the federal government to stay afloat during the recession, the adult industry decided it would try to get something as well.
Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis and “Hustler” magazine publisher Larry Flynt have said they will petition Congress for financial aid along the lines of what the Big Three auto makers are getting.
Francis said that he and Flynt are asking for $5 billion, and that they have sent letters to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Congress and their local Congressman, Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) with the proposal.
The pornographers blame the rise of free porn for their dire financial straits.
Personally, I blame the lack of quality scripts. It’s always the same story, they haven’t had a new idea in 30 years, and it’s nothing but sequels, sequels, sequels.
Economists warn that without a bailout, a “ripple effect” could spread to related industries, including the swingers’ magazine industry, the late-night-programming-at-Cinemax industry, and even the latex “Gimp Outfit” industry. All told, an entire region comprising some twenty square miles of the San Fernando Valley could be devastated.
In related news: Charlie Sheen announced he thinks he’s finally found a cause he can “really get behind.”
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