Open Thread: Happy First Birthday to Big Hollywood!
by Big Hollywood
Email this to a friend | Print |
Share on Facebook
| Tweet this
| 
Advertisement
Featured
'Safe House' Review: 'Bourne' Lite - Great Taste, Less Filling
by Kurt LoderName this movie: An ace CIA operative, condemned as a rogue and now hunted by the Company, bashes and crashes his way through colorful foreign settings, pursued by heavily armed hit men, while back at Langley headquarters an inscrutable deputy director and one of his top lieutenants are arousing the...
Advertisement
Follow Us on Twitter
Subscribe via RSS
Got a Tip?Archives
- February 2012 (91)
- January 2012 (276)
- December 2011 (268)
- November 2011 (240)
- October 2011 (238)
- September 2011 (201)
- August 2011 (214)
- July 2011 (205)
- June 2011 (215)
- May 2011 (217)
- April 2011 (204)
- March 2011 (229)
- February 2011 (176)
- January 2011 (185)
- December 2010 (194)
- November 2010 (195)
- October 2010 (207)
- September 2010 (205)
- August 2010 (204)
- July 2010 (224)
- June 2010 (225)
- May 2010 (233)
- April 2010 (236)
- March 2010 (244)
- February 2010 (221)
- January 2010 (251)
- December 2009 (261)
- November 2009 (253)
- October 2009 (301)
- September 2009 (319)
- August 2009 (280)
- July 2009 (264)
- June 2009 (302)
- May 2009 (261)
- April 2009 (272)
- March 2009 (298)
- February 2009 (912)
- January 2009 (312)
- December 2008 (23)
- November 2008 (12)
- October 2008 (10)
- September 2008 (10)
- August 2008 (4)
- July 2008 (3)
Links
- A Hollywood Republican
- A.O. Scott
- ABC – Entertainment
- ABC Television
- Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
- Access Hollywood
- Ace Of Spades HQ
- Agence France-Presse
- Ain’t It Cool News
- Althouse
- America’s Mighty Warriors
- American Enterprise Institute
- American Film Renaissance
- American Thinker
- Anchoress
- Andrew Klavan.com
- Ann Coulter
- Associated Press
- BBC – Entertainment
- Bearman Cartoons
- Ben Shapiro
- Best Of The Web
- BigDawg Music Mafia
- Bill O’Reilly
- BlogsLucianneLoves.com
- Bob McCarty
- Bosch Fawstin
- Boston Globe – Arts & Entertainment
- Box Office Mojo
- Brain Terminal
- Breitbart.com
- Breitbart.tv
- Bully! Pulpit
- BurtPrelutsky.com
- Carl Kozlowski
- CBS Television
- Chicago Sun Times – Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune – Entertainment
- Citizen Soldier Handbook
- City Journal
- CNN – Showbiz
- Commentarama
- Commentary
- Daily Beast
- Daily Gut
- Daily Mail – TV & Showbiz
- Day By Day Cartoon
- Deadline Hollywood Daily
- Defamer
- Dennis Miller Radio
- Dennis Prager
- Drudge Report
- E! Online
- Ed Driscoll.com
- Eject! Eject! Eject!
- Empire
- Enter Stage Right
- Entertainment Weekly
- Evan Sayet
- Family Security Matters
- Fantasy Moguls
- Fishbowl, DC
- Fox Forum
- Fox Nation
- Fox News – Entertainment
- Free Republic
- Front Page Magazine
- GayPatriot
- GidgetWidget 2.0
- Glenn Beck
- Good Religion
- Grand Theft Audio Radio
- Greg Knapp
- Guardian U.K. – Film
- Heritage Foundation
- Hey Miller
- Hollywood Bitchslap
- Hollywood Elsewhere
- Hollywood Reporter
- Hollywood Wiretap
- Hoover Institution
- Hot Air
- Huffington Post
- Hugh Hewitt
- Instapundit
- Iowahawk
- James Hudnall
- Jeffrey Jena
- John Gibson
- Jon David
- Joseph C. Phillips
- Jude
- Kausfiles
- Kurt Loder
- Kyle Smith Online
- La Shawn Barber’s Corner
- LA Weekly – Movies
- Laura Ingraham
- Law of the Bad Premise
- London Times – Arts & Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times – Entertainment
- Lucianne For Blogs
- Lucianne.com
- Mancow
- Manhattan Institute
- Mark Levin
- Mark Steyn
- MarkTapson.com
- Matt Patterson
- Media Research Center
- Mediaite
- Melanie Morgan
- Michael Koolidge Show
- Michael Medved
- Michael Savage
- Michael Yon
- Michelle Malkin
- Modern Conservative
- Move America Forward
- Movie City News
- Movieguide.org
- Movieline
- Moving Picture Institute
- MPAA
- MSNBC – Entertainment
- N.Y. Observer – Movies + TV
- National Review’s The Corner
- NBC Television
- Neal Boortz
- New York Daily News – Entertainment
- New York Post – Entertainment
- New York Times – Movies
- New Yorker – Arts
- Newport Beach Now
- NewsBusters
- Newsweek – Entertainment
- Page Six
- Pajamas Media
- Parcbench
- Pat Dollard
- Patrick Goldstein’s Big Picture
- Patterico's Pontifications
- People
- PoliGazette
- Politico
- PopModal
- Power Line
- PR Newswire
- Protein Wisdom
- Radar Online
- Reason Online
- Red State
- Rep. McCotter YouTube Channel
- Reuters
- Roger Ebert
- Roger L. Simon
- Rolling Stone
- Rotten Tomatoes
- Rush Limbaugh
- Rusty Humphries
- Screen Rant
- Sean Hannity
- Self-Styled Siren
- Seraphic Secret
- Seth.Com
- Sgt. Welsh
- Shizome.com
- South Park Episodes
- Tammy Bruce
- The American Culture
- The Claremont Institute
- The Count
- The Enterprise Report
- The Hill
- The Volokh Conspiracy
- The Wrap
- TIME – Entertainment
- Townhall.com
- Turner Classic Movies
- TV Newser
- TwiceRight.com
- U.K. Sun – Showbiz
- U.K. Telegraph – Culture
- United Press International
- USA Today – Life
- Vanity Fair
- Vanity Fair – Wolcott
- Variety
- Washington Post – Movies
- Washington Times – Culture
- Weekly Standard
- What Would Toto Watch?
- Wilshire & Washington
- WSJ – Arts & Entertainment
- Yahoo – Entertainment News
135 Comments
Happy Birthday! This is a great site, I'm glad it was created!
happy burfday!
have any of you seen this? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100106/ap_on_re_as/a...
I thought "WOW, what an amazing history." but then i saw that Cameron want to make a movie and I thought "Wow, i can just see the hand wringing and navel gazing that will ensue."
I hope to be wrong, but somehow I doubt it.
Happy Birthday – keep up the fight, keep us informed and equipped for many many years to come!
Happy Birthday BH, best site on the web (that doesn't have nudity…)
Wasn't that the cake they used in Avatar?
Thanks for the blast of a year. You will have many more as the New Media sunsets the old.
Happy B-day BH! I first came here when your site was mentioned on Rush's radio program & I've been coming back ever since. Keep up the good work.
Happy B-day BH! I first came here when your site was mentioned on Rush's radio program & I've been coming back ever since. Keep up the good work.
I've posted this before. First off, congratulations on your first anniversary! I'm an independent but I've been reading John's stuff since the old Libertas blog and I've followed him to his own site and finally to here.
Some of my favorite pieces include:
1. Charles Winecoff's introductory column
2. Anything by Adam Baldwin, Robert Davi, and S.T. Karnick
3. Leo Grin's "For Conservative Movie Lovers" column (though I think it suffers from a slight case of, "See how much better things used to be?")
4. Any of Mr. Nolte's top 5/10/25 lists (I don't think BH does enough of them)
5. Basically, any column that seeks to educate people in the art of filmmaking… nothing specific comes to mind but I know earlier in the year, there was a nice screenwriting 101 column going on… we need more pieces like that
There are also some columns that I could've done without, mostly Ted Baehr's material (no offense) and any column that begins with "Here's why I'm giving up on Hollywood…" which seems counter to the original thesis behind BH.
And I know he only posted twice but we need more Bob Gale! He only co-created Back to the Future!
But I must say, for every article where I think to myself, "Was this really necessary?" (did we need five articles about Brad Pitt and his lack of religion?), there are always some surprises, from clips of Married with Children to the comic strip that featured Sarah Palin as Captain Kirk and Obama as Khan.
I've also noticed the tone of BH has grown a bit more vicious and partisan. I'm not sure when this change took place – sometime in the fall. And sadly, several posters who were here at the beginning don't post nearly as much as they used to or not at all.
Having said that, 2010 is going to be an interesting year.
Talk about luck.
After my email, this is the second stop I make every day!!! I learn so much here.
I love this site, I love the writers and I love Breitbart!
Happy birthday and many many more!
Happy Birthday BH!
And an interesting coincidence this morning. NPR reviewed Avatar, and surprise, surprise, they said the visuals were awesome, but the plot is basically a rehash of Dances With Wolves and Disney's Pocahontas.
Are they secretly reading these posts?
Is that cake sitting on a mouse pad?
LOL
Wow, that was a quick year ! Nothing like scandal, intrigue, and Cloward Piven to make the year go by.
Thank you Andrew for a great watercooler.
Let's don't think of getting older, think of becoming a Classic. Happy Birthday BH. Your a Terrific Team.Thanks for all the Great Informative Articles.
*Nods in approval* I applaud you sir! *golf clap*
maybe
but the question I have is: Is this a movie that needs to be made? I can't see it making money. If I want the stooges I'll watch their show. I enjoy biopics, but somehow this one doesn't melt my butter.
*takes a bow in gratitude*
Well done Andrew, it’s been a great year at Big Hollywood, what fun.
I'm a conservative. I love movies. My kind of place. Here's to another successful New Year!
Here is SF, this commercial is running all day and all night: http://www.nikkeiview.com/blog/2009/11/19/shaqs-i...
An Asian kid is pointing out to his father that Comcast's HD is better than AT&T's. Shaquille O'Neil somehow is also in the room and backs the kid’s info.
It ends up with two passive-aggressive lines from O’Neil:
1) The father objects that he is in the same room and doesn't need to be spoken in front of as if he isn't. O'Neil's answer: "I've got your back, kid."
The kid then asks, "Dad, can Shaq stay for dinner?" The father's expression is one of subdued horror. Shaq then subtly threatens by repeating the line, "Yeah Dad, can Shaq star for dinner?"
The clear subtext is that if you are an Asian kid involved in a power struggle against parental authority, a huge black man twice the size of your father will help you to overrule him.
Hollyweird is bullying the American family into "Give it up," consciousness. It starts with Shaq and ends with Cinque.
Big Hollywood is a many-times-a-day habit for me–glad to have spent the first year following it–looking forward to many more. Congrats!
Happy Birthday Big Hollywood! Keep up the good work. I've been forwarding stories from this great site for many months now.
Judging by the number of liberal trolls that have been popping up in the comments section lately, this site is really catching on!
Happy Birthday, Big Hollywood. Oh, and Happy Return to Rush today as well…
Happy Birthday !
Many thanks to all Contributors, especially the wise and witty Mr A (Avrech) and Dvonch, you magnificent bastard !
Thanks, too, to the cleverest, coolest, most cinematically hip Commenters on the web – you KNOW who you are ! : )
BigHollywood – WHERE TROLLS GO TO DIE !
Happy Birthday!
"…5. Basically, any column that seeks to educate people in the art of filmmaking… nothing specific comes to mind but I know earlier in the year, there was a nice screenwriting 101 column going on… we need more pieces like that "
I miss Russ Dvonch, too. I've decided to try my hand at committing these crazy ideas in my head to paper and Russ' column has been invaluable. I hope he returns soon with more insight.
Scott,
That brilliant Screenwriting 101 was the work of Russ Dvonch, the magnificent bastard.
Happy Birthday, BH! Thanks to John Nolte and Andrew Breitbart for giving this jarhead a place to say what's on his mind.
Semper fi,
JRH
Wow. Time flies. Happy B-day– and here's to many more.
There was a TV-movie biopic of the Stooges that already did the job fairly well. A big-screen version is unnecessary at best.
Happy B-Day BH…I've been here since day one, and don't plan on leaving anytime soon.
Hear that all you sickly trolls out there? I'm coming for you.
A little OT, I understood that BigJournalism was suppose to launch on the 6th of Jan., that's today right…or.
Anyone know what the deal is? …anyone?….anyone?…Bueller?…anyone?
Not Over.
Oh yeah? Just wait until I post those racy pics of Janeane Garofalo.
In fairness, he's really more of a puppet than a stooge.
I (unlike some people) will wait until after seeing them to give my opinion of the content.
Thank you for this avenue of expression! One year? It sure goes fast. This site is taking a vital step in correcting the direction of liberal media production in this nation thank you for that and everything else!
I heard she's so hairy, when she takes her pants off she looks like she has a wookiee in a leg-lock…..
Congratulations, BH! (I do miss Dirty Harry's Place, but you've done fine work with this site, Mr. Nolte.)
I can't wait for the other "Big" websites to come!
Happy Birthday Big Hollywood! Thanks for being an antidote to the barrage of liberalism I experience every day at school!
Chris Mattews should be taken off the air. This sick man sees race everywhere he looks. He accuses the Tea Bag movement of being all white, but whenever I have seen his network all I see is sick looney white people.
Ha, he is a phoeny fraud. Ha, he worked for Jimmy Carter, there were no blacks or Hispanics in Carters cabinet.
Ha, I wonder if Matthews has any social friends that are black. This man instigates racial bias.
Happy Birthday Big Hollywood!
Happy Birthday! Big Hollywood and now Big Government are addicting. In a good way. A very good way.
Thank you, Andrew.
Many Happy Returns!
Congratulations to Andrew Breitbart, John Nolte and the rest of the great contributors at Big Hollywood.com. For analysis of our culture, you guys can't be beat. May you be blessed with decades of continued success.
Love you, BH! Here's to many more birthday celebrations! And to a free press!
Fruck you whale! Fruck you dolphin!
1 year down, and it's been fun! Looking forward to Big Journalism. Please tell me that Big Environmentalism is coming too- I'm hoping that wasn't just a rumor.
Happy Birthday Big Hollywood.
all together, Huzza.
anyone else ticked off with last nights ep of NCIS?
Big Oddball would be a better name for this site.
I want to congratulate Andrew, John and all the Big Hollywood team! You guys rock! Happy Birthday Big Hollywood!
It amazes me how many of us who were here on the first day still post here. Happy Birthday, BH! I remember the first week or so we had Iowahawk, Crowder, the Christian Bale rant, and the Pledge of Liberal Idiots. Seems like more than a year!
He's been Chavez's stooge for years.
As for the movie, with del Toro and Penn as the two of the stooges, I can only imagine with horror how this will be made into an overwrought melodramatic monster so full of liberal dogma that I'd rather stab myself in the eye than sit through it.
C'mon–that's hardly a difficult conclusion to draw, and has been put forward in pretty much every single review regardless of the source. My fanboy 20-something co-workers who rushed out opening weekend reluctantly had to admit to me that's exactly what is was.
Happy Birthday guys! Give yourselves raises!
Have you listened to NPR recently? I think this is the first honest story I've heard from them in the last 6 years. For them to buck the leftist line on anything is mind boggling. These are the same people who last year did a thoughtful analysis on why socialism would be a good thing for America. And for the last year I've listened to them tell me mounting unemployment is a sure sign the recession is over.
They went off the deep end in 2006, and never looked back.
remember that Ron White line a bout seeing an ugly woman naked?
Something along the lines of it's still a naked woman.
I heart Big Hollywood.
Happy Birthday to you, Big Hollywood!
This is true…..
"Big Hollywood" – "Big Government" – NEXT – "Big Education"!
…to ferret out the corruption and mind control that leftist "institution" is foisting on kids and young adults…
Happy Birthday Big Hollywood. I followed Dirty Harry over here and you and I had some struggles learning to walk, but you're up and running now, and the second site I visit every day (after checking on Drudge to see if we're still here). Happy Birthday. Keep up the good work.
We can share Suzie- we don't need an Obama "Czar" for that!
I agree, we need more lists. Peope like lists!
Wow. Has it been a year already? Love Big Gov and now there's Big Journalism, but Big Hollywood will always be a special place for me. Love film, love my country and love this site!
Yeah, but I love the Car Talk guys! In any case, since the average NPR film reviewer can't resist referencing several other films to make SURE you know how knowledgeable they are, the only pain they may have felt is having to refer to a popular film most people have actually seen, as opposed to a rare Uzbeki documentary from the 60's. ;-D
Thanks BH…..Happy B-day….first place I go after signing in every morning. Don't always comment, but the reading is good.
Agreed, Car Talk guys are top shelf. I think they're the biggest drawing show they broadcast. A couple of years ago on Christmas day I was listening to a special program while doing up the turkey dinner (my stuffing should be award winning), where Car Talk was so popular, and there fore rich, they took over the entire network. It was pretty funny.
Talk of the Nation became Car Talk of the Nation.
A Prairie Home Companion became A Prairie Car Companion.
It was pretty good. And even though Garrison Keiller is going off the deep end politically, I still love A Prairie Home Companion too. I just tune hium out when he starts on politics, which isn't very often on that show thankfully.
You know, that might just be a Sean Penn film I'd watch. How often do you get the chance to see him hit in the head with a monkey wrench?
Ditto!
Time flies.
To say the launching of this site has been a life changer for me would be an understatement.
Liberty Loves Company, y'all
Right, JR?
It's funny because you think you're clever
I keep a 100 lb. German Shepherd on hand for just such a situation.
And I'm not even Asian, believe it or not.
My local stations play a lot of amazing music that's become part of my routine, so I don't mind the yearly mug or t-shirt I pledge. I also like that wacky old lady who does "Piano Jazz," and I continue to be unable to solve Will Shortz' Sunday puzzle. And despite its often unbearable soulful/hipster navel gazing, I really think This American Life is a wonderful show that makes full use of what 'radio' can do, even in our podcasting/internet world.
I heard Rush mention it once or twice, so I decided to check it out.
Been hanging around here with all these cantankerous, proud, patriotic Americans ever since.
And I'd also like to thank all the other posters who've given me some wonderful advice on what books to read, and movies to watch (and also avoid). For years every time I surfed past a black and white movie, if it didn't have Bogart in it, I'd just keep surfing. But these days, I stop and actually give them a chance. And I've been very pleasantly surprised by some of them.
I normally don't go for musicals, but on Christmas this year my family and I sat down for White Christmas. We caught it half way through, and enjoyed it so much, we watched it all over again. It was a 24 hour marathon. A couple of months ago I caught James Cagney in the Oklahoma Kid too.
Thanks for all the advice, jokes, debates, and fun.
You have to be a modern liberal to get the joke. And even though I used to be one, its pretty lame by their standards too.
The key to modern liberal humor is smarmy insults against any and all non-modern liberals. All the insults about tea baggers? They're laughing so hard at their own obvious sheer brilliance, they probably collectively peed a little.
There's three or four NPR stations that I can pick up. They have one real station, and 3 or 4 remote robot stations that just repeat what the main station plays, plus their specialty, classic on one, jazz on another.
I can't listen to music when I'm working (from home) because I stop working and just listen. How ever, 22+ years in a cubicle, I can block out voices when I need to. So I listen to talk radio all day.
When I do listen to music, like when eating dinner with the family, we usually turn on the jazz station low.
I have a pretty good average with Will Shortz, when I hear it. We switched churches several years ago, and I'm usually at Mass when that's on, unless I'm playing hooky. And I will admit I have heard some pretty good American Life segments.
One in particular they had a Native American women (who was funny as heck) doing a spot on educational tourism – take vacations touring historical sites, and she chose one that followed the Trail of Tears. I'd expect it to be sad, but it was pretty funny. Especially when they were dancing on Andrew Jackson's grave. "Talk about your high crimes and misdemeanors!"
In my opinion, as a Cherokee, SHE can do that.
Larry Fine is currently rotating at a brisk 17 rounds per second…
Big Hollywod celebrates a birthday, Big Journalism is introduced, and Rush returns…all in all, I'd say it was a good day. A very good day.
Happy Birthday!
Larry was always my favorite.
Thank you Mr. Breitbart. You are a valuable man, helping us preserve our Constitutional rights.
God bless you.
…..and maaaaannnny more.
Happy Birthday, BH
lots of good b/w films out there, Ed…
and yes this is a cantankerous lot. Good call…
Quite a day. A Birthday here, and the birth of BigJournalism. Congratulations on both Andrew and staff!
Happy Birthday – and thanks so much for being an oasis in the desert of leftist idiocy.
Happy Birthday, BH! I love this place, and the other members of the "Big" family. Congrats on the Big Journalism grand opening.
Happy Birthday – from the days of Libertas to this glorious site – what a ride it has been! Congratulations and here's to an even bigger year coming up!!!
IowaHawk never fails to me laugh, Charles Winecoff really makes me think, and Zo is the man.
Keep it up, all of you. Congrats, Andrew and John.
I just looked, it just might be.
A story above says that Sean Penn is getting ready to sign on as a Stooge. Hugo Chavez's stooge. Right?
Happy Birthday to John, Alex, Andrew and all of the others who put this together-Bravo! Long live BH!
Hippy, birdie, 2 ewes.
Carry on.
Happy Birthday BH! I found you about the end of the first week you went live (although I don't recall how anymore). Been with you for a year and will be for years to come.
"I've also noticed the tone of BH has grown a bit more partisan."
My 'guess' is a correlation with the actions being perpetrated. The closer one feels to the edge of a cliff the more desperate they become. Can't really blame some folks who are unloading frustrations.
"educate people in the art of filmmaking" is the part that doesn't digest so well. Maybe clarify if you are talking about the nuts and bolts of creating something that people want to see or the realities of who is controlling the business of filmmaking. I'm fascinated by the former and contemptuous of the latter.
Happy Birthday Big Hollywood!
And thank you for making me think.
[...] ancient Persia and the Sacred Writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. (Today, by the way, is not only the first birthday of our sister site, Big Hollywood, it’s also the birthday of that great truth-seeker, Sherlock Holmes.) We range in age from 20 to [...]
Dave – I understand.
Re: the education part, I guess I was talking more about the nuts and bolts. I'm a film school grad and while there is much about the film biz I hate, Hollywood is still more than what we see on screen. I'd love to see articles about grips and gaffers and cameramen. I know it's not very sexy or exciting but it's a job and someone has to do it.
And politics-wise, I think the opinions of the behind the scenes technicians are a bit more diverse than the men on the top.
Happy Birthday BIG HOLLYWOOD.
You have become one of my favortie site's to check out everyday.
You all do a great job. Congrats
we stumbled into this site quite by accident…
Just after it's birth. And we couldn't be more pleased! Great site, good staff, articulate, funny, thoughtful and provocative.
Not to mention intellectually honest to boot.
Best thing about Mr Breitbart's efforts?
The legion of nitwits, poseurs and pedantic proselytizers it enrages. As Teddy Roosevelt once said, ' A man is better judged by his enemies than by his friends'…
Wow, has it been a year already? Well, happy birthday BH. Truth be told, this site is what got me on the Internet on a regular basis. Usually I just used it for email and checking out the top headlines, but I ran across this site one day and nearly busted a gut laughing at the posts from Lawhawk, Andrew Price, and others. After a few weeks of just reading, I decided to post a comment or two myself and never looked back. Keep it up, Big Hollywood. Conservatism will never expire as long as mediums like this exist.
You must be logged in to post a comment.