‘This Is It’: A Genuine Thriller

Michael Jackson was the epitome of a human Rorschach test. To his fans, he was a Messiah of entertainment, seemingly able to transcend the mere mortal abilities of nearly anyone in the history of show business. To his detractors, he was an eccentric who was also repeatedly accused of molesting children. To yet others, he was both. 

When he died of an apparent drug overdose just shy of his 50th birthday on June 25, while rehearsing for an intense 50-show engagement in London, it seemed that this conundrum would never be solved and that his life and legacy would be forever shadowed. Then word emerged that concert promoter AEG had decided to sell extensive footage it shot of the show’s rehearsals and put it up for bidding war, which Sony Pictures won for $60 million. Debate raged throughout Hollywood and the business world about whether this was an appropriate outcome, or if it reeked of exploitation.  (more…)

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Tags: "This Is It", concert, documentary, drugs, Michael Jackson
Posted Oct 28th 2009 at 10:33 am in Film, Music, Reviews | 25433470 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ckozlowski/2009/10/28/this-is-it-a-genuine-thriller/%27This+Is+It%27%3A+A+Genuine+Thriller2009-10-28+17%3A33%3A14Carl+Kozlowski

Enabling Celebrity Dysfunction (I Blame Oprah)

Just when it looks like Roman Polanski has re-set the bar for personal behavior so low that it’s practically subterranean, the late John Phillips comes along and somehow finds a way to slink underneath it.  Maybe.  Maybe, because his accuser is his own daughter Mackenzie Phillips, a drug addict since the mid-70s who is currently peddling her sordid tale of incest, heroin and general dysfunction to anyone with a lens and a microphone.

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Perhaps this junkie, who by her own admission had a decade-long affair with her own father starting at age 19, is not the most reliable witness.  On the other hand, considering the Hollywood community’s frantic defense of noted pedophile Polanski, it’s not too difficult to imagine how Mackenzie and her rock star father might have figured, “Well, we’re here, we’re high, we’re horny.  What’s some shared DNA between stars?”

I blame Oprah. (more…)

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Tags: Celebrity Dysfunction Complex, drugs, Jerry Springer, John Phillips, Lindsey Lohan
Posted Oct 7th 2009 at 5:07 am in Celebrity News, Culture, Featured Story | 23913496 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kschlichter/2009/10/07/enabling-celebrity-dysfunction/Enabling+Celebrity+Dysfunction+%28I+Blame+Oprah%292009-10-07+12%3A07%3A34Kurt+Schlichter

Berkeley: Mecca to Liberal Idiots

I’ve got to admit that I set out to create this video expecting the finished product to be nothing more than tomfoolery as per usual. When I sat down to review the final version however, I realized just how sad/scary this is. These people are our future. They’ll be building our airplanes, teaching in our schools and possibly… running our country. I can honestly say that I wouldn’t trust 90% of these kids with a pair of scissors.  All of this begs the question: how did they get into Berkeley?  More importantly, what the heck are they teaching over there?

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Tags: 2nd Amendment, Academia, Benjamin Franklin, capitalism, Che Guevara
Posted Sep 21st 2009 at 9:11 pm in Featured Story, Political Humor, Video | 232050251 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/09/21/berkeley-mecca-to-liberal-idiots/Berkeley%3A+Mecca+to+Liberal+Idiots2009-09-22+04%3A11%3A06Steven+Crowder

Whitney Didn’t Have it All

I watched Whitney Houston’s interview on Oprah and I did not have to wait until it was over to feel great sadness. Whitney burst out in to the scene with her first album when she was 22 years old, with a powerful singing voice like no other — intense, energetic and the ability to hit a gamut of notes. Unlike Michael Jackson, she was not thrust on to the stage by an overbearing father or competing for the spotlight with her siblings. She was raised a Baptist and had a very deep spirituality that she always mentioned whether she was receiving a Grammy or in a magazine interview.  So how did this woman who was esthetically flawless and had it all, wind up sitting on the couch smoking marijuana laced with cocaine for days on end.

I believe it was a few reasons. Firstly, she married the wrong man, Bobby Brown, we all knew that—yes, all of us who did not know her personally knew that he was trouble. He spoke like trouble, he acted like trouble and he got in trouble. They started their marriage with him already having three kids from two different women he wasn’t married to and had been known for his outrageous behavior. She stated that she took her vows very seriously, she truly loved him and he allowed her to bring out her fun and crazy side. I do believe she took her vows very seriously and truly loved him, this woman could have had any man on the planet, but the fun and crazy side I’m a little unclear on, bringing up my second point.   (more…)

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Tags: Bobby Brown, drugs, Oprah, Whitney Houston
Posted Sep 17th 2009 at 5:07 am in Celebrity News, Culture, Featured Story | 22706684 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ekaris/2009/09/17/whitney-didnt-have-it-all/Whitney+Didn%E2%80%99t+Have+it+All2009-09-17+12%3A07%3A01Ellen+Karis

Stand Up Notes from Flyover Country: Vice — Legalize It!

There is no doubt the State of Ohio, like many others, is in a financial mess. If you looked at the history of our economy you would notice that there have always been ups and downs. Individuals seem to understand this and plan for times of lean and times of plenty. Governments and our elected officials seem to have missed that day in Economics 101. Governments always seem to be shocked when the economy goes south for a while.

Our Governor Tom Strickland has a plan to balance the Ohio budget. Here it is in a nutshell: “Let’s gamble our way to prosperity!” As a comic my natural instinct is to ridicule this idea and to highlight the fact the Governor is ignoring that four times in the last twenty years the voters, by a wide margin, have refused casino gambling. (more…)

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Tags: budget shortfalls, casinos, dope, drugs, economics
Posted Sep 2nd 2009 at 10:31 am in News, Political Humor, Politics | 21189450 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/09/02/why-just-gambling/Stand+Up+Notes+from+Flyover+Country%3A+Vice+--+Legalize+It%21+2009-09-02+17%3A31%3A14Jeffrey+Jena

Moral Relativism; The Liberal Lynchpin

The vast majority of adults in this world know that moral perfection is absolutely impossible, so I get upset when self proclaimed Hollywood/MSM liberals ruthlessly attack any conservative that cannot do the impossible; avoid succumbing to temptation for their entire life. Hollywood/MSM liberals always use this angle to attack conservatives nationwide because by strongly believing in nothing specific they’ve set themselves up to perpetually come out on top of any moral argument, guilt, worry and public-scorn free.

In today’s Hollywood a famous liberal filmmaker could hire a hooker while shooting a $100,000,000 studio feature film, secretly charge it to the budget, snort coke in his trailer between shots and drop E at night without any real concern for condemnation or job loss if he’s caught, because, well, he never proclaimed to be on the side of good in the first place. Whereas a famous conservative Christian filmmaker (pretend with me here) caught doing the same thing would be ridiculed and kicked out of town for the hypocrisy of it all since, by being Christian, he openly admitted that kind of behavior is not the most desirable for himself and doesn’t set a very good example for the fans. (more…)

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Tags: drugs, hollywood, Hypocrisy, morality, prostitutes
Posted Jul 9th 2009 at 2:51 pm in Entertainment, Politics, Religion | 177038112 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmcgruther/2009/07/09/moral-relativism-the-liberal-lynchpin/Moral+Relativism%3B+The+Liberal+Lynchpin2009-07-09+21%3A51%3A12Michael+McGruther

Rap Is Crap

Today, Grammy-winning rapper T.I. (Total Imbecile? Thug Idiot?) was sentenced to 18 months behind bars for illegally owning machine guns and silencers.  In the aftermath of his arrest, prosecutors informed T.I. that he could serve two decades in prison; he quickly agreed to 1000 hours of community service, touring around the U.S. talking to teens about the problems with drugs and gangs.  MTV made a show about him called “T.I.’s Road to Redemption.”  This from a guy who dealt drugs as a teen and got busted for coke in 1998. 

Here’s the thing: no matter how many hours of community service T.I. does, it will never make up for the crap he puts into the minds of his listeners.  His biggest hit is “Whatever You Like.”  Here’s a sample lyric “Whatever You Like”: Late night sex so wet you’re so tight …Let me put this big boy in yo life / The thang get so wet, it hit so right.  (more…)

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Tags: crime, drugs, Eminem, Kerry, MTV
Posted Mar 29th 2009 at 7:05 am in Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics | 910346 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2009/03/29/rap-is-crap/Rap+Is+Crap2009-03-29+14%3A05%3A07Ben+Shapiro