Cult Classic ‘The Room’: So Bad, It’s Brilliant

It happens all the time in Hollywood: A friend has a dream of making a movie and wants to hire his friends as cast and crew. But most of the time, those dreams stay dreams, as the money to fund those projects rarely materializes.

For South Pasadena-based actor Greg Sestero, however, the dream became reality when his friend Tommy Wiseau managed to raise $6 million to write, direct and star in a movie called “The Room.” Keeping a promise he made years before when the two thespians met in a San Francisco acting class, Wiseau hired Sestero to be his co-star.

That should have been a happy ending, with the film either fading into oblivion or rising out of Sundance-style film festivals to become an indie sensation. Instead, “The Room” became wildly popular for an entirely different reason: it’s regarded as one of the great camp classics of all time, a movie considered so bad it’s brilliant.

Its monthly midnight showings at the Laemmle Sunset 5 theater in West Hollywood routinely sell out all five of the theater’s screens simultaneously, with crowds that have turned the viewing experience into the craziest interactive movie party since “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” (more…)

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Tags: "The Room", cameron diaz, Comic Con, Greg Sestero, John Hughes
Posted Aug 27th 2009 at 2:46 pm in Entertainment, Film, Reviews | 21195831 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ckozlowski/2009/08/27/room-for-improvement/Cult+Classic+%27The+Room%27%3A+So+Bad%2C+It%27s+Brilliant2009-08-27+21%3A46%3A05Carl+Kozlowski

‘NewsBusted’ 6/05/09 — Fake News from the Right

In this episode, “NewsBusted” covers: Free Health Care, Universal Health Care, Gitmo Prison, Democrats, Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons, Las Vegas, Dick Cheney, Al Gore, San Francisco, and Paris Hilton.

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Tags: Al Gore, Democrats, Dick Cheney, Gitmo Prison, Las Vegas
Posted Jun 5th 2009 at 6:47 pm in Media Criticism, Political Humor, Video | 152966No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/newsbusters/2009/06/05/%e2%80%98newsbusted%e2%80%99-60509-%e2%80%94-fake-news-from-the-right/%E2%80%98NewsBusted%E2%80%99+6%2F05%2F09+%E2%80%94+Fake+News+from+the+Right2009-06-06+01%3A47%3A27NewsBusters

A Harvey Milk Holiday?

Inspired in part by the Academy Award-winning Milk, California’s senate has passed a bill making slain San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk’s May 22 birthday a Golden State holiday. But the celluloid hero portrayed by Sean Penn bears little resemblance to the genuine article, who lashed out at political opponents as “Nazis,” purportedly staged a hate crime to engender support for a lagging campaign, and promoted Jim Jones to President Carter “as a man of the highest character” just a few months before the Peoples Temple leader orchestrated more than 900 murder-suicides. My City Journal article shows how Sean Penn’s Harvey Milk is as real as Toby Maguire’s Spider-Man. Only people so ignorant as to get their history from Hollywood would place the formerly obscure San Francisco city supervisor alongside the likes of Jesus Christ, George Washington, Christopher Columbus, and Martin Luther King in celebrating a holiday in his honor.

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Tags: California, Harvey Milk, San Francisco, sean penn
Posted May 22nd 2009 at 11:04 am in Politics | 1408303 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dflynn/2009/05/22/a-harvey-milk-holiday/A+Harvey+Milk+Holiday%3F+2009-05-22+18%3A04%3A38Daniel+J.+Flynn

Where Have All the Kirks Gone?

Don’t beam me up, Scotty. The Capt. James T. Kirk in the new “Star Trek” film is proof of how much ground men have lost in today’s culture. 

Before you tell me it is just a movie, recall the words of series creator Gene Roddenberry: “I have no belief that Star Trek depicts the actual future,” Roddenberry said, “it depicts us, now…”  And right now, the latest Star Trek depicts men as insecure, impulsive lechs who need women and aliens to keep them out of trouble.

Consider four attributes of the ideal man: self-control, bravery, confidence and sex appeal.

In the original series, Kirk has supreme self-control. He sacrifices himself for the safety of his crew and, in more than one episode, even chooses duty over true love. In the latest “Star Trek,” Kirk is Peter Pan, an irresponsible, reckless man-boy.  (Warning: plot spoilers ahead.) The new Kirk tears down an empty Iowa highway in a stolen hot rod and drives off a cliff, jumping out to save himself, not the car.  He gets into bar fights to serve his vanity, not some higher cause like rescuing the crew from aliens.  (more…)

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Tags: Chris Pine, gene rodenberry, James T. Kirk, Peter Pan, San Francisco
Posted May 14th 2009 at 8:37 am in Entertainment, Politics | 1342264 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hsmith/2009/05/14/where-have-all-the-kirks-gone/Where+Have+All+the+Kirks+Gone%3F2009-05-14+15%3A37%3A18Heather+Smith

Empty Suit, California Style

To the delight of California’s illegal aliens, socialists, unqualified minority job-seekers and militant bicyclers who blow up Hummer dealerships in the name of suffering polar bears, smarmy San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced on Tuesday he is running for governor in 2010.  Newsom chose San Francisco-based Twitter─the de facto, mandatory communication tool for hip celebs and gossipy high school girls─to officially reveal his plans.  Indeed, inexperienced, over-packaged, provincial narcissists with radical agendas, cocaine issues, elitism fetishes, an undeserved sense of entitlement and contempt for the American way of life aren’t just for the White House anymore.  California has found change it can believe in. 

At a time when reckless, lightweight, non-achieving ideologues are all the rage in American politics; when nary a meaningful accomplishment is needed to move up the political ladder; when substance takes a backseat to teleprompters and pedestrian, car salesman charms; Newsom is trying to parlay his overly-bleached smile, expensive suits and camera-ready prop wife (not pictured below) into the most visible governorship in the United States.   (more…)

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Tags: 2010, Antonio Villaraigosa, Barack Obama, California, Diane Feinstein
Posted Apr 27th 2009 at 10:27 am in Featured Story, News, Politics | 114682One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/rhunter/2009/04/27/empty-suit%e2%80%a6-california-style/Empty+Suit%2C+California+Style2009-04-27+17%3A27%3A50Riley+Hunter

An Argument for States Rights

Relax…this is not another NAMBLA story but give me a break. If you spent three years infiltrating a group of pedophiles you’d have a few stories serving as life lessons.

NAMBLA has a magazine but not a centerfold. If they did my nominee would be John from San Francisco. He was truly one of the more interesting characters I met at the Miami NAMBLA conference. Heavyset, in his late fifties, with his Mohawk hairstyle, a bad case of dandruff, earrings, shorts, and black knee high socks he made quite a fashion statement whenever he entered a room. John identified himself as a “gaythiest.”  He had been to prison twice for child molestation and was caught a third time but for some unstated reason the victim refused to cooperate with the police. John admitted to being “out as a gay” and “out as an atheist” but “those things are different. You go around saying you like to run your hands through a little boy’s hair, or you like to kiss him or do other things like that, it doesn’t get the same reaction.” My only response is, “dah!” (more…)

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Tags: constitution, FBI, Limbaugh, Marine Corps, NAMBLA
Posted Apr 4th 2009 at 7:04 am in News, Politics | 9646640 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bhamer/2009/04/04/an-argument-for-states-rights/An+Argument+for+States+Rights2009-04-04+14%3A04%3A03Bob+Hamer

A View From Stage Right; Part 2

Part 1 of what I half-jokingly called my “Manifesto.”

In a fiscal conservative’s utopian dreamworld, there would be no federal funding for the arts (or so many other government agencies or programs for that matter).  This has been our position since the inception of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in the early 1970’s.  We’ve been saying that if elected, we would abolish these misguided programs and departments and bring our government back to the bare-bones constitutionally described role that it has and leave everything else to the states.

We’ve held the influential bully pulpit of the presidency for twenty of the past twenty-eight years, and what has happened to the NEA?  It has grown.  While we have stood on principle,  we have also stood on the sidelines.  The founding fathers would be outraged that the federal government is funding art with taxpayer money, but because we are on the sidelines standing on our principles, all of that money is going to the people creating art with messages that undermine our very existence. (more…)

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Tags: "And the Band Played On", "Angels in America", abortion, AIDS, Andre Bishop
Posted Mar 4th 2009 at 5:50 pm in Entertainment, Politics | 7162661 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sright/2009/03/04/a-view-from-stage-right-part-2/A+View+From+Stage+Right%3B++Part+22009-03-05+01%3A50%3A22Stage+Right