Here’s an except from Ozus’ World Movie Reviews’ write-up on Robert Downey Sr.’s movie Putney Swope:
Putney Swope (Arnold Johnson), his voice dubbed by a gravely speaking Downey, is the story of a token black man on the board of directors of a large Manhattan advertising firm who is accidentally voted Chairman of the Board when [...]
I was always under the impression that whatever Bill Murray whispered into Scarlett Johansson’s ear at the end of Lost in Translation was not actual dialogue, but something for the view to fill in with his or her own imagination.
Vid22.com, the creators of the video below, don’t believe that to be true. Using digital [...]
I was sick in bed with a really bad cold for most of the weekend. I alternated between sleeping, drinking lots of juice and water, watching a little TV (I’d never seen Good Will Hunting before) and a little light surfing on the laptop.
While poking about the web, I stumbled into a site [...]
The movie Deliverance has so infused its way into North American pop culture that most people are aware of its “Squeal like a pig!” scene. Back when I played background music for improv comedy shows here in Accordion City, I’d play the opening notes from Dueling Banjos whenever an actor would make some reference to [...]
I know from checking the server logs that my switching blogging tools and domains (from “accordionguy.blogware.com” to “joeydevilla.com”) has thrown off a lot of people searching for specific images from this blog. It’s going to take some time for Google and the other search engines to re-index the blog, but eventually the search engine results [...]
The Ginger Ninja and I were going to have to travel some distances that weren’t very well served by public transit if they were served at all, so we decided to rent a car. We needed a car that we could pick up at Logan Airport and drop off at Bradley (Hartford’s airport), and Thrifty [...]
A link on the nerd-friendly social news site Reddit pointed me to entertainment lawyer Jeff Cohen’s page at Global Talent Associates’ site. Readers of a certain age might recall him as the guy who played “Chunk” in the 1985 film The Goonies.
Here’s a then-and-now set of photos of Mr. Cohen:
Brett Lamb writes:
I really want to, but wasn’t able to do the poster for Manufacturing Dissent, a new documentary about Michael Moore, so I passed the project on to Robot Johnny who did the smashing artwork above. The film will be at Hot Docs in April.
Robot Johnny writes a little bit about the [...]
In case you haven’t seen it yet, there’s a new, longer trailer for The Simpsons Movie:
Someone has suggested that the movie shouldn’t be promoted as an “epic”, but instead as being written by “the FUNNY writers of The Simpsons, back when the show was good.”
Last month, I showed you this image, which mashed up Sesame Street and The Shining:
And now, I present to you a different kiddie icon coming through the door. Click on the photo to see who it is!
Back in high school, after reading Space-Time and Beyond for the umpteenth time and drinking one too many zombies with my friend Henry, we came up with a theory:
In the infinite set of universes, there had to exist a particular universe in which the events in our lives were being watched as a TV show.
We then made a solemn vow to live the kind of life that got high ratings.
This is the continuation of that story.
