The New York Post‘s The Passion of The Christ Collector’s Edition Covers:
Related: Coming soon, Mad Max: Fury Road, to be produced by Mel Gibson’s Icon Productions and released by 20th Century Fox.
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Month: February 2004
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Brett Ratner, Character Witness
Brett Ratner talking about Michael Jackson’s underage accuser:
“[The boy] would sit in my director’s chair. When I told him to get up, he’d tell me to go to hell… He used to tell me, ‘Brett, I don’t like the last shot’ while he was watching us make the movie. He’s telling me how to make my movie! He’s more street smart than I was at that age. If someone tried to fondle him, he’d punch them in the face. He’s an adult. I think the jury will see that.” (From Roger Friedman’s FOX 411 column, Feb. 24, 2004)
So the kid thought Ratner couldn’t make a movie? He’s obviously a child prodigy. From this point forth, I believe everything he has to say.
ANSWER KEY:
1. The bus in the center, presumably destroyed by a suicide bomber, much like yesterday’s blast which killed 8 people and injured scores more.
2. The wall itself, a 24-foot-high concrete monstrosity subject to review by an international tribunal at the Hague today to debate the “legality” of the wall, a gargantuan construction which certainly plays no part in dehumanizing Palestinians, but instead provides security for Israelis and prevents suicide bomber attacks (See answer key item #1, step, and repeat).
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Drive, He Spanked
Driver nabbed while watching porn movie
ALBANY, N.Y., Feb 20 (Reuters) — Andre Gainey found out the hard way that in the state of New York it’s illegal to drive while watching porn.
Police said the 35-year old man from Clifton Park, New York, was watching a adult movie called “Chocolate Foam” on Tuesday night while driving his Mercedes Benz in the town of Schenectady when he was spotted by an officer at a stop light…
[Courtesy of the brilliant Javier, who very rightly wondered why we needed to know the video’s title.]
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“Why Are You So Awesome?”
Chris Farley and Martin Scorsese
Remember the old SNL skit where Chris Farley (R.I.P.) had his own talk show? If Chris had had a better vocabulary, it might’ve been a lot like this: The Business: Kevin Smith interviews Tom Cruise. (Arena, Feb. 2004)
[via GreenCine Daily]
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Another slow news week
“Since we know you’re wondering, let the record show that every weirdly combed follicle you see is his. Trump swoops up his bangs to prove it. “I don’t say my hair is my greatest strength in the world, but it’s not terrible,” he says, though perhaps it would look better if someone other than his girlfriend cut it,” The World According to Trump, by Keith Naughton and Marc Peyser, Newsweek, Feb. 23, 2004
Related: “The numbers are stark and staggering. In the past three years, 232,400 jobs have been lost in the city. Every employment category except health care and teaching and educational services has taken a brutal hit… And the jobs could be gone forever,” Where Have All The Jobs Gone?, by William Sherman, New York Daily News, Feb. 23, 2004.
Actual waste products
As Ed Gillespie, Karl Rove, et al prepare for this fall’s upcoming Republican National Convention in Manhattan, we thought it wise to advise the party’s pollsters to not have President Bush’s chief economist N. Gregory Mankiw give one of his customarily rousing speeches about economic populism, which, in the past, have gone something like this:
Outsourcing jobs overseas is “probably a plus for the economy in the long run…outsourcing is just a new way of doing international trade. More things are tradable than were tradable in the past. And that’s a good thing.”
Perhaps Gillespie and Rove might consider having Pennsylvania State Legislator Frank LaGrotta speak:
“I wonder if George Bush believes this. I doubt it, I tell myself. George Bush is a ‘compassionate conservative.’
Compassion: A feeling of empathy, concern, care…
Outsourcing: Treats working Americans like waste products of a Robin-Hood-in-reverse strategy to rob from the poor and give to the rich.”
OK, scratch LaGrotta, too. Better to avoid the topic entirely and stick to “safe” themes, like recalling how close Madison Square Garden is to Ground Zero.
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Uh-oh. Four more years! Four more years!
From the February 22, 2004 Washington Post:
Edwards, Kerry Were Barely Solvent Last Month
New campaign finance reports show that the two leading candidates for the Democratic nomination were barely solvent at the end of January heading into a prospective $50 million-plus ad blitz by President Bush.
Bush ended January with $104.4 million in the bank, nearly 100 times as much as the net balances of Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.), the Democratic front-runner, and Sen. John Edwards (N.C.), Kerry’s leading challenger for the nomination.
“We will never catch up,” said Michael Meehan, Kerry’s spokesman, noting that so far in February, Kerry had raised $5 million.
“‘The Zippies Are Here,’ declared the Indian weekly magazine Outlook. Zippies are this huge cohort of Indian youth who are the first to come of age since India shifted away from socialism and dived headfirst into global trade, the information revolution and turning itself into the world’s service center.” — Thomas L. Friedman, Meet the Zippies, The New York Times, Feb. 22, 2004.
“What we have here is a major player in the premillennial cultural meme pool, and a loose-knit movement of folks who aim to change the world—while having the best time of their lives. Cyber-crusties, techno-hippies, post-ravers—the British media have tried pinning various compound names to its members… But one name stands out, maybe because it was designed to. And for the moment it’s sticking: zippies. It stands for Zen-inspired professional pagans…” — Zippies!, by Jules Marshall, Wired, May 1994.
Related: Zippy the Pinhead
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