America—Fuck Yeah!
The New York Review of Books‘ excellent caricaturist David Levine one-ups Trey Parker and Matt Stone in this week’s issue.
Also, for political views a bit more cogent than those dudes’ “dicks-pussies-assholes” analysis, check out this special section featuring Kwame Anthony Appiah, Norman Mailer, Michael Ignatieff, and others on the election.
(Thus concludes our extensive Team America coverage for the day.)
“Gary goes through the usual three-act gamut of rivalry (with a puppet whose resemblance to Seann William Scott is surely intentional), romance (with a puppet whose resemblance to Elisabeth Shue is probably not), self-doubt and redemption, much of it set to music.”
—A.O. Scott, The New York Times.
“[H]is performance as John, the actor-phobic Team member is the best of Aaron Eckhart‘s career.”
—Greg Allen, Greg.org.
“The team’s control-room chief, Spottswoode, a white-haired bureaucrat in the James Mason mold, never loses his stentorian cool, even when he’s commanding Gary to, uh, go down for his country.”
—Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly.
“What’s different is that, yes, the hero is a puppet, and you can see his strings. And he’s not a fighter pilot, he’s a Broadway actor, recruited by a Charlton Heston-like figure with an omnipresent highball to save the world with his ACTING by infiltrating an Islamic terrorist group.”
—David Edelstein, Slate.
low culture, January 22, 2004:
The Believer, October 2004:
For our younger readers, the man on the right is Howard Dean.
Rakes’ Progress: Jude Law and Mick Jagger (and Jude Law, background)
You’d be smiling too if you slept with half the women in the world and your buddy slept with the other half.
Tomorrow, NBC premieres the latest entry in the decline of Western Civilization Reality TV genre, The Biggest Loser in which some people do something to win some money or maybe something else. It’s gonna be awesome—or something.
Since most TV critics are filing their reviews with their editors right about now, I thought I’d offer them some help with their inevitable shitty puns and fat jokes. Feel free to use any of the following phrases in your articles or headlines, or um, become a better writer:
·Fat Tuesday
·Weighty Matter
·Light-Weight Entertainment
·Thick as Thieves
·Chubby-Hubby
·The Weight Is Over
·Big Men and Women on Campus
·Fat of the Land
·Big, Fat Obnoxious [Anything]
·Big, Fat Hit
·Weighed Down
·Heavy/Meta
·Well-Rounded Cast
·Fatty Ass-heads
·Must Eat TV
·Hungry for Ratings
·Fat Chance
·Battle of the Bulge
·Thin Premise
·Fat Sells
·Big Competition
·Chubby Reign
·Waist of Airtime
·Devouring the Competition
·Chewing the Scenery
·Broad Humor
·The Thickest Link
·Livin’ Large
·Large and in Charge
·Wide Margin
·Fat of the Land
·Meaty
·Morbidly [Anything]
·Gut-Busting
·Phat
“George W. Bush” robs a bank in Pennsylvania and The Smoking Gun has the security camera stills. Not pictured: Rumsfeld behind the wheel of the getaway car.
Earlier: Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon rob several California banks.
“Hollywood, with its Jewish roots, did not experience The Passion as a transcendent religious and emotional event, as so many other viewers did. Some haven’t forgiven Gibson for even making the film, let alone forgotten his father, Hutton, and his inflammatory statements about the history of the Jews. ‘I’ll tell you why The Passion won’t be nominated,’ snaps one industry executive. ‘Happily, there are too many people in the Academy who believe the Holocaust actually happened.'”
Will Oscar Listen?, Sean Smith, Newsweek, Oct. 25, 2004.
From the idiots what brung you Rove & Rover
EARLIER, indelicately: John Kerry, Debate 2004: Gay, gay, gay, gay, gaygaygaygay
EARLIER, sanctimoniously: “Mention of Gay Daughter a Cheap Trick, Lynne Cheney Says”, Washington Post
These titles were already taken, but are just as good:
Fuck You Too
Bitch
Skinny Women Are Evil
If I’m So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single?
Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash
The Ultimate Book of Useless Information
Sleaze
Please Kill Me
‘World Police’ Creators Say Anger = Publicity
Easy as ABC!