So I don’t watch a whole lot of TV other than Premiere League soccer on Saturday and Sunday mornings. And Mythbusters when I can catch it. And OK, I also watch House semi-regularly.
One show I watched with interest was Smith, starring Ray Liotta as a reluctant high-end thief/loving suburban dad who’s trying to get out [...]

Al Franken and Janeane Garafolo have tried, but haven’t been able to pull it off. Stephen Colbert has.
The “it” in question? Building support by out-ranting the right wing. I still don’t think he’s found his groove 100%, but he’s gaining steam. Even Jon Stewart didn’t really hit his stride until 2004, after several years on [...]

Here’s a great post from a woman who doesn’t know who Bob Dylan is. I’m not going to call her an idiot or anything…she freely admits she knows nothing about music. I am, however, going to call her grossly out of touch.
We should all know of the man’s contributions and what he’s all about: [...]

Mel Gibson is pleased to announce to Diane Sawyer — whose show is never, ever, ever used for shameless publicity — that he’s been sober for 65 days.
Clean shaven and casually dressed in jeans and a blue checkered shirt, Gibson tells Sawyer he began drinking two months before sheriff’s deputies arrested him in Malibu on [...]

We’ve been hearing for some time that many people, particularly young people, count The Daily Show as their only regular source of news. I don’t care how smart Stewart is — that fact still scares me. It scares me not because Stewart is a funnyman — as he pointed out in his argument with Tucker [...]

One of my favourite flicks of all time has turned 20. I already own the Criterion version, but now the bastards have put out a 3-disc box set, which I’ll surely end up buying.

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Sean Penn has been fined and/or scolded for lighting a cigarette indoors at the Toronto International Film Festival. I’m sure he simply assumed that smoking indoors is okay, just like back home in California, where, as we all know, cigarette smoking is legal absolutely everywhere, and has been for years.

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I can’t believe it! I just can’t fathom it! And I could never, ever, ever have predicted it!
Only a few years after Jay-Z, arguably hip-hop’s most overrated MC, claimed that he would retire after releasing “The Black Album” — and subsequently bagging buckets of free ink from the gullible press — Jay-Z is releasing another [...]

The buzz around last night’s Toronto International Film Festival North American Premiere of the Borat flick has been justifiably huge, and the show’s been sold out for some time. Unfortunately, the lucky viewers who had tix will have to go again when it’s released in November, because a projection-room snafu stalled the film halfway through. [...]

Here’s a snapshot of what the world cares about today, as opposed to what they should be caring about:

Happy Labour Day.