Author Archives: Big Hollywood
The Media’s Preening Disorder I Call Islamophobia-phobia
So last week I coined a new disorder, called Islamophobia-phobia, or fear of being labeled Islamophobic.
As you already know, Islamophobia is defined as a fear of Muslims. So Islamophobia-phobia is a…
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Where Did All the Grown Men Go?
So New Hampshire State Rep. Timothy Horrigan has stepped down after posting on Facebook that a dead Sarah Palin is “more dangerous than a live one.” Because he’s stupid, he added:…
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Ground Zero Mosque: Russell Simmons Fears Debate
So at that bug lamp for bozos known as the Huffington Post, media mogul Russell Simmons says opposition to the mosque being built near Ground Zero amounts to bigotry, or more specifically,…
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Elton John Not a Fan of Arizona Boycott
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Tonight:
Jim Norton!
Reshma Shetty!
Arthel Neville!
and a special guest to discuss that Missouri thing
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Trailer: Fred Ward Plays Ronald Reagan in Cold War Thriller ‘Farewell’
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Angelina Jolie’s “Salt” might heat up the old Cold War, but “Farewell,” which also opens (in select cities) tomorrow, takes us back to a pivotal moment in…
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Daily Gut: Obama’s Not the Problem, ‘Americans Are Spoiled’
So, if you watched Red Eye last night, you heard us mentioning a poll, reporting that roughly six out of ten Americans have lost faith in our Commander in Chief.
Here’s liberal radio host Bill…
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Penn Jillette: Mistrust of Government Is a Beautiful Thing
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TRAILER: Julia Roberts Eats, Prays and Loves
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Finally, the remake of “Under the Tuscan Sun” America’s been clamoring for.
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Daily Gut: Arizona Leads, Obama Follows
So Thursday morning, President Obama desperately tried to get in front of the immigration debate – and got run over by a float he made of platitudes.
So let’s get this straight: According…
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REWARD: $100,000 for Full ‘JournoList’ Archive; Source Fully Protected
I’ve had $100,000 burning in my pocket for the last three months and I’d really like to spend it on a worthy cause. So how about this: in the interests of journalistic transparency, and to offer the…
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REVIEW: First Two ‘Twilight’ Movies Disappoint—Will the Third?
In preparation for this week’s release of the third of the “Twilight Saga” films (entitled “Eclipse”), I recently watched the first two. The “Twilight” films (as well as the books they’re…
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60th Anniversary: Remembering ‘The Forgotten War’ Through Film — Part 5
Friday, June 25th, marked the sixtieth anniversary of the start of the Korean War. Coming just five years after the end of World War II, the fighting would last three years and cost the lives of…
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Assessing the True Cost of Liberty
My eldest son has decided that he wants to be a marine. His plan is to enter the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and then serve his country as an officer in the United States Marine Corps.
My…
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Daily Gut: Rolling Stone, McCrystal, and Dirt
So, in that Rolling Stone piece that brought down General McCrystal, the writer spent three weeks with the troops.
What did he find?
Trash talk directed at bureaucrats.
Yeah, I know.
Here’s a…
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WE LOVE PIXAR: The Secret Ingredients
Not since Walt Disney created a film studio based mostly on animation has a film company had such a string of successful family films. In fact, Pixar has had more successes in its run than Disney did…
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Janeane Garofalo’s Meltdown: Christian Racists Wrapping Themselves In Flag Violates Separation of Church and State
On June 25, the A.V. Club posted an interview with comedian Janeane Garofalo. It was a fairly substantial piece in which the interviewer, Sean O’Neal, asked about everything from Garofalo’s stand-up…
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BOOK REVIEW: Sarah Silverman’s ‘The Bedwetter’
As a conservative I can’t afford to limit myself to entertainment choices that I agree with politically. I read Ms. Silverman’s book hoping to get some insight into why so many people seem to think…
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60th Anniversary: Remembering ‘The Forgotten War’ Through Film — Part 4
Pork Chop Hill (1959): Unlike other films where Korea was used merely as a backdrop against which other issues are explored, Pork Chop Hill is a true Korean War movie. Based on historian General…
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Hollywood Mourns Their Castro Connection
“My dinner with Fidel Castro was the eight most important hours of my life,” Steven Spielberg is reported to have announced after returning from a visit to Cuba in 2002.
The quote was carried by many…
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60th Anniversary: Remembering ‘The Forgotten War’ Through Film — Part 3
The Manchurian Candidate (1962): Director John Frankenheimer’s chilling film-noir Cold War thriller was remade in 2004 and updated with a Gulf War theme but the original, which opens in 1952 Korea,…
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Obama Nation: Last Week
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TV REVIEW: ‘Entourage’ Return a Mixed Blessing
The boys of “Entourage” are back for another round of inside Hollywood hijinks. But don’t cue the trumpets just yet. The first episode of the show’s seventh season, debuting tonight at 10:30 p.m….
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60th Anniversary: Remembering ‘The Forgotten War’ Through Film — Part 2
M*A*S*H (1970): Robert Altman’s irreverent film adaptation of Richard Hooker’s novel is a spoof on the futility of war that was set in Korea but coming as it did while our troops were fully engaged…
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FILM REVIEW: ‘Karate Kid’ Kicks Butt Onscreen and Off
As the new “Karate Kid” movie opens, young Dre Parker looks at the height markings he has made on the wall of his room where he’s commemorated many past events, including the death…
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FILM REVIEW: ‘Karate Kid’ Kicks Butt Onscreen and Off
As the new “Karate Kid” movie opens, young Dre Parker looks at the height markings he has made on the wall of his room where he’s commemorated many past events, including the death…
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For Conservative Movie Lovers: John Woo, Chow Yun-fat, and ‘Hard Boiled’ Part 5
After waxing poetic about John Woo’s talent for the last month, it may surprise you to learn that I consider his later career an embarrassing falloff from his Hong Kong prime. That such sad declines…
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Daily Gut: Nutritionists Compare McDonald’s to Child Molesters
So last month I told you about The Center for Science in the Public Interest – the soulless scolds who believe all food should taste like pottery. Today, they’re threatening to sue…
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Garofalo: Bible a ‘Work of Fiction’ for a ‘Child-Like Audience’
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CMI:
During the interview, Garofalo also expressed disappointment in President Obama. “It’s a drag that he’s such a conservative,” she lamented.
Garofalo’s made her disdain for…
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‘Little Obama’ Trailer: Was Barack Obama the Original Karate Kid?
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Wall Street Journal:
“Little Obama,” the Indonesian film based on Barack Obama’s childhood years in the Southeast Asian nation, is nearing its June 30 premiere there and opening in…
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REVIEW: Warm, Funny, Relatable ‘Grown Ups’ Well Worth Your Time
Some movies strain for their laughs, while others just have to turn the camera on their stars and the guffaws will flow. “Grown Ups” is one of the latter, a laid-back yet hilarious film that doesn’t…
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REVIEW: ‘Restrepo’ Focuses Admirably on Our Military But Willfully Ignores Their Noble Cause
Beginning in June 2007, filmmaker Tim Hetherington and war correspondent Sebastian Junger embedded themselves with a U.S. Army platoon in the truly God-forsaken Korengal Valley of Afghanistan near…
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60th Anniversary: Remembering ‘The Forgotten War’ Through Film — Part 1
Hopefully my two-cents about the films in this five-part series will help if you are looking for a way to honor those veterans, living and dead, who deserve to be remembered today, June 25th, the…
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The Obama Omelette: Euthanasia, Abortion, Obamanomics… Death is Death
I must say, writing for Big Hollywood has made me face the most belligerently intelligent among my readers, many of whom refuse to believe that murder is murder.
Even those who are willing to admit…
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LA Weekly: Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa Goes On Five-Year Free Ticket Spree, Ignores Corruption Laws
According to an LA Weekly investigation, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa “has very quietly accepted — and even angled for — free tickets to as many as 80 pricey events, then failed to…
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Daily Gut: I Am Back!
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Just got dismissed from jury duty. Lawyer felt that I would be inclined to favor my opinion over others. by agreeing with him, I proved him wrong – but also got myself excused….
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WE LOVE PIXAR: Incredible Ideas at Work In ‘The Incredibles’
“They keep creating new ways to celebrate mediocrity.”
- Bob Parr/ Mr. Incredible
Children across America are getting awards. All the time. These accolades are not for academic excellence or…
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WE LOVE PIXAR: Incredible Ideas at Work In ‘The Incredibles’
In Brad Bird’s The Incredibles, it is the fear of being sued that prompts the superheroes to put away their uniforms for the tedium of office work, a drudgery which suits neither their talents,…
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Oliver Stone Openly Brags About Smuggling Illegal ‘Coca Leaves’ Into the U.S.
His heroes are Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro. He thinks both have been given a bum rap in the American media. He also thinks Venezuela is a democratic nation whose people enjoy the same freedoms as we…
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BLAME BUSH: Robert Redford Uses Misinformation In His Ongoing Crusade to Exploit Oil Spill For Political Gain
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is drawing a lot of attention from Americans right now, particularly the residents of the Gulf Coast who will have to absorb the brunt of the spill’s economic and…
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WE LOVE PIXAR: Why Conservative Critics Were Wrong About ‘Wall-E’
In WALL-E, we learn just what life would be like were the promise of the welfare state finally realized. Far from the schemes of Utopians, it seems downright hellish. Pixar animator and filmmaker…
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SUCKER PUNCH SQUAD: A Right and Left Look At ‘Predators’
[Editor's Note: Script reviews of upcoming projects have been around for as long as there's been an Internet. Therefore it's no secret that a film can evolve into something quite different from its...
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Daily Gut: The Self-Described Wheelchair-Bound Lady Magnet
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Sorry, I’ve been away. Was in Los Angeles doing some media hits for the book, but now I am saddled with jury duty, which is what I’m doing today, and tomorrow. I hope I am…
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WE LOVE PIXAR: Top-Five Greatest Pixar Films of All Time!
5. Ratatouille (2007): Nikki Finke severely underestimated the commercial possibilities of a movie with a rat named Remy as the main character, opining that it would be difficult for Disney to sell…
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REVIEW: ‘8: The Mormon Proposition’ — Same-Sex Marriage and a Tale of Two Ninnies
8: The Mormon Proposition is a major let-down. It’s not nearly the laugh riot the trailer promised.
All about the vast, Mormon conspiracy to nip gay marriage in the bud – by sneakily…
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Why Oliver Stone’s ‘South of the Border’ Flopped South of the Border
Just like Oliver Stone I have recently returned from a trip to Venezuela.
I have been a journalist in some pretty unusual places that have more than a few security issues. I have investigated some…
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REVIEW: Anti-Genocide Doc ‘Screamers’ Contradicts Itself, Calls For End of Private Gun Ownership
Genocide is an ugly subject that needs to be shoved into every generation’s face because the deliberate extermination of some targeted group by their own government occurs somewhere in the…
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WE LOVE PIXAR: The Pixar Rules
In a town where screenwriter William Goldman famously stated, “Nobody knows anything,” Pixar evidently knows something. It began its life in the early 1980s as part of Lucasfilm’s struggling computer…
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Daily Gut: Terrorist Imbeciles Caught
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Tonight…
Steven Crowder guest hosts Red Eye.
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Oliver Stone Defends Hugo Chavez, Trashes America as ‘Empire’
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I thought Obama put an end to all this ugly America’s empiring? Or is Oliver Stone the last remaining critic of this country yet to receive a Presidential bow?
Anyway,…
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TRAILER: ‘Green Hornet’ Open Everywhere January 14th
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If you’re going to criticize the trailer, please watch your words carefully. Jay Chou co-stars as Kato, which means Entertainment Weekly’s Owen Gleiberman might brand you a…
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Academy Award-Winner Jon Voight to President Obama: You Have Betrayed Israel and Arizona
President Barack Obama meets with Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
Jon Voight in today’s Washington Times:
You will be the first American president that lied to the Jewish…
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Telethon Highlights & Lowlights: Celebs Raise $1.3 Million For Gulf Oil Spill Victims
Some of Hollywood’s biggest environmentalist stars got together on Larry King last night, to rally the nation around helping the gulf crisis. A special two-hour show aired on the barely-watched CNN…
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WE LOVE PIXAR: A Monument To Creativity and Free Enterprise
Sometimes significant events in history can be triggered by random intersections, the results of which literally change the direction of the world in which we live. The entertainment/media industry…
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REVIEW: In HBO’s ‘For Neda’ the Symbol of Iran’s Green Revolution Comes to Vivid Life
The HBO documentary For Neda, directed by Antony Thomas and narrated by famed Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo, first aired on HBO in the United States on June 14 but went viral in Iran on June 1,…
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Obama’s Leadership Deficit
Appearing on CNN with Anderson Cooper, film director Spike Lee implored President Obama to infuse his handling of the Gulf oil spill with more emotion. Demonstrating the astute analysis we have come…
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REVIEW: ‘The Lottery’ Offers a Harsh Look At How Corrupt Unions Betray Poor Schoolchildren
My girlfriend and I drove the hour down to Beverly Hills to catch the education documentary, The Lottery. It ran for just seven days in the Los Angeles area, which boasts one of the least performing…
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WE LOVE PIXAR: Thanks For the Memories, Woody, Buzz and Co.
[Ed. Note: Since this appreciation piece is what gave me the idea for the We Love Pixar series, I asked Christian to kick things off for us. Much, much more to come.]
You never forget your first…
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The Once Universally-Beloved Roger Ebert Exploits Gulf Crisis For Political Gain
I hate to say this, but Spike Lee was right. We need to “go off” about this oil spill. The slow response is unacceptable at best. Unfortunately, film critic Roger Ebert didn’t listen to Lee’s advice…
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Warren Beatty, Sean Penn & Oliver Stone: Soldiers vs. Elitists
My little series of articles on Marlon’s Mao posed the possibility that if Marlon Brando had lived longer he would have inevitably been cast as Mao Zedong.
The crème de la crème of the Hollywood Left…
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Pointlessly Provocative: Lady Gaga’s ‘Alejandro’
I want to preface this by saying that I do enjoy listening to a Lady Gaga song now and again. But her attempts to push the limits on what is acceptable are dragging her down to the level of a…
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REBOOT: Don’t Worry…
…we can end this bad trip.
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For Better or for Worse?
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Obama Nation: A Mole in the White House
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‘Speed:’ A Look Back at 1994: Bestest Year Ever!
Jan De Bont’s “Speed” is a movie that in many ways symbolizes why 1994 was such a great year for movies, if not the best year ever in the history of the world and all universes known and unknown in…
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Trace Adkins: Country Music Star, Oil Rig Worker Calls Oil Drilling Moratorium ‘Idiotic’
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Kudos to CNN’s Anderson Cooper for having someone on who not only knows of what he speaks from first-hand experience, but obviously wasn’t going to say what Cooper…
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For Conservative Movie Lovers: John Woo, Chow Yun-fat, and ‘Hard Boiled’ Part 4
John Woo is a director’s director, often causing other practitioners of the trade to gape and wonder “How on earth did he do that?” When they hear that a technically audacious movie like Hard Boiled…
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‘Red Eye’: A Funny Right-Leaning Show That’s Earned a Better Time Slot
Fox News’ Red Eye has established numerous firsts for a cable news program: First talking newspaper, first intergalactic correspondent, first openly gay host.
But the show’s most…
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REVIEW: ‘A-Team’ Lacks A-Game
Admittedly I have never seen a television episode of the “The A-Team.” So I went into the theater not knowing the plot of the show or the film. Unfortunately, I left disappointed with an…
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REVIEW: Strong Themes Can’t Overcome TV Feel of ‘Jonah Hex’
“Eventually a man’s got to decide if he wants to do what’s right. That choice cost me more than I bargained for.” So says Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin), title character in Warner Bros.’ DC Comics adaption…
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POP CULTURE HERO OF THE WEEK: Elton John Goes to Israel
In an industry filled with quislings, appeasers, moral cowards, and politically correct, multicultural, progressive fascists, Rush Limbaugh’s pal is quite the breath of heroic fresh air. You…
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REVIEW: Sensational ‘Unthinkable’ Provides Window Into Soul of Nihilistic Left
The movie of the summer won’t be in theatres, going instead straight to DVD on June 15.
That’s a shame, because Unthinkable, a ripped from the headlines suspense thriller, starring Samuel L. Jackson,…
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Dear Ryan Murphy: Does the ‘T’ in LGBT Stand for ‘Typecast’ or ‘Totalitarian?’
In late April, openly gay, Iranian-American person of color and Newsweek writer Ramin Setoodeh made the mistake of suggesting that audiences might have a hard time believing openly gay actors in…
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Daily Gut: Trailer For Greg’s New Book!
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‘Hung’: TV’s Next Big Thing
For all the talk about how TV, not movies, is where you find the best writing these days, I sometimes think they’re starting to run out of ideas for TV shows, too. For example, as of this week there…
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Will We Ever See the Likes of ‘Lost’ and ‘24′ Again?
Several weeks ago, two critically-acclaimed and extremely inventive television series aired their final episodes. With the new summer television season upon us and fall premieres just a few months…
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We’re All Racists Now!: Behar, Garofalo & Ron Reagan Attack Obama
Big Hollywood would like to welcome Janeane Garofalo, the inappropriately named Joy Behar and Ron Reagan to that infamous Leftist club known as Only Racists Criticize Our One.
From yesterday’s…
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We’re All Racists Now!: Jon Stewart Mercilessly Ridicules Obama
Hey, remember when mockery and ridicule of Their One resulted in charges of racism from the Left? Well, finally, Obama’s stunning incompetence has accomplished what sea-rising speeches could…
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We’re All Racists Now!: Jon Stewart Mercilessly Ridicules Obama
Hey, remember when mockery and ridicule of Their One resulted in charges of racism from the Left? Well, finally, Obama’s stunning incompetence has accomplished what sea-rising speeches could…
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Drug Wars II: When Celebrity Websites and Celebrity Felons Attack
I once suggested to Big Hollywood editor John Nolte that to draw a tidal wave of comments we needed to somehow figure out a piece where I simultaneously attack birthers, praise Sarah Palin, and raise…
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TRAILER PREMIERE: ‘Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader’
[Ed. Note: Big Hollywood is proud to be among only a handful of film sites chosen to premiere the new "Narnia" trailer: "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader," which won't be officially released until...
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TRAILER PREMIERE: ‘Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader’
[Ed. Note: Big Hollywood is proud to be among only a handful of film sites chosen to premiere the new "Narnia" trailer: "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader," which won't be officially released until...
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‘Vampire Diaries’ Star ‘Shaken’ By Hollywood’s Lack of Support While Visiting Gulf
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Ian tells us he’s hoping more people will get involved in relief efforts–especially those in the Industry.
“Coming from the entertainment world, I’m really shaken by…
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The Damned Don’t Cry: Blind Political Ambition
Made on the heels of the more successful Mildred Pierce and based upon a similar but, in this case, true life story of Virginia Hill and Bugsy Siegel, The Damned Don’t Cry may, in my opinion,…
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How Reality TV Pollutes Our Minds
OK, I walk into the TV room the other night expecting to watch some vintage Eastwood and what do I wind up watching instead? The Real Housewives of New Jersey — aka nouveau riche, high…
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How Reality TV Pollutes Our Minds
OK, I walk into the TV room the other night expecting to watch some vintage Eastwood and what do I wind up watching instead? The Real Housewives of New Jersey — aka nouveau riche, high…
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Alec Baldwin Exploits Gulf Tragedy, Calls For Boycott That Will Bankrupt Small Business Owners
Every time Alec Baldwin opens his rather large pie hole I feel like Strother Martin in the movie “Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid.” There is a scene where Butch and the Kid are riding down a…
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Daily Gut: Website Devolves Into Lazy Perverts’ Dream Come True
So, as you know, Chatroulette is a website that instantly hooks up strangers for online yakfests. Visitors – which there are millions, daily – come there to talk about crap, and then bolt…
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