Diddy Continues To Voice Something Barely Resembling An Opinion On The 2008 Election

Diddy apologizes to Sarah Palin for his previous blog.

Still no word from the Palin campaign. Weird.

Posted by Gabe at 5:02 PM in Politics
Tags: Diddy | Election 2008 | John McCain | Sarah Palin

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Mr. T Pities The Fool Who Enjoys Things That Don't Taste Like Shit

I can't tell you how many times I've thought to myself "ENOUGH WITH THIS KITCHEN, WHERE IS A MACHINE FROM MR. T THAT I CAN USE TO MAKE GARBAGE FOOD." Just kidding, I can tell you how many times. Zero times!

(via BWE)

I like that Mr. T "challenged some friends" to make this for him. Totally. That's just how friends are. Always challenging each other to invent shitty ovens. I think more friendships should involve challenges and ridiculous inventions with the word Turbo in them. Just as a fun, marketable celebration of how much we all like each other.

Posted by Gabe at 3:58 PM in Free Advertising
Tags: Flavorwave Turbo | Mr. T

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Who Should Star In The Christian The Lion Movie?

MSNBC reports that Sony is attempting to purchase the rights to everyone's favorite lion hug video and turn it into a feature length viral video.

Sony Pictures aims to bring the story of Christian and the two men, John Rendall and Anthony "Ace" Bourke, to the big screen.

The studio is in the process of securing the life-story rights of Rendall and Bourke and their 1972 book, "A Lion Called Christian."

OK! I'm already in tears! But who are you going to cast as the two "friends" who bought a lion at a department store (still kind of don't get that part) and raised him in a churchyard and set him loose in Africa and got that incredible hug?

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Posted by Gabe at 2:50 PM in What America Wants
Tags: Anthony Bourke | Christian The Lion | John Rendall

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Ghostbusters 3 Is A Terrible Idea. Because Of 9/11.

The internet is astir, because someone in Hollywood has given the go ahead to two writers from The Office to write a script for a third Ghostbusters movie that would reconvene the original cast. No, David Blaine. The argument that Hollywood is out of ideas is a common one, and not a summer goes by without something being dredged up from Old News Lake and remade for the big business of nostalgiaploitation. Those are both true, but this isn't even about that. And this is not some fanboy rant about not wanting to see my precious Ghostbusters tarnished by a half-assed cash grab. It's definitely a half-assed cash grab, but the original cast is great, and writers on The Office are good writers, so at the very least it's a half-assed cash grab with genuine talent behind it. Besides, I sleep in a big boy bed now, with man sheets, and cannot be bothered with the exhausting enthusiasms of my youth (i.e. I am waiting for death.)

But the simple fact of the matter is that cleaning up New York's ghosts is a grim fucking topic.

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Posted by Gabe at 1:45 PM in Bad Idea Jeans, Everyone's A Critic
Tags: Bill Murray | Dan Ackroyd | Ernie Hudson | Ghostbusters 3 | Harold Ramis | The Office

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Women, Stop Be Shoppin'!

I've always thought of Isla Fisher as a smart and funny woman with sharp comedic timing and a good head on her shoulders. WHOOPS. Confessions of a Shopaholic trailer, you guys:

Oh God, ladies. Between Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin you guys have been having a historic year, but I'm pretty sure this movie, even if it bombs, is going to set gender relations back to pre-Bridget Jones levels of sexist condescension. "Oh how cute, she is trying to be professional but in reality she's a bumble-headed compulsive liar with a shopping addiction based on lifelong superficiality deeply rooted in the worst instincts of capitalist society." It is only a trailer, though. The movie probably gets way more The Feminine Mystique.

Posted by Gabe at 12:30 PM in Trailer
Tags: Confessions Of A Shopaholic | Isla Fisher

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Gabe And Rich Watch A Movie: Saló

Videogum friend Rich Juzwiak, who writes the tremendous website FourFour and also blogs about I Love Money for VH1, likes some fucked up movies, and sometimes he makes me watch one. This week, we talk about Pier Paolo Pasolini's infamous film Saló: 120 Days of Sodom, which Wikipedia describes this way:

Four men of power, the Duke (Duc de Blangis), the Bishop, the Magistrate (Curval), and the President agree to marry each others daughters as the first step in a debauched ritual. With the aid of several collaborator young men, they kidnap eighteen young men and women (nine of each sex), and take them to a palace near Marzabotto. Accompanying them are four middle-aged prostitutes, also collaborators, whose function in the debauchery will be to recount erotically arousing stories for the men of power, and who, in turn, will sadistically exploit their victims.

A warning: Saló is not really safe. For anything. So the discussion is NSFW.

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Posted by Gabe at 11:30 AM in Gabe And Rich Watch A Movie
Tags: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Rich FourFour | Salo

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Khloe Kardashian On The Fast Track To Lose Celebrity Apprentice

According to Page Six, Kim Kardashian is working hard to make sure that her sister Khloe wins when she appears on Celebrity Apprentice by working with Omarosa. Sounds fool-proof. Wait, what's the opposite of fool-proof? Right. Sounds like a bunch of fools.

KIM Kardashian is secretly working behind the scenes to make sure her kid sister Khloe scores big in the next installment of NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice." Kim was seen at the EA Sports FaceBreaker Video Game party in Hollywood texting her sister to set up a power lunch with ex-"Apprentice" villain Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth. "She wants to work out a game plan for Khloe to win," a source told us. "Omarosa has told Kim she has many ideas for Khloe."

I'm not a businessman, but I would love to sit in on that power lunch. Omarosa would be like "take it from me, I've only lost that show twice so I've got a lot of great ideas," and Khloe will be all like "my breasts are grumpy," and then Jack Welch will come in and be like "don't even go on that show, come be the CEO of the world with me because you have what it takes!" and Omarosa will slap him because she's "a bitch." You know, business.

Posted by Gabe at 10:30 AM in Behind The Scenes, Reality TV
Tags: Celebrity Apprentice | Donald Trump | Khloe Kardashian | Kim Kardashian | Omarosa

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Michael Moore's Tourgasm

There was an article on MSNBC yesterday afternoon about how Michael Moore was going to follow in the footsteps of Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails and release his new feature film, Slacker Uprising, on-line, FOR FREE. The article claimed that it was the first time a major motion picture was being distributed in this way. Oh cool. Very hip. I love alternative distribution methods! Except what the article didn't mention was how this movie looks like the worst:

Oh wow, Michael Moore, we can have that movie for free? We don't have to pay 11 dollars to see you glorify yourself before giant crowds of mildly supportive teenagers for an hour and a half? The only thing more clever than your distribution system is your definition of "major motion picture." Nicely done on bringing the word "slacker" back, though. If we can just get all the slackers to register to vote, I'm pretty sure Bill Clinton will beat George Bush! Because it's 1992!

Posted by Gabe at 9:30 AM in Documentaries, Politics, Trailer
Tags: Election 2008 | Michael Moore | Slacker Uprising

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