It might surprise you to know that there’s a new top money-earner in Hollywood actresses, and it’s Reese Witherspoon. Of course, it might not, being that I pretty much gave as much away in the title but still, you were probably at least surprised recently.
Apparently, Reese Witherspoon is netting roughly fifteen to twenty million dollars PER PICTURE. Yeah, per picture. This is especially handy considering that she shows up in roughly one picture per year, which means on an hourly basis, she’s making roughly ungodly dollars per hour.
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Lately, lots of blogs have been talking about USA’s series Burn Notice. Largely ignored in its first season, the second season has been running this month to a much bigger buzz. It stars Jeffrey Donovan as an ex-spy who is trying to find the man who “burned” him.
You see, in espionage, being “burned” means you’re out. As the Season 1 DVD cover explains, spies aren’t fired…they’re burned. When a “burn notice” is put out on a spy, he is immediately excommunicated from the service and held hostage in a town of the agency’s choice. At least, that’s how the show describes it.
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I’ve been spending a lot of time with Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift since yesterday.
First of all, it’s nice to have a series that might dethrone Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II for most spinoff-based suffixes. Other than that, most of the Tactics A2 is a step down from its predecessor.
The art has gotten worse, despite a higher resolution on the DS screen. Character portraits are flat and awkward-looking. As for the character designs… well, there were three people playing the game in the house yesterday, and you could tell how far they were in the tutorial by when they would blurt out “Oh geez, is that what I look like?” As the resident artist put it, “You know how in japanese RPGs, characters always have that distinguishing bit of clothing to give them a little flair? This guy looks like he fell in the bin where they keep them all.”
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Should it alarm me that pretty much every article I read these days about the Screen Actors Guild fills me with a bubbling glee at the latest pratfall they’ve taken, mostly as a result of their own hubris?
It seems that, for some reason, SAG is demanding higher DVD and Internet residuals than those agreed to by the DGA, WGA and AFTRA, and their refusal to move is putting them on strike footing. Check out how the negotiations are going–or NOT going–so far: Read more…
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Have you been hankering for someone else’s opinion about modern T.V.? You’re in luck. Recently, Entertainment Weekly released their list of the “100 Best Shows from 1983 to 2008.” In some cases, they seem to have defined “best” as “most culturally relevant,” but in any case, I’d like to examine some of the choices that I’m familiar with. Not all of them, because I just don’t have that kind of time.
#10: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Once again, “influential” is the first word that comes to mind. Is there a show that has been referenced more often than Buffy in past decade? Though most say that the first season falls flat, it was enough to bring about the outstanding (and heartbreaking) second season, and five more after that. Everyone has their favorites and their hated pairings, but most T.V. buffs admit to liking the show.
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Okay, so I was flipping through the channels tonight, silently seething at my so-called “free preview weekend” of Starz–the bastards only gave me three of the available seven channels and they’re running about the same half-dozen movies all weekend–when I land on Fox News. Now, normally, just the thought of Fox News has me running for the basement in pants-wetting terror, but tonight gave me some lovely blog fodder.
I watched in horrified amazement as Carolyn Kirk, the mayor of Gloucester, began explaining that seventeen girls in her town got pregnant, all at the same time, while in the background, Geraldo “Chairface” Rivera declared it all some sort of “pact”. Not a pact, quoth Kirk, but rather… possibly… HORRIBLE IMAGES FROM HOLLYWOOD!!
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Have you been hankering for someone else’s opinion about modern T.V.? You’re in luck. Recently, Entertainment Weekly released their list of the “100 Best Shows from 1983 to 2008.” In some cases, they seem to have defined “best” as “most culturally relevant,” but in any case, I’d like to examine some of the choices that I’m familiar with. Not all of them, because I just don’t have that kind of time.
#87: Deadwood
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Big bad Russell Crowe, ladies and gentlemen! Scourge of hotels, chucker of appliances, South Park parody target! Apparently, this legendary badass met his match recently in a bar fight he just can’t seem to live down.
The subject of the South Park parody, Russell Crowe’s Fightin’ ‘Round The World, is currently featured in a song by Irish rockers Gaelic Storm. The song, relevant lyrics below, describes the night the frontman got into a fight with Crowe during his tenure as a bartender in which he asked Crowe to put out his cigarette. Crowe, naturally, refused and the following exchange ensued lyrically: Read more…
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So, Grand Theft Auto IV is in the news again. This time it’s Connecticut State Senator Gayle Slossberg looking for the rape.
She wants confirmation of the rumored rape scene in Grand Theft Auto IV—but she can’t reach that level of the game. The Milford state senator’s never played GTA, but she fears it’s corrupting the youth and thinks a law requiring better warning labels might be the fix.
Link by way of GamePolitics.
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A lot of celebrities have a dirty secret. No, it’s not heroin. Everybody knows about that already. It’s not their backgrounds in nudity-laden “art” films, or their time in prison for boosting that car. Nope, none of that.
It’s in their pores.
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