Corey Haim Dead at 38

Corey Haim has died at 38, likely of a drug overdose. Actor Corey Haim, who appeared in a number of movies during the 1980s, died early Wednesday of a possible drug overdose after being taken to a hospital, Los Angeles police said. Haim, 38, was taken to Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, where he was pronounced dead at about ...

Limbaugh Leaving the Country if Health Reform Passes

Rush Limbaugh has pulled a Baldwin. My guess in even in Canada and even in the UK, doctors have opted out. And once they’ve opted, they can’t see anybody Medicare, Medicaid, or what will become the exchanges. They have to have a clientele of private patients that will pay them a retainer and it’ll be a very small practice. I don’t ...

Famous Movie Quotes Diagrammed

Everybody's blogging about the Oscars, which I haven't watched in more years than I can recall. And, since I haven't seen any of the major winners yet -- "Avatar" is the only one that I'd have seen in the theater and life intervened -- I cared even less than usual this year, if that's possible. Ever-so-slightly apropos, however, this diagram ...

Favorite Movies Of Conservative Bloggers

RWN's John Hawkins polled his roster of conservative bloggers on their favorite movies of all time. Only two flicks from this millennium made the top dozen, although several others made the larger list: 8) The Godfather II: 6 (1974) 8) Jaws: 6 (1975) 8) Raiders of the Lost Ark: 6 (1981) 8) Pulp Fiction: 6 (1994) 8) Braveheart: 6 (1995) 6) The Shawshank Redemption: ...

NBC Olympic Coverage: Congressional Action Needed?

Senator Herb Kohl is pressuring NBC to open up online access to its Olympic coverage. A Democratic senator criticized NBC on Friday for its handling of online access to the Vancouver Olympics, calling it unfair and restrictive. Sen. Herb Kohl of Wisconsin, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel, wrote NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker to complain about an NBC ...

Jimi Hendrix Greatness Explained

[caption id="attachment_47740" align="alignright" width="400" caption="Right (and left) hand man ... Jimi Hendrix. Photograph: Marc Sharratt/Rex Features"][/caption] Jimi Hendrix was a pretty good guitar player. He was also more ambidexterous than most. At least one guy quoted by another guy thinks this may not be coincidental. Was Jimi Hendrix's ambidexterity the secret to his talent? This is the question explored in a new ...

Action Comics #1 Sells for Million Dollars

A copy of Action Comics #1 has been sold for a whopping one million dollars. [caption id="attachment_47576" align="alignright" width="211" caption="In this image released by Comic Connect Corp., a the June 1938 cover of 'Action Comics' that first featured Superman, is shown. (AP Photo/Comic Connect Corp.)"][/caption] A rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman sold Monday for $1 million, smashing the ...

Captain America vs. Tea Party

Earlier this week, Warner Todd Huston called attention to a sequence in the current issue of Captain America in which the title hero and his on-again, off-again sidekick, The Falcon, lament the racist yahoos of the Tea Party movement.  Here's the strip in question: [caption id="attachment_47121" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Tea Party sequence, Captain America #602 - click for larger image"][/caption] Huston's description: In issue ...

Super Bowl 44 Most Watched Show Ever, Topples M*A*S*H Finale

Last night's Super Bowl has apparently broken a record many thought would stand forever, ousting the last episode of M*A*S*H as the most-watched show in the history of American television. The New Orleans Saints' victory over Indianapolis in the Super Bowl was watched by more than 106 million people, surpassing the 1983 finale of "M-A-S-H" to become the most-watched program in ...

Jon Stewart: Blogs Must Be Crazy

I'm a bit behind on my "Daily Show" viewing, so hadn't yet seen this segment where Jon Stewart pokes fun at some blogs for the use of outlandish headlines: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c The Blogs Must Be Crazy www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis Amusingly, Media Bistro's Tina Dupuy does the very thing Stewart is lampooning, titling ...

Not Your Daddy’s Oscar

If it seemed to you like there were an awful lot of Best Picture nominees this year, you were right. The Academy doubled the usual number of finalists in order to boost the awards show's ratings: The Oscars, broadcast live around the world, were once a ratings juggernaut. But in the past few years, the show's popularity has slipped, its television ...

Scorpions Break Up

[caption id="attachment_46476" align="alignright" width="400" caption="n this Feb. 21, 2009 file photo, the German rock band The Scorpions arrives for the Echo 2009 music award ceremony at Berlin, Germany. The band, known for its early 1990s hit 'Wind of Change' among others, said on its Web site Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010, that 'we agree we have reached the end of the ...

Stewart on Olbermann

Jon Stewart takes on Keith Olbermann's style of "commentary." Hilarity ensues.The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c

Johnny Cash’s Last Album

[caption id="attachment_46174" align="alignright" width="268" caption="A stage hand at the Ryman Auditorium puts the final touchs on a large photo of the late country music legend Johnny Cash, before the Cash tribute concert in Nashville, Tennessee, late November 10, 2003. REUTERS/John Sommers II JPSII/GN"][/caption] The implied agency of this Reuters headline is amusing:  "Johnny Cash releasing another posthumous album." Someone's ...

Conan O’Brien Rejects ‘Tonight Show’ Move

In a somewhat unexpected move, Conan O'Brien has told NBC that he will not agree to moving "The Tonight Show" to after midnight to get the network out of the hash they created by moving Jay Leno to prime time. He issued a long statement explaining why: In the last few days, I’ve been getting a lot of sympathy calls, ...