Topic: Entertainment
There's no hiding that we're not fans of Howard Stern. It's not only because we outgrew his brand of humor in high school (possibly junior high - ed.), but because everything on his show revolves around the fact that he's better than everyone else. The man is the ultimate prima donna. That and he's on Sirius Satellite Radio, and we're XM fans.But now, it appears that Howard is going to go after Opie & Anthony, who we are fans of, by hitting out on the terrestrial radio ground too. O&A made a deal with XM and then agreed to clean up the first hour and a half of their show for normal free radio. They took off in popularity, and Howard took $500 million of Sirius's money to come work for them.
Well Howard must not like his Sirius bosses either, because he's thinking about selling his show to terrestrial radio as well, which would pretty much anger everyone at the satellite network.
Perhaps it is because Stern only gets 10 percent of his former audience and people have forgotten about him. But what we do know is that if he does stick it to his new company and head back to Earth-bound radio, it will pretty much prove that he's the biggest sell out in the radio business. Start the evisceration of Howard, O&A. We'll be listening.
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Posted by James
at 11:50 AM CDT
There are certain entertainment figures, usually in the music world, that outlive their life expectancies by a good measure. Iggy Pop comes readily to mind. However, Keith Richards is not a man at all, but the living dead. We are sure of this.
We're out of hear early today as we're headed down to Austin for a night of debauchery before an early morning of golf and a buddy's wedding, before one more night of debauchery. So we've created a little To Do guide for your weekend as a parting gift and apology for being so hellaciously lazy this past week and a half.
For all you Entourage fans out there, and especially you women who are looking for semi-famous piece of ass, Johnny Drama is off the market. Yes, Vincent Chase's brother has gotten married in Las Vegas at the age of 40 (40? seriously? godDAMN - ed.). His wife wore a floor-length white gown, while Johnny (or Kevin Dillon, if you want to call him by his real name) wore, in true Chase brother style, jeans and a leather jacket.
Hooray, huzzah, and boo on you Fox pricks all at the same time. Fox announced today, stupidly, that Keifer Sutherland has signed on for three more years to play Counter Terrorist Unit ultimate bad ass Jack Bauer on our favorite show, 24.
We've watched with a hand over our eyes as The Last Samurai himself dropped into a massive pit of crazy in the past year. Impregnating a 26-year-old and then creating the term "jumping the couch." Going nuts on Matt Lauer about psychiatric drugs. Just being generally insane in general.
A scandal is brewing about the supposed "quitting" of Issac Hayes from the fantastic show South Park. It has been broken by Page Six and Foxnews.com that Hayes did not quit, and in fact that a fellow Scientologist issued that news release saying that he had.
Savanna Samson is talented. Let us tell you that we've watched hours of footage just to determine how talented she really is. Oh shit we didn't mean to say that.
Jay Leno is a nice guy. We've had the opportunity to meet him once, and we can say that he's a really nice guy, which is why it's even more of a shame that he's a shitty comedian. He used to be good, but then he got the spot on The Tonight Show and ruined himself instead of making it his own like Steve Allen or Johnny Carson. He's the Saturday Night Live of late night: a mad-lib comedian with current/popular words and subjects inserted into the jokes.
For that we turn to Daniel Brown and his Lego Brokeback Mountain. Don't worry; it doesn't spoil the mediocrity that is the second half of the movie. The condensed version is displayed here, but drop on over to SmugMug to check out the full size images and captions. And the Lego sheep rule. Good job Daniel!
Henry Rollins is awesome. Not only is a hard rock god and one of the funniest guys on the planet, but he is now taking on the whole country of Australia, especially the Australian Prime Minister, for a recent letter he received notifying him that he was a suspected terrorist. While the woman who sent him the letter obviously got that the guy who reported Hank was truly a moron, we wanted to reprint what Mr. Rollins himself said on his blog, because it shows just how stupid everyone gets around anything involving the national of Islam.
Embattled memoirist James Frey, who was thisclose to having been drank out of our memory forever, has a new attack dog, and Oprah and her cohorts in attack (looks like we'd better watch out too - ed., you said it... that dude is old and pissy!) better watch their backs, because you can't kill Bruce Willis off. That guy can take a beating like no one else.
Peter Benchley, the author who created the beast that became synonymous with bad facial hair and holy terror on the high seas, "Jaws," died Sunday at age 65. The acclaimed writer died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive and fatal scarring of the lungs, instead of being devoured alive by a Great White shark, which most of the world would have preferred, just for the freakiness.
Die Another Day was not a great James Bond movie, but it was Pierce Brosnan's best since Goldeneye. Much of that credit can be given to Lee Tamahori, who had previously made the awesome adventure/survival movie The Edge and then went on to make cinematic crap like XXX: State of the Union.
We liked Hostel. A lot. There was blood. Lots and lots and lots of blood. And an Asian chick with one eye jumping in front of a train to end her miserable, scarred life. That movie rocked.