So, because Ken Lay is now dead, under the Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals, his ten (10!) grand-jury convictions may very well be considered abated. And now, since he's a corpse, claimants in the case against him cannot seek punitive damages, only compensatory damages. Hmm. Isn't that interesting. I wonder if... no, no, it was definitely a massive ( Read more... )

From USA Today, 6/18/06 ( Read more... )

"The narrator of my nonfiction pieces is not the same person I am--she is a lot more articulate and thinks of much cleverer things to say than I usually do." -- Janet Malcolm

Saget said he got the idea for the film while watching the original "March of the Penguins" at a friend's house.

"I couldn't stop doing the voice-overs of the penguins, reminiscent of when I did those animal voices on that video show back in the day," he said.

...Yeah, because those voices were so funny and everything.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/united93

omg.

i cant wait for a united93/snakes on a plane mashup parody trailer.

"Defamer brother site Fleshbot shares their review of a spunk-filled tribute to a blockbuster that hasn't even been released yet. That's right-- The Da Vinci Load may offer even more Vatican ire-raising intrigue and thrills than its source material. A synopsis:

Operatives of the Priory of Semen, including penile profiler Dr. Nadia Saint (Missy ( Read more... )

MARK BINELLI: Over the next three hours, Doherty will also smoke crack, shoot heroin and take an ecstasy pill. He does all of this casually, and openly, except for the shooting up, which he performs near the kitchenette, with his back to us. He offers me heroin and ecstasy but not crack. I decline. The more drugs Doherty does, the more he seems to ( Read more... )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly_Dig

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BERKOW!

They adapted Ask The Dust by John Fante into a movie with Colin Farrell and Salma Hayek.

Weird.

Wait... I just realized something ( Read more... )