Avatar (and James Cameron) Get Rave Reviews
A dozen years later, James Cameron has proven his point: He is king of the world.
Biographies
Dear Mr. Bernanke, Please Fix This Ugly Dollar
I received this dollar bill the other day in change. I certainly hope The Fed’s Ben Bernanke will do something about this kind of tomfoolery:
The 10 Greatest Adventure Biographies
Outside magazine has a feature on “The 10 Greatest Adventure Biographies,” a list that includes books on Henry Morton Stanley, George Mallory (pictured) and Ernest Shackleton.Their big list comes with brief reviews of the books and backgrounds on all the adventurers.
David Lynch on George Lucas
In this brief video film director David Lynch tells the story of when George Lucas offered him the job of directing Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.
Book Your Place in Space
Wild man and entrepreneur Richard Branson of Virgin Airlines unveiled his newest space ship this week in California, a passenger craft called the Virgin Enterprise.According to the Virgin Galactice site, flights into space are scheduled to begin in 2011. For a couple of hundred thousand dollars you can spend a couple of hours in space — without having to become an astronaut.
Happy 62nd Birthday, Douglas Kenney
Jeepers, it’s hard to believe that Doug Kenney would still be only 62 today.He was 32 when he fell from a cliff in Hawaii in 1980, possibly under odd circumstances. But by then he had already founded National Lampoon magazine, launched the stage show Lemmings, and co-written the films Animal House and Caddyshack. Those two films, nothing more than larks at the time, have since become landmarks of the Early Ironic Age.
“Who Needs Joe the Plumber When You Can Have Scott Six-Pack?”
The GOP candidate for Ted Kennedy’s old Senate seat posed nude for Cosmo in 1982.
John Kascht Draws Giuliani
Caricature artist John Kascht draws and talks about the face of former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani in a very entertaining video, found here.Kascht also draws and talks in other videos about Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and others (links go to our profiles, not those videos).
Paris Hilton is to Blame for California’s Abandoned Chihuahua Epidemic
California has a Chihuahua problem:In what appears to be strictly a California phenomenon, Golden State animal shelters have been deluged with Chihuahuas. The trembling, pop-eyed canines have replaced pit bulls as the dogs most likely to turn up at the pound.”A couple years ago if a little one came in it’d be adopted before it touched the ground,” said Kate O’Connor, director of the Berkeley shelter.
Lady GaGa Meets the Queen
Sideshow chanteuse Lady GaGa met Queen Elizabeth II last night after the Royal Variety Performance in Blackpool, England.God bless the Queen in these situations. Nothing fazes her. She’s seen it all.