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The Most Crowded Box-Office Weekend Of The Year? And Yet Taco Bell Is The Front-Runner, Sad…

Rodrigo Perez — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:20:00 +0000

As many have already noted, this weekend is crazy crowded at the Box-Office, but a lot of it looks like fucking abysmal dreck.

Ok, there’s no major films per se, but the they’re all mid level studio or high level indies (they’re called “specialty pictures”) that probably won’t generate huge box-office numbers but are all basically in competition with one-another.

More than likely, some dumb-down studio film like “Eagle Eye” will stay at the top of the box-office by default.

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‘How To Lose Friends’ Trailer Is Awfully Alienating

Rodrigo Perez — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:12:00 +0000

Reading? What’s that? We read the interweb. But occasionally, occasionally, we have time to read a “book” and before we started blogging last year, one of our favorite books of the last five-six years was Toby Young’s hilariously candid and self-flagellating memoir of his disastrous attempt at working for Vanity Fair, “How To Lose Friends And Alientate People” (or one could say it was his disastrous attempt to be British in New York city).

So it pains us to watch this trailer that looks all Hollywood with a long-haired Jeff Bridges as the VF editor Graydon Carter character.

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