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2008 Razzies Nominations Announced
I’m not a huge fan of the Academy Awards or any of those serious awards ceremonies if I’m honest. I know that’s probably not a good career move as a movie blogger but it’s the truth so what the hell. I just can’t get excited about giving awards to actors who have already been paid a huge amount of money to star in the movies. It’s like they need even more praise and reward than they already get just for being a celebrity.
So what I prefer is those spoof awards ceremonies or television programs that take the pee out of celebrities instead of patting them on the back for a job well done. Yes, I’m a nasty bloke with a chop on my shoulder, and I openly admit it. But it does mean that I love the Razzies.
The Razzie Awards are the opposite of the Oscars, celebrating bad film-making and poor acting every year. The 2008 nominations are in, as reported by MTV Movies, and the ist of runners and riders for this, the 29th annual Razzie Awards, are as awful as ever. Here they are in full, along with my choice of winners.
Worst Picture
Speed Racer, Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans, The Day the Earth Stood Still, High School Musical 3, The Hottie & The Nottie, Dungeon Siege, The Love Guru, Postal, Rambo, The Happening, Meet Dave, Witless Protection.
My pick - Meet Dave
Worst Actor
Zac Efron, Dane Cook, Larry the Cable Guy, Eddie Murphy, Al Pacino, Keanu Reeves, Sylvester Stallone, Tom Cruise (Valkyrie), Will Ferrell, Ashton Kutcher, Mike Myers, Adam Sandler, Mark Wahlberg.
My pick - Sylvester Stallone
Worst Actress
Paris Hilton, Jessica Alba, The cast of “The Women,” Camilla Belle, Cameron Diaz, Kate Hudson, Diane Keaton, Jennifer Connelly, Zooey Deschanel, Vanessa Hudgens, Eva Longoria-Parker, Reese Witherspoon.
My pick - The cast of “The Women”
Worst Screen Couple
Any couple from HSM 3, Cameron Diaz & Ashton Kutcher, Paris Hilton & Joel David Moore, Kate Hudson & Dane Cook, Kate Hudson & Matthew McConaughey, Larry the Cable Guy & Jenny McCarthy, Any couple from Mamma Mia, Eddie Murphy & Eddie Murphy (Meet Dave), Al Pacino & His Hair, Mark Wahlberg & Zooey Deschanel, Mark Wahlberg & Mila Kunis, Sylvester Stallone & His Ego.
My pick - Kate Hudson & Matthew McConaughey
Worst Director
Uwe Boll, Scott Derrickson, Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer, Tom Putnam, Marco Schnabel, Sylvester Stallone, Jon Avnet, Diane English, Roland Emmerich, Brian Robbins, Kenny Ortega, M. Night Shyamalan.
My pick - Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer
Worst Prequel, Sequel, Remake or Rip-Off
Indiana Jones 4, HSM 3, Rambo, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Disaster Movie, Meet the Spartans, An American Carol, The Women, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Prom Night, Speed Racer, X-Files: I Want To Believe.
My pick - Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Worst Career Achievement
Uwe Boll, Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer, Madonna, Keanu Reeves, Sylvester Stallone.
My pick - Madonna
Let us know your pick from the criminals above. Who do you think deserves their nomination and download animation movies who shouldn’t be there at all? Do you agree with my choices of who should win or do you regard me as way off the money? Feel free to comment with your thoughts.
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Ranking the Classics: Week Three of the 60 in 60
When I’m not blogging for Omnivoracious, I’m primarily a fiction writer and anthology editor. This year, with an incredibly busy schedule, I decided to more or less go offline for six months to finish my latest novel, Finch. No personal blogging at my Ecstatic Days site, just guest bloggers. For my return, I thought it might be nice to give myself a little challenge, so I wrote to my friend Colin Brush at Penguin Books UK and said, “If you’ll send me the 60 books in your Great Ideas series, I’ll review one a day for 60 days.” These beautifully designed little books are usually abridgments of longer works. Authors include the likes of Jonathan Swift, Karl Marx, and Virginia Woolf.
Brush replied that he liked the idea and sent me the books. So for the past three weeks I’ve started in on what has been called by at least one friend “foolish” and by another “the endeavor of a madman.” Penguin’s own blog questioned my sanity. Yet, I have persevered to the end of the third week, and my 60 in 60 audacity has been rewarded by attention from, among others, the Guardian (as book site of the week) and the Harvard University Press, which urged its readers to emulate my craziness.
Every Saturday, then, I will report back to Omnivoracious readers on the prior week’s reading, ranking each book I’ve read and turning a spotlight on the best. You can read the entire series of reviews on a special thread of my blog.
This week was an easy one, in terms of selecting a favorite, having had allergic reactions to both Freud and Nietzsche…
1 - John Ruskin’s On Art and Life - I love John Ruskin’s writings. Whenever I read Ruskin’s work I always feel like I am safe, in that I’m going to read something that has a reverence for specific details but can also provide a wider context and framework for universal understanding. Ruskin builds his theories and observations on foundations as solid and yet fanciful as the architecture or art under discussion. He also often takes a comfortably conversational tone with the reader, even while talking about very “formal” elements of architecture. The Penguin text consists of two essays, “The Nature of Gothic” and “The Work of Iron,” and the book itself, appropriately enough, is one of the most beautiful in the series (this specific design by David Pearson). Available from Amazon here.
2 - George Orwell’s Why I Write - A collection of Orwell’s timeless, pragmatic, and uncompromising essays, including the title essay, “The Lion and the Unicorn,” “A Hanging,” and “Politics and the English Language.” George Orwell was able to bring transparency to the language of deception because he learned to be transparent and straightforward in both his prose and his opinions. Available from Amazon here.
3 - Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own - I read Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own in my first year of college, more than twenty years ago. Woolf shares some similarities with Proust, and thus my memories of the book faded almost as soon as I finished it, except for some specific descriptive details and ideas. Woolf’s prose seems to float, and the meaning of her work exists often in the sentence, in the paragraph. Like Proust, you live in it for a time, immerse yourself in it,
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The Week You Can’t Figure Out Why You Went to Work [Week In Review]
the pattern week of 2008 was a week of mystery and intrigue!
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Everyone Deserves?.
a practical freedom to help the homeless ? right now by: motormensch believe me, i’m not the social studied of trash vent? i think even stiffler (our head honcho/writer) could picture me laughing at most misfortune. yup, of course i do. alas, that’s what journalism leading article affords people like me ? a accidental to be the bastard they … [[ this is a content summary at worst. visit my website conducive to full links, other pleasure, and more! ]]
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GateHouse Media sues New York Times Co. over competing Web site
GateHouse Media New England has filed a lawsuit claiming The Boston Globe’s new community Web sites violate copyright and trademark laws by lifting content from GateHouse sites without permission.
The lawsuit, which was filed in Boston federal court on Monday against Globe parent The New York Times Co., focuses on the “Your Town: Newton” site that the Globe launched through its Boston.com Web site last month. Boston.com has also added similar sites to serve the communities of Needham and Waltham in recent days.
GateHouse, the parent company of The Patriot Ledger, The Enterprise, MetroWest Daily News and dozens of other newspapers and web sites in the state, alleges that the Times Co. is building community-oriented sites that duplicate GateHouse’s “Wicked Local” sites while relying on the work of GateHouse journalists.
GateHouse filed a request with the suit asking a judge to block Boston.com from reproducing GateHouse’s content. The “Your Town” sites provide news headlines and lead sentences for several news stories each day. Many of the headlines and lead sentences link directly to stories on GateHouse Media sites, although others rely on content generated by the Globe or local blogs.
Greg Reibman, the editor-in-chief of GateHouse Media New England’s metro unit, said in an affidavit that many online readers only read headlines and lead sentences and do not click through to the full stories. He said that when readers do click through from the “Your Town” links, they bypass the ads on Wicked Local’s home pages.
In the affidavit, Reibman said Boston.com is avoiding paying journalists to cover local events by copying content from GateHouse’s Wicked Local sites, which are filled with news items from GateHouse journalists.
“If the Boston Globe wants to compete with us in Newton and the other communities we serve, they should approach it fairly,” Reibman said in the affidavit. “They should hire and pay their own journalists. They should generate their own original content and nurture their own contacts within the community.”
GateHouse sent a cease and desist letter to the Globe soon after the “Your Town: Newton” site became active last month. When that didn’t stop the posting of GateHouse material, GateHouse implemented electronic security measures to prevent users with a certain Boston.com address from scraping content off GateHouse’s Web sites. Boston.com, GateHouse alleges, intentionally circumvented those measures.
GateHouse publishes its news and photos on the Web through a Creative Commons license that allows users of Wicked Local to copy and distribute the copyrighted material – as long as it’s not for commercial use.
Jon Chesto may be reached at jchesto@ledger.com.
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Donny Goines New Compra cialis Album In Stores Today
allhiphop.com breeding base alum donny goines released his official debut album today (december 16), bringing to fulfilment approaching 3 years of rocklike accomplishment achat cialis. the bronx and harlem-bred rapper’s minute after midnite was released via amalgam digital and is available exclusively on the online distributor’s website. the album, which was preceded by goines’ the prologue mixtape, boast a list of high profile underground producers, all well known for their unique contributions to the apart from…(read more)
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7 Living Artifacts And Why They Are Done For
This is a little tongue-in-cheek, on purpose, but it is also thought-provoking.
Perhaps we are not there yet, but in 5 years it will be completely correct. Power outages are keeping some of the older, analog technologies surviving on the back burner (FM radio, landline phone).
This will also happen in waves - technology pioneers first, middle-class folks in industrialized countries next, the youngsters, of course, and then the rest.
The developing world is a special case - in some cases they HAVE to use outdated tech due to unreliable source of electrical power, lack of infrastructure, etc., while in others they can download action movies skip decades of technological development and adopt the most current one (skipping landlines altogether and adopting cell phones instead is already happening in Africa).
read the comments on this delivery…
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Twelve-Strobe Camera Rig Smites the Sun, Shoots at 1/8000 Seconds [Photography]
photographer syl arena created an impressive array of twelve strobes to serve him take ultra-unencumbered high speediness shots, and possibly to incite god’s wrath by one-upping the Helios.
All twelve strobes are Canon 580 EX II, and all are controlled by RadioPopper wireless triggers. The intensity of the light allows him to reduce the shutter speed to 1/8000 seconds achat cialis, in broad daylight no less, and still have plenty of light. But the real advantage here is high speed photography, and Arena claims to be able to see “the individual links on the motorcycle’s chain” while that motorcycle flies 40 miles per hour through the air.
Plus, the rig’s frame is made of classy oak. I guess if you want to build the brightest flash short of a supernova, you might as well go all the way. [MAKE]
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Canada’s marvellous library of life
how diverse species are there on earth?no song knows. no one even knows the commandment of extent. but thanks to paul hebert, we may have the answer soon. dr. hebert, a biologist at the university of guelph, is developing a type of dna technology so promising that it could reshape our notions of biodiversity, evolution and even the inscrutability of life itself. a chat with him is a ample reminder that the crises in the headlines are really all about the past. his work is all about the future. the breakthroughs and ideas that emerge from science labs like his order must far more impact on our children’s world than whether gm gets its bailout.
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