Cuppabits Friday 14th
by Walt"It could be harmful economically, and it may be something that's not entitled to free speech (protection)," Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman said of the game's realistic scenes, which he had not personally viewed.
"It's based on a false premise," Goodman said, adding federal and state leaders have repeatedly assured him that Las Vegas is "the safest place imaginable" nearly five years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the East Coast.
--The Las Vegas Review Journal
Is the mayor of Las Vegas talking about CSI, the crime scene show set in Las Vegas these many years now? No. What about the many movies, such as OCEAN'S ELEVEN or OCEAN'S TWELVE?
Nope. He's talking about a video game he's not yet seen. Ars Technica discusses this, as well as Penny Arcade with a hilarious thought I blatantly stole from.
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Heidi, at her new blog location at Publisher's Weekly, has a piece on how PRINCESS OF MARS comic book was scrapped, but it's not clear why. PRINCESS OF MARS uses characters technically out of copyright, but uses characters still closely tied into the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Read more.
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As a adult heterosexual male, I should not love a movie like ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING. It's cheesy, almost kid fare, but done surprisingly well, and it's got a very hot Elizabeth Shue. The movie is dated, but still excellent. Even though Disney is cutting back on the number and demographic of the films it's producing, it announced a remake of ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING is on the way. I can't be too critical because I started writing a book some years ago that was my adaptation of that, but the whole thing morphed into a completely different story.
That said, everyone has become extremely critical of Disney's choice as the lead "hot babysitter" in this. Here's just one link.
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Gawker has details of a fight that broke out at a book party in New York City's Soho district. First article, second Gawker article explaining, complete with expletives involving Jewish schnozzes, and the background hatred between the two [New York Magazine]
The story goes something like this: 46-year-old sometime PR flack picks up 18-year-old dyslexic belly dancer at a Central Park Boathouse benefit. She yearns to write—rather, dictate—a novel about her fifteenth year, which she spent as a juvenile delinquent in a Tennessee lockdown.
Hmmm, juicy!
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Baba Wawa's "The View" is going through guest hosts as they do when they need any fresh face to fill out the hole that Star Jones' flameout produced. One of the guest hosts the show is bringing back is none other than someone Baba Wawa fired for being an "airhead blond" (yes, Baba is nothing but redundant here, but whatever... Debbie Matenopoulos went on from being fired from "The View" in the late 90s to nearly killing herself after an 2004 on-air stunt went wrong but did cause her temporary blindness.
No word on whether "airhead" will be on air at "The View" with Baba at the same time. Stay Tuned! Okay, don't. Nobody I know watches that show for more than three minutes, anyway.
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And finally, some people -- who I think are whacked mind you -- believe that drinking your own piss is good for you.
The astronauts in the space station are going to go one better.
They'll be breathing their own urine. Wired has more on the converter that uses electrolysis to change urine into breathable oxygen.
I never wanted to be a goldfish, swimming around in my own excrement, but I'm thinking more and more that being an astronaut in the space station is just a highly advanced form of the same thing...
July 14th, 2006 at 11:51 am
Several years back, I saw some behind the scenes bit about Adventures in Babysitting on cable around the time the film came out, yet, for some reason, I missed the film in the theaters. When it hit cable I made a point to watch the film as the feature I saw on it had intrigued me so much.
Needless to say that not only was the film Hilarious, last year when my wife and I took the kids on a family trip, I made a point to rent this film to take along with us so that they could watch it in the car.
Well, both our 15-year-old Son and our 11-year-old daughter both loved the film as well. Personally I make a point to watch it every time it has come on. (Oh yeah, my son also pointed out to me that Shue’s jerk boyfriend in the film grew up to become West Wing’s Josh Lyman.
My wife’s cousin was on The View a couple of times as a guest, she is a family therapist who has been specializing in marriage, divorce and family counseling for the past 25 years, and has written extensively about it (columns and a book or two).
I watched an episode or two that she was on, other than that I care not at all for the show.
As for The PRINCESS OF MARS comic book I guess that only Alan Moore can “legitimately†utilize other writers creations, eh?
Perhaps if IDW had allowed Ted McKeever to include some pedophilia in the book, it would have been a go. Ah well.The Perfessor