New Matt Damon movie “Green Zone” slanders America
After all of Hollywood’s Iraq movies have flopped (even the Oscar-garlanded “The Hurt Locker” earned only $15 million at the box office), one studio thinks it has the following secret to success: The previous films didn’t insult the United States enough. ● More from: Kyle Smith – NYPOST.com
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Glenn Beck boycotting ‘Hurt Locker”
Declaring it an “anti-troop movie” by Hollywood elites, Glenn Beck said on his radio show Monday he won’t be seeing The Hurt Locker, the Oscar-winning movie that realistically portrays (and lionizes) US Army bomb squad technicians of the Iraq War. ● More from: BlatherWatch
Jesse James: Sandra Bullock Deserved the Oscar “More Than Anybody”
Motorcycle man Jesse James is thrilled for his wife Sandra Bullock, who won a Best Actress Oscar for The Blind Side Sunday night. ● More from: UsMagazine.com
Newly released Jimi Hendrix album, ‘Valleys of Neptune,’ sparkles
Jimi Hendrix is dead. The album is dead. And so the arrival of a new Jimi Hendrix album is an extraordinary occasion. “Valleys of Neptune” comes out this week on Sony Legacy Recordings, part of a flurry of Hendrix-related goods hitting shelves this year as Sony and Experience Hendrix LLC, the local company run by Hendrix’s stepsister that manages his estate, commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Seattle-born guitarist’s death. ● More from: Seattle Times Newspaper
‘Crazy Heart’ has surprising staying power
Purveyors of art-house films like to talk about the “Oscar bounce,” the phenomenon by which niche movies see a surge in ticket-buying after being nominated for Academy Awards.
This year, few films are bouncing, as “Avatar” dominated the winter months and adult audiences continue to stay away from upscale dramas. Oscar nominees “An Education” and “A Single Man,” for example, have earned only about $2 million apiece since the nominations were announced. ● More from: Los Angeles Times
The 10 funniest tweets during the Oscars
Rainn Wilson, Mindy Kaling and Roger Ebert crack wise in 140 characters or less during awards show ● More from: Salon.com
White House tweeting spreads president’s message
#wanttospinWHreporters?
If you’re PressSec — White House press secretary Robert Gibbs’ username on Twitter — you join the powerful social media platform and push your message across the Internet, 140 characters at a time. ● More from: Yahoo! News
Do You Miss Him Yet?
I know you’re not supposed to, but I just love to say I told you so.
What I told you back on Sept. 28, 2008, was that within a year of the day he left office George W. Bush would come to be regarded with affection and a little nostalgia. The responses (over 300 before the comments were closed) to that prediction were overwhelmingly negative; even the very few who agreed with me attributed what they took to be a sad fact to the stupidity of the American people. The other 290 or so said things like “No way”; “Are you kidding?”; ”Are you mad?”;“What a ridiculous and insulting premise!”; “I’ll miss him like a rash”; “This must be a satire”; “Bush is a sociopath”; “George Bush has destroyed this country”; “History won’t forgive him”; and (a popular favorite) “I hate the man.” ● More from: Opinionator Blog – NYTimes.com
Lindsay Lohan sues E-Trade for $100M over “milk-a-holic” Super Bowl commercial
The world revolves around Lindsay.
Lindsay Lohan is suing the financial company E-Trade, insisting that a boyfriend-stealing, “milkaholic” baby in its latest commercial — who happens to be named Lindsay — was modeled after her. And she wants $100 million for her pain and suffering, The Post has learned. ● More from: NYPOST.com
Palin says her family went to Canada for health care when she was young
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, a fierce opponent of Democratic health-care reform efforts who has said America under President Obama is headed toward socialism, told a Canadian audience her family used to go to Canada to get medical care when she was growing up. ● More from: voices.washingtonpost.com
