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Let’s face it, haven’t you had enough of the mundane and often-recycled crap your ‘friends’ share … every day, several times a day? Even worse are the hucksters who keep begging you to ‘Like’ them or their page so they can make money off your ‘friendship.’ Then of course there are the myriad ways those little zuckerheads get… Read more.
Ulrich “Uli” Hoeness (62) is arguably Germany’s most famous and revered sports figure. Which is why Germans everywhere were so shocked and dismayed yesterday when he admitted in court that he’s an even bigger tax cheat than fellow German Peter Graf. Graf, of course, was world famous for being Steffi’s father, coach, and manager. As… Read more.
Girls is a critically acclaimed HBO show about the angst-ridden lives of four twenty-somethings living in New York. In many ways, it’s the younger generation’s version of Sex and the City, another critically acclaimed HBO show about the angst-ridden lives of three thirty-somethings and one forty-something, which aired from 1998 to 2004. Girls, like Sex… Read more.
NBCUniversal aired the Opening Ceremony of the Paralympics in Sochi, Russia last night. But, if you don’t have access to its cable station NBCSN, you had no way of seeing it. NBC will air one hour of highlights today at 1 pm. And, in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine just days after the Closing… Read more.
To all intents and purposes Crimea is now a part of Russia. All that remains is for the United States and Europe to negotiate a way to contain President Putin’s pan-Russian ambitions so that Ukrainians can govern what remains of their country (especially in the East) without undue interference. Their strategy of containment might work… Read more.
Alas, the oxymoronic pandemic of protesters fomenting democratic revolutions to overthrow democratic leaders has spread to Venezuela. For what began a few weeks ago in one area of the country as a demand for greater police protection has now become a national uprising aimed at overthrowing the president, Nicolas Maduro. The discrediting irony, however, is… Read more.
Well, first things first: The Host Evidently, Family Guy Seth McFarlane grossed out so many people with his potty-mouth humor last year that Academy producers decided to overcompensate with the plain-vanilla humor Ellen DeGeneres is famous for. Which is why they were probably as shocked as her fans were when she went rogue just seconds into… Read more.
Reports are that Russia tried to no avail yesterday to get the UN Security Council to debate Ukraine’s complaint about Russian troops violating its sovereignty and territorial integrity behind closed doors. Conspicuously absent from these reports, however, was any reference to China being no less solicitous of avoiding open debate. This was brought into stark… Read more.
With all due respect to critics and members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the Academy), how much a film makes, not whether it wins an Oscar, is the generally recognized measure of its success. Especially considering that winning an Oscar is more the result of crass political campaigning than any assessment of… Read more.
