This is a list of posts published in March 2006.
Last week I ripped a page out of the Little League and Boston Bruins’ playbook and promised my readers a free trip to Dairy Queen if I scored four out of 5 correct answers in my bold predictions of the Five Major Events that were teased would go down on Lost this week. As Mook [...]
Continue reading »You gotta have faith! So sayeth, George Michael.
I know what you’re thinking. What am I, the ringleader to this ramblin’ rodeo doing tackling such major themes as faith and devotion? Not to worry - I’m hitting this topic as fleet and free-form as I nail all the rest - of course, I’ll try on a [...]
This was a big week for 24. Nobody died. Well – give or take a few helpless gas company workers. Hey, you make an omelet… But among the thinning cast, the producers held up on their pruning. I guess that salvo launched by the dearly departed Edgar – or his real-life counterpart Louis Lombardi – [...]
Continue reading »This week’s Lost was one of those placeholder eps – marking time between the big revelations. Now, don’t get me wrong, I don’t mean to come across as glib and I appreciate it when the show slows the pace down to deliver some character development – to dwell upon the details – before turning the [...]
Continue reading »That’s it. This flick is officially my new pet project. I mean the thing’s called Snakes on a Plane and with that title - sight unseen - I brazenly declare it, the greatest B movie of all time. I thought Sam ‘The Man’ Jackson already locked that title up with Deep Blue Sea (that Jaws [...]
Continue reading »By now, a lot of you have seen that real-life Simpsons intro. Sean even linked to it over on Scooby Speak a couple weeks back. I read this morning that Simpsons creator Matt Groening was so impressed, he’s using it for the intro to this Sunday’s episode. It’s worth sticking around for the show as well [...]
Continue reading »And people complain about the creative process in Hollywood. New Line Cinema has reportedly greenlit a 5-Day period of reshoots on the Samuel L. Jackson vehicle Snakes on a Plane in order to add material to bring the film from a PG-13 rating to an R – citing growing fan fervor. Among the reported [...]
Continue reading »I’m not going to miss those Papa Gino’s commercials. As clutch a kicker as New England has ever had – Adam Vinatieri was not exactly a world-class thespian – although, with his boyish charisma, he did hold his own well enough to field invitations from Letterman, Leno and Lipton (that’s all it takes – one Meineke [...]
Continue reading »Producers of The Office, take note. There is a plethora of material to be mined in the abuse of the Reply to All button. For those who have ever worked in an office – or regularly engage in the pastime of e-mailing – this post is bound to smack you in that proverbial funny bone. [...]
Continue reading »Before I delve into this week’s observations, I wanted to take a few moments to take stock of all the nicknames I have attached to this season’s players – sort of a little primer to the way my head works when watching this show.
24 is the “Jack Bauer Power Hour”. This season features an abundance [...]
