Friday, November 11, 2005

Must I Repeat ....... ? Dumbass



50 Cent said he was saddened by the fatal shooting at a theater where his movie "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" was playing.

"I feel for the victim's family in this situation," 50 Cent said on ABC's "The View" on Friday. "But you know, these weren't kids. This was a 30-year-old man (who) had a dispute with three other guys."

Shelton Flowers, 30, was shot at least three times Wednesday night after he got into an argument with another man inside a Loews multiplex just east of Pittsburgh.

Thursday, November 10, 2005

Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic

New York Times: "In 'The Aristocrats,' Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza's brilliant essay-film on the world's dirtiest joke, Sarah Silverman provides one of the few genuinely unsettling and provocative moments. Stripping away the frame ('A guy walks into a talent agent's office ...'), she tells the joke from inside, from the perspective of someone for whom it is not funny at all. Which makes it funnier than ever, as well as decidedly squirm-inducing.
In 'Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic,' she tries, with mixed results, for a similar effect. The film, directed by Liam Lynch, is basically a recording of a one-woman show Ms. Silverman performed last year at a North Hollywood theater, with a few musical numbers and backstage sequences thrown in for the sake of variety. The songs include a mocking ode to the stars of pornographic movies, which Ms. Silverman performs in a velvet evening gown; a perky sendup of racial sensitivities; and a version of 'Amazing Grace' in three-part multi-orifice harmony. Ms. Silverman's comedy is built, to a large extent, on the discrepancies between her appearance and her material. It's not just that she is reasonably pretty. She also comes across, at least at first, as nice, smart and responsible - the kind of girl (never mind that she is almost 35) your parents would encourage you to be friends with or to take to the prom, more teacher's pet than Heather. But then she opens her mouth, and the vilest, filthiest things you've ever heard come pouring out of it. Scatology! Baby killing! Masturbation!"

50 Cent Movie Pulled After Pa. Shooting

BREITBART.COM: "The new 50 Cent movie 'Get Rich or Die Tryin'' has been pulled from a theater where a man was fatally shot even though officials said Thursday they do not know whether the film was a factor in the slaying. Loews Corp. decided to stop showing the rapper's bullet-ridden bio while the investigation is going on, said John McCauley, the company's vice president of marketing. 'We're unclear whether there is a direct connection,' McCauley said. He said the company is doing all it can to make sure patrons are safe at the 22-screen multiplex in a popular entertainment-and-shopping complex just east of Pittsburgh. Shelton Flowers, 30, had just watched the rapper's movie Wednesday when he got into a confrontation with three men in the bathroom. A fight ensued and spilled out into the concessions area, where Flowers was shot, police said. Authorities were looking for witnesses, and no suspects were immediately arrested. "

Endangered lemurs get Fawlty name

BBC NEWS: "Known for his work in highlighting their plight, comedian John Cleese has now had a new species of lemur named after him.
The avahi cleesei was discovered in western Madagascar in 1990 by a team of scientists from Zurich University.
Now the researchers have named the primate - which weighs less than a kilo - after the Monty Python star.
Lemurs are considered the most endangered of all primates and live only on Madagascar.
The island has evolved in isolation for 165 million years."

Movements to the Music of Time, Baez and Dylan

Movements to the Music of Time, Baez and Dylan
First seen in 2002, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's "Once" opened a six-night run at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday. It was a curious event, sicklied o'er with the pale cast of pretension.
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker in her solo dance, "Once," at the Joyce.
A 75-minute solo set to silence, much of "Joan Baez in Concert, Vol. 2" and a bit of Bob Dylan, it is an intensely, earnestly personal response to music the Brussels-based Ms. De Keersmaeker, now 45 and a leading figure in modern dance, heard growing up. (Of course, it means something rather different to Americans.)