Category: Entertainment Weekly


Benjamin Button

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January 4, 2009

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Really great, unsettling, great, movie. I was going to attempt a great review, but here’s one:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

At any moment in this singular Hollywood spectacle, two marvels predominate, one technical and the other…Bradical. The movie has been in the works for years, pored over by Fincher like a favorite fairytale from his childhood. But only now has computer-driven wizardry matured enough to meet the story’s challenges so unobtrusively. Likewise, Pitt, a comely actor, is no longer the golden surprise he was 18 years ago in Thelma & Louise. What he is, though, is a phenomenon of heightened celebrity. And that rarified status, combined with good grooming and exquisite digital effects care, produces the exact force field of fame needed to take our breath away in that first moment on screen when, rid of gray hair, Benjamin is bathed in light that honors the movie-star beauty Pitt is. Was. Is. [Entertainment Weekly]

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Prison Break: Can’t Believe It

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October 21, 2008
“Hmmm…hmm…”

Besides Wentworth Miller’s sexy quotient, the other great thing about Prison Break is its ability to make you suspend your belief and still believe. Unfortunately, the previous season wasn’t that gripping–the gang, led by Miller’s Michael Scofield, ended up in a heavily secure Panama prison called Sona and well, to sum it up, the lieutenant (?) from The Wire who started that whole Hamsterdam experiment played a Jamaican inmate overlord. This season’s bad actor is Michael Rappaport, who I guess fits into the show perfectly since you have to suspend your belief that he’s a good actor. Thank goodness this season is going better than last. I won’t say the writing is great (The Wire remains my favorite TV series ever in that department), but as sure as Joe Biden gets Botox injections, Prison Break is the ish. Mondays at 9pm ET.

“What makes this so much damned fun are bright exteriors, crisp cutting, outrageous action sequences, and, most of all, the acting ensemble. I especially enjoy William Fichtner as Alex Mahone — Fichtner’s probably the best character actor on TV. These guys play it straight, so the audience does the same. There’s also a crazy existential subtext: No matter what these hapless escapees do or how fast they run, they always end up…booya!…back in prison.” (Stephen King: Why I Love ‘Prison Break’)

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David Blaine gets water breaks

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September 24, 2008

This is some…

I need somebody to write a dope feature on this guy. Stat.

David Blaine’s Dive of Death: I don’t get it (EW)

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Obama’s superhero preference

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August 8, 2008

Besides both being Black, Barack Obama and I have something else in common (my comments in brackets):

EW: Last question, and the fate of the Republic hangs on your answer: If you could be any superhero [Ed note: methinks he already is], which superhero would you be?
OBAMA: I was always into the Spider-Man/Batman model. The guys who have too many powers, like Superman, that always made me think they weren’t really earning their superhero status. It’s a little too easy. Whereas Spider-Man and Batman, they have some inner turmoil. They get knocked around a little bit.

See: An Ordinary Man In A Cape

The EW story in photo-gallery form:
Obama vs. McCain: The Great Presidential Pop-Culture Debate

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