Director Jimmy Hayward brought his new movie Jonah Hex in at a brisk 81 minutes. How’s it playing with the critics?”‘Jonah Hex’ may not be the longest 81 minutes you ever spend, but it
might well be the most tedious.” (Washington Post)
(From Where’s Weems?)
Art Bell, the spooky radio host who has so often quit his job, can now simply retire instead. He turns 65 today.The last time Bell quit was in 2007, when he was 62. Perhaps he was simply anticipating the French system.
The long-running Dr. Demento radio show has finally gone off the air.
Oh, they’re married — just not by the Governor.
And covered by insurance.
Remember Tareq Salahi and his wife Michaela Salahi? Last November they were busted for making it into a White House state dinner without an invitation. They mingled with Barack Obama and Joe Biden, then they had a long talk with the Secret Service about how they managed to get past security. The Salahis said it was a mix-up, and so far there have been no repercussions from the long arm of the law.
Last month Slashfilm.com reported on another attempt by WB to resurrect the old Looney Tunes characters. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a new Bugs Bunny to wash the other new Bugs Bunny and Space Jam from your memory?
Amazing — and encouraging — news from the UK, where after 10 long years of work the Saville Report has called the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre in Northern Ireland entirely unjustified.Prime Minister David Cameron has apologized on behalf of the British government:
The “largest sculpture of Jesus Christ in America” was struck by lightning and consumed by fire near Cincinnati last night.