en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/1166783 Comments by ykw http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mhurwitz/2011/08/28/red-state-review-kevin-smiths-statement-of-irrelevance/#IDComment187805045 Smith just hasn't been the same since the failure of JAY AND SILENT BOB GO CANADIAN, EH?... Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:23:56 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mhurwitz/2011/08/28/red-state-review-kevin-smiths-statement-of-irrelevance/#IDComment187805045 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sright/2011/05/27/it-is-still-safe-to-criticize-jennifer-lopez-court-rejects-hollywood-gag-order/#IDComment157302849 She's a terrible actress (so bad that even Kevin Smith, no stranger to getting horrible performances from alleged professionals, had to cut nearly all of her "work" from the release-cut of "Jersey Girl"). About her singing ("singing"?), who can tell? With all the processing and auto-tuning in the dance-pop genre, it's impossible to know if she's actually any good. The only thing there's no question of is the talent in her backside... where her head seems to be... Sun, 29 May 2011 16:26:37 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sright/2011/05/27/it-is-still-safe-to-criticize-jennifer-lopez-court-rejects-hollywood-gag-order/#IDComment157302849 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/edulis/2011/05/23/rand-was-wrong-hollywood-was-right-so-lets-spread-the-wealth-around/#IDComment155388577 "But a VERY faithfull Objectivist universe will buy this dvd in droves when it becomes available..." This. Hardcore Randians (heck, even your typical Objectivist-leaning libertarians) aren't exactly known for being all that social. Getting the bulk of them to attend a movie screening -- with the general public, at that! -- was probably a non-starter. But getting them to buy a copy they can own and touch and frame and venerate, getting them to put copies on their varied and sundry techie devices (that only they can watch, individually)? Oh, yeah. That's a winner. I fully expect the film to be a huge hit on whatever digital platforms will have it, while it'll do well enough on disc -- but not =insanely= well -- to get the other two films greenlit (how else can that big box of Atlas hit stores for the holiday 2013 season?). (Not being snarky about the "own and venerate" bit. As a semi-Objectivist-leaner myself, with plenty of Rand ephemera piled up, I understand the impulse -- and, having friends who've gone completely Randroid, I've seen the impulse acted upon. It's real. Kinda freaky, but real.) Mon, 23 May 2011 22:53:38 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/edulis/2011/05/23/rand-was-wrong-hollywood-was-right-so-lets-spread-the-wealth-around/#IDComment155388577 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bschaeffer/2011/05/20/pete-townshend-at-66-a-remarkable-rock-legend/#IDComment154563750 My copy of FACE DANCES has Entwistle's great "The Quiet One", chart success (and great live number) "Another Tricky Day", along with the rather ubiquitous (but undeniably deserving as such) "You Better You Bet". IT'S HARD features the title tune, the underrated (in the US, anyway; in the UK, it's considered among the most indispensable of the bands tracks and generally appears on greatest-hits collections) "Athena", and the VH1 favorite "Eminence Front". That's not bad, three important tracks from each album in what was supposedly their decline phase. I'll grant that the post-IT'S HARD comeback album ENDLESS WIRE isn't all that memorable, but it's still quite good. Sat, 21 May 2011 05:43:55 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bschaeffer/2011/05/20/pete-townshend-at-66-a-remarkable-rock-legend/#IDComment154563750 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2011/05/17/imf-chief-thinks-socially-assaults-locally-bonus-red-eye-podcast/#IDComment154263726 There's too much truth in Gutfled's gut to survive in FNC prime-time. You either have to be a bland centrist/populist suck-up (BO'R, GVS) or a shameless and mindless partisan hack (Hannity). Nobody wants to sit through an incarnation of RED EYE that's been Hannitized for the Establishment's protection. Fri, 20 May 2011 06:21:25 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2011/05/17/imf-chief-thinks-socially-assaults-locally-bonus-red-eye-podcast/#IDComment154263726 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/05/19/cannes-expels-director-lars-von-trier-for-pro-nazi-remarks/#IDComment154262313 Dude's responsible for that steaming pile of anti-human leftist cant, DOGVILLE. Nobody should have to live with the smear of Nazism on his record but, if someone has to, von Trier deserves to be at the head of the line. Fri, 20 May 2011 06:14:43 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/05/19/cannes-expels-director-lars-von-trier-for-pro-nazi-remarks/#IDComment154262313 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/05/19/patricia-heaton-has-lost-potential-roles-because-of-her-politics/#IDComment154260427 The B2Y thing was very odd. It was paired with Brad Garrett's "’Til Death" before the WGA strike. Despite actually improving over the lead-in and veteran Garrett show's ratings, B2Y was cancelled and "’Til Death" renewed. Garrett, of course, has become an outspoken and vulgar anti-conservative (his crude rants aren't coherent enough even to be called "liberal") since ELR's demise, while Heaton and Grammer were... well... Heaton and Grammer. But it was pretty much impossible to find the MSM article that addressed the subject in even a tangential fashion. (It's been difficult to watch Garrett's dissolution into attack stooge for the Hollywood left. Been a fan since I was in grade school and he was a voice-impersonator stand-up. The guy's got chops, Just no cojones...) Fri, 20 May 2011 06:06:31 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/05/19/patricia-heaton-has-lost-potential-roles-because-of-her-politics/#IDComment154260427 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/05/12/bleeding-cool-superman-loves-america-again-its-official/#IDComment151779972 "All these Robins who aren't Dick Grayson (all ... two of them?) get mixed up in my head. " Four. (Five, if you count the radically different pre- and post-Crisis Jason Todds.) Jason, Tim, Stephanie (for, like, five seconds, but she counts) and now Damian (Bruce's son and Ra's al-Ghul's grandson). Fri, 13 May 2011 16:53:08 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/05/12/bleeding-cool-superman-loves-america-again-its-official/#IDComment151779972 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/05/12/bleeding-cool-superman-loves-america-again-its-official/#IDComment151771011 It can take less than that. Even with a slow artist, the turnaround from final script to printed material on shelves can be under three months. Case in point: the current highly-hyped FLASHPOINT's final script hasn't yet been turned in (as of 12 May, anyway), but is scheduled to be in stores in August. Even accounting for the fact that it's drawn by a Kubert not named Joe. Fri, 13 May 2011 16:32:58 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/05/12/bleeding-cool-superman-loves-america-again-its-official/#IDComment151771011 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/04/26/fast-five-opens-everywhere-tomorrow/#IDComment146396753 BLUES BROTHERS' two main chase scenes =combined= are great but, for a single sequence, it's hard to top the one in the second half of DEATH PROOF. Wed, 27 Apr 2011 04:30:02 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/04/26/fast-five-opens-everywhere-tomorrow/#IDComment146396753 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ckozlowski/2011/04/25/interview-with-tyler-perry-spike-lee-can-go-straight-to-hell/#IDComment145932308 "I’ve never seen Jewish people complain about Mrs. Doubtfire" Why would Jews complain about a cross-dressing uber-WASP, anyway? Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:25:35 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ckozlowski/2011/04/25/interview-with-tyler-perry-spike-lee-can-go-straight-to-hell/#IDComment145932308 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mpatterson/2011/03/28/the-genius-of-the-ramones/#IDComment138176708 It's always a little jarring to hear so many folks talking about the Ramones as a band you'd "never" hear on the radio in their heyday; maybe it's because I was fortunate enough to grow up in L.A. in the 1980s, but it was nothing at all out of the ordinary to hear the boys on the ROQ or KLOS or (despite what the calls would seem to indicate) KMET back in the day. (Having Hilburn in their corner probably didn't hurt in the area.) Was SoCal the only place where this was so? I know they had incredible difficulties getting play in/around NYC (something about prophets at home and all), but was this an otherwise universal phenomenon, too? Mon, 28 Mar 2011 19:27:24 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mpatterson/2011/03/28/the-genius-of-the-ramones/#IDComment138176708 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/03/22/report-charlie-sheen-and-cbs-in-negotiations-for-men-return/#IDComment136949748 At this point, it's =Ducky= who's the "half"... Wed, 23 Mar 2011 07:38:01 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/03/22/report-charlie-sheen-and-cbs-in-negotiations-for-men-return/#IDComment136949748 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/03/22/report-charlie-sheen-and-cbs-in-negotiations-for-men-return/#IDComment136850673 Emilio prefers to work as a director these days, especially since that MIGHTY DUCKS cash set him and his family up for generations to come and he doesn't need to do any work he doesn't feel like doing. If a part he likes comes along (or, as in his current project, he chooses to cast =himself= in a part he likes), he'll still take it, but those parts are few and very far between. Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:38:20 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/03/22/report-charlie-sheen-and-cbs-in-negotiations-for-men-return/#IDComment136850673 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/wthuston/2010/12/27/meet-dc-comics-new-batman-an-algerian-muslim-who-saves-france-from-nazis-and-communists/#IDComment118338388 1. Miller withdrew HOLY TERROR from DC voluntarily as, over the course of actually scripting the thing, he had morphed its lead character into something very un-Batman-like and decided, rather than take the commercial course and simply call this character by a name he didn't reflect, to follow the story where it takes him, and take it indy. 2. Morrison hasn't written anything =readable=, let alone "worth reading", since halfway through his ANIMAL MAN run; in just the last few years, though, Miller has (when Jim Lee bothered to pick up a pencil) given us the amazing anti-deconstructionist satire of ALL-STAR BATMAN AND ROBIN THE BOY WONDER. (Of course, even if Miller's only contribution over the last decade had been auteuring THE SPIRIT, he'd still be ahead of Morrison on points.) Tue, 28 Dec 2010 06:08:05 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/wthuston/2010/12/27/meet-dc-comics-new-batman-an-algerian-muslim-who-saves-france-from-nazis-and-communists/#IDComment118338388 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lgrin/2010/12/18/top-5-christmas-crooners/#IDComment116904492 Re: Bing Crosby "[H]e’s one of those guys who couldn’t screw up a Christmas song if he tried." The words of a writer who has clearly never heard the Bing/Andrews Sisters outtake recording of "Jingle Bells"... Mon, 20 Dec 2010 05:11:42 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lgrin/2010/12/18/top-5-christmas-crooners/#IDComment116904492 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lgrin/2010/12/18/top-5-christmas-crooners/#IDComment116901826 SXM's Pops station is doing some nice things now in its annual conversion to a "Holiday Pops" format. (Of course, even better things are being done over on its Holiday Traditions channel, in the spirit of the OP. :) Mon, 20 Dec 2010 04:47:15 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lgrin/2010/12/18/top-5-christmas-crooners/#IDComment116901826 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lgrin/2010/12/18/top-5-christmas-crooners/#IDComment116901446 Both of Cole's holiday albums (one sacred, one "vulgar" in the literal sense of the term) had much to recommend. Better still were the non-album single versions of "The Christmas Song" and "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth" recorded with the NKC Trio in '46 (the former being the only version of the Torme classic Cole recorded without that horrific string section). But he's really not a crooner. Mon, 20 Dec 2010 04:44:02 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lgrin/2010/12/18/top-5-christmas-crooners/#IDComment116901446 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lgrin/2010/12/18/top-5-christmas-crooners/#IDComment116900604 Nat was more of a smooth tenor than a crooner. (Then again, so was/is Mathis, and =he's= on the list. <shrug> ) And Perry Como? No offense intended, but Como was the guy your Grandma listened to if she thought Andy Williams was too intense. His sweaters had more personality than his voice did. Mon, 20 Dec 2010 04:35:41 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lgrin/2010/12/18/top-5-christmas-crooners/#IDComment116900604 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/12/07/announcing-big-hollywoods-countdown-of-the-top-25-greatest-left-wing-films/#IDComment114520183 Two explicitly far-left candidates from the FDR era still widely held in great esteem by left-wing film critics: GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE (new Dem prez dismisses obstructionist Congress and anoints himself dictator of the world) and MEET JOHN DOE (Constitutional egalitarianism exists solely as a front for would-be rightist dictators). Wed, 8 Dec 2010 17:23:28 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/12/07/announcing-big-hollywoods-countdown-of-the-top-25-greatest-left-wing-films/#IDComment114520183