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Entries from August 2008

Not everyone can win a Gold

August 19th, 2008 · No Comments

But at least they try, and while it’s funny, and you kind of feel bad for them, in the end they did put themselves out there to give it their all.

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Tags: Olympics · YouTube

‘Watchmen’ lawsuit roils Hollywood

August 19th, 2008 · No Comments

 
Last year, Warner Bros. rolled film on Watchmen, Zack Snyder’s $100 million adaptation of a comic book widely hailed as the greatest superhero story ever created. But did the studio even have the right to make the movie at all?
Earlier this year, Twentieth Century Fox filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros. seeking to stop [...]

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Tags: Movies & TV · News

Trick r’ Treat

August 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Woot, I donno why, but the trailer from the new Bryan Singer horror flick looks like it could be really good. Horror films have been too similar recently, with them falling into one of a few camps (ooh, someone’s dead a pissed off, which of the living has the skeleton in the closet that holds [...]

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Tags: Movies & TV · Trailers · YouTube

The Matrix - The Muppet Version

August 12th, 2008 · No Comments

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Tags: Humor · YouTube

Olympic child singing star revealed as fake - Yahoo! News

August 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Olympic child singing star revealed as fake - Yahoo! News 
So does it really surprise anyone that China didn’t use the actual singer for the opening ceremonies because of the uneven teeth. Lin Miaoke (below left) was shown during the performance, while it was Yang Peiyi (below right) who’s voice was being played.
The delicateness of [...]

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Tags: News · Olympics