Archive for September, 2009

Apple’s New Tablet: Details

Start salivating: Jeremy Horwitz at iLounge has new details on Apple’s upcoming tablet device from a reliable source. According to the source, it will have a 10.7-inch screen, will run on the iPhone OS, and will look like an iPhone 3G. Apple also is planning … Read more »

Hayek, Biel “On The Verge”

Almodovar’s film “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” has been turned into a musical. A workshop of it was done earlier in the year at Lincoln Center Theater. Another workshop — starring Matthew Morrison (”Glee”), Salma Hayek, and Jessica Biel (who is rumored … Read more »

Kylie & Beefcake Backups

My Clintonite Friends Will Rejoice

Even in his dotage, Gore Vidal is a grump. The writer says: Obama’s doing “dreadfully,” in an interview with the Times of London. “I was hopeful. … But he’s inexperienced. He has a total inability to understand military matters.” He says he maintains some hope … Read more »

Haute McNuggets

Beef bourguignon from a Whopper? Foie gras from a Nathan’s hot dog? Farfalle from a Subway footlong? Meet the magician who can turn fast food into gourmet meals.

Funniest Foreign-Movie Titles

While “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” ruled at our box office “Cloudy with a Chance of Falafel” reigned in Israel. This got someone thinking: What movie titles didn’t have such artful equivalents? “Three Men and a Baby” in Russia became “Marx, Lenin, and Mao … Read more »

Free Polanski! Free Polanski!

My God, doesn’t the state of California have enough problems without devoting hundreds of thousands of public dollars (probably more) to the prosecution of Roman Polanski? What a joke! And to think that some online fuzzyheads are arguing that Polanski’s prosecution would be a good … Read more »