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    Love Song of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart to Shatter Brokenhearted Teenage Ear Drums

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    Image of secretagentman secretagentman
    09/13/09

    In reply to Love Song of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart to Shatter Brokenhearted Teenage Ear Drums
    I would bet my Indigo Girls collection and my Home Hardware card that Kristin doesn't like him 'like that'.
    Also, he is fug.
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    Image of StonedAndDethroned StonedAndDethroned
    09/13/09

    @secretagentman: Yeah, I have it on VERY good authority that homegirl is a big ole' lesbian.
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    Image of The Count of Monte Fisto The Count of Monte Fisto
    09/13/09

    In reply to Love Song of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart to Shatter Brokenhearted Teenage Ear Drums
    Is his chin surgically attached to his neck, or what? Why is he always looking down?
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    Image of Trixie from Toronto Trixie from Toronto
    09/13/09

    @The Count of Monte Fisto: I find him so hot I actually wouldn't care if his chin was surgically attached to his neck. Maybe he'd give an Old like me a chance if he was physically deformed.
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    Image of CoffeyWasHere CoffeyWasHere
    09/13/09

    In reply to Love Song of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart to Shatter Brokenhearted Teenage Ear Drums
    i can't wait for the day when these two are merely a quaint pop-culture footnote who will only ever been seen again on 'I Love the 00s'. Oh time machine! Salvation be thy name!
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    09/13/09

    @CoffeyWasHere: I'm still not convinced that Kristen Stewart is straight. I think this entire thing is a PR stunt.
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    Image of BlinkyMcChuck BlinkyMcChuck
    09/13/09

    In reply to Love Song of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart to Shatter Brokenhearted Teenage Ear Drums
    Pop-Up video made me stop watching TV.
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    09/13/09

    In reply to Love Song of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart to Shatter Brokenhearted Teenage Ear Drums
    I'd love a pillow menu. I'm allergic to down and I'm sick of its ubiquity.
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    Image of hhpeterson13 hhpeterson13
    09/13/09

    In reply to Love Song of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart to Shatter Brokenhearted Teenage Ear Drums
    Gee, everyone's out at IHOP but me... Folks don't know it, but Mark McGrath has a PhD, Pimp 'n Ho Degree, in Hotness.
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    Image of aLostLady aLostLady
    09/13/09

    @hhpeterson13: Twilight fans have nothing on the crazy I had for Mark McGrath circa 1999.
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    09/13/09

    @hhpeterson13: Didn't MM mention during his kick-A performance on Rock 'n Roll Jeopardy that his mother had been pregnant with him when SHE was a contestant on the original Jeopardy. I thought that was the best "fun fact to know and tell" of the entire show.
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    Image of Pinekatz Pinekatz
    07/10/09

    In reply to Nick Kristof Is an Honest Man
    If I was a high school teacher, I would take Mr. Kristof's weekend piece and make it part of my discussion. He's over there. This is what he sees. I would offer some background to the topic/geography involved and then I would ask the hard question. What would YOU do to make it better?

    He lives my dream and he offers his adventures to the rest of us to make of it what we will. And he really, really is a good man. He tries to right the wrongs. There is only good in that.
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    Image of Mo MoDo Mo MoDo
    07/09/09

    In reply to Nick Kristof Is an Honest Man
    Lenny Dykstra is to baseball what Michael Jackson was to music publishing.
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    Image of graceless graceless
    07/01/09

    In reply to Why Did Sony Kill the Pitt/Soderbergh Film Adaptation of Michael Lewis' Moneyball?
    Brad Pitt doesn't work much anymore... guess he doesn't have to.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    07/01/09

    In reply to Why Did Sony Kill the Pitt/Soderbergh Film Adaptation of Michael Lewis' Moneyball?
    A rare problem in the movie business, but a problem unique to it all the same: Both Zaillian and Soderbergh are accomplished craftsmen who have earned the right to have their instincts trusted by others. When they clash, though, you can't just assume either one is right. And then you're left trying to evaluate words on a page according to how they would look dramatized on film.


    The movie business is a tough one, folks. This is just one reason why.


    Also, holla for Schizopolis. [crickets] OK, that one's just me then.

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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    07/01/09

    In reply to Why Did Sony Kill the Pitt/Soderbergh Film Adaptation of Michael Lewis' Moneyball?
    I'm with Michael Lewis on this. I loved Moneyball, but cannot imagine turning it into a movie. His football book, Blind Side, has waaaaaaaaaaay more potential in that sense, although it's not as good a book as Moneyball.


    Moneyball is numerative, not narrative. Those changes the screenwriter made sound like solid additions to help the story move.

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    Image of The Cajun Boy The Cajun Boy
    07/01/09

    @raincoaster: I agree completely. Blind Side is a much more compelling story in every way.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    07/01/09

    @The Cajun Boy: There's a section in Blind Side that actually made me cry. And I don't give a rat's ass about football. It was one paragraph, describing four steps a player took during one game, and sketching out his entire life within those four steps.


    Michael Lewis is a genius. I am in awe of his talent, and I don't say that very often.

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    07/01/09

    @The Cajun Boy: I ask you to consider that Moneyball is the more compelling story because it's about the dawning of a completely new way of conducting operations in an otherwise furiously entrenched business (professional baseball).


    While The Blind Side simply illustrates one of the oldest ways of doing business in college-football recruiting: Getting outstanding athletes adopted by families that, in the absence of the kid's talent, would be unlikely ever to encounter him, much less have anything to do with him.


    Both are great stories, I agree. But one is about changing the game, and the other is about business as usual. The former actually has much deeper conflicts to dramatize -- although whether they're actually dramatizable is a key question.

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    07/01/09

    @skahammer: That's exactly the question, though. "I've found a new algorithm, team," isn't exactly the St. Crispin's Day Speech.


    Blind Side does have it's game-changing point, the rise of the Refrigerator-type, but Moneyball was a more interesting book, just far less narrative. Hollywood likes personal stories, not mathematical ones. And Blind Side has far more interesting, fully-developed characters, in part because Lewis was personally acquainted with everyone in that book.

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    07/02/09

    @raincoaster: But "I can do this job better than anyone, even though everyone else in the entire business thinks I'm wrong (due in part to my spectacular flameout when I tried to play the game myself)" offers a boatload of possibilities, I would think.


    In The Blind Side -- and I'll say it again, it's a riveting book -- I just don't see dramatizable conflicts at work. Freakish natural talent sweeps the field and renders social barriers meaningless -- that's the best I can do with that book, unless you're really going to try to illuminate some kind of hypocrisy in the Tuohy family (tough sledding there). Who are your antagonists -- the poor undersized Christian-school kids forced to play nose tackle against this unholy behemoth? (And frankly I thought the NCAA lady who got treated so dismissively by Lewis was actually one of the good guys. I have a soft spot for bureaucrats, I guess.)

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    04/30/09

    In reply to No Fondue For David Remnick
    No chocolate fondue? I wouldn't go.
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    04/30/09

    In reply to No Fondue For David Remnick
    "Ballplayer turned magazine?" He looks like a quarterly to me.
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    Image of Arceus Arceus
    04/30/09

    In reply to No Fondue For David Remnick
    Where do you get the eleven million from in the Dykstra article? I don't see it mentioned anywhere in the article under the hyperlink.
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    Image of Hamilton Nolan Hamilton Nolan
    04/30/09

    @Arceus: You're right, it was $1 million. Fixed thanks. Still he will spit tobacco juice on you.
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    Image of BullfightsOnAcid BullfightsOnAcid
    02/05/09

    In reply to Any Old Celebrity Can Now Be a Financial Expert
    Use Your Collusion
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