Earlier this week, Rich Juzwiak published a deeply-researched history of director Quentin Tarantino’s love affair with the word “nigger,” a word he has always used liberally in his screenplays. Juzwiak unearthed and examined twenty years worth of Tarantino’s varied and contradictory defenses of his use of the word. He…
On this week's The Graham Norton show, Samuel L. Jackson was asked if he still knew his famous Pulp Fiction Ezekiel 25:17 speech by heart. Turns out he does!
At least they didn't key it. Quentin Tarantino's 1964 Chevelle Malibu, driven to fame by John Travolta in Pulp Fiction, was recovered in the Bay Area this week. The convertible was reported stolen in 1994.
Mashup necromancer Nick Bertke (AKA Pogo AKA Fagottron) is back with a lead breakfast full of Pulp Fiction goodness that's too sweet not to scarf down in a single sitting.
Iranian students stormed the British embassy compound today, possibly taking hostages (who may have later been freed), and, in a brutal blow to the British psyche, stealing those two great symbols of the United Kingdom: a picture of the Queen, and a Pulp Fiction poster.
Here's a charmer from Courtney Love's video channel for recovery website TheFix.com: Answering a fan's question about how long she has been sober, Courtney goes on a ramble about the time she saved Kelly Osbourne's life, and it was just like the movie Pulp Fiction.
In the Pulp Fiction remix to the Don Draper Says "What" video, Samuel L. Jackson interrogates a poor, oblivious Don Draper who doesn't know when to stop. An ingenious mashup considering the similar hairstyles of the victims.
There are official Star Wars LEGOs and official Indiana Jones LEGOs. So why not official Quentin Tarantino LEGOs? Oh, right, the violence and curse words. Here's the next-best thing, though: LEGO recreations of famous movie scenes, courtesy brickmaster Alex Eylar.
Everybody loves movies with colorful language. But what happens when those films filter down to television, where their content is controlled by the FCC? Well, censors have to get really creative! Here's a collection of the most ridiculous "edited-for-TV" moments.
Faster Smoke Monster! Kill! Kill! Here's a fun Lost-related video made by some fans for last year's Comic Con. So it's a little old, but it's still pretty neat. We almost wish the show really was like this. [via EW]
We are trying to bring down Seed, the AOL News Borg created to destroy editorial on the internet, one poem at a time. Today the machine asks, "What Does It Mean to Square Something?" We try to answer.
Jailhouse tweets: harrowing, educational, and a bad idea if you're dodging the terms of your sentence. In the midst of his prison term for a fatal DUI, Roger Avary blew the whistle on his own short-lived accidental freedom via Twitter.
Apart from the bold statements by movie-titling consultants about the high importance of... movie-titling consultants ("When movie titles don't work, studios are leaving potential earnings on the table," says one), Josh Friedman's LA Times survey of movie titles lost, found, revised and re-revised yields a handful…
Roger Avary, the guy who wrote 'Pulp Fiction' but isn't Quentin Tarantino, was arrested for killing a man in a car. He was charged with vehicular manslaughter and DUI on Sunday after a fatal car crash. The life of Avary, a direct descendent of a Canadian pirate, is a parable of Hollywood's need for oppositional…
Actor Peter Greene, instantly recognizable as Pulp Fiction's Marsellus-buggering, gimp-wrangling chopper enthusiast Zed, was arrested in NY for crack possession, a tragic, lesser-Baldwinesque turn of events that represents a low point in any performer's career. [Gatecrasher]
