So What Did You Do This Weekend?

ian spiegelman — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:57:15 EDT

Over here, we had an old friend take on the weekend shift.
A random schoolgirl in Queens settled the "Is Gossip Dead?" debate once and for all.
Former model Veronica Webb got savaged for misreading Beowulf.
Senator Hillary Clinton got Dan Savaged over her Bosnia story.
We reminisced about The Breakfast Club.
MSNBC shouting head Pat Buchanan told black people to be grateful.
And The Hills star Lauren Conrad acquired new facial expressions.

Smarty Documentarians Not So Smart

ian spiegelman — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:12:47 EDT

Here's a feature about how this poster for American Teen, a documentary about five Indiana high school kids, "isn't just just clever marketing." The image is a cute homage to John Hughes' perennial favorite The Breakfast Club, and American Teen "examines a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel and a recluse, but then delves deeper, revealing these real kids to be far more than superficial stereotypes." But the part that I care about is that it's been done before.

To far greater effect. [EW]

Gawker: The Breakfast Club

So What Did You Do This Weekend?

Smarty Documentarians Not So Smart