It’s an Asian horror movie, so it must contain a creepy girl.
If you're ever visiting an Asian country, beware of vengeful pale women or little girls with runny mascara and long black hair. They seem to be all over the place these days, with a morbid fascination for multimedia. They're making prank phone calls, showing up in the static on your TV, ghoulishly abusing the Internet, or haunting…
Movie Review: Shutter
February 1st, 2008DVD Review: We Own the Night
February 1st, 2008A paint-by-numbers cop drama comes to DVD.
Sometimes sitting down to watch a movie one gets the impression that the director was sticking to a straight paint-by-numbers ethos. Police dramas dealing mainly with a single family are particularly easy to do in this matter. One only has to show the good policeman son, the wayward son, the disappointed policeman father, and their love interests…
Britney Spears’ dad in control, Sam Lutfi out of the picture
February 1st, 2008
Britney Spears' father Jamie Spears is granted temporary conservatorship over Britney Spears' estate, according to TMZ:
That means her financial assets and other holdings will be managed by a conservator -- the conservators are Jamie Spears and attorney Andrew Wallet.In a surprise twist, TMZ reports Sam Lutfucki is now being handed his fourth restraining order - to stay away from Britney:
The judge did not appoint a conservator to make medical decisions on behalf of Brit because the necessary paperwork was not filed.
Although the judge didn't say specifically who that someone was -- it's clear that person is Sam Lutfi.Finally some sanity in this ordeal. At least her dad's in control for now. He seems to be the only one not after Britney's money. Although I was looking forward to an extra special chapter in Lynne's parenting book entitled "My Night with Adnan on Top a Pile of Cash in Britney's Mansion." No doubt it would've been rife with lust and boner pills.
The judge found, in effect, that Lutfi has been harassing Britney. Thus the civil harassment restraining order.
Restraining Order Against Osama!
February 1st, 2008What a dramatic Friday in the world of Britney!
While the mentally unstable Spears continues to recuperate at the UCLA psych ward, her parents sought an emergency court hearing - and won.
Jamie Spears and a lawyer have been named conservators of Britney's estate. What they say goes.
Osama Lutfi is out of the picture. Legally! Britney's parents got a restraining order against him and he can not get anywhere near Spears.
Pops Jamie and the attorney have temporary power over Spears's finances, in addition to securing her residence, changing its locks, and vacating any persons living there. They also are allowed to restrict and limit visitors to Britney, as well as employ security guards to protect her.
Wesley Snipes Acquitted of Tax Fraud
February 1st, 2008
Wesley Snipes was acquitted of tax fraud but was convicted of failure to file taxes, in a Florida courtroom Friday.
Snipes, 45, who was convicted of three misdemeanor counts of failing to file a tax return, faces up to three years in federal prison. His income over the period of time in which he failed to file amounted to millions of dollars.
He was acquitted of two felonies, including conspiracy to commit tax fraud. He was also acquitted of three misdemeanor counts of willful failure to file a tax return.
The actor, who is currently free on bond, said after the ruling: “I’m feeling great – a little confused, but great.” Asked if he is worried about going to prison, he said, “I don’t know. It’s nice to be out here with you right now. We live in the moment.”
A Florida jury of seven women and five men announced the verdict Friday afternoon, after beginning deliberations Wednesday.
During the course of the trial, attorneys for the actor admitted he was “dead wrong” not to have paid taxes and that he would make restitution. In so arguing, they also claimed that no fraud was perpetrated and that no trial was even necessary.
“Disagreement with the IRS is not fraud of the IRS, is not deception,” argued defense attorney Robert Barnes.
When the day’s session concluded on Tuesday, Snipes said outside the courthouse, “Of course you would be nervous,. You’re on trial. Anybody would have a certain amount of anxiety about that. But I have a great deal of faith in the Most High and the Good Lord and the truth shall set you free. So, I’m looking forward to being free, going back to what I do best.”
Snipes, who starred in the Blade vampire trilogy, as a cross-dresser in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar and as a fugitive in U.S. Marshals, is due to be seen later this year in Gallowwalker, which was shot in the African nation of Namibia.
Snipes was convicted along with his accountant and the founder of a tax-protest outfit called American Rights Litigators.
“The defendants know what the law is, they just don’t like the law,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Scotland Morris told the jury members before they went to verdict. “The defendants are tax protesters.”
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RTN to Launch Two Louisiana Affiliates
February 1st, 2008
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Feb. 1, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Retro Television Network (RTN), which is owned and distributed by Equity Media Holdings Corporation (Nasdaq:EMDA), announced today that it will partner with White Knight Broadcasting to bring RTN programming to Shreveport (KSHV-DT) and Baton Rouge (KZUP-CA). The network will launch late this year in both markets.
Why Is He Saying Such Things???
February 1st, 2008
Osama Lutfi is continuing his misguided war of words against the Spears family.
While Lynne and crew have remained tight-lipped about him, Britney's "manager" won't stop talking trash.
Once again, Osama has gone on the record trash-talking.
He tells People:
"[Britney's family] came into the house with an agenda and are trying to look like the heroes after all the dirty work has been done. Their main worry is being financially cut off."
You're not making yourself look like a saint, buddy!
Lutfi also has spoken to E! News.
He tells them:
"[Britney's family are] incapable of telling the truth and incapable of sympathizing. They're more concerned about money and their own image than Britney's condition. [I have] no more respect for the family."
And we have no more respect for Osama Lutfi!
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Sarah Silverman and Matt Damon have intercourse
February 1st, 2008
Here's a surprisingly hilarious clip Sarah Silverman made for last night's episode of Jimmy Kimmel. It's by far the funniest thing I've seen Matt Damon do. Or Sarah Silverman for that matter. Though, I gotta admit, I hope it's just a joke because Jimmy and Sarah seem like such a nice gay couple. You know, because they're both dudes.
Top 10 Movie Chases
February 1st, 2008by Puptentacle
Whether you’re running from a masked madman wielding a kitchen knife or tearing your Buick down the streets of New York in hot pursuit of some drug-pushing scum peddlers, everyone knows that chasing is way more fun in the movies than it is in real life (primarily as the movies won’t slap you with a restraining order.) So in celebration of the age-old tradition of chasing somebody down an open highway or down a dark alley, here are the ten best movie chases according to us…
10. Terminator 2 (1991)
This must be the most successful marriage of science fiction and action of all time. They improved Arnie’s role from the virtually mute T-800 of the first film, and added Robert Patrick as the T-1000, arguably the most terrifying cop in cinema history. The scene early on, where the T-1000 tears after John Connor’s dirtbike the way only a homicidal cyborg can, makes audiences sit up and take notice. Motorbike and enormous semi truck soon compete in L.A. storm drains to decide the fate of the future.
The Porn Supremacy
February 1st, 2008In case you missed, it Sarah Silverman told her boyfriend, Jimmy Kimmel, last night that she was having the, uh, extracurriculars with a certain movie actor and Oscar-winning screenwriter. This is the best "SNL" sketch not to appear to "SNL" in a long time. (By the way, it takes a minute to get to the song; and moms, dads, mannies, and nannies, there's a lot of "effing.")
