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Friday movie roundup – Nov. 10
Roger Ebert speaks of the Idiot Plot. It is "any plot containing problems which would be solved instantly if all of the characters were not idiots." The most egregious Idiot Plots hang the entire film on them, as in most cross-dressing comedies, wher...
Friday movie roundup – Nov. 3
The funniest movie this week, or any week so far this year, is "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," though you can just call it "Borat" for short. I saw it at a MySpace screening several weeks ago, an...
A brief quiz for you
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Quiz: Is this my niece Lindsay from a few days ago, or is it Courtney Love at age 2?
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Some shows you should be watching
I sampled most of the season's new offerings last month and wound up adding several to my regular roster. With some, the luster faded after a few episodes.
For example, "The Class" started out funny and emotionally involving -- rare for a sitcom -...
Eric Recommends: ‘The Mormon Tabernacle Enquirer’
About five years ago, some Mormon writers banded together to create The Sugar Beet, an LDS-culture version of The Onion, featuring satirical fake news stories. I was one of the writers in that first crew, but then I wandered off after a few months ...
Friday movie roundup – Oct. 27
This week's edition of "In the Dark" is packed with reviews of movies you should definitely see, but none of them are in wide release. The films that are in wide release ... meh.
First in the "meh" category is "Saw III," the requisite last-Friday-...
Angry Letter: Crimes against Amanda Bynes shall not go unpunished
We have a very special angry letter to discuss today. It comes from Robert Mackey, a 40-something who runs "Amanda Bynes NOW!," a Web site obsessively devoted to the 20-year-old actress.
If the name Robert Mackey rings a bell, it's because he has ...
New song: ‘Not Fooling Anyone’
I've recorded a new song parody for your listening pleasure (?). It's called "Not Fooling Anyone," and it's a parody of Daniel Powter's ubiquitous pop hit "Bad Day." Please to be visiting the song player and listening to it there.
The recording wa...
Friday movie roundup – Oct. 20
The release of Martin Scorsese's "The Departed" two weeks ago was a hint of it, but the Oscar season truly begins today. No fewer than three movies with Oscar potential are opening in wide release this weekend, and no, one of them is not "Flicka."
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EricDSnider.com now WANTS reader feedback!
We enabled comments on this blog a few weeks back, and now the process has been implemented throughout the entire site. That means you can now post a comment on any "Snide Remarks" column or movie review, old or new. Heck, you could go back and post ...
Friday movie roundup – Oct. 13
I'm not very enthusiastic about any of this week's new releases, so I don't expect you to be, either. Let's run them down quickly and never speak of them again, shall we?
The biggest release (at least in terms of number of theaters) is "The Grudge...
Eric’s iMix: Happy Songs
Some people on a certain message board were making mix CDs for each other in a flagrant violation of copyright laws, and I got to thinking what I would include if I were to make a mix CD to send to all my friends. It should have a particular theme, I...
TV reviews: ’30 Rock,’ ‘Twenty Good Years’
"30 Rock" (Wednesdays, NBC): This is the other new series set backstage at a live sketch comedy show, written by and starring Tina Fey, who until May was the head writer at "Saturday Night Live." Unlike "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," "30 Rock" is a...
TV reviews: ‘Ugly Betty,’ ‘Friday Night Lights,’ ‘The Nine’
"Ugly Betty" (Thursdays, ABC): Among new series this fall, this one is the most popular, its first two episodes drawing enough viewers to put it in the top 20. I'm afraid I don't share America's sentiments on this one. It's a cute, campy dramedy abou...
The first casualties of the fall TV season
If you had ABC's "Brothers & Sisters" in the office betting pool for which new series would be canceled first -- and most people did -- surprise! You're wrong!
Turns out it's CBS's "Smith" that has the dubious honor of being the first axing of...
Friendly reminder of existence of new ‘Snide Remarks’ column
In case you're still getting used to how we roll here at EricDSnider.com, this is your reminder that since it's Monday, and since I didn't get distracted by a shiny object over the weekend, there is a new "Snide Remarks" column posted for your enjoym...
Angry Letters: Channing Tatum, ‘Talladega Nights,’ life in general
We have a backlog of Angry Letters to sort through, so put on your asbestos gloves and protective goggles and let's get to reading!
First a quick one from someone who used the form on the E-mail Eric page. He marked "general" as the subject, so I ...
Friday movie roundup – Oct. 6
Martin Scorsese makes films often enough that a new one isn't an "event," exactly, but it does pique a film lover's interest, especially in an otherwise dry season. "The Departed" is a great movie, nearly as good (but not quite) as Scorsese's "Goodfe...
Borat movie is making laugh with comedy of jokes
The funniest movie I've seen all year is "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan." If something funnier happens between now and Dec. 31, I will be greatly surprised. It's the sort of film for which the wor...
‘Ask Eric Stuff’ questions needed for mockery
A few months back I asked whether "Snide Remarks" readers enjoy the "Ask Eric Stuff" columns that appear every now and then. The question was prompted by a reader who said she didn't like them, and being a man of the people, I wanted to see what the ...
TV reviews: ‘Six Degrees,’ ‘Runaway,’ ‘The Game’
"Six Degrees" (Thursdays, ABC): There are these six strangers, see, and they all live in New York, and they don't know each other at first but their lives sort of intersect. And then some of them meet each other. And, um, stuff happens. This is essen...
Eric Recommends: ‘The Areas of My Expertise,’ ‘Consider the Lobster,’ ‘A Heartbreaking Work of ...
A few books I've read recently that I can recommend with a clear conscience. (Some books, you know, if you recommend them you feel bad about it.) The links take you to Amazon, where if you buy anything -- even if it's not the original item you clicke...
Friday movie roundup – Sept. 29
It's a lukewarm week for movies. Of the wide releases, we have two C+'s and a B-. At Rotten Tomatoes, B- is the cutoff for a "Fresh" rating, so I adopted that as my unofficial standard some years ago. But it's tricky. A B- movie is "recommended," but...
The Olbermann smackdown, and the lack of response to it
I don't watch much TV news, having learned years ago that most of it is unintentionally superficial and unintentionally funny. (I prefer to watch things that are superficial and funny on purpose.) I do catch clips online now and then, however, when s...
TV reviews: ‘Shark,’ ‘Heroes,’ ‘Help Me Help You’
"Shark" (Thursdays, CBS): What's not to love about James Woods? "Shark," in which he plays a conniving defense attorney who must start using his weaselly powers for good when he joins the district attorney's team, gives him snarky dialogue, a lovably...
TV reviews: ‘Men in Trees,’ ‘Smith,’ ‘Jericho,’ ‘Kidnapped’
More reviews of the new fall shows are trickling in....
"Men in Trees" (Fridays, ABC): Anne Heche, far more cute and likable than I would have suspected, plays a relationship coach who -- get this -- HAS TROUBLE WITH HER OWN RELATIONSHIPS!! I know...
Long-lost video clip: ‘Safety First’
I used to know a fellow named Scott Haycock, aka Puppet Guy, a talented puppet-maker and all-around creative type who was lots of fun at parties and who would sometimes freak people out. (It may be apocryphal, but I'm told he kept a small vial of his...
Friday movie roundup – Sept. 22
You can expect the slump the box office has been in to end this weekend, thanks to a little arthouse film called "Jackass Number Two." It's a Paramount film (and how proud they must be), so I won't have a review of it for you until later this afterno...
TV reviews: ‘The Class,’ ‘Standoff,’ ‘Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip’
More first impressions of the new fall shows.
"The Class" (Mondays, CBS): Premise: To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the day he met his fiancee, a Nice Normal Guy hosts a reunion of their 3rd grade class. Fiancee dumps him at the party; guests ...
My top 50 movies of the last 10 years
The Online Film Critics Society, in honor of its 10th anniversary, recently held a survey among its members to determine the best 100 movies of the last 10 years. We all worked to produce a list of 400 worthy films from 1996-2005, and then everyone c...
Simple equations in ‘Flicka’
I noticed something interesting in the trailer for the new version of "My Friend Flicka," which is just being called "Flicka" this time. Now, I don't appear to be the film's target audience -- I'm neither a young girl nor a fan of country music, and ...
No ‘Snide Remarks’ today
No new column this week, sorry. The one I was working on didn't come together the way I thought it would, and since I'm not obligated to publish anything I didn't want to publish something subpar.
I have lots of good bloggy stuff to post, though, ...
Links: The Comics Curmudgeon and Spamusement
I would like to call your attention to two very funny Web sites I've recently discovered.
First is The Comics Curmudgeon, a daily blog in which writer Josh Fruhlinger discusses a couple of that day's comic strips, usually bashing them (quite humo...
Raven of the Caribbean
As I've mentioned in previous entries, for some reason I often get e-mails from people wanting contact information for famous people. Raven-Symone's fans are the worst about it, though other celebrities have been requested, too. It's never anyone hug...
Friday movie roundup – Sept. 15
Four wide releases to deal with this week, so let's get a-crackin'.
First, "The Last Kiss" is a Paramount product, which means my review won't be available until about 3 p.m. today. Check back then. [EDIT: Sure enough, I posted it just after 3 p.m...
Dawn’s first text message
My friend Dawn recently sent me a text message while waiting for a film to start. I was out in the theater lobby, about to enter the same screening, but she didn't know that yet. This was the first text message she had ever sent anyone, and she was e...
TV reviews: ”Til Death,’ ‘Happy Hour,’ ‘Justice,’ ‘Vanished’
I like to give the new fall shows a spin to see if any of them are worth adding to my TiVo lineup. As I do, I'll try to throw together brief reviews, perhaps aiding you in making your TV decisions, too.
"'Til Death" (Thursdays, Fox): A fairly gene...
Eric’s Sack of Mail: random questions, M. Night, Jamie Foxx, theory & law, crying & eating
It's time for another edition of Eric's Sack of Mail, where I respond to e-mails I've gotten that were neither angry, stupid or ill-conceived.
First up is Mike, who often send me e-mails just to hear himself talk, I think. He asks:
With all the ...
Friday movie roundup – Sept. 8
It's a rather slow week for movies, with three wide releases, one of them not screened, and none of them really stirring up much pre-release excitement.
The one I've seen is "Hollywoodland," which turns out to be an excellent modern film noir abo...
Season premiere schedule
Gentleman, start your TiVos! Here is a list of the networks' season premiere dates (with a couple cable shows thrown in, too). New shows are marked with an asterisk. A few of these have already occurred, so I hope you were paying attention and didn't...
Eric appears on KUFO again; incident recorded for posterity
I made my third appearance on KUFO's Cort & Fatboy show last Friday evening, once again to help out my pal Mike Russell in his reviewing duties. His dereliction was not due to laziness this time, however: Two of the movies had screened at the sam...
Reminder: ‘Snide Remarks’ now free; occasionally entertaining
Just a reminder that while my weekly "Snide Remarks" column used to be available only to subscribers, it is now 100 percent FREE, so free that it requires capital letters to convey just how free it is. The first column written under this new liberate...
Friday movie roundup – Sept. 1
Labor Day Weekend is almost always slow at the box office -- the most any film has ever made on this weekend is $20 million -- and in the interest of perpetuating that cycle, Hollywood generally puts out inferior product. Hence today we have the dism...
Angry Letter: WASP = racism?
In my review of "The Ant Bully," I cracked a joke about how the wasps "should have had snooty New Hampshire accents -- you know, WASPs." I shouldn't be surprised that EVERYTHING can be offensive to someone, but I wasn't expecting this kind of respons...
OMG! Jaymz wrote me a mezzage!!
About a month ago, I wrote a brief blog item on the show "So You Think You Can Dance?" Included in my remarks was this paragraph:
The name "Jaymz" is such a trainwreck that I think if I ever met him, I would only want to slap him. However, I found s...
How my birthday was
'Twas a swell birthday I had Saturday, a swell birthday indeed. To my Jehovah's Witness friends, of whom I have none, let me say that you don't know what you're missing.
The morning mail arrived with two items. One was an envelope bearing a card a...
“SNIDE REMARKS” is FREE again!
In March 2004, Eric D. Snider's "Snide Remarks" relaunched as an online humor column, available only to subscribers. People actually had to PAY to read it. What's shocking is not that Eric pulled such a stunt, but that people actually went along with...
Friday movie roundup – NOT
No Friday movie roundup this week, not because I forgot to do it (like I did a few weeks ago), but because I am swamped with other writing projects that require immediate completion. Nothing interesting, believe me, or even particularly profitable. J...
The very last of the Garrens Comedy Troupe CDs are on sale
About once a month, someone e-mails me to ask whether the old Garrens Comedy Troupe CDs are still available. Sadly, the answer has been no. One of them, "The Garrens Comedy Troupe Live!" (1996) was mass-produced and was even available through Deseret...
Eric Recommends: ‘Fablehaven,’ ‘Brief History of the Dead,’ ‘King Dork’
Some books I've read recently and can recommend to you. The links in the titles take you to Amazon.com, where if you buy anything -- even if it's not the item you originally clicked on -- I get a tiny kickback. So click on a link and do a lot of Amaz...
NPR lowers standards, interviews Eric
Bob Garfield of National Public Radio's "On the Media" program interviewed me Thursday morning for this week's edition of the show. It was a 20-minute interview, but (and not being a regular listener, I was unaware this would happen) it was edited do...
Friday movie roundup – Aug. 18
At last the day has arrived: Today "Snakes on a Plane" stops being "eagerly awaited" and starts being the only movie this summer that has been exactly what you expected it to be.
I've been onboard with the whole SoaP thing for a year, ever since ...
Eric on the radio — the magic Internet radio!
Ryan Ritchey from The Flux interviewed me Thursday for his weekly podcast. The subject: The junket whore article, of course, and Paramount's reaction to it. It's the Aug. 11 edition; look for it here.
Bad, bad journalism: Tim Nasson, Wild About Movies
In a recent "Snide Remarks" column entitled "I Was a Junket Whore," I cited one instance of a fellow junketeer stretching the truth in his blog. From my column:
Let me jump forward in time a couple days to quote what one of the Web site writers post...
Another radio appearance
My pal Mike Russell, who visits KUFO's Cort & Fatboy every Friday evening to review movies, had once again not seen one of the major releases and so once again called upon me to come lend a hand last night.
He reviewed "The Descent" while I h...
Friday movie roundup – Aug. 4
It's common enough for films I saw at Sundance to open in regular theaters later, but usually only in limited release. Yet this weekend there are two from Sundance 2006, and both are opening wide.
They are "The Night Listener" and "The Descent," b...
Paramount Pictures: ‘Boo hoo! Some writer we’ve never heard of made fun of us! Boo hoo hoo!’
A few concerned readers wondered whether my column "I Was a Junket Whore," in which I discussed the wasteful and elaborate means by which movie studios secure fluffy news coverage, would have any repercussions for me. I figured the worst that could h...
That time I was a whore
I forgot to tell you that last week's "Snide Remarks" column is available to be read by all mankind, not just subscribers. It's called "I Was a Junket Whore," and it's an in-depth look at how studios waste money wining and dining nobodies like me in ...
So you think you can comment on ‘So You Think You Can Dance?’?
I've caught only glimpses of Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance? Really? You Call That Dancing?," but a lack of intimacy with the show does not prevent me from commenting.
- Whenever the guys are doing their freestyle dancing, they wear the same co...
Eric was on the radio! You missed it!
If you happened to be listening to Portland's KUFO ("the only station that really rocks," don't you know) Friday evening at around 6, you surely heard me reviewing "Miami Vice" on the Cort & Fatboy Show. My pal Mike Russell (backup guy for The Or...
Friday movie roundup – July 28
Will "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man Walking" top the box office for the fourth weekend in a row? If it does, it will be the first film since "Passion of the Christ" to achieve the elusive four-peat.
There's a good chance of it, too. A $20 mi...
Friday movie roundup – July 21
My, what a busy week! Four new films open in wide release today, and not one of them is going to knock "Pirates of the Caribbean" off its perch. Even if it drops 50 percent from last week, that's still $31 million.
Curiously, three of the four fi...
Say hello to my crappy theater
One of the cool things about Portland (well, about any big city, really, but I'll claim it for Portland) is that during any given week, there are usually several older films playing somewhere in town alongside the current blockbusters.
I see 10 s...
Friday movie roundup – July 14
The movie world is still reeling from last weekend's "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Two and a Half Hours," which has broken about a dozen records since it opened and will surely eviscerate both newcomers this weekend.
Even if the "Pirates" gross ...
Get well, Roger
I'm a little late here, but let me add my voice to the chorus of people wishing Roger Ebert a speedy recovery.
As you may have heard, he had surgery June 16 to remove a bit of cancer from his salivary gland. It was a relatively minor event and we...
Angry letters: ‘Akeelah and the Bee,’ ‘Peaceful Warrior,’ ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’
Remember those "Akeelah and the Bee" e-mails I got a couple months back? I just got another one, which I'll include later in this post. But first I want to publish an exchange I had with a reader named Frank, lo, almost two months ago now.
It's an...
Eric’s Sack of Mail: ‘Click,’ Ask Eric Stuff, video vs. film
Ahoy! It's time for Eric's Sack of Mail, where I respond to e-mails I've gotten that were neither stupid nor angry. (Don't worry; we have some stupid/angry letters to respond to tomorrow.)
First up is Steve, who has this response to my review of ...
Absolutely the last ‘Inconvenient Truth’ blog entry, ever
Diligent, long-suffering readers of this blog will recall that one of the strengths of Al Gore's global warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" is a study he cites that supposedly demonstrates how the vast majority of scientists are in agreement ...
Friday movie roundup – July 7
We have only one wide release again this weekend, but it's a biggie. "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" (and no, the subtitle doesn't refer to Keira Knightley's cleavage) is opening in 4,133 theaters. Box Office Mojo says that's the third b...
Friday movie roundup – June 30
Regardless of which new movie you see this weekend, it's going to feature attractive people wearing fantastic costumes.
"Superman Returns" opened Wednesday (Tuesday night, actually, as many cities had 10 p.m. and midnight showings), and there's a...
A summary of ‘Inconvenient Truth’ e-mails and responses
Like many film critics, I've received a lot of e-mails in response to my positive review of Al Gore's global warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," and to my subsequent blog entries on the same topic. Not since "Brokeback Mountain" have so many...
Eric’s Sack of Mail: shocked & appalled, snide, movie grades
Here are some more recent items in Eric's Sack of Mail, the place for e-mails I get that are neither angry nor stupid. They cover a wide range of topics, so put your thinking caps on!
First, a reader whose name I neglected to keep pointed out an a...
The Friday movie roundup – June 16
There are four wide releases this weekend, including two sequels and something starring Keanu Reeves. So we're definitely looking at a quantity-vs.-quality thing here.
(Interesting note: Three of the four new films have the increasingly uncommon r...
Eric’s Sack of Mail: ‘Da Vinci Code,’ ‘X3,’ ‘Inconvenient Truth’
We've had a lot of letters recently that belong in Eric's Sack of Mail -- correspondence that is NOT angry, irrational or stupid -- so we're going to present some of them today and some of them in another installment. And here we go!
A reader name...
The Friday movie roundup – June 9
The week's major release is "Cars," the latest computer-animated family film from the wizards at Pixar. It is without question the "worst" Pixar film so far; I put the word in quotes because it's still a B- film, which is hardly bad. But it's not nea...
Stephen Colbert and cynicism
Stephen Colbert gave a commencement address at Knox College in Illinois. It's funny, of course, but then at the end, he becomes extraordinarily insightful, too. The full text is here. Here's the part that impressed me:
Now will saying “yes" get ...
Stupid people shouldn’t use ‘Ask Eric Stuff’
I have a regular feature in "Snide Remarks" called "Ask Eric Stuff," where people ask me advice questions, a la Dear Abby, and I give sarcastic, unhelpful answers. It's a comedy bit, not intended for serious questions.
The place where you can subm...
Fox News: inconvenient truths
Here's a bit of blatant stupidity from Fox News, courtesy of Media Matters. Last Monday, Fox's Terry Keenan said this:
"And 'X Men: The Last Stand,' the dominant force at the box office. The film expected to earn more than $120 million over the Me...
The Friday movie roundup – June 2
Happy birthday to my brother Jeff! He handles the geek aspects of this Web site in addition to his regular duties as my brother, and he turns, I don't know, 30 or something today. So happy birthday to him!
The movies I got him for his birthday are...
The Friday movie roundup – May 26
Remember the old days, when Memorial Day Weekend marked the start of the summer blockbuster season? Well, those days are gone, Grandpa! Summer starts in, like, February now.
Still, Memorial Day Weekend is big, so it's odd that no one even tried t...
Angry Letters: dumb people, ‘Da Vinci,’ ‘Tristan & Isolde’
Let's get this one out of the way first. In a previous blog entry, I made fun of somebody dumb who kept writing to me wanting a certain starlet's e-mail address. That prompted someone whose e-mail address is "cutie4eva_573" to write me in that person...
Eric Recommends: ‘Extremely Loud,’ ‘Confederacy of Dunces,’ ‘Manhunt’
Here are a few more from my catch-up started in the last post. You are invited to click the links if you want to buy any of these titles; the links take you to Amazon.com, where I get a tiny kickback if you buy anything there (even if it's not the it...
Eric Recommends: ‘Final Solution,’ ‘Oryx and Crake,’ ‘A Long Way Down,’ ‘Flicker...
I'm supposed to do this every time I read a book worth recommending, yet somehow I've failed to do it even once this year. So here's a little catch-up. You are invited to click the links if you want to buy any of these titles; the links take you to A...
The Friday movie roundup and diatribe
Since other cool kids like Sean Means and Dawn Taylor do Friday roundups, I figured I should, too. If the cool kids don't like it, they are welcome to beat me up, as always.
Three wide releases this week:
- "The Da Vinci Code," which is large a...
Eric’s Sack of Mail: pot, MySpace, DVDs, Donette
Here we go, kids! Time for Eric's Sack of Mail, where we read letters from people who weren't angry or irrational!
This first one is pretty mellow, dude. It comes to us from "Kidg1000," who writes in response to my observation that the movie "Gran...
Angry Letters: ‘M:IIII,’ ‘Akeelah,’ ‘She’s the Man’
It's been a busy few days for angry e-mails, so we'll dispense with the chit-chat and get right to the anger!
First up: Lydia, a reader at DVDTalk (where my movie reviews have started appearing as of recently), had this to say:
Let me preface thi...
Drunk, crazy Kiefer Sutherland
I hadn't heard this story, but apparently last December, Kiefer Sutherland destroyed a hotel lobby Christmas tree. (He was drunk, obviously.) Well, a new documentary, "I Trust You to Kill Me," about the rock band Kiefer manages (Rocco DeLuca & th...
Plagiarism: the final update
Here's the latest plagiarism update: We won!
The University of Missouri-Kansas City has paid the money we demanded after a student there, Samir Patel, plagiarized 58 movie reviews by me and 14 of my fellow writers from HollywoodB****slap.com/EFilm...
I am retro
So the other day I was at my new favorite cafe/office, The Fresh Pot, clacking away on my laptop and enjoying a tasty mug of hot white chocolate, when a man approached me and said, "Can I ask you about your laptop? Is that a new design?"
Now, I ha...
Angry Letters: ‘Akeelah and the Bee’
Here's what happens when you write a negative review of a movie that shows African-Americans in a positive light: You get e-mails from people calling you a racist. (Ripping on a movie that portrays blacks negatively elicits no response whatsoever.)
...
Q&A on film criticism
An old acquaintance of mine e-mailed me some questions last week, seeking responses to aid him in writing a paper of some kind. Now, I shudder to think what sort of academic exercise can be improved by input from me, but I'm always glad to help out a...
‘United 93’ press screening: A comedy of errors
"United 93" is a brilliant film (you can read my review when it opens this Friday), but the way it was handled by its publicists was the opposite of brilliant. "Stupid" I think is the word I'm looking for.
Not having heard yet when the press scre...
Eric’s Sack of Mail: errors, age differences and ‘Brick’
Here's another edition of Eric's Sack of Mail, where we respond to e-mails of general interest that are not angry or stupid. You can always reach me through the e-mail link at the top of this page.
First, a reader named Casey writes in with a corr...
More plagiarism updates: The story spreads
(The first story.)
(The first round of updates.)
- The Kansas City Star's story, which ran Tuesday, has been rewritten by the Associated Press and is thus available for pretty much any paper in the country to run. We know a few papers have done...
Plagiarism updates
(For background, see April 6 entry, in which I announced having been plagiarized, along with 18 of my colleagues, by a writer at the University of Missouri-Kansas City's student paper.)
- This week's "Snide Remarks" column addresses the plagiarist...
Link: The Weekly Blurb
We who consider film criticism a worthwhile and legitimate endeavor are plagued by what we call "quote whores," the critics who will provide positive blurbs for ANY movie, no matter how bad, just because they love being quoted in the ads.
Just a ...
Samir Patel loves me enough to plagiarize me!
The last several days of my life have been occupied with researching the material summarized in this article.
Basically, a writer for the student paper at University of Missouri-Kansas City, a fellow by the name of Samir Patel, has been rampantly ...
World War II was a long time ago. Really!
World War II ended 61 years ago, but the entertainment industry keeps forgetting. It thinks it only ended about 20 or 30 years ago.
I say this because I keep seeing characters in movies and TV shows who are supposed to be World War II veterans, b...
Stupid names
In today's Oregonian there's a story about a family who were found alive and well after being missing for two weeks, stuck in their well-stocked mobile home on a snowy road in rural Oregon.
But that's not what I wanted to tell you about. What I w...
