In case you missed them on the Cartoon Network, all twenty-five episodes of Genndy Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars are now available online. Season 2 in particular, involving General Grievous’ invasion of Coruscant, apparently leads right into Episode III…and they’re at least as entertaining as Attack of the Clones.
The F-Chip.
“I might as well be reading tabloids out of the grocery store…Anything to get a rise out of the viewer and to reinforce certain retrograde notions.” Sam Kimery, a former Republican precinct captain, builds and markets a device that blocks FOX News from infecting your television. Looks like Christmas will be easy this year.
Hairy Potter and the Girls of Goblet.
A French website obtains a number of new Goblet of Fire images courtesy of Premiere Magazine. Besides Harry and Ron in their shaggy late-Beatle phase, they include looks at new characters Rita Skeeter (Miranda Richardson) and Fleur Delacour (Clemence Poesy.)
Puppets of Industry.
“Fortune 500 companies that invested millions of dollars in electing Republicans are emerging as the earliest beneficiaries of a government controlled by President Bush and the largest GOP House and Senate majority in a half century…Bush and his congressional allies are looking to pass legal protections for drug companies, doctors, gun manufacturers and asbestos makers, as well as tax breaks for all companies and energy-related assistance sought by the oil and gas industry.” In the stating the obvious department, the Washington Post discovers the Republicans are in the thrall of corporate power.
Rooms in New York.
“Even before he had established himself as a delineator of New York places, the artist had already pinpointed a New York state of mind. That state is not so much ‘loneliness,’ as the maudlin cliche about him would have it, but a tougher and more unsparing isolation that touches on the traps of modern urban existence, one in which individuals must become inured to life’s insults and injuries.” Art critic Avis Berman previews her new book on Edward Hopper’s New York for the Sunday Times.
Hammer Blows.
“The point is, the other side has figured out how to win and to defeat the conservative movement, and that is to go after people personally, charge them with frivolous charges, link up with all these do-gooder organizations funded by George Soros, and then get the national media on their side.” Boy, I wish it were that simple. Boss DeLay comes out swinging against the Dems, who he blames for everything from Terri Schiavo to the separation of church and state…oh, yeah, and his multiple ethics and fund-raising violations too.
Fifteen Cent Baby.
In this corner, the full trailer for Ron Howard’s Cinderella Man, starring Russell Crowe, Renee Zellweger, and Paul Giamatti. As with the last trailer, Crowe & co. still seem to be beating the Seabiscuit angle into the ground. I give, already.
All the Presidents’ Hair.
Sigh…it’s time to face facts. I’m a failure as an American historian. All that time spent reading big, high-falutin’ books, and I could only muster 3 out of 7 Presidential Haircuts the first time around? Oof, the ignominy. (By way of my sis.)
Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sithterhood.
Another slew of extremely spoileriffic Episode III pics show up online, courtesy of a new calendar now available at Wal-Marts across the country. If in doubt, you probably don’t want to see some of these. Update: Another spate of grotesquely spoilerish shots here. Update 2: Yup, even more.
Apes, Aslan, & Aliens.
Courtesy of Coming Soon, Adrien and Naomi brave Skull Island in this new still from PJ’s King Kong, WETA Workshop shows off its Narnia designs in this catalog of sculpture, and Steven Spielberg unleashes the GOP’s worst nightmare — an ornery Tim Robbins brandishing a shotgun — in some recently-released images from War of the Worlds.