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Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate

Roman Polanski was a colourful character in cinema, having created two fantastic films in Hollywood, "Chinatown" and "Rosemary's Baby", as well as an entire catalogue of well-received films in Europe and America.

He might be remembered best, though, as the widowed husband of Sharon Tate, the actress that was murdered by the infamous Manson Family.

No, wait... actually, Polanski is probably best known for the fact that he plead guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1978, and is considered a fugitive from the United States.

Polanski certainly liked young girls... reader Sugar Hush sent in a link about movie controversies which reminds us that Polanski actually dated Nastassja Kinski, who was 15 at the time.

"If found guilty Roman Polanski would face a 50-year prison sentence in 1977, and he eventually filmed the British novel in France to avoid being extradited for prosecution. It became one of Hollywood’s most famous controversies, darkly overshadowing the movie to this day. (Wikipedia claims Polanski had previously had an affair with the movie’s star, Nastassja Kinski, when she was 15, and IMDB quotes her as saying that “As a director, he was 10 times more wonderful than as a lover.”)"

Hmmm... given the critical success of Chinatown, Polanski must have been dynamite in bed...



*this image is from Wikipedia

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Another Stakeout Rosie Richard Dreyfuss
It's a weird bit of meta-gaming the film industry... Paul Sheer and Andy McKay have teamed up and asked the internet community to make the awful "Another Stakeout" into a cult classic.

From Spoutblog:

"..comedian/Human Giant star Paul Scheer implores The Internet to join him, Adam McKay (writer/director of Anchorman and Talladega Nights) and several of their friends and colleagues in mobbing the message boards attached to the IMDb entry for the questionable classic, Another Stakeout.

“Come join us and help us turn this movie into a giant cult hit for absolutely no good reason,” Scheer writes. “Let’s forward this e-mail and flood the site to the point where there are Another Stakeout festivals and conventions and midnight showings with people in costume saying lines along with the movie ala Rocky Horror Pic Show.”"

The reason? No good reason. Just to do it, I suppose, though, on some level, they're satirizing the ability of film audiences to create popularity years later. It's happened over and over again - "The Princess Bride", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas".

But "Another Stakeout"? I think I actually saw it on VHS and remember groaning in frustration at a movie that combined the comedic talents of Richard Dreyfuss, Emelio Estevez and Rosie O'Donnell.

You'll notice that the Wikipedia page for the movie has been altered to reflect the fake cult status.

"It was named "Most Important movie of the 1990's!" by Joel Siegel at from Good Morning America and some film critics refer to this movie as "the greatest sequel" ever, even better than films like The Godfather Part II or Aliens, though this point is arguable. Despite this, the movie fell into some obscurity, but recently it has been rediscovered and elevated to a cult status. It's considered a key film, and several actors and directors, such as Kristen Bell, Eli Roth or John Waters had expressed their admiration for this film.[citation needed]"

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A Realistic Jessica Rabbit

April 23rd 2008 00:39
Sure, I'll admit it - I like cartoon babes.

Yes, I know it's ridiculous, and ludicrous and strenuous and tenuous and all the other things that you're verbally spewing at me right now


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Star Trek White Rabbit Music Video

February 24th 2008 23:58
I was never much of a Star Trek fan, but I can still enjoy this odd video mashup, combining Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" with crazy, psychedelic scenes from the original Star Trek.

The song is an intense buildup to a crashing cresendo, suitable for throwing large grapefruits at angry Samoan attourneys, wallowing in a hotel bathroom


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Steampunk R2-D2

January 24th 2008 00:16
Steampunk R2 D2 with gears and steam engine
Everyone knows that R2-D2 is, hands-down, the awesomest part of Star Wars, even including the lightsabres, Boba Fett and that big monster in the sand that digests you for 1 000 years.

People love to mashup and remix R2, and it was inevitable that someone would combine the fiery burners of the steampunk fiction genre with the Star Wars universe. Sure, we've had a little bit of artwork come out of the walls, like this Steampunk Darth Vader, but what about a real steampunk droid


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John Cusack - starred in "High Fidelity", "Say Anything", "Grosse Point Blank"

Kevin Spacey - starred in "Swimming with Sharks", "Se7en", and, yes, "American Beauty


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God Hates The World Music Video

December 5th 2007 03:47
This is too sad. Is it true?

The Westboro Baptist Church, the same ones that thinks that "the Iraq war is America’s punishment for tolerating homosexuality.", recently lost an $11 million lawsuit, getting sued for picketing a slain soldier's funeral


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Even a millimeter matters

November 24th 2007 18:37
This cell phone commercial is charming enough to warrant a second look. It's hard to tell if this is done with computers, because filming this would be an incredibly huge pain in the ass.


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The Sex Life of Robots

September 25th 2007 22:15
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Don't Tase Me, Bro!

September 20th 2007 00:48
Update: I found this today on Pajiba. It was inevitable, wasn't it? As soon as the first line came out, I just instinctively knew that it felt right....


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Even Stephen Colbert Carell Daily Show

When Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart appear together on television, you'll never know for certain who they're going to make fun of. Certainly, they're left-leaning, but Stewart and Colbert are happy to make fun of anyone that falls in their targets.

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Teaching English with MC Hammer

September 14th 2007 17:41
I taught English in China for over a year and never -not even once- did I ever think that the music of MC Hammer would be an excellent way to teach kids English.

After this video, I'm sure that it's not


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Lebowski-fest opens in the UK

September 6th 2007 17:42
Lebowski Festival Poster
The Big Lebowski is a 1998 film from the Coen brothers, and is my favourite from their excellent filmography.

It's a cult classic, with hordes of ardent fans and rabid followers. It's the type of movie that gets better from subsequent viewings, especially while under the influence. I've noticed that more of my male friends like it compared to my female friends, which may say something about the appeal of the movie


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This is one of those things that's just making the rounds on the Internet, and it'll make you wonder about the usefulness of the Internet.

It appears to be a 13-year-old kid lip synching to some song, which is not that good


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