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• The Miramax Telethon: Has Anything Good Ever Won An Oscar?

  After The Wind That Shakes the Barely, Zodiac, and Roberto Benigni got robbed last night, it's time to vent about the Oscars, last night and over the years. The show is laughable enough, but looking back on movies that were ignored is far more embarrassing an exercise. Here are our picks, besides the obvious snubs like Citizen Kane and The Hottie and the Nottie... Read More... Posted Feb 25 2008, 08:00 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: movies, al gore, paris hilton, rocky, Jack Nicholson, oscar de la hoya, crash, oscars, bette davis, movie titles, academy awards, pulp fiction, al pacino, melanie griffith, forrest gump, miramax

• Scanner Emily's Note to Self: Back That Sh*t Up!

  You may have noticed my absence yesterday. Or maybe you didn't. Either way, not too long after posting Marry, Fuck or Kill, Scanner Caucus Edition, my computer screen got all sci-fi and blinky on me and then I got the blue screen of death. Maybe the Feds really were coming for me, trying to hit me where it hurts most. Or maybe I should have seen it coming for the last year when every time I opened my computer it sounded like a cement mixer and all the letters were worn off the keyboard. Needless to say, I spent the day worrying whether everything on it (including my book that's due in five days), none of which was backed up, could be recovered. Thanks to the wonderful people at Tekserve, my book and a few other important files were salvaged. Now I have a shiny new MacBook (yes, mere weeks before Apple releases a new laptop) and a whole lotta' debt. Point being: back that shit up (though I'm probably the only idiot who didn't). P.S. I don't have Photoshop yet or there'd be a big ole' heart around that Tekserve logo. Posted Jan 10 2008, 09:21 AM by Emily Farris with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: mfk, marry fuck or kill, computers, crash, macs, emily does something stupid, tekserve

• "Crash" and the Other "Crash"

  A couple years ago, we were flipping channels with then-boyfriend and came upon "Crash." Thinking it was the film that had recently won all of the awards, we watched and watched and watched waiting for something really compelling and deep to happen. Also we were waiting for Matt Dillon to appear on screen. About halfway through, we realized we were watching soft porn and we were not going to see Matt Dillon that night. We might have realized this sooner had we not smoked so much pot. After a quick IMDB search we learned we were watching the nineties "Crash," in which Rosanna Arquette plays a disabled woman who gets hot over car accidents. We didn't watch the entire thing, but Heather Mills (who lost a leg in a motorcycle accident) did and she is "disgusted" by it. In case you didn't know why any of this matters, Rosanna Arquette and Paul McCartney are an item, and these are the kinds of things you have to say 10 years after the fact when you're going through a messy public divorce. But you already knew that. [Via PR-Inside.com]  Posted Dec 11 2007, 12:49 PM by Emily Farris with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: paul mccartney, heather mills, rosanna arquette, crash