Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
According to Joss Whedon, “Of all the heat I’ve ever taken, not having Hank Pym [in the Avengers] was one of the bigger things.” However, Whedon contests that it didn’t make sense to bring in Ant-Man into Earth’s mightiest movie heroes. In an long interview with Empire Magazine, Avengers: Age of Ultron director Joss Whedon…
James Van Der Beek and Katee Sackhoff star in Joseph Kahn’s (Detention, Toque) R-rated, NSFW Power Rangers short film. We did not think the Power Rangers could be this dark. We were so wrong. Created just for shits and grins, Kahn cobbled together what he’s labeling a “deboot FAN FILM.” Writing quite plainly in his…
“Jazz is dead” has long been one of the less controversial assertions in the legions of thought pieces about waning musical genres. Jazz has a pretty homogeneous, older fan base, and a well-established reputation for being “safe.” But jazz isn’t dead at all — it just isn’t always called jazz anymore. Often, the best and most…
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly threatened a New York Times reporter on Monday night, promising to come after the reporter “with everything I have” if he felt that any of the reporter’s coverage about his Falklands war controversy was inappropriate. “Mr. O’Reilly’s efforts to refute the claims by Mother Jones and some former CBS News…
Grace Jones is greeted with laughter at her duet with Pavarotti (then she blows them away) I’ve been attempting to track down the entirety of Luciano Pavarotti’s Pavarotti and Friends, a 2002 benefit concert for Angolan refugees, ever since I saw his brilliant duet with Lou Reed on “Perfect Day.” There’s just something so absurd…
[if lt IE 9]> Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy has reportedly been hospitalized following complaints of severe chest pains. Nimoy, who portrayed Mr. Spock on the original Star Trek television series from 1966-1969, was sent to the UCLA Medical Center last Thursday. Nimoy’s hospitalization follows the actor’s recent hospital visits over the past several months,…
They’re gone — and forgotten. In what’s become a recurring theme at the Oscars, major notable figures were left out of the “In Memoriam” segment. This year, neither Joan Rivers nor Elaine Stritch made the cut. Rivers appeared in several films including “The Muppets Take Manhattan” and “Spaceballs.” She also wrote and directed the 1978…
Recently, Hollywood proved once again that it just does not understand women. This proof came in the form of a trashy blockbuster that struck a chord with women, though it was widely derided by critics for its weird concept and laughable dialogue. And no, I’m not talking about Fifty Shades of Grey. Tumblr Jupiter Ascending is…
From: Paul Ford To: Virginia Heffernan Subject: Interested in being part of a Salon “Mothers who think” reboot? Virginia replied: Kind of, actually. Paul answered: Cool! Its called Mothers Who Tweet and its a cobrand with Maytag. No more than two tweets a week will be branded retweets and the rest will be original. If…
Jeff Bridges from the promo for his new album, Sleeping Tapes. If cult actor and sometime country musician Jeff Bridges’ new album, Sleeping Tapes, is aimed at anyone, it is people like me. I have, on numerous occasions when Radio 3 is getting a bit severe, typed into YouTube “drowsy music drones” or “guaranteed to…