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Audrina in Blue: Trade Roughage 05/12/08

May 12, 2008 – 9:15 am

A HILLS star replaces Jessica Alba, Abe Lincoln replaces Abbie Hoffman, and nothing can replace IRON MAN.

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Hollywood | Comments (4)

BlogNosh 03/27/08

March 27, 2008 – 5:32 pm

At GreenCine Daily, David Hudson rounds up the reviews of Stop-Loss, which are, surprisingly, pretty positive (Peter Keough and Bill Weber are the exceptions that prove the rule). My favorite pullquote comes, as usual, from Armond White’s mixed review: “Peirce conflates war tragedy with her own sense of melodrama, making Stop-Loss a coincidentally sexy polemic. [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Community | Comments (2)

5 Ways In Which The Hills is JUST LIKE An Antonioni Film

March 25, 2008 – 1:19 pm

Today in Cultural Equivalency: testing the theory that MTV’s reality soap is a distant ancestor of films like RED DESERT and L’ECLISSE.

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Classics, Culture/art, Foreign Films | Comments (10)

Today in Starlet Pop Recordings: David Bowie meets ScarJo

February 13, 2008 – 11:14 am

The Playlist passes along word that David Bowie has recorded back-up vocals for Anywhere I Lay My Head, Scarlett Johansson’s Tom Waits covers album. The record’s producer, Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio, describes Anywhere as having a “‘cough medicine/TinkerBell’ vibe”––which, funnily enough, seems as good a description as any of Bowie’s performance as [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Music, Stars | Comments (0)

Week in Review 11/09/07

November 9, 2007 – 1:02 pm

From David Lynch’s shoe fetish to Robert Greenwald’s attack on cleavage, from Tom Cruise’s comeback to yet more strike strife, here’s a look at the week that was at SpoutBlog.

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Spout.com, Week in Review | Comments (0)

Ze Frank: Waiting To Kiss Ass

November 6, 2007 – 8:32 am

Indie video blog superstar Ze Frank has issued a clip in which he weighs in on the Writers Strike. Through this, we learn that Ze watches The Hills to pick up slang terms for female genitalia, has several deeply held opinions about Grey’s Anatomy, and has apparently been spending a lot of time in the [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Community, Hollywood, Indies, Screenwriting | Comments (0)