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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Movie Review: The Simpsons Movie |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 11:04 am |
| Tags: Movies, Reviews, James L Brooks, Matt Groening, The Simpsons, The Simpsons Movie |
| After 18 years, television's favorite animated family finally makes the leap to the big screen. |
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| Garth Brooks Comes Out of Retirement |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 9:00 am |
| Tags: Chris Ledoux, Chrisledoux, Garth Brooks, Garthbrooks, Trisha Yearwood, Trishayearwood |
| Filed under: Country, Album NewsPopEater Music Blog: Garth Brooks is coming out of retirement ... again. The country megastar is set to release a two-disc compilation on Big Machine Records, the independent label that recently signed his wife Trisha Yearwood. Though the release date has yet to be... Read more |
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| Being Old, Then and Now |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 12:05 am |
| Tags: Brooks David, Times Opinion, Times Select |
| DAVID BROOKS Published: August 3, 2007 Last week, while driving from a campaign event in Keene, N.H., I stumbled upon a used bookstore that I hadn't seen since I was a teenager. I stopped in even though I was rushing to catch a plane and came upon a sad book published anonymously in 1911. The book is called |
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| Goodbye, George and John |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 12:07 am |
| Tags: Brooks David, Times Select |
| DAVID BROOKS Published: August 7, 2007 Names matter. People named Dennis and Denise are disproportionately likely to become dentists. People named Lawrence or Laurie are disproportionately likely to become lawyers. People named Louis are disproportionately likely to live in St. Louis, and people named Georgia are |
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| 166 Screenplay Drafts of The Simpsons Movie |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 2:15 am |
| Tags: 20th Century Fox, Television, Family Films, Comedy, Animation, Screenwriting, James L Brooks, The Simpsons Movie |
| According to DH, Simpsons Producer/Writer James L. Brooks claims that there was 166 drafts of The Simpsons Movie screenplay. Is that a new record for Hollywood? |
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| Democrats who don't dirty their hands with politics |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 3:37 pm |
| Tags: Brooks, Propaganda, O Neill, Republican, Democrat, Politics, Democracy, Massachusetts, Duhbya, Carter |
| heads, for example.David Brooks's Republicans who "hate" Duhbya nonetheless keep their mouths shut in public. They follow the corporate model, where direction flows from the top and fealty is required for continued membership. (This looks like leadership, but it's often really just coercion.)I'll worry about the Democrats becoming unbeatably |
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| The Straw Poll Man |
| Published: August 12, 2007, 6:06 pm |
| Tags: Brooks David, Romney Mitt, Times Select |
| DAVID BROOKS Published: August 10, 2007 Early on, before the campaigning begins in earnest, presidential candidates lunch with journalists in order to get acquainted. During one of these lunches, Mitt Romney was talking about the global economy and was asked why he thought some nations grew rich and others didn't.He said there |
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| 100,000 Gone Since 2001 |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 12:07 am |
| Tags: Brooks David, Source Ny Times, Times Opinion, Times Select |
| By BOB HERBERT Published: August 14, 2007 On Saturday in Newark, three young friends whose lives and dreams vanished in a nightmarish eruption of gunfire in a rundown schoolyard were buried.On Sunday in a small town in Missouri, a pastor and two worshipers were murdered by a gunman who opened fire in a church.Murder, that darkest of |
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| TimesSelect Truck Stop Confidential |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 12:01 am |
| Tags: David Brooks, Source Ny Times, Times Opinion, Times Select |
| DAVID BROOKS Published: August 14, 2007He talked about the time two young women rear-ended him doing 110 miles per hour in a Camaro (they survived), about the dangers of marrying your secretary, about the introduction of power steering and about the two stints in the Army that interrupted his life on the road.Karl Marx once observed that |
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| DVD Specs for the Admirably Weird 'Mr. Brooks' |
| Published: August 16, 2007, 2:02 pm |
| Tags: Dane Cook, Danecook, Demi Moore, Demimoore, Dvd Release, Dvdrelease, Kevin Costner, Kevincostner, Mr Brooks, Mr Brooks, William Hurt, Williamhurt |
| dismissed. Bruce Evans' Mr. Brooks didn't blow many doors down at the multiplexes ($33 million worldwide gross) -- nor did it wow the critics all that much (56% positive at Rotten Tomatoes) -- but I dug it. Maybe it's just the novelty of seeing Kevin Costner, Dane Cook and William Hurt in the same movie ... or maybe it was the collective |
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| The Ascent of a Common Man |
| Published: August 17, 2007, 4:56 am |
| Tags: Brooks David, High Brooksianism, Edwards John, Times Opinion, Times Select |
| DAVID BROOKS Published: August 17, 2007 Pocahontas, IowaEvery presidential candidate tells a certain sort of story. Some talk about being part of a great movement. Some talk about surviving an ordeal with a band of brothers. John Edwards's stories begin with family, continue with work and solitary struggle and conclude with |
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| Conspiracy Theories: Did Suze Yalof Schwartz Blackmail Mel Brooks Into Blurbing Her Breakup Book? |
| Published: August 17, 2007, 9:40 am |
| Tags: Conspiracy Theories, Mel Brooks, Suze Yalof Schwartz Bitch |
| "Suze wrote a book called "Getting Over John Doe." It is stupid. But one night in Miami, Mel Brooks drunkenly hit on her so she parlayed her silence about the episode into his putting a blurb on the... |
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| Garth Brooks Announces New Music |
| Published: August 18, 2007, 2:23 pm |
| Tags: Garth Brooks, Garthbrooks |
| Filed under: Country, Album NewsPopEater Music Blog: Country superstar Garth Brooks announced today that he's releasing a boxed set of greatest hits. 'The Ultimate Hits' package will feature 30 classic tunes, three new singles, a bonus track and a DVD of music videos for every song on the 2-disc... Read more |
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| Garth Brooks Set to Release Ultimate Hits CD |
| Published: August 20, 2007, 8:25 am |
| Tags: Garth Brooks |
| Though he has no plans to tour, Garth Brooks is releasing a “Greatest Hits” CD featuring a new single as well as some old treasures. The single is called “More than a Memory” and the CD, entitled Ultimate Hits, will hit the stores August 27th. |
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| Comic Review: X-Men: Supernovas |
| Published: August 21, 2007, 12:58 pm |
| Tags: Comics, Reviews, Chris Bachalo, Clayton Henry, Humberto Ramos, Mark Brooks, Marvel Comics, Mike Carey, X Men Comics |
| This X-Men trade, which collects issues 188-199 and X-Men Annual 1, is a bit by-the-numbers, doesn't do anything ground breaking, but is good in its simplicity. |
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