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Horny Hollywood hacker headed to hoosegow
Judge gives Florida man 10-year sentence for breaking into email accounts and spying on people. "That's the government's job," declares Judge.
Two of the celebrities involved in the hacking scandal issued statements. Christina Aguilera said: http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/18/37149/ While Scarlett Johanssen added: http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/18/37150/ Another victim, Esquire magazine's Sexiest Woman Alive for 2012 Mila Kunis, has yet to make any public comment on the …
MACSD gives you a chance to "Play with a PGA Tour Pro"
The closest I ever got to a golf course was Paramount's The Caddy. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/18/37141/ I don't know a PGA from an X-BOX 360 EIEIO, so it's best that we let the press release (and MACSD's Mike Newton) do most of …
Hanukkah humbug as Lindsay Lohan nixes Bar Mitzvahs
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/18/37133/ She's the shikse dream, the kind of farblunget nafke most 13-year-old Jewish boys doven for, yet Lindsay Lohan refuses to do Bar Mitzvahs. Why? The gig couldn't possibly be any more embarrassing than Liz and Dick. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji-cT58rgNc TMZ reports …
Well, of course Ricky Gervais is in talks to star in the next Muppet movie
I mean, he's been a Muppet for years! http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/17/37064/
A closer look at the tagline for Pacific Rim
"To fight monsters, we created monsters." Gosh, given the torture flap, it seems like this ought to be slapped onto Zero Dark Thirty.
A closer look at the poster for Pacific Rim
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/17/37062/ "Wait, guys, I dropped a giant contact lens. I think it was right around here."
Scorsese to make Clinton Doc? Drat.
Vulture notes that Scott Marks' favorite eyebrow model is planning on making a Clinton documentary for some reason. President Clinton was larger than life. He doesn't deserve a documentary; he deserves fiction. And not some namby-pamby piece-on-the-side stuff like Primary …
A closer look at the trailer for Star Trek: Into Darkness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diP-o_JxysA Nice work, Mr. Trailer Editor: "You're gonna get yourself and everyone under your command killed" gets spoken right over a shot of Mr. Doomed Redshirt running scared: http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/17/37043/ And it's not in the trailer, but what about this line …
Casablanca piano sold at auction
The piano was blue, the profits were gray
A piano used in the iconic film Casablanca didn't fetch the anticipated $1.2 million when it went up for auction at Sotheby's on Friday. The piano was put on the block by a Japanese collector no doubt eager to cash …
Grate cinema: Airport 1975
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/16/37012/ For a buck-and-a-quarter apiece, all four of them could be mine. The Airport Terminal Pack (watching them on a computer screen could leave you terminal at your terminal) hit the bottom of my Big!Lots shopping cart in less time …
Peter Jackson announces plan to divide Tintin sequel into three films
Dept. of No, Not Really
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/14/36982/ "It says here that Jackson is taking over from Spielberg." "Out of the frying pan and into the fire." "To be precise: after the Hobbit gets panned, he should be fired." Peter Jackson, the celebrated director of such films …
Opening this week
Surprise! Smaug is not the most noteworthy dragon in theaters today!
The Hobbit is out. I saw it twice - once in High Frame Rate 3D and once in regular 3D. The first made everything look awful - the people looked like weird ordinary folk in heavy makeup instead of characters, …
Anne Hathaway's Britney moment
So Anne Hathaway got out of a car at a premiere for Les Miserables, and the paparazzi managed to get photographic evidence of her decision to forgo undergarments that evening. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/13/36938/ She's taken the resultant brouhaha in stride, even surviving …
Passing the digital baton
Out with the Spielberg, in with the DreamWorks at Reading Cinemas Grossmont Center 10
It was a day like any other. I wanted to go to the movies. Go ahead and snicker. You don't want to be around me on the rare occasion where I have to go a week without seeing something projected …
A closer look at the trailer for Pacific Rim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w6Vv2z-QiAI Well BRAAAAHM my BRAAAAHM, it's another movie about punching robots. I kind of hope it opens with a 2001-style bit that traces the development of human warfare, from cavemen punching each other, to one picking up a bone and …
Gobs of Globes
Hollywood Foreign Press announce this year's-z-z-z-z-z-z
Best Picture Drama? Isn't Django Unchained a comedy? Thanks to the knuckleheads at the Hollywood Foreign Press, the recruitment film Act of Valor will forever be referred to as "an award-nominated film." Those are just two of the head-scratching curiosities …
An even closer look at the trailer for Oblivion
"I've been watching you, Jack," intones Morgan Freeman in his best Morpheus voice. "You're curious. What are you looking for in those books?" http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/12/36892/ So what exactly is that book that our hero finds himself reading? Why, it's Thomas Babbington …
A closer look at the trailer for Man of Steel
Whoa. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/12/36887/ And what side is that, Dad? http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/12/36888/ Ah. The flaming side. But Dad also tells his boy, "You just have to decide what kind of man you want to grow up to be, Clark." Apparently, he thinks it's …
A closer look at the trailers for Oblivion and After Earth
Chalk another one up to Hollywood Synchronicity - you know, the force that brought us Deep Impact and Armageddon, Dante's Peak and Volcano, etc. Cuz here come two films starring weirdly ageless A-listers (Tom Cruise and Will Smith) about space …
Beginnings: Sylvester Stallone
Look, I know that it's hardly news that Sylvester Stallone started his cinematic career in the X-rated Party at Kitty & Stud's (later renamed The Italian Stallion for obvious reasons). http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/12/36861/ But I did think it interesting that the film …