It appears the quirky, hand-scribbled font of Juno and every other excessively twee film is NOT just for porn now, as previously speculated.
No, mainstream films are still insisting on its use to convey… well, whatever it is Hollywood think it conveys. Case in point, the new poster for the horribly-named film Stay Cool (not to be confused with just horrible film Be Cool).
But who is going to help Dr. Drew with his very obvious famewhore addiction?
Here is a link to a commercial in heavy rotation featuring NFL announcer Joe Buck at the airport claiming he always uses National brand car rental.
And here is a link to a story about Joe Buck’s $12.6 million 800XP Raytheon Hawker private jet.
Left: Controversial “King Kongish” photo of Gisele by Annie Leibowitz
Right: Not controversial (yet) “King Kongish” photo of Lady Gaga by Dave LaChaapelle
Great minds think alike faster than others, apparently: Die Already, King Kong Racism: Lady Gaga Edition
Congratulations E! Online headline writer, you are a class act headed for the top. And by the top I mean a job with the New York Post.
No, seriously, I don’t file drunk with The Awl. Must be Choi.
We can punch through an airline “Passenger Bill of Rights” but can’t get more half of the United States to enact basic civil right protections banning employment discrimination against gays?
Those priories are almost… insulting.
As a weekend editor, Gawker’s Foster Kamer seems to churn out what the audience comes looking for. But when he turns on the indignation, I cannot think of anyone worse on such a large-scale platform. Case in point, his giant fuck-you to the Rage Against the Machine/X-Factor #1 pissing contest in the U.K. (”Rage Against the Machine Bests Simon Cowell’s Pop Music Robots In Sony Pissing Contest“)
Kamer’s ultimate point seems to be that Rage is without grounds to be self-righteous because they share a label (Sony) with X Factor:
“But the problem with so many well-intended efforts is that they’re half way to hell. Who gets the money from this? Sony! Sony gets RATM’s money and money from the records the kid Cowell’s repping. So what’s the point? Revolution, shmevolution. If Rage Against the Machine really cared, they’d just make a new record already and release it independently. Now they’re just old and stumbled into a pissing contest with an 18 year-old pop star that led to them checking to see if their globalization-protesting dicks still work.”
Rage’s Tom Morello has said the band will be donating the royalties to Shelter and Youth Music.
Is Foster’s memory so poor that he cannot remember his own charity project of just a few weeks ago? “The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity.” That involved a bunch of authors and writers signing a copy of Sarah Palin’s memoir and then auctioning it for charity. One signatory was Colum McCann, of whom Foster wrote:
“2009 NBA Fiction Prize winner Collum McCann… wrote: “‘For we must love this poor earth, for we have not seen another…’ Go Obama!” Awesome.”
Foster might be interested to know then that both Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin and Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue share an imprint: HarperCollins Canada. “The problem with so many well-intended efforts is that they’re half way to hell.” Indeed.
So does something like this just not compute to Kamer? Or does he not care? Or is his outrage just pitifully manufactured? I don’t know.
Earlier: Gawker’s Palin Problem: Burning Books is Ok Sometimes
UPDATE: Foster responds in a comment, reproduced after the jump:
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