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August 26, 2006
"A Big, Semi-Gory, Campy, Mother [Bleeping] Gas"
In this week's edition of Blurb Racket—the Gelf feature in which we take a close look at those critic blurbs that are a fixture of ads for movies—see breakdowns of blurbs for Snakes on a Plane, Idlewild, Material Girls, and more. This week's Bogus Blurb of the Week comes in an ad for Factotum:
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August 23, 2006
Sexing Up The News
In this week's edition of Zooming In, Gelf's quasi-weekly roundup of undercovered local stories from around the world: retro communistic Czech chique; a baby panda blog; and vigilante Johannesburg justice. One of our favorites deals with inadvertent porn on a Swedish public broadcasting channel.
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August 22, 2006
Visualizing K-Fed
Kevin Federline's television debut on the Teen Choice Awards was everything that critics hoped it would be: embarrassing, ridiculous, and craptacular. Thousands of people wrote in to say as much about the performance on YouTube. But for some reason, Erin Carlson, the Associated Press writer covering K-Fed's debut, decided to rely on sources who hadn't even bothered to watch the sub-four-minute segment.
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August 14, 2006
If You Quote the Reviews Accurately, the Terrorists Have Won
In this week's edition of Blurb Racket—the Gelf feature in which we take a close look at those critic blurbs that are a fixture of ads for movies—see breakdowns of blurbs for World Trade Center, Scoop, Miami Vice, and more. This week's Bogus Blurb of the Week comes in an ad for Pulse:
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August 7, 2006
Cliché Watch: A Skein of Skeins
Media clichés are a favorite theme of Gelf, which has chronicled the cockroach-like survival of "coming soon to an X near you" and "quite frankly." Last week, as Phillies second baseman Chase Utley extended his hitting streak to 35 games, several sportswriters insisted on calling it a "skein." That word—rarely used in conversation and especially unlikely to be overheard in a sports bar—is a favorite of journalists tired of repeatedly using the word "streak" or other common equivalents.
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August 2, 2006
Odds Are Calculable; Logic Is Defied
This is one of those stories that runs in a local paper (in this case, the Cleveland Plain Dealer), is picked up by a newswire (the Associated Press), and has just enough quirkiness to elbow aside dry news about Hezbollah and Iraq for a spot at the CNN.com table. The odd tale: Maria Bergan, 23, allegedly tried to enter a Westlake, Ohio, bar with a fake ID proving she's 21. The ID really belonged to waitress Kathryn Mooney—to whom the ID was presented. But reporters, so excited by the coincidence of Mooney encountering her own stolen ID in the field, neglected to ask what a 23-year-old was doing sporting a fake ID.
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July 31, 2006
'The Funniest Movie You'll See This Fiscal Quarter'
In this week's edition of Blurb Racket—the Gelf feature in which we take a close look at those critic blurbs that are a fixture of ads for movies—see breakdowns of blurbs for Lady in the Water, Miami Vice, You, Me and Dupree, and more. This week's Bogus Blurb of the Week comes in an ad for My Super Ex-Girlfriend:
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July 19, 2006
Joel Siegel Uses Rated-Aargh Language
Joel Siegel has taken a lot of heat for standing up in the middle of a Clerks II screening and shouting, "Time to go! First movie I've walked out of in 30 fucking years!" Much of the heat has come from director Kevin Smith himself, who, on Silent Bob Speaks, calls Siegel a "rude-ass prick" for his actions. The two later squared off on live radio (click here for sound) on the Opie and Anthony show (though, oddly, it took Siegel several minutes to figure out that Smith was also on the show). While some of the show focused on whether Siegel had committed some sort of breach of professionalism, the sections Gelf found most interesting involved Siegel's punny nature.
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July 18, 2006
Racist South African Bluetooths
An Afrikaans song about dragging black people behind a truck and siccing dogs on them has been making its way through South Africa in the form of a ringtone. It's unclear, at least from the press coverage Gelf has seen, how widespread the use of this ringtone is or who may have had a hand in creating the song. But it's interesting to see the varied ways media outlets have covered the explicit and racist lyrics in the songs, as well as the technology that has allowed them to spread.
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July 18, 2006
The Wizard of Odds
Just before the US Open last month, Gelf noticed that SI.com's Gary Van Sickle had written himself into a corner from which he lacked the math skills to escape. In his quest to liven up his preview column for a golf major, Van Sickle had given odds of victory for each player, but hadn't bothered to see to it that the odds, taken together, made any sense. Now that the British Open is upon us, Van Sickle is back to his old ways of—if Gelf may borrow a lame golf metaphor—hacking his way through the course.
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