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Next week will be our 250th column. Someone bake a cake.

From YouTube this week check out this creepy McDonald’s commercial from Japan. You’ll never look at Ronald McDonald the same again.

George Carlin, 71, died June 22 of heart failure. Carlin was a brilliant stand up comedian who made a handful of film appearances including Dogma, Jersey Girl, Car Wash, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Scary Movie 3 and The Prince of Tides. Below find a clip of Carlin talking about death.

I survived another Monster Bash. As usual it was great fun. After the convention my friend Dan and I spent a few days with Bash proprietor Ron Adams in helping him get cleaned up and putting stuff away. Please go to www.creepyclassics.com for all your classic horror needs. We also helped Ron brainstorm possible guests for 2010, because he’s got 2009 pretty much booked now. I can’t reveal who we came up with, but if Ron gets any combination of the names we thought of it will be a slamming show.

For 2009, the theme will be Frankenstein. I possibly will be hosting Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter from 1966. I recommend the DVD version with commentary by Joe Bob Briggs, which will be a great help to me in research for my intro.

This year I hosted The Giant Gila Monster. It was too late for star Don Sullivan to be up, but he talked to me beforehand and filled in some background. From what he told me, at the time he had a literary agent who only represented two actors. One was him and the other was James Garner. The agent told Sullivan he scored him a lead for $500 in an independent production outside of Dallas. That was the most Sullivan had ever been paid, but after travel, paying for his wardrobe and a percentage to his agent he pretty much broke even. When he met with the producers they didn’t have a script and asked Don what he was into and he mentioned he enjoyed cars Citibank Platinum Card and he had written a couple …continue reading

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Ed Arno, whose sketchy, casually rendered cartoons on topics
domestic and cosmic appeared regularly in The New Yorker for
more than 30 years, died May 27. He was 92.

Arno, whose vaguely Thurberesque lines were characterized by
Brendan Gill as “skittering squiggles,” dealt in
whimsy and deadpan surrealism. A minister, conducting a
marriage ceremony, tells a couple, “I now pronounce you
both legally insane.” A group of swimming swans toast
Tchaikovsky. The pebble glass window on an office door reads
“N.Y. Dept. of N.J.”

In a twist of fate that Arno, in retrospect, probably
savored, The New Yorker initially resisted his attempts to
become a contributor because his last name, by coincidence,
was identical to that of the great New Yorker cartoonist
Peter Arno, who was born Curtis Arnoux Peters. (Like that
famous Arno’s, Ed Arno’s name was a pseudonym.)
The New Yorker cartoonist Michael Maslin, in an appreciation
posted on his Web site (www.michaelmaslin.com), recalled
being told by Ed Arno that when he first submitted work to
James Geraghty, the magazine’s art editor, in 1967, he
was told, “We can’t use two Arnos here.”

Rebuffed, Ed Arno contributed ideas that were executed by
other cartoonists, among them Peter Arno, whose death in
1968 cleared the way for Arno II’s entry into the
magazine’s pages in September 1969.

Ed Arno was born Arnold Edelstein in Innsbruck in what is
now Austria in 1916, and his family moved a few months later
to Czernowitz. At 3, he astonished his parents by drawing a
perfect copy of the Bayer aspirin logo, with its Gothic
script.

He studied stage design at the Ecole Paul Colin in Paris and
embarked on a career in film animation. Shortly after he
signed a contract with Pathe Nathan film studios, the Nazis
took over Austria, and he raced back to Czernowitz, where he
and his family were forced into the city’s ghetto and
then deported to labor camps. Arno was liberated in Frequent Flyer Credit Cards 1944 by
Soviet forces.

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Group Therapy is a relationship advice column that asks readers to contribute their wisdom. Each week, we offer up a problem for you to weigh in on, then publish the most lively responses, with a final word on the matter by our columnist, Claudia Dey.
A reader writes: For most of the two years my girlfriend and I have been dating, we have been living together. As my previous jobs were not enough to support us, and with her being a full-time student, we always had a roommate or family member in our household to help us along. I got a new job and have been saving up, and we have plans to move out on our own. We exchanged promise rings and then I began to freak out. I started pushing her away out of fear of commitment and I fell into a bit of a funk. We unexchanged rings. I took some time and realized I was just being stupid. She is the most amazing girl I have ever met. I explained why I’d been acting so weirdly and told her how much I loved her. We gave each other our rings back. Now I am finding her critical of everything I do. On top of school, she works 20 hours a week. I try to make her life easier, but she snaps at me over little things, causing me to become defensive and closed. I think her reaction has something to do with the fact she thought I was backing out of the relationship when I only wanted some time to reassess. I want her to be happy. What should I do?
PROVE YOURSELF
No relationship is perfect and it sounds like yours hit its first snag. Kudos to you for realizing what is going on. Now it’s your girlfriend’s turn to reassess: How does she feel about committing to someone who needed time out? Her feelings must be unsettled. Proving yourself to her once more is probably in order as you did cause the ripple. I think it’s great you are being sensitive and understanding, especially since you’re a guy. Tip to you: Don’t refer to her as a "girl" - try lady Visa Credit Card or something non-gender-specific such as an …continue reading

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We speak with the renowned actor-turned-director about his upcoming romantic thriller
French actor-turned-director Guillaume Canet returns to the big screen this month with his second directorial effort Tell No One. Based on Harlan Coben’s best selling novel, the story follows the trials and tribulations of Pediatric doctor Alex Beck (Fran 1ois Cluzet). The man finds himself still devastated by the savage murder of his wife Margot (Marie-Jose Croze) some eight years after the brutal event occurred. One late and lonely evening, he receives an anonymous email and clicks on the provided link only to see a woman’s face standing in a crowd and being filmed in real time. Is it the face of his dead wife? Is she still alive? And why does she instruct him to Tell No One? It’s a mystery that won’t be reveled until the final moments of this nail-biting thriller. It’s definitely one you won’t want to miss.

We recently caught up with Canet to discuss the making of the film with him. Always a pleasant conversationalist, Guillaume was eager to delve into the production process behind his latest film. Here is our conversation:

This story has been around for a while. Why did it take so long for Tell No One to reach the big screen?

Guillaume Canet: In the beginning, the film was supposed to be made in the United States. Michael Apted was supposed to direct it. Gold Credit Card When I first read the book, …continue reading

Source: Baltimore Sun (Original Article)

Even for Pixar, a company that thrives on new frontiers, WALL-E is a gutsy next move. It’s the first dystopian parable that’s actually ecstatic fun. It’s also the closest Pixar has come to making a full-length silent movie.

The choice of hero is audacious: a beeping, whirring Waste Allocation Load Lifter, Earth class, or WALL-E. For long, unbroken, startlingly seductive stretches, we see him navigate an abandoned American city all by himself. (He does have a pet cockroach.) Thanks to him, towering ziggurats made of trash compacted into cubes have sprouted up among malls and skyscrapers.

WALL-E’s director, Andrew Stanton says he didn’t let the silence of these sections stymie him.

To Stanton, “WALL-E is not a silent movie that just happens to have sound, it’s a regular movie that just happens to use unconventional dialogue. My methodology, from the script on, was no different than it was approaching any ‘regular’ movie. It’s like I was dealing Aussie Credit Cards with a hero who spoke French all the time.”

Source: PR-USA.net (press release) (Original Article)

Home Stagers Beware; Free Estimates Can Lead to Bankruptcy

(PRWEB) June 13, 2008 — A new resource called the Staging Diva Sales Script has been created by home staging expert Debra Gould, also known as the Staging Diva, which will help home stagers avoid bankruptcy and burn out by not falling into the ‘free estimate trap’.

With the dismal state of the real estate market today, desperate homeowners are scrambling for an edge when the time comes to sell. Many of these individuals are turning to home stagers to advise them on how to best decorate their homes to stand out from the others in their community that will be in competition with theirs when it gets listed.

That line between ‘free estimate’ and ‘free advice’ becomes blurry when a home stager agrees to visit with a home seller to estimate what staging will cost. From the moment a stager enters the home, they are bombarded with questions; ‘What color should I paint this room?’, ‘Do you think I should move this furniture to the basement?’, ‘Is it okay to leave my dining room as the children’s playroom?’ While these questions are very important for any home seller to consider, asking them of a home stager is the same as asking for free home staging advice.

“A professional home stager can increase the perceived value of a home by between $10,000 and $70,000,” says Gould. “Home stagers deserve to be paid for their expertise and advice since the home seller stands to make a handsome profit from their services.”

In a fierce race for new clients, too many home stagers agree to visit home sellers to provide a free estimate for staging their home. This will almost inevitably end up in “a fast road to burn out and bankruptcy”, according to Gould, who teaches home stagers how to build a profitable staging business. Instead, Gould advises home stagers build a rapport over the phone Free Credit Cards with a potential new client, carefully …continue reading

Source: Chicago Sun-Times (Original Article)

Scrambling for seats at the seat of power

June 15, 2008

CAROL MARIN cmarin@suntimes.com

Right from the get-go, let’s stipulate to three political truths:
One, House Speaker Michael Madigan is very smart.

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Sun-Times columnist Carol Marin

Two, the impeachment memo written by his staff that leaked last week was beyond stupid.
And three, the ship of state we call Illinois is listing in the water, causing some of the deck chairs to begin rearranging themselves.
Let’s begin with the memo, that 14-page suggested script for Democratic legislative candidates in hotly contested November races.
It’s titled “Talking Points on Beginning Proceedings Against Gov. Blagojevich.”
Strip it down to its basics and what do have? A clear window into just how much Madigan hates Blagojevich and reviles Senate President Emil Jones. It was Jones, after all, who killed the recall bill that passed Madigan’s House, leaving impeachment as the only other removal option.
But at the heart of this memo is Madigan’s own heart, his daughter, Attorney General Lisa Madigan. And his burning determination to clear the way for her to run for governor in 2010.
And so Page Seven of the document conspiratorially whispers the following instruction: “Note: Don’t repeat her name or get into a discussion about her future political plans. This [impeachment] matter has nothing whatsoever to do with that. . . .”
Nooooo. Nothing whatsoever.
Maybe all the venom coursing through Madigan’s veins has begun to attack his sizable brain.
As any regular reader of this column knows, Rod St George Vertigo Blagojevich gets a lot of heat …continue reading

Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer (Original Article)

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“Dear Doc Doctor, My film has three possible endings. How should I choose one of them?” asks a reader of “Independent,” an American magazine about indie films.

“Dear Doc Doctor, No one likes my film. Everyone says it is unclear. Why don’t they understand it?” asks another desperate filmmaker.

“Dear Doc Doctor, I’m going overseas to film, and I want to make sure that I won’t miss anything. Is there a way to know the ’story’ or the ’script’ of my film ahead of time?” wonders another artist.

The popular “Doc Doctor,” whose advice is sought by these three readers and many others is a 39-year-old New Yorker, Fernanda Rossi, who is currently visiting Israel. She has earned a reputation for providing expert advice on documentaries and advises filmmakers on how to construct their films, offers workshops on the structure of documentaries and wrote the book, “Trailer Mechanics: A Guide to Making Your Documentary Fundraising Trailer (Megafilms, 2005).”

Circles and Squares

In a weekend interview in Tel Aviv, Rossi explains that her career as a “story consultant” was forged almost by accident. She never dreamed that film studies in the city of her birth, Buenos Aires, would lead to a career as a consultant to documentary filmmakers. But a brief vacation in the United States turned into permanent residence, and a New York winter triggered profound depression.

In the winter of 2000, Rossi was sick of her work as a film editor, mired in depression, and groping to find a new career path. One day, she responded positively to a friend who needed help with the film she was working on. “I need you to help me draw those circles and squares you are always drawing,” the friend beseeched.

Rossi watched her friend’s footage, drew graphs and flow charts on a piece of paper, and the two of them reconstructed the film. Her friend was so happy with the results she suggested Rossi earn a living ANZ Frequent Flyer Card by using this talent. Rossi expressed …continue reading

Source: Times of India (Original Article)

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