King Kamala

I'm telling you if The Expos were going to have to move, they should have moved to the Norfolk/Hampton Beach/Newport Roads area. Fastest growing region in the country and no other professional sports teams. Could have been huge. Washington strikes me as more of a football town (IIRC- The Senators had attendance problems for most of their run there) and the baseball fans that are there seem to lean more towards The Orioles.

Sandman is a Truther? This is a feeling not entirely unlike finding out that Santa Claus isn't real. I hate Truthers as much as the next guy but that was easily the most absurd (and amusing) theory on 9/11 I've heard. Buried gold under the Twin Towers? George H.W. Bush and Osama Bin Laden hanging out on the day of the attacks in some hotel conference room? Oh man, it almost makes me want to buy that shoot interview. I wouldn't because I'd feel like an enabler. Hell, any of those YouShoot videos would make me feel like an enabler if I bought them since it seems like almost all of them are done with crazy drug addicts and/or alcoholics (The exception is Honky Tonk Man who's just a wildly entertaining bitter hasbeen). I wish someone would post some of those on YouTube or DailyMotion or bump up that old Shoot Interview MP3 thread.

Daniel Day Lewis isn't one to do big blockbuster movies. Especially in the last decade or so. I guess Gangs of New York would be the closest to that he's made but even though it cost $100 million to make, it wasn't very commercial persay. And besides, Daniel Day Lewis seemed really devastated by Ledger's death for some reason so I think he'd be the last guy who'd want to be his replacement. Here's a sort of off topic fun fact- Daniel Day Lewis was one of the original choices for the lead in Cutthroat Island. It would have been interesting to see one of the worst directors of our time direct one of the best actors.

It's way too early to seriously predict Oscar nominations but I will say that Ledger's Joker is probably the best villain in a movie based on a popular comic book. Really, it's no contest. The only one who's in the same ballpark IMHO is Alfred Molina in Spiderman 2

Someone suggested Angelina Jolie earlier and I wholeheartedly agree. She was born to play the part.

Is it wrong that my first reaction was "Damn, if I knew she was alive at the beginning of the year I would have picked her for the death pool?" Yes, it probably is. Ah well RIP. It wasn't her fault that Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot was one of the worst Stallone movies. Just for fun, let's look at the first user comment for aforementioned movie on IMDb User Comments (Comment on this title) <script type="text/javascript"> 9 out of 15 people found the following comment useful:- What the hell is wrong with you people?, 2 June 2005 Author: amos_mcelhone from Denmark It's actually quite a while since I watched this film, so I'm not sure, that I remember it right. And I've read your comments about the film. And my comment about your comments is: What the hell is wrong with you people? Stop Or my Mom Will Shoot, may not be very good film, but it's fun, and I was very good entertained by it. What the hell is wrong with you people? I know that it's not a film you would watch over and over again, like The Godfather, but it's good entertainment. And the acting is not boiling, but it's okay. Like it or not, I enjoyed watching this film!! That's right!! But I advice every people who gets the chance; give "Stop! Or My Mum Will Shoot" a chance! Freakin' give it a chance! Well, at least if you like action comedies!! Look it's the Danish Exslade! Even Stallone's admitted he wasn't very good entertained by it.

My picks; 1983-88 "Rowdy" Roddy Piper Vs Greg Valentine- Dog Collar Match Ric Flair Vs Harley Race Magnum T.A. Vs Tully Blanchard- "I Quit" match Rock 'N' Roll Express Vs The Andersons Sting and Dusty Rhodes Vs The Road Warriors (Not a great match, I grant you but ya gotta have some Dusty and some Road Warriors on here and this is the best option available for both) 1989-94 Sting Vs Ric Flair Doom Vs Arn Anderson and Barry Windham Ricky Steamboat and Shane Douglas Vs Brian Pillman and Barry Windham Sting Vs Vader Vader Vs Ric Flair 1995-the bitter end Lex Luger Vs Ric Flair Vs Sting Dean Malenko Vs Ultimo Dragon Hollywood Hogan Vs Sting Goldberg Vs Kevin Nash Shane Helms/Shannon Moore Vs The Jung Dragons Vs Jamie Noble/Evan Karagias

I was leaving the theater for Wall-E at around 9:15 tonight and there was already a line out the door for the 9:40 showing of The Dark Knight. Granted, it was $5 night but nobody ever comes to the movies thirty minutes earlier around here except dopes like me who like to sit in the theater and complain aboud how unfun "The Fun Facts" before the trailers are.

Actually, Akyroyd's probably richer than the rest of the cast except maybe Rob Reiner. He's the co founder of the House of Blues chain of theme restaurants and concert venues, which got sold for $350 million last year to Live Nation. Plus he still makes a killing on Ghostbusters and Blues Brothers residuals (Not to mention the hundreds of thousands he gets for doing faux Blues Brothers gigs with Jim Belushi. *shudders*). He also has a line of wines. All of this makes his decision to become a third rate character actor all the more befuddling. Still he could co-star in Tim Allen movies and blow hobos for quarters under the overpass and he'd still be one of my favorite SNL castmembers of all time.

Super Crazy is still on the roster IIRC. He's an ECW original but I'm not sure if WWE acknowledges it.

"Cut off those sideburns, Mattingly!"

So is that review insinuating that if we buy this Black Kids album the economic recession will be over? The only time I can ever recall enjoying Spin Magazine is an article they did six or seven years ago about a ripoff version of Frankie Goes To Hollywood led by some beefy midwesterner who claimed to have done session work on one of their albums. I remember it said that they closed with a medley combining "Enter Sandman" and "Relaxed".

Yep. It's also Killer backwards!

I liked "Shove This In Your Mouth" better myself but the current one is pretty good in itself. I'm assuming you weren't around for JN News' "Pizza Hut has lost its game face" thread, LOTC. If you don't get that reference, the subtitle would be incredibly lame. Maybe you do get it and still find it lame

Alright time to pick another tag team. This team fits in really nicely with my tag team division. They're two tough paisanos who don't take no guff. I'm sure they'd be able to have plenty of excellent hard hitting brawls with The Nasty Boys and Public Enemy. I'll be using them as sort of a heel version of The APA- always willing to do their fellow baddies dirty work for them for the right price. They'll have Disco Inferno as the weasley, goofball lackey. They're former WCW Tag Team Champions and former co-holders of the WCW Hardcore title (Ah Russo )... With my 26th pick in the All Time Wrestling Roster Draft, I'm proud to select... ........Johnny The Bull and Big Vito...The Mamalukes!

Well having seen clips from his recent YouShoot interview, I can tell you he is most definitely not. This incident seems to reinforce that.

What about King? IIRC, he's in between Diamonddust and Cranda. As for my suggestion RE: Non-wrestling talent/venue portion...perhaps we should reserve Rounds 30-35 for Non-Wrestling talent and then just have one round after the draft for venues?

Shit, I just realized that last night. I could probably do without the TV show (with the internet, I can read any critic in the country) but the archives are gold. Amusingly enough North was on one of the Showtime channels yesterday. I saw it when I was a kid and even then I didn't like it that much but I didn't get Ebert's pure, unadulterated hatred towards the movie. But after watching twenty minutes of it the other day, I knew where he was coming from. What a shitty, shitty movie. One of those movies that's so bad, it makes you angry. And the depressing thing is it had a good cast!

I don't know. Roeper's writing is lame but I sort of like him on the show. I really like Michael Phillips too. And really do we need another Access Hollywood ripoff? And how many shows are dedicated entirely to film criticism these days anyway? We've got that show with Jeffrey Lyons and The British chick which is a serviceable At The Movies knockoff and Secret's Out With Leonard Maltin which is awful. I'm sure Roeper will land on his feet somewhere. Possibly The Reelz Channel (if it's not too obscure). Still this is a sad day for me. At the same time, I'm surprised the show has lasted this long. For the past five years or so, it's aired at 1:30 A.M. on Monday mornings. And before that, it was on Sunday afternoons. Those are probably the two worst timeslots a television show could have. Then again, it has to be ubercheap to produce.

The Heavenly Bodies aren't as good without Cornette as their mouth piece. Me and Cranda might have to duke it out- internetz style over him.

I'll be incredibly upset if Stevie doesn't try to replicate the (aborted? I don't remember much coming of it) angle where Glacier returned in late '00/early '01 as Norman Smiley's hero and protector.

Is this the one where the main plot is a treasure hunt? That's one of my favorite, laughably bad unproduced scripts. But at least The Penguin wasn't a mutant in it. I'm not sure---only read about a third of it cause it was late at night and it wasn't good enough to make me stay awake until 4 AM reading it. It was written by the same guy who wrote the '89 Batman. Edit---After checking wikipedia, it was the one where The Penguin and Catwoman went after buried treasure. Now I'm kind of wishing I stayed up to read the whole thing.

Ebert and Roeper leave "At The Movies" Needless to say, I'm pretty distraught with this move. Rumor has it, "At The Movies" will now become an Access Hollywood/Entertainment Tonight knockoff. Doesn't say anything about Michael Phillips (Who is the permanent fill in host now) but I'm assuming he's canned as well.

This is a thread to discuss the tape we'll be watching at this week's meeting of The TSM Tape Club...Bash At The Beach 2000. I figure starting a new thread would be the best way to attract attention for this thingy. Part One Part Deux Part Three (Featuring Ralphus!) Part Four Part Five Part Six Part Seven Part Eight Part Nine Part Ten The meeting adjourns tonight in the TSM chat room at 8 P.M. but feel free to do some post show talk here. And those who cannot attend but have seen this Russorific show, feel free to make comments here as well.

I think David Goyer and Christopher Nolan have both hinted that they're only doing three movies (and you'd have to believe Christian Bale wouldn't do a Batman movie). So this next one should have some sense of closure to it. I liked the idea of having a group of Batman inspired vigilantes running amok in Gotham City in the next one. They sort of had that early on in TDK but I'd like to see it played up more. Incidentally, in the midst of Bat Fever a couple days ago, I was reading an early draft of Batman Returns and that was a subplot.