King Kamala

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.

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.

It's a smaller budget CGI movie with no big names and I think a lot of people are disenfranchised with Star Wars after the last three movies. I doubt it'll even get #1 opening weekend. I think The Dark Knight will beat Stepbrothers and the new X-Files movie next weekend. I think Semi-Pro's box office receipts showed that people are getting a bit tired of Ferrell's schtick and I already explained my thoughts on The X-Files sequel. I do think TDK will get edged out by The Mummy: Tomb of The Dragon Emperor in a few weeks. I think that'll be The Rush Hour 3 of this summer. The mediocre second sequel to a popular 90s movie that does slightly better than everybody thinks.

I was hoping he'd be picked as Scotty "The Clap" Anton And NIIICE pick with Mil Mascaras, Franchise. I would have picked him but I thought he was drafted rounds ago.

I was writing that before I even saw your reply. Ah, it's cool. It was mostly written in jest. You know after letting the movie sink in and thinking about it, I'm kind of pissed at Heath Ledger for dying. I would have gladly plunked down $9 to see another Batman/Joker showdown and they did leave it open (rumor has it that Ledger was contracted for two movies). But now that he's dead, I think there's a 99% chance that we won't see him again (at least not anytime in this Batman series) and The Joker was the one obvious, indisputable choice out of all of Batman's nemeses.

I don't know multiple villains in one movie hurt The Burton/Schumacher series (and truth be told it hurt The Dark Knight a tad) just as much as the cartoonish over the top portrayals of said villains. And I think Hush is too obscure of a villain for the casual fan. Though they could probably stick me in as the villain of the next Batman movie and it'd still make $200 million. And fuck you for giving me the "...anyway" treatment! My opinions aren't that stupid!

I don't mean comedic in the sense of the Burton/Schumacher villains but a more subtle, dark type of comedy like Ledger was with the Joker. Nobody wants to see him like he was in Batman Forever but I don't want it played 100% straight. There's got to be some semblence of fun with characters like The Joker and The Riddler.

I think Maggie Gyllenhaal is pretty good looking. I wouldn't put her in The Top 10 thing but I think she's attractive in a girl next door sort of way. Speaking of Maggie and Heath Ledger- a name that just popped into my mind RE: The Riddler. Jake Gyllenhaal. He can pull off comedy if he has to (Yes, I'm the guy who liked Bubble Boy) and he can be vaguely sinister- sometimes simultaneously.

You would think Warner Brothers would have learned their lesson after what they did with the first Batman series...you would think.

I'm with you NYU RE: A sequel. This one was almost so good that I want them to just leave it at that but it's inevitable that it will happen. I said it before but there has never been a good second sequel to a superhero movie (Now that I think of it- how many good second sequels have there been period? I know people will respond "as long as Nolan has got control over the movie without studio interference and Christian Bale is in it than the movies will be awesome." I'd agree with that BUT I have a feeling we were all saying the same thing about Sam Raimi and Toby Maguire in the immediate aftermath of Spider-Man 2. But if there HAS to be one, I'd like to see The Riddler as the bad guy. Obviously the mysterious, criminal mastermind not the Frank Gorshin/Jim Carrey nerdy buffoon. Catwoman isn't a bad idea but I think the Halle Barry abomination is still too fresh in the memories of moviegoers. Then again the sequel is coming out in two or three years, so maybe we'll have all gotten over it.

Two things 1. Yeah, it seems somewhat tame by today standards but it was way more mean spirited than anything WCW was doing at the time. It just really came out of left field to me as a mark. It came off as more malicious than mischevious. I know you'll argue "Well it was supposed to be malicious, that's a heel's job.", cabbage but as a mark at the time, it almost came off as too heelish to me. It just cheap heat IMHO. It was sneering at the emotional retirement of one of WCW's longest tenured wrestlers. 2. I don't think there'd be nearly as much outrage towards it had The Horsemen come back and eventually kicked the nWo B team's ass but the feud just sort of fizzled out and Flair lost the feud to Curt Hennig in a rather anti-climatic fashion.