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June 7, 2011, 3:29 PM
By David Anderson
Back in 2006 when I started this blog, Michael Richards had just gone on
a racist rant and Ms. Spears was partying sans underwear. The world was a different place, my friends.
(We wouldn’t learn true racism and crazy until Mel Gibson got pulled
over in Malibu and Paris Hilton took train wreck to whole new level when
she was booked in the pokey.)
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April 22, 2011, 6:02 PM
By David Anderson
The passing of
Tim Hetherington this week is terribly sad and a tragedy to journalism,
filmmakers, and those seeking to understand the complexity of America's
conflicts. Below I've re-posted my blog from last year about a screening
of Hetherington's Oscar nominated film, Restrepo in which I was able to ask Hetherington a question.
- David A.
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March 25, 2011, 1:50 PM
By David Anderson
Note: The principal writer of this blog is still alive.
It’s been awhile since I last blogged; I’ve been thinking a lot about death, finitude, the signs of aging . . . and such prince of darkness ponderings don’t lend themselves well to a youthful hipster Hollywood blog.
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February 7, 2011, 5:22 PM
By David Anderson
Unfortunately, post Bobby Redford's big film dance I came down with a bad
Sundance croup. Coughing and hacking in bed for most of the last 10 days, I kept my spirits up by bidding on Groupons for thai massages and
thai food combos and re-watching shorts from the festival. Marcel the Shell with Shoes on, which can be viewed here, (it was viral success before it became a Sundance pick) helps laugh out nasal congestion.
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January 28, 2011, 8:13 PM
By David Anderson
I took a break from movie watching to test out some fresh snow and look
at the celebrity I found chilling in a tree-- Kermit the Frog himself!
He’d taken a bad spill, yard-sale style, on his Burton, lost his
clothes, and ended up in a pine tree. The amphibian didn’t have a film
in the festival this year but said he’s “casually dating” Paw Paw, the
puppet, pseudo Muppet and narrator of Miranda July’s latest effort, The Future.
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January 26, 2011, 6:09 PM
By David Anderson
The last time I was at Sundance
the economy was crumbling. It was 2009, and as I walked along Park
City, Utah’s Main Street en route to see a Norwegian zombie Nazi film— Dead Snow—I ran into Joe Francis of Girls Gone Wild
infamy. I asked him where the porn industry stood on receiving stimulus
money from Washington. “I’m person non grata there,” he said. “I’ll go
as soon as they invite me.”
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January 19, 2011, 3:54 PM
By David Anderson
Over the past few weeks there’s been much discussion of Amy Chua’s book and her Wall Street Journal article, “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior.”
Frankly, I’ve been pretty nonplussed by the whole hullabaloo. Sure, Ms.
Chua denied her kids sleepovers and playdates and even threatened to
burn their stuffed animals if they did not play a piano piece
perfectly. But to me it sounds like an idyllic childhood. Then again, I
was raised by a Minnesota mother whose strict Minnesotan breeding
regimen sent me straight to therapy and California as an adult. I know
millions of Minnesota kids have endured such an upbringing, and I hope
I can bring the dysfunction to light.
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January 4, 2011, 9:49 AM
By David Anderson
It rained again yesterday in Los Angeles, and last weekend it snowed in the suburban commuter post of Valencia. The Republican Governator has smoked his last stogie in Sac Town USA and moved back to Brentwood, California. Zsa Zsa Gabor is losing her leg and Facebook is now worth $50 billion.
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December 3, 2010, 2:35 PM
By David Anderson
Two weeks ago the good folks at MSP International Airport photographed me in ways that I had previously only allowed my kinky Russian ex-girlfriends to do. I’m talking about those new TSA scanners that undress you with their cancerous rays.
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November 2, 2010, 3:08 PM
By David Anderson
I’ve got a man crush on two dudes: Judd and Chip. Football guys. Not players. Reporters. And they’re not the flashy ESPN commentators or Sports Illustrated scribes, they’re the down home Star Tribune Vikings beat reporters who file video blog reports from parking lots and hotel rooms. And nearly every day this Viking season they (Judd Zulgad and Chip Scoggins) cozy up to a webcam or a one-shot interview and narrate the Shakespearean tragedy that has become the Vikings 2010 Season.
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