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Super Bowl Ads

4:04 pm By Maegan La Mala · Entertainment · 2 Comments

2 Feb 2009

So, rather than watch the Super Bowl, I ate food and slept. In spite of my attempts to avoid, however, I still wound up being forced to deal with the prerequisite oohs and aaaahs over the commercials. I’m not a big fan of commercials period–but Super Bowl ads are often especially problematic to me because they are well aware that they are appealing to the most base instinct of the macho drunk male getting it on with his macho drunk male friends (I read somewhere that more partner abuse happens during Super Bowl than any other time of the year).

That said–I’m not completely incapable of finding humor in commercials. The following was one of the more amusing (and less problematic) ones. Although I have yet to understand why a shot to the groin is still considered so dang funny.

Which commercials did you like?

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Oscars: The Nominations Are In

9:18 am By Maegan La Mala · Entertainment|Events|Movies · Comments Off

22 Jan 2009

oscars-in-memoriam.jpgHere’s a quick and dirty list of the nominees for the 2009 Oscars. Check it out!


Performance by an actor in a leading role

Richard Jenkins in “The Visitor” (Overture Films)

Frank Langella in “Frost/Nixon” (Universal)

Sean Penn in “Milk” (Focus Features)

Brad Pitt in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)

Mickey Rourke in “The Wrestler” (Fox Searchlight)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

Josh Brolin in “Milk” (Focus Features)

Robert Downey Jr. in “Tropic Thunder” (DreamWorks, Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)

Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Doubt” (Miramax)

Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.)

Michael Shannon in “Revolutionary Road” (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage)

Performance by an actress in a leading role

Anne Hathaway in “Rachel Getting Married” (Sony Pictures Classics)

Angelina Jolie in “Changeling” (Universal)

Melissa Leo in “Frozen River” (Sony Pictures Classics)709792.jpg

Meryl Streep in “Doubt” (Miramax)

Kate Winslet in “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

Amy Adams in “Doubt” (Miramax)

Penélope Cruz in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” (The Weinstein Company)

Viola Davis in “Doubt” (Miramax)

Taraji P. Henson in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
Marisa Tomei in “The Wrestler” (Fox Searchlight)

Best animated feature film of the year

“Bolt” (Walt Disney)

“Kung Fu Panda” (DreamWorks Animation)

“WALL-E” (Walt Disney)

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gdt_400.jpgMexican super director Guillermo Del Toro, auteur of such hits as Hellboy and Pan’s Labyrinth, might be a proud member of Los Tres Amigos crew of south of the border filmmakers, but his sentiments about returning to his native land are mixed. Del Toro, who lives between New Zealand and Los Angeles, says he’s basically an involuntary exile, as he fears for his safety in Mexico. Reports The New York Daily News:

“Hellboy” director Guillermo del Toro says he is unlikely to make another film in Mexico because his father’s kidnapping 10 years ago left him fearing for his safety, a newspaper has reported.

Del Toro’s father was eventually released, but the family says it later received death threats.

Del Toro, who is best known for directing the “HellBoy” movies and “Pan’s Labyrinth,” said he doesn’t feel safe directing films here because his daily routine becomes public.

“Not all of the people who participated in the kidnapping were captured,” El Universal newspaper on Thursday quoted him as saying.

He described his situation as a “forced exile” and said it saddens him to think he may never film again on Mexican streets.

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Will Smith Gets Spanish

4:05 pm By Maegan La Mala · Bizarro|Celebrities|Entertainment|Movies|Spain|World · Comments Off

13 Jan 2009

Actor Will Smith was in Spain and stopped by a ridiculous show called El Hormiguero to promote his new movie, which I have no idea what it’s called in English, but is apparently titled “7 Almas” in Spanish. In the video above you’ll see Smith follow the conversation of the host via simultaneous translation, answer a couple questions in Spanish, cry about the Obama victory, and sing a flamenco song en español. Too much weird content for me here folks! I have to admit I pretty much despise him in his natural state, but since he’s so good-natured in Spanish he seems almost…ALMOST palatable.

Via / TV y Espectaculos

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Somebody on twitter reminded me how awesome this song is–perfect for getting ready to bust a move! Get your groove on!

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Domestic Violence Over the Wii?

12:01 pm By Maegan La Mala · Bizarro|Family|Games|society|Tech · Comments Off

30 Dec 2008

wii.jpgLast week Mala told us that some experts think that Nintendo’s Wii could be dangerous for your health. Also dangerous for one’s health is domestic violence, and the Wii was at the center of at least one heated incident in which two people were arrested. GameTab reports

Blom and his 24 year-old girlfriend, Randi Young, were both arrested for misdemeanor “domestic-related” assault charges. An altercation broke out over Christmas presents. Police arrived at the Blom residence on Christmas Day to discover the couple bruised and battered.

“Heath Blom wanted a remote-controlled airplane for Christmas, and not the Wii,” said Sgt. Kuffer Kaltenborn. Blom’s grandmother gave him a Nintendo Wii, which he scoffed at, causing his girlfriend to call him names “for not liking the Wii.”

According to Young, “He [Heath Blom] said he hated it. It hurt her [his grandmother's] feelings… When he didn’t get the plane, he got really upset. He acted like a 10-year-old kid.”

A fight ensued with Blom supposedly dragging Young down two flights of stairs — by her hair. Blom claims Young punched him in the eye three times.

Turns out it wasn’t Wii’s fault. The guy was just an ungrateful bastard, and violent to boot.

Via / GameTab

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I’m a little bit late on posting this, but it’s important nevertheless. Fred Armisen is just about one of the most irritating a-holes I have ever witnessed. He is a biracial (German and Japanese) man who presents as white who plays every ethnic character in the Saturday Night Line up, including Barack Obama, Prince, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

And now, he just put forth this little beauty in which he mocks New York Governor David Paterson:

Paterson rightfully calls out the show by centering the lived experiences of the disabled community and how representations of disability as bumbling and fumbling has consequences:

“I can take a joke,” he told the New York Daily News. “But only 37% of disabled people are working and I’m afraid that that kind of third-grade humor certainly adds to this atmosphere.

“Let’s just say I don’t think it helped,” he said.

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Sad Macha

7:11 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Entertainment · Comments Off

24 Nov 2008

Today I have managed to almost, but not quite, destroy my finger. Long story short, I very cleverly managed to jam the point of my knife into finger and then yank upwards–so I have a lovely cut and some bruising. Since it hurts to type at that moment (I have to keep my hurt finger up in the air, and type with seven fingers instead of eight), I’m gonna keep it light tonight…here’s my very favorite George Lopez skit:

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Tuesday Morning Tonteras : Super Obama World!

7:07 am By Maegan La Mala · Games|Politics · Comments Off

18 Nov 2008

superobamaworld.jpgIt was only a matter of time, pero someone took the time to create Super Obama World, a Mario Brothers lookalike game where Obama jumps on lipstick wearing pigs and gets super stylish power by eating apple pie.

I tried playing it for a little while pero was bored quickly.

Tell me what you think. Play Super Obama world.

Via / Boing Boing

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Bill Melendez, the Voice of Snoopy: RIP

9:36 am By Maegan La Mala · Entertainment|mexico|TV · Comments Off

4 Sep 2008

754062.jpgDoes anyone remember Snoopy having a voice? I didn’t, but it seems that Charlie Brown’s canine sidekick did in fact utter a few words (or sounds) and the man behind them was Mexican animator and director Bill (née José Cuauhtemoc) Meléndez, who passed away this week at age 91.

Much more than the voice of Snoopy (and Woodstock), Meléndez was the first Mexican animator to work for Walt Disney, back in 1938. He went on to work for Warner Brothers, animating such classics as Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig.

Drawing on his experience at the big animation houses, Melendez founded his own company in the mid-sixties and produced the holiday mainstay A Charlie Brown Christmas, for which he won an Emmy and a Peabody Award. Meléndez went on to produce over 70 Peanuts specials with creator Charles Schulz.

A true pioneer in the field of animation, Meléndez will be missed by Peanuts fans all over.

Via / Radio Perú

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