waging war on AIDS and stupid poverty, rock star Bono also finds time to “kick out some fresh jams,” as the kids today don’t say. U2: Zoo TV Live from Sydney finds the group in fine form on the outdoor leg of their famed early-’90s Zoo TV Tour. You missed it, you say? Too busy stitching New Kids on the Block patches onto your sister’s hand-me-down jean jacket? Jesus, I wouldn’t mention that to anyone else. For the full review, from IGN, click here.
Daily Archives: October 26, 2006
Fight For Your Right to Score Dream Internship
To paraphrase Janeane Garofalo in Reality Bites, if the phrase “once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity” and The Gap ever crossed your mind in the same sentence, well… pass me some of whatever you’re having. Still, Columbia Pictures announced today it is partnering with
eight of the world’s leading companies to offer the “Pursue It Ultimate
Internship Contest,” in which contestants will compete for dream internships at
Gap Inc., The Hollywood Reporter,
Morgan Stanley, NBC, the National Football League, People Magazine, PlayStation and Yahoo!
will win a trip to the
Pictures’ The Pursuit of Happyness
[sic], starring Will Smith, Thandie Newton and Jaden Christopher Syre Smith.
Winners will have the opportunity to meet Smith and enjoy the gala evening with
the film’s cast.
Based on a true story, the movie stars Will Smith as Chris
Gardner, a marginally employed salesman who finds himself with nowhere to go
after he and his 5-year-old son (played by real-life tot Jaden) are evicted
from their
When
a prestigious brokerage firm, he and his son endure numerous hardships as he
struggles to create a better life for the two of them.
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and choose the company at which they would like to intern. As part of the
online application process, entrants will need to create a video of themselves,
in which they share, in five minutes or less, their own personal motto or “words
to live by,” giving examples of how this philosophy makes them uniquely
qualified to work at the company they have chosen.
Fox Atomic Makes Halloween Plans
web site for Fox Atomic, 20th Century Fox’s new genre arm, will attempt to make a splash on Halloween day in an interesting fashion, offering up a series of scheduled giveaways, premiere clips, contests and photo releases from forthcoming Atomic film releases, including John Stockwell’s Turistas and the sequels to The Hills Have Eyes and 28 Days Later.
Christened the “Carnival of Lost Souls,” the event will include a number of incentivized trivia contests, testing fan
knowledge of minute details of some of the most popular horror films of the past two decades.
Visitors
are also invited to send in a photo or video of their Halloween costume for consideration,
and the respective winners in each of three categories (scariest, funniest,
and sexiest) will score a free private screening of Turistas in their hometown.
Beer Pulls Even with Death
I caught five movies yesterday, which is about the limit of human endurance. No true turds amongst the quintet, either, which is at least pleasantly surprising if not an outright statistical anomaly. There were merits to each, in other words, and some fine and moving performances.
Without delving into the specifics, four of the five movies featured beer (two quite copiously), equal to the number which featured death. Of the latter grouping, two dealt rather explicitly with murder, while the other two films featured off-screen passings of characters. Perhaps less surprisingly, only one film featured Peter O’Toole getting a titty twister. Though it did happen twice, actually, so there you go…
Boom Goes the (Napoleon) Dynamite!
As a special birthday shoutout to Jon Heder, click here to revisit and celebrate the highly mannered brilliance of Napoleon Dynamite. C’mon, he’d do it for you…
OK, or stuff a bunch of tater tots into your pocket instead, if you really want. Whatever…