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Entries from December 2008

This Distracted Globe is da bomb: January 1 - 31, 2009

December 28th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Throughout the month of January, I’ll be opening the books on ten of the biggest box office disasters in Hollywood history. I’m calling this series VIVA DESASTRE!
Which of these turkeys deserved a taxpayer bailout? Which deserved a blindfold, a cigarette and a drum roll? Tune in beginning Thursday, January 1 at 7pm PST to get [...]

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Tags: Viva Desastre!

Patricia Clarkson

December 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Patricia Clarkson was born December 29, 1959 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her father was an administrator for Louisiana State University School of Medicine, her mother Jackie Clarkson a New Orleans city councilwoman and later, state legislator. The youngest of five girls all less than eighteen months apart, Clarkson was thirteen years old when her fuse [...]

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Tags: United Federation of Character Actors

The Thing (1982)

December 16th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Synopsis
In Antarctica, a Siberian Husky races across a field of ice. In the sky above, a helicopter appears, with a man aboard firing at the dog. The animal makes it to a United States research station manned by twelve men. These include a burnt out pilot named MacReady (Kurt Russell), who rather than let a [...]

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Tags: Ambiguous ending · Based on short story · Beasts and monsters · Cult favorite · End of the world · Forensic evidence · Man vs. machine · Paranoia

Over the Edge (1979)

December 9th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Synopsis
Walking through the planned suburban development of “New Granada,” 14-year-old Carl Willat (Michael Kramer) and his buddies - Richie White (Matt Dillon), Claude Zachary (Tom Fergus) and Claude’s mute brother Johnny (Tiger Thompson) - debate whether a girl that Carl likes named Cory (Pamela Ludwig) is a “fox” or stuck up. Two kids on [...]

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Tags: Coming of age · Cult favorite · Drunk scene · Famous line · Father/son relationship · High school · Interrogation