http://amaldo.com/blog Daily Dose Of Snark On Entertainment, Online Media, Pop Culture, TV, Music, Sports, Gossip, Celebrities and reviews. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:18:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en First, the rag that doubled as every pseudo geek's wet dream, whored itself out this month to the highest bidder for the mere promise of tail by shamelessly promoting the tech world's very own Paris Hilton. The only takeaway from Wired's cover feature being if you're greedy enough and ... http://amaldo.com/blog/2008/07/23/im-cancelling-my-subscription-to-wired-pronto/ Think Goofus and Gallant are enough to teach today's kids the stuff that they need to make it in the real world? You're wrong. These days it's all about differentiation and having the proper toolkit in place to build your brain from the ground up. So whether you're a parent, educator, ... http://amaldo.com/blog/2008/07/23/pluggin-a-new-site-for-kids-adults-educators-worldwide/ Beating all records for opening weekend known to mankind, The Dark Knight stormed into the box office with a fierce vengeance. Closing its 3-day weekend run with a cool $155 million (over $30 million more than its production cost), the film's producer, Chuck Roven, went on to gush about ... http://amaldo.com/blog/2008/07/21/dark-knight-producer-calls-heath-ledger-coolest-guy-around/ Hollywood's golden couple, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett blah-blah-blah have officially got with the program and are opening a "non-affiliated" private school. On the mythological waiting list/roster of shoe-in attendees, Suri Cruise and possibly the Preston-Travolta clan. While the Hancock star and his wife are insistent that the school is ... http://amaldo.com/blog/2008/07/10/who-do-you-think-youre-fooling-willis/ According to an article in this week's Newsweek, Israeli TV is quickly becoming the hottest commodity to hit Hollywood since Ben Stiller did his Derelicte schtick in Zoolander. Not to nuke the fridge here, but with acts like Yael Naim picking up steam in MacAir commercials and shows like HBO's ... http://amaldo.com/blog/2008/07/02/the-hottest-israeli-export-is-not-religion-tv/ Talk about having to expand your mental schema around inter-species relationships. In the film Wall-E (adorable Pixar-Disney flick, btw), the film's title character, a robut named Wall-E, falls in love with Eve, who is another robot that inhabits the form of a a sleek, whitish veneered androgynous (suppository-ish) Apple-looking product. ... http://amaldo.com/blog/2008/07/01/wall-e-is-an-older-generation-mac-that-falls-in-love-with-an-ipod/ Pixar's Wall-E is opening in wide release today. We've been waiting for a long time to see the lonely robot who is still cleaning Earth, many years after humans have left the planet. And not a word on Wanted! P.S. WALL-E reminds me of E.T. a little bit. http://amaldo.com/blog/2008/06/27/wall-e-is-here/ I can't believe they turned Mama Mia into a movie. And what a cast: Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and more. I got a chance to watch the show a few years ago in Vegas, and though the storyline was as stupid as a musical storyline can be, I ... http://amaldo.com/blog/2008/06/24/mama-mia-the-movie/ Last night's episode of "Weeds" featured a noticeable absence of song (and cheer) at the episode's opening. So glaring was it that the opening shot simply showed a highway, the Mexican border, and two signs with the words "Weeds" and "Creator: Jenji Kohan" and jumped to Mary Louise Parker attempting ... http://amaldo.com/blog/2008/06/24/little-boxes-no-more-is-weeds-going-too-far-south/ Remember your worst nightmare? The one involving you being discarded like yesterday's trash and easily replaced? The one where you woke and realized that thankfully you weren't dispensible or at the very least, it was all just a dream, but secretly questioning and doubting your abilities and cringing at your ... http://amaldo.com/blog/2008/06/19/dont-go-chasing-waterfalls-used-cracked-pavements-instead/ Ilana Donna goes to visit the folks in Florida and bites off a little more than even she can chew with the characters she encounters (and no, I'm talking about her family). http://amaldo.com/blog/2008/06/18/what-do-retirees-in-florida-do-all-day/ Season 4 of Weeds premiered last night and I, for one, couldn't have been more giddy. As a huge fan of the show, its premise, and in spite of my repressed jealousy for the fair Mary Louise Parker, the show's start did nothing to sway my belief that this show ... http://amaldo.com/blog/2008/06/17/with-a-goyishe-punim-like-that/