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Live Coverage Of The Oscars Proves A Huge Hit. With Dozens Of People

March 9, 2010

Live Coverage Of The Oscars Proves A Huge Hit. With Dozens Of People

R.F.Wilson writes: Live coverage of Oscars has proven to be a huge hit with dozens of viewers across the world. A British man, who actually watched the Oscars live, was traced by investigative reporters acting on a hunch. He turned out to be 76-year old Walter Jenkins, a pensioner and a former child molester, who lives in Birmingham and boasts of having a pirate satellite dish that allows him to watch nearly 600 TV channels across the world, without paying a penny for it. Mr Jenkins, who spends most of his time at home, going out disguised as a huge black man to avoid harassment, told reporters that he stumbled on the live coverage of the Oscars by pure chance, while searching for a Dutch porn channel, which he sometimes records and then sells to his neighbours as Hot Vids. ‘I was clicking... 

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The Weird World Of Cinema: How Come We Buy All That Rubbish?

February 10, 2010

The Weird World Of Cinema: How Come We Buy All That Rubbish?

Adam Lovejoy writes: How come people accept the most ridiculous things that happen on the big screen? The dialogues that make no sense, the vulgarity, the stupid situations, the two-dimensional characters, the primitive or non-existent story lines and the abysmal acting. That last one has always puzzled me. Bad acting, that is. How on earth do some of the film stars manage to get away with absolutely atrocious performances, time after time after time, and still command the adoration of their fans? Is there actually such a thing as a failed film actor? I mean, once actors get a part in a relatively successful film they seem to be destined for glory almost automatically, however badly they perform. If you ever bother to analyse the acting skills of some of the biggest film stars – impartially... 

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Of Films That Really Suck. And Of Questions That Arise From That

January 9, 2010

Of Films That Really Suck. And Of Questions That Arise From That

Dan Majestic writes: I don’t know whether it happens to you a lot but it does happen to me. Sometimes I stumble on a film, on cable – I don’t go to cinemas anymore – watch it for a while and ask myself: how on earth does total crap like that gets made? I mean, who in the world finances films like that? Apart from the mob obviously that doesn’t really care about the content very much, as long as it can launder some of the money through inflated production costs. That would probably cover about a third of all shitty films, I suppose. But what about the other two thirds of rubbish that is made? So someone writes a really bad script and brings it to a big studio. The plot is non-existent, the characters are one-dimensional, the dialogues make no sense, the action... 

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