For Those Who Care

I don't watch the Oscars anymore, save for checking in to see if someone who I feel deserving to win a little golden statuette actually does, I just can't stand the soapbox speeches and the patting on the back of Tinseltown elitists who, contrary to what they would have you believe, couldn't care less about you, me and anyone or anything outside of their ivory towers.

But, just in case your wondering, here are the winners of the 2011 Academy Awards. I will not critique any of these performances, since I have not seen any of them, which as usual is par for the course until about four to six months after the fact.

Inspiration for Lois Lane Dies at 93

Woman Behind Superman: Inspiration for Lois Lane Dies:

Here's some super-sad news: Lois Lane has died. The woman who inspired the character from the "Superman" comic, Joanne Siegel, was 93. Her husband, Jerome Siegel, modeled Lois Lane after the woman who eventually became his wife.

The Cleveland native met the Man of Steel co-creator Siegel and his partner Joe Shuster when she was just 15 or 16. The teen had placed a classified ad in the local paper offering her services as a model. Shuster answered the ad, and the sketches he made were the basis of iconic Lois Lane.The love interest of Superman eventually became the real-life love interest of Siegel. She was introduced to Siegel by Shuster in the 1930s, but the two didn't marry until 1948, when Siegel's divorce to wife Bella Siegel was finalized."Superman," introduced as a DC comic book in 1938, became one of the best-known superheroes of all time, but the writers were not credited.

In 1978, with the Warner Brothers movie about to come out, DC finally added the co-creators' names to every Superman story and agreed to pay a lifetime stipend. After Jerome Siegel died in 1999, the Siegel and Shuster families filed for partial ownership of the character from Warner Brothers. Joanne Siegel could not leap tall buildings in a single bound, but she would end up doing something more important: preserving the legacy of the Superman creators. Brad Ricca, who teaches a comic book class at Case Western University, described her determination for justice this way: "Siegel would call DC Comics in New York and say, 'You need to help these people who made you all millionaires.'"

The professor added, "Kind of like Lois Lane, she just wouldn't give up."In 2008, a ruling gave the families a right to a large share of "Superman," but details are still being worked out.All that, and looks, too: An expert on Siegel tweeted, "Just heard Joanne Siegel passed away. Lois Lane herself. One of the most beautiful people I ever met."

ET2: Extinction

Nah. Not really. But a really cool fake trailor of a movie that I hope never does get made. These parodies are fine for a "what if?" scenario, but really, does anyone want to see this classic ruined with a bad sequel? Or a sequel (or God forbid a prequel) of any kind?



A really well-edited faux trailor. I caught parts of "The Siege" with Bruce Willis, I think I saw a bit of "Sudden Impact" and "50 First Dates." I have no idea where they got the footage of the "older Elliot."
Of course there's no way the "E.T." race would ever do this a la "Mars Attacks," right? For one thing, you would scare a whole generation of kids and really disappoint another. I remember the phenomenom Steven Speilberg created with this little guy. Believe me this little guy was everywhere in 1981-82. Lunch boxes, bedsheets, puzzles, story-books, toys, etc. Pretty much all the merchandise George Lucas had with the original STAR WARS. Pretty much.
However, I doubt if anyone would buy it. No one would forgive either Spielberg for reuining a classic or whomever he relinquishes the rights to for destroying the image and memories.

Still, overall a cool job. But...E.T. with fangs? Really?

Best 2011 Super Bowl Commercial

Canadian Juniors Lose Gold to Russians

It hurts. Most nowadays would say that losing to the Americans is worse. But I feel losing to our historic arch-enemies in the hockey world is that much more sour. This goes back all the way to the historic 1972 Summit Series where Canada narrowly defeated the Soviet all-stars in eight games (the Canadians winning four, the Soviets three, with one tie)
Last year's defeat at the hands of the Americans was bad, especially considering we had the lead late in the third, only to lose that, tie it up with less than a minute with two quick goals by Jordan Eberle, then lose in overtime. But this one may hav ebeen worse with Canada owning a comfortable three-goal lead only to stop hitting and stop being hungry. It seems the Russians wanted it more.

Eleven Pixar Movies and the Movies They're Accused of Ripping Off

Other than the comparison of Wall-E and Short Circuit, I never really gave this much thought. Now if they were to compare Avatar with Pochontas or Dancing with Wolves, then that would be something I'd be more in tune with.

We all know about the re-makes in recent years of past theatrical releases and television shows that clearly demonstrate how Hollywood has lost it's formula for originality. Charlie's Angels, Get Smart, Starsky and Hutch for example along with the re-boots of already exisiting movie franchises (The Hulk, Spiderman, Superman, etc) So rip-offs are inevitable nowadays. It's a shame really. What was the last original, exciting movie you've seen that was actually worth the $12.00 you paid?

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End of the Line for Favre?

For real this time? He says it is. I guess we'll have to see, eh Brett?