STRIPES is an anarchic slob movie, a celebration of all that is irreverent, reckless, foolhardy, undisciplined, and occasionally scatological.
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Day: April 14, 2011
They’d like to thank next year’s Academy in advance
Speaking of awards, any movies planning a 2012 release might as well pack it up and wait a year.
Sally Fields has just signed on to play to play former First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln in the Steven Spielberg directed Lincoln. Daniel Day-Lewis will be starring as (read: forcing everyone in the cast and crew to call him) Abraham Lincoln.
Let’s see the Brits or the Holocaust snatch the Best Picture Oscar out of Spielberg, Fields, a historical onscreen portrayal of mental illness and Day-Lewis’ Abraham g@%damn Lincoln’s hands.
Quick, to the white phone!
You may be waiting a while to til the iPhone 5 comes out, but until then, take solace that your lame old black iPhone can be replaced by a white iPhone in a few weeks!
Hide your pinkies!
In what can only be characterized as yet again, life imitating art, and thus, numerous direct to video movies, Japan’s top yakuza boss, Kenichi Shinoda, was released from prison after having served a sentence for illegal possession of a firearm. We’d comment on how that seems like a weak thing to be put in the hoose-gow over, but we’re a-scared of ninjas. It doesn’t help that Shinoda is the head of the Yamaguchi-gumi, the nation’s largest yakuza organization, with around 35,000 members.
In 2009, a huge police crackdown lead to the disruption of the gang’s activities, but not before Shinoda greatly expanded the Yamaguchi-gumi’s influence by making deals with other gangs. And while Shinoda may be a gang leader, you kind of have to be in awe of a guy who previously went to jail for killing a “rival” with a samurai sword. That’s pretty bad-ass, even if it’s Highlander-ish in origin.
Shinoda is now heading home to Kobe, though I’m sure the arms of the Yamaguchi-gumi are warmly awaiting him. We gladly think that “Boss Shinoda” is an awesome name please don’t kill us.
Because you can’t sleep on the job
People think being an air traffic controller is an exciting job–it’s not. All you do is sit up there, with an awesome view, talking to hundreds of pilots a day, guiding thousands of people safely to the ground at your airport. *yawn*
So it’s no wonder that less than a month after an air traffic controller fell asleep at a Washington, D.C. airport that it happened again, this time at Reno-Tahoe International Airport in Nevada. But this time, it was a medical flight with an ill patient trying to land. As it turns out, it’s the sixth incident this year (!) to be disclosed by the FAA.
I’d finish the rest of this, but frankly, it’s so boring it’s making me sleepy.