Sarcasm drips from the headline on Purple Row, a website devoted to the Colorado Rockies. It reads: "Rockies Find New Ways to Keep the Streak Alive; Now 0-7." Yep, the Rockies are zilch-for-2009.
In a different blog, our Purple Row friends advise Rockies fans not to panic yet, and even trot out the lyrics from Monty Python's classic ditty "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" as reassurance -- ignoring the fact that in 1979's Life of Brian, the tune is crooned by a bunch of guys being cruc
Ken Marino and Adam Scott of "Party Down."
Starz, a cable network best known for screening films, is branching into producing series -- and one of the most promising, Party Down, premieres at 8:30 p.m. tonight. The show is about a hapless bunch of starving actors fronting as caterers as they wait for their big break -- and Adam Scott, a familiar face thanks to movies like Step Brothers (he played Will Ferrell's younger bro), told me all about it in the following Q&A, conducted during his recent
No less than an all-out love affair between British comedy and the Great White Way, Monty Python's Spamalot pairs a plot blatantly (and with blessings) stolen by Eric Idle and Mike Nichols from the screenplay for Monty Python and the Holy Grail, with music and lyrics by Idle and John Du Prez. And the result, we all know by now, is a stunning, hysterical, delightfully daft and utterly loony Tony Award-winning cult classic that continues to leave audiences crying in the aisles with laughter, whe
Kiernan Maletsky A few things we learned at yesterday's Film on the Rocks screening of Office Space:
1. Office machines are no match for blunt instruments. Not the printer in the parking lot and not the fax machine on stage, and that was all before the movie even started.
2. People hate their jobs. The cheers for lines like, "I don't like my job, and I don't think I'm gonna go anymore," were about more than cult movie fandom. They were a call-to-arms for a revolution that people will only eve
The only thing better than a fabulous food scene on the big screen is a scene involving brutal, unabashed violence (True Romance, or anything Tarantino for that matter), or a fantastic food moment involving sex (9 1/2 Weeks, for example). But while some culinary scenes will leave you yearning to hump on the kitchen counter, others might make you swear off food forever. Scenes like these:
10. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1997)
Classic. The turkey is nearly carbonized, the chewi
