Alvin and the Chipmunks will return this year in a Squeakuel, unfortunately.Not every sequel can be The Empire Strikes Back or even Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, and there seems to be a disproportionate amount of potentially rotten ones coming out in 2009. None of these turkeys would have gotten the green light from the studios if execs didn't feel like there was some potential to make money from them, a sad commentary on the low standards of the movie-going public.
Brace yourself for 10 big
While perusing the New York Times Magazine's 26.3 billion-word article on the (wo)men who would rule California -- which may well spur the rest of us to consider the merits of Nevada, Oregon, or Arizona -- a thought hit us. Not an important thought, but a thought nevertheless.For reasons unknown, septuagenarian Attorney General Jerry Brown consented to be photographed next to a gnarled, old tree that only emphasized his own gnarliness. That's when it struck us: Brown is a dead ringer for Walter,
Never one to be left out of a media shark attack, I scored my own interview with Gavin Newsom last week to talk about what's next for San Francisco. What follows is the unedited transcript. BENJAMIN: "Hey, are you Gavin Newsom?"
NEWSOM: "Yeah. It's a pleasure to meet you."
BENJAMIN: "How ... how did you get into my apartment?"