Fascination for the English language

David Cronenberg Remaking Time Crimes?

Posted 5/14/2008 on /Film

Time Crimes director Nacho Vigalondo revealed that David Cronenberg is in the running to direct the upcoming English language remake of the popular Fantastic Fest award winner. The original Spanish-language indie sci-fi thriller followed a man who accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour, and finds himself in a series of disasters of unforeseeable ...

Californication: “LOL”

Posted 5/13/2008 on Fataculture

I assume you have seen this episode or do not mind spoilers. So Hank (Duchovny) is a snob. His snobbishness now extends to language or rather how internet, mainly aiming his rants at blogging, is slowly but surely destroying the English language. Funny thing is that, being a blogger himself, he is not immune to using cyberspace lingo such as “LOL,” just as long as no one does it in ...

Cronenberg Remaking TIMECRIMES?

Posted 5/13/2008 on SpoutBlog

Twitch has linked to a Spanish-language interview with Nacho Vigalondos, in which the Timecrimes director says David Cronenberg is in the running to direct the English-language remake of his time travel film–-that is, since Mario Bava is not available. Vigalondos also says Timothy J. Sexton, one of the writers of Children of Men , is writing the English language adaptation, and that if ...

Madonna Uses Unsavory Language At Festival

Posted 5/12/2008 on Starpulse Entertainment News Blog

Pop superstar Madonna shocked the crowd at an English music festival on Saturday by swearing live on stage. Read more!

Unfuckingbelievable

Posted 5/9/2008 on Webster's Is My Bitch

Unfuckingbelievable (Adjective) So unbelievable you have to add fucking for extra umph; the only thing in the english language that one can "un" fuck.

Lysandra Ohrstrom: The Clashes in Beirut: Is the Bush Administration Stirring the Pot?

Posted 5/8/2008 on Huffington Post Entertainment Blog

The last time Hezbollah shut down the city of Beirut in January 2007 it was not an act of war. I was living there reporting for the English-Language daily newspaper the Daily Star . Last night when I went to sleep in Brooklyn, after reading (the meager English-language) reports of "clashes" in the capital, I assumed this violence was not much different than last year's. There were images ...

Gore launches Italian Current TV

Published 5/8/2008 on Variety.com

International News: Politician mulls more 'Truth' -- Al Gore launched an Italian outpost of Current TV in Rome on Thursday, marking the first localized non-English-language version of his expanding youth-oriented web that offers plenty of ...