OK, please bear with us for a moment and don’t pass judgment on our sanity, but Robin Tunney is either stalking us or has flooded Park City with amazing lookalikes. Since landing in Utah late…
Overheard on Main Street late last night, a surprising, if maddeningly partial, mini-diatribe on public schools, courtesy of former Dawson’s Creek star James Van Der Beek as he brushed past us: “The…
In the initial installment of what will be a recurring feature during our festival coverage, we present our first One Sentence Film Reviews, which we’ve been soliciting from people at least as…
Overheard at Sundance HQ, an impromptu crash course in Hollywood Dealmaking 101: “The key to dealmaking is making other people think you’re giving up something.”
Finally equipped with the Secret of…
We don’t want to go into why we’re posting this photo essay documenting our first run up and down Main Street on Saturday, but suffice it to say that overcompensating for the lower alcohol content of…
rts008 writes to tell us Reuters is reporting that a conservative alumni group is working hard to expose ‘radical professors’. The group is a creation of 2003 UCLA graduate, Andrew Jones, who stated that he runs the organization on his own with $22,000 in private donations. From the article: “Jones told Reuters he is out to ‘restore an atmosphere of respectful political discourse on campus’ and says his efforts are aimed at academics who proselytize students from either side of the ideological spectrum, conservative or liberal. ‘We are concerned solely with indoctrination, one-sided presentation of ideological controversies and unprofessional classroom behavior,’ Jones said on his Web site.” The tactics used by Jones and his group are raising quite a few questions, however, offering to pay students for recordings or teaching materials that could provide ‘evidence’ against professors in question.
AP - ABC News says it is trying to break the mold of the evening news format with its frequent-flier team of Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff, and it may take viewers some time to grasp it.
ABC has rejected the 10th submission for a commercial during this year’s Super Bowl. The Good news is that Go Daddy believes that ABC does want to find middle ground for a commercial that is acceptable to ABC, the NFL and Go Daddy.
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AP - Richard Hatch's lawyer says that the "Survivor" winner caught his fellow reality-show contestants cheating, and when he told producers about it they struck a deal: They would pay the taxes on the million-dollar prize if Hatch won.
Miraba writes “Microbiologists have found that soil-dwelling bacteria are highly resistant to antibiotics, even ones that they’ve never been exposed to before. While this information suggests that superbugs could arise from these bacteria, it also provides the opportunity for testing new techniques in drug development for the future.”
Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy filled out the last key position on his staff Saturday, promoting defensive ends coach Bob Sanders to defensive coordinator.
Alert the Internet Shogunate… Ninjas On the Prowl!
From member Chaunfa Tom:
Well basically, E-Budo members were questioning the lineage of Konigun Ninjutsu, a small chain of Ninja Dojos situated in small backwoods southern towns. In 2003 Dallas c…