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During his
CES speech, Peter Moore announced there were more games coming to the XBLA by March, href="http://joystiq.com/2006/01/05/ces-the-world-warrior-invades-xbox-live-arcade/">dropping a couple names like
Street Fighter II, Texas Hold ‘Em,
and Marble Blast Ultra. Well, don’t look now, but the official Xbox Live
Arcade website has now added 4 new titles,
including the aforementioned marbley one. Newcomers include:

•   href="http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/c/crystalquestlivearcadexbox360/default.htm">Crystal Quest: The 1987 classic
  is back. This updated and enhanced version allows you to pilot your ship through 60 waves, collect crystals, and evade
  baddies.
• Marble
  Blast Ultra: …navigate your marbles through moving platforms and dangerous hazards, or go head-to-head in ultra
  blast multiplayer mode, racing to collect gems to see who ultimately wins all the marbles.
• href="http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/f/feedingfrenzylivearcadexbox360/default.htm">Feeding Frenzy: Eat anything
  that’s smaller than you and swim clear of everything else. The more you eat, the bigger you get, and the bigger you
  get, the closer you come to taking on the fearsome Shark King.
• href="http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/a/astropoplivearcadexbox360/default.htm">Astropop: Match four bricks, use
  combos and powerups to score big points! Two different gameplay modes, coupled with 33 challenging bonus rounds, offers
  hours of extraordinary replay value for players of all ages.

They aren’t showing up in the Marketplace yet,
but they can’t be far off if the websites are up already.

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Reuters - “What’s the matter with
kids today?” sang Paul Lynde in “Bye Bye Birdie” back in 1963.

Reuters - Having established one
of TV’s more memorable characters with Dharma Finkelstein, the
latter-day flower child of “Dharma & Greg,” Jenna Elfman makes
a U-turn to play Alex, a workaholic lawyer with no great
inclination for a life outside the office. Or so it seems at
first blush.

Reuters - Talk about a rich plot.
“American Experience” does a two-hour re-enacting of the rich,
lifelong love of John and Abigail Adams, with all manner of
political intrigues much like the ones in play at the top of
our news these days.

When we saw Al Gore (who has a movie at the festival) walk through the crowd at the Entertainment Weekly party at The Shop, stopping to chat with so many people that we thought he might be shaking…

Carl Bialik writes “‘You can’t take it with you. So Arizona resort operator David Pizer has a plan to come back and get it,’ the Wall Street Journal reports. Pizer is one of about about 1,000 members of the “cryonics” movement who plan to put their bodies on ice soon after death so that in the future, medical advances can save them. A small, wealthy subset of these cryonauts is exploring ways to leave their money to themselves. ‘With the help of an estate planner, Mr. Pizer has created legal arrangements for a financial trust that will manage his roughly $10 million in land and stock holdings until he is re-animated,’ the Journal reports. ‘Mr. Pizer says that with his money earning interest while he is frozen, he could wake up in 100 years the richest man in the world.’”

Hi, everyone. “Moriarty” here with some Rumblings From The Lab…

I love reviews like this that pop into the mailbox for stuff I’ve never heard of. I really enjoyed BATTLEFIELD BASEBALL as a piece of total absurdity, so I’ll be curious to check this one out, and hopefully soon:

Hey harry. RyougaSaotome here with a revie

Something is very, very wrong when a movie (possible SPOILER ALERT: Bobcat Goldthwait’s Stay) that involves a woman admitting that she’d blown a dog doesn’t have a prayer to win the Sundance Special…

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with another batch of reviews from Sundance. Our main man on the ground at the fest is Grib who has yet another review for us, this one for a drama starring John Heard and Tom Guiry called STEEL CITY. Below Mr. Grib, we have a very short, short look at a short, short movie (around an hour long) called JEWBOY! Enjoy!

Coming out of Cafe Terigo on Main Street on Saturday at lunchtime, we caught Nick Nolte standing on the steps at the front of a restaurant; as anyone who’s spent more than five minutes on Main can…

(Guest Posted by TalkLeft’s Man in Hollywood)

Over a decade ago, Robert Hughes wrote “Culture of Complaint“, an expansive diatribe about the “fraying of America” that directed cooly reasoned blasts at both the left and right hemispheres of the cultural landscape. Among them, Ronald Reagan (”Reagan educated the people down to his level. He left the country a little stupider in 1988 than it had been in 1980, and a lot more tolerant of lies”) and the art world itself, for its subservience to special interest groups. Hughes argued that the rise of political correctness was flooding the galleries and diluting the art… culture itself was drowning in a sea of overweening “political etiquette”.

Highly critical of those who shared his turf yet able to respect the mercurial nature of both flakey artists and humorless social activists, Hughes’ 1993 book was a great tightrope act. It was, to use a phrase recently demonized by the right wing, nuanced.

Who would have thought that just three years later Roger Ailes would flip Hughes’ polemic on its head and use it as a inspiration for Fox News?

Overheard on Main Street yesterday, a guy explaining the difference between Robert Redford’s glamorous bitch and the keeping-it-real stepkids of Park City: “We slipped in the back door of Plan B last…