The following includes major Don’t Look Up spoilers.
This was supposed to be a comedy, right? That’s what the marketing and 1960s-inspired opening title cards suggest for Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up, and yet one might think the happiest moment in the whole thing is when Leonardo DiCaprio’s Dr. Randall Mindy and Jennifer Lawrence’s PhD candidate Kate Dibiasky sit down to dinner with family, friends, and even a new fiancé, before the comet strikes. At least they’re getting a break from trying to force reality into those people’s thick skulls.
That’s the bleak vibe and pitch black humor at work throughout Don’t Look Up, a passionate, strident, and intentionally abrasive dramedy which takes a page out of Stanley Kubrick and laughs at the end of the world. The film is clearly meant to be a parable about humanity’s inability to face the...
This was supposed to be a comedy, right? That’s what the marketing and 1960s-inspired opening title cards suggest for Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up, and yet one might think the happiest moment in the whole thing is when Leonardo DiCaprio’s Dr. Randall Mindy and Jennifer Lawrence’s PhD candidate Kate Dibiasky sit down to dinner with family, friends, and even a new fiancé, before the comet strikes. At least they’re getting a break from trying to force reality into those people’s thick skulls.
That’s the bleak vibe and pitch black humor at work throughout Don’t Look Up, a passionate, strident, and intentionally abrasive dramedy which takes a page out of Stanley Kubrick and laughs at the end of the world. The film is clearly meant to be a parable about humanity’s inability to face the...
- 12/25/2021
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
As I write this, the Super Bowl Xlviii kick-off is still 36 minutes away.
I’ve been thinking a lot about football the last couple of weeks. It’s a showdown between the best offensive team, the Afc Denver Broncos, led by Peyton Manning, who has had what may be the greatest quarterback season ever while breaking numerous statistical records, and the Nfc Seattle Seahawks, whose cornerback Russell Wilson is the *ahem* cornerstone of the best defensive team of the 2013 season.
It’s also the first Super Bowl in which the physical dangers and complications of the sport on its players have been as discussed and picked over as much as any debate about the game and who is going to win.
This season also saw the NFL going over the top in its security efforts, this year dictating what size pocketbook a woman may carry into an arena – and also...
I’ve been thinking a lot about football the last couple of weeks. It’s a showdown between the best offensive team, the Afc Denver Broncos, led by Peyton Manning, who has had what may be the greatest quarterback season ever while breaking numerous statistical records, and the Nfc Seattle Seahawks, whose cornerback Russell Wilson is the *ahem* cornerstone of the best defensive team of the 2013 season.
It’s also the first Super Bowl in which the physical dangers and complications of the sport on its players have been as discussed and picked over as much as any debate about the game and who is going to win.
This season also saw the NFL going over the top in its security efforts, this year dictating what size pocketbook a woman may carry into an arena – and also...
- 2/3/2014
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
Earlier this month, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-ok) announced that the cancer he had beaten three times prior had returned and his treatment would be so debilitating that he would have to resign his seat in Congress. Unfortunately for Coburn, he was required under the law to enroll in the Affordable Care Act. As a result, Coburn has joined the ranks of those who have lost their preferred doctor as a result of the law.
- 1/28/2014
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
On Morning Joe Wednesday morning, former Bush communications director Nicolle Wallace argued with Senator Tom Coburn (R-ok) argued over last night's budget deal between Representative Paul Ryan (R-wi) and Senator Patty Murray (D-wa). Coburn said he opposed the deal, preferring instead to do away with the sequester by eliminating budgetary redundancies, though many are crediting Ryan with working fast to avoid another costly congressional showdown.
- 12/11/2013
- by Evan McMurry
- Mediaite - TV
Senator Tom Coburn (R-ok) and Democratic strategist David Axelrod went a few rounds on the Affordable Care Act on Morning Joe Monday morning, differing wildly on whether the law's implementation problems spoke to a fundamental problem in the government's participation in the health care industry, or whether the Aca would, like previous social insurance programs, prove to overcome initial resistance.
- 10/28/2013
- by Evan McMurry
- Mediaite - TV
Best-selling author and journalist Jonathan Alter (The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies, The Defining Moment: Fdr’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope) explains what it has been like to go Hollywood and produce a pilot for Amazon – Alpha House, created by Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury). Alter explains the real-life roots of the show and what it was like to work with Trudeau, as well as with an amazing cast led by John Goodman. And those cameos! (Might there be more Stephen Colbert? Read on.)
For most of my life I’ve been a political animal. My mother was a politician in Chicago, I was an intern in the Senate and the White House in the 1970s, and for the last two decades I’ve written a column about politics (first for Newsweek, now for Bloomberg View), authored books about presidents and gabbed about the events of the day on NBC News and MSNBC.
For most of my life I’ve been a political animal. My mother was a politician in Chicago, I was an intern in the Senate and the White House in the 1970s, and for the last two decades I’ve written a column about politics (first for Newsweek, now for Bloomberg View), authored books about presidents and gabbed about the events of the day on NBC News and MSNBC.
- 4/24/2013
- Hollywonk
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This Week in Ladybits
Both Dakotas would pretty much like you to hand over your ladybits to a responsible male as long as you’re in the state.
The late Dr. George Tiller’s clinic in Wichita, Kansas is set to reopen. Mother Jones had an interview with the brave Julie Burkhart, who is spearheading the project.
There are quite a few people who won’t miss Pope Benedict XVI, including those who aren’t big on compulsory childbirth.
A teenager in Texas is claiming her parents are trying to force her to get an abortion. And this right here illustrates why it doesn’t work when anti-choice forces try to call the other side “pro-abortion.” Being pro-choice isn’t about thinking abortions are rad, it’s about wanting women to have control over their own bodies, regardless of...
This Week in Ladybits
Both Dakotas would pretty much like you to hand over your ladybits to a responsible male as long as you’re in the state.
The late Dr. George Tiller’s clinic in Wichita, Kansas is set to reopen. Mother Jones had an interview with the brave Julie Burkhart, who is spearheading the project.
There are quite a few people who won’t miss Pope Benedict XVI, including those who aren’t big on compulsory childbirth.
A teenager in Texas is claiming her parents are trying to force her to get an abortion. And this right here illustrates why it doesn’t work when anti-choice forces try to call the other side “pro-abortion.” Being pro-choice isn’t about thinking abortions are rad, it’s about wanting women to have control over their own bodies, regardless of...
- 2/15/2013
- by Ali Davis
- AfterEllen.com
The U.S. Postal Service announced Wednesday (Feb. 6) that it plans to stop delivering first-class mail on Saturdays by Aug. 1, 2013. This will only affect letters, catalogs and mailers; packages, priority and express mail will still be delivered on the weekend.
This change is an effort by the Usps to save money, after losing $16 billion in 2012. Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma says the move will save $2 billion a year.
"It's a proper business decision and long run, good for the Postal Service and good for Americans," adds Coburn.
In the past six years, the Usps has lost over $40 billion, as consumers turn to private shipping companies like Ups and FedEx, or to using electronic means of communication. Previous cost-saving measures include cutting hours of service at about half the 26,000 offices nationwide and cutting the Usps workforce by 35%.
However, the Usps can't just unilaterally act on its own accord. Senator Coburn and Representative Darrell Issa of Calif.
This change is an effort by the Usps to save money, after losing $16 billion in 2012. Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma says the move will save $2 billion a year.
"It's a proper business decision and long run, good for the Postal Service and good for Americans," adds Coburn.
In the past six years, the Usps has lost over $40 billion, as consumers turn to private shipping companies like Ups and FedEx, or to using electronic means of communication. Previous cost-saving measures include cutting hours of service at about half the 26,000 offices nationwide and cutting the Usps workforce by 35%.
However, the Usps can't just unilaterally act on its own accord. Senator Coburn and Representative Darrell Issa of Calif.
- 2/6/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Washington -- Alec Baldwin reminded Washington journalists on Monday that he's one of the sharpest politically minded actors in Hollywood during an hourlong speech at the National Press Club. His visit was part of a lobbying blitz for Americans for the Arts, a nonprofit group that advocates for increased federal funding of the arts. But Baldwin ensured widespread coverage by also dropping some key entertainment news.
In between stories from his college years at George Washington University and his Capitol Hill internship in the late 1970s, Baldwin confirmed that he will remain on "30 Rock" through the seventh season starting next fall, although he said that season would be the NBC show's last.
Speculation swirled last week that Baldwin planned to quit "30 Rock" early when he tweeted, "I think I'm leaving NBC just in time,” after finding a crew from the network's "Today" show camped outside his Manhattan apartment. Baldwin plays...
In between stories from his college years at George Washington University and his Capitol Hill internship in the late 1970s, Baldwin confirmed that he will remain on "30 Rock" through the seventh season starting next fall, although he said that season would be the NBC show's last.
Speculation swirled last week that Baldwin planned to quit "30 Rock" early when he tweeted, "I think I'm leaving NBC just in time,” after finding a crew from the network's "Today" show camped outside his Manhattan apartment. Baldwin plays...
- 4/16/2012
- by Christina Wilkie
- Huffington Post
Washington -- Alec Baldwin reminded Washington journalists on Monday that he's one of the sharpest politically minded actors in Hollywood during an hourlong speech at the National Press Club. His visit was part of a lobbying blitz for Americans for the Arts, a nonprofit group that advocates for increased federal funding of the arts. But Baldwin ensured widespread coverage by also dropping some key entertainment news.
In between stories from his college years at George Washington University and his Capitol Hill internship in the late 1970s, Baldwin confirmed that he will remain on "30 Rock" through the seventh season starting next fall, although he said that season would be the NBC show's last.
Speculation swirled last week that Baldwin planned to quit "30 Rock" early when he tweeted, "I think I'm leaving NBC just in time,” after finding a crew from the network's "Today" show camped outside his Manhattan apartment. Baldwin...
In between stories from his college years at George Washington University and his Capitol Hill internship in the late 1970s, Baldwin confirmed that he will remain on "30 Rock" through the seventh season starting next fall, although he said that season would be the NBC show's last.
Speculation swirled last week that Baldwin planned to quit "30 Rock" early when he tweeted, "I think I'm leaving NBC just in time,” after finding a crew from the network's "Today" show camped outside his Manhattan apartment. Baldwin...
- 4/16/2012
- by Christina Wilkie
- Aol TV.
Former Senator Alan Simpson appeared on Your World with Neil Cavuto to answer back to anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist's rebuke that he was a 'senile drunk', criticizing Norquist's opposition to eliminating ethanol subsides, which Senator Tom Coburn championed. "I'm not obsessed with Grover, he says I've been saying I've been calling his answering machine! I don't call his answering machine. Hell, I don't call anything that he's connected with. I don't need to! He's as much a smart aleck as I am," Simpson quipped. "He called [Senator] Coburn's activity there a tax increase, and Coburn used the word 'ludicrous' -- I used word "deceptive," and I will continue to use that. You can't get where we have to go by taxing your way out of this baby or cutting spending your way out of this, baby. You have to have a plan. We've worked for ten months on this baby,...
- 11/14/2011
- by James Crugnale
- Mediaite - TV
• In Tupac-esque fashion, Osama bin Laden has released a posthumous recording, in which he praises the Arab Spring. For some reason Eliot Spitzer reported the news for CNN, although it has nothing to do with his two main areas of expertise, prosecuting Wall Street and hiring prostitutes. [CNN.com] • LinkedIn, the social network that wears business casual, will be priced at $45 a share when it goes public today. That means the company will be valued at $4.3 billion, despite the fact that it expects to lose money this year. [NY Times] • Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned as head of the International Monetary Fund in order to devote himself to proving his innocence, he said. His lawyers will try again today to get him released from jail on Riker’s Island—they want him held in home detention in Manhattan instead. [Wall Street Journal] • Reports of the Gang of Six Five’s demise may have been exaggerated. The remaining members of...
- 5/19/2011
- Vanity Fair
Democrats didn't expect to win a vote to end subsidies to oil companies. But as Michael Tomasky explains, the loss exposes how vulnerable they are to Republican budget psychosis.
Last night the Senate refused to end $2 billion worth of subsidies to oil companies. These companies are poised, according to the bill's chief sponsor, Democrat Robert Menendez of New Jersey, to make $144 billion in profits this year. It was never a bill that had a chance of getting the 60 votes needed to cut off debate (it fell eight votes short). Aside from that, the House of Representatives never would have passed it. And aside from that, it was likely unconstitutional because bills that raise revenue must originate in the House.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Is Paul Ryan Delusional?
The vote took place largely so the Democrats could make campaign ads saying that Republicans voted to protect the oil industry.
Last night the Senate refused to end $2 billion worth of subsidies to oil companies. These companies are poised, according to the bill's chief sponsor, Democrat Robert Menendez of New Jersey, to make $144 billion in profits this year. It was never a bill that had a chance of getting the 60 votes needed to cut off debate (it fell eight votes short). Aside from that, the House of Representatives never would have passed it. And aside from that, it was likely unconstitutional because bills that raise revenue must originate in the House.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Is Paul Ryan Delusional?
The vote took place largely so the Democrats could make campaign ads saying that Republicans voted to protect the oil industry.
- 5/18/2011
- by Michael Tomasky
- The Daily Beast
Senator Tom Coburn (R-ok) up and left the Gang of Six, a team of three Democratic senators and three two Republican senators who use teamwork, friendship, and positive mental attitudes to try to hammer out a workable budget. The Gang of Six has been “struggling for months to reach agreement on a long range deficit reduction plan,” according to Politico. However, Coburn had had his fill of fun, and summarily made his exit earlier this afternoon. Perhaps he’ll find time to get back to his true passion: using a shovel to decapitate snakes that crawl into his pool. The Gang is down to Democrats Mark Warner, Dick Durbin, and Kent Conrad and Republicans Mike Crapo and Saxby Chambliss—most of whom, frankly, sound made up. Can a group of five people even be considered a gang? Or are they now more of a pride, or a gaggle?...
- 5/17/2011
- Vanity Fair
A new Senate report chronicles the ex-senator's sordid affair, obsession for his mistress, illegal coverup, and Rick Santorum's attempt to protect him. The Daily Beast delivers the most salacious tidbits.
Roll over, Starr Report: There's a new contender for most-sordid Washington sex-scandal. The Senate Ethics Panel released a long-awaited report into former Sen. John Ensign on Thursday. The Nevada Republican was forced to resign after it was revealed that he had an affair with the wife of an aide, had his parents pay the couple nearly $100,000, and then tried to get the aide a lobbying job in violation of federal law.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Why Doctors Make Crazy Politicians
Sound dry and academic? Wait until you get to the details. The 75-page report [Pdf], written by Special Counsel Carol Elder Bruce, a former federal prosecutor, has some of the juiciest details to hit the news since Bill Clinton's cigar.
Roll over, Starr Report: There's a new contender for most-sordid Washington sex-scandal. The Senate Ethics Panel released a long-awaited report into former Sen. John Ensign on Thursday. The Nevada Republican was forced to resign after it was revealed that he had an affair with the wife of an aide, had his parents pay the couple nearly $100,000, and then tried to get the aide a lobbying job in violation of federal law.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Why Doctors Make Crazy Politicians
Sound dry and academic? Wait until you get to the details. The 75-page report [Pdf], written by Special Counsel Carol Elder Bruce, a former federal prosecutor, has some of the juiciest details to hit the news since Bill Clinton's cigar.
- 5/14/2011
- by David A. Graham
- The Daily Beast
With indebtedness and dependency threatening the nation, Mark McKinnon remembers the Alamo-and finds 10 brave souls in Washington, from Paul Ryan to Dick Durbin, who dare to take on the status quo.
Like James Bowie and Davy Crockett, who dared to cross a line in the sand to join Col. William Barret Travis in defense of Texas independence, a brave few in Washington have taken a heroic first step to repel the forces of intransigence.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Democrats' Negotiator in Chief
"In the present confusion of the political authorities of the country, and in the absence of the commander in chief, I beg leave to communicate to you the situation..." Travis wrote during the siege of the Alamo 175 years ago, in a letter that could have been written today. He saw clearly the coming threat and laid out a plan. He did not wait for reinforcements who would not come in time.
Like James Bowie and Davy Crockett, who dared to cross a line in the sand to join Col. William Barret Travis in defense of Texas independence, a brave few in Washington have taken a heroic first step to repel the forces of intransigence.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Democrats' Negotiator in Chief
"In the present confusion of the political authorities of the country, and in the absence of the commander in chief, I beg leave to communicate to you the situation..." Travis wrote during the siege of the Alamo 175 years ago, in a letter that could have been written today. He saw clearly the coming threat and laid out a plan. He did not wait for reinforcements who would not come in time.
- 4/26/2011
- by Mark McKinnon
- The Daily Beast
Instead of posturing for his 2012 campaign, the president needs to offer some bold ideas for the budget-and so do Republicans. Mark McKinnon on how the parties' stubborn battle hurts Americans.
As a fiscal tsunami imminently hurtles this way, our political parties this week drew lines in the sand. Meanwhile, it seems obvious to almost all of America that the answer is not "no," and the answer is not "either/or." The answer is "and."
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Gop's Bin Laden Jitters
With the public debt doubling under the president's 2012 budget proposal, with entitlement programs verging on insolvency, we are long past either/or solutions. It's the power of "and" that will save us: spending cuts and revenue increases. Democrats reflexively rail at the first; Republicans, the second.
In remarks unbecoming a president, President Obama crossed the line this week in a speech unveiling his deficit plan.
As a fiscal tsunami imminently hurtles this way, our political parties this week drew lines in the sand. Meanwhile, it seems obvious to almost all of America that the answer is not "no," and the answer is not "either/or." The answer is "and."
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Gop's Bin Laden Jitters
With the public debt doubling under the president's 2012 budget proposal, with entitlement programs verging on insolvency, we are long past either/or solutions. It's the power of "and" that will save us: spending cuts and revenue increases. Democrats reflexively rail at the first; Republicans, the second.
In remarks unbecoming a president, President Obama crossed the line this week in a speech unveiling his deficit plan.
- 4/16/2011
- by Mark McKinnon
- The Daily Beast
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