Studio 60: Season 1, Episode 22 erin
“What Kind of Day It’s Been” spoilers below:
Hey there. This is be-something.com. For a good seven months, it was a pretty nice site maintained by Matt Elliott and Erin Balser. It has since died. Likely from natural causes. It happened slowly so no one really noticed. There's still a lot of good content here for you to read, so dig in. If you want to check in with the authors, you can do so at erinbalser.com and mattelliott.ca. Enjoy!
“What Kind of Day It’s Been” spoilers below:
“Wikipedia doesn’t have the episode title up yet” spoilers below:
Michael Moore’s feature-length documentary films are synonymous with one thing: lies. Before Moore started making films, documentaries were always 100% factual. Except for maybe Triumph of the Will, of course. That one took some liberties. But regardless, one of the things the internet has proven itself good at — in addition to pornography and pictures of cats with writing on top of them — is debunking the ‘truth’ in Michael Moore’s movies.
As I recently saw an advanced screening of Michael Moore’s latest, Sicko, which purports to be an ‘attack’ on the American health insurance and health care system, I thought I would take the opportunity to take a first crack at revealing the lies, untruths, mistruths, fibs, omissions and biasedness inherent to this vaguely cinematic work.
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Things get positively godly this week as Evan Almighty debuts and promptly bombs, proving once and for all that Americans only like their religion when it’s wacky and involves Jennifer Aniston’s boobs. Other big stories this week include the relative success of 1408 — likely because people thought it was some sort of sequel to 300, which itself was a sequel to Seven — and the abject failure of the Angelina Jolie movie A Mighty Heart, likely because people thought it was some sort of sequel to A Mighty Wind.
The numbers herein are credit the schmovies.com box office report, and not the movies.com box office report. The schmovies.com site is currently experiencing network difficulties.
“K&R, Part III” spoilers below: