Friday, December 21, 2018

TV Quote of the Week

At least it's only on the Internet. It's not somewhere important like a newspaper or a shopping bag.
--Constance Wu, Fresh Off the Boat, "Phil's Phaves"

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Thursday, August 06, 2015

Movie Quote of the Week

I never believe what I read in the press anyway.
--Pierce Brosnan, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Fantasy Quote of the Week

There was something grotesquely amusing in that; the frenetic attempt to sell papers while the world died. Not that all newspapers had done that. Those papers that had lived in honesty and integrity died the same way.
--Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

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Thursday, December 04, 2014

Movie Quote of the Week

We're in the business of reporting the news, not creating it.
--Hume Cronyn, The Parallax View (1974)

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Thursday, November 06, 2014

Movie Quote of the Week

But go ahead. Read the New York Times if you want. They get lucky sometimes.
--Tommy Lee Jones, Men in Black (1997)

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Sunday, February 23, 2014

Song Quote of the Week

But February made me shiver
With every paper I'd deliver.
--Don McLean, “American Pie”

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Thursday, May 16, 2013

Movie Quote of the Week

The newspaper was wrong.
--Mary Steenburgen, Time After Time (1979)

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Saturday, August 04, 2012

Movie Quote of the Week

We're running a newspaper, not a school for revolutionaries.
--Arthur O'Connell, The Great Race (1965)

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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Celebrity Message of the Week

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Thursday, July 08, 2010

TV Quote of the Week

You said it couldn't miss. You said I'd make the front pages. You crumb. The only thing I'll get out of this is a bad case of sunburn.
--Edy Williams, Adam-12, “Venice Division”

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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Random Thoughts

Almost any place can look exotic if you view at night from a hotel room that's high enough above the ground.

Is it wrong of me to breathe a sigh of relief every time I meet someone who doesn't need to be told how to pronounce my real-life Spanish first name?

People who don't find other people interesting usually aren't as interesting as they think they are.

The more expensive newspapers get, the fewer number of people who buy them which in return inspires newspaper publishers to spend less money on the type of people who fill the paper with the material that people want to read. Which, of course, results in even fewer people buying newspapers which in turn inspires newspaper publishers to raise their prices to compensate. And so it goes.

The only activity more dangerous to your pocketbook than taking certain women to a jewelry store is taking the same type of women to a pet store.

If you wish to know what status there is to be gained by wearing a suit in modern society, talk to someone who knows what it's like to work at a job in which one does not wear a suit.

The type of people who would not be impressed by the Grand Canyon or Niagara Falls usually aren't worth impressing.

Few writers experience as much danger or hardship on the job as the average factory worker. But one would never know that from the way many writers talk.

Anyone else wonder how many of the people who like to kvetch about American puritanism ever wonder about the number of condom stores that exist in this allegedly puritanical country? Or should I consider it a symbol of American prudishness that such stores are so often called "condom stores" despite the large number of items they sell that obviously aren't condoms?

It's funny how often the injustices that most anger people are usually things that either happened long ago, things that happened far away or things that are committed by people whom we consider to be way different from us. Perhaps because getting angry about injustices committed by people like us that we actually have the opportunity to change is way too easy.

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Saturday, July 04, 2009

TV Quote of the Week

Mr McGee, your newspaper is only interested in reporting murder, rape, horoscopes, UFO's and Farrah Fawcett. I don't happen to fit into any of those categories and I don't wish to be interviewed.
--Bill Bixby, The Incredible Hulk (1977) (TV Movie)

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Monday, November 24, 2008

Ten Things I Love About Old Movies

"Borrowing" an idea that one of my favorite bloggers "borrowed" from another blogger, I submit for your disapproval a quick list of at least ten things I love about old movies.


1. Cutting-edge technology.



2. Modestly dressed women.



3. Newspapers.



4. Glamorous wardrobes for women.



5. Chess games.



6. Coin collectors.



7. Silhouettes.



8. Street lights.




9. Respectful depictions of law enforcement.



10. Respectful depictions of contemporary political leaders.



Plus to echo the Siren's words...

11. Scenes with women behind screens.

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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

The Online Struggle, Part I

Apparently, if you were used to getting your news from USA Today and you were hoping to find out the Oscar results Monday from the local edition without having to log on your computer, you were out of luck. Only a few early results were posted in the actual newspaper. Everything else was reserved for the paper's online site.

Which doesn't seem too bad if you can afford Internet access at home.

But if you don't, well, you really shouldn't be paying attention to the Oscars anyway.

At least that appears to be the official position of the editors of USA Today.

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