Monthly Archives: February 2008

Easy to be Kind to Be Kind Rewind

February 22, 2008
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I just saw Michael Gondry’s new movie, Be Kind Rewind, on opening night at the Balboa in San Francisco. Mick LeSalle for The Chronicle got it all wrong. It’s a mess of a movie, sure, but a wonderful mess of a movie, a tribute to movie-making, a nod to some of the wacky greats of all time–Ghostbusters, Rush Hour Two, Robocop. Something of a love note to Fats Waller as well. The movie starts off with Jack Black being his usual hilarious self, takes some absurd turns, and ends on a feel-good, bittersweet note, with a Woody Allen b&w...

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Cindy McCain / Vicki Iseman

February 21, 2008
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Cindy McCain / Vicki Iseman

Here’s John McCain’s press conference about the Vicki Iseman allegations. Watch his wife Cindy, particularly at 7:20, when a reporter asks whether his aides asked him to stop seeing Iseman, and again at 9:34 when a reporter asks if he has seen Iseman, and at 13:25 when asked when he last saw Iseman. She looks pretty interested in hearing his answers, and her posture and facial expression visibly change when these questions come up. I don’t care if McCain slept with Iseman (he says he did not, and Cindy says she trusts him), only whether a close relationship with...

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Babylon Salon Saturday Night

February 20, 2008
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Hey, folks, I’m really looking forward to reading at the Babylon Salon series Saturday night at Cantina in San Francisco. Join me, Eileen Reynolds, Herb Sandhu, Julie Bifano, and Opium Magazine’s Editor’s Choice reader on Feb. 23 at 7:00 p.m. 580 Sutter Street. The series is hosted by Timothy Rein and Tim Crandle, who seem to have a lot of other friends named Tim, too. I’ve met at least half a dozen of them. Maury Zeff, who probably doesn’t know anyone else named Maury Zeff, will be doing introductions. (My sister Misty knows exactly no one named Misty in...

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gmail outage

February 19, 2008
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My gmail has been on the fritz all day, but all other websites I try to access are working fine. Does anyone else have this problem?

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Yiddish Policemen Get the Coen Treatment

February 12, 2008
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Variety reports that the Coen brothers will write and direct the adaptation of Michael Chabon’s novel The Yiddish Policeman’s Union. Scott Rudin, who produced the earlier Chabon adaptation Wonder Boys, will produce.

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