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Vu’s Oscar Picks

So it has all led up to this. After all the nastiness of the Writers’ Strike, what better way to let bygones be bygones than the Oscars? With less than a week to go, cinephiles everywhere are scrambling to rental stores and theatres to see the Oscar nods. But some of us [...]

The Writers’ Strike Chronicles–Final Installment(s): The ‘Sex’ Effect

The Writers’ Strike may be over and our favorite shows may be coming back to a boobtube near you in about 3-4 weeks, but that doesn’t mean that we don’t have to wait. Isn’t waiting just simply the worst? I think it’s even more upsetting that we KNOW that it’s finally over yet [...]

Candidates Cozy Up for the Stars

Hillary to Barack: “I HAVE JUNGLE FEVER.”
Yeah, I know I’m about half a week late on this news but whatever. Last Friday, I woke up to find headlines and footage of Hillary and Barack making nice in public. You know what’s worse than PDA? . . . fake PDA. Then again, it [...]

The Writers’ Strike Chronicles: My Story of Coping (so far . . . )

So as anyone who owns a television set (analog or digital . . . hopefully digital so you don’t have to go through the trouble of buying a subsidized converter in February 2009) should be aware of, there’s a huge writers’ strike that is currently the pain in everyone’s ass. I’m not going to tell [...]