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Richard Rushfield is still on vacation before joining Gawker, but he couldn’t resist weighing in with another dispatch, involving dearly-departed director John Hughes , an LA-area deli, and some serious trash talk. It was somewhere around 1985’ish…Sometime post- The Breakfast Club , but pre- Planes, Trains and Automobiles

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How Insulting John Hughes, And Maybe His Family, Made Me a Writer

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Tagged automobiles, breakfast, friends, Hollywood, neighborhood, racism, remembrances, trains, wife

Susan Boyle’s Campaign to Win Next Year’s Razzie

Posted on July 18, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Eeking out a 16th minute, housefrump-turned-household-name Susan Boyle sits with Today to voice soundbits with all the enthusiasm of a funeral director. Once more, with feeling, Suze! And Cowell, send her to Lee Stasberg, stat! After perky Meredith Vieira struggles to give the debatable superstar a compliment, stumbling over words to question if she’s had a “slight little makeover?”, Suze, perhaps insulted, forces a smile.

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Susan Boyle’s Campaign to Win Next Year’s Razzie

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Tagged british, for your consideration, improved-miss, know-the-new, night, press, remembrances, walter, wonderful-time

How Did The President, Famous People, New Media React To Cronkite’s Death?

Posted on July 18, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Roundups of Cronkite-death reactions are bound to include the President’s personal memories, and Dan Abrams trashing personal memories. Also, Shaq’s sword, Clooney’s sad, Jeff Jarvis is so over this, Sarah Palin’s rainbows, and Kelly Bundy has something to say. Because Important People Deaths carry more weight than ol’ lowercase regular people deaths, they can either elicit well-considered, clear-minded objectivity, or they can inspire transparent glibness, insipid tributes, and reactionary nonsense