Trend Watch: ‘Japanese Bagelheads’ (and morning links)

Written by Vince Mancini / 06.23.11

Here’s a hot new trend out of Japan, injecting liquid under your skin to give yourself a lumpy, bagel forehead. I’d blame this on the Japanese, but body-mod people are nuts everywhere. |Vice|

MORNING LINKS

Pop Culture Troll Quotes > Pop Culture Actual Quotes [Uproxx]

I’m playing this Draftstreet game for WithLeather, you should too. |WithLeather|

A new frotcast will be up tomorrow. In the meantime, check out last week’s, on “Fartlore.” |Frotcast|

This Week In F-ck I Love You: Dairy Queen [KSK]

The handsome dude in the picture? Larry David. Believe it. |BostonStool|

The Ten Worst Answers for ‘Best Show on Television’ [WarmingGlow]

A Tribute To Sarah Palin’s Aborted Historic Bus Tour Of America [Uproxx]

Nathan Fillion photobombs. |GammaSquad|

My new pick for “funniest motorcycle crash.” |Videogum|

Amish guy busted for sexting a 12-year-old. |HolyTaco|

Footage of the Toulambi tribe of New Guinea encountering white man for the first time in 1976. “If it was a brother, it woulda gone something like this” jokes quickly followed. |TheDailyWhat|

These guys built a double-wedgie, double nut-shot machine.  Great work, guys. |GorillaMask|

Lindsay flips out on Matt Lauer, demanding $100K. Can we sentence her to do porn already? |TheSuperficial|

Bill O’Reilly & Lupe Fiasco Talk President Obama, The Terrorist [TSS]

The Harsh Reality of L.A. Noire [ToplessRobot]

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Larry David joins Three Stooges movie that Sean Penn ruined

Written by Vince Mancini / 05.03.11

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Two years ago, the Farrelly Brothers’ Three Stooges was set to star Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, and Jim Carrey, a strange but undeniably A-list cast.  Then Sean Penn decided he was taking a career hiatus, moved to Haiti, and started banging Scarlett Johansson, which is probably awesome for him, but the Three Stooges cast fell apart.  The film is finally set to start shooting this month, with Will Sasso from Mad TV/Sh*t My Dad Says as Curly, Sean Hayes from Will and Grace as Larry, and Chris Diamantopoulos as Mo (that’s the first time I’ve ever typed that guy’s name — how’d I do?).  Luckily, they’ve also signed Larry David in a supporting role, because otherwise this sounds like a TV movie:Larry-David-Cape-Seinfeld

They’re closing in on a deal with Larry David to play Mother Mengele, the unfortunate nun who runs the orphanage where the Stooges grow up and learn to create mayhem. The Seinfeld co-creator will join Jane Lynch, who plays Mother Superior. [Deadline]

Knowing Larry David, who I’ve never seen play anyone but himself, I’m guessing that other than dressing him up like a woman he’ll be playing the character Norm MacDonald-style, that I’m-not-going-to-insult-you-by-pretending-I’m-even-trying method of acting (which works for them).  It will also be interesting to see the Stooges move away from broad slapstick gags and more towards long conversations about the etiquette of double-dipping and whether they respect wood.

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WEEKEND PREVIEW: MOVIES.

Written by Vince Mancini / 06.19.09

(Haven’t you heard?  It’s super lazy Photoshop Friday.)

Opening this weekend:

Year One
Jack Black and Michael Cera are cavemen, David Cross is Cain.  Seeing some bad reviews for this, and sure, I could’ve done without Harold Ramis planting the camera an inch from everyone’s face, and the endings of a couple scenes apparently never made it to the final cut… But whatever, it had its moments.  “You know what the best part of Sodom is?  The sodomy.”

The Proposal
Director Anne Fletcher’s long awaited follow up to 27 Dresses.  Two attractive people forced together by circumstance?  I wonder what will happen! She has to pretend to be attracted to Ryan Reynolds?  Ew, his chiseled features and washboard abs are so icky!  These romantic comedies are so unpredictable.  Betty White’s in it too.  Get it?  It’s funny because she’s old.

Whatever Works
Woody Allen directs Larry David.  I wonder if it’s about being neurotic and Jewish.

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WOODY ALLEN MAKES A FILM EVERY TWO WEEKS

Written by Vince Mancini / 05.11.09

It’s been a few years since I cared about anything Woody Allen’s done, but Whatever Works teams him with Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, and, after five years away, New York.  Here’s to hoping he’s finally dropped the European arthouse pretensions (and along with it, dialog like “let’s not have another turgid discussion about categorical imperatives”).  Then again, Larry David working with Woody Allen has the potential to create a fireball of Jewish neurosis so big that it could consume the entire Earth.  Squeeze Gilbert Gottfried onto the production staff somehow and the movie’d just be two hours of a guy walking in circles pondering his own mortality.

(I added some Evan Rachel Wood pictures for… uh… scale.)

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