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Built For Greed
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Sales Competition
Who will 50 publically challenge next, only to have it backfire on him when his album sales plummet like a meteor?

So you not an "Evil Dead" fan, then, eh?

I predict Cass Elliott's "California Creaming" will be a huge success. But who will buy John Phillips' "No Incest"?

It'll probably bomb in Cambodia.

I remember watching The Equalizer regularly on A&E when I was 7 or 8. Fantastic show, and I remember being really impressed at Woodward being an old guy who just whipped ass. It was sandwiched by Wiseguy and Crime Story, if I recall correctly (actually, come to think of it, my parents let me watch a whole lot of shit

I actually like Ryan Reynolds, but I think he'll make for a shitty Green Lantern. Hal Jordan is supposed to be kind of an uptight square. Playing it straightforward is NOT one of Reynold's strengths. Bradley Cooper would have been better.

So much for being governor of New Mexico, I guess.

Too bad he couldn't be the black Theo van Gogh.

The Dogma making-of was pretty good, if you can find it. Of course, you have to rent or buy one of the crappiest films ever made (Vulgar) to view it, but it's well worth it. I only wish Sony/Columbia-TriStar hadn't been so scared of the Disney legal apparatus and put it on the main DVD.

June 9, 1996: the day man first discovered internet porn. It spells the end of our species.

Harve Presnell tips the scales in Andy Barker's favor.

I thought that was snapping. Now I'm confused again. Sure ain't gonna watch it again to find out, though.

Couldn't see the video. Were any of them jukebox heroes?

Bah, Good Goldblum is what saved Jurassic Park. Now, "The Lost World"? There's some Bad Goldblum.

I started to mention Flava Flav, but then I remembered that he's wasted talent, not no-talent.

I generally think of "The Big Chill" as the movie that started the trend of ruining great Motown music for people through overuse, but hey, Meg Tilly in a leotard. Gotta take what you can get.

Also, you could do like me and just watch "Jammin' in New York" for the 87th time.

Personally, I don't know whether "Life" being included on this list is more indicative of how brilliant Carlin was that one of his least successful albums could still make a "best-of" list, or of how scarce smart fearless comedy was in the last decade; I'd like to think it's the former.

I really loved a bit he did where he was describing how his daughter kept asking "Why?" for an insanely long time, as kids tend to do, until the conversation turned very surreal.

Chris Rock can act. "New Jack City".