Archive for July, 2005

Dove discovers: women not thin

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

Dove has launched a new ad campaign featuring six “real” women.* These women are all beautiful in very accessible, average ways, and they have great bodies in very accessible, average ways. The U.S. campaign follows on the heels of a successful ad series in the U.K. that followed the same formula.
The whole concept isn’t […]

Colin Farrell to defend own honor

Tuesday, July 19th, 2005

Just in from the Department of the Obvious: Colin Farrell is a total slut.
Farrell is currently embroiled in a lawsuit against a 31-year-old woman he has accused of trying to distribute a tape of the two knocking boots. The actor claims the pair made the tape under the agreement that it would never be distributed […]

candy doesn’t have to have a point

Saturday, July 16th, 2005

Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is spot-on brilliant. Maybe it was the Fizzy Lifting Drink or the bottle of Shiner, or the massive slice of fudgy chocolate cake or the free Wonka Bar going to my head, but I thought the movie was truly, madly, deeply inspired.
Burton has managed to capture the […]

robots in disguise

Thursday, July 14th, 2005

Apparently, all systems are go for Transformers to become a major motion picture. I’m sure the studio is looking to cash in on the shitstorm of nostalgia floating around right now. Carebears and My Little Ponies* are popping up all over the retail landscape.
Dreamworks head of distribution Jim Tharp had this to say on […]

ain’t no black

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005

Apparently, Nigel Turner is advocating a re-design of the Union Jack, adding black to reflect Britain’s multicultural population. I have difficulty taking Turner’s suggestion seriously, because his name is Nigel and because the new design is being called the “Union Black.”
In other news, Sim Dumenco wrote this funny-as-hell media pop quiz. Definitely worth reading.