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Hollywood actor David Hasselhoff is the star guest on a new podcast presented by Aleksandr Orlov, the Russian billionaire meerkat puppet made famous in advertisments for price comparison website, comparethemarket.com. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...ndr-Orlov.html

One of the comenters on another site analyzed it and concluded that there really wasn't that much of a difference...I'll try to find it. http://jezebel.com/5392157/report-te...en-on-the-rise Quote: If you read the linked articles, you'll see that the claimed "120 percent" rise is a complete misuse of statistics. Out of about 4,000 total violent acts during a two-month period (a number that has barely changed in five...

http://www.feministing.com/archives/018791.html Quote: A new report from the Parents Television Council, Women in Peril, found a 120% increase in depictions of violence against women on television since 2004. (In the same time period, violence that occurred irrespective of gender only increased by 2%.) Cumulatively, across all study periods and all networks, the most frequent type of violence was beating (29%), followed by credible threats of...

After the first episode, I loved Morriss Chestnut's character (Ryan?). I was extremely disappointed that the plot elements that were introduced in the first episode did not advance in the slightest. But I will say that I do like some of the characters....the FBI agent, the priest, and the news guy are all pretty good characters. The problem is, of course, that there is no character development going on, and that's pretty typical of a...

I always liked the aliens better--except when they were hurting the beastmaster, then not so much. Diana always had my attention--always.

Quote: Originally Posted by AnglRdr Do you know anything about the character she's playing, besides her looks? You can find the trailers online. She plays a normal human person character on planet Earth.

While I have no doubt that violence depicted on TC is troublesome, I don't really trust PTC. Is there a more reputable source for these stats?

Those flying 'splodey balls reminded me of the spheres in Phantasm:

I heard back from my friend, who said the paper he read was by Arthur De Vany, entitled "Hollywood Economics: How Extreme Uncertainty Shapes the Film Industry." (I remember seeing the IPO for Touchstone, whose first film was Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and quite a blockbuster. Wouldn't it have been nice to have bought in for a few shares?) Silas

I played women's soccer in college and know it can get pretty nasty out there, but it just seems more shocking when you can see it from a spectator's perspective.