Kid Rock — wild rock star, Grammy nominee, record producer, actor … and senator?!? The “Let’s Ride” rocker from Romeo, Michigan, is being eyed as a potential candidate for the Gop seat in his home state, RollCall.com reported Tuesday. Kid Rock, whose real name is Robert Ritchie, has been proposed as a possible Republican contender for Michigan Democrat Debbie Stabenow’s Senate seat next year. Also Read: Kid Rock Launches Pro-Trump T-Shirt Line Calling Blue States 'Dumbf-kistan' His name was suggested at the Michigan Republican Party convention last weekend, but no official decisions have been made, according to Roll Call.
- 2/15/2017
- by Debbie Emery
- The Wrap
We've all heard of Red States and Blue States in the United States, but what about Purple and Yellow? The staff at tariolaw.com polled over 10,000 Game of Thrones fans (200 per state) about which character (living or dead) they would pick to be their "champion" in a trial by combat. The results were then mapped out (and shared exclusively here on Hitfix). Sadly, poor gullible King Tommen the Sparrow stooge has now outlawed trial by combat, which means that neither Cersei nor the state of California will be able to call upon FrankenMountain's formidable talents. As to that, Gregor Clegane (the Mountain) had the most votes, as expected. However, his brother Sandor Clegane (the Hound) was right behind him creating a mostly red and purple map. Sadly, Brienne of Tarth picked up only one win in Oregon (where the dream of the '90s is alive). Jaime Lannister also won a few states,...
- 6/16/2016
- by Roth Cornet
- Hitfix
“13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,” Michael Bay‘s big-screen thriller about the 2012 U.S. embassy attack in which four Americans were killed, played very well in Red States as it opened wide at the box office this weekend. But what about the Blue States? “It’s going to be a challenge,” admitted Megan Colligan, marketing and distribution chief at Paramount Pictures, who was still pleased with the film’s $17 million four-day debut. Roughly 33 percent of the grosses came from Florida and its surrounding states, and Texas and its neighbors. Hillary Clinton, who was Secretary of State at the time of the attack,...
- 1/17/2016
- by Todd Cunningham
- The Wrap
Sound On Sight Podcast, #400: Final Episode featuring ‘Inherent Vice’ and the Top 10 Movies of 2014 with guests Adam Nayman and Kate Rennebohm
This is it, folks. After 400(!) episodes, Ricky and Simon decided to wrap up the Sound on Sight podcast. To send it off in style, they take a look back at the very best films of 2014, with some help from a variety of former guest- and co-hosts. Smack dab in the middle, with the help of special guests Kate Rennebohm and Adam Nayman, they go deep on Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice, the biggest missing piece in their 2014 moviegoing. It’s a nearly three-hour blowout, because it didn’t seem right to go out small. Cheers!
P.T. Anderson Week Spotlight Red States and Blue States: Anderson’s Punch-Drunk Love and an Ode to Godard The Case against Paul Thomas Anderson ‘Inherent Vice’ a narcotic vision that demands...
This is it, folks. After 400(!) episodes, Ricky and Simon decided to wrap up the Sound on Sight podcast. To send it off in style, they take a look back at the very best films of 2014, with some help from a variety of former guest- and co-hosts. Smack dab in the middle, with the help of special guests Kate Rennebohm and Adam Nayman, they go deep on Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice, the biggest missing piece in their 2014 moviegoing. It’s a nearly three-hour blowout, because it didn’t seem right to go out small. Cheers!
P.T. Anderson Week Spotlight Red States and Blue States: Anderson’s Punch-Drunk Love and an Ode to Godard The Case against Paul Thomas Anderson ‘Inherent Vice’ a narcotic vision that demands...
- 1/18/2015
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
From the pool party dive in Boogie Nights inspired by Mikhail Kalatozov’s I Am Cuba to the steering wheel scene in Hard Eight that so deftly recalls Alfred Hitchcock’s Saboteur, playing spot the reference with Paul Thomas Anderson is always fun. It is through these moments that we can fully appreciate the voracious depth at which one man is embroiled in his art; forever the immersed student despite his steady rise to master, yet with a constant, gleeful wish to share with us an unconditional love for the cinema – something that we can all identify with.
Of all Paul Thomas Anderson’s creations, one continues to standout as a jarring anomaly: that being Punch-Drunk Love, which does away with many of the recurring narrative themes (fathers and sons, abandonment, etc.) that can be traced throughout his work, and instead challenges the conventions of the romance genre – though, with...
Of all Paul Thomas Anderson’s creations, one continues to standout as a jarring anomaly: that being Punch-Drunk Love, which does away with many of the recurring narrative themes (fathers and sons, abandonment, etc.) that can be traced throughout his work, and instead challenges the conventions of the romance genre – though, with...
- 1/17/2015
- by Nicholas Page
- SoundOnSight
Stephen King has never shied away from politics. His college column, King’s Garbage Truck, mostly dealt with pop culture, but also tackled heady subjects like anti-war rallies and abortion. In 1970’s “A Possible Fairy Tale,” he outlined a 10-day plan for ending the conflict in Viet Nam. His 1984 article, “Why I Am For Gary Hart,” King stated boldly, “Ronald Reagan is a bad president and must be turned out of office.” Allegorically, King has tackled political matters again and again, most notably in The Tommyknockers’ concerns about nuclear power and Under the Dome’s barely sub-textual treatise against George W. Bush.
Which is why his new essay, “Guns,” is a little surprising. Released as a Kindle Single via his own publishing house, Philtrum Press, “Guns” absolutely touches on politics. Just past the illustration of the half-mast American flag on the cover, there’s discussion of Red States and Blue States,...
Which is why his new essay, “Guns,” is a little surprising. Released as a Kindle Single via his own publishing house, Philtrum Press, “Guns” absolutely touches on politics. Just past the illustration of the half-mast American flag on the cover, there’s discussion of Red States and Blue States,...
- 1/29/2013
- by Kevin Quigley
- FEARnet
Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence Museum of Modern Art Through March 26, 2012
From my window on the 69th floor of the Temperance Building, I can see the monument to Rosa Luxemburg that Chancellor Nirenberg erected in Zapruder Park after President Manson resigned and The Bund took control of the city. The first thing they did was to tell everyone that we no longer had to worry about The Flu; the virus had mutated and was now known as The Plague. Infection was spread through physical contact, most often rape (Katya and I had a good laugh at that), and the resulting zombies it produced were now wandering the city. Mostly they come at night. Mostly. Posters of women in sunglasses are plastered on walls. They warn what’s left of the panicked population that one side effect of the zombification is dilation of the pupils, until the whole eye turns black. Zombies...
From my window on the 69th floor of the Temperance Building, I can see the monument to Rosa Luxemburg that Chancellor Nirenberg erected in Zapruder Park after President Manson resigned and The Bund took control of the city. The first thing they did was to tell everyone that we no longer had to worry about The Flu; the virus had mutated and was now known as The Plague. Infection was spread through physical contact, most often rape (Katya and I had a good laugh at that), and the resulting zombies it produced were now wandering the city. Mostly they come at night. Mostly. Posters of women in sunglasses are plastered on walls. They warn what’s left of the panicked population that one side effect of the zombification is dilation of the pupils, until the whole eye turns black. Zombies...
- 1/13/2012
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
I am live-blogging (more like live-snarking) the 83rd Annual Academy Awards starting at 5:30 Pm Pt tonight based on the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences 2011 nominations last month. Come for the cynicism. Stay for the subversion. Add your comment. Warning: Not for the easily offended or ridiculously naive: Just as Deadline's pre-show spoilers predicted, the telecast begins with a lame filmed bit involving hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco with constant mentions and appearances by Alec Baldwin who was last year's kinda mediocre Academy Awards co-host with the much funnier Steve Martin. The shtick is that Baldwin is in some kind of Inception dream with the young emcees and hopes to host again this year. I'm surprised that the Academy would bring him back at all since the Red States despise Alec and the Blue States love him. It's as in-your-face polarizing as opening with, say, Sean Penn (liberal...
- 2/28/2011
- by NIKKI FINKE
- Deadline Hollywood
Filed under: Movie News, Cinematical
Forget Red States and Blue States. There's one thing that connects all Americans -- the movies -- and to prove it, Subtonix, an intrepid Internet content creator, designed a map of the United States, replacing state names with the title of a movie that he felt represented each of the 50 states.
Some are really obvious -- Nevada gets 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,' New Jersey gets 'Clerks,' Kansas gets 'The Wizard of Oz' -- and some are a stretch -- 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' for California, 'Gummo' for Ohio, 'Jesus Camp' for both North Dakota and Missouri. And some seem to mystify people -- The Huffington Post, which picked up on the map early Wednesday, couldn't figure out why 'Fargo' represented Minnesota.
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Forget Red States and Blue States. There's one thing that connects all Americans -- the movies -- and to prove it, Subtonix, an intrepid Internet content creator, designed a map of the United States, replacing state names with the title of a movie that he felt represented each of the 50 states.
Some are really obvious -- Nevada gets 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,' New Jersey gets 'Clerks,' Kansas gets 'The Wizard of Oz' -- and some are a stretch -- 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' for California, 'Gummo' for Ohio, 'Jesus Camp' for both North Dakota and Missouri. And some seem to mystify people -- The Huffington Post, which picked up on the map early Wednesday, couldn't figure out why 'Fargo' represented Minnesota.
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- 10/28/2010
- by Harley W. Lond
- Moviefone
Filed under: Movie News, Cinematical
Forget Red States and Blue States. There's one thing that connects all Americans -- the movies -- and to prove it, Subtonix, an intrepid Internet content creator, designed a map of the United States, replacing state names with the title of a movie that he felt represented each of the 50 states.
Some are really obvious -- Nevada gets 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,' New Jersey gets 'Clerks,' Kansas gets 'The Wizard of Oz' -- and some are a stretch -- 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' for California, 'Gummo' for Ohio, 'Jesus Camp' for both North Dakota and Missouri. And some seem to mystify people -- The Huffington Post, which picked up on the map early Wednesday, couldn't figure out why 'Fargo' represented Minnesota.
Continue Reading...
Forget Red States and Blue States. There's one thing that connects all Americans -- the movies -- and to prove it, Subtonix, an intrepid Internet content creator, designed a map of the United States, replacing state names with the title of a movie that he felt represented each of the 50 states.
Some are really obvious -- Nevada gets 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,' New Jersey gets 'Clerks,' Kansas gets 'The Wizard of Oz' -- and some are a stretch -- 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' for California, 'Gummo' for Ohio, 'Jesus Camp' for both North Dakota and Missouri. And some seem to mystify people -- The Huffington Post, which picked up on the map early Wednesday, couldn't figure out why 'Fargo' represented Minnesota.
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- 10/28/2010
- by Harley W. Lond
- Cinematical
If Outlaw's Cyrus Garza is on one side of a case, then best friend Al Druzinsky is on the other — even though they're on the same team. David Ramsey, who plays Druzinsky, tells TVGuide.com that although Garza, played by Jimmy Smits, may be conservative and Druzinsky liberal, the new NBC series is not about Red States vs. Blue States. Ramsey talks about why highly politicized, current legal issues make the show relevant, and how he hopes it'll open up people to conservations.
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- 10/1/2010
- by Robyn Ross
- TVGuide - Breaking News
There are Star Wars people, and Star Trek people. Some people dig Bugs Bunny; others love Mickey Mouse. There’s DC folks, and those who Make Theirs Marvel. There’s the “boxers” crowd…and the “briefs” bunch. Red states. Blue states. You may have heated debates over any (or none) of these ways of seeing the world, but most of the time, the stakes of these discussions aren’t as very high as they might initially seem.
There are those who think humanity is worth preserving, and those who believe we ought to self-destruct our way back into a feral wasteland. That’s the discussion that takes place in Irwin Allen’s first live-action feature film, The Story of Mankind.
And that discussion is a hoot and a half!
Readers of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States and devotees of Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen...
There are those who think humanity is worth preserving, and those who believe we ought to self-destruct our way back into a feral wasteland. That’s the discussion that takes place in Irwin Allen’s first live-action feature film, The Story of Mankind.
And that discussion is a hoot and a half!
Readers of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States and devotees of Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen...
- 7/19/2010
- by Movies Unlimited
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
No Gay. Lesbian Joke. No Gay. Gay Joke. No Gay. Ooh, Look An Actual Gay!
This week the major networks announced their fall line-ups and mid-season replacements, and overall the news wasn't great for gay characters. Ugly Betty had already been deep-sixed on ABC, and as expected, NBC axed Trauma with gay paramedic Tyler and Mercy with gay nurse Angel, while the CW dropped Melrose Place, not that what's his face got much screentime anyway. Also not unexpectedly, ABC isn't bringing back the hilarious Better Off Ted which had two out actors Jonathan Slavin and Portia de Rossi, and which was usually gay-friendly.
Of the pilots that weren't picked up, the two biggest disappointments were ABC passing on the Cheyenne Jackson/Christopher Sieber sitcom It Takes a Village and CBS not going for the drama The Quinn-tuplets, both of which featured significant gay content.
So what did the networks go for of gay interest?...
This week the major networks announced their fall line-ups and mid-season replacements, and overall the news wasn't great for gay characters. Ugly Betty had already been deep-sixed on ABC, and as expected, NBC axed Trauma with gay paramedic Tyler and Mercy with gay nurse Angel, while the CW dropped Melrose Place, not that what's his face got much screentime anyway. Also not unexpectedly, ABC isn't bringing back the hilarious Better Off Ted which had two out actors Jonathan Slavin and Portia de Rossi, and which was usually gay-friendly.
Of the pilots that weren't picked up, the two biggest disappointments were ABC passing on the Cheyenne Jackson/Christopher Sieber sitcom It Takes a Village and CBS not going for the drama The Quinn-tuplets, both of which featured significant gay content.
So what did the networks go for of gay interest?...
- 5/21/2010
- by michael
- The Backlot
While the fate of Scrubs season nine still hangs in the balance, there's one thing we can tell you about previous Scrubs seasons: they'll still make you laugh.
With that in mind, we're busy catching up with Scrubs quotes from previous seasons while we eagerly await new episodes. Today, we put up quotes from the beautiful season four.
Why so beautiful? What other words can you use to describe a season that not only guest starred Heather Graham in a multiple episode arc, but also featured her in the following outfit:
Yeah, that's what we thought. Now that we have your attention, but sure and browse our complete collection of Scrubs season four quotes or just check out our favorites:
Dr. Cox: Yes, m'lady?
J.D.: So? You feeling all glahh!?
Dr. Cox: That depends, does "glahh!" mean confused and incredibly annoyed?
J.D.: Come on man, it's our last week together!
With that in mind, we're busy catching up with Scrubs quotes from previous seasons while we eagerly await new episodes. Today, we put up quotes from the beautiful season four.
Why so beautiful? What other words can you use to describe a season that not only guest starred Heather Graham in a multiple episode arc, but also featured her in the following outfit:
Yeah, that's what we thought. Now that we have your attention, but sure and browse our complete collection of Scrubs season four quotes or just check out our favorites:
Dr. Cox: Yes, m'lady?
J.D.: So? You feeling all glahh!?
Dr. Cox: That depends, does "glahh!" mean confused and incredibly annoyed?
J.D.: Come on man, it's our last week together!
- 2/16/2010
- by eric@iscribelimited.com (The Barnacle)
- TVfanatic
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