Mel Gibson, frothing actor and filmmaker, has succeeded in his campaign to prevent small Danish brewery Midtfyns Bryghus from naming one of their beers “Braveheart,” despite historical precedent of the name exists previous to its use in Gibson’s 1995 film.
But the brewery’s 72-year-old owner Keld Andersen initially refused to give in to pressure from Gibson, [...]

Comedian Eddie Griffin, practicing for the upcoming movie “Redline,” lost control of a $1.5 million dollar Ferrari Enzo—one of only 400—and took it right into a concrete barrier. Sadly, he was unhurt.

We’ve seen plenty of talk about the rippled ads of the actors who play the Spartans in the recent movie “300.” (Which I still have not seen.) The workout regimen, as designed by Mark Twight of the (brilliantly dubbed) “Gym Jones,” ignores traditional weight training for a cross-training system. Here’s some more talk about it, [...]

Every year on St. Patrick’s Day, the denizens of Shamrock, Texas, have a beard-off. Not just any beard will do: to enter, citizens must grow a “Donegal,” [fig. 1] the proud chin strap made famous by the Amish and Robot Abraham Lincoln. (The real Lincoln was as smooth-faced as his Secretary of War, A.B. “Aunt” [...]

“Glengarry Glen Ross” was my first introduction to Mamet and still perhaps my favorite. (Although at the time, I couldn’t quite understand why everything felt both extremely realistic while totally false. Now I realize it was because it was written by David Mamet.) What can I say? I’m a sucker for Jack Lemmon cursing.
But what [...]

The early-mid ’80s was the golden age of screwball teen sex comedies, and few stand out quite as poorly as the infamous “Zapped!“, featuring Scott “Chachi” Baio and Willie “Bibleman” Aames.
All the usual archetypes abound, from the smarmy popular bitch to the ugly duckling brainy girl, but at the centerpiece are fellow pathetically [...]

The “Cheesewagon Derby” is both a race and an upcoming documentary. The race pits modded school buses against each other in a tear around a figure-eight race course. While destruction isn’t the goal, it’s inevitable that a few buses get T-boned as the race proceeds. It’s Florida redneck racing at its finest.
NSFW Warning: There are [...]

There’s no reason this should be as good as it is, but the Force moves in mysterious ways. (F-bombs but otherwise SFW.)