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16 Apr 22:12

Newswire: Alec Baldwin has a hot take on that Pepsi ad

by Sam Barsanti

More than a week ago, the most important thing in the world was that controversial Pepsi ad that co-oped Black Lives Matter and featured Kendall Jenner eradicating the specter of police violence with a refreshing can of soda pop. Even though we’ve all pretty much moved on to bigger and better controversies, though, Alec Baldwin has decided that it’s time for him to weigh in. Essentially, Baldwin’s take on the whole thing is that it’s wrong for people to be pinning any of the blame on Kendall Jenner, who he says is “very young” and “inexperienced.” Instead, he thinks people should be blaming “her management” and the “awful business” she’s in.

Baldwin said all of this on Twitter, throwing in a mention that his daughter and Jenner apparently went to school together. Also, as Vulture notes, Jenner herself has barely been spotted in public since ...

15 Oct 17:22

Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 Is Officially Banned From Planes: Tell Us Your Stories

by Rhett Jones on Gizmodo, shared by Beth Elderkin to io9

As of yesterday, no one is allowed to bring a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 onto a flight in the United States because they can combust. If you’re traveling and haven’t had a chance to exchange your phone yet, this is going to be a big pain in your ass.

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21 Sep 01:47

Coming Distractions: The new Shooting Clerks trailer is appropriately DIY

by Dennis DiClaudio

Regardless of how you might feel about Kevin Smith’s filmography as a whole, you have to admit that what he pulled off as just just some backwards-hat-and-trench-coat-wearing guy from New Jersey is astounding. Willing a feature-length movie into existence with practically nothing in the middle of nowhere and somehow parlaying that into a 22-year (and counting) multi-media career with a large and extremely loyal fan base is hard to do. So, it makes sense that Smith has been an inspiration to many younger filmmakers. But none quite so literally as Christopher Downie.

The 31-year-old Scottish writer-director is finally getting ready to release Shooting Clerks, the film about the shooting of the film Clerks that he’s been working on for several years now. It tells the story of how a convenience store clerk pulled off the near-impossible and turned his quirky idea into a movie we’re still talking ...

12 Oct 17:46

Newswire: Jackie Earle Haley to play someone who is probably a bad guy in London Has Fallen

by Sam Barsanti

We don’t know very much about London Has Fallen, the upcoming sequel to Olympus Has Fallen, other than that it will be the English-language directorial debut of Swedish filmmaker Babak Najafi, it will have most of the same actors, and it will probably follow the same basic plot. Anything beyond that, though, is anyone’s guess. Like, will London Has Fallen open close to a similar movie about London getting attacked, but with Jamie Foxx and Channing Tatum in the Aaron Eckhart and Gerard Butler roles? Will one of its villains help the terrorists with their evil plot, only to completely jump ship and join the good guys once Gerard Butler kicks his ass for a few minutes? We’ll just have to wait until the movie comes out to find the answers to those burning questions.

One thing we do know, however, is that Watchmen‘s Jackie Earle ...

20 Jan 20:57

Notable Los Angeles 1/20–1/26

by Xach Fromson

Monday 1/20: It’s MLK day. Help inspire the next generation of great minds, sign up to volunteer through 826LA.

Tuesday 1/21: Joe Nelms discusses and signs The Last Time I Died. 7:00 p.m. at Book Soup.

Wednesday 1/22: Poetry reading by Michael Palmer and Joyelle McSweeney. 7:30 p.m. at Otis College of Art and Design.

Thursday 1/23: READINGS is back for the new year with readings by Steph Cha, Chiwan Choi, Ben Loory, and Yumi Sakugawa.  Music by John Isaac Waters. Hosted by Zoë Ruiz. 7:30 p.m. at Stories Books and Cafe. $5 suggested donation that will benefit The Rumpus (that’s us!).

The Loudest Voice presents readings by Chad Sweeney, Andrew Allport, Kate Folk, Jessica Piazza, and Trinie Dalton. 8:00 p.m. at Verdugo Bar.

Friday 1/24: R. Steven Johnson reads from his highly anticipated book, Convertible Chocolate, at the book’s release party. The event will also feature other guest speakers. 7:00 p.m. at The Last Bookstore.

Saturday 1/25: Gerald Locklin, Wendy Rainey, and Shannon Phillips read from their latest works. 8:00 p.m. at Beyond Baroque.

Sunday 1/26: The 2014 PEN Center Emerging Voices Welcome Party celebrates this year’s Emerging Voices Fellows, Brandon Brown, Marci Carillo, Hanne Steen, Margaret Spilman, Andres Reconco, and Victor Vazquez. Join them and their mentors, Leslie Brody, Trinie Dalton, Douglas Kearney, James Meetze, Melanie Thorne, and Hector Tobar. 6:30 p.m. at Spin LA at The Standard Downtown.

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