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23 Apr 14:55

Will 'MacGruber 2' Happen?

by The Huffington Post News Team
It's difficult not to root for Will Forte, who may be one of the genuinely nicest actors working today.

In 2010, Forte was at a career crossroads: ...

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21 Apr 15:45

How 'Space Jam' proves the internet is a time capsule

by Aaron Souppouris
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Whether you're promoting a new movie, an event, or a presidential campaign, you need a website. But what happens to those sites once the publicity drive is over? As Wired reveals, many promotional sites are still running. The site for the 1996 Michael Jordan/Looney Tunes crossover Space Jam is perhaps the pick of the bunch. Jam-packed with GIFs, sound bites, HTML frames, and even a replacement browser icon ("unfortunately, this only works on a Macintosh running Netscape; sorry, Windows users") the official Space Jam website stoically serves as a reminder of what the web of the mid-nineties looked like. Wired's article has several other fantastic examples, including the official site of Dole/Kemp '96, the Republican party's unsuccessful attempt to prevent President Clinton from gaining a second term in the White House.

18 Apr 22:58

Glee: 4×18 – Shooting Star (FOX)

by Pedro C.

[SPOILERS] Matthew Hodgson, autor de alguns dos piores episódios de “Glee”, volta a assinar novo argumento e, com ele, novo desastre.

A melhor palavra para descrever este “Shooting Star” seria confuso. Foi confuso na apresentação das histórias, foi confuso na mensagem que quis passar: devemos aproveitar as oportunidades como se fossem a última. Até aqui tudo bem: Brittany (Heather Morris) acredita que um cometa se dirige contra a Terra e decide aproveitar o tempo que lhe resta para resolver a sua relação com Lord Tubbington. Ironia do destino, Brittany estava errada, mas um tiroteio em McKinley esperava-os para tratar do assunto. Aproveitem as oportunidades como se fossem a última.

Não gostei desta história do tiroteio. Nem um pouco. Primeiro, não me parece a melhor coisa a incorporar numa suposta comédia musical. Depois, não serviu para nada. As cenas na sala do coro e na casa-de-banho foram terrivelmente angustiantes. Mesmo. Senti a tensão, o medo. Mas para quê? Para Kitty (Becca Tobin) confessar a sua responsabilidade na bulimia de Marley (Melissa Benoist)? Na vida real, tiroteios e outras tragédias acontecem inesperadamente, é verdade, mas numa obra de ficção espera-se que haja algum propósito, nem que seja, como em “Elephant”, para nos darmos conta daquelas vidas abruptamente interrompidas. No entanto, aqui, o propósito foi apenas um: empurrar Sue (Jane Lynch) para fora da série, o que torna tudo insuportavelmente sádico e macabro. Havia melhores maneiras, menos cruas (e a série é perita em arranjar situações para fazer as personagens mudarem de ideias), de relembrar o amor que une Brittany e Sam (Chord Overstreet) ou de provocar a confissão de Kitty. Os testemunhos para a câmara só aumentaram o grotesco da situação, com a maior parte dos miúdos a dizerem coisas que, do ponto de vista da narrativa, não tiveram qualquer significado. Das muitas situações que “Glee” poderia ter escolhido para passar a mensagem, escolheu o tiroteio escolar – drama gratuito, sem qualquer suporte narrativo coerente. Uma escolha muito pobre.

Depois de uma parte central tão intensa, o desanuviamento foi fraco, mais uma vez revelando a inutilidade de um tiroteio, já que as resoluções não tinham situações críticas a antecedê-las. O abraço de Kitty e Marley ao fundo, a cena entre Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) e Blaine (Darren Criss), tudo teve um leve sabor a aleatório. A revelação da autora dos disparos foi um dos melhores momentos, ainda que, de repente, Becky (Lauren Potter), normalmente usada para comic relief, tenha surgido revestida de uma importância desmedida.

Também a declaração de Beiste (Dot Marie Jones) foi inesperada e talvez despropositada porque, mais uma vez, foi pegar numa personagem secundária desaparecida e dotá-la de uma grande relevância e de sentimentos desconhecidos. A história de Ryder (Blake Jenner) e Katie (Ginny Gardner) foi mesmo a melhor trabalhada ao longo do episódio, possivelmente pelo seu drama mais “inofensivo” mas não menos real e por conseguir viver independente da calamidade que foram o tiroteio e as últimas oportunidades.

Melhor que confuso, ridículo seria a palavra apropriada para adjectivar este episódio. Depois lembro-me dos miúdos a chorar e da sua inutilidade e fico-me pelo perverso.

  • “Your Song” – Elton John – Ryder
  • “More Than Words” – Extreme – Sam, Brittany e New Directions
  • “Say” – John Mayer – New Directions

O Melhor: O discurso final de Sue sobre memória e posteridade. O Pior: Praticamente tudo. Nota: 3.8 (Mau)
Lista de Episódios Nota (0.0/10.0)
Glee: 4×01 – The New Rachel (FOX) 7.9
Glee: 4×02 – Britney 2.0 (FOX) 8.0
Glee: 4×03 – Makeover (FOX) 7.4
Glee: 4×04 – The Break-Up (FOX) 8.2
Glee: 4×05 – The Role You Were Born to Play (FOX) 7.9
Glee: 4×06 – Glease (FOX) 6.0
Glee: 4×07 – Dynamic Duets (FOX) 5.6
Glee: 4×08 – Thanksgiving (FOX) 6.9
Glee: 4×09 – Swan Song (FOX) 7.5
Glee: 4×10 – Glee, Actually (FOX) 8.0
Glee: 4×11 – Sadie Hawkins (FOX) 7.0
Glee: 4×12 – Naked (FOX) 7.7
Glee: 4×13 – Diva (FOX) 8.4
Glee: 4×14 – I Do (FOX) 8.8
Glee: 4×15 – Girls (and Boys) On Film (FOX) 7.6
Glee: 4×16 – Feud (FOX) 8.5
Glee: 4×17 – Guilty Pleasures (FOX) 8.4
Glee: 4×18 – Shooting Star (FOX) 3.8
18 Apr 22:46

How 9/11 prepared Boston's hospitals for the marathon bombings

by Casey Newton
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The Boston Marathon bombings shocked the world on Monday, but local hospitals were well prepared to treat their victims. In a piece for The New Yorker, surgeon and staff writer Atul Gawande explores how Boston hospitals were able to effectively treat scores of badly wounded people within minutes of learning of the explosions near the race's finish line. So far, all of those who were alive when rescued have survived — a tribute to how much hospitals have learned about responding to terrorist attacks since the events of September 11, 2001. Hospitals overhauled their disaster-response plans to prepare for terrorist attacks, and after a decade of war, an increasing number of operating rooms are staffed by doctors and nurses with battlefield experience.

"A decade earlier, nothing approaching their level of collaboration and efficiency would have occurred," Gawande writes. "We have, as one colleague put it to me, replaced our pre-9/11 naïveté with post-9/11 sobriety. Where before we’d have been struck dumb with shock about such events, now we are almost calculating about them."

18 Apr 00:34

'Sweet Caroline' Plays at Ballparks Nationwide in Boston Tribute

Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" played at Major League Baseball parks coast-to-coast last night in a tribute to the city of Boston which is continuing to recover after bombings Monday afternoon killed three people and injured 176 near the finish line of the Boston Marathon  Diamond's 1969 song has been playing before the...

17 Apr 17:47

How New York is designing the perfect subway car

by Matt Brian
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New York transit authorities have come up with what they believe is the ideal car interior. In the winter of 2011-2012, researchers rode the New York City subway system to monitor where travellers sat and stood, also studying the length of time they did so. Unsurprisingly, New Yorkers were happy to sit or stand alone, preferring to congregate near the doors in the middle of the car, even if there were seats available. Wired takes a look at the new subway car design — which suggests utilizing asymmetrical door placements to lure riders away from the doors and removing the middle seats — which mimic NYC subway car designs of old (pictured above).

16 Apr 18:31

Dia Mundial da Voz alerta para epidemia de heloísas apolónias

by Mário Botequilha
Celebra-se hoje o Dia Mundial da Voz.
13 Apr 01:46

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13 Apr 01:45

Offline: boiling it down to the essentials

by Paul Miller
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At the end of a Veggie Tales episode, from his perch on a kitchen counter, flanked by his faithful sidekick Larry the Cucumber, Bob the Tomato asks, "what have we learned today?" It’s an important part of classic children’s programming: after the entertainment comes the morals. Come for the hilarious veggie hijinks, stay for the turn-your-life-around-kid Bible verse.

Well, my veggie hijinks are about to come to a close, and now it’s time for me to boil them down into digestible Life Lessons and, you know, write a bestselling book about my experiences.

Except I’m having problems with the distillation process. Virtually since day one of my time without the internet I’ve been considering a book on the topic. I’d expect no less of anyone...

Continue reading…

15 Mar 02:25

Media Decoder Blog: Recapping episode six of "House of Cards" with a detour through Austin.

by By DAVID CARR and ASHLEY PARKER
As soon as someone at SxSW found out I was from D.C.,, the first question they invariably asked was, “Do you watch ‘House of Cards?’”

14 Mar 20:31

Eight Years Later

by John Gruber

Fascinating before/after comparison of St. Peter’s Square in 2005 vs. 2013.

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