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Barack Obama Is A Huge Mad Men Fan
3:57AM Brian Moylan | Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner tells Fox News (of all places) that Barack Obama sent him a letter telling him how much he enjoyed season three. Now we know Obama won’t be spending summer Sundays working on that oil spill.
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The Origin Of ‘Fanboy’
10:00AM Ryan Tate | Tech writer Harry McCracken hunted down the origins of the now-pejorative term “fanboy”, as in “Apple fanboys defend everything Steve Jobs says.” His adventurous history, which plunges into old comics, zines and computer bulletin-board systems, is highly recommended. In short: More »
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The Fevered Fantasies Of Apple’s Fanboys
2:29AM Ryan Tate | One Wall Street analyst predicts Steve Jobs will show up for Apple’s Apple’s iPod event next week; others doubt it. The frenzied chatter is just one way people turn into hysterical teenage girls before these Apple things. Especially online. More »
Weinstein Co. Dumps Four More Films; We Translate the Excuses
10:10AM STV | Harvey Weinstein today passed along the not-so-surprising word that four Weinstein Company films slated for release this fall — Crossing Over, Fanboys, Shanghai and Killshot — will in fact be pushed back to 2009. Harvey’s Friday News-Dump Massacre came by way of a phone call to Patrick Goldstein, to whom the schmogul spilled the details with all the crystalline logic we’ve come to expect — none of which, of course, has anything to do with the fact that he’s broke. Find Defamer’s handy Weinstein Excuse-to-English Guide™ for your convenience after the jump. More »
Yoda-Like Kevin Spacey Praises Quick-Learning ‘Jedi Knight Harvey Weinstein’
4:10AM Defamer US Edition | Relief swept Defamer HQ today as we can finally close the book on the long, tortured saga of Fanboys, the terminal-cancer by-way-of-Skywalker-Ranch buddy comedy whose scissoring (and presumed dumping) at the hands of Harvey Weinstein provoked such authentic fanboy outrage last spring. But now a press release from Darth Weinstein himself announced that Fanboys will receive a second premiere this week at San Diego ComicCon — now with fans’ “extensive feedback” added to the final cut. More »
‘Hobbit’ Director Debate Ignores Critical Fact that ‘Hobbit’ is Rubbish
9:50AM Defamer US Edition | There’s been much to-do over the last day about Peter Jackson’s hiring of Guillermo del Toro to direct the two-part Lord of the Rings prequel The Hobbit. Among our favourite dissenting opinions belongs to Salon critic Andrew O’Hehir, who pulls out his Cannes ’06 interview notebook to look up del Toro’s sentiment at the time: “I was never into heroic fantasy. At all. I don’t like little guys and dragons, hairy feet, hobbits — I’ve never been into that at all. I don’t like sword and sorcery, I hate all that stuff.” Our sister blog Gawker doesn’t like del Toro’s selection either, but we’re optimistic this is a perfect match for everyone because The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien and Guillermo del Toro all fucking suck. Does it really matter which A-list fantasy/horror fanboy with $300 million of Warner Bros.’ money and Jackson’s imprimatur is going to spend four years jacking off behind a camera in New Zealand? It’s going to be unwatchable. Not only that, but didn’t Jackson make this movie three times already? Here’s our exclusive script excerpt: “EXT. FOREST — DAY. Bilbo Baggins furrows his brow. Visual effects and soundtrack happen. INT. CASTLE — NIGHT. Ian McKellen cameo. More effects. EXT. FOREST — DAY. The end.” It’s a hit! [Salon] More »