Posts by Chris Ryan
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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: Silver Linings Playbook Chat With Zach Baron, Plus December Movies And Boardwalk Empire
The hometown nostalgia survived longer than the turkey hangover on the Hollywood Prospectus podcast. To kick off the holiday movie season, Chris Ryan and I invited fellow Philadelphian (and Grantland’s resident Cinemetrician) Zach Baron to talk about one of the best films of the year, Silver Linings Playbook (2:50). We three former Friends School League rivals dug […]
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Joey Barton Speaking in English With a French Accent Is Mesmerizing
This is Joey Barton doing a press conference. Barton is an English footballer from Merseyside, now plying his trade in France, where he plays for Marseille. Notice anything … funny about the accent Barton is using? Like maybe how he seems to be pretending to be the French waiter in National Lampoon’s European Vacation explaining […]
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Dwight Howard Clowns Kobe on Lakers Team Flight
Not seen: Kobe methodically sharpening his pruning shears and texting Jim Buss to trade Dwight to CSKA Moscow. (Via BuzzFeed Sports/Got ‘Em Coach)
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Happy Thanksgiving: Here’s Kevin Durant Rapping in a Club
The song is called “Rolls Royce.” The setting is Oklahoma City. And I think this pretty much buries all the “All those Thunder guys do is stay home and play video games and Skype with their families” stories. Serge Ibaka looks like a crushed-velvet salesman in this video. Happy turkey day. (via Tyler from Terre […]
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Robert Sacre Rockets to the Top of the Finger-Gun Celebration Power Rankings
Oh you didn’t know we had those?! We have those! GIFS by HeyBelinda, enthusiasm 100 percent, pure Sacre.
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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: Mid-’00s Hip-Hop, Homeland, The Walking Dead, and The Passage
This week on the Hollywood Prospectus Podcast, we’re going east, young men and women. Andy and I, both having seen Silver Linings Playbook (don’t worry, we don’t talk about it) (but go see it!) have some brotherly love pumping in our hearts (3:30). The film is set in Philadelphia, in the weeks between Halloween and […]
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Play This Eagles-Taylor Swift Parody Video At My Funeral
(via The 700 Level/Jimmy Traina)
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One Andrew Bynum GIF to Rule Them All
Mondays. Am I right?
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We See You, Utah Jazz Announcer Quoting Ludacris
David Locke getting fired up on behalf of Gordon Hayward. (Via Spencer Hall of SaltCityHoops)
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Robin Lopez Seems Very Chill About Riding Splash Mountain
This comes to us via a reader named Andy, from Los Angeles. Thanks, Andy. You’ve done your country a great service by sharing this photo of Robin Lopez losing it on Splash Mountain.
