Posts by Tess Lynch
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Afternoon Links: Horror Conventions, Infinite Jests, and Illegal Bieber Tats
The Days of the Dead horror convention is in Los Angeles this weekend, and judging by the website, it looks like it might feature Mrs. Potato Dick on stage 15. Too scary for you? I’m not going to entertain that argument because we live in a world that houses giant spiders the size of your […]
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Afternoon Links: R.I.P., Roger Ebert
After announcing his leave of presence, Roger Ebert passed away today in Chicago after a long battle with cancer. It’s a sad day for movie geeks, writers, and New Yorker caption hopefuls. Bust out your old Mad magazines and dim the lights. See you at the movies, Mr. Ebert.
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Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Survivor, Real Housewives, Cat Marnell, and Mad Men Preseason Chat
Maybe today isn’t the best day to get morbid on y’all, but this week’s tragic French Survivor deaths made us wonder, Carrie Bradshaw–style, about how dependent pop culture is becoming on high-risk entertainment. From the literal task of surviving on Survivor to the more murky waters of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills to druggie blogger […]
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Survivor: Caramoan, Episode 7: Blindside Time!
After writing about the Koh-Lanta deaths and then talking about the assorted perils of reality shows on the Girls in Hoodies podcast, I was feeling kind of mixed on the whole Survivor thing this week. It isn’t that I don’t still love Survivor, but I felt like taking a little bit of a break from […]
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Afternoon Links: Roger Ebert Takes a ‘Leave of Presence’
Roger Ebert, Pulitzer Prize winner and national treasure, is taking a “leave of presence” by cutting back on his workload as he faces cancer treatments again. He will continue to write selected reviews as well as essays addressing his illness. “It really stinks that the cancer has returned,” he writes, “and that I have spent […]
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Afternoon Links: As Always, It’s a Good Idea to Hear Shia’s Side of the Story
Shia LaBeouf appeared on Letterman and spoke about his Broadway beouf with Alec Baldwin. “Now what did you do to him?” asked Letterman, a friend of Baldwin’s. Short answer: two impulsive people clashing and creating “fireworks,” tension between the two “as men — not as artists, but as men,” and definitely not the PR-generated “creative […]
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Survivor Guilt: Processing the Koh-Lanta Suicide
Koh-Lanta, the French version of Survivor, looks almost identical to our own, right down to the Geoffroy Preauxbt, but I’d never paid much attention to it (or Denmark’s Robinson Ekspeditionen, or Brazil’s No Limite, or even the show that started the whole Survivor institution in 1997, Sweden’s Expedition Robinson) until I heard about Gerald Babin’s […]
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Afternoon Links: Buckwild Star Shain Gandee Passes Away
Buckwild star Shain Gandee, 21, has died. Gandee was found in a car with his uncle and an unidentified person (all three deceased) in West Virginia 31 hours after he was reported missing. The show, which announced its second season in February, has attracted criticism for defaming West Virginia, and last month two of its […]
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Afternoon Links: Bronson Pinchot, Renegade Weatherman
Bronson Pinchot (a.k.a. Balki from Perfect Strangers) took over a Fox weathercast after making professional weather person Jeff Jumper self-conscious about his “grown-up haircut” and then jumping into frame to wreak havoc on a live feed of Harrisburg (“There’s a woman in this building right now, she’s on a little squeaky bed and she’s got […]
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Afternoon Links: The Rock’s Pitch to Reboot Twilight
De-extincting your franchise with Dwayne Johnson: The Rock, otherwise known as “Franchise Viagra,” imagines defibrillating Star Wars, James Bond, Batman, Shrek, and Twilight. (“We would introduce the biggest, baddest, most manliest vampire the world has ever seen or will ever see. Go to Kristen Stewart, grab her by the back of the head, pull her […]
