Word from Comic-Con is that Warner Bros. has made a live-action version of Akira, the granddaddy of all anime, a "priority project." We smell another Watchmen in the making. And remember how well that went. [iFMagazine]
Jul 25, 2009
This Just In: Hollywood Still Out of New Ideas [Under The Sun]
Behold, The World's Oldest Living Tranny! [Girl Talk]
The nightly news loves stories about trannies. People think they're odd and don't understand them and don't want to talk to them. Just like old people! This story about a 77-year-old transgender woman is going to freak everyone out!
Renee Ramsey lives outside Philadelphia and very well may be the oldest person to undergo gender reassignment surgery. Which is pretty newsworthy on it's own, but CBS station KYW has to try to link it to a celebrity trend.
Recently Chastity Bono announced she was having surgery to become a man. A transgender center in Montgomery County is busier than ever.
That is their lede for the story, showing that Cher's daughter son Chaz has already had a huge influence on what people do to their bodies. Renee is the second "aren't trannies crazy!" subject for the station in just three years. In their dispatch on Ramsey (with video), they reference the last story they did, about a military man (!) who had gender reassignment surgery (!!) and is a real-life doctor (!!!).
As for our darling Renee, she also spent 20 years in the military and used her life savings on her surgery (though the report doesn't tell us whether she just got breast implants or went for the whole magilla). She waited until her second wife died to have the proceedure. While she will be completely invisible to society now that she is both transgender and over 65, she finally feels at peace.
"I'm happy good, as happy as any woman could be," said Renee.
Breaking: Hollywood Still Out of New Ideas [Under The Sun]
Word out of Comic-Con is that the movie biz is spending their precious resources on Pirates of the Caribbean 4, Batman 3, Wanted 2 (sans Angelina Jolie), and The Strangers 2. Suddenly, K-Pax sequel has fingers crossed for greenlight. [Popwrap]
Jul 24, 2009
The Week We Forged Our Birth Certificates So We Can Become President in Forty-Six Years [Week In Review]
This week everyone was racist forever. There is nothing to be said to deny it. Absolutely everyone was racist and awful but some people were more racist than others.
- OMG people would not shut up about Barack Obama's weird, mysterious birth. Did he come out of the sea borne on a giant shell? Was he found in an old tree stump burl kind of thing like in that Cranberries "Dreams" video? But most importantly who are these crazy people who buy into the crazy conspiracy theories? Oh dear. They are Lou Dobbs. Also they are sad lonely Delawareans. Give them their country back!
- Lydia Hearst was murdered this week (not really), as was Condé Nast, sort of. How will anyone survive that bloodbath?
- Alex Pareene finally launched his War on Space, while Cambridge police officers continued their war on black men sitting in their own houses.
- Speaking of crime! Even pretty white finance ladies are turning to the game to make ends meet. Pretty white politics ladies are possibly involved in malfeasance too! The world is upside-down! Even pretty white writer ladies have gone wild!
- Oh, phew. Some normalcy. The state of New Jersey is still massively corrupt. It's like being hugged by an old friend to read that news.
- TV shows: We watch them. No matter if they're about sad maybe-gay teenagers or sad maybe-crazy twentysomethings.
- Something happened with some sportscaster who was peeped while undressing in her hotel room and then everyone freaked out. Especially Bill O'Reilly, who just wants to watch the footage over and over again.
- The best/worst plot twist of all time was discovered this week, as was a tumor in a Beastie Boy's salivary gland. (That is actual sad news.)
- You know what TV stars do when they aren't on TV? They work in grocery stores. When they are filming TV shows, they actually spend most of their time running away from crazed zombie girls.
- No one understands what I mean when I say the word sad.
- Pat Buchanan is crazy. Also, unapproved commenters are crazy. (Srsly, read them in that post... Wowsers.)
- Anyway that's basically it! A quiet, sticky, muggy week. And my last full one. Tear! Goodbye Gawker Fridays!
- See you Monday.
Have the Rockettes Kicked Their Last Can-Can? [Mixed Signals]
CityFile seems to think so! They ran a story saying that Jim Dolan, whose Cablevision runs Radio City Music Hall, is considering shutting down the long-running Christmas variety spectacular. But now the Rockettes have said that CityFile's got it wrong.
A Madison Square Garden spokesman tells Daily Intel that the show isn't, in fact, suffering perilously low sales this year (economy died, 'member?) and that the Christmas clusterfuck will continue forever and ever:
This story is fundamentally false, completely irresponsible, and preposterous on its face. The Radio City Christmas Spectacular will go on this year and every year for the foreseeable future. We anticipate 2009 will be a successful season and look forward to creating memories for families for years to come.
He also reminded doomsayers that a million people see the damn thing every damn year, so the eerily similarly-heighted dancing automatons will keep on kicking until further notice.
CityFile stands by their story, saying they've got two reliable sources on the inside who both confirm that Dolan is considering shuttering the show and bringing in Cirque du Soleil. Because nothing is more American (America being where Christmas was invented, obviously) than French-Canadian homosexuals gyrating to emo New Age synth music.
'Controversial Sign' [Bias]
The TV station identifies this as a "Controversial Sign," but controversial to who? To the liberal media of Azle, Texas. Think, sheeple. [Guanabee]
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