You have to watch this... Staged or Real? Without researching, what do you think?

Wow. There are some great videos of a completely wasted Jake the Snake Roberts on YouTube.

Via the Wall Street Journal.

Story from the NY Times here and photos here.

It has come to Cosmodrome’s attention that the AFI (American Film Institute) will unveil a new list of the 100 greatest American films in a June 20th, star-laden broadcast on CBS (the first list was announced in 1998). So as we countdown the hours and minutes until we hear the new list (and hear the string of obligatory celebrity soundbites that, according to the AFI’s website, will include the likes of Peter Bogdonavich, Eva Mendes, and M. Night Shyamalan), we would like to do some of our own reflecting about great American movies.

There are many directions that our discussion might go. How do tastes in cinema evolve (both in regards to the AFI and ourselves on a personal level)? What value (if any) do these lists and canons actually have? And when we talk about the greatest American films, should these be movies that reveal some truth about this country we live in, movies that are not just shot in America or financed by U.S. dollars but that address the historical themes of America?

I hope we will be able to touch on many of these issues in our discussion, and I think things gets most interesting at the places where these concerns intersect. So how to get this discussion started? Rather than launching a pre-emptive strike on the AFI by posting my own list of the100 American greatest films (a list which I have never created and don’t know if I could), I instead would like to focus on one particular movie I love and that seems indispensable to any canon of American cinema. Others can disagree with my choice, suggest their own films, or take a completely different approach.

6/13/07: Eric Hoyt on MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS

6/14/07: Jon Lefkovitz on HIS GIRL FRIDAY

6/14/07: Jeff Deutchman on MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO

6/18/07: Eric Hoyt on ACE IN THE HOLE

6/19/07: Nihal on L.A. CONFIDENTIAL

In light of another legal setback in the war of terror, here's some classic Bush press conference material, defending the Administration's interpretation of the Geneva Convention:

I'd feel bad for David Gregory (who generally holds his own), if only he hadn't played such a big part in this abomination.

Had to post this incredible video of an afternoon battle between some lions, an army of wildebeasts, and a couple of crocodiles.

The scene doesn't really get going till around the 2:00 mark, and the plot twists enter a few minutes after that.

Really just extraordinary stuff.

Today in "Sport," as the BBC refers to their sportS pages, victory was revoked from the 1996 winner of the Tour de France, Dane Bjarne Riis, after he confessed to doping. The organization put it this way: "We consider philosophically that he can no longer claim to have won." He had been using EPOs for about 5 years, including during his 96 win.

Here's us on the boardwalk. Tony thinks he knows where we're going. Ange was too busy "chatting" with George to show us where to go ... LOLZ!!!

Unfortunately, we didn't get the time to hang out at Ange's place on Day Two. Though it was not without fun!!!

Here's my photos from Day Two of our vacation on the German seaside.

Day One's photos are here.

Yahoo Serious, the wonderfully talented Australian film star from the 1980s is back - and this time he's in it for the children.

From Kokoda Track Foundation, where Yahoo is on the Board of Directors:

A founding director of the Kokoda Track Foundation, Yahoo has trekked the Track many times, is a friend of local villagers and of many Aussie veterans of the New Guinea campaign...

...Serious Productions is currently producing Yahoo’s 4th and most ambitious movie. The sweeping World War 2 epic opens with The Fall of Singapore and the Thai-Burma Death Railway then dramatically journeys the Kokoda Track in an epic adventure of mateship, heartbreak and triumph.

Yahoo is passionate to repay Australia’s nearest neighbours, the wonderful people of Papua New Guinea for their help to our young country in its darkest hour.