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"The Tao of Donal Logue"

― +++++, Monday, 3 April 2006 15:50 (twenty years ago)

BILLMURRAYSHACK

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 3 April 2006 16:00 (twenty years ago)

Tigga Please (winnie the pooh article in Essence magazine)

― Chex Dwarf (sanskrit), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:28 (twenty years ago)

The ++++ of 9/11 Threads.

― ----, Monday, 3 April 2006 19:30 (twenty years ago)

the thin red elias koteas

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Win, Lose or Bert Convy

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Ke7in Spacey

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:37 (twenty years ago)

my big fat nia vardalos

― ++++, Monday, 3 April 2006 19:42 (twenty years ago)

the taking of martin balsam

― strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:43 (twenty years ago)

who framed bob hoskins?

― ++++, Monday, 3 April 2006 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Baio in Charge

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:45 (twenty years ago)

9 1/2 rourkes

― ++++, Monday, 3 April 2006 19:45 (twenty years ago)

Al Franken is a Big, Fat Idiot

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:49 (twenty years ago)

Close Encounters of the Dreyfuss Kind

― strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:51 (twenty years ago)

Being John Malkovich

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:51 (twenty years ago)

Are You There God? It's Me, Judy Blume

xpost: WINNAR

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:52 (twenty years ago)

the trick now is to actually find magazine articles w/ these titles - i know theres gotta be 2 or 3 malkovich ones

― ++++, Monday, 3 April 2006 19:53 (twenty years ago)

Leslie Nielsen: Dead and Loving It

― strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:54 (twenty years ago)

the trick now is to actually find magazine articles w/ these titles - i know theres gotta be 2 or 3 malkovich ones

we did "being charlie kaufman" when ... thingy ... what the fuck was it called? ... you know, the disappointing follow-up with two nic cages came out.

other than that, though, i tend to avoid this kind of thing when writing headlines. it's hard to find the middle ground between completely obscure and screamingly obvious (so done a million times before). and 99% of the time - "being charlie kaufman" excepted, although even then it's hardly an award-winner - such headlines say nothing at all about the piece and ...

... sorry, i'll shut up now.

― grimly "no, look, i'm just off a 10-hour magazine-production shift" tedious (gri, Monday, 3 April 2006 20:24 (twenty years ago)

"adaptation", that's it.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:25 (twenty years ago)

that said, i would love to find stories to go with:

"harrison ford and the temple of doom"

"when raymond briggs blows"

oh, that'll do.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:32 (twenty years ago)

Tori Spelling IS Notorious.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:00 (twenty years ago)

Which I think is my way of saying that it's spread from the magazines and we live in META-NAMING fake-reality world!

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:01 (twenty years ago)

okay

― ++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:48 (twenty years ago)

Legally Witherspoon

― strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:49 (twenty years ago)

Hit me Britney one more time.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:52 (twenty years ago)

Jim Carrey's Series of Unfortunate Movies

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:52 (twenty years ago)

keenan ivory wayans, sucka

― ++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:53 (twenty years ago)

Delivereynolds

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:58 (twenty years ago)

apologies to every great entry in this thread but my favorite is still 'the tao of donal logue'

― ++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:59 (twenty years ago)

i think the most overused of these is "the importance of being..." (julia, bono, martha, arnold, whoever)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:10 (twenty years ago)

The Grammer
of Frasier

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:00 (twenty years ago)

I'm willing to wager a beer that there must have been one of
Saving... Matt Damon/Tom Hanks/Steven Spielberg

― S- (sgh), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 04:11 (twenty years ago)

keanu reeves' excellent adventure

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 04:48 (twenty years ago)

marlon brando's last tango

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 05:01 (twenty years ago)

Brando's works for a lot:

A Brando Named Desire
Apocalypse Brando
MarlON the Waterfront
Last Tango in Marlon Brando

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 05:32 (twenty years ago)

there's something about cameron diaz

― Sym Sym (sym), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 06:17 (twenty years ago)

"A Town Without Pitney"

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:30 (twenty years ago)

Awwww

Sigourney Weavers

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:32 (twenty years ago)

The Sum of All Afflecks

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:36 (twenty years ago)

http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/bimgdata/FC0306810301.JPG

― +-+--+-+-, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 20:14 (twenty years ago)

Not quite the same thing, but I could swear I've seen an absolutely ludicrous amount of articles written about Tom Cruise that STILL use the "Cruise Missile" or "Cruise Control" double meaning thing and y'know, I just think it should have stopped by now.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 21:19 (twenty years ago)

The Fabulous Michelle Pfeiffer

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 21:20 (twenty years ago)

The Fabulous Beau Bridges

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 21:35 (twenty years ago)

All I can think when I see Scary Movie 4 ads now is "Leslie Nielson: Dead and Loving It".

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 23:59 (twenty years ago)

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