25 September 2003
It’s just occured to me that newsreader readers won’t see the links, because they’re added using a script. So you get normal links as well.
Easy Star is proud to present the Easy Star All-Stars’ stunning reinvention of Dark Side of the Moon, which features entirely new recordings and was over three years in the making. It boasts vocal contributions from roots/blues stalwart Corey Harris, dancehall veteran Frankie Paul, Wailers lead singer Gary “Nesta” Pine, revered harmony trio The Meditations, NY pacesetter Dr. Israel, legendary toaster Ranking Joe, and others.
— Easy Star Records: Dub Side of the Moon
Georgia’s governor probably has more power over spending than any other governor. Like governors in 42 other states, Georgia’s chief executive can veto all or part of a budget. But this governor’s golden hammer is something more obscure: the constitutional authority to estimate how much revenue the state will have to spend. The governor picks a number. The Legislature cannot spend a penny more.
— The Desert Sun: What California can learn from Georgia’s budget
Wiseman, in his hyphenate debut (he co-concocted the story), has scored big with a real-life engagement to the ethereally beautiful — and undernourished and anaemic — Kate Beckinsale, enough to take the sting out of the blah of Underworld, I’d surmise. And why not? Many would fail worse for less, but as a writer and director he proves himself to be a pretty good set designer.
— Film Freak Central: Underworld
With the unexpected and overwhelming success of “Bowling for Columbine” and “Stupid White Men,” the fiction that has been written or spoken about me and my work has reached a whole new level of storytelling. It’s no longer about making some simple errors or calling me "Roger" Moore. It is now about organized groups going full blast trying to discredit me by knowingly making up lies and repeating them over and over in the hopes that people will believe them — and, then, stop listening to me.
— Michael Moore responds to the wacko attackos…
As critics have pointed out repeatedly, Moore himself is a world-class expert on fictition; in fact, when it comes to truth telling, not to mention logic, you might say: less is Moore. But if the copious charges of lies and distortions don’t make a dent, it’s because Moore’s fabrications are the very source of his appeal. Not only has he created an enormously clever fictional character whose name is Michael Moore — a contemporary Will Rogers, able to channel Noam Chomsky via Chevy Chase; a working-class, truth-telling schlub in a trucker’s hat who shuffles out of his La-Z-Boy recliner to seek answers to folksy questions from the high and mighty — he has also conjured up a fictional America that seductively taps into long familiar populist resentments that have their most recent incarnation in the rage of the anti-globalization Left.
— City Journal: Michael Moore, Humbug
The Robert Evans documentary The Kid Stays in the Picture is a whole lot of fun, although I’m not sure how much of Evans’ amazing story we’re supposed to believe. The film opens with a quote from his 1994 autobiography of the same name — “There are three sides to every story: My side, your side and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently.” If that isn’t enough to make The Kid seem more than a little one-sided, the fact that it’s based solely on that biography, it’s narrated by Evans and it includes exactly zero interviews with any of his friends, family, co-workers or acquaintances should set off bullshit detectors around the world.
On paper, all of that makes The Kid sound like a Level-5 disaster, but its story is so interesting, you’ll barely care that it might be a snow job.
— Planet Sick-Boy: The Kid Stays in the Picture