January 2008
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Guillermo del Toro to direct ‘The Hobbit’ films
I’ve been following news about The Hobbit films closely ever since it was confirmed that Peter Jackson was going to be attached to the project. To me it wouldn’t be the same without Jackson’s vision helping it along. This time around though, he’ll be producing the films, not directing, but that’s okay with me considering [...] Continue →
Welcome to the new home for A Mike Life
If you are seeing this message, then you’ve found the new home for A Mike Life. The process of moving everything over was a lot easier than I thought. Thanks to my friend Adrian’s good advice, it was just a matter of copying all my files and folders, and importing the database. A few things [...] Continue →
AML is moving servers!
Well, it looks like we can blame all this on Paula Abdul being drunk. My blog post early this morning about Paula Abdul and her American Idol drunken hiccup episode got me linked to on USA Today’s Entertainment blog. This resulted in a lot of traffic (which I am totally grateful for) and it started [...] Continue →
Scorsese’s “Shutter Island” Gets Absurd Name Change
Amid all of the Oscar and Heath Ledger news over the past week it looks like a strange piece of news slipped right through the cracks for most of us. In what has to rank as one of the weirdest name changes in history, the Boston Herald reported that the Martin Scorsese adaptation of the [...] Continue →
Get your Blogging Zoom on!
One of my favorite quotes from The Office comes from Andy Bernard when he’s talking to Michael Scott about his Wednesday night plans: “Gonna go home. Get my beer on. Get my “Lost” on.“ I sort of have my own set of events that I do on a given day or night: “Gonna go home. [...] Continue →
Guillermo del Toro To Pull Double Duty Directing Both “Hobbit” Films For Producer Peter Jackson
Back in December Peter Jackson and New Line buried the hatchet on their “Lord of the Rings” disagreements paving the way for a movie based on The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (Peter Jackson To Produce But Not Direct “The Hobbitâ€Â? And Sequel). In that announcement we learned that New Line was planning not one but [...] Continue →
Breaking Bad is delightfully disturbing
Last week I got a chance to check out Breaking Bad and wrote a little review on it for your reading euphoria. I loved the pilot episode and really enjoyed the sick side of it. It’s almost a dark comedy at times, as I laughed out loud on a few occasions at some pretty horrific [...] Continue →
Young Kirk Cast In “Star Trek”
Director J.J. Abrams has cast eleven year old (soon to be 12) Jimmy Bennett (Hostage, Daddy Day Care, Firewall, Evan Almighty) as the young James T. Kirk in the new “Star Trek” film. The casting of a young version of Kirk seems to confirm the rumor that we will, in fact, see different timelines in [...] Continue →
Get well Michael Wilbon
One of my favorite shows on television right now isn’t scripted and it isn’t on regular TV and not even primetime. It’s Pardon the Interruption on ESPN which is on every afternoon at 5:30pm EST. To me, it’s like Oprah for men. They run down the list of the hot topics in sports and give [...] Continue →
Jim trains Dwight like a dog
It’s really sad that there are no new The Office episodes to talk about, but that’s not stopping me from looking up some of my favorite moments and passing them on to you guys. One of the best parts of The Office is the cold-opening. If you don’t know what that means, it refers to [...] Continue →