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The Price Is Right: Equal Opportunity Alien Employer

GiggleSugar — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:25:46 -0700

The Price Is Right is a sinking ship. I wonder how Bob Barker feels about this ridiculous showcase showdown storyline involving an overweight alien? If "E.L.T." really wanted to lose weight, she could just phone ~~home~~ Jenny. Ha.

You, Me And E.T.

GiggleSugar — Thu, 24 May 2007 10:12:48 -0700

What happens when you take a comedy like You, Me and Dupree, cut out Owen Wilson, and insert the adorably undomesticated E.T.? Absolutely nothing. The plot still stands, but it's a bit more funny to watch Kate Hudson unexpectedly fall in love with a beer-guzzling, webbed-foot, chanting alien. He's a real charmer, that E.T.

Say What? Writer on Actresses Past Their "Expiration Date"

TresSugar — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:00:00 -0700

Okay, let’s be honest: Drew Barrymore was never really all that hot. In fact, hot was never the appropriate adjective for her. She was cute as a little kid in E.T. and sometimes adorable in her twenties, and now…well, now she’s just another talking chubby face attached to a chubby body that should know better than to be projected on a giant movie screen.

- Blogger Nathan Bloch from Spike.com in a post entitled The Top 10 Actresses Past Their Expiration Date. Bloch is not all sexism and nastiness, though - he will grant that once upon a time, 20 years ago, Sarah Jessica Parker was "halfway decent."

Why Do Many Women Like Horror Films?

TresSugar — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:00:00 -0700

An interesting New York Times article over the weekend tries to figure out why recent box office returns are showing that more women have been going to see horror films than men.

Film professor Carol Clover had one interesting theory why women like horror films in her book Men, Women and Chainsaws. In many slasher films, she argues, including Halloween and Friday the 13th, there may be many female victims, but there's always one girl left standing (the "final girl") who gets to off the villain in the end.

Diablo Cody, director of the upcoming film Jennifer's Body, a horror-comedy about a female sexpot boy-killer, agrees that's why she loved horror films as a teen. "When I watched movies like ‘The Goonies’ and ‘E.T.,’ " she explained, "it was boys having adventures. When I watched ‘Nightmare on Elm Street,’ it was Nancy beating up Freddy. It was that simple."

Today's hard-core torture porn films may show men and women equally as victims, but folks like Rob Zombie are still baffled as to why women would want to see them. Do you like horror movies? If so, why?

Tug 'O Capture the Marshmallow

GiggleSugar — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:00:00 -0800

I don't know how, but Japan has outdone itself again. A contestant on this torture show must wrap a rubber band nostril harness around his head and then s-t-r-e-t-c-h to swallow a marshmallow dangling inches before him. It's like Pac-Man, but better. Hello - dangling marshmallows?!

The Onion Reports . . .

GiggleSugar — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:00:00 -0800

Pants Attempt to Convey What Owners Can't

Ladies, don't do it. There are more subtle ways of talking out of your ass and/or s-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g the truth.

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The Plight Of Max The Pug

GiggleSugar — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:40:00 -0700

Pugs have feelings too, and Max here wants to confess that it hurts when you say his nose looks like he smashed it into a tree. Or even worse, when you compare him to a hairy, chubby E.T. Or how you always blame him for passing gas in the room. He hasn't much of a voice, but he's got a song for people like you. A very sad song.

Funny or Scary? James Brown's Widow

GiggleSugar — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:11:36 -0800

So whatever-her-name-is makes an appearance on E.T. to talk about her relationship with the recently deceased James Brown...in addition to every other irrelevant topic for discussion on the planet: God. Hair. Murder threats. Pizza. I'm sorry ma'am, you can continue to feed us this conversational crap, but let's face it: your fifteen minutes of famous-by-association are up.

So what do ya'll think? Is this widow's TV appearance...