Yes… the MOVIES section is BACK!
-Quick star reviews on the main pages
-Navigate by poster thumbnails
-10 new movie trailers added, including THE HULK
-Review movies now in theaters
-Catch up on your NETFLIX queue by browsing DVDs being released this month!
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A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites.
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Hey! Florida news! Damn kids. Nice YouTube generation ya got there.
A Mulberry High School cheerleader is recovering from a beating by eight of her classmates. The entire incident was videotaped and the eight Florida teens planned to post it on YouTube.
The video, filmed March 30, shows 16-year-old Victoria Lindsay being attacked by six girls while two boys stood as lookouts. Lindsay was backed into a corner while the attackers blocked the door way. She suffered several blows to the head and was knocked unconscious after being slammed into a wall.
“It’s absolutely an animalistic attack. They lured her into the home for express purpose of filming the attack and posting it on the internet,” said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd.
After the attack, Lindsay was forced into a car by three of her attackers and driven to another location. The teens told her she would be beaten again if she attempted to call police. She suffered a concussion, bruises and damages to her left eye and ear.
The eight high school students were arrested April 2 after one of the defendants turned the footage into police. Seven of them were in juvenile attention while an 18-year-old boy was charges as an adult. He was released from jail on bail.
All eight teens are charged with battery and false imprisonment. The three teens who forced Lindsay into a vehicle have additional charges of felony kidnapping.
Here’s Hilary Duff in the movie War, Inc. The movie comes out in July.
Here’s the plot: Cusack plays a hit man assigned to kill a Middle East oil minister. His cover is that he’s producing a trade show that includes a wedding between a local pop star and a politico, but complications ensue.
DAMMIT! I hate it when this happens!
Yes… we are SLOW today. Why? Hell if I know. I called my CTO extaordinaire Jeffro. He said it was MY connection, nothing on our server end. I think he was wrong. Now we gotta wait until TONIGHT when he gets home from his day job. ARRRGGHHH!!!!
Here was Jeffro’s explanation of events:
Jim,
Massive DDOS attack on multiple networks. Very suspicious looking stuff. Perhaps we’ll see some mainstream news on it in the next few days. Failures at many datacenters and ISPs with connectivity (Time Warner and the network we’re hosted on being in this group) . I’d figure on timeouts/issues occurring over the next few days as the techs find ways to subvert the attacks.
So I used to do this show called “ZFTR” or “ZipperFish Talk Radio” on Friday nights. It was a good time. Of course the REAL action came after Midnight (EST) when I would do ZipperFish After Hours.
Now nothing has been ‘official’ in a while, but fans of this site and my USTREAM know that ANYTHING can happen here at ZipperFish. “Naked Time, Sexy Time” swept the interwebs last January, and last Friday night a young girl named Tinkerbell entertained us all for small donations to pay her bills. Hey… we care here at ZipperFish.
I’m not saying ANYTHING will happen tonight, but ya never know. ZipperFish Friday Nights can get a little crazy. Here’s a sample of what went down LAST Friday…
Visit her and the great podcast “CPWS” (she’s on that too!) by clicking here.
I guess NBC figured out one thing from the writer’s strike: Even if you put crap on TV, people will watch it. What does that mean for us? NO MORE RERUNS! That’s right, NBC plans on putting crap on our TV screens YEAR ROUND!
NBC announced its fall lineup yesterday afternoon in New York City. Highlights:
1. Dunder & Miffinities, the long-rumored spinoff to The Office, will premiere after the 2009 Superbowl.
2. Friday Night Lights will return for a third season as part of what NBC called a “unique” partnership with DirecTV. (Translation: NBC needs cash.) The satellite TV service has exclusive rights to FNL’s 13 new episodes, which will begin airing October 1. Here’s the bad news: If you don’t have DirecTV, those eps won’t air on NBC until the spring.
3. ER will be back for its 15th, and final, season, and so will Noah Wyle.
The announcements were part of NBC’s new strategy to be “in front” of its competitors by presenting a “52-week super-season” of “quality programming” to advertisers and journalists in lieu of the usual May upfront extravaganza. Network co-chair Ben Silverman described the network’s slate as “inspirational, heroic, entertaining, escapist, engaging, real heroes and super heroes.” Time will tell.
Here’s how the next year or so will shake out:
Returning Fall 2008
Chuck, The Biggest Loser: Families, Law & Order: SVU, Deal or No Deal, My Name is Earl, 30 Rock, The Office, ER, and Life. Heroes will premiere Sept. 15 as a three-hour special, and Lipstick Jungle is back, Silverman says, because “the the women of America have spoken.”New Fall 2008
My Own Worst Enemy. Drama. Christian Slater plays a guy with two personalities: one named Henry with a dry-toast life and Edward, a trained killer. Think “Jekyll & Hyde meets The Bourne Identity.” Silverman said he had to really push to land Slater for the role: “I took his mother out to lunch,” he said.Kath & Kim. Comedy. Molly Shannon and Selma Blair star as a brassy and dysfunctional mother-daughter living it up in suburbia. The show originated in Australia. “It’s part of our own trilogy,” Silverman said. “Ugly Betty we found in Columbia; The Office we found in London.”
Knight Rider. Drama. Remake of ’80s series featuring a guy and his tricked-out car.
SNL Thursday Night Live. Comedy. To capitalize on the November presidential election, SNL will expand its “Weekend Update” coverage for three, live, half-hour shows, beginning Oct. 16.
New Winter 2009
The Philanthropist. Drama. About a renegade do-gooder.Dunder & Miffinities. Comedy. The Office spinoff. No details yet, but we hope it entails Dwight Shrute getting into fisticuffs with an assistant [to the] regional manager at another Dunder & Mifflin branch.
Merlin. Fantasy. Set in a 21st century Camelot.
Kings. Drama. Starring Ian McShane (Deadwood), directed by Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend). Silverman calls it an exploration for the David vs. Goliath struggle. (We’re rooting for the little guy, right?)
New Summer 2009
America’s Toughest Jobs. Reality. Self-explanatory.Shark Taggers. Reality. Marine biologists tag sharks (duh) with transmitters.
The Listener. Drama. A 24-year-old helps solve crimes by reading people’s minds.
Chopping Block. Reality. Competition show from the producers of Hell’s Kitchen. Couples elbow their way to opening their own restaurant in Manhattan — if they can survive getting grilled by rock-star chef Marco Pierre White.
Guy was driving on the wrong side of the road for over 20 miles!
Jerry Seinfeld flipped his car last weekend after losing his brakes! A friend was following behind him and witnessed the harrowing accident. The friend ran to Jerry’s assistance after the crash and to his (and Jerry’s) amazement, the comedian emerged from the wreck unscathed!
Jerry Seinfeld was in a harrowing rollover wreck but was unhurt after the brakes on one of his vintage cars failed.
Seinfeld was driving alone when the brakes on his 1967 Fiat BTM stopped working Saturday evening, East Hampton Town Police Chief Todd Sarris told the New York Post. Seinfeld tried the emergency brake, to no avail, and then swerved to keep the car from careering into an intersection, Sarris said.
The two-door sedan flipped over and came to a stop just yards from the highway, Sarris said, adding that the comic’s maneuver “probably avoided a very serious accident.”
Okay, this game is totally addicting. I just love games where you “draw stuff” to make stuff “do stuff.” Not only is this one of those games, but the rules of physics apply. Now go waste some time and play MAGIC PEN.
Well don’t bother watching American Idol for the next couple weeks. According to Paula Abdul, the top 5 is a lock.
“I’ll tell you who I think is going to be the Top 4,” said Abdul during Tuesday’s broadcast of Fox’s Morning Show with Mike and Juliet before proceeding to name five finalists. “[Carly Smithson], [David Cook], [David Archuleta], Michael Johns and [Brooke White].”
And what do I think of that top 5? Let me break it down for you:
Carly Smithson: already had a record contract and had a cd put out already. It flopped. BTW… she’s getting fatter every week on the show. For these reasons she sucks. (Oh… and her husband whom she married for a green card has a scary tattoo face.)
Michael Johns: Been in TWO bands with record contracts. One was with Madonna’s label, Maverick records. Sorry dude. How many frakin chanches do you need?
David Archulata: Does the world need ANOTHER Clay Aiken?
Brooke White: Love this chick. Really. But she’s gotta drop the “aww shucks” attitude. She’s talented. She knows it.
David Cook: Simply the best. A gifted talent that deserves to win.
Hey. You. Are you under 18 years of age? If so, you should know something. Google doesn’t want your business.
“You may not use the Services [defined as “Google’s products, software, services and web sites"] and may not accept the Terms if … you are not of legal age to form a binding contract with Google”
And that means NO SURFING for you on Google. No using g-mail or YouTube either. And if Google DOES find out you are under-age, they will ban you.
We’re not in a position to verify the age or legal status of any user, given the tremendous number of users accessing Google services. That said, when we become aware of a user who is violating our Terms of Service, including not being of proper age to accept the Terms of Service, we take appropriate action, which could include the termination of the user’s Google Account.
Oh, I’m so sure. This is just more Google hypocrisy. I guess this is a way for them getting around the fact that you can see all the naked pics you want by searching Google’s image browser. Of course this flies in the face of their motto “Do no evil.” It also flies in the face of them telling ME not to have Goggle ads surrounding the GAME “Boobs Butt or Shoulder.”
And since we are into pointing out hypocrisy… since Google is only an 18 year old plus company… why can’t I be the same? What do you think would happen if I put a warning page up on ZipperFish that said “This is an 18+ website. Please verify your age before entering”?
I’ll tell you what would would happen. I’d be BRANDED and ADULT website (same as Google) but Google would shut my web advertising. (Which is the only thing keeping me alive, thanks Google -kiss- -kiss-)
But in all fairness and respect… Google… HALF the damn videos on YouTube where made by 14 year olds. This policy of yours makes YOU… a f-ing… MORON.
