The Great Ganesha

Here’s to the profound religious experience that comes from doing a job well and being grossly underpaid. Having successfully survived another meeting with a couple of my committee members, one of whom routinely strips me naked and flogs me, while the other idly stands by and watches with a smile, I decided to finish up [...]

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So, I finally saw The Da Vinci Code yesterday. My other choice (based on movie times) was X3, and, like a regular sucker, I caved in to the controversy. The average audience member was white, in their upper forties. In fact, where I was sitting, I was surrounded on three sides by white, middle-aged women [...]

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Apparently, in Albert Brooks’ last film Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World there’s someone in a call center in Delhi who answers the phone by saying: “This is the White House. How may I direct your call?” Timothy Noah, a Slate columnist, writes that According to a study released in March by the Government [...]

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A great place where you can watch vintage cartoons from the good ol’ days (before we were born). If you’re into animation, this is the place for you. They even have an Itunes podcasting link…

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Not really a die-hard fan of the series although I do watch once in a while. I like the fact that they pretty much ridicule everything in America, no holds barred. But I am a fan of Isaac Hayes. The guy has been in the forefront of the music business for several decades. You have [...]

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Model tends bar in Delhi. Model refuses to serve politician’s son a drink. Model gets shot. Politician’s son gets away with it. Model’s parents get together and protest her murder. Ok, so perhaps its not Rang De Basanti exactly. I mean, it’s not an Air Force pilot who got killed. But it’s still protests against [...]

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Will Smith visits Bollywood and is “blown away” by the Big B’s performance in Sarkar. He wants to call himself the ‘Big W’. He also compared the Taj Mahal to a lake he built in his back yard for his wife… Speaking of ‘Big B’: I was watching ‘Aaj Tak’ (an Indian news channel) at [...]

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Kevin Nealon chimes in on phone-tapping in Hollywood… You’re nobody in Hollywood until you get on a list. I missed out on the Heidi Fleiss client list, Mr. Blackwell’s “Worst Dressed” list and even the “Where Are They Now?” list. And the only reason I’m not on that last one is that Mr. Pellicano, apparently, [...]

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