Word: dumbness
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...folks EMINEM has offended over the years--gays, women, his mother--the blond rapper seemed to avoid insulting African Americans. Until, that is, hip-hop magazine The Source dug up some Eminem juvenilia: "Blacks and whites, they sometimes mix/but black girls only want your money 'cause they're dumb chicks" are some of the milder lyrics on the tape. Responding to charges of racism, Eminem issued a statement saying the song was recorded after he broke up with a black girlfriend and "made out of anger, stupidity and frustration when I was a teenager." Hey, man, some of us just...
...Rich Girls,” “Newlyweds” offers us a decidedly depressing glimpse into the marriage of washed-up teen popsters Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey (of 98 Degrees). For those who haven’t seen it, the premise is simple: Jessica says something dumb, Nick bashes her psychologically and Jessica’s self-esteem plummets. Fight, sulk, repeat. Like Penelope and Tom in Vanilla Sky, Jessica and Nick succeed in making us profoundly uncomfortable because in the end, we know what we are seeing is real...
...Love Actually's humor derives from the fact that people are struck dumb by their passions. But as he proved with his script for Four Weddings and a Funeral, Curtis has a deft hand with multiple stories. And as he showed in writing Notting Hill and co-writing Bridget Jones's Diary, he has an acute sense of the desperate needs that underlie our often comically deflected longings. In his comedies people always act improbably, but they are full of a sort of fierce wistfulness too. They will eventually go to extraordinary lengths to find romantic fulfillment. Thus Grant...
...this sounds like a grownup version of schoolkids connecting tin cans with string for a science fair and dreaming of putting the phone company out of business, well, that's because it is. Proponents of free wi-fi like Pozar believe that paying for Internet access is as dumb as paying for a radio signal (which is, of course, exactly what wi-fi is). Already their tin cans and string have scored successes from Manhattan to Milwaukee. Small retail outlets such as bookstores and coffee shops are starting to get with the program too. They find that giving away bandwidth...
...1999’s irresistibly awful “Why Does It Always Rain On Me,” and, well, not much since, have returned to America with their fourth album and a national U.S. tour. Sort of bitter at this point about Coldplay’s dumb lucky adoption of the “important rock band sorta reminiscent of Bends-era Radiohead” niche, Travis seem to be taking their own stab at it with 12 Memories. They’re writing songs now about domestic abuse and 9/11 (these are huge- about time someone addressed...