Word: mainstreamers
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...movie about the ancient Greek battle of Thermopylae with no stars and unusual stylized visuals became the talk of the convention. Six months later, it premiered at Butt-Numb-a-Thon, an Austin, Texas, film festival curated by Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News (AICN). Most mainstream media critics trounced it, but 60% of the males who bought tickets on opening weekend said they were drawn by seeing references to the movie on the Web, where readers of sites like Garabedian's and Knowles' were frenetically discussing...
...course, another movie that fanboys were panting about at Comic-Con was last summer's Snakes on a Plane, which New Line Cinema pumped to the Web audience but declined to screen for mainstream critics. "We thought it was a stupid title, but we wanted to see it," says Garabedian. "There was swearing, snakes biting into breasts." But the fanboys are outsiders for a reason: the rest of America doesn't always share their taste. And the poor performance of Grindhouse, the double feature from two fanboy deities, directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, shows that fanboy love...
...other development contributing to the grist shortage is, of course, the Internet in general and blogs in particular. This is clearly the Blog Election: four years ago, blogs were not yet omnipresent, and four years from now, the mainstream media may not be as terrorized by them...
...President has to condemn the war, but they’re all going to do it differently.” Erika C. Helgen ’08 agrees that Kucinich is unique. “I think Kucinich is particularly interesting because he’s not your normal mainstream candidate,” Helgen says. “He can say what he thinks.” Kucinich, who called for the abolition of war as an instrument of foreign policy, the repealing of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the legalization of marijuana, and other radical political reforms...
...Vatican official says that Benedict believes that the Council's legacy "has been abused," and finding a way to widen access to the Latin rite "has always remained in his heart." Still, even mainstream members of the Roman hierarchy are opposed, fearing that it will exacerbate divisions within the Church. French bishops have openly argued against it. The Pope's old office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith last spring, privately advised against the motu proprio, the Vatican official said. Still, Benedict does not appear swayed. The professor Pope may be happy to have a conversation on doctrine...