Oscar picks:

Letters From Iwo Jima
Peter O'Toole (Though Forest Whitaker should win)
Helen Mirren
Eddie Murphy
Jennifer Hudson
Martin Scorsese(Finally)
Little Miss Sunshine for original screenplay
The Departed for adapted (Seriously, how can a mostly improvised movie get a Screenplay nomination?)

And how is it that 3 songs from Dreamgirls were nominated and Jack Johnson and Ben Folds both got ignored?

Please, Lennox, don't.

Lennox Lewis is considering a comeback to fight the also returning Vlad Klitschko. Unfortunately.

Deadspin has the best take on this. Maybe he just doesn't want to do HBO Boxing After Dark with Max Kellerman anymore. I don't know.

(Edit - Lennox says it's not true, as pointed out by my commenter(Brendan?))

Another pro wrestler dies young...

Kind of surprising, but as I recall, he was pretty much persona non grata after the ECW thing. I remember him as being someone who hurt people, but there's no mention of it in the wiki article, and I'd forgotten he was part of the Invasion angle(mostly because I've blocked out the Invasion angle). He did have some legendary matches with Masato Tanaka, but ultimately I'll always remember him as "That 70's Guy" and the "Mad Fat Chick Thriller." I also didn't realize he was related to Hulk Hogan.


Former ECW world champion Mike Awesome, 42, has passed away. His real name was Mike Alfonso.

According to reports, Awesome was found dead on Saturday morning in the Tampa Area. Friends were coming to his home in Tampa to pick him up and go out Saturday night at about 10:30 p.m. and he never answered the door and found him hanging in the home. It is believed the death was due to suicide pending results of the autopsy.

In addition to working in the U.S., he also worked for FMW in Japan. He will probably be most remembered as the ECW champion that signed with WCW when he still held the title.

Tazz was brought in by WWE to take the title from him, as he jumped to WCW. Awesome announced his retirement from wrestling in early 2006.

Article from here.

Cool movie link today.

This is really neat. Ghanian movie posters, several giving movies a better promotion than they deserve.







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Pretty much all I'll post about Anna Nicole...

This is an interesting opinion piece in today's Washington Post suggesting that Anna Nicole was a courtesan of sorts. A good read.

Barbaro, the musical?

The comments section in this link may be the most bizarre but entertaining one ever devoted to a dead horse.

The Morning News' piece is pretty funny, too.