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Monthly Archives: May 2008

‘Late Night’ writer needs nine more ways ‘recession’ is like ‘recess’

By Charley Daniels
It’s a busy time at work, what with the Cannes Film Festival and broadcast upfronts, together at last.
The upfronts are the week when the five broadcast networks announce their fall schedules and show off their new series to advertisers in the hope that wheelbarrows of money will soon follow.
Speaking of, remember the ’90s? [...]

‘Grand Theft Auto IV,’ ‘Iron Man’ search-optimize headline

By Charley Daniels
This week I partook of the sweet nectar that is “what everybody else is doing” (versus my usual activity of “mostly working and not much else”). Yes, I picked up a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV: Lord of Illusions and I went and saw Iron Man on opening weekend.
Iron Man made eleventy-billion-ten [...]