inglourious-basterds
Shiny Balls: Your Golden Globes Field Guide
Richard Lawson · 01/15/10 03:42PMTobey Maguire's Golden Globe Nomination: Bought with DVD Players?
Adrian Chen · 12/16/09 01:03AMThe Rebranding of David Paterson
cityfile · 08/31/09 03:43PMDavid Paterson unveiled a new look today. Gone is the salt-and-pepper beard which has long been the governor's trademark; it's been replaced by a much trendier mustache. Could the change have had anything to do with the 'stache that Brad Pitt insisted on keeping for Inglourious Basterds, which the Times suggested has helped to revive interest in the look? If so, the governor isn't saying. "When asked Monday why he shaved the beard he's had for as long as anyone remembers around Albany, he joked it came down to "more cutbacks." [NYP]
The Weinsteins Dodge a Bullet
cityfile · 08/24/09 01:44PM• Harvey and Bob Weinstein are breathing a sigh of relief today. Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds did better than expected at the box office this weekend, raking in $37.6 million in sales. Not that one good weekend will be enough to lift the studio out of the financial mess it is in. [NYT, THR, WSJ]
• Related: In what may be a first for a movie opening, Inglourious Basterds seems to have benefited by a "crest of tweeting goodwill." [THR]
• Some 48 years after it was first published, Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking is now No. 1 on the New York Times' best-seller list. [NYT]
• Has the Glenn Beck brouhaha made advertisers skittish about buying commercial time during political shows in general? [AdAge, Politico]
• Jared Kushner's New York Observer is launching a new paper called The Commercial Observer. It's about commercial real estate, naturally. [NYT]
• Magazine newsstand sales continue to suffer, not surprisingly. [AdAge]
Inglourious Basterds Won't Save Weinsteins
Hamilton Nolan · 08/24/09 08:55AMIs Inglourious Basterds Bad for Jews?
Brian Moylan · 08/21/09 03:04PMRunway Debuts, Anna Gets a Pass, Harvey's Nail-Biter
cityfile · 08/21/09 02:30PM• Last night's long-delayed premiere of the sixth season of Project Runway—on Lifetime, not Bravo—earned the show its highest ratings ever. [NYT, THR]
• Breathe easy: Anna Wintour's travel itinerary for the fall fashion shows in London, Paris and Milan will not be affected by the recent round of budget cuts at Condé Nast. She'll be staying at the Ritz in Paris, as usual. [NYP]
• The cuts have claimed Condé's supply of coffee stirrers, however. [P6]
• Another member of the Sulzberger clan is joining the New York Times. [NYO]
• News Corp. has been meeting with newspaper publishers to discuss forming some sort of "consortium" to charge people for access to news online. [LAT]
• News Corp. is also in talks to sell its Dow Jones stock market index. [NYT]
• Harvey and Bob Weinstein have a lot riding on the success of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. How is the movie expected to perform at the box office this weekend? Not too bad, per early estimates. [THR]
Harvey Weinstein Is Micro-Marketing the Hell Out of Inglourious Basterds
John Cook · 08/18/09 11:07AMWe Still Don't Know Whether Inglourious Basterds is Going to Suck or Not
Brian Moylan · 08/17/09 02:02PMHarvey Weinstein's Last Stand
John Cook · 08/11/09 04:57PMRicky Gervais, Mike Myers, and Cameron Diaz's Bad Accent: Three Previews
Richard Lawson · 06/30/09 12:00PMThe Weinstein Fire Sale Begins
John Cook · 06/10/09 09:33AMLook At That Glorious Bastard
Richard Lawson · 05/20/09 04:56PMNazi-Scalping Implements the Real Stars of 'Basterds' Campaign
Seth Abramovitch · 02/20/09 01:56PMInglourious Basterds: It's Grindhouse in Space France!
Richard Lawson · 02/11/09 05:00PMThe 'Basterds' Trailer As Quentin Tarantino Wanted You To See It
Seth Abramovitch · 02/11/09 03:49PMOut of fairness to Quentin, Harv, and the whole Basterds gang working so hard to bring you all the Nazi-scalping excellence you deserve, we bring you now the official HD Basterds trailer.
'Basterds' First Look: Brad Pitt Really Wants His 100 Nazi Scalps
Seth Abramovitch · 02/10/09 12:25PMWeinsteins Unleashing 'Basterds' in Late-August Dumping Ground
STV · 01/02/09 01:28PMEarly 'Basterds' Outtake Promises Graphic, Tarantinoesque Drink-Spitting
STV · 11/14/08 01:02PMNever mind our concerns about Inglourious Basterds [sic] being the equivalent of a World War II-themed Abercrombie & Fitch shoot; a new video leaked from the set reassures us that Quentin Tarantino is upholding only the most rigorous authenticity standards from the era. For starters, the auteur teaches a pair of actors proper drink-spitting methods of the Third Reich — not to be confused with the straight-spined expectoration perfected by the British, or the far more complex "Kamikaze Spray" that Japanese pilots blew in their own faces during suicide missions over the Pacific. And to their credit, the Nazi pupils pick the technique up quickly and proficiently, reassuring us that Tarantino hasn't lost a step with actors, Kill Bill 2 notwithstanding. This is why he's paid the big bucks. [YouTube]