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Post by lovinowen on Jan 9, 2004 23:42:26 GMT -5
Recently I discovered that I am a certifiable pop culture-aholic. I was filling out some form online and it asked me the names of the typical publications that I read. I racked my brain for a minute or two trying to remember the last time I picked up a newspaper, or newsmagazine or anything of the sort. Finally I conceded and simply put down my weekly reads: Entertainment Weekly, Us Weekly, In Touch, and People. I decided to toss in Time too though, just for good measure.
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Post by Librarian on Jan 10, 2004 0:21:19 GMT -5
I know I have my husband give me a 10 minute summary of current events daily, because I just don't have time anymore. LOL I am a regular on imdb.com, eonline.com, nypost.com/gossip, & the entertainment section of msnbc.com in addition to - of course - the Wilson Bros. forums.
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Post by lovinowen on Jan 10, 2004 0:28:11 GMT -5
Glad to know I am in good company.. My dad was lecturing me about politics the other day. "You know if you paid a little more attention to the news instead of Owen, you might know a little more about what's going on in the world!!" My response was that I did know what was going on in the world. "Britney got married, than annulled it. Kate Hudson had her baby, and Michael Jackson moved out of Santa Barbara."
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Post by hurltomato on Jan 10, 2004 8:12:08 GMT -5
Minxy- When I was Jr. High, my girlfriends and I started a get together called "Eye Candy Fridays" We would sit at the back booth at a local restaurant and hash over every rock and movie star crush we could come up with. Our talk gradually went from "he's sooo cute.." to "how big do ya think?" (after hormones set in). My mother was pretty quick to criticize our lack of ambition and intellectual moxie. Big deal... After four years of undergraduate study, umpteen credits of continuing ed for licensure, and basically stressed out professionally - I look back on those days with great fondness and longing. There are times when I'm sure even my mom wishes those cut out cuties were still taped to the mirror in my old room.
The Eye Candy group still meets once a year after the holidays, but it's not the same. Most of those gals gripe about their mother in law or whine about their kids. Not me- I sit and wonder what happened to the pure pleasure of celebrity adoration and have discovered: THIS WARM, WONDERFUL, FUZZY PLACE TO TALK ABOUT THE WILSONS WITH GALS JUST LIKE YOU...
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Post by Natalie on Jan 10, 2004 8:50:28 GMT -5
I am the SAME as you girls! Who reads newspapers??
Librarian, I too go to all those sites that you mentioned!
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Post by hurltomato on Jan 10, 2004 9:10:43 GMT -5
Librarian- While you're online-check out www.mrqe.com if your're not already familiar with it. The site takes you to the homepage of Movie Review Query Engine. Type in the movie of choice and it will access 30+ reviews done around the states by various movie critics. I guarantee you will lose hours at the computer. One night, I spent three hours reading all the reviews for Shanghai Noon and getting high on Owenisms. The reviews include both positive and negative, but I ignor the sourpusses who don't like our boys. Those critics probably recommend eating Haggis made from the finest sheep's bladders and it gives them indigestion.
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Post by Librarian on Jan 10, 2004 14:41:24 GMT -5
Thanks Hurltomato for the heads up This looks like a great site. While we're listing websites, what are some of your other "resources"? I also scan wireimages.com, gettyimages.com, and filmmagic.com. Rottontomatoes.com has some interesting articles and webforums as well.
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Post by LegallyLukes on Jan 10, 2004 19:08:34 GMT -5
Phew, it's a relief to hear I'm not alone! I buy my weekly celebrity gossip mag NW and frequent IMDB, teenhollywood.com ( ) and other entertainment sites on the net. It's a brilliant way to waste time and procrastinate I actually read the newspaper everyday though, I am a current events addict! Can't start my day without a peruse of the paper.
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Post by Pollyanna on Jan 11, 2004 1:10:42 GMT -5
I am a total pop-culture, Wilson news junkie. I probably need to go on a 12 step programme or something. Here are some of the 'resources" I scan Librarian. Comingsoon.net, themoviebox.net, Latinoreview.com, aintitcool.com, lifepress.com, Chud - cinematic happenings, joblo.com, eonline, filmjerk.com, IMDB, Wireimages.com, Getty Pictures, Google news and images, Lycos news and images, Singingfish.com, countingdown.com, Tribute andHollywood.com I think coming soon.net is probably the best of them. I also have a subscription to Texas Monthly and to elibrary which has a lot of older articles and pictures from a couple of hundred sources. Now that I know a few of you go to eonline a lot I will stop going to that one as the pop ups drive me nuts and I don't have "no pop-ups" software The only site I go to too "read" is the BBC and only the sports section LOL I follow soccer and they have stuff on my team Manchester United. My husband gets the New York Times, The Washington Post as well as reading at least two local papers so if the world was gonna end I think he might toss that in to the conversation ;D "by the way hon the world is gonna end at 4pm - do you know where I put the TV remote"
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