After the claustrophobic overcrowding of Broxton avenue for the LAFF opening night party, I wasn’t expecting the Transformers premiere bash to be as well-run as it was. Adjacent parking lots were opened up, and food and drink were so prevalent that, if you actually ventured all the way in, it was possible to get plenty of both with no waiting.
Half the food was Burger King, which was a letdown, despite the presence of that creepy King guy from the ads. But there was plenty of other stuff too,
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It's not exactly going out on a limb to say that Andy Samberg has been the best addition to the Saturday Night Live cast in a long time – he's been the main reason that for the first time since the dawn of the Internet age, fans actually started downloading video from the show. While Lorne Michaels still likes to try to force repetitive gags down our throats, “Dick in a Box” and “Chronic-What?-cles of Narnia” became oft-repeated catchphrases because people actually thought the
Okay, filmgoers, it's time for a linguistics lesson.
CEMENTO ARMATO is the title of an Italian film. In English, would you call that movie...
(a) ARMORED CEMENT
(b) CONCRETE ROMANCE
(c) both of the above
NBFF has opted for (c). But which is it really? IMDB says (b) is the international English title, but use of an online translator indicates that (a) is a more accurate translation.
In the film itself, the line is delivered by a crime boss to describe the city outside his window as being a
Andrew YoussefLast Night: We Are Scientists, the Blood Arm at Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa, May 31, 2009.Better than: Staying home and watching the MTV Movie Awards--even though Akiva Schaffer, the Lonely Island mate of host Andy Samberg who popped up on the award show's "Doubt for Sega Genesis" sketch, has directed four WAS videos. (Insert obligatory Bruno/Eminem incident comment here.)Most appropriate filler: Return or the Jedi playing on the Detroit monitors before the geek-chic We Are Scientist
Actually, no, I can't imagine this ever getting any old--it's far superior to even the lofty heights of "Dick in a Box" and "Lazy Sunday."It was the second (I know, weird) digital short on "Saturday Night Live" last night, but apparently it's also the first single of a forthcoming album coming out in February by the Lonely Island (Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer, the guys behind all the digital shorts). Their musical parodies are always great, so that album should be awesometown.
