Entertainment

Received from a reader: > Please post for all to hear the hard data on the media communicated "success" of Brokeback Mountain" vs. the "failure" of King Kong. > As of 1/13/06 > Brokeback Mtn revenue : $24,000,000 Cost to Produce: $14,

From a review of Road to Glory: [http://www.townhall.com/opinion/books_entertainment/be_columns/MeganBasham/2006/01/11/181967.html] > Here's the true (abridged) story of the 1966 Texas Western (now University of Texas-El Paso) Miners: > A color-blind college basketball coach named

Why, have gays been discriminated against in the artistic world? Maybe some African-Americans should start their own professional basketball league. > Sony Music has launched the first major music label dedicated to nurturing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender artists. > The label, Music with a Twist, is a joint

Mr. Blackwell has released his annual list of worst dressed women [http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,18120,00.html?rsslatest]. I don't follow such things and I don't know much about Mr. Blackwell, but any guy who puts Britney's maternity clothing

> The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe has now made $500 million (GBP277 million) at the worldwide box office. > The fantasy film, adapted from C.S. Lewis' classic novel, stormed to the top of global film charts after it was released last month. Link [http://contactmusic.com/

I didn't realize that last Saturday featured the 23rd annual AVN Awards, the pornography version of the Oscars. The AVN kind of reminds of a joke popular back in the 1980s: Q. How do you describe Cleveland? A. Detroit without the glitter. The corollary: Q. How do you

> Buddhism and other Asian belief systems hold that if bodies are not recovered and properly buried, their spirits restlessly wander the Earth. Many Asians believe that lost souls try to drag living beings into a spiritual limbo. [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/01/0106_060106_tsunami_ghosts.html]

> Matsushita Electric Industrial, the maker of Panasonic products, said on Thursday it had developed a prototype of a 103-inch plasma display panel, the world's largest plasma screen [http://articles.news.aol.com/business/article.adp?id=20060105062809990009&cid=2288] . The AOL poll that accompanies the

From Andy Rooney: > [T]hey're talking about giving Katie Couric $20 million. I say take that $20 million you could buy 40 reporters, 40 new reporters. You could give them each $250,000. I mean, there are hundreds of reporters who would jump at getting $250,000.

By the way, if you're not aware of it, use IMDb [http://www.imdb.com/] to get information about movies. I have found it reliable, and its organizers have a great knack for culling the best quotes from films.