Hilarious spoofs of television programming!

Clampax… Morning Mist… the Ugandan College Fund… Bullseye… Poodles for Christ… American Excess Cards… these and many other hilarious spoofs of television entertainment past and present are revisited in the 1978 Cannon Films motion picture Prime Time, which belongs to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s 4,000-strong film catalog. This parody of television as we know it is one of Leo the Lion’s most offbeat big-screen farces and I think it will be inducted at the Library of Congress

in 2010.

Prime Time also marked one of the highly anticipated feature film classics that launched David (Monk, The Kill Point, Bringing Down the House) Hoberman’s big-screen career pre-TKP, pre-The Proposal.

Remember Old Ben Lucas, played by Kinky Friedman? How about Manny’s Nymphs?

Yes, old-time cinema fans! Prime Time is Cannon’s most critically acclaimed comedy

and one of the biggest movies ever to date. I will never know how Friedman’s alter

ego, Old Ben Lucas, sniffed cocaine during this segment of this thought-provoking

TV satire.

Watch the entire full movie on demand at http://www.fancast.com.

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Only when Brett Favre throws a football at the Minnesota Vikings duing the coming months.

Do he really have to score a touchdown by 12 yards?

Favre will be my ultimate fantasy football player - a quarterback with the capability to punt, throw and run in the most popular spectator sport of all time: football.

At Super Bowl XLIII, Ben Roethlisberger of the Pittburgh Steelers won a victory, outbeating you know who for several tocudowns, passes and kicks - stealing the show with a head-to-head score of… well, you get the idea.

hunsonisgroovy:

“As photographers — who rely on light — we’re usually terrified of black holes. But we enjoyed Underwire’s black-hole list so much that we and everybody at Wired.com decided to get in on the action. Gadget Lab tossed annoying gear, Autopia banished bad cars, and Wired Science ousted hideous scientific clichés.

Now it’s our turn. Here are our top photography pet peeves that we would like to throw into the abyss.”

1. Trite Flickr Comments
2. High-Dynamic-Range (HDR) Photos
3. Shutter Lag
4. Watermarks
5. Wide-Angle Vertical
6. The Megapixel Discussion
7. Oversharing
8. Rock-Concert Strobage
9. The Arm’s Length Self-Portrait
10. Cameras?

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