lifedigital.org | Daniel Fleishman

Jun
27th

Zooey Deschanel - Dream a Little Dream of Me

This is wonderful. I love Zooey’s singing voice.

Jun
25th

Jackson’s performance of “Billie Jean” on Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, the 1983 television special, caught him precisely at the moment when he was at his most amazing, his most otherworldly in a good way, his most lithe and eye-popping and wonderfully alien. Still recognizably the kid who sang “The Love You Save,” but recognizably something entirely new as well. It was six months after the release ofThriller.

For many, many people, this was the first opportunity they had to see this incarnation of him. This is where everyone I knew first saw the moonwalk, and if you weren’t there or didn’t watch it or maybe weren’t a kid at the time, you cannot imagine what a big deal it was. I was in middle school, and I think we all tried it. You can hear the crowd scream when he does it here — it’s not a scream of recognition, like it would be when he did it later. It’s a scream of shock.

Before YouTube allowed people to actually relive a performance like this at will and en masse, this was the sort of thing that spread as legend more than as reality. Watch this, though, and you can see that it was entirely real.

— Michael Jackson: The Moment That Made Him The King Of Pop

Jun
24th

Oscar widens best picture category

“After more than six decades, the Academy is returning to some of its earlier roots, when a wider field competed for the top award of the year,” Ganis said at a Beverly Hills news conference. “The final outcome, of course, will be the same — one best picture winner — but the race to the finish line will feature 10, not just five, great movies from 2009.”

Hmm… not thrilled with this idea. Ten is just *too* many (there probably won’t be ten four-star-quality movies in 2009) and will make the nominations less meaningful. It also seems like an excuse to “honor” bigger-budget, more mainstream movies that never would have made the final cut but should have (WALL-E, Dark Knight in 2008 come to mind) without having to worry about them actually winning.

Jun
24th

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Jun
18th

“The Hut”? Really? (via idsgn)