I finally saw Tropic Thunder this past weekend on DVD, and my God, it was hilarious. Fantastic, funny, full of Hollywood-stabbing humor, and Tom Cruise completely won back all of my respect with his part as Les Grossman.
SO, that said. Robert Downey, Jr. needs to win for Best Supporting Actor this Sunday when the Oscars are presented. But he will not.
Why not?
Because this country isn't comfortable with humor that isn't obvious.
Jokes about poop and farts? Great! Jokes about how women
Everyone's making such a big deal out of today: It's September 9, which means it's 9/9/09.It is, according to one site, "the last set of repeating, single-digit dates that
we'll see for almost a century (until January 1, 2101), or a millennium
(mark your calendars for January 1, 3001), depending on how you want to
count it."That seems a little bit of a stretch to us when it comes to statistics, kind of like "most hits on the road against lefties with runners in scoring position on even-number