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 Madison Square Garden, New York – 8 November

Sex and The City Continues

According to Kim Cattrall who appeared on a British talk show with guest host Mel B., and confirmed that a Sex and the City sequel is a GO.

What should happen in the Sex and the City sequel?

Carrie and Mr. Big: Mr. Big suffers big losses from the financial crisis. Carrie has to downsize her closet.  Carrie wants a baby. Mr. Big needs a job. Their marriage is facing difficulties as they seem to grow apart. Will they overcome the challenges? 

Samantha:  She returns to NY to focus on her career and a few good men left in NY that she hasn’t had the pleasure to meet. She runs into Jerry ‘Smith’ Jerrod who is now engaged to a young and beautiful actress. She doubts if leaving him was the right decision. After all there is not much left that she hasn’t tried yet.

Miranda and Steve: The marital issues seem to be off the table. Another baby is on the way. Only Miranda has a secret. During their temporary break up she had an affair that she forgot to mention. Is Steve the father of her child?

Charlotte and Harry: The happily ever after doesn’t last long as Harry mysteriously disappears. Heartbroken and devasted Charlotte who can do anything but be alone needs her girlfriends now more than ever.

Watch the Interview with Kim Cattrall

Watch the Sex and the City trailer

Wassup 2008

Dating With Borat

This is hilarious!

‘Sarah Palin’ – The Car Saleswoman. What?

No. It’s not Sarah Palin. And No. It’s not Tina Fey. It’s just another not so famous look-alike in a Absolute Hyundai car commercial.

Absolute Hyundai in Mesquite uses Sarah Palin look-alike to sell cars
By MARK NORRIS / The Dallas Morning News

If you didn’t want to buy a Kia from Barack Obama, how about a Hyundai from Sarah Palin. A look-alike of the Republican vice presidential candidate extols the virtues of purchasing from Mesquite-based Absolute Hyundai in a 30-second commercial that hit the airwaves Oct. 15.

The spots are reminiscent of those from another Dallas-area car dealer, Central Kia, which has run spots featuring an Obama look-alike throughout the 2008 campaign. Each of the commercials was created by different ad agencies.

Beals Cunningham Strategic Services, an agency based out of Oklahoma City, created the Palin spot originally for a car dealership located in Oklahoma but had to pull the ad after three weeks due to a large number of complaints.

“They felt I was demeaning Sarah Palin,” said Michael Hayes, who created the advertisement. Mr. Hayes’ wife plays Ms. Palin in the commercial. He said he got the idea for the ad after people stopped his wife in public and remarked how she looked like the candidate, but was also partly inspired to do a better parody than the Central Kia ad he had seen. “After the initial announcement I thought, ‘Man, wouldn’t that be a great speech with the lipstick and hockey mom thing?’” Mr. Hayes said.

Ray Monks, general manager of Absolute Hyundai, said the ad agency offered him the Palin parody as an option and he decided to use it during the closing weeks of the campaign.

“I liked it,” he said, acknowledging the commercial would garner lots of attention for his dealership. “It just makes them remember the commercial. It’s an image ad.”

Reaction, so far, has been mixed with both positive and negative calls to the dealership’s office. “It’s just a political comedy. It’s pretty standard in the automotive industry to do parodies,” Mr. Monks said.

The commercial opens with the Palin look-alike at a podium asking, “Do you know the difference between a woman lookin’ for a good deal on a car and a pit bull? Lipstick.” After an announcer voices over footage of the Hyundai’s on sale, the look-alike reappears and chimes in, “Now you don’t need a lot of experience to know that’s a good deal.”

The ad closes with the look-alike’s voice taking one of Ms. Palin’s more notorious lines and customizing it for the car dealership. Mr. Hayes said he added it in at the last second and believes it’s what upset people. The line — “I can see Absolute Hyundai from my house!”

Head Of Skate

McCain’s Late Show

Politics can be so much more fun. Dave forgave but didn’t forget. The good news is that if Senator McCain to become president the only person whose taxes will go up is David Letterman. The bad news is the show will go off air once the prsidential election is history. Watch the show to find out more.

McCain and YouTube. Palin and Bon Jovi.

And you think you have problems because you posted a video that has been removed by YouTube. At least you are not running for president. But if you consider running for president in the next 40 years, learn from other people’s mistakes now.  The first two lessons are about web videos and music.

*A note to musicians: Start writing meaningful songs. It might be used for the next presidential election.     

McCain to YouTube: Don’t Tread On Me

Andrea Chalupa writes:From CNN’s YouTube debates to the insta-fame of Obama Girl, YouTube has played a major role in this election. In fact the video hub is so critical that the McCain campaign took the time to send a letter of complaint to top YouTube execs, including C.E.O. Chad Hurley and parent company Google, after the website removed McCain campaign ads because of copyright infringement. The letter implied their campaign was being unfairly targeted by YouTube and its ilk. (…)

YouTube claims the campaign violated this act by using footage of actual news broadcasts, which are, of course, protected.  

And it’s hardly the first time McCain has been called out for breaking copyright law. Last fall, Fox News, which prohibits candidates from using their footage in endorsements, made YouTube take down McCain’s “Tied Up” video. The political clip included footage from a Fox-sponsored debate of McCain criticizing Hillary Clinton for an earmark.

Last month CBS News made YouTube take down McCain’s infamous “Lipstick” video that insinuated Barack Obama called Sarah Palin a lipstick-wearing pig. The video ends with footage of Katie Couric discussing the “continued and accepted role of sexism in American life.” Couric was referring to the media’s coverage of Hillary Clinton in the Primary. CBS called the ad misleading and a violation of copyright.

Warner Music also demanded in July that YouTube remove a video by McCain called “Obama Love,” edited to show news media fawning over the Illinois senator and played to Frankie Valli’s “Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You.” YouTube removed the video, and McCain’s campaign later posted it on their site after changing the music to something more generic.
 
“YouTube was abiding by the rules that Congress set up when it took down the videos about which the McCain/Palin campaign complained. Perhaps next year, Congress will consider taking a look at the beneficial effects fair use has on society, including on political speech,” said Gigi Sohn, the president of Public Knowledge, a digital culture public interest group in Washington, DC.

But the McCain campaign has a better idea. Read more…

Bon Jovi Mad About Sarah Palin Using His Song

The Huffington Post reports that Bon Jovi is mad at Sarah Palin for using their “Who Says You Can’t Go Home” song at her rallies. The band joines a list of musical acts including Heart, Jackson Browne, the Foo Fighters and Van Halen that are mad at their songs being used at McCain-Palin events.

TMZ reports: “We are surprised to hear that our song, “Who Says You Can’t Go Home” was used by the McCain campaign at rallies yesterday and today. We wrote this song as a thank you to those who have supported us over the past twenty-five years. The song has since become a banner for our home state of New Jersey and the defacto theme song for our partnerships around the country to build homes and rebuild communities. Although we were not asked, we do not approve of their use of ‘Home.’”

More about music that has been played during the “political parties”.

The Man Of The Night: Joe the Plumber

Does Joe the Plumber know Joe Six-Pack?

Posted by: Emily Kaiser on Reuters Blog

Joe the Plumber was the surprise star of the third and final presidential debate, getting no less than 13 mentions in the opening minutes.

So who is this guy? His full name is Joe Wurzelbacher, and it turns out he had a close encounter with Barack Obama a few days ago. John McCain adopted Joe’s cause as a way to tar his opponent as a tax-and-spend liberal.

The apparent problem is that Joe is about to buy a company that makes a little over $250,000 a year, and under Obama’s proposal that would put him into a higher tax bracket. Obama told Joe that he wasn’t trying to punish his success, only to spread the wealth around.

“Joe wants to buy the business that he has been in for all of these years, worked 10, 12 hours a day. And he wanted to buy the business but he looked at your tax plan and he saw that he was going to pay much higher taxes,” McCain said.

“Joe, I want to tell you, I’ll not only help you buy that business that you worked your whole life for and be able — and I’ll keep your taxes low and I’ll provide available and affordable health care for you and your employees,” McCain said, staring straight into the camera.

McCain got a little caught up in the moment and muddled in his message to Joe by saying at one point that “fifty percent of small business income taxes are paid by small businesses.”

Still, Joe the Plumber has become a bit of Internet celebrity and Republicans quickly latched onto his plight, issuing a statement saying his comments to Joe showed that Obama would “tax to death” the American Dream.

Obama’s response was that Joe the Plumber needed a tax cut five years ago, and Obama wants to “make sure that the plumber, the nurse, the firefighter, the teacher, the young entrepreneur who doesn’t yet have money, I want to give them a tax break now. And that requires us to make some important choices.”

As for Joe himself, directory assistance had no telephone listing for him in Toledo, Ohio. If you’re listening, Joe, we’d love to hear how you’re handling fame!

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