Posts with tag "JeffGoldblum"

Run Away! Best Alien Movie, TV Invasions

Posted Nov 3rd 2009 at 10:30 AM by Tricia Romano

At the end of the ten-minute opening scene of the re-imagining of 'V' (debuting tonight on ABC), two overly excited guys are being interviewed by TV. "Dude! This is Independence Day!" one of them says of the by-now familiar site of giant spaceships hovering in the sky. "Which was a rip off of any number of alien invasion predecessors," says his annoyed friend. It's a smart, self-aware way to ...

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Cliffs, Pretzels and Baked Beans: Our Favorite Celebrity Death Hoaxes

Posted Oct 13th 2009 at 10:00 PM by Marc Schneider

If all celebrity death reports over the years turned out true (Zach Braff alive!), we'd have lost three big stars to the cliffs of New Zealand by now. Britney Spears would have met her maker thanks to a pretzel truck. And let's just say that Urkel's wake was closed casket. Hoaxes can be random, fun, disturbing. They also lift from common themes. Some of our favorites, starting with ... Deadly ...