Morning link roundup
July 22, 2008 by Wendy Boswell
- The 5 Greatest (and 5 Worst) Board Games Based On Films: If you are a child of the late ‘70s/early ‘80s, chances are you remember wasting countless hours parked down in front of your favorite movie tie-in game. Sure, these may have killed the time before V came on, but were they any good?…..
- See the Sketches that Captured the Crazy: The Dark Knight concept art from legendary comics artist Bill Sienkiewicz shows Heath Ledger’s Joker looking more crazed than ever. ….
- Savage defends his autism comments by claiming Media Matters hates ‘families and children.’»: Last week, Media Matters caught right-wing radio talker Michael Savage claiming that autism is a “fraud” and “a racket” where “99 percent of the cases, it’s a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out.” Parents of autistic children are outraged, saying Savage’s comments were “way, way, way over the line and cruel.” But Savage refuses to apologize. On Larry King Live last night, he told guest host Glenn Beck that he had simply been “taken out of context” by “men who specialize in hating families and children, namely Media Matters.”….
- Theater goes dark for Ebert, Roeper: Chicago Sun-Times movie critic Roger Ebert and columnist Richard Roeper are cutting ties with the TV franchise that Disney-ABC Domestic Television has syndicated nationally for 22 years…..
Janet Jackson’s ‘malfunction’ fine nixed: A federal appeals court Monday threw out a $550,000 indecency fine against CBS for Janet Jackson’s breast-baring “wardrobe malfunction” at the 2004 Super Bowl……
