He passed away yesterday, but truthfully we’ve been missing John Hughes since the dawn of the ’90s—despite producing Home Alone in 1991, he was never able to make the transition from his generation-defining ’80s classics into the decade of Beverly Hills 90210 and America’s Funniest Home Videos, so he went into hiding. In fact, when NATO (National Association of Movie Theater Owners) gave him an award for Producer of the Year in 1991, they were able to get everyone but Hughes to appear in this tribute documentary: John Candy, Steve Martin, Macaulay Culkin, Matthew Broderick, Michael Jordan, Lea Thompson, Chevy Chase, Michael Keaton, Sylvester Stallone, Willie Dixon, Oprah (!) and tons more.
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Today, the art world mourns the loss of downtown golden boy Dash Snow, the 27-year old New York artist who reportedly passed away. Snow was known for his multimedia installations, photography, and painting and exhibited in galleries and museums including The Royal Academy in London, the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2006 Biennial, Deitch Projects, Saatchi Gallery, Peres Projects and the Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in New York.
Snow was an alternative icon, and perhaps you were familiar with his work. If not, read on below for our quick look-back at 5 of his greatest works…
It’s been a tough seven days for untimely celebrity deaths, but we have to say we were the most surprised by the passing of informercial king Billy Mays (don’t front, you knew something might happen to MJ sooner or later). Whether playing hooky on a rainy day or up too late and too blazed to change the channel, big BM soothed our boredom with his booming baritone and absolutely gratuitous gesticulations.
So in honor of the great pitchman, we rounded up his best of the best to present the Inaugural BIlly Mays Awards—watch his best commercials and buy some of the flimsy products he gave his generous time to shill below…
Micheal Jackson’s death yesterday afternoon left newspapers plenty of time to think of creative headlines, and as this morning’s alarm went off, all we could think about was what types of cringe-inducingheadlines the New York Post was going to come up with. The giant “DEAD” isn’t exactly tasteful, but it’s fairly tame, considering what they could have put (and what they’ve printed in the past). It’s likely that the inset spread, “JACKO HAS GONE TO NEVERLAND” didn’t make it to the front for this reason.
The Post has a storied history of creative Jackson headlines. Read on for a look back at 5 of the notorious paper’s shots at the King of Pop. Oh, and again, R.I.P to the best who ever did it!
Every ’70s and ’80s baby in the world was raised on his classic music videos, but most Michael Jackson fans didn’t get a chance to see his 3D science fiction movie Captain EO, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The flick was shown exclusively at Disneyland and Epcot Center for over 10 years, but it’s never been officially released on DVD (click here to sign a petition asking Disney to release the damn thing so we can pay them money). But thanks to the internets (and a wonderful Dutch person), we can now watch the complete movie (part 1 above and part 2 below).
It’s kind of a fake Star Wars, but fuck it…did we mention that George Lucas also co-wrote and produced Captain EO? Yeah. A note to so-called “superstars”: until you have a movie airing at the biggest amusement park in the world for a decade…you’re not touching the King! Rest in peace to the greatest that ever did it.
