White collar bandits from JPMorgan Chase staged a broad daylight heist at Bear Stearns. They got away with an estimated $33 billion dollar portfolio (only $2 Billion is exposed to sub-prime, rest $31 billion Prime/ Alt-A/ commercial safe investments) and dropping a measly $236 million for it in the tip jar, on their way out. Just the Bear […]

Report: Many U.S. Parents Outsourcing Child Care Overseas
 
I wonder if these parents realize the mental trauma the child has to go thro during the 3 day transit? Its sad to see the country slowly draining its moral values and replacing it with dollars & pennies saved.
Sad sad day!

Paramount Pictures announced that it will release Transformers only in HD-DVD format, and not Sony’s Blu-Ray format. Thats when Micheal Bay e-x-p-l-o-d-e-d, with flames flying thro his nose, he declared that he will not direct the Transformer’s sequel, in a forum post in his personal website.

"I want people to see my movies in the best formats possible. For […]

Some observations of yesterday’s Oscar Nite. It was more or less predictable this time.
Travesty:
- The Departed* leads the list with 3 tragedies, ‘Best Picture’?! Absolute shame* , what? for a gangster B Flick? Whats wrong with ultapowerful ‘Babel’?! - even more revolting is ‘Best Adapted Screenplay’, that was unforgivable. Martin Scorsese should get an Oscar […]

Director Priyadarshan’s interview in Mid-Day about his new movie:
Many films on winning a lottery have been made in Bollywood over the years. Always in a lighter vein. It is Priyadarshan’s turn now to do one on this subject in his inimitable style… the way only he can handle situational comedies.
This one is called ‘Malamal Weekly’. […]

I read a blog which hails Google Maps, so I thought I’d drop my comment there, but it Blogger asked me to register first to make a comment - so I thought I’d post it here.
Usually graduates from Google Labs are model netizens - clean, white, neatly dressed, not too graphic but perfectly […]

News: Indian Censors advocate a Ban on smoking on screen.
Are today’s youth influenced by what they see in the Media (TV, Movies and the Videogames) ? Is Hollywood to blame ?
Well, here is a direct Q&A with Mark Taylor who survived Columbine High School Shooting where many young students were massacred.

Was there a connection between […]

Today I came across an article being discussed in LazyGeek’s blog. The Outlook article (link) talked about the hypnotized slumber the Indian audience are being subjected to, diminishing their capacity to perceive & recognizing quality. The article touched upon certain valid points and missed others completely.
To recognize that there is a […]