Kevin James

Kevin James

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Kevin James

Born April 26, 1965

Kevin James is a truly funny guy. He has played a variety of roles and he seems to be able to play just about any role, some of which we will dig into below. He is very deft at physical humor but then you watch him act and emote and he is a very talented as an actor.

Noteworthy

  • Hitch – This was the first movie that I remember Kevin James in. He was fantastic in this role. In particular, the training montage with Will Smith is one of the funniest things that Will Smith has been involved in, in a long time.
  • The King of Queens – Doug Heffernan, as a character, ran across three different shows. Doug was the springboard for Kevin James onto the large screen and really gave a jolt to his career. Add Leah Remini to this and it is no wonder that James is as big a star as he is.
  • I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry – Kevin James and Adam Sandler are box office gold. Having them marry each other for health benefits – genius. Such a funny thought provoking movie.
  • Paul Blart: Mall Cop – Bag on this movie all you want. They had me when he slid across the floor and didn’t quite make it to cover. Laughed my ass off.
  • Here Comes the Boom – A much more trim Kevin James learning to MMA fight to save a program in his school. Bizarre plot great flick. Loved it.

There’s no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

-Kevin James

This Ain’t Your Daddy’s Freebird

by | September 13, 2016 | Featured, Food | 0 Comments

It never fails, I’m walking through a farmers’ market and I hear someone in a hushed tone say ‘oh my god, did you see how much that (fill in the blank) was?’  Usually, it is because of an $18 hen, $8 dozen eggs, or a $38 New York strip.  These prices seem...
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Dakota Fanning

by | February 23, 2018 | Featured, Movies | 0 Comments

Dakota Fanning Born February 23, 1994   Dakota Fanning popped onto my radar when she appeared in either The Cat in the Hat or Man on Fire. Man on Fire certainly stood out more to me at the time. Since that point, she has continued to turn out good work and is one of...
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Elijah Wood

by | January 28, 2018 | Featured, Movies | 0 Comments

Elijah Wood - Born January 28, 1981 Elijah Wood, Frodo to some, Noteworthy The Good Son - This might have been one of the first movies that I remember Elijah Wood in. He played the protagonist to the very evil Macaulay Culkin. Love this movie. If it is not in your...
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Robert Burns Bard of Ayrshire

by | January 25, 2018 | Books, Featured, Pop Culture | 0 Comments

Robert Burns - Born January 25, 1759 Tonight is Burns Night. It celebrates Robert Burns Bard of Ayrshire on the day of his birthday January 25th of each year. Burns is regarded as the National Poet of Scotland and though his poetry is difficult to read and understand;...
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Why is Everyone Hating on Suicide Squad

by | September 3, 2016 | Featured, Movies | 0 Comments

Suicide Squad Director: David Ayer Cast: Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Viola Davis, Jared Leto, Jai Courtney, Ezra Miller, Jey Hernandez, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Cara Delevingne, Joel Kinnaman, Adam Beach & Ben Affleck MPAA Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 2016 Why is...
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Jason Lee

Jason Lee

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Jason Lee

Born April 25, 1970

Jason Lee has been someone I have watched in everything they have been in since I saw him in Mallrats back in the day. Love his acting style and love the way he approaches a character.

Noteworthy

  • Mallrats – Lee is Brodie. Brodie is Lee. This is still my favorite character that he has ever performed. The delivery is amazing and so much fun to watch.
  • Dogma – Lee is a bad guy. He is Azrael a bad angel looking to help end the world.
  • The Incredibles -Lee is the voice of Syndrome. I don’t think that it would have been quite as good without Jason Lee voicing the bad guy.
  • My Name is Earl – A storyline based around Karma with a kinda white-trash set of characters. Such a timeless and amusing show. Very re-watchable unless you are my wife. She hates it.

I was a little nerdy, but I got along with everybody. I had fun at school – skateboarding, surfing, getting kicked out of class for making too much noise.

-Jason Lee

Bad Movies – Bad Puns: But Great Company

by | March 3, 2017 | Featured, Movies, Pop Culture | 0 Comments

Bad Movies - Bad Puns: But Great Company Back in the stone ages before we had streaming services like Hulu, Netflix, or even YouTube, we had these primitive devices called DVDs and actually had to have the disc in a physical machine that, after the viewing, you had to...
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Bryan Cranston

by | March 7, 2018 | Featured, Movies, Pop Culture, Television | 0 Comments

Bryan Cranston Born March 7, 1956   Bryan Cranston hit my radar when he was on Seinfeld, one of the best sitcoms ever. Then he was on Malcolm in the Middle - another of my favorites that I have binge-ed through several times. Then he changes gears and he is the lead...
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Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny

by | March 18, 2017 | Featured, Movies, Pop Culture | 0 Comments

I just got through watching Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny for the first time. I am not sure how I have dodged this movie for so long but I am here to tell you, really, very funny, typical Jack Black and something that I will be watching again and sharing with...
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Johnny Knoxville

by | March 11, 2018 | Featured, Movies, Pop Culture, Television | 0 Comments

Johnny Knoxville Born March 11, 1971   Johnny Knoxville is one of my favorite celebrities. He is his own person. He stays out of the bullshit, for the most part, and just does his own thing. he makes unique choices and again seems to be his own person in a society of...
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Ed Helms

by | January 24, 2018 | Comedy, Featured, Movies, Music, Television | 0 Comments

Ed Helms - Born January 24, 1974 Ed Helms is one of my favorite performers alive today. I say, performer, because he is way more than just an actor. Whether he is improvising, singing, or acting, Ed Helms is one of those people that brings a smile to your face. As...
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Cedric the Entertainer

Cedric the Entertainer

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Cedric the Entertainer

Born April 24, 1964

Cedric the Entertainer is one of the funniest people on the planet. Since his stand-up days, I have been following his career and catching him everywhere that I can.

Noteworthy

  • The Original Kings of Comedy – Cedric the Entertainer, Bernie Mac, Steve Harvey, and DL Hughley. This is still one of the best stand-up special of all time.
  • Barbershop – Cedric is Eddie. Barbershop is awesome and worth a re-watch every couple of years.
  • The Honeymooners – Who else can take Gleason’s place in this reboot… that is all I am asking.

We as comics do want an immediate response from the audience. It’s really quiet on the set, and there are only the producers, and the director, so a comic is looking for someone to give a reaction, even if it is the camera guy.

-Cedric the Entertainer

Ark: Survival Evolved – PS4

by | March 21, 2017 | Featured, Video Games | 0 Comments

Ark: Survival Evolved finally hit PS4! There was great rejoicing. People lost hours, days weeks of their lives and dinos were tamed. I first heard of this game through a friend who was playing it on PC. He was regaling me with tales of dino taming. Crafting everything...
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Kal Penn

by | April 23, 2018 | Featured, Movies | 0 Comments

Kal Penn Born April 23, 1977   Kal Penn roams this weird world between comedy and drama. He walks the edge between entertainment and public service. He has existed in different worlds and been successful. He is proof that while someone in Hollywood's opinion isn't...
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Mad Men – Post Binge Watch

by | September 19, 2016 | Featured, Pop Culture, Television | 0 Comments

Mad Men Creator: Matthew Weiner Cast: Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones, Christina Hendricks, John Slattery, Robert Morse, Kiernan Shipka, and so many more that I don't have room to list them all. MPAA Rating: TV-MA Release Year: 2007-2015 I...
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Justin Timberlake

by | January 31, 2018 | Featured, Movies, Music, Pop Culture, Television | 0 Comments

Justin Timberlake - Born January 31, 1981 Justin Timberlake Noteworthy Can't Stop the Feeling - Best Original Song - Academy Awards 2017 - Nominated Best New Artist - BET Awards 2003 - Nominated Can't Stop the Feeling - Top Selling Song - Billboard Music Awards 2017...
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The Undertaker

by | March 24, 2018 | Featured, Pop Culture, Wrestling | 0 Comments

The Undertaker Born March 24, 1965   The Undertaker debuted as a gimmick for Mark Calaway in 1990. By that point, Calaway had been wrestling for about 6 years in various territories under various gimmicks. They call The Undertaker the Phenom and they are right. He is...
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Clint Howard

Clint Howard

by | Beyond Geek, Featured, Movies, Pop Culture, Television, Trivia

Clint Howard

Born April 20, 1959

Clint Howard has been acting, small screen and large screen, since he was a child. His unique look, his acting chops, and the fact that he has been literally acting for his entire life makes Howard someone to look like whenever he shows up in a movie.

Noteworthy

  • Star Trek (TOS) – Balok – Howard played an alien and an adversary to Kirk and the Enterprise.
  • Gentle Ben – This was the first place that I remember seeing Clint Howard. I saw it in reruns but I do remember my mom telling me that he was Opie’s brother off the Andy Griffith Show.
  • Tango & Cash – Howard has a brief cameo in this 80s action film.
  • Backdraft – Another cameo and you can see in his career that it has become a badge of honor having Clint Howard show up in your movie.
  • Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me – He has one of the best running bits in all of these movies. The radar operator bit is a classic.

One of my earliest memories is being inside the recording studio and I see the shadow of a figure that looks an awful lot like Walt Disney. Then the door opened and Mr. Disney walked in and said, ‘Hi Clint.’ I won’t ever forget that.

-Clint Howard

I Hate John Cena

by | August 24, 2016 | Featured, Wrestling | 0 Comments

In my many years of watching wrestling, and it has been roughly 30 years as a fan going all the way back to the Rock’n Wrestling cartoon and writing a letter to Hogan after Earthquake broke his ribs and put Hogan out for a few months.  I did receive a postcard from...
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Podcasts – Talk Radio Whenever You Need It

by | September 15, 2016 | Featured, Podcast, Technology | 0 Comments

Much earlier in y life, I was Talk Radio junkie. High School and college, if I was in the car be myself I was most likely listening to the local talk radio station. Saturdays I looked forward to ar Talk and Wait Wait Don't Tell me on NPR. At some point, with my tastes...
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Justin Timberlake

by | January 31, 2018 | Featured, Movies, Music, Pop Culture, Television | 0 Comments

Justin Timberlake - Born January 31, 1981 Justin Timberlake Noteworthy Can't Stop the Feeling - Best Original Song - Academy Awards 2017 - Nominated Best New Artist - BET Awards 2003 - Nominated Can't Stop the Feeling - Top Selling Song - Billboard Music Awards 2017...
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Reddit from a Redditor

by | February 17, 2017 | Featured, Pop Culture, Technology | 0 Comments

Reddit from a Redditor Jenny was a\only looking for kisses, waiting to see what was in the safe the guy found in his house, and Kevin showing up at the front door to ask for bananas. If you understood those references then hello fellow redditor and if not let me...
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Aaron Eckhart

by | March 12, 2018 | Featured, Movies | 0 Comments

Aaron Eckhart Born March 12, 1968   Aaron Eckhart was one of the bright points for me in The Dark Knight. And while I enjoyed Heath Ledger as a lone terrorist in that movie, I really dug Eckhart's work in the film. Noteworthy Erin Brokovich - This was the first movie...
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Rick Moranis

Rick Moranis

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Rick Moranis

Born April 18, 1953

Rick Moranis has been a part of my Geeks World for as long as I can remember. From Ghostbusters to Spaceballs and beyond he has been a part of some of the biggest geek-fests in the world. I miss Rick Moranis but I get the fact that he is a single dad now and raising kids.

Noteworthy

  • Ghostbusters – This is one of my favorite comedies of all time. Moranis plays one of those secondary roles that is so outstanding that the movie would not have worked without him in it.
  • Little Shop of Horrors – Seymour is one of the roles that I would love to play on stage. Rick Moranis made me fall in love with this character.
  • Spaceballs – Moranis as Dark Helmet – “And I see your Schwartz is as big as mine…”
  • Honey, I Shrunk the Kids – Completely dug this movie as a kid. Liked all of the spin-offs too.
  • Splitting Heirs – Here is one you might not be familiar with. Moranis and Monty Python alum Eric Idle as kids switched at birth. Holy crap it is a funny movie.

I’m a single parent, and I just found that it was too difficult to manage raising my kids and doing the traveling involved in making movies. So I took a little bit of a break. And the little bit of a break turned into a longer break, and then I found that I really didn’t miss it.

-Rick Moranis

Henry Rollins

by | February 13, 2018 | Books, Comedy, Featured, Movies, Pop Culture, Television | 0 Comments

Henry Rollins Born February 13, 1961   Henry Rollins stand up comic, frontman for Black Flag, thought provoking and one hell of a powerful speaker, if you are not familiar go out and YouTube him. Prepare to have your thinking expanded. Noteworthy Black Flag - frontman...
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Like a C5 Like a C5 Rocket

by | January 10, 2018 | Beyond Geek, Featured, Pop Culture, Science | 0 Comments

On this day, 1962, NASA made a big announcement. They said they were gonna rocket it Like a C5 Like a C5 Rocket. Ok, forgive my bit of punniness, but I am and always have been a fan of the US Space Agency, NASA. In 1962 they did announce that they were going to create...
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Robert Burns Bard of Ayrshire

by | January 25, 2018 | Books, Featured, Pop Culture | 0 Comments

Robert Burns - Born January 25, 1759 Tonight is Burns Night. It celebrates Robert Burns Bard of Ayrshire on the day of his birthday January 25th of each year. Burns is regarded as the National Poet of Scotland and though his poetry is difficult to read and understand;...
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Emma Caulfield

by | April 8, 2018 | Beyond Geek, Featured, Movies, Pop Culture, Television | 0 Comments

Emma Caulfield Born April 8, 1973   Emma Caulfield, playing Anya on Buffy the Vampire Slayer was just one of the many reasons that I loved that show. SHe was the humor, the passion, and part of the Scooby Gang - or at least Scooby adjacent. For the noteworthy, I would...
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Top 5 Ben Stiller Movies

by | March 28, 2017 | Featured, Movies | 0 Comments

Recently, I have been sharing my love of Ben Stiller with my nephews. Tropic Thunder and then the first two Focker movies. This got me to thinking about how many of Ben Stiller's movies I own and how many roles he has made that are now a part of pop-culture. The list...
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