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

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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Jason Segel Friend to Muppets

by | January 18, 2018 | Featured, Movies, Television | 0 Comments

Jason Segel "I'm not a gay pirate, I have sex with my parrot all the time!... OK, that came out wrong." - Marshall - How I Met Your Mother Noteworthy How I Met Your Mother -  I love this show. I don't love the storyline but the characters more than make up for that....
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The Conjuring

by | October 27, 2017 | Featured, Movies | 0 Comments

The Conjuring This movie is based on a true story about the life and careers of Ed and Lorraine Warren, a pair of paranormal investigators and demonologists. It is directed by James Wan and written by Chad Hayes and Corey Hayes. The film itself was 20 years in the...
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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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Rick Moranis

by | April 18, 2018 | Comedy, Featured, Movies, Television | 0 Comments

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...
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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

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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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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Morgan Fairchild

by | February 3, 2018 | Featured, Movies, Pop Culture, Television | 0 Comments

Morgan Fairchild - Born February 3, 1950 Morgan Fairchild, talk about someone that was all over TV back int he 70s and 80s. She was the epitome of WOMAN back then and really still is today. She could play any role on TV and hold her own with anyone in Hollywood on the...
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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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When I Grow Up I Want to Be Nick Offerman

by | September 17, 2016 | Books, Comedy, Featured, Television | 0 Comments

So, I am almost done listening to Nick Offerman's book Gumption and I have decided that When I Grow Up I Want to Be Nick Offerman. Forget the obvious benefit that he is married to the funny, talented and gorgeous Megan Mullally, was one of the linchpin characters in...
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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

Gal Gadot

by | April 30, 2018 | Comic Books, Featured, Movies, Video Games | 0 Comments

Gal Gadot Born April 30, 1985   Gal Gadot is Wonder Woman. Take that in for a minute. She is a trained Israeli soldier which means that the moves you see her do are for real and she can kick your ass. And you will like it. Noteworthy Keeping Up with the Jones - Gadot...
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Walking Dead Season 7 Finale

by | April 2, 2017 | Featured, Pop Culture, Television | 0 Comments

This is something I haven't ever tried before. I am going to attempt to chronicle my reactions to the Season Finale of The Walking Dead. #TheWalkingDead - #TWDFinale The Music this season has been really good. From the choices when they were torturing Darryl to the...
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Neck-Deep in a Long Box

by | April 9, 2017 | Comic Books, Featured | 0 Comments

Go get Neck-Deep in a Long Box! I mean it. I cannot tell you the number of hours I spent, as a kid, digging through back issues in long boxes no matter where they were. Digging through long boxes at a comic book store was one of my favorite activities as a young comic...
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Michael Rooker

by | April 6, 2018 | Featured, Movies, Television | 0 Comments

Michael Rooker Born April 6, 1955   Michael Rooker defines the term gritty actor. He is the grittiest of the gritty and one of my favorite actors on the planet. The roles that he digs into are always passionate, sometimes misunderstood, and usually very strange....
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Bruce Willis

by | March 19, 2018 | Featured, Movies, Television | 0 Comments

Bruce Willis Born March 19, 1955   Bruce Willis is a part of pop-culture. From the Seagram's ads back in the 80s and Moonlighting to the Die Hard movies, he has shaped how we look at leading men and what those leading men can look like and what they can do on screen....
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Clint Howard

Clint Howard

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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

Top 5 Bill Paxton Movies

by | April 4, 2017 | Featured, Movies | 0 Comments

We lost an iconic actor in February of this year. As many have said if you saw Bill Paxton's name on something, it was going to be good. He brought a certain professionalism and depth to every character he played whether it was the leading role or part of the...
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Tiffani Thiessen

by | January 23, 2018 | Featured, Movies, Television | 0 Comments

Tiffani Thiessen - Born January 23, 1974 Tiffani Thiessen was one of those crushes that I had as a kid watching TV. I think most boys wanted to date Kelly from Saved by the Bell. Over the years, Thiessen has kept her career going with guest roles on TV, starring roles...
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James Van Der Beek

by | March 8, 2018 | Featured, Movies, Television | 0 Comments

James Van Der Beek Born March 8, 1977   James Van Der Beek showed up in my pop-culture worldview when he appeared in Varsity Blues. Since that movie, I have been a fan and will watch just about anything that Van Der Beek appears in. Noteworthy Varsity Blues - Varsity...
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Sara Gilbert

by | January 29, 2018 | Featured, Pop Culture, Television | 0 Comments

Sara Gilbert - Born January 29, 1975 Sara Gilbert - I remember watching her a spunky kid on Roseanne. Watching her grow up on a show that I didn't watch all the time. Seeing her pop back up years later on The Big Bang Theory and then seeing her really take the...
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Lucy Lawless

by | March 29, 2018 | Featured, Movies, Pop Culture, Television | 0 Comments

Lucy Lawless Born March 29, 1968   Lucy Lawless, New Zealand born actress and singer, has been a pop-culture icon since the early 1990s. From Xena: Warrior Princess to her latest work on Ash vs Evil Dead, Lawless spans the world and genres. She helped create the...
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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

I Sell Comics

by | April 3, 2017 | Comic Books, Featured, Podcast | 0 Comments

I Sell Comics is part of the SmodCo network of podcasts. Starring Mike and Ming, this podcasts has at its heart comic books but it covers any and every other topic that happens to cross the minds of the hosts. From interviews to ribbing the folks at Tell Em Steve...
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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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7 Days A Geek

by | March 25, 2017 | Featured, Podcast | 0 Comments

My podcast playlist keeps me in anticipation each and every week. I pull down to refresh and it feels like I am playing the slots with a 100% chance to win. One of my favorite jackpots is when the 7 Days a Geek podcast rolls out a new pod. It is a highlight and I find...
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Stars with Disturbing Parents

by | August 25, 2016 | Beyond Geek, Featured, Movies, Pop Culture | 0 Comments

Why are their so many stars with disturbing parents? Is it the same percentage as us normal folk and their celebrity puts them in the public eye? Or are they more prone to having a lot more crazy and creepy because of their talent? Stars with Disturbing Parents: JACK...
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The Eyes Have It

by | February 24, 2017 | Featured, Science | 0 Comments

The Eyes Have It Do you think you can tell when someone is interested in your conversation, or into you just by looking at their eyes? Today we will use the science of eye reading to either understand what someone thinks of you, or to improve your ability to let...
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