My heart has been broken by the fact that Johnny Depp’s participation in the fourth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean series has further delayed the Dark Shadows remake. Tim Burton was set to direct but the project is now on the shelf indefinitely. 
There really doesn’t need to be another Pirates’ movie. There is a much greater need to bring Dark Shadows back into the entertainment spotlight. The original DS aired between 1966 and 1971 and was a soap opera populated by vampires, ghosts, zombies and the occasional human.
The …

Conservative radio show host Bob Grant could not believe that Barack Obama would be uppity presumptuous enough to create his own version of the American flag to decorate the background behind him at campaign appearance. 
The flag in question: 

The flag, bearing a prominent “O”, has only appeared behind Obama in Ohio. Bob Grant stopped his thinking there. He didn’t wonder why the Obama campaign would so scarcely use a flag it would’ve taken significant time and money to produce. The fact that the flag has only shown up in “O”hio didn’t …

When John McCain spurned David Letterman by canceling an appearance to “return to Washington” (aka “speakwith Katie Couric”), he might have expected some hurt feelings on Letterman’s part and some harsher treatment in opening monologues. He certainly didn’t expect that he would, on his eventual appearance on the program, be grilled about his relationship with G. Gordon Liddy. 
But Letterman went where actual journalists fear to tred during McCain’s appearance on his program last night. In reference to McCain’s attacks against Barack Obama concerning Bill Ayers, Letterman asked whether it was …

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