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Absolutely pathetic. I'd bust my ass if my employer offered me an extra $24K incentive, meanwhile Bynum can't even be motivated for $24M. Hopefully the Clippers or Miami don't reward him for his shitty attitude, though I guess there's no way in hell he'd make even close to that on either team.

Luger looks confused over why Ric Flair is taking a phone call in the middle of the match.

Permanent Midnight is actually a pretty terrible movie from a screenplay standpoint, the writing and plot just goes everywhere randomly, characters pop in and out with no rhyme or reason, and there's no real point to it, but Ben Stiller is absolutely amazing. The scene where he's at a job interview absolutely F'D up out of his mind almost makes me think that Ben wasn't acting. Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction are obvious. But his best work is in the little seen Blow-Out, which to this day has one of the best "oh shit" endings ever (two decades before they became the norm.)

Piper came off more of a heel attacking the producer than Heenan did being a dick. At least Heenan was funny.

I stand corrected, the PTW with Heenan ruining Christmas is airing now. Piper kinda comes off badly here, since he attacks Heenan a little too early and spends the next hour attacking the producer and anybody else who disagrees with him.

I wouldn't say the Nasties were necessarily pushed as they were a team brought in to be fodder for the Steiners, only they ended up getting over when the matches ended up being very good. If you look at the History of the WWE WCW section, the Nasties never beat anyone that weren't jobbers (even losing to Mike Rotunda & Tim Horner in a TV match.) WCW just screwed up by not seeing their potential and not signing them long-term.

I wasn't as enamored with it as some. I thought it was very good but there were a LOT of scenes that dragged. I don't know if it was because so much of it was improvised, but for every home run scene, there was a scene that went two-three minutes too long. I was actually surprised it was only two hours, because I could have sworn it was closer to three. Jennifer Lawrence was awesome, Amy Adams is probably the hottest she ever looked, and a certain uncredited actor pretty much steals the whole thing with his one scene. The performances were great, I just thought the pacing was a little off.

Undertaker wins. No drama. No nothing. The end. That's why. I'm glad you guys have all loved the Undertaker WM matches. But he will win every time. Great that you all buy the "drama." There is literally nobody who can realistically beat him that it doing so means anything. Not Cena. Not anybody.

I'm sick to death of every goddamn person acting like a "Mark Henry air bill" joke is still clever, original, or even remotely funny now (AH, yeah! Mark said that once 18 months ago! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!- Fuck, type "Mark Henry Air Bill" in the search engine, you'll probably get an error 404 from the overkill) but goddamn if I wouldn't pay money to see Mark as Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross. Bad ass reference that came out of nowhere. THAT'S how you make a Mark Henry joke.

I would think if anybody from World Class was John Belushi, it would be Gino Hernandez.

Seriously, they might have been 15-11 had Kobe never suited up. No Kobe, no actual PGs, and they're still at .500 and better than every team in the East aside from two.

I hate to say this, but I enjoy watching the Kobe-less Lakers a hell of a lot more than watching Kobe trying to badly fit in in the few games I saw him play in. Lakers just looked like they were having a blast in the 4th quarter. And then Nick Young had to go and slip on some guy's beverage for me to think "Oh F**K, another one down?!?!?!?"

Yes, I'm well aware you can actually name 80s main event professional wrestlers who didn't do drugs or drink. That wasn't the point. Hogan, Flair, Piper, Dog, and dozens of other guys were doing just as much drugs and alcohol as Kerry. It's not like the Von Erichs were some kind of anomaly back then. If Kerry was clean and sober, he'd hopefully still be alive, but I don't know that he'd accomplish much more than he did. His I-C run would have lasted a lot longer though.

Is that really fair? No main event professional wrestler in the 80s was clean and sober.

Eric Roberts was tremendous in Star 80. Very underrated and underappreciated role and performance. He's so slimy you almost need to take a shower when the movie's over. And it was brought up earlier, but Hayden Christensen was great in Shattered Glass. He played the smart, lying little shit role so perfectly, you just couldn't wait to see him get his.

So according to the front page on the Observer, Batista is returning in February for a WrestleMania program.

I love that of all the BS stories that came out of the sleaze thread, the one that just took a fifty year-old Danny Thomas story and stuck Jimmy Valiant in his place is the one that gained the most traction.

Kinda bummed they showed an alternate Prime Time and not the one that was coming up where Bobby Heenan tells all the kids that Santa isn't real, and that their parents bought all those presents only for Piper to then beat the crap out of him. Though I can kinda understand why they chose not to air it. Here's the clip, one of Heenan's best heel moments ever:

Or "WrestleMania moments."

My memories of Pizza Inn was the one two blocks from my high school where the employees either didn't give a shit or were just stupid when a group of us would come in but only half of us ordered the buffett. The other half would just order sodas. Then we'd pile shitloads of pizza on our plates and share it with everybody. That happened at least a half dozen times and no one ever said a word. It was average, but WAY better than Cici's (that was also 20 years ago, it may be total shit now.) You guys' Cici's may be decent, but I'd rather heat up a frozen Totino's than eat there.

I think it's very considerate of them. You don't have to waste money on a PPV(outside of Mania, maybe) ever again. Shit, it's getting that the RAWs after WrestleMania are way more memorable than the actual WrestleManias...

Harry Smith brought it up in an interview once, and one of the former WWE refs confirmed it on an Observer podcast a few months ago. Apparently it's been a rule for years.

Badass Quinn feels like a lifetime ago. He turned into such a pussy this season, whining and moping around about Carrie. He's pretty much become the male equivalent of her. I assume next season starts with Carrie assembling her "team" and telling Lockhart she wants Saul. Lockhart says absolutely not. No way. Impossible. He'd rather quit than take him back. Carrie pleads and begs, tells him "he owes her one." Lockhart looks at her, doesn't speak. Cut to Saul putting his stuff in his new office.

Technically, shouldn't the average American love Iran now for publicly killing the most wanted man in the world? I loved the complete lack of explanation as to why Lockhart would have ANYTHING to do with Carrie, much less promote her. More Jedi mind shit from Carrie, I guess. I eagerly await season 4 to bomb (no pun intended) and season 5 to introduce a new character: the twin brother Brody.