THE BUMRUSH

For the first time in her 69-year history, Wonder Woman will be getting a significant costume change. And by significant, I mean she’ll be getting pants. Via The New York Times, new DC writer J. Michael Straczynski (he of Babylon 5 fame) said the following in an email statement:

“She’s been locked into pretty much the exact same outfit since her debut in 1941... If you’re going to make a statement about bringing Wonder Woman into the 21st century, you need to be bold and you need to make it visual. I wanted to toughen her up, and give her a modern sensibility.”

Modern sensibility? Pants are so 1997. The old Wonder Woman outfit is classic, in my opinion, as clearly demonstrated by Linda Carter.


Really, it doesn’t get any better than that. The time to put Wonder Woman in pants was 10 years ago, if ever a time existed. But now? Classic is new again, and the old Wonder Woman outfit is classic.


BUMRUSH demerits for the new redesign.

Labels: comics, girls

Jason Bateman – of Arrested Development fame – failed to make some new friends in LA last week after cutting approximately 2,000 people in line waiting for the new iPhone 4. Bateman at first joined the regular line to wait with the rest of the peons, but was then led into the store in front of everyone else by a group of employees. The nerd-rage quickly followed:

“Everyone literally started booing and hissing...” And Bateman’s reaction? “He put his head down,”

From another account of the situation:

“I heard commotion in the back. I thought someone was fighting,” Mayhew said. “Then he strolls right on by with the Genius Bar guys and suddenly people in my area started to yell, 'What the hell is going on?'" Mayhew said the murmurs escalated with “passive-aggressive anger.”

Nothing says nerd rage like passive-aggressive anger... Bateman had a different account of the event via his twitter account, but then later apologized for his actions, because you know, he knew exactly what he was doing. Of course, he could care less about offending your feelings, because he’s rich, famous and now has a new iPhone. And your still waiting in line.

Labels: celebrities, nerds, news

Life has not been great for Tom Cruise recently. He jumped on Oprah’s couch, went nutso on the Today Show, played a German WWII Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg like he was Maverick in Top Gun, and was dumped by Paramount Pictures (among many other things). And now his latest movie with Cameron Diaz called “Knight and Day” looks like it’s going to bomb hard, making only $3.8 million dollars in its opening day.

You can’t completely blame Cruise on this one. The movie has been getting surprisingly decent reviews online – something akin to one of those classic summer popcorn movies with good action and surprisingly believable chemistry between Cruise and co-star Cameron Diaz.

Unfortunately, Cruise’s Q-rating is lower the CEO of BP right now, and it appears people don’t want to watch his Scientologist-loving ass on the big screen any more than I want to see the painful devolution of Adam Sandler (Grown Ups… really? REALLY?)

Despite the intense marketing campaign (Including begging Apple for help), “Knight and Day” is expected to gross in the neighborhood of $20-$25 million dollars this weekend. That isn’t a complete disaster compared to something like Jonah Hex, but considering the production costs were around $117 million (with a crazy marketing push on top of that) this movie is going to have a really hard time breaking even.

Labels: box office, movies, news, tom cruise

With a career resurgence over the past couple years, Josh Brolin’s career is as hot as it’s ever been. You figure that he can pick and choose his projects right now. So why not try to bring DC comic book character Jonah Hex to the big screen? Best case scenario, you’re the new Iron Man and you have to start heating your home with stacks of $100 bills because you don’t know what else to do with all the money you’ll be making. Worst case scenario? Your movie bombs with a $5 million opening weekend, slightly ahead of Iron Man 2, which has been in theaters for 2 months.

Jonah Hex, which was plagued by questionable production choices, is apparently an incoherent mess of a movie. But at 81 minutes in length, at least it gets where it’s going in a hurry.

Of course, the real issue here is where does Megan Fox go from here? I anxiously wait on the edge of my seat to hear the answer, but I just want to throw out the fact that my bed is always open.

Labels: movies, news

In an impressive judo-like maneuver, Republican representative Joe Barton apologized to BP executives today while they were testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Committee about the oil spill which was their fault to begin with. According to Barton:

"I'm not speaking for anybody in the House of Representatives but myself, but I'm ashamed of what happened in the White House yesterday. I think it is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown. In this case a $20 billion shakedown.... I apologize. I do not want to live in a country where any time a citizen or a corporation does something that is legitimately wrong, is subject to some sort of political pressure that is, again, in my words — amounts to a shakedown, so I apologize."

So to recap, Barton apologized to BP because the US government was mean to them after BP caused the one of the worst environmental catastrophes in the history of the world. Really, that’s the position he decided to take on this tragedy.

Shortly afterwards, Barton apologized to Adolf Hitler for the way the US Government treated Germany during World War II and Osama Bin Laden for the fact that the US tried to hunt him down and capture him after September 11th.

Labels: news, perverson, stupidity

There I was, wandering across the inter-webs, desperate for entertainment but finding none. Shall I check Drudge for the latest depressing headline about BP's ineptitude? Yawn. Why not check in on ItsProbablyTrue.com? I hear those fellas have like, 10 inch ding dongs. Nope, I'm just not in the mood for a sausage party. How about I swing by IMDB and look up some movie quotes? Nah, I already know them all. And then I stumble across this jewel from the good people at autotunethenews.com.

I have strayed off the edge of the map and there be monsters here...but there's also some real funny shit, too. Check it out.

A stop motion animated Mario. Fricken awesome. I want to play.

Labels: video, video games

Khloe Kardashian masks have become and acceptable form of taunting at NBA playoff games. You know, because her husband is Laker Lamar Odom, who is like the 5th best player on the team. And seeing thousands of people wear a mask of your wife in the stands is supposed to make you feel… weird? Creeped out? Sad? Sorry for all the fans who subjected themselves to this? Cause that’s the vibe I’m getting.

Labels: apocalypse

As a child of the 1980's, I have fond memories of the TV movie "The Incredible Hulk Returns", which was played on a non-stop loop back in the day. In the movie, Thor makes an appearance as comic relief to the Hulk. Ridiculous? Absolutely. Still, I ate it up at the time as a 10 year old.

Labels: bill bixby, hulk, television

The band Broken Bells (a side project of Danger Mouse and James Mercer of The Shins) scored big time recently with their latest video for “The Ghost Inside” by getting the absolutely smoking hot Mad Men star Christina Hendricks to play a gorgeous android in their video.



How did the relatively unknown band make it happen? They simply asked her to do it and she said yes. Fuck dude. That's all it takes. i really have to start reevaluating my life.

Here is the video if you are interested in seeing the final product.

Labels: celebrities, girls, music