Video Digest: July 7, 2006
Inspiration and adoration: Amy Sedaris’s inspiration; ’80s commercials; frightening video game weapons; Latinos love Moz; cats love (and carry) large fish
Sarah Hepola
Video Digest: June 30, 2006
An education in phobias: pickles on “Maury”; Tyra, Star, and Barbara Walters; David Spade vs. Vin Diesel (and Diesel, movie star, vs. Diesel, breakdancing instructor); Brando reanimated; Stevie Wonder on “Sesame Street”
Video Digest: June 23, 2006
Horror in many forms: tragic Hervé Villechaize; unwatchable Connie Chung; liquidating Verne Troyer; conjoined twins; younger brother gets his Barkley on
Video Digest: June 16, 2006
YouTube, the new Animal Planet; Happy Morning; Saget takes it out, chops it up; Zach Braff can’t blog
Video Digest: June 9, 2006
Horrors and whores: omens and exorcisms; KISS in the park; Paris sings; Jack Black terrifies; extremely cute child thieves
Video Digest: June 2, 2006
Dance, Dance, Dance! Attention-seeking lunatic; Fame; Michael Jackson; Bollywood Beatles; Finnish funky; Gene Kelly’s perfection
Video Digest: May 26, 2006
Vintage Tim Burton; vintage Sofia Coppola; vintage Michel Gondry; vintage Jim Henson; vintage Orson Welles
Video Digest: May 19, 2006
’80s videos; Juggernaut, Shaft-ed; L. Ron Hubbard; David Bowie’s teeth; Wayans’ revenge; cute Nutella-style
Video Digest: May 1, 2006
“Her midget pal Timmy is gone, but replacing him is Endora, an adorable little girl whose lines are written in air bubbles over her head. All I can say is, please don’t let her learn to talk.”
Video Digest: April 24, 2006
“In fact, Weitz has sympathy for all his characters—the scheming Sally, the self-loathing Tweed, even the terrorists, who turn out to be as riveted to cheap musical diversion as we are.”