entertainment

Today, I received some very sad news via the community based news site Digg. This weekend, Gerard Rocco Damiano passed away after complications from a stroke. He was 80.

What's that? You don't know who that is? Maybe his alias, Jerry Gerard rings a bell. No? Ok... how about Linda Lovelace? Jerry Gerard was the pseudonym for Gerard Rocco Damiano, the man who brought to life the quintessential bad 70's porn. Yes, you know it now. You know the movie of which I speak. The man who gave us Deep Throat is no more.  read more »

It's one thing to be open minded, it's another thing to be blindly devoted to a show that is a reincarnation of something you loved in the 80s. This seems to apply to a LOT of NBCs lineup... It's either Law and Order, or a "revisioned" version of a previous show, or a direct rip of a foreign show. Really... with The Office, they at least didn't make a point that it was a copy of a popular British Show. With Kath and Kim they just gave up and said "Hey, the Australians wrote a great show, we're out of ideas, so we're Americanizing it!"  read more »