Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story has stalled at $14.2 million in the box office. While the movie wasn’t the pitch-perfect mock biopic I had hoped for, it was still highly enjoyable – and much better than most of its competition the past two weekends. So why the poor box office gross?

Can somebody explain to me why the dreadful P.S. I Love You (yes, I watched it…against my will) and The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep are both on pace to surpass Walk Hard in the following weeks? Is there an anti-Apatow campaign brewing?

Apatow isn’t the greatest working director/producer in movies by any stretch of the imagination, but there are plenty of studio hacks that deserve a legion of haters before him. If he is to be the standard of which comedy should be measured (standard, as in passing grade), we could do much worse.

And we do have much worse. (more…)

Anyone who knows the national sports scene, knows Dan Le Batard. He is a writer for the Miami Herald and is on PTI when one of those guys needs a break. So, I am sitting here working the all-night study session for Calculus II, and I put on his show today in the background. Dan sat down with Bob Ryan from the Boston Globe – and together they made a great point.

Yeah, yeah – by now, anyone who has ever even read the sports page while crapping, has looked at the Mitchell Report, but the question remains…what now? Bob and Dan asked, what about Clemens and whether the media with go after him like Bonds? The media crucified Barry Bonds (we’ll all concede, he is black guy), and there was mild attack on the leak that Roger Clemens (white dude…agreed) was on the list but not a lot of press. Is there a double standard or is it just the Barry has been a douche to the media? (more…)

Facebook’s Beacon Ad Platform wasn’t a monumental hit – right away.

But, like in the past, media critics and snappy Facebook users were quick to jump on Zuckerberg like starving wolves after a controversial new innovation to his website.

Why did this happen?

Are critics in a frenzy due to a lack of worthy tech news stories that pop? Are some angry that they weren’t the brainchild of the ultimate billion-dollar social network?

Are students bitter because their little club is expanding? Are they turning into their grandparents by ignoring what is on the horizon, reaching back to the glory days? “When Facebook was simple all it had were my interests and a headshot. I miss those days when it didn’t have all the shiny doo-dad applications and we walked 15 miles to campus uphill in the snow.” Who knows?

Maybe the Beacon really was a flop.

What ever the reason for the hate, if we look at Zuckerberg’s track record we see that he shouldn’t be frightened by the recent backlash regarding his “Beacon Ad Platform.” Immediate backlash has happened with every new Facebook innovation since its inception.

Just take a look… (more…)