Yesterday it was made public that the struggling Echelon Mall will get a Wal-Mart in place of the empty J C Penny's. This rumor has been floating around for quite some time, and it looks like it is really true since it was in the Inquirer yesterday.
The Penny's building will still be torn down and the Wal-Mart will be a new building put in it's place. However, it won't actually be connected to the mall. So people wanting to actually shop at the mall will have to leave the Wal-Mart parking lot and enter the Mall seperatly. Don't get too excited the store isn't slated to open in 2006.
Will this work? Won't Wal-Mart just crush Boscov's? Will stores like Dollar Mania be useless?
The people at Preit say that the Mall is getting a new look, new lights and colors inside, and eventually lots of cool new stores.
Can the Mall come back to life ?
Friday, July 16, 2004
Monday, July 12, 2004
Tuckers World: Kerry in the Lead!
I decided to have my own meaningless numbers on my blog to gage the mindset of America leading up to the election.
So, I braved getting more spam than usual and went into AOL chatroom asking people who they are were voting for. Of course most people ignored me or wanted or sell me porn.
Anyway. Here are the results
Kerry 16 Bush 7
Kerry went on a run early and never looked back. Of course this likely means nothing, but so do most of the polls out there.
So, I braved getting more spam than usual and went into AOL chatroom asking people who they are were voting for. Of course most people ignored me or wanted or sell me porn.
Anyway. Here are the results
Kerry 16 Bush 7
Kerry went on a run early and never looked back. Of course this likely means nothing, but so do most of the polls out there.
Sunday, July 11, 2004
Summer Movie File 105: Anchorman
Part of me is quite surprised that I walked up to the ticket booth to buy a ticket for Anchorman since I still didn't see the two biggest films of the summer Spiderman 2, or one of the biggest movies of all time Fahrenheit 9/11. I didn't really like the first Spiderman, and hear this one is better. I don't really have a desire to see Michael Moore's film either. I just don't love the media's darling child as much as most people do I guess.
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell)tells the story of a news team of 1970 something San Diego dealing with the emergence of women anchors in the business. Christina Applegate plays the inspiring reporter that shares the same dreams that Burgndy has to work for the network news one day.
From the description you might think colleges would show this in communicators classes. However, the movie really isn't about anything and just uses that premise to keep the jokes rolling. The film starts almost starts out as a Best in Show style mocumentary, however that dissolves quickly into a zany parade of cartoonish skits.
In one scene Burgundy who is trying to impress the would be first anchor lady plays some jazz flute for her. That is actually what this movie is just comedic jazz. The actors come on the screen and just basically try to make the audience laugh seemingly making stuff up and playing off the other players. Little or no care is given to any kind of logical story line. The actors come on camera and over act in many cases shouting and throwing themselves around.
The movie belittles the importance of local news and every news story they cover is utterly meaningless. The rest of the broadcast team is made up of the creepy sports guy (who hits more sour notes than anyone in this comedic jazz concert), another reporter, and the seemingly retarded weatherman. Not one thing the weatherman (played by Daily show Alumni: Steve Colbert) says make no sense and it often times providing the some of the biggest laughs . All the men are sexist and are more interested in their sex lives than covering an actual news worthy story.
The first 30 mins of the film is pretty bad, however the movie picks up in laughs and eventually I got caught up in the utter stupidity of the film. One scene in particular involving all the rival affiliates engaged in a gang war spoofing Gangs of New York. At this point I realized how this movie wasn't going to allow a glimmer of seriousness shine. Sort of like the Naked Gun movies characters are there to make you laugh. Just living cartoons. Even if that means in reality they should have died several times.
Even the "love story" only goes on again off again to set up more sequences of jokes. An impressive list of A-list Hollywood stop by randomly to provide quite a few laughs, and you realize even more to just leave your brain at the door.
The movie is way over the top zany and Ferrell haters should either see Fahrenheit 9/11 for the 5th time or seek Cicadas in their backyard to better fill their summer night. I laughed out loud enough times to consider it a funny movie. Some of the off the wall-lines and scenes will likely to become legendary inside the walls of frat houses.
The guy that co-wrote it grew up in the area, and some people think the Anchorman is modeled after either Jim Gardner or the now retire Larry Kane. I seriously hope not for their sake!
20 Tucker's World Summer Cup Point to the first person to name the highest rated local news show.
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell)tells the story of a news team of 1970 something San Diego dealing with the emergence of women anchors in the business. Christina Applegate plays the inspiring reporter that shares the same dreams that Burgndy has to work for the network news one day.
From the description you might think colleges would show this in communicators classes. However, the movie really isn't about anything and just uses that premise to keep the jokes rolling. The film starts almost starts out as a Best in Show style mocumentary, however that dissolves quickly into a zany parade of cartoonish skits.
In one scene Burgundy who is trying to impress the would be first anchor lady plays some jazz flute for her. That is actually what this movie is just comedic jazz. The actors come on the screen and just basically try to make the audience laugh seemingly making stuff up and playing off the other players. Little or no care is given to any kind of logical story line. The actors come on camera and over act in many cases shouting and throwing themselves around.
The movie belittles the importance of local news and every news story they cover is utterly meaningless. The rest of the broadcast team is made up of the creepy sports guy (who hits more sour notes than anyone in this comedic jazz concert), another reporter, and the seemingly retarded weatherman. Not one thing the weatherman (played by Daily show Alumni: Steve Colbert) says make no sense and it often times providing the some of the biggest laughs . All the men are sexist and are more interested in their sex lives than covering an actual news worthy story.
The first 30 mins of the film is pretty bad, however the movie picks up in laughs and eventually I got caught up in the utter stupidity of the film. One scene in particular involving all the rival affiliates engaged in a gang war spoofing Gangs of New York. At this point I realized how this movie wasn't going to allow a glimmer of seriousness shine. Sort of like the Naked Gun movies characters are there to make you laugh. Just living cartoons. Even if that means in reality they should have died several times.
Even the "love story" only goes on again off again to set up more sequences of jokes. An impressive list of A-list Hollywood stop by randomly to provide quite a few laughs, and you realize even more to just leave your brain at the door.
The movie is way over the top zany and Ferrell haters should either see Fahrenheit 9/11 for the 5th time or seek Cicadas in their backyard to better fill their summer night. I laughed out loud enough times to consider it a funny movie. Some of the off the wall-lines and scenes will likely to become legendary inside the walls of frat houses.
The guy that co-wrote it grew up in the area, and some people think the Anchorman is modeled after either Jim Gardner or the now retire Larry Kane. I seriously hope not for their sake!
20 Tucker's World Summer Cup Point to the first person to name the highest rated local news show.
Summer Movie Files: 104 The Terminal
I guess the movie going public saw Tom Hanks trapped on and island too recently to flock out to see him stuck in an airport terminal. Maybe, it was the fact that the American icon wasn't playing an American. The Terminal wasn't a flop, but certainly under achieved for a Hanks/Speilberg teaming.
The film actually doesn't really have an evidence of Speilberg's finger prints with the exception of John William's score and it's heart of the film designed to make you root for the lead character.
Tom Hank's character can't go home since his country is in a civil war and America doesn't regonize the new country so he can't really step foot in on American soil. So, he is basically stuck in a NYC airport.
There are worse places to be stuck. In fact the terminal looks like a fairly fun place to spend a day. You can do lots of shopping, and grab a bite to eat at various resturants. It is in better shape than the Echelon Mall.
However, Hanks is being kept in check by the the new head of the Terminal whose motive eventually shifts to spite in order to keep the Russian (I won't attempt to spell the actual country he is from, however he sounds Russian) accented Hanks in limbo.
Hanks decides to make the most of it and does more work than many Americans actually feel like doing. He quickly learns returning shopping carts earns you a quarter if the shopper was too lazy to return it on their own. This provides him with the money to eat everything from Burger King he can get his hands on (he wasn't supersized though) I guess Burger King paid a lot to get their name in this film.
Along the way, Hanks befriends various employees of the Terminal, including an Indian with a shady past, a love struck spanish janitor guy, and a sexy flight attendent.
Eventually, Hanks starts working jobs remodeling parts of the terminal, which is handing since it's about a 2 minute commute on foot from where he sleeps.
The movie boasts a rarity in today's films a wonderfully designed set, that you forget that it wasn't actually filmed in a terminal. The film also captures all the elements of a feel good American Movies. The underdog, the love story, the love to hate him rival of the lead, the melting pot charcters, and humor.
A delightful date movie, and one that its hard to hate. Although I don't imagine anyone will remember this in the list of Speilberg's legacy. It was nice to see Hanks have some fun for a change, after the serious role in the mildly confused Catch Me If You Can, and the jaw droppingly dull performance devoid of an once of his famous stage presence in the unwatchable Road to Perdition.
Hanks has brilliant comedic gift that he rarely uses anymore. This wasn't on the level of his loveable 80's films, but he reminded me of the old school Hanks a few times.
A generally fun movie worth your time. Sorry Drew, no british accents.
The film actually doesn't really have an evidence of Speilberg's finger prints with the exception of John William's score and it's heart of the film designed to make you root for the lead character.
Tom Hank's character can't go home since his country is in a civil war and America doesn't regonize the new country so he can't really step foot in on American soil. So, he is basically stuck in a NYC airport.
There are worse places to be stuck. In fact the terminal looks like a fairly fun place to spend a day. You can do lots of shopping, and grab a bite to eat at various resturants. It is in better shape than the Echelon Mall.
However, Hanks is being kept in check by the the new head of the Terminal whose motive eventually shifts to spite in order to keep the Russian (I won't attempt to spell the actual country he is from, however he sounds Russian) accented Hanks in limbo.
Hanks decides to make the most of it and does more work than many Americans actually feel like doing. He quickly learns returning shopping carts earns you a quarter if the shopper was too lazy to return it on their own. This provides him with the money to eat everything from Burger King he can get his hands on (he wasn't supersized though) I guess Burger King paid a lot to get their name in this film.
Along the way, Hanks befriends various employees of the Terminal, including an Indian with a shady past, a love struck spanish janitor guy, and a sexy flight attendent.
Eventually, Hanks starts working jobs remodeling parts of the terminal, which is handing since it's about a 2 minute commute on foot from where he sleeps.
The movie boasts a rarity in today's films a wonderfully designed set, that you forget that it wasn't actually filmed in a terminal. The film also captures all the elements of a feel good American Movies. The underdog, the love story, the love to hate him rival of the lead, the melting pot charcters, and humor.
A delightful date movie, and one that its hard to hate. Although I don't imagine anyone will remember this in the list of Speilberg's legacy. It was nice to see Hanks have some fun for a change, after the serious role in the mildly confused Catch Me If You Can, and the jaw droppingly dull performance devoid of an once of his famous stage presence in the unwatchable Road to Perdition.
Hanks has brilliant comedic gift that he rarely uses anymore. This wasn't on the level of his loveable 80's films, but he reminded me of the old school Hanks a few times.
A generally fun movie worth your time. Sorry Drew, no british accents.
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