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In This Day and Age? The IMDb/DoB Fiasco…

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Darren

Sometimes I’m amazed at how Hollywood works. Sometimes I’m disappointed. This time, I’m both. Part of me enjoys the stories tear open the seedy underbelly of how Hollywood really operates and reveals the sort of corruption that would make a hard-drinking monologuing private detective blush. Paying Variety to make a negative review disappear, for example. Now it appears that actors are fighting the geeky paradise of the Internet Movie Database in order to get their dates of birth removed from the pages.

According to his resume, he's only 27...

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Filed under: Movies | Tagged: age, ageism, date of birth, dob, hollywood, imdb, sag, wag | 14 Comments »

Next Stop: Movies

Posted on July 5, 2009 by Darren

Kudos to the good people over at Vodkaster. They’ve put together the Top 250 Movies of All Time (as of 19th June 2009) in the style of a metro/subway map. It really is a fantastic acheivement, though I’d disagree with some of their classifications. Click here, or the photo, for more.