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The crazy lady judge, that I am pretty sure is related to the Micro Machines fast talker guy, has issued her sentence for OJ and his crony in the memorabilia heist from Las Vegas. I have watched a large amount of the trial, and while it was pretty interesting, I can't believe we are at the point in time where a case can be tried on evidence that only existed because someone wanted to sell something to TMZ. America, where gossip solves crimes!

It seems like Simpson and Stewart were both given the same sentence. 15 years and 71/2 mandatory. These numbers are lower than the minimum expected, so in some terms she "went light" on them. That being said OJ's buddy seem to get screwed by getting the same sentence, granted his speech wasn't quite as moving. OJ pulled off his best acting since Naked Gun in that speech.

As you can see, emotions are running pretty high right now, you might want to stay inside.

Dear Readers,
I have failed you. As the most successful website to ever combine the words super, hella, and awesome in a URL, I have failed to reach the levels of Hollywood Insidery that I thought I would. It is with great sadness that I am forced to report to you, less than a month after the report on the tragic remake of The Karate Kid, that comedian Russel Brand is developing a remake of the Dudley Moore classic Arthur. Clearly it goes without saying that this is one of the worst ideas of all time. Dudley Moore is/was/will always be Arthur, which is why he managed to get that movie nominated for like five oscars, including a nomination for himself. Russell Brand definitely ain't no Dudley Moore. No way he can play me some Beethoven! I hate this story:

Brand is meeting with scribes to write the screenplay, which will be produced by MBST's Larry Brezner, whose credits range from "Good Morning, Vietnam" to HBO's recent "Little Britain USA."

The original movie followed a boozy playboy rascal who is set to inherit a fortune if he marries an heiress his family thinks will make something out of him. However, he falls in love with a working-class woman and turns to his valet for help when his family makes him choose between money and love.

Moore was nominated for an Oscar as was Steve Gordon, the film's writer-director. John Gielgud, who played the valet, won the best supporting actor Oscar, and the movie's theme song, "The Best That You Can Do," won for original song.

I think someone should start an anti-remake campaign, or at the very least a studio should take an anti-remake stance. This is getting out of control.

On a brighter note here is Dudley doing his thing with Goldie Hawn from the film Foul Play. Amazing scene.

"Do you have any binoculars?
"What's that? Binoculars? You into that too? Me as well, I read about it in Penthouse."

Awesome

The Disco Biscuits have been off the road for the last four months as they have been preparing their upcoming album. While I am not really a Biscuits fan per se, I understand what they bring to the table and it is nothing I am going to complain about. I even wish they were coming to LA, but I am totally fine that they aren't. I will be attending a certain show that is casually listed as "3/5 - The NorVa - Norfolk, VA". That might as well be listed as party central. Aside from being a Biscuits show, that is also about 1 mile away from where I will be sleeping that night, along with a bunch of other phans anxiously awaiting the weekend's events. I wonder why they chose to not point that out special? The Thursday night show before the most highly anticipated 3 night weekend run in jamband history has to be a good time right? See you there.

Also of note are the two "Suprise Shows" for March 7,8 to be announced on December 8 which seem like a pretty clear nod to an appearance at Langerado in downtown Miami, presumably with both a day set and their own latenight show.

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the first official show for the world's greatest rock band Phish. For those that have seen the amazing film Bittersweet Motel, produced and directed by the great Todd Phillips (Roadtrip, Old School), you may remember the hilarious story Fishman tells, with a mouth full of food no less, about their first gig at the ROTC dance. As they recall the show did not go over that well as the ROTC people brought a boombox from a dorm and turned on Michael Jackson to try and drown out the Phish. As Trey recounts in Bittersweet Motel the night apparently ends with Trey screaming into the microphone will holding up their payment "You paid us for this! You paid us!". Awesome. Is March here yet?

The best news of all is this picture that surfaced a couple of weeks ago. We are still a long way from March and the boys are already together rocking. Practice makes perfect.

Here is the band being random and awesome as per usual.