During their salad days as TV sketch comedy satirists, "SCTV" alumnus Dave Thomas and "Saturday Night Live" vet Dan Aykroyd would have eviscerated a brain-dead gross-out comedy such as "Intern Academy." But that was then, this is now: Thomas directed and wrote this painfully unfunny clunker and plays a key supporting role, and Aykroyd appears in a part much too prominent to be dismissed as a cameo goof. Fortunately for both men, only undiscriminating homevid renters and pay-cable viewers likely will ever know of this Canadian-produced pic, which fizzled in a fleeting Great White North theatrical run. Read More...
Le gouvernement a annoncé, mercredi 15 mai, le renforcement du soutien aux commerçants affectés par la baisse d’activité liée aux manifestations des gilets jaunes. Le montant du fonds de soutien aux commerces des 34 centres-villes concernés, annoncé le 1er février par le Premier ministre Edouard Philippe lors d'un déplacement à Bordeaux, va ainsi passer de 3 à 5,5 millions d’euros. Sont concernées les villes de 11 régions françaises : Avignon, Besançon, Béthune, Bordeaux, Bourg-en-Bresse, Brest, Calais, Charleville-Mézières, Chaumont, Dijon, Dole, Epinal, Lille, Lyon, Mâcon, Marseille, Nantes, Nevers, Paris, Ploërmel, Quimper, Rennes, Rouen, Saint-Avold, Saint-Etienne, Toulon et Toulouse, en ce qui concerne la métropole. Read More...
As soccer fans know all too well, watching this summer's World Cup can feel like sticking your face inside a beehive. The vuvuzela the plastic horn that has provided the tournament's deafening soundtrack has been portrayed as a species indigenous to South Africa. But could these buzzing buzz killers come to the U.S.? One answer is that they're already here. Fifteen thousand vuvuzela-style horns were handed out at a Florida Marlins home game on June 19, and despite the players' frustration " Read More...
