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Halloween Parties and the Latest in Gruesome Candy

Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Candy, Marty Feldman, Stephen Moyer, Zombies, Will Durst, Vampires, Balloon Boy, Bela Lugosi, Vomit, Spiders, Halloween, Hannibal Lecter, Goldman Sachs, Candy Corn, Douchebags, John Belushi, Filippa Hamilton, Alex O'Loughlin, True Blood, Billy Mays, Activia Yogurt, Jeffrey Dahmer, Glenn Beck, Republicans, Halloween Party, Jack Nicholson, Leatherface, Healthy Living News
Maggie Van Ostrand

Where once the King of Halloween confection was Candy Corn -- selling 8.3 billion kernels a year -- planners of today's Halloween parties lobby their new faves: the latest in gross and disgusting party food.

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2,000+ Words for the 2,000 Year Old Man: Mel Brooks Is Saluted by the Academy

Gregory Weinkauf | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dracula: Dead and Loving It, Dom Deluise, Marty Feldman, The Producers, Carol Arthur, History of the World: Part I, Maximillian Brooks, Mel Brooks, The Elephant Man, Leonard Maltin, Oscar, The Fly, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Silent Movie, The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, To Be or Not to Be, Michael DeLuise, Richard Pryor, Madeline Kahn, Young Frankenstein, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Anne Bancroft, Life Stinks, Richard Benjamin, Sid Ganis, Carl Reiner, Sid Caesar, High Anxiety, Cloris Leachman, Spaceballs, Entertainment News
Gregory Weinkauf

Cloris Leachman aptly put it, "There is much that is serious about Mel Brooks. Inside that rapid-fire humor machine is a man with deep emotions, with a great capacity to care, and to love."

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Freakazoid! This Weekday Afternoon Cartoon is Better Than You Remembered.

Alex Remington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Freakazoid, Paul Rugg, Steven Spielberg, Jerry Lewis, Tom Ruegger, Marty Feldman, Looney Tunes, Warner Brothers, Amblin Entertainment, Comedy, Animaniacs, Animation, Freakazoid!, Referential Comedy, The Simpsons, Meta Humor, The Tick, Family Guy, Young Frankenstein, Tiny Toons, Entertainment News
Alex Remington

Stylistically somewhere between the great superhero parody The Tick and Marx Brothers-style vaudeville, Freakazoid! was absurd, nonsensical, but absolutely hilarious.

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