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Hulu.com: A new
online video site
THE NAVIGATOR • NOVEMBER 6-12, 2007 13
“Blackout” new
sound, same Brit
View TV shows, new and old, in their entirety
KIM ZAVON
ARTS EDITOR
YouTube may be the top video site for
now, but News Corp and NBC Universal
launched a new online video site. Hulu.com
will show television shows and movies.
This Website will be free to online users
because it is supported by advertisements.
Hulu.com is seeking to grab viewers from
the popular online video site YouTube.
com.
YouTube has a partnership with Google;
however, Hulu announced it has partnerships
with such websites as AOL, MSN,
Myspace, and Comcast.
Released on the Associated Press wire,
Hulu announced such features as allowing
bloggers to place full episodes of shows on
their blog, or users can link information to
their friends.
“Chuck and Larry”
has hidden meanings
KIM ZAVON
Arts Editor
“I Now Pronounce You Chuck and
Larry” seems to be just another Adam
Sandler movie that puts him in a weird setting
and has nothing but funny things happen
to him.
However, there is more to “Chuck and
Larry” than meets the eye. It seems at first
to be making fun of homosexuals; however,
it is actually showing how discrimination
still affects homosexuals in today’s
society.
Chuck (Adam Sandler) and Larry
(Kevin James) show great comedic, yet
heart warming performances.
The two friends are firemen and Larry,
being a single parent, worries about what
will happen to his kids if he is killed during
a fire.
Larry enlists Chuck to make his kids
his beneficiaries in case anything happens
to him because he wants to know that they
will be taken care of in his absence. Chuck
owes Larry a favor because Larry saved his
life during a fire. Chuck feels like he owes
Unlike other network websites that only
show full-length episodes of their shows,
Hulu offers a variety of shows and movies
from multiple networks, and even offers
older shows for its viewers.
James McQuivery told the Associated
Press that “advertisers want more opportunity
to put ads next to prime-time hit
shows… If they had kept the content on fox.
com, it would have limited the number of
people who would see it.”
Hulu.com will offer hundreds of shows
such as NBC’s “30 Rock” and Fox’s “The
Simpsons” and older shows such as “Lost
in Space.” The best part of this site is,
unlike YouTube.com, Hulu offers all these
shows free of charge and they are legal.
Hulu.com will be under construction
for the next few months in order to make
it more favorable for its viewers. The Web
address is Hulu.com.
Larry his life so he agrees to marry him.
It is rather funny to see two men who are
defiantly heterosexual try and change their
mannerisms in order to portray homosexual
men.
It is especially fun to watch their reactions
when an attractive women walks by
and they are trying to pretend that they do
not like women.
Other cast members include Jessica Biel
who plays their lawyer Alex McDonough,
Ving Rhames as Duncan, Steve Buscemi as
Clint Fitzer, and Dan Ackroyd as Captain
Tucker.
“Chuck and Larry” depicts the pressures
that gay men encounter everyday and discrimination
they face. It basically shows
how it is to walk in someone else’s shoes.
Some of the movie is a little slow and
might cause you to lose interest, but it
is worth watching to the end. “Chuck
and Larry” will be released on DVD on
November 6, 2007.
DVD Includes
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Deleted scenes
Hilarious outtakes
Behind the scenes
Feature Commentary with Director
Dugan, Sandler, and James
Source: chuckandlarry.com
JOEY KAPLAN
GUEST WRITER
This is it folks! The pop spectacle of the
year is here.
Can Britney Spears save her torn music
career?
Can she reemerge as the former princess
of pop music?
Even despite all of her efforts, and you
can tell on this album that she sure did try
hard, the album is just too little, too late.
Poor Britney. She just can’t seem to get
a break.
First the break-up with her husband,
then the loss of custody of her children.
You would think that out of the tragic
events that Britney could turn this around
and make a true album to illustrate her
frustrations.
Think again.
For Britney has taken the same old pop
music formula to make Blackout. This
will be Britney’s first album since 2004’s,
In the Zone, and I guess she should have
waited a little longer to produce a better
more intellectual album.
Ms. Spears got some serious helping
“hands” with the production of this album
from pop’s latest hit making producer and
right hand man of super producer
Timbaland, Nate “DanjaHands” Hills.
Hills produced five songs on the album
including the single ‘Give Me More.’ where
Spears opens the song with the classy line
“It’s Britney, Bitch” and proceeds to try to
give you a vision of her and you together
alone, and well you can imagine. Another
recently big hit making producer Jonathan
“J.R.” Rotem lays his hit making magic on
album with songs like “ Radar”.
As much as I didn’t enjoy this album I
must admit that one song really put a smile
on my face. The song “ Soldier” which has
Britney begging for a real man to come
into her life has a very original sound and
very catchy beat, one that could help give
Spears opens
the song with the
classy line “It’s
Britney, Bitch”
Britney a competitive edge against some
other pop princess contenders. However,
don’t let the song trick you into thinking
your going to get some deep and sad songs
about her struggles over the past year.
This is another Britney album no doubt,
but the fact is that’s all it is. There is really
nothing truly special about it. Sure you
might have a few hits in it but for the most
part this was created solely for the loyal
Britney fan base all the way back to “Oops,
I did it Again”. The only people I see buying
this album and enjoying it are tweens
and your obsessed club goers.
I’m sorry, but the only thing worse than
Britney’s new album is her parenting.
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