March 2011
28 posts
David Manning (fictitious writer) →
bestofwikipedia:
“David Manning” was a fictitious film critic, created by a marketing executive working for Sony Corporation around July 2000 to give consistently good reviews for releases from Sony subsidiary Columbia Pictures. Several blurbs posted under the name “David Manning” were written for the medieval action/drama A Knight’s Tale (citing Heath Ledger as “this year’s hottest new star!”)...
kung fu grippe: "no one can make up a rock" →
merlin:
The Rolling Stone Interview: Stanley Kubrick in 1987 And to make rubble, you’d have to go find some real rubble and copy it. It’s the only way. If you’re going to make a tree, for instance, you have to copy a real tree. No one can “make up” a tree, because every tree has an inherent logic in…
“Don’t you just change the file extension from .doc to .html?”
– (via clientsfromhell)
All too real
