IWS Person(s) of the Week...Famous and Beloved Oscars

Happy Sunday to all and welcome to the last damn Sunday of February 2015...Thanks God!! From Beantown to Bagwine to Redneckville...what a brutal month this has been. So here's to a soon good riddance to the cruel harlot of a month that February is.

But as it is Sunday, it is time for another installation of the IWS Person(s) of the Week, and this week as billions worldwide will be watching the Academy Awards this evening, what better way to celebrate than to celebrate famous Oscars as our Persons of the Week...

Our first honoree is none other than the flamboyant, pan-sexual wordsmith, and IWS fave, Oscar Wilde he or she self...

 

Mr. Wilde's writings put smiles upon the faces of many people. Oscars have a knack for making people smile, just like the jovial half of The Odd Couple, the devil-may-care, professional slob, one Mr. Oscar Madison...

The Oscar happiness effect is very evident in our next inductee, because you see...Men want to have a jumbo wiener and ladies are hot for a jumbo wiener as well, and who other than Oscar Mayer can satisfy both by bringing the Jumbo Wiener to the table...

 

Of course...Every rule has its exception, and the exception to the Oscar happiness effect is Seame's Street very own resident curmudgeon, yet oddly loyal IWS Radio fan, Oscar the Grouch...

But as it is the night when the red carpet is strewn and the celebrities of cinema have their big night, we would be remiss if we didn't include Mr. Academy Award himself...Oscar!!

So there you have it...A bevy of wonderful men named Oscar who are IWS Radio Person(s) of the Week.  Congrats all!!

And for more talk about tonight's Academy Awards, fave and least fave movies, and a celebration of Jumbo Wieners and all things cinematic...

Join Jay, Matt, and the award winning IWS Radio team LIVE TODAYfrom Noon-2 PM ET on Blog Talk Radio as they present their:  Movies and Oscars Night Extravaganza!! 

The show will be jam packed with their favorite clips, bad theme songs, good theme songs, and a hilariously sarcastic and jaded eye on the world that is Hollywood, so sit back, grab a Jumbo Wiener, and listen to IWS Radio LIVE TODAY from Noon-2 PM ET.

To join the fun, CLICK HERE!! 
    

Oscar Winner Marion Cotillard Loves IWS Radio!

Bonjour mes amis ! Je voulais juste rappeler à tous que vous regardez avant la nuit des Oscars dimanche , vous devriez écouter IWS Radio ! Il suffit de regarder combien d'amusement ils vont avoir cette semaine ...

"Matt-Man and Jayman both love movies. Sure, they might not have seen any of the movies nominated for this year's Oscars, but that doesn't stop them from having opinions about them. They've seen plenty of movies over the years and are here to celebrating the art of movie making and other stuff.

Matt and Jay have some strong feelings about what makes a great movie and which are their favorite movies and favorite actors. They'll break down their favorite movies, actors, directors, writers and talk about the challenges facing Hollywood today. Then they'll talk about the biggest Oscars snubs over the years and where The Oscars went wrong and totally ruined what should be the best awards show every year.

Our Canadian Bureau Chief Jamie Mapleleaf and the IWS Players will be here to talk about whatever is on their minds too. Speaking of that, those phone lines are always open for anyone to call us up and express their opinions too. Just call 661.244.9852!"

Quel spectacle étonnant que cela va être! Je ne peux pas attendre pour l'écouter et je espère que vous vous joignez à moi! Ce est "Movie et Oscars Nuit Extravaganza" dimanche à 12 h HE le IWS Radio!

Hollywood Should Bring Back the Western!

Hola Cowboys and Cowgirls! You know what we need more of? Westerns! Hell yeah! Hollywood needs to start making good westerns again. I think Westerns is what’s missing from the movies the studios put out each summer.

Yeah, I know they still make some every once in a while. Maybe one or two a year, but that’s not enough and the ones they make aren’t that good. When was the last great Western? Silverado back in 1985? Really? It’s been that long? Yeah, Unforgiven was made in ’92, but I didn’t really like it that much.  I haven’t seen Django Unchained, but that’s not what I would really call a Western.

Oh yeah, they did remake True Grit in 2010. I almost forgot about that. It was definitely better than the John Wayne version from back in the day. The Coen Brothers proved that really good westerns can still be made today. Jeff Bridges was better than John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn, Matt Damon was WAYYYYYY better than Mac Davis as Le Bouf and Hailee Steinfeld was considerably better than Kim Darby as Mattie Ross. In fact, Kim Darby annoyed the shit outta me in the original.

I was watching Big Jake the other night when I started thinking about the need for more Westerns. Big Jake is my all-time favorite John Wayne movie. I never cared for his war movies, but his Westerns were cool. In fact, let’s rank them …

1. Big Jake
2. Rio Bravo
3. The Shootist
4. Chism
5. El Dorado
6. McClintock
7. Hondo
8. Rooster Cogburn
9. The Undefeated
10. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence

Of course, as good as those John Wayne movies were, lots of other actors made great and even better Westerns. Jimmy Stewart, Clint Eastwood, Gary Cooper, Bert Lancaster, Glen Ford, Alan Ladd and the list goes on and on and on. In fact, let’s list the 10 Best Westerns of all Time, shall we?

1. Big Jake
2. True Grit (2010)
3. The Magnificent Seven
4. The Outlaw Josey Wales
5. Silverado
6. High Noon
7. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
8. Rio Bravo
9. The Shootist
10. Brokeback Mountain

Anyway, the reason they don’t make Westerns anymore is because they can’t blow shit up and cowboys aren’t super heroes and all that crap. All the big studios want to do is fancy special effects and CGI. They don’t tell stories anymore.  Stories about a cowboy out on the range, rounding up the doggies, working hard from dawn to dusk and fighting for truth, justice and the American way!

You can’t use fancy automatic weapons in Westerns either. No Glock .40’s with eleven shot clips or Bushmaster AR-15’s or any of that stuff. Cowboys carried six-shooters and had to be fast and accurate. These guys today just open fire willy-nilly, blasting away hoping to hit someone. That doesn’t take any skill!

HBO made Deadwood with Timothy Olyphant and that was a good show. Olyphant is tall and lean and makes for a good cowboy. Also, I guess you could make the case that Justified which also stars a cowboy hat wearing Olyphant as a US Marshall is a kind of a modern western. I love that show. So obviously Hollywood is still capable of making a good western, they just don’t. And that’s sad.

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And The 2013 Oscar Goes To...

Cheeeers All.  With the Oscar nominations coming out this week, I thought I’d let you know what some of my favorite movies are.

And by favorite, I don’t mean all technically good and what not, but movies that if they come on TV, I would watch again and again even though I have seen them 10,000 times.

And without further adieu, and in no particular order, the Mattscars go to….

Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)

Hands down my fave Dracula movie of all time.  Although I don’t spend my days trying to write “new and creative ways to portray vampires”, I am a Draculaphile.   Christopher Lee was THE best Dracula ever, annnnnd…although filmed in 1966?  This movie contains some major, “not so implied” lesbianism.  Oh yeahhhhhh, Baby!!

Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

Are you kidding me?  This movie is so stupid and so eclectic (in a literal sense, not a sarcastic sense) that my now 18 year old son and I still say to one and other, “Your mom goes to college.”  Oh my God, the disturbing dryness of it all is a hoot.  When the opening scene has Napoleon tossing out a plastic Superman with fishing line tied to its neck out of a school bus window so the action figure careens down the road, you just know that this movie is gonna be good.

Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Who doesn't like this movie?  Communists, that’s who!!  Oh…and Republicans, because they think the warden was just trying to get his fair share from the government and what is wrong with that?  However, there is nothing better than watching a movie where a guy in prison sticks it to THE MAN and the sticking it to THE MAN doesn't involve having anal relations with a cell mate.

Kelly’s Heroes (1970)

I am a freak about WWII movies and this one is one of my favorites.  Great cast and great storyline.  A group of disenchanted U.S. Army regulars want “a piece of the action” and successfully attempt to heist gold from a German controlled bank in France.

A great cast that includes Don Rickles, Gavin Macleod (no seriously, he was funny), and a hilariously drugged up Donald Sutherland as, Oddball, balance the seriousness of Clint Eastwood who gives some hilarious looks like he did at this year’s GOP Convention.  Although during this movie, he was acting, and not a prisoner of ideology and senility.

Stalag 17 (1953)

Just like the aforementioned movie, a star-studded cast of William Holden, a young Peter Graves, and a host of others, make this a great flick.  The acting is beyond awesome.  The entire film has funny moments, grungy moments, and serious moments, and just as WW II movies should end, the bad guy, in this case a German spy in a German prisoner of war camp amidst Americans, gets his due in the end.

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

Are you serious?  Have you never seen this movie?  If you haven’t, you don’t know what funny is.  Cary Grant (in all of his bisexual glory), and Myrna Loy are hilarious, as he as a successful businessman decides to build their perfect home in the country and move away from the bustle of NYC.  The laughs pile up, due to the price and the problems they incur while getting their perfect home built.  Melvyn Douglas and Reginald Denny are a hoot as well.

Groundhog Day (1993)

I think many people have come around, but maybe some STILL do not think of Bill Murray as an “actor.” Pffffft…The man is the bomb, and Groundhog Day is a GREAT movie.  Funny, poignant, and cute.  And Andie McDowell in this movie?  Cute…As…Hell.  And Andie McDowell in this movie?  Cute…As…Hell. And Andie McDowell in this movie?  Cute…As…Hell.

Braveheart (1995)

Mel Gibson is a major league asshole, and yet, Braveheart, is a major league cinematic home run.  I love it as much as I loathe the 14th Century Brits.  Nothing like a ragtag team of haggis eaters beating up on a group of backstabbing, pretentious stocking wearing men.  Alba Go Braugh!!

The Princess Bride (1987)

This may be my favorite movie of all-time…I vacillate on that.  It is so sweet, so cute, and so damn funny. Great cast, great story, and to this day, I quote lines from that movie every day.  After all, who doesn’t like mimicking Inigo Montoya saying, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

Holy Cow…A dark movie with an all-star cast…Pacino, Lemmon, Baldwin, Arkin, Ed Harris (yeah, he needed his first name used), Spacey and Jonathan Pryce (yeah, him too).  So depressing, so dark witted, and so wonderful.  Who knew that selling real estate could be so cut throat?  This movie has afforded me my fave line whenever anyone leaves the house door, our refrigerator door, or the cooler door at the Beer Mine open….“Always Be Closing!!  Always Be Closing!!”

Cheers!!

Matt-Man

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Jay's Top Fives

Hola y’all! I was sitting around today, minding my own business and trying to come up with a topic to blog about when I said to myself “Self! I bet our vast and diverse worldwide audience of I’m With Stupid and readers of this blog would like to know a little more about me.” To which I replied “That’s brilliant! I know what I’ll do! I’ll list my top five favorites of various things.” Self thought that was a great idea too. So here ya go!

Five Favorite Mobster Movies: 

1. Godfather I&II
2. Goodfellas
3. Casino
4. The Departed
5. The Untouchables

Five Favorite TV Shows of All Time:

1. The Wire
2. The Shield
3. Keeping Up Appearances
4. The Sopranos
5. Mad Men

Five Favorite Comedy Movies: 

1. Caddyshack
2. Stripes
3. Little Miss Sunshine
4. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
5. Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Five Favorite Comedians of all Time: 

1. George Carlin
2. Chris Rock
3. Richard Pryor
4. Steven Wright
5. Buddy Hackett

Five Favorite Foods: 

1. Pizza (all meat or just pepperoni)
2. Cheeseburgers
3. Spaghetti
4. Beef or Chicken Stew
5. Fried Chicken

Five Favorite Beers:

1. Dos Equis
2. Hoegaarden
3. Guinness
4. Shiner Bock
5. Stella Artois

Five Favorite Fruits: 

1. Strawberries
2. Grapes
3. Granny Smith Apples
4. Oranges
5. Peaches

Five Favorite Mixed Drinks:

1. Margarita
2. Bourbon and Coke
3. Martini
4. Screwdriver (tequila instead of vodka)
5. Manhattan

Five Favorite US Presidents:

1. Abraham Lincoln
2. Teddy Roosevelt
3. FDR
4. George Washington
5. Bill Clinton

Five Favorite NBA Players of All Time: 

1. Michael Jordan
2. Magic Johnson
3. Lebron James
4. George Gervin
5. Sidney Moncrief

Favorite Female Singers of All Time: 

1. Chrissie Hind (The Pretenders)
2. Ann and Nancy Wilson (Heart)
3. Joan Baez
4. Shakira
5. Fiona Apple

Five Favorite Rock Bands of All Time: 

1. Rolling Stones
2. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
3. U2
4. Van Halen (w/ David Lee Roth and/or Sammy Hagar)
5. AC/DC

Five Favor … Aw screw it. That’s enough. I’m sure that was fascinating.

Jayman
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