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Chalk it up under the mother of all bad ideas.  Madonna wants to remake Casablanca and set it in Iraq.  Good for delivering a political message, perhaps, but terrible for soiling the good name of a classic.

Madonna isn’t a terrible actress, but she needs the absolutely right material in order to work.  When left to carry a film on her own acting chops, she usually falls flat.  But watch her in Evita or A League of Their Own and you see an actress who can shine if directed properly.  But Casablanca?  She even apparently wants to take on the Ingrid Bergman role for herself.

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There isn’t a whole lot that can be said for the new Guitar Hero: Aerosmith expansion.  The name basically explains it all.  However, it does feel a bit like the Guitar Hero is just gouging fans when Rock Band allows for so much downloadable content without having to purchase entirely new games at full price.  Perhaps some people just really, really want a digital Steven Tyler?  Perhaps those same people really, really liked Revolution X.

The Globe and Mail has an interesting column up by Chad Sapieha about the timelessness, or lack thereof, of video games.  Basically, his argument is that video games, unlike film and literature, are not timeless.  That a game played today will not echo with the same resonance ten years down the line.  He has a point.

The problem with such arguments is that many tend to dismiss any game past a generation old.  In other words, if it hasn’t been released in the past five years many will argue the title is irrelevant and, more absurd, no longer fun.  Seriously?  Why do people believe this?

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It isn’t nice to laugh at crazy people.  That’s why it’s very important someone figure out exactly what rapper, and sometimes actor, DMX is exactly.  A recent interview with XXL Mag made a turn for the weird side when DMX admitted he had no idea who Barack Obama was.

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