GOOD lip syncing is an art. And this guy HAS it: If this embed plays too slowly on your computer, view this work of lip sync art directly on You Tube.

Certainly looks exciting:

This Hillary Clinton video spoofing the last scene of The Sopranos is a masterful use of American culture. Can you spot the real cast member from The Sopranos?

…and guess who he thinks should replace him? The answer is HERE. P.S. I’m Jewish and a few years ago came up with an idea for a Jewish version of “The Price Is Right,” but no one bought it. It was called “The Price Is Too Much.”

Read the always original Josh Trevino’s analysis HERE in National Review. UPDATE: HBO is now bolstering Trevino’s view that Tony was probably “whacked” in the final ambiguous scene. They say viewers may be onto something and that there were earlier CLUES.

Here’s yet another example of how consumers aren’t determining a market — but people marketing goods are imposing something on young people that cuts short what was once considered an era of innocence called “childhood”: CHILD experts say marketing racy underwear to girls as young as eight is sexualising children and robbing them of their childhood. Psychologists and parents have...

Ron Paul on The Colbert Report on June 13th. Paul isn’t the one you’d think at the outset of the campaign who’d come across good on TV — but he does:

Larry Wright, The Detroit News

….at Newcritics, Tom Watson’s truly superb popular culture group blog. When it says “The Best In Web Criticism,” it is NOT an overstatement. You can boil down the reaction to a quick and detailed read this way: The criticism and posts on this site are to be read, savored and emulated. It’s truly a place that elevates web criticism. For instance, with THIS POST on the Sopranos’...

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NOTE: TMV was down last night. This was written right after viewing the final episode. So now “The Sopranos” is over. And the ending is likely to be talked about for years. Some will love it. Some will hate it. But it isn’t as if creator/writer/director David Chase didn’t warn us. In an ending worthy of the late Alfred Hitchcock, Chase ends The Sopranos with Tony seemingly have triumphed...

All good things come to an end…and so do great things like HBO’s landmark series “The Sopranos.” Creator David Chase has been smart: unlike some TV series that limp off the air having run out of creative steam, “The Sopranos” ends tonight during a darkly-scripted season where the writing and acting are at their peak. The Sopranos remains one of the best dramas to have watched...

Daryl Cagle, MSNBC.com

Daryl Cagle, MSNBC.com

Jules Crittenden has a good post up about Paris Hilton. Jules writes: I feel bad for her. How can you look at anyone piteously sobbing on her way to jail and not feel bad for her, when her crime is not sticking a knife in someone, raping someone’s grandmother, holding anyone up at gunpoint or stealing their life’s savings, but essentially failing to figure out that the rules apply to her. That...

I’ve always told people that as a former fulltime mainstream media journalist I could TELL when I read a news story whether the reporter likes the interview subject or not. One constant since The Sopranos became a monster entertainment and cultural hit on HBO has been the good press received by James Gandolfini AKA Tony Soprano. You can tell when you read stories where reporters interview him that a)...

Larry Wright, The Detroit News

The Moderate Voice runs Guest Voice columns as well as Guest Review columns. One of the most popular guest contributors to TMV is Dan Schneider who has this site and also writes and edits for Monsters and Critics. DVD Review Of Grand Illusion Copyright 2007 © by Dan Schneider Jean Renoir’s 1937 black and white film, Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion), is often bandied about with Citizen Kane on...

What happens when someone gives their ALL — and we do mean ALL – to a job or cause? What happens when the job or cause becomes absolutely paramount in their lives? Can they win..yet, in the end, actually lose? Can you not sell out but, in reality, but not selling out…completely sell out? Robert De Niro’s critically acclaimed directorial debut “The Good Shepherd” is now available...

…can be found in this show-stopper “Heart” from the classic musical Damn Yankees:

The AP reports that The Big Donor Show, which was broadcasted yesterday evening, was a hoax. It seems that the producers believe that, because it was a hoax, anger and disgust were not justified. Well, sorry, but I disagree. As Ed Morrissey explains: I’m not sure which scenario was worse, but both are pretty repulsive and exploitative. The producers claim that they wanted to make a statement about the...

Yesterday, I published a post called Who Gets the Kidney, about a new television show (to be aired Friday) in the Netherlands. Several bloggers commented on it. Jules Crittenden wrote: I stand in awe. I thought we ruled the world of stunningly bizarre, somewhat disturbing and tasteless schlock. They’ve pushed it out to the edge. Ed Morrissey responded with a very thoughful, and personal post, one that...

When his new grandchild is old enough, the Vice President can take him to a new British theme park that reflects his world view–Dickens World, where tourists get a buzz from the Victorian squalor that the underprivileged deserve. This non-Halliburton environment is chock full of rat-infested sewers, ragged beggars, debtors’ prisons, child pickpockets–in short, a tax-cuts-for-the-upper-one-percent...

A gem of classic comedy — that’s both entertaining and of comedic historical value — via You Tube: the great Jack Benny and the great Mel Blanc. To younger readers, Benny was a vaudeville star who later made the jump to radio — and invented the situation comedy in the process. Before Benny, most comedy radio shows were collections of jokes, but he preferred attitude and situations. The...