Weekend Media Study: HBO Asia Has Crap Movies/Did France Pay Brazil to Throw the World Cup Match?
The Asian version of HBO is still stuck in the 80s, pre-Sopranos and Entourage. Here's a movie that was on this weekend:
Yes, the lead characters are corporate mascots. And yes, that is Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson, I'm assuming after their respective careers stalled. Oh yes, I had to watch at least 15 minutes.
It's amazing what you have to do to stay awake before the World Cup final. Speaking of which, the Chinese press is going crazy over allegations that the French team paid the Brazilian squad 25 million euros to lose in the World CUp quarterfinal. Why the team would go so far to win the ugliest trophy in all of sport, I don't really know, but here's a link to China Daily:
Email Suggests Match Between France and Brazil Was Fixed
(China Daily, by way of Danwei.org)
And here's the ugly trophy. My cat can build better trophies from his litter swats.
This conspiracy's too far-fetched for me. I can see Nike starting the hush campaign, what with the millions they poured on the Joga Bonita (or informally, 'We are Nike and We Think Brazil Will Win') ad campaign. But that's my own conspiracy. *fin*
posted by JDW @ 9.7.06
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