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Mira won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Mighty Aphrodite in 1995. She's excellent in it.

S.D. wrote:

Mira won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Mighty Aphrodite in 1995. She's excellent in it.

Never saw that... but she was hot in "Romy & Michele's High School Reunion."

Being hot doesn't make you good but I forgot about about Mighty Aphrodite.

Dark Horseman wrote:

Being hot doesn't make you good but I forgot about about Mighty Aphrodite.

You gotta remember, most of the movies I watch have to do with giant bugs, insane homicidal slashers and carnivorous monsters. Acting ability isn't exactly a big requirement in a lot of those so "Hot" goes a long way. Even in the most forgettable B-Movies, I can usually say "Oh yeah, so-and-so, she was cute in that flick. Too bad she got eaten by a two-headed shark."

Dark Horseman wrote:

Being hot doesn't make you good but I forgot about about Mighty Aphrodite.

I thought about that when FF posted about her acting. She did a great job in it and I don't remember the actresses she went against to win the Oscar.

That said, there is only so much Woody Allen I can take - he just annoys me. I'm not a big fan of that nervous, anxiety filled character that he plays. Even when he isn't in the movie and just the writer/director, the main character is the same and the hire actor is playing Woody Allen.

He's talented and has made some good movies, but I can only handle his character in small doses.

He's figured out how to sell angst for sure.

Nearly four years past its freshness date, I finally heard GNR's CHINESE DEMOCRACY and now y'all can share in my experience:

http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Retro-Rock-Review-Guns-N-Roses-CHINESE-DEMOCRACY-2008

Couldn't have said it better. I listened to it once online and saved the $2. It's not GnR and in my not so humble opinion it sucks rocks.

Well, this is interesting. It's been brought to my attention that the Guns N' Roses article I posted on HubPages just yesterday has been copied in its entirety - including the photos!! - and re-posted by some ass monkey who's claiming it as his own original work on another article site ("BigEzine.com"). Son of a b***h!! Rest assured that I have already fired off angry e-mails to the proper authorities... Lord knows if it'll do any good, but the possibilities keep me entertained.

From what I've been seeing in the forums on HubPages, this particular site has a history of people rippin' stuff off from HubPages and other legit writing sites.

I know that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery 'n' all, but I hope the guy who ripped off my shiz gets horribly mangled in an industrial accident of some sort.

That douche bag!!!!

This is getting interesting. From what I've been able to gather from the forums at HubPages, "BigEzine.com" is a totally fake "Community," it's supposedly run by two guys in India who just copy/scrape material from other sites and put it up on their page under a variety of fake author names to make it look like there are tons of people writing for it.

...which means that the angry e-mail I wrote to the site itself is likely to be ignored. However, I also sent the same message to HubPages' copyright infringement team (each writer on HubPages maintains copyright over the stuff they post on the site) and someone in the forums dug up the contact info for BigEzine's web hosting service (which is in Texas, oddly enough) so I sent the same message to them. I have a feeling that whoever answers the e-mail at that place is going to have a busy day tomorrow cuz I'm sure I am not the only one who contacted them.

Being copied is a sign of respect. Right?

Dark Horseman wrote:

Being copied is a sign of respect. Right?

From looking at the "ezine" site I don't think they were being particularly choosy about who or what they copied. It looks like they just scraped everything off of Hub Pages that was posted over a period of several days and re-posted it on their own site.

I returned to the HubPages forums this morning and several people reported that they wrote articles overnight slamming BigEZine for their thieving ways... and even THOSE articles have now been stolen. Apparently one is even on BigEZine's front page!!

Y'know, now that I've read that, I'm not even worried about this anymore, cuz the schmucks who run that site are clearly too stupid to stay in business for very long.

The writers on Cracked.com had a similiar problem. They responded accordingly...

http://www.cracked.com/blog/this-is-why-you-dont-steal-from-cracked/

Nice job on the GnR article too. It was a pretty fair accessment and not just ripping it to shreds for the fun of it. Bravo!!

Last night I wrote a new Hub about the article-copying experience, just as a way to vent my frustration. I haven't checked the web site that's been stealing everybody's stuff yet today but I think it would be hilarious if this one ended up on their front page.

http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/My-Hub-Was-Copied

Checking the HubPages forums this morning, I saw numerous posts indicating that the thieving "BigEZine.com" site may have been shut down! Woohoo! Digital revenge is sweet!

That is cool, FF. It was too funny that they even stole those articles slammin' their own website though. They weren't too bright, now were they!

kmorg wrote:

That is cool, FF. It was too funny that they even stole those articles slammin' their own website though. They weren't too bright, now were they!

Yeah, I guess the system actually works. As for the site, folks at HubPages figure that "BigEzine" probably didn't even read the stuff they were stealing, it was probably some kind of automated-scraper thingy.

I was kinda hopin' that they might steal my rant about their copying my article, complete with the photo of a middle finger, before they bit the dust.

I'm stoked for the upcoming new solo release by Joey Ramone, so I wrote me a Hub about it:

http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/New-Joey-Ramone-solo-album-YA-KNOW-to-be-released-in-May-2012

I can't say much. I don't dislike them but to my ears most punk bands did the same song over and over, except The Clash. If it comes on I listen and it's kind catchy but a whole album loses me.

Everybody SPAM the crap out of FF's hub page, on three....really, I do it all the time, it's fine.
GO!!!

My association with punk is merely from my years of racing downhill skateboards from 1977 to 1980 in So. Cal. I saw alot of bands play, but couldn't tell ya who they were and "yes" they did have the inclination to all sound the same after awhile.

T-Roy wrote:

Everybody SPAM the crap out of FF's hub page, on three....really, I do it all the time, it's fine.
GO!!!

G'head, bring it on. I could use the page views.

"Dear Plagiarist: Hey, I'm glad you liked my article enough to steal it and put your own name on it. Please remove it immediately or I will e-kick your e-ass. Thanks. P.S. I hope you choke."
– FATFREDDY HUBPAGE