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'Atlas Shrugged' Producers Aghast Over DVD Cover's Story of 'Self-Sacrifice' Instead of Selfishness
Seeded on Sat Nov 12, 2011 2:11 PM EST (Yahoo! News)
The company behind the film Atlas Shrugged Part 1 is replacing 100,000 title sheets from the film's newly released DVD and Blue Ray versions because the copy writer incorrectly described the late Ayn Rand's 1957 novel, Atlas Shrugged, as a story of "self-sacrifice." Put simply …
100,000 'Atlas Shrugged' DVDs Recalled for Perfectly Hilarious Reason
Seeded on Fri Nov 11, 2011 3:39 PM EST (Gawker)
Why? Did child porn pics somehow show up on them? No! But the ultimate Randian curse word — "self-sacrifice" — did, and that's worse.
'Atlas Shrugged' producer: 'Critics, you won.' He's going 'on strike.'
Seeded on Wed Apr 27, 2011 7:01 AM EDT (The L.A. Times)
Twelve days after opening "Atlas Shrugged: Part 1," the producer of the Ayn Rand adaptation said Tuesday that he is reconsidering his plans to make Parts 2 and 3 because of scathing reviews and flagging box office returns for the film.
Don't be fooled by The Donald.
Seeded on Fri Apr 22, 2011 11:21 AM EDT (Michelle Malkin)
Don't be fooled by The Donald. Take it from one who knows: I'm a South Jersey gal who was raised on the outskirts of Atlantic City in the looming shadow of Trump's towers.
Ayn Rand Sucks
Seeded on Thu Apr 21, 2011 8:24 AM EDT (Wonkette » top)
Would you like to read a long and enjoyable essay on why Ayn Rand was probably the most evil troll of the post-Hitler era? (Now we don't have to compare her to Hitler!) Here's the piece, on The Awl.
The movie Atlas Shrugged: It buckles, falls flat
Seeded on Tue Apr 19, 2011 4:19 AM EDT (The Atlantic — News and analysis on politics, business, culture, technology, national, international, and food – TheAtlantic.com)
`I know that some Rand fans who like the movie are going to accuse me of sucking up to my liberal cocktail-party attending friends by unfairly slamming a damn fine film.
Rand Appalling: New 'Atlas Shrugged' Movie Booed Off Planet
Seeded on Sat Apr 16, 2011 12:06 AM EDT (The Nation)
It takes a lot to get a 0% at the mass market critics' consensus site Rotten Tomatoes. Pick an awful movie you can think of and it probably managed a 5% or maybe even a 25%.
Ayn Rand Received Social Security, Medicare
Seeded on Tue Jan 25, 2011 5:06 AM EST (patiastephens.com)
Critics of Social Security and Medicare frequently invoke the words and ideals of author and philosopher Ayn Rand, one of the fiercest critics of federal insurance programs. But a little-known fact is that Ayn Rand herself collected Social Security.
Census: Fast growth in states with no income tax.
Seeded on Wed Dec 22, 2010 9:58 AM EST (washingtonexaminer.com)
For those of us who are demographic buffs, Christmas came four days early when Census Bureau director Robert Groves announced on Tuesday the first results of the 2010 census and the reapportionment of House seats (and therefore electoral votes) among the states.
Christmas Should be More Commercial
Seeded on Thu Dec 9, 2010 11:24 AM EST (caoitalismmagazine.com)
Christmas as we celebrate it today is a 19th-century American invention. The freedom and prosperity of post-Civil War America created the happiest nation in history. The result was the desire to celebrate, to revel in the goods and pleasures of life on earth.
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