thrilling blog entry leaves Earl Dittman breathless

In case you're keeping track, each issue of my Daily Variety subscription still shows up about 10 days late. Some days I get two or three issues and other days none. It's pretty easy for them to pile up waiting to be read. This weekend I took a little time to get caught up on back issues. I found a fun column about the worst blurb-meisters of 2005. Blurb-meisters are the critics who get quoted in ads for bad movies.

I also found a headline that amuses me, even if it is outdated: