Planet of the Apes

Viral Video: Tracy Morgan Can Cuss About Social Media in 140 Characters

Kara Swisher in Media on April 3 at 12:39 am PT

And cuss he does.

Viral Video: Going Ape for James Franco

Kara Swisher in News on April 15, 2011 at 2:25 am PT

BoomTown is a major fan of the entire “Planet of the Apes” Hollywood movie franchise and will not apologize for one single second about this freakish apocalyptic series. Here comes another and, as the late Charlton Heston said: “Some apes, it seems, are more equal than others.”

SurveyMonkey's Dave Goldberg Speaks! (Plus a Tour of His New Planet of the Apes Lair in Silicon Valley)

Kara Swisher in News on August 17, 2009 at 6:09 am PT

BoomTown was as surprised as anyone when longtime Silicon Valley Web music entrepreneur Dave Goldberg said in May that his next move was going to be investing in and running an online survey company with the unusual name of SurveyMonkey. Most expected the former Yahoo music head to land at an entertainment or media giant, running its digital operations. But it is at SurveyMonkey where Goldberg has swung himself and he has now made good on his promise to open a Silicon Valley office of the Portland-based start-up.

The Sass of Kahn: Remembering Ricardo Montalban

Kara Swisher in News on January 16, 2009 at 1:22 am PT

BoomTown’s favorite space villain, as well as an alum of two of the “Planet of the Apes” sci-fi movies, Ricardo Montalban, died earlier this week in Los Angeles. He was 88 years old. While he was also a movie star and helmed the always bizarre 1970s television show, “Fantasy Island,” those who love some serious scenery-chewing will never forget Montalban’s turn as the insane Khan Noonien Singh in the second “Star Trek” movie, “The Wrath of Khan.”