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Viral Video: Mel Gibson and a Beaver

Kara Swisher in News on December 8, 2010 at 5:06 am PT

Wacky actor Mel Gibson has been the gift that keeps on giving to online gossip sites, with a string of ever more controversial episodes in his personal life. Well, a new movie, “The Beaver,” about a man going crazy and the beaver puppet that returns him to mental health, is not going to help much to make anyone think Gibson is sane.

Viral Video: Puppet-tastic "Jackboots on Whitehall"

Kara Swisher in News on September 27, 2010 at 1:02 am PT

BoomTown is not even going to try to explain this trailer for the movie “Jackboots on Whitehall,” except to say: No 3-D. Foul-mouthed puppets. World War II.

Steve Ballmer Unplugged: The Puppet Edition

Kara Swisher in News on July 31, 2009 at 3:21 pm PT

BoomTown is spending the day at Microsoft HQ in Redmond, Wash., interviewing a passel of execs about the Yahoo online advertising and search partnership. But, while here, I have not been able to resist trotting out this very funny puppet video by 1938 Media of sweat-stained Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gone wild, screaming about how he smoked the Yahoo partnership, to every Softie I see. Because I am that sensitive.

A Twitter Stolen Docs Response–From a Puppet–That Actually Makes Sense

Kara Swisher in News on July 27, 2009 at 8:20 pm PT

Finally, the kind of response this whole increasingly silly circus around TechCrunch publishing the Twitter stolen documents deserves. Funny, rude and pretty much the only good way to excuse it all, via expletives deleted, courtesy of 1938 Media. Now, BoomTown can go back to real issues, such as obsessing about when the Yahoo deal with Microsoft will drop, if ever!

BoomTown Talks to a Puppet

Kara Swisher in News on May 21, 2008 at 10:21 am PT

The ubiquitous puppet interviewer (not) Shel Israel–who BoomTown has definitively determined is powered by the hand of the very funny Loren Feldman of 1938 Media–came to ATD HQ (a.k.a., the cottage behind my house) yesterday for a lovely chat.