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Inessential Essentials || BY Simon Abrams || 08 09 2012 11:00 AM

Spaceballs On Blu-Ray: 25 Years Later, The Schwartz Is Still Strong In Mel Brooks' Star Wars Spoof

A long time ago in a culture far removed from this one — 1987 to be exact — cinematic satirist Mel Brooks took on box-office game changer George Lucas' Star Wars franchise and didn't end up in the Hollywood equivalent of a Sarlacc Pit. Substituting the Schwartz for the Force, Yogurt for Yoda and Pizza The Hutt for Jabba, Brooks gave us Spaceballs and made us laugh harder (intentionally) than Jar Jar Binks ever did. To celebrate the movie's 25th anniversary, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has released a commemorative Blu-Ray edition that mostly does justice to this comedy gem. more »

Newswire || BY Jen Yamato || 02 07 2012 1:00 PM

Hacked Syrian President Bashar Assad Learned Nothing From Spaceballs

Sunday night, hacker group Anonymous worked its way into 78 email accounts belonging to Syrian President Bashar Assad and his ministry officers. Among the discoveries: Damning emails that suggest Assad was trained to manipulate facts in his ABC News interview last year with Barbara Walters, in which he denied that his government was targeting its own citizens in violent clashes that have rocked his country for nearly a year. And to think, it all might've been prevented if Assad and his tech guys had heeded the lessons of information security learned from Mel Brooks' Spaceballs...
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