BoomTown hates to miss any possible opportunity to reference a Charlton Heston movie and, thus, was struck by a report by a Wall Street analyst that Google and Amazon will be the sole survivors of the most recent digital age.
Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay said as much in a 310-page report, “U.S. Internet: The End of the Beginning” he penned, noting that only the search giant and the e-commerce pioneer had legs.
In BoomTown’s Charlton Heston tribute earlier this week, we left out this gem of a parody for our other favorite of his movies, “The Ten Commandments.”
In the words of Yul Brynner’s rocking Ramses: So it was mashed up, so it shall be posted.
Do not miss this video, as it is quite perfect:
Everyone can have their own personal opinion about Charlton Heston, the rugged movie legend who died Saturday.
But a trio of his movies–1968’s “Planet of the Apes,” 1971’s “Omega Man” and 1973’s “Soylent Green“–have been geekish (and cheesy) favorites of mine for as long as I can remember.
All three films, which have that cynical end-of-the-world tone [...]
Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference.
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