I have to admit, I'm not much up on American Idol. I enjoy watching the YouTube replays of the "flops" even more than I like watching the real thing. And I rarely watch the Oscars (until Robert Loggia wins, I'm BOYCOTTING! LOL). But I have to admit the story of Jennifer Hudson is beyond compelling. Had she won American Idol, would she have gotten this chance? Not likely. Studios pretty jealously guard their contracts, and if she were the "American Idol", odds are pretty good she'd have been s...

OK, it's been far too long since my last celebrity points whoring article. Time to pounce back on the bandwagon. Besides, it's 4:30 AM and I don't have a PC repair job in the queue. In a move that was as far from the wisdom of Solomon, Brittney Spears and her ex husband (OK, I hate abbreviating his name...but as few letters spent renaming this backup singer turned high profile gold digger as possible, the better) are going to share custody of their two children. I'm thinking having a...

Hollywood is in a slump, as many media fans have noted. ANd so, ever in the interest of public service, I propose my offering to save Hollywood as we know it. As you all know, big screen remakes of small screen successes can reap big rewards for the movie moguls. And, best of all, they can piece together plots from hundreds of episodes over the years to produce a 2 hour screenplay, virtually eliminating a screenwriter with any talent whatsoever and relegating the task to well trained monkeys....

Link OK, so Tom Cruise bought a sonogram machine to monitor his girlfriend, Katie Holmes' pregnancy. On first glance, this might just seem to be an overzealous future father using his enormous wealth to do what any father would do. On closer inspection, though, it reeks of hypocrisy and stupidity. First, sonograms on demand are a damn stupid idea. They use radiation in those things, Tommy boy, and it's not too wise to expose a developing fetus to a constant dose just to satisfy your ego...

Link According to the news link above, Madonna has a policy against ice cream. And TV. Although she doesn't say why TV is verbotten, one would have to assume that it has something to do with either a) the values portrayed on many television shows, or the commercialism that TV sells as necessity in our society. Either way, it's slightly amusing. Has the material mom suddenly turned prude, and decided that the values she paraded around in her book Sex are not the values she wants t...

So, I decided to at least tune into the opening credits of SNL Saturday. I was glad I did. Will Ferrell was the guest host. So, for a night, at least, it was tolerable and even sometimes funny. But the piece de resistance came when the band, Queens of the Stone Age, took the stage. I hadn't really heard much of their music, but decided not to depart to the kitchen for a late night snack. I was glad I stayed, as I saw a familiar face and there, on the stage, larger than life, was the world'...

So, I watched this season's Survivor finale last night. Hey, I only have four channels to choose from here, so it was the pick of the night. Anyway, what was surprising about this finale was, it was not surprising at all. The same man, Tom, who has essentially run the show from the beginning, won it all. Because EVERYONE else that ended up in the final five or six had been playing for second place. That bugged me. You don't play a game for second place, you play to win. But apparently nobo...

Well, I had to post a personal followup comment to TexasWahine's comments about Star Wars: Ep. III's PG-13 rating. I am sure this will get an "insightful" from all the lightsaber waving fans of the world. Anyway, if it's going to be PG-13 anyway, why not some Padme full frontal? Come on, Lucas, throw us a bone! This is as close as some of your fans will get to a REAL human female breast. Or maybe he's saving that for the director's cut?

I decided to find out what your favorite sitcoms were, in part to promote my own favorite. My favorite sitcom of all time would have to be the BBC show "The Young Ones":     As a teenager, I watched this show religiously on MTV. It was standard viewing in my circle of friends. It was creative, funny, and always featured a musical guest somewhat outside of the mainstream (interestingly enough, it was where I heard my first Van Morrison song, as a cover by one of the ba...

Well, it seems Mr. Demi Moore...err, Ashton Kutcher, made a bet with his producer that if his new movie "A Lot Like Love" tops the weekend box office, he'll do a Calvin Klein underwear ad. With the lovely Amanda Peet as his costar, I think it's a safe bet we'll be forced to endure Kutcher in his skivvies. Now, to some women that might not be a bad thing. I understand that (frankly, if Amanda Peet had a similar Victoria's Secret ad deal going, I'd buy tickets for our entire household and lives...

I don't think this has ever happened before in my LIFE. There are FOUR movies either released or soon to be released, that are on my "must see list". They are (in no particular order): Star Wars Ep. 3 (True, the other two were train wrecks, but I have to see this through to the end. Plus...how bad could it be with Vader showing up? The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Though this could miss, the special effects look great. I'm just afraid they'll be too serious with it and miss Doug Ad...

Apparently in a snafu that was dubbed "NOT an April Fool's Day joke", the BBC sent a request to the Bob Marley foundation to request an interview with the singer, who has been quietly decomposing somewhere in Jamaica for some 24 years now.   Article below:       BBC asks long-dead Bob Marley for interview 1 hour, 19 minutes ago LONDON (AFP) - A red-faced BBC apologised for requesting an interview with Bob Marley, the Jamaican reggae legend who died...

So, now that we have a TV again (see my article "Luddite no More"), I decided that Saturday evening I would sit down and watch SNL, as I hadn't been able to in months. Now, don't get me wrong; as far as humor goes, SNL has always had a bit of a "rise and fall" tendency; when the core comedians leave, it takes awhile for the other comedians to step up to the plate. Soooo, I watched the show. It was a rerun, from during the election, but it was HORRIBLE. I don't mean corny, I don't mean chee...

Jamie Foxx really irritated me last night. Now, I didn't see the movie "Ray", and can't comment on whether his performance was Oscar worthy or not (although can't help but feel a little Oscar hypocrisy when they denied Denzel for so many wonderful performances on the premise that he hadn't built up a significant enough body of work to get an Oscar, and when he finally received one, it was for one of his LESSER roles). I have only seen clips from "Ray", and what I have seen definitely causes m...

Very few shows can be pinpointed to the very DAY they jumped the shark. In my opinion, Saturday Night Live is one of those few. On October 3, 1992, the now infamous Sinead O'Connor episode,in which she ripped up a picture of the pope, aired. The once cutting edge comedy now had the same "cutting edge" as a pair of kindergarten safety scissors, as SNL caved to the outcry of the critics and the exclamations of "blasphemy". NBC, incidentally, has never allowed that clip to be shown again in reru...