Lindsay Lohan Careening Toward a Career Dead End
Lindsay Lohan’s career is careening toward a dead end faster than she can race Herbie to the finish line. Her recent dismissal as not "bankable" from the movie project "The Other Side," starring Woody...
View ArticleWhat an Incredible Trifecta of Tarts
What an incredible Trifecta of tarts hit the media outlets recently! In first place is the “Single Ladies” video of a hip-hop dance contest for tender tots which shows them popping and grinding with...
View ArticleLohan’s Sentence Is Surprisingly Long, but Well Deserved
A sniveling Lindsay Lohan has top billing again after judge Marsha Revel saw right through her veil of tears and sentenced her to spend some time in a corrections facility. To be honest, I was a...
View ArticleD-BOX Will Rock Your Socks Off at the Movies
Watching "Inception" at the cinema was quite a mental ride, but experiencing this movie in a D-BOX seat was another unexpected thrill! The motion-encoded movie chair will rock your socks, shake you...
View ArticleNews and Notes from Comic-Con: ‘Tron,’ Del Toro, Futurama
It was all smiles and laughter between the film's stars Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner — both actors are reprising their roles from the original "TRON"– Olivia Wilde, Michael Sheen, Garret...
View ArticleKendall Jenner Should Be Shielded, Not Overexposed
Well folks, another celebrity’s innocent child bites reality TV dust prompting many to reach for the remote and change the channel or turn off the set as the only way to escape watching unrealistic TV...
View ArticleTop Picks from the San Diego Film Festival
The San Diego Film Festival, currently in its ninth year, took over the Gaslamp Theatres in downtown San Diego for five days last week, and remained true to its original concept of providing an...
View Article‘Glee’-Gate: Next Time Use Adults Dressed As Adults
Since the press won't let it die, I won't either. It's been a week since the Parents Television Council made the public aware of the racy photo spread in GQ magazine's upcoming issue featuring a few...
View ArticleFinally, Humans Triumph Over Zombies
Who doesn’t like a feel-good zombie story? Something where humans triumph over the walking dead would give you the warm fuzzies, wouldn’t it? It would be an especially good tale if the humans are a...
View ArticleHollywood’s Too Eager to Sexualize Young Girls
A new study and website were launched by the Parents Television Council titled, "Tinseltown's New Target: A study of Teen Female Sexualization on Primetime TV," and calls for a reversal of the current...
View ArticleBye-Bye to a Decade of Celebrity Scandal
Farewell to 2010 and to some of the decade's scandalous celebrity news which, in my humble opinion, got too much airtime. Looking back on the past 10 years of celebrity coverage, Hollywood reports...
View ArticleWhy MTV Should Shed the Public Service Spin on ‘Skins’
If you read my last post of 2010, I wasn't intending to be prophetic, but it also didn't take a crystal ball to see that actor Charlie Sheen was spiraling out of control, or that Tiger Woods would...
View ArticleKeep Questions About Reality TV Out of the SAT Exam
I am not a fan of reality TV, or "junk reality" as I referred to it in this earlier post. However, over at the College Board, the organization in charge of administering the Scholastic Aptitude Test...
View ArticleWhoever Was Stupid Enough to Pick Up This Botox-Mom Story Should Pay
This latest Balloon Boy-type hoax involving the 8-year-old girl getting pricked by her own mother’s Botox-laden hand might turn out to be a disgusting ploy used to tug at our heartstrings to sell us...
View Article‘Judy Moody': Deliberately Annoying and Definitely Heartwarming
Going to the movies with the little ones is risky business. Lately, it's all too common to be taken by surprise by some of the high tech gimmicks, swaggering violence, or other age-inappropriate...
View ArticleA Badge-Free Comic-Con: May the Force Be With Us!
You don't need no stinking badges to be part of the buzz of this year's epic Comic-Con, touching down in San Diego July 20-25. There's plenty of stuff going on outside of the Convention Center's walls...
View ArticleColin Farrell, Backwards and Forwards, at Comic-Con
Comic-Con first-timer Colin Farrell did double takes and rewinds during multiple presentations for his films “Fright Night 3D” and “Total Recall” at the annual geek convention. The “Horrible Bosses”...
View ArticleThinking … It’s Never Good to Do That at a Vampire Movie
After his film re-debut in the comedy “Horrible Bosses” (which I enjoyed very much), Colin Farrell comes back with a vengeance in “Fright Night” in 3D, a remake of the 1985 horror film. This version...
View ArticleWho Said Reality TV Is All Bad?
The Modern Gypsies, the San Diego team who won it all in the first season of ABC's "Expedition Impossible," are living proof that reality TV can have an encouraging outcome for the greater good....
View ArticleWhen ‘Jersey Shore’ Goes Ivy League
The chorus of disapproval against Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi's appearance as guest speaker at Rutgers University earlier this year was evidently not loud enough in the world of academia. Another...
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