Category Archives: actor
A win for U4S and Sanity
This, my friends, is a great day. Those wonderful folk at Variety are reporting that the moderate SAG group, Unite for Strength, has secured six of the eleven seats they so bravely contested for the last few months. This is … Continue reading
Mr. Pitt Goes to Sacramento…
Segueing neatly from yesterday’s story we have an example of a Celebrity willing to lend both their high-profile weight and their hard-earned cash to a cause others might only claim to believe in: Brad Pitt is donating $100,000 to help … Continue reading
Memo to Warner Bros. – Don’t do this…
It’s widely agreed that Hollywood is short on ideas. The one area of cranial athletics that seems to be in robust health, however, is a long-standing tendency for covetous exploitation. Evidence of this can be found in the news that … Continue reading
The Arrogant Arachnid…
Well, boys and girls, you can sleep easy tonight; After what seems like weeks of self-directed – and entirely self-serving – stories of doom and despair, Sony Pictures has just confirmed that Toby Maguire will be back in Spiderman 4. … Continue reading
I’ve seen the future – And it’s thumb-size!
If you’re as inclined to periods of Geek-ness as me, here’s a story that should leave your Nike’s positively sauteing in drool: Argos, a large chain of retail stores in England, have just started selling the 1984 Bill Murray classic, … Continue reading
In a World…without Don
This business is suffused with a worrying number of people who could be beamed-up by the Klingons tomorrow, and no-one would notice the loss. Don LaFontaine was not one of them. The name may be new to you but I … Continue reading
Jerry’s Annual Miracle
Well, I hope you all had a joyful, barbecue-enhanced Labor Day? Did anyone catch Jerry Lewis performing his annual feats for Jerry’s Kids? It was remarkable. No….More than that. In this economy it was little short of miraculous! This year, … Continue reading
$312K a year, with FREE ghouls!…
In a move that’s almost as predictable as it is reprehensible, the NYC apartment where Heath Ledger was residing when he left this world prematurely last January is now being quietly offered for rent again. …At $26,000 a month! Located … Continue reading
Who’s the real fraud?
The Chinese government is taking a lot of flack recently over the Olympic opening ceremony. It was discovered that the young girl who sang at the event, Lin Miaoke, was actually lip-synching to the voice of another girl, Yang Peiyi, … Continue reading
Klaatu, barada….Nix this!
It’s widely acknowledged that those in charge of ‘Tinsel Town’ are out of ideas. In such a position, the overwhelming temptation is to do something that was already successful. And it’s always an overwhelming mistake. The 39 Steps, Brief Encounter, … Continue reading
