Category Archives: hype
The rise of Viagra brings stiff competition
In the twelve years since Viagra burst on the scene that little blue pill has helped millions of men. Most of them comics. But these days, there’s some stiff competition. Over a dozen clones now claim to cause the same … Continue reading
Do most diet pills really work?
In 2007, official figures reveal that the health and diet industry in the US alone raked in $32 BILLION dollars in profits. And how do they do this? By selling over-priced snake-oil to hapless consumers who are eager for weight-loss … Continue reading
Is This Really Our Future??
Following on from yesterday’s story about the risk of an Actors strike, today brings news of yet another nail in the coffin of the craft as whole. As both of my regular readers know, I hate ‘reality’ television with a … Continue reading
Emmys…Failure on an Epic Scale!
Last night, this country was subjected to one of the most boring, incompetent, ego-saturated intellectual vacuums in the history of this or any other sentient race. When you’re sixty you’re expected to be a little slow and forgetful. After fifty-nine … Continue reading
This Spice Should Stay on the Shelf !
According to he who is the repository of all human knowledge – at least that portion of it that pertains to the Entertainment business – Victoria Beckham is in the midst of preparations to open a restaurant. Since arriving in … Continue reading
Jessica Simpson….Live??
After her recent efforts to help the nation become sufficiently inebriated to endure her singing – if not the mere fact of her unbidden existence – Jessica Simpson’s latest musical pop-up book, a loose assemblage of atonal discord known to … 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
This Man Should Run NBC !
In an interview that appears today on Forbes.com, ten-time Emmy Award-winner Steven Bochco becomes the latest witness to Network greed. He’s decided to take his new drama series, “Raising the Bar,” to the cable station TNT, instead of to one … Continue reading
Tastes Great? Not So Much…
It seems the Lone Star State’s favorite export, Jessica Simpson, is planning to daze us once more with further unsolicited proof of the triumph of PR and peroxide over talent or the ability to even comprehend a tune… She’s just … Continue reading
MTV Scrapes the Barrel….Again
In what may be their dumbest, most dangerous and calculated attempt to boost their ratings to the dizzying heights of double figures, MTV is now casting a new “Reality” show where impressionable teens will be required to suffer borderline-anorexia in … Continue reading
