Thanks to the band Punto Quatro and the album cover for their 1978 Spanish language version of the Grease soundtrack, we have the above striking visual, which looks like it could be from an alternate reality in which the late 70s Hollywood blockbuster was instead a cheap Mexican telenovela. If that had been the case, I may have been spared being forced to listen to “Summer Nights” at an ear splitting decibel level at every school dance from 6th to 9th grade. Just hearing the first few bars alone is enough to send me back to those hilariously awkward events. …Read More

The E! Channel has brazenly decided to fan the flames of the Joan Rivers/Chelsea Handler feud with new banners ads promoting the network, which feature the legendary performer standing atop the popular late night host and author. The juxtaposition is surprising considering the level of vitriol which the two let loose on separate appearances on The Howard Stern Show back in January.  During Handler’s appearance on the Sirius Radio show on January 24th, Stern asked:

Joan Rivers was critical of you at one point, wasn’t she?

To which Handler replied:

Joan Rivers, I mean, what the fuck do I care about Joan Rivers. …Read More

Headlines for First Lady Michelle Obama‘s workout with contestants of the NBC reality show The Biggest Loser were eclipsed by her husband’s own weight loss. Whether President Obama has in fact lost weight due to the stress of governing the country or simply taken his wife Michelle’s Let’s Move! initiative to heart, media outlets have been quick to point out his apparently slimmer appearance. The Drudge Report posted the above photo along with the headlines ‘Barack N’ Bones’ and  ‘SHOCK PHOTOS: Obama, Thin And Wasting Away’. Another recent Drudge headline, announcing Pizza Hut’s newly introduced hot dog stuffed crust pizza, offers the perfect cure. …Read More

Back in 2010, James Cameron vehemently expressed his disapproval over quickie retrofitted 3D movies like Clash of the Titans. It turns out all you need to create a successful and critically lauded 3D conversion is, well, James Cameron to be involved.  Titanic 3D has received unanimously good reviews from everyone except Roger Ebert, who loves the 1997 blockbuster, but groused:

I know why the film is in 3D. It’s to justify the extra charge. That’s a shabby way to treat a masterpiece.

As much enthusiasm as I have for 3D, it”s hard to disagree with Ebert on a fundamental level. For every 3D movie that works …Read More

In the new book “The Obamas,” New York Times correspondent Jodi Kantor, writes about a secret White House cover-up. What officials at the nation’s capital tried to keep under wraps wasn’t classified military information, but apparently a 2009 Halloween party attended by the cast of Tim Burton‘s Alice in Wonderland:

White House officials were so nervous about how a splashy, Hollywood-esque party would look to jobless Americans — or their representatives in Congress, who would soon vote on health care — that the event was not discussed publicly and Burton’s and Depp’s contributions went unacknowledged.

I can see why Kitty Kelly, whose claim to fame is being the author of unauthorized biographies of Nancy Reagan, Frank Sinatra, the Bush family and Oprah, skipped this one. There may be a juicy story lurking somewhere in the Obama White House, but this isn’t it. For me, the picture brought an unexpected bout of 2009 nostalgia. …Read More

That’s Reed Hastings up above. He’s the CEO of Netflix, and the mastermind behind the Quickster debacle. Last month he apologetically announced that he was going to split Netflix into separate divisions: one for streaming videos, and the other for DVD-by-mail, to be called Quickster. After outrage from consumers and investors, he sheepishly backed out of that plan yesterday. Strange that Hastings thought the best way to phase out a service was to build another company. That’d be like McDonalds selling Big Macs in one location, and Quarter Pounders in another. …Read More

If a celebrity does a good deed and no one photographs it, did the deed even exist? Miley Cyrus took a break from her current tour to visit Haiti and help distribute hearing aids to its citizens (you’d think Floridians would have more of a demand for those). Taking to her Twitter, she wrote:

That’s a little boy named Emanuel we fit him w hearing aids… I’ve never seen a smile like his! I can’t wait to go back.

For her next photo op, that is! Seeing celebrities take time out of their busy schedules to further promote themselves always brings tears to my eyes.

Footloose, the remake that nobody asked for and nobody’s excited for, is finally going to be hitting theaters. Note to executives: remaking cheesy 80s musicals, but taking the cheesy 80s-ness out of them, is not a great idea (see Fame from 2009). And casting a poor man’s Michael J. Fox in the lead role is also not a great idea. I never thought I’d say this, but I miss Kevin Bacon. Just try and play the Six Degrees of Separation game with his new replacement Kenny Wormald. There’s no way to link him to Elizabeth Perkins. Where’s the fun in that?

Ex-Roseanne star Sara Gilbert was about to safely enter the “Where Are They Now” zone, where her former TV siblings Alicia Goranson and Michael Fishman currently reside. Then, in 2010, like a gift from the muse, she thought of an idea for a show. It would feature strong women sitting around a coffee table chatting about the day’s events. Actually, Barbara Walters thought of it back in 1997 and called it The View. The only original twist that Gilbert added was a different name: The Talk, same syllables, different letters. …Read More