Golden Celebrity

Nikki Finke reports that Warner Bros. production president Jeff Robinov is putting out word that his studio is shifting to a completely phallocentric development slate, apparently blaming underperforming, lady-based entertainments like The Brave One and The Invasion for his studio’s recent slump. The beginning of “World War III” over the impolitic strategy is anticipated, though [...]

Even after his departure from a 35-year tenure hosting the Price is Right, cat-sterilization fanatic Bob Barker still finds himself party to yet another in a long string of harassment lawsuits from disgruntled female employees: nine in 13 years, to be exact, with all plaintiffs represented by the same guy–attorney and mutesmodels’ rights advocate, Nick [...]

In today’s Variety Youth Impact Report, a special section in which the trade publication spotlights the precocious performers who will one day either rise to Fanningesque domination of the industry or challenge Lindsay Lohan’s Herbie: Fully Loaded record for most hangover-induced missed call times, experts from Hollywood’s various child-exploitation vocations suggest that their cherubic moneymaking [...]

When Rosie O’Donnell joined Roseanne Barr on the stage of a New York comedy club last night, she stunned audiences when she abandoned her regular prop-comedy act involving a cardboard standee of Elisabeth Hasselbeck and a black Sharpee with which to scrawl Hitler moustaches. Instead she revealed yet more stunning insights into her abrupt departure [...]

Because we’re sure there’s nothing you’d find more pleasant on a Friday morning than the further discussion of the filming of a juvenile rape scene so culturally inflammatory that a studio may now find itself responsible for the welfare of the movie’s displaced child actors until they reach adulthood, we turn to Slate’s Kim Masters’ [...]