Golden Celebrity

As we’ve been reminded by a number of commenters and e-mailers this morning, referring to the members of the WGA’s swarming strike-prevention team as “redshirts” (incidentally, a name many of the flyer distributors have given themselves ) creates an immediate and unfortunate association with the disposable Star Trek day-players whose uniform color invariably marked them [...]

With Oprah Approved™ presidential hopeful Barack Obama trailing to Hillary Clinton, it would seem the voiced support of Angelina Jolie’s do-gooding wingman–rounding out a megastar hat-trick that already includes George Clooney and Matt Damon–would be precisely what the candidate needs to get ahead in the polls. However, fearing heartland voters might be turned off by [...]

Though onetime NBC ABC News Now correspondent Merry Miller’s fifteen minutes of YouTube-derived fame has expired by now, the always-generous ladies of The View today invited her to fill the chair temporarily vacated by the pregnant Elizabeth Hasselbeck, offering Miller a long-delayed shot at TV redemption.
Rightly realizing that the show’s audience probably has no [...]

Pablo Escobar is the new Steve Prefontaine! Or the new Truman Capote! Undeterred by the possibility that no matter how seriously they approach the material, they may never be able to erase Entourage’s indelible, Tony Cliftonesque image of the Colombian drug lord, no fewer than three Escobar-related movies (including ones by Smoking Aces director Joe [...]

Appearing on Late Show last night to promote a small, low-profile animated movie soon to make its way into select art houses across the country, Hubbardian dabbler Jerry Seinfeld used the opportunity to try out a tight, three-minute set of new material based entirely around the everyman premise, “So a billionaire comedian’s wife writes an [...]