R.I.P.

Paul Newman - 1925 - 2008. He shall be sorely missed.

Meanwhile in Torbay

The residents of the Devon town are looking on the bright side of life now that they are finally allowed to see Monty Python's Life of Brian after a 29 year wait. don't anyone spoil their fun by telling them how it ends, OK?

R.I.P.

Cyd Charisse - (1921 - 2008)

Just wondering

Is it a bad omen for the campaign of John McCain that No Country for Old Men cleaned up at the Oscars this weekend?

Why can't Yanks act?

All the acting Oscars are won by Europeans.

So that's all thumbs down then

Pop superstar and celebrity London resident Madonna Ritchie has put her hand to film direction and it would seem that the result is less than laudable. Allow me to quote:

"Well, it had to happen. Madonna has been a terrible actor in many, many films and now - fiercely aspirational as ever - she has graduated to being a terrible director. She has made a movie so incredibly bad that Berlin festival goers were staggering around yesterday in a state of clinical shock, deathly pale and mewing like maltreated kittens. She is also the producer and co-author of the script. If she'd done the location catering as well, they'd have had a Jonestown situation on their hands."

There is more if you can stomach it!

Maybe it's the HGH*!

Rambo seems to be killing faster than ever before.

* The stuff certainly hasn't made him any taller. I'm not even sure he is 5'9". I've seen him and he is only ever so slightly taller than me.

Well he's still a bum (at the bare minimum)

"How did Bush go from being an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world?

- Oliver Stone explaining the plot line to his planned new film on George W. Bush (working title "The Trifecta Man")

Tom's bad week

Pity poor Tom Cruise; he's not been having the best of times lately has he? First there was the "we can do everything - cure anyone" video that the Church of Scientology doesn't want to see. Now the ever so talented young man is being compared to Reich Minister Dr. Joseph Goebbels. What must the lovely Katie think of all this?

Isn't he too dark skinned for the part?

Johnny Depp wants to play Michael Jackson perhaps because he has long been searching for a part weirder than Edward Scissorhands.

Exploding head alert

You should probably steer clear of most or all wingnuts for the rest of the day, if not for longer. You wouldn't want to be around them when they find out that Sean Penn is to head the jury at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

And the loser is...

...[drumroll] (this is really too easy) George Walker Bush for being named the Coldest Person in Hollywood!