Tonight the Lovely Doreen from Waukesha and I went to dinner at Art Smith’s Table 52 in Chicago.  Art was at the Oscars hanging out with Elton John.
Dinner was excellent, and so was the service.  Our waiter, Justin, was great at explaining the menu and in making sure our experience was enjoyable.  The atmosphere was [...]

Meghan McCain takes on the boob fashion police. Artificial big breasts are in, but natural big breasts are out, and she doesn’t think that’s right.
Last week, Heidi Montag was on the cover of People magazine after going through an astounding 10 plastic surgeries—including a second round of breast implants. This time around, the 23-year-old [...]

Meredith Baxter, thrice-married, has made the lesbian-coming-out career move. “…It never once occurred to me that I was gay.” What’s so unique about this that People Magazine even bothers to cover it? Will the publicity boost Baxter’s career? Unlikely. Ellen has a daytime talkshow, and the Bono kid upped the ante with a sex change. [...]

I suppose it’s a less extreme career move than the Kurt Cobain route.

Roger Simon, Hollywood writer and blogger, remembers actor and activist Ron Silver:
We had a close relationship that came from a strange confluence of events. Perhaps the best movie that either of us worked on was the same one. – Enemies, A Love Story. But that wasn’t the real reason – it was politics. We had [...]

To understand the impact Paul Newman had on the screen, look past the Newman/Redford films and to the films where he is paired with the more popular actors of our time. In “Message in a Bottle”, an anemic chick flick, Paul Newman’s presence was an instant draw of the eye away from Kevin Costner’s [...]

Dan Kenitz at BiPolar Nation wonders whether Hollywood is ready for it’s version of the luxury tax.
Coyote, best known for his role as the scientist trying to track down E.T., suggests that the Screen Actors Guild ought to call upon leading actors to kick back “a modest amount, say on salaries over $6 million,” to [...]

Elliot saw Wall-E and very succinctly registers a negative opinion.
Perhaps Elliot was disturbed by it’s likeness to ET?
My own, somewhat lengthier, review was a bit more positive.

M.E. over at Stand in the Trenches makes a great point about the movie Wall-E.
I’d had some misgivings, as I was afraid that it might be yet another earth-good, humans-bad, save-the-environment, worship-Gaia piece of agitprop.
But it’s not! Don’t let the fact that the earth is covered with trash fool you: This is not about saving [...]

First the good news. Even if you don’t have children, you will enjoy Wall-E. If there is a brand-name for quality in movies, it is Pixar. The movie is visually brilliant, taking full advantage of animation’s ability to show us vistas of an imaginary apocalyptic future and a giant luxury space liner. [...]