Humor, People

A Holiday Card from Britney Spears

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Britney seems to have discovered that motherhood and applepie is not as fun as singlehood and panty-less partying with Paris Hilton. The two girls are learning to upstage even Madonna, the mother of all self-promotion. It is fascinating to watch how newspapers all over the world are covering the two little Lolitas from the United image [Read More]
Diary

Watching Entourage

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I am waiting for the fifth season of 24 to come out on DVD December 5th. In the meantime, I am watching the first season of the HBO comedy Entourage on the Stairmaster, trying to lose a few pounds. The show gives you a look at the day-to-day life of Vincent (Vince) Chase, a hot [Read More]
Drama, Movies

Casino Royale

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My teenage self loved James Bond. Part of becoming an adult was letting go of 007. I remember walking out of a movie theatre in the early 1990s, saying to myself. “Bond has lost any resemblance to a real human being. This cartoon-like character is just plain old silly. I am never going to watch image [Read More]
Drama, Movies

The Passion of the Christ

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The Passion of the Christ should more appropriately be called Mel Gibson’s Passion for Violence. Anyone who sets out to make a movie about the last 12 hours of Jesus’ life has the artistic responsibility to provide a context of what Jesus was all about. Mel Gibson message is that Jesus died the most brutal image [Read More]
Diary

A Free-for-All on Science and Religion

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  By GEORGE JOHNSON (NYT) Maybe the pivotal moment came when Steven Weinberg, a Nobel laureate in physics, warned that “the world needs to wake up from its long nightmare of religious belief,” or when a Nobelist in chemistry, Sir Harold Kroto, called for the John Templeton Foundation to give its next $1.5 million prize for image [Read More]
Humor, People

TomKat’s Wedding Picture

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When Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes failed to give the press a photo of their newborn child for six months, the tabloids started to accuse the couple of simply making up their baby story to create publicity. Here is a picture of their little girl, Suri, from yesterday’s TomKat star wedding in Italy, which image [Read More]
Comedy, Movies

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

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Remember the six months before American troops invaded Iraq. The French and German secret services were claiming that no credible evidence existed to show that Saddam was close to producing nuclear weapons. Colin Powel, in what became a reputation destroying speech at the UN, claimed that the U.S. had precisely this smoking-gun kind of evidence.  image [Read More]