So I pulled a little stunt yesterday - in my show notes for the podcast, I deliberately included as many s*x words as I could, in an effort to drag eyeballs to the blog. The jury is still out of the effectiveness of this (I’m going to give the stats a couple of days to [...]

Billionaires have been the stars of cartoons before - Daddy Warbucks, Richie Rich, Bruce Wayne - but you wouldn’t see this coming.
Warren Buffett, the 2nd richest man in America (Bill Gates, thanks for asking) will play himself in a 13 part DVD series called “The Secret Millionaires Club.” In the show he will dispense advice [...]

Box Office Weekly #004 (MP3 - 6.5MB - 23 min)
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Tyler Perry is bigger than you think! Watch him (in drag) unite with the top movie gross this week. What other delights await you on the podcast?
We take a look back at the careers of two TV icons, both dead this week [...]

Turner Classic Movies, the classic movie network which still shows classic movies, is beta testing TCMDB.com, a movie database which hyperlinks stars and crew and titles. Sound familiar? Yeah, it’s a limited IMDB. Tuner Classic’s dirty little secret is that it’s an outlet for the MGM library, the vast backlog of MGM films which has [...]

As I promised last week, here is a list, not exhaustive, of movies about movies; only these are the worst. Given the onanistic nature of the genre you’d expect it to happen more often! Again, if you have something to add to this, please leave a comment… I loves me the bad movies.
The Lonely Lady [...]

I live in the San Fernando Valley, which is said to be the nexus of pornography. We have a long noble history of being the smut industry leader here. And before you scoff at that, remember that a large piece of the world’s entertainment bankroll is spent on adult amusements. A much larger piece than [...]

(Note - no ratings chart this week because the tables mess with the feed in a big way. You want to see a chart, go to zap2it.com and click around a little bit, there it is.)
NBC: They paid enormous amounts of money for the winter olympics; they pre-empted their entire prime time schedule for several [...]

Movie Gallery Inc, the 2nd largest movie rental chain in America, saw it’s stock price rise 20% on rumors that it is considering taking itself private or selling out to another firm. This quote from the Hollywood Reporter may explain it:
“There is a rumor which has been around for a few months now that Movie [...]

According to the AP, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, the vast and terrifying Stewart empire, made $2.95 million dollars in its fourth quarter. Most of the revenue was driven by increased advertising in the magazine, and I’m sure some of it was royalties from her soon-to-be-cancelled but nontheless profitable TV Show, Martha Stewart Apprentice. (Yesterday I [...]

Via the Hollywood Reporter:
“Starbucks president Ken Lombard said the company’s content division will be relocating from its Seattle headquarters and closer to the hub of Hollywood. Last week’s disclosure came during a gathering of the nonprofit Digital Coast Roundtable held at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, where Lombard said its Starbucks Entertainment content [...]