Listen to that - that distant rumbling. Feel the vibration underfoot. Off in the distance, just beyond the horizon - is it a Tyrannosaurus Rex? No, it’s the expiration date of Steven Spielberg’s contract with Paramount Pictures, comin’ up at the end of 2008.
Spielberg, whose recent hits include MINORITY REPORT and WAR OF THE WORLDS [...]

1. Ryan Seacrest is not a host — he is a dotted line that you are supposed to fill in with a host.
2. Only an awards-show producer would ever consider honoring THE SOPRANOS with a big song and dance number.
3. Sally Field, you little scamp.
4. The ratings for this year’s show were possibly the lowest [...]

Guess what’s available on eBay:

That’s right, it’s the hand-made Master Chief armor you’ve always wanted! There’s only one (you’re lookin’ at it) and once it’s gone, you’ll have to kill whomever outbid you to get it. From the eBay description:
You can have this suit in time for the halo (sic) launch! Wait until people see [...]

O.J. SIMPSON NAMED A SUSPECT IN CASINO BREAK-IN
He still resents not getting the Don Cheadle part in OCEAN’S 11.
PRINCE GEARS UP TO FIGHT YOUTUBE
Or as he calls it in court briefs, “U-Tube”.
PHIL SPECTOR JURY STILL DELIBERATING
They made their decision days ago, but they can’t stop talking about that hair.
L.A. BLOCK RENAMED “LARRY KING SQUARE”
And the [...]

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In todays show: The FCC pushes the cable companies around… Disney readies a sequel to TRON – maybe this one will be written by a computer!… and in this week’s commentary; Skot has helpful suggestions for the smell-o-vision people. All this and the 3:10 [...]

It seems the trend of out-of control teen stars now extends to non-real ones.
From Yahoo! News:

CULVER CITY, Calif. - Kirsten Storms, who voices the snippy cheerleader Bonnie Rockwaller in the animated Disney TV series “Kim Possible,” was arrested for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol.

I know the “Kim Possible” franchise rather well. Disney [...]

More about Tron… partner-in-crime Skot writes:
The CG cheats from the ‘82 original was part of the charm of it, if ya ask me.

And indeed they are. I’ve been thinking about it and the unique look of TRON is predicated on two things:
1. In the early eighties, that’s what computer screens looked like. Sure there were [...]

Word comes yesterday via the Hollywood Reporter that Disney is finally getting around to rezzing up a sequel to TRON, the 1982 computer graphics watershed that starred Jeff Bridges, gave Bruce Boxleitner his big break and inexplicably failed to make an international sex symbol of Cindy Morgan. If get a chance rent it: ignore the [...]

As you know, broadcasters are required to switch from analog to digital broadcasting in February 2009. At that point, you’ll either have to shell out for that expensive HDTV flat panel, shell out for a slighly less expensive TV, get a standard defintion TV as long as it has an ATSC tuner, or buy a converter [...]

As if on cue, A woman in Boston wants to revive Smellovision. Hey, I though that these gimmicks only happened when box office is in the dumpster!
She picked the dooziest film to try it out on: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the 1971 musical original. It had a hilariously dated post-flower-power tagline: “It’s everybody’s [...]