20 Ways to Get Katherine Heigl's Career Back on Track

A few months back we presented a plan to get Lindsay Lohan back on track. Miraculously, some of the items we suggested have already come to pass, she's gone back to being a redhead and is no longer involved with the Linda Lovelace project. Which got us to thinking, who else out there is in need of our help? Ladies and gentlemen, behold:
20 Ways to Get Katherine Heigl's Career Back on Track
20. Think about Doing a Christmas Album
No, it doesn't matter if you can sing. Look at Hanson's "Snowed In" for the needed inspiration.
19. Take a Year Off of Magazine Interviews
Look, I've been in the room, so I know how the process works. If you give me 45 minutes about the craft of acting and 20 seconds about how you're feeling about Judd Apatow that day, I'm going to run with the Apatow part. Even if it's not fair, even if it's out of context. Ratings and reads depend on controversy. Don't give it to them!
18. No More Television
Some celebrities would be well served by doing a great television show. Unfortunately, you're past that now. You had a great show, Grey's Anatomy, and then you had a great show turn into a disaster. There's nothing left for you on television, sadly, which leads me to ...
17. Have Lunch with Anne Hathaway
Somehow, Ms. Hathaway was able to foist Bride Wars and Valentine's Day upon us and so far no one has held it against her. Far from it, she's now a legitimate Oscar contender with Love and Other Drugs, as she was for Rachel Getting Married. Why aren't people remembering her in the bad films, and how can you use that power for your own personal gain? Make her give up her Jedi secrets!
16. Go See 127 Hours
If you really want to become a person who does impressive work, and I think you do, check out how Franco carries the new Danny Boyle film. It's something to behold.
15. Get on Oprah and Admit Something Tragic About Your Childhood
This always works. Plus, if you can time it to coincide with Oprah's birthday you'll get loads of free stuff too!
14. Then Hit Up Funny or Die
Nothing makes us commoners happier than celebrities who are able to laugh at themselves. Viral video is an excellent way to silence the critics.
13. Don't Go Brunette Again
Enough said.
12. Consider Making Your Nickname Permanent
Being called "Katie" softens you in a way that "Kat" and "Katherine" don't. Five years ago this wouldn't have worked because of Katie Holmes. But she's pretty much taken herself out of the game, so Katie is now yours for the taking.
11. Three Words: Under Siege 3
We all remember your solid work in Under Siege 2, and at this point you'd be doing Steven Seagal a favor by agreeing to a sequel. So get out there and ham it up, it will be considered to be gloriously retro sheik.
 10. Do a Photoshoot ... for a Modern Dog
You're a dog lover, let people see that side of you. Plus, it will give you a chance to talk about the numerous dog rescue groups you support. You'll be doing some good and you'll look sweet doing it!
9. Book A Guest Appearance on Glee
You've put yourself out there as a Gleek, and as such it's okay to ignore #18 for one tiny little guest appearance. Besides, Glee is right in your wheelhouse in terms of sensibilities, it's a show that encourages a point of view and being passionate. This could work.
8. Listen to the New Girl Talk Album
Personally, I haven't listened to it yet. But I'm told it's great, so I'd like for you to really savor it.
7. Lash Out At Eminem
This could be a simple press release or blog post. Come out against Em's lyrics for being sexist, which will encourage him to immediately release a mean-spirited comeback on YouTube. Then you're the victim. Boom! All of a sudden the narrative shifts to how courageous you are.

6. Consider Doing an Old Spice Commercial
Let's face it, they are doing innovative ads, and you're naturally funny. If they can make Ray Lewis seem approachable they'll do wonders for you.
5. Work With a Prominent Female Director
I get the sense you're trying to help women directors break through, and the ones you've worked with (Julie Anne Robinson, Anne Fletcher) show real promise. But you don't need promise at this point in your career, you need a sure thing. The names you're looking for go a little something like Sofia Coppola, Julie Taymor, or Kathryn Bigelow. Accept no substitutes!
4. Write Something
You're outspoken, and you've mentioned you've got an opinion on everything. So how's about tackling a screenplay? You've got time, you know plenty or writers, give it a shot. There's no better way to find a character you can relate to than to write one for yourself.
3. Ask for Final Poster Approval
The Life as We Know It poster was a monstrosity. Take back control of your career on the image side, even if it means taking less money.
2. Get Political, But Safely
You were born in Washington D.C., the only group of Americans without a voting member of congress. Use your clout to advocate for the fine people of D.C. It's political, but also completely logical.
1. Just Jolie It
There's another icon out there who went through a rough patch, adopted a child, and is outspoken on a myriad of issues. Of course, she had to movie halfway across the world, join The U.N., and develop a really thick skin. But she's now blissfully above it all, able to pick and choose her projects, alternating between silly fluff and dynamic art. Could this be your journey, Katie Heigl? It's too soon to tell, but if you follow these 20 simple steps we definitely like your chances.

Resurrecting The Rock: George Tillman, Jr., Talks 'Faster'

After a seemingly endless run of family films, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has made his long awaited return to the action genre with Faster, a gritty revenge thriller about a convicted felon who, upon his release from prison, hunts down the men responsible for the death of his brother. The man tasked with shepherding The Rock's exodus from kiddie-flick purgatory is George Tillman, Jr., director of last year's acclaimed Biggie Smalls biopic, Notorious. We caught up with Tillman recently to talk about his collaboration with the pro wrestler-turned-movie star:

One of the more intriguing aspects of this film is that it's built around three complicated characters, each of whom are given very simple titles: Driver (Johnson), Cop (Billy Bob Thornton), and Killer (Oliver Jackson-Cohen).

Yeah, that was interesting to me, because I felt like Driver, that could be anybody. Or Cop, trying to get back his family, trying to win back respect, that could be anybody. Titles, names, they don’t mean anything. I tried to create the sense that any one of these characters could be one of us walking around today, just to add a little bit more depth that you usually find in an action movie. And I really felt that structure worked. It’s one of the things that really connected me to the material.

What’s the significance of the film's title?

To me it’s about what the characters are doing in their lives. Sometimes you’re so much about achieving your goal as quickly as you can, and sometimes you stop and wonder how you’re affecting people around you with the choices that you’re making.

I couldn't help but notice a bit of Eastwood in Dwayne’s performance in this film. What sort of references did you give him in terms of framing his role?
One of the things we talked about early on was Steve McQueen. Clint Eastwood and Steve McQueen were those guys in the ‘70s who did the most with the fewest words. McQueen, if you look at Bullitt, The Hunter, and his earlier films, he didn’t say a lot, but he got everything across. I just told Dwayne that I think it’s important if you’re a guy who’s going out to assassinate, going to kill, how do we get the audience behind you right away? A lot of that was dictated by whatever the feeling was, and putting emotion behind his words. Clint Eastwood was able to do that a lot, especially in The Good, the Bad & the Ugly, which is referenced by our structure -- Killer, Driver, Cop -- and how these three lives intersect. But those were the guys we thought of who did it well.

How do you effectively convey that character has undergone a change, like Dwayne’s character does in Faster, without resorting to some kind of grand epiphany scene?
The key is to stay grounded, in the dramatic sense, in reality. Because I really feel like, when something major happens, we change, but we don’t really go 180 degrees. It’s a little bit at a time, and I think that’s all you really need.

At the end, when you see him driving off into the sunset, you feel like he sees things in a different light, but he could go back, he could do something if you set him off on the wrong path. But you do sense that he learned something.

On one end you have Dwayne, who appears very patient, very measured. On the other you have Billy Bob Thornton, who looks like he could go off at any moment.

That’s the kind of personality that I love. You never know what you’re going to get, you know what I mean? The good thing about it is the positive is always great. We had a great time working together throughout the whole shoot. This will give you a good example: We had a script supervisor that we brought in later in the movie, and she was always telling Billy Bob things like, “Okay, you’ve got to hold this here, and do this there.” And he’s like, “Hey, I’ve only been doing this for like 25 years. But if you want me to, George, I’ll do it.” Then she came back again with something else, and he was like, “You know what? Let’s do the next take.” And in the next take, he just started talking about some s**t in Arizona, some s**t that he did when he was a kid, and I was like, “What the f** is he doing?” [Laughs] But he was just upset that someone was trying to tell him how to do all his things. And I was like, “You know what? That was on me. I wanted you to that.” Just to get it off her. And he was like, “Ahh, cool.” And him and the script supervisor became great friends. There’s just a certain way that things have to be done. But you know what? The thing about it is he was always there, joking around with the crew, with the guys. He’s just a great guy, and I like guys that bring it.

Faster is now playing in theaters everywhere.

The Teaser Trailer For 'Hop'

One of the weirder projects to hit theaters next year is a Russell Brand children's flick...wait, what?! Since when does the loud lothario who spends most of his time boozing and burying his face in Katy Perry's boobies make movies for kids? Oh, right, as long as he's not technically SEEN in the film, it's all good. That makes sense. Anyway, the film is called HOP and it follows an ordinary out-of-work guy who accidentally injures the Easter Bunny and must nurse the little critter back to health by taking him into his home.

Brand voices the bunny, while James Marsden will play the poor soul who must bare with Brand's antics for two hours on screen. Kaley Cuoco and Chelsea Handler co-star. Tim Hill (Alvin and the Chipmunks) directs the April 1st, 2011 release. Check out the trailer below!

Mark Wahlberg Is Nathan Drake In 'Uncharted: Drake's Fortune' 8Share

When David O'Russell officially came on board Sony Pictures adaptation of the beloved and best-selling video game Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, I knew what was coming. It might've taken a few months, but eventually Mark Wahlberg was going to announce his involvement in the film. Though my co-workers (and many on the internet) lobbied for the always-on-the-cusp-of-breaking-out-but-never-does Nathan Fillion for the role, you just can't deny the facts: Wahlberg is O'Russell's muse and this project is a PERFECT fit for the seasoned actor.

Uncharted follows a rugged, Indiana Jones-like treasure hunter who believes he's learned the location of the fabled golden city of El Dorado. Upon venturing to the South American destination, he encounters rival hunters and all sorts of antagonists, making for an epic action adventure.   The cinematic potential of this grand story is pretty amazing and it has long been a film that I've said I'd line up to see. As a gamer, I can safely say that I've had more fun playing this game (and it's stellar sequel) than any other in recent memory, so I'm stoked.

Regarding Wahlberg: many will come out against his casting and I don't deny that his personality and the pitch of his voice won't exactly match Drake's, but there aren't many actors out there who could handle a David O'Russell production. Wahlberg is one tough son of a bitch, because this will be his fourth collaboration with the hot-headed helmer (following Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees and The Fighter). We also know that he can handle the heavy amounts of action that the film will call for and Sony Pictures is happy to be back in business with him following the unlikely success of The Other Guys. It's full steam ahead for Uncharted now, which has a screenplay from Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer (Sahara, upcoming Conan reboot). A 2013 release is targeted, but based on MTV's interview with the actor, that could get pushed up to 2012 if the film does indeed lense next year.

Selena Gomez loves gifts from Taylor Swift

Selena Gomez admits she is a fan of gifts from Taylor Swift because they are usually pretty “crazy.”Gomez revealed that her good friend Swift’s presents are pretty unique: “[S]he gives [me] a box with a bunch of different knick-knacks in it,” reports Just Jared. She also likes to treat her friend to random gifts that have meaning to both girls.
Gomez once got a painting from Swift that was a canvas painting of the two of them. Wonder what Swift will give Gomez this year for the holidays.
Do you think Taylor Swift is probably good at giving presents?

Pregnant ‘Housewives of Atlanta’ star caught smoking

‘Real Housewives of Atlanta’ star Kim Zolciak may be pregnant, but that doesn’t mean she is changing any of her behaviors.
The reality TV star was apparently caught smoking while watching a football game a few weeks ago, states TMZ. Zolciak just recently announced that she is three months pregnant with her boyfriend Kroy Biermann.
And apparently at the time of the smoking photo, Kim did know she was expecting because she admits denying the rumors earlier in October due to not being through her first trimester yet.
Do you think Kim Zolciak is really pregnant and just not careful about her actions?

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows I - Review

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part I, Harry faces new troubles; he must collect the Horcruxes that evil Lord Voldemort has left behind to vanquish him. Little does he realize that the final Horcrux is Harry himself. Killing the Horcrux will make him loose all the powers, which make him so much alike the ‘Dark Lord’ himself. He has no idea, where these are and he has to destroy them all, even without the faintest idea how to do so.

Directed by David Yates, this movie does not allow Harry and his friends to experiment. There is absolutely no room for trials and errors. With the ‘Dark Lord’ rising in power again, Harry and his team has to ensure that they use all the tricks up their sleeves and magic to vanquish Voldemort. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is a thrilling roller coaster ride, which forces you to sit and watch, even though you may have read the novel.

However, the film has been termed both exciting and scary. The lead characters look suave and carry the film with style and give a very ‘mature’ performance. There was a mixed response after the movie’s release. Many parents did find it to be inappropriate for their little ones because of the scary scene and the smooch, which turned out to be a full blown adult kiss.

The performances of other characters look more menacing than ever. With brilliant sound effects and excellent cinematography, one feels as if he/she is a part of the movie. Step by step, the filmmaker very beautifully drops hints as he unveils the mystery slowly and steadily leaving you satiated yet desperately anticipating the second and final chapter of 'Deathly Hallows'.

Overall, the adventures unfold with not a dull moment and which makes the viewer want to see the part II as soon as possible to know how Harry and his friends ultimately win over the evil forces. It is certainly the 2 hrs and up movie deserves a watch.

Producer: David Barron, David Heyman

Director: David Yates

Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter

, Ralph Fiennes, Bonnie Wright, Tom Felton, Maggie Smith

Music Director: John Williams

Knight and Day - Movie Review

Returning to his full-throttle movie star

mode for the first time since 2006 release Mission Impossible 3, Tom Cruise reclaims some serious star power as the driving force behind this stylish, globe hopping, action-packed comedy.

With Cruise as a covert agent and Cameron Diaz

as the girl who unwittingly becomes a pawn in his high-stakes, face-off with the bad guys. For the audiences looking for pure escapism with an irresistible action comedy, Knight and Day is a sheer treat.

The opening sequences in the Wichita Airport get the film off to a crackerjack start. A rogue secret agent, Roy Miller (Cruise) bumps into car enthusiast June Havens (Diaz). After Roy does away with the other baddie passengers and pilots and crash-lands their aircraft in a cornfield, June soon finds herself caught up in his ever-widening world of danger and espionage. This sets off a series of events that finds Roy putting June on a whirlwind worldwide excursion where they are chased from deserted islands to snow-capped Austria to the running of the bulls in Spain. As the story unfolds we find numerous shady characters, as well as the CIA, following Roy, and all are seeking a valuable battery designed by geeky inventor Simon (Paul Dano).

What truly elevates this material is a wonderfully loopy and appealing performance from Cruise, who hasn’t been this loose and comfortable on screen in a long time. This will definitely make the T.C. fans happy to see him back in action. Diaz is equally winning, never descending into dumb blonde territory and keeping her emotions in check even as her world comes crumbling down around her. As a CIA honcho Viola Davis (Doubt) carries the right amount of gravitas, while Peter Sarsgaard also makes all the right moves as an agent seeking Roy. As the nerdy Simon, Dano doesn’t have a whole lot to do but he’s fun to have around.

Thanks to James Mangold’s expert direction, the pace never lags and lives up to post-Bourne audience expectations for this sort of frothy thriller, even if it all gets a little too frenetic at times. Mangold clearly got the best of his stars in the midst of complete chaos and pulls off numerous action set pieces with great skill.

The Losers - Movie Review

An Elite Special Forces unit is sent to target a Bolivian drug lord, but when they see a group of children, used as mules, entering the compound, they attempt to call off the strike. Their CIA point man, Max (Jason Patric, The Alamo, My Sister’s Keeper), refuses to back down, however, so the team, led by Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Watchmen) engages the enemy on the ground, rescuing the children while accomplishing the mission. Moments later their joy is turned to horror as they see the helicopter meant for them destroyed with its precious cargo. Stranded without any identity, Colonel Clay’s unit will fight back as ‘The Losers’.

Help arrives in the guise of a beautiful stranger, Aisha (Zoe Saldana), who after seducing Clay, offers her help to sneak the Losers back into the US if they will do a job for her – get Max. No problem for the Losers since that is what they want anyway. Next thing you know, they emerge from coffins flown into Miami and begin to implement their plan for revenge. However, things are not what they seem on several fronts that make the twisty-turny adaptation by Peter Berg and James Vanderbilt a great deal more fun than it could have been.

The action in The Losers is first-rate, with director White delivering truly imaginative, innovative, and unexpected thrills that are a rung or two above most action films. While there’s some very clever dialogue sprinkled throughout the film

, what holds The Losers back is the lack of a coherent plot. Yet, even with the flawed plot The Losers is, surprisingly, a lot of fun. It won’t be winning any screenplay awards, but it does deliver its action promises.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan excels as the stubbly Clay, balancing his moral fibre with macho posturing and forming an electric pairing with the sizzling Saldana. Their stern and sultry endeavours are refreshingly counterbalanced by the mandatory comic relief, which comes in the geeky form of Chris Evans. As Jensen, he is responsible for the funniest sequences in the movie including a botched attempt to seduce Aisha and an undercover break-in that incorporates the best ever use of the song ‘Don’t Stop Believing’. Jason Patric, the forgotten man of Hollywood, is an absolute revelation as Max. His comic timing as the cartoonist, psychopathic baddie is a joy to behold, ensuring that you hiss at him and laugh with him in all the right places.

Watch The Losers if you loved The A Team. There is never a single dull moment in this film, making it quiet a paisa vasool entertainer.

Director: Sylvain White

Cast: Zoe Saldana, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Idris Elba, Columbus Short, Oscar Jaenada and Jason Patric

The A Team - Movie Review

The A-Team packs in all the big ticket cinema fun, a title with name recognition, a lot of action, stunts and explosions, plus a far-fetched plot that features preposterous and outrageous situations yet succeeds in entertaining you to your money’s worth. It is based on the wildly popular TV series that aired during the middle stretch of the 1980s on American Television.

The film begins with a prologue that depicts the initial chance meeting of four Army Rangers and Iraq War vets – the cigar chomping Col. Hannibal Smith (Liam Neeson), ladies' man Lt. 'Faceman' Peck (Bradley Cooper), mohawked B.A. Baracus (Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson), and idiot savant pilot Capt. H.M. Murdock (Sharlto Copley). It then jumps to to "8 years ahead,…80 successful missions later." When the men are framed for the theft of some valuable printing plates in Iraq, they are dishonorably discharged and sentenced to ten years of hard time. With the help of CIA agent Lynch (Patrick Wilson), Hannibal finds a way to bust himself and the rest of his men out as they go on the run and desperately attempt to clear their names by locating the baddie who set them up, Pike (Brian Bloom). Charissa Sosa (Jessica Biel), military officer who also happens to be Face’s former girlfriend and still remains attracted to him is on the job to track him down and apprehend him.

The screenplay co-written by Brian Bloom, Skip Woods and director Joe Carnahan chucks logic and reason out the window in favor of mindless and thrilling action sequences. One of the most exhilarating action scenes here takes place in the air as Murdock pilots the team in a fighter jet as another fighter jet chases and fires at them. At times, the dialogue is quite snappy, for instance, in the way that Hannibal lets the soldiers on a grounded military aircraft that they’re about to steal the aircraft or when Hannibal quotes Gandhi.

The terrific cast certainly helps to keep you entertained and hungry to watch the team devise more clever and fun plans in further missions once this one comes to an end. At a running time of just under 2 hours, The A-Team is a mindlessly entertaining blockbuster brimming with thrilling action sequences and delightfully zany characters that never take themselves too seriously.

All in all a paisa vasool entertainer that deserves a big screen experience.

Rating: 3 out of 5*

Starring: Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Sharlto Copley, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson and Jessica Biel

Director: Joe Carnahan

Tina Fey’s attack on Sarah Palin edited from broadcast

Melbourne (ANI): American actress Tina Fey’s attack on former Alaska governor Sarah Palin when she accepted a televised award has been edited from the broadcast. According to the Washington post, when the broadcast of the Mark Twain award at the Kennedy Centre in Washington DC went on air, several of Fey’s caustic comments were edited out.

“And, you know, politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women - except, of course - those who will end up, you know, like, paying for their own rape kit ‘n’ stuff, But for everybody else, it’s a win-win,” the Daily Telegraph quoted her as saying.

“Unless you’re a gay woman who wants to marry your partner of 20 years - whatever. But for most women, the success of conservative women is good for all of us. Unless you believe in evolution. You know - actually, I take it back. The whole thing’s a disaster,” Frey told the audience.

The broadcast version on PBS only included Fey thanking Palin. “I would be a liar and an idiot if I didn’t thank Sarah Palin for helping get me here tonight. My partial resemblance and her crazy voice are the two luckiest things that ever happened to me,” Fey is heard as saying.

“All kidding aside, I’m so proud to represent American humour, I am proud to be an American, and I am proud to make my home in the “not real” America. “And I am most proud that during trying times, like an orange (terror) alert, a bad economy or a contentious election that we as a nation retain our sense of humour,” she was heard adding.

Peter Kaminsky, one of the show’s executive producers, said it was not a political decision, and that the 90-minute show ran about 19 minutes long. “We had zero problems with anything she said. We took a lot out. We snipped from everyone,” she added.

Jake Gyllenhaal recommends getting in bed with Anne Hathaway

Now that Jake Gyllenhaal has played a partner to Anne Hathaway in two films, he feels pretty confident in saying that she is good in bed.
The actor joked that men should definitely try to get into bed with his ‘Love and Other Drugs’ costar, states Hollyscoop. “I have had brief cinematic sex with her in Brokeback Mountain and again a number of times in this one,” Gyllenhaal says to back up his claims.
Sounds like Gyllenhaal is pretty confident in his acting partner. Hope Taylor Swift doesn’t hear about this.
Do you like Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway as an onscreen couple?

Michelle Williams speaks about playing Marilyn Monroe

London (ANI): ‘Brokeback Mountain’ star Michelle Williams has spoken out about her role as late actress Marilyn Monroe in a new movie. Williams, 30, is portraying the iconic blonde in ‘My Week With Marilyn’, which has just completed filming at Pinewood Studios.

“I feel like we live together,” the Daily Mail quoted her as saying. She explained that she has immersed herself so deeply in interpreting Monroe that her judgment had become a little cloudy. “At a certain point, something else does take over. I don’t quite feel myself these days,” she stated.

‘My Week With Marilyn’ focuses on the relationship that developed between Colin Clark, a handsome Old Etonian and Oxford graduate who worked as a general dogsbody on set, and Monroe. Williams admitted that initially she was terrified of taking on Monroe, so her first answer to director Simon Curtis and producer David Parfitt had been a “no”. “But I knew I wouldn’t be able to resist, eventually. Physically and vocally, everything about her is different from me,” she added.

Depp says his kids love him as Jack Sparrow but prefer Spiderman

Hollywood star Johnny Depp has revealed that his kids love him as Jack Sparrow, but they prefer Spiderman.
The multi-millionaire star opened up about his life with his kids and said that he wants their upbringing to be as simple as possible.
He also talked about his role as Captain Jack Sparrow.
"I was pushing the limit as far as the character was concerned but somehow it worked out really well and audiences love him. My kids love him too - although they love Spider-Man more," the Sun quoted him as saying.
The next installment of the movie, 'On Stranger Tides' which is being shot in Hawaii, is set to release next year in May.
Some people were surprised that Johnny agreed to return to the hit Pirates movie series again. The previous film, 2007's 'At World's End', was expected to be the last.
"I enjoy playing Jack so much, I want to keep trying to see what we can do with the character and what kind of adventures we can create for him. I did these films originally for my kids and audiences seem to love the character so I feel I'd be letting people down if I didn't do another. I guess I'm a glutton," the 47-year-old star said.
The former wild man - who once owned the notorious Viper Room club where actor River Phoenix died in 1993 - has clearly mellowed since becoming a father. (ANI)

No money, no marriage - a new trend?

A new study has found that Americans with low income and education are less likely to marry than those who are better off.
The trend suggests that they place a high premium on financial stability before marriage, a bar they may never meet, reports Live Science.
The study, conducted by Pew Research Center in conjunction with TIME, revealed a deep ambivalence toward marriage. Nearly 40 percent of Americans say marriage is becoming obsolete, an 11-percent increase since 1978.
The number of married couples has dropped, too: In 1960, 72 percent of American adults were married. In 2008, that number was 52 percent.
Nonetheless, 69 percent of people say that single women having children is bad for society, and 61 percent say kids need both a mom and a dad to grow up happily.
The decline of marriage is class-based, the study found. In 1960, people with a college degree were only 4 percentage points more likely to be married than people with a high school education or less. By 2008, that gap widened to 16 percentage points. Just under half (48 percent) of people without college degrees were married in 2008, compared to 64 percent of college grads.
The difference was that 38 percent of people with less education said financial stability was an important condition for marriage, compared with 21 percent of college-educated people.
However, 67 percent saying they're upbeat about the future of marriage and family. Americans take it seriously. More than three-quarters say family is the most important element of their life.
Eighty-eight percent of people view a childless married couple as a family. Nearly as many (80 percent), say a cohabitating couple with a child is a family, and 86 percent say a single parent and a child is a family. Just over 65 percent say a gay or lesbian couple raising a child is a family.
The full report is available at the Pew Research Center. (ANI)

Lindsay Lohan wasn't fired from 'Inferno', says her camp

Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan's camp is upset with the reports that she was axed from Linda Lovelace biopic 'Inferno' amid insurance problems.
News emerged this week that Lohan suffered another big blow - losing her highly-anticipated role in the biopic.
Director Matthew Wilder told the Hollywood Reporter that the issue ultimately came down to "the impossibility" of insuring her, in addition to "some other issues."
However, Lohan's team has dismissed reports that she was dropped from the project, which will now star "The Proposal" actress Malin Ackerman.
"It's not fair in any way, shape, or form for those reports to be out there. Lindsay is 100 percent insurable, all she had to do was put up a fee as a bond then she would have been paid upon completion. I could insure her today," Fox News quoted Ethan Terra, a close Lohan family friend and co-owner of mom Dina's production company, as saying.
"She was definitely not fired," she added.
Terra also said that the decision to opt out of the production was actually made by Lohan and her personal posse.
"Lindsay and her team decided that a film like this would be counterproductive. When she takes on a role she really becomes the character, and right now she is surrounded by nothing but positivity, so putting her back into a negative frame of mind would be very self-destructive," Terra continued.
"When she signed on to that role she was surrounded by negativity, and now she's in a much stronger and more positive place."
The 'Mean Girls' star is currently residing at the Betty Ford Rehab Facility, where is being treated for substance abuse issues stemming from her stint in jail earlier this year for violating the terms of her 2007 DUI probation. (ANI)

Grizzlies win third straight behind Gay, Mayo

Rudy Gay scored 25 points, O.J. Mayo added 23 in his new role off the bench, and the Memphis Grizzlies withstood a late rally to beat the Golden State Warriors 116-111 on Friday night.
Mayo, who served in a reserve role for the third straight game, shot 8 of 14, including 2 of 5 outside the arc as Memphis won its season-high third straight game.
Golden State center Andris Biedrins had season highs of 28 points and 21 rebounds. Stephen Curry added 26 points, while Monta Ellis added 23 points and eight assists for the Warriors.
Curry's two free throws with 11.6 seconds left pulled the Warriors within 112-111. But Gay and Mayo both hit a pair in the final 11 seconds to seal the victory.
Zach Randolph and Mike Conley had 14 points apiece for Memphis, while Marc Gasol scored 12.
Jeff Adrien had 12 points off the Golden State bench.
The Warriors played their eighth game without forward David Lee, who is still recovering from an infected left elbow. Lee will meet the team in Minnesota on Saturday night when the Warriors face the Timberwolves.
Biedrins worked hard inside all night to provide an offensive punch and a 44-33 Golden State advantage on the boards. But it wasn't enough, as Memphis was able to keep the Warriors at bay down the stretch.
Memphis made its first five shots from the field and missed only two of the initial 11 to build an early 13-point lead. But the Warriors survived the initial Memphis flurry, and Golden State's guards got untracked from outside, hitting three of their first four shots from beyond the arc. That helped erase the Memphis lead.
Biedrins already had surpassed his season high in points midway through the second quarter and had 14 points and 11 rebounds at intermission.
Ellis led Golden State with 16 in the half, while Curry added 13, the two guards combining to hit 5 of 7 from 3-point range. But Memphis got a burst from Mayo, who hit five of his first six shots in the second quarter and scored 11 points as Memphis took a 63-53 lead at the break.
Biedrins scored 10 points in the third, but Memphis still carried an 87-82 lead into the fourth.
NOTES: Hubie Brown, who coached the Grizzlies from 2002-04 and led them to their first playoff appearance while winning coach of the year honors in the final season, received a standing ovation while calling the game for ESPN2. ... There were no further updates on the status of Memphis C Hamed Haddadi, who was arrested early Thursday on a charge of domestic assault after a fight with his girlfriend. Haddadi was inactive for the game as he was for the previous 10 games, but he was on the Memphis bench in street clothes. Ellis lives in the Eads community east of Memphis and had his teammates out for Thanksgiving dinner. Ellis bought the house, once owned by the late Lorenzen Wright, last spring, a couple of months before the former center's death. ...The Warriors are now 1-7 with Lee out. Biedrins previous high point performance was 10 on Nov. 10 against the Knicks.

Flexisexuality: The new word for straight women who flirt with bisexuality

It all started when Madonna kissed Britney Spears on stage, followed by Katy Perry who sang a song about a girl she kissed - and now it seems the 'flexisexuality' trend is fast catching up.
The new word has been coined for the growing number of straight women who flirt with bisexuality. It refers to people who have a sexual preference but refuse to be bound by it.
"Women are often more open to these experiences when they reach their 40s and are more confident with their sexuality. If an opportunity presents itself they may think "why not", particularly if they have come out of a long relationship," the Daily Mail quoted Psychologist Dr Cecelia D'Felice as saying.
Twice-married Barrymore, who has admitted having flings with women, has been quoted as saying, "Being with a woman is like exploring your own body, but through someone else."
Actress Lindsay Lohan, 24, is among younger flexisexuals who see it as 'on trend'.
D'Felice admitted flexisexuality had become fashionable as a result of its recent celebrity endorsement, but said it had always existed.
"Women are more fluid about their sexuality than men and are more likely to be attracted to people rather than a certain gender," she said.
A third of 6,000 women surveyed by Coco de Mer said their favourite fantasy was to have sex with a woman.
Sam Roddick, 39, founder of erotic boutique Coco de Mer, said, "It acknowledges the huge number of straight women who do not want to label themselves bisexual and yet may have kissed a girl or fancied their best friend." (ANI)

Is Mariah Carey pregnant with twins?

Pregnant star Mariah Carey referred to her unborn child as 'they' in an upcoming interview with Radio Disney, sparking rumours that she and husband Nick Cannon are expecting twins.
While discussing her new album Merry Christmas II You, the 40-year-old singer revealed she began recording the album after finding out she was pregnant, reports the Daily Mail.
"I just hope that they don't turn out hating Christmas!" she joked to Radio Disney's Ernie in a radio interview to be aired on Tuesday.
Carey, who has not revealed her due date, kept her bump well hidden during a performance at New York's Rockefeller Centre. (ANI)

Willie Nelson charged with pot possession in Texas

A U.S. Border Patrol spokesman says country singer Willie Nelson was charged with marijuana possession after 6 ounces was found aboard his tour bus in Texas.
Patrol spokesman Bill Brooks says the bus pulled into the Sierra Blanca, Texas, checkpoint about 9 a.m. Friday. Brooks says an officer smelled pot when a door was opened and a search turned up marijuana.
Brooks says the Hudspeth County sheriff was contacted and Nelson was among three people arrested.
Sheriff Arvin West didn't immediately return a phone message left at his home Friday, but he told the El Paso Times that Nelson claimed the marijuana was his. The singer was held briefly a $2,500 bond before being released.
Nelson spokeswoman Elaine Schock declined to comment when contacted via e-mail by The Associated Press.

Aguilera beams with pride for being a mother

Singer-actress Christina Aguilera has revealed she is filled with pride because of being a mother.
The Burlesque actress, who recently split with her husband Jordan Bratman after nearly five years of marriage, loves being a mother to their two-year-old son Max, reports contactmusic.com.

'Being a parent allows you to beam with pride on a daily basis. Even the little things bring us so much joy like singing as I put Max to bed or going trick-or-treating and seeing Max dress up on Halloween,' she said.

'Max and I go to Disneyland often. It really is the happiest place on earth,' she added.

IFC Films Grabs U.S. Rights to 'Yves Saint Laurent L'Amour Fou' The indie distributor plans a release for the documentary next year.

IFC Films has grabbed U.S. rights to Pierre Thorentton’s documentary Yves Saint Laurent L’Amour Fou. The indie distributor plans a release next year.
After the iconic fashion designer’s death in 2008, Saint Laurent’s life companion, Pierre Bergé, organized an auction to sell their private art collection. The film documents the story of their lives through these rare material archives and exclusive images of their homes.
Kristina Larsen of Le Films du Lendemain produced the project along with Hugues Charbonneau of Les Films de Pierre. L’Amour Fou won the Fipresci International Critics Prize for Special Presentations at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
“All of us at IFC Films were intrigued by the story told in this film,” said IFC Films president Jonathan Sehring. “While it documents a glamorous icon, it also carries themes of love and success, elements to make it a picture that appeals to all.”
IFC acquisitions exec Lizzie Nastro negotiated the deal with Nicolas Brigaud Robert of Films Distribution.
IFC Films has recently released The Human Centipede, Cairo Time, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work and Wordplay.

'Tangled,' 'Harry Potter' Top Family-Minded Thanksgiving Day Box Office

The penultimate Harry Potter film stands at $170 million at the end of its first seven days, while "Burlesque," "Love and Other Drugs" and "Faster" were soft.

Families didn't just gather around the turkey on Thanksgiving day -- a lot of them also headed off to the movies, where family fare fared best.
Warners' penultimate Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 dominated the day, collecting an estimated $11.5 million in North America. By the end of its first seven days, its domestic total stood at $170 million.
Tangled, Disney's newest animated fairytale, also found a receptive audience. The PG-rated movie, directed by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard, took in something north of $8 million on its second day of release.
And Megamind, Paramount¹s release of the newest 3D toon from DreamWorks, took the fifth slot for the day, collecting about $2 million as it ended its third week in theaters with more than $115 million in its account.
Meanwhile, Fox¹s runaway train movie Unstoppable held its own among several newcomers as it took in $2.5 million.
Sony¹s new PG-13 rated musical Burlesque, starring Cher and Christina Aguilera and directed by Steve Antin, also did about $2.5 million for the day.
Fox' R-rated rom-com Love and Other Drugs, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway, and directed by Edward Zwick, collected $1.9 million, which put it in the sixth place spot.

Elusive cat tagger Rick Ordonez gets a show at Mid-City Arts

'Kitty Liter' opened Saturday. The graffiti artist known as Atlas had been sentenced to 90 days for felony vandalism.

Mid-City Arts, the street-art gallery attached to a spray paint supply store that brought us last year's big tagger-gone-legit debut show by Chaka, has gone the same route with another artist who grabbed the public's attention before being grabbed by the authorities. The show is "Rick Ordonez: Kitty Litter."

Ordonez made his name in graffiti circles as Atlas — the tag he used for many years festooning the city with large, ornate graphic illustrations. But early this year his method changed, and he began spraying renditions of cute cartoon kitty cats across the L.A. landscape.

The long arm of the law intervened in July, when investigators with the Sheriff's Transit Services Bureau caught up with Ordonez, 33, and busted him for creating cats on public property, especially on or near the Pasadena Freeway. Charged with six counts of felony vandalism carrying a possible year in prison for each count, he pleaded to one of them in a deal that called for 90 days in the county jail, followed by 300 hours of community service and three years' probation.

Sobio said the show, which runs through Jan. 30, got back on track after Ordonez had served his time, and that Saturday's opening was a sensation comparable to Chaka's. But far from basking in the acclaim, Ordonez chose to remain incognito.

"He was there, but nobody really knew he was there," Sobio said. "He's been doing it 20 years, and still has managed not to be seen. There's no pictures, nothing" — at least outside of police files.

Ordonez is admired in street art circles for shunning the spotlight, a la the British street artist Banksy, Sobio said.

Even as Atlas, Sobio said, "He had a reputation as being one of the most respected graffiti-street artists in Los Angeles, and unlike most street artists, he had no interest in people knowing who he is."

Sobio said he tried to coax Ordonez into doing media interviews to publicize the "Kitty Litter" show, which includes new cat paintings on the gallery walls and cat paintings on canvas, video boxes, Polaroid film boxes and the blade of a handsaw, as well as cat collectibles Ordonez has acquired over the years.

Sobio asked the key question himself: Why cats? The artist's answer, he said, was "I love cats."

As for Chaka (real name: Daniel Ramos), the former L.A. street kid thought to be perhaps the most prolific tagger of them all, he called The Times out of the blue in October and reported that he's back to the routine he had in Bakersfield before Sobio tracked him down to put on his debut show at Mid-City Arts — living in Bakersfield, painting custom signs for local businesses and working through the Stay Focused youth ministry in Bakersfield to give graffiti art classes to youngsters aimed at encouraging them to find legal outlets for spray-painted self-expression.


"I saw them and thought it was something completely different," said Medvin "Med" Sobio, manager of Mid-City Arts. "Everybody's out there doing big, bad graffiti things [to show that] 'I'm a big, bad guy,' and here he is, doing cats." Sobio said he was able to track down the elusive Ordonez last spring and began planning a show of his cat phase.

 

The Lone Ranger rides again — but who should wear the mask?

With Gore Verbinski saddling up to direct “The Lone Ranger” for Disney, and his “Pirates of the Caribbean” star Johnny Depp already attached as Tonto, the question is, who will play the Masked Man? Hero Complex has some suggestions for Verbinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Vote and let us know whom you’d like to see yelling, “Hi-ho, Silver!“:
Hugh Jackman: As Wolverine, Jackman channeled old-school laconic tough guys, and as a cattle driver in “Australia,” he honed his horseman skills. Plus, the world may be finally ready for another singing cowboy.
Jon Hamm: Born with a jaw line for period movies, Hamm is due for a franchise role. But can we really trust Don Draper to lasso the bad guys?
George Clooney: At nearly 50, Clooney may be too senior for the part, but “The Lone Ranger” is the ultimate buddy picture, and Clooney and Depp would make some very entertaining buddies.
Ryan Reynolds: If Verbinski is aiming for a lighter take, the star of “The Proposal” and “Just Friends” has the comic chops. But with “Green Lantern” and now a possible Deadpool movie in the works, Reynolds may have reached his mask-franchise quota.
Jake Gyllenhaal: We know he looks good in a Stetson, thanks to “Brokeback Mountain,” and is a favorite of his “Prince of Persia” producer Bruckheimer. But action-movie newbie Gyllenhaal was blamed for “Persia’s” less than stellar stateside box office, and may not be the right cowboy for an Americana tent-pole movie.
Ryan Gosling: The star of “Half Nelson” and “Lars and the Real Girl” excels at weirdo and sociopath roles, which makes him a dark horse to play the ultimate good guy. But maybe that’s just the kind of edge a 21st century cinema ranger needs.
– Rebecca Keegan

Colin Firth's royal pains

For the actor, his physically and emotionally demanding role in 'The King's Speech' has been difficult to shake.

 Reporting from New York — Colin Firth, playing a monarch with a debilitating stutter in "The King's Speech," found something unusual happening during shooting: He began experiencing symptoms in parts of his body not associated with speaking.

"At the end of some days on set I would get headaches, and a few times I did something weird to the nerves in my left arm and couldn't move it. I still don't know what it was," Firth said of his leading part in the highly anticipated royals drama, which opens in Los Angeles on Friday. "It sounds like an actor trying to talk about the rigors of the role, but it really was the strangest thing."

Filmgoers might not be surprised to hear that Firth's performance took on a physical cast. In a turn as demanding as it is subtle, the actor plays Bertie, the future King George VI, afflicted by a stammer so crippling he can't speak publicly. It's a malady with geopolitical consequences, as he is urgently needed to reassure a British public anxious about Hitler's rise and Nazi aggression. But the stuttering also has an emotional aspect — Bertie is the product of a repressed upbringing and a friendless adulthood.

Director Tom Hooper's film traces an improbable real-life relationship that develops between Bertie and a quirky Australian speech therapist ( Geoffrey Rush). "The conceit of the film is to take a man and isolate him as much as you can possibly imagine — and then set up a situation where a friendship has to be achieved in spite of that," Firth explained.

Even months after it finished shooting, the movie continues to play havoc with Firth's well-being. Stepping into a SoHo restaurant the day after getting off a flight from London, the actor shakes his head and, with characteristic drollness, says, "I'm too old for time zones."

He should be used to traveling. The British actor finds himself hopping planes and oceans promoting an acclaimed awards-season role for a second straight year.

Best known in this country for romantic comedies such as "Bridget Jones's Diary" and "Love Actually" (and, to a devoted female audience, Mr. Darcy in a 1995 British television adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice"), the 50-year-old has recently found himself on a new acting level. Last year, Firth's performance as a grieving gay professor in "A Single Man" earned him a lead actor Oscar nomination. He's all but assured of repeating the feat with "The King's Speech."

Firth finds the sudden attention a little surprising. "Someone asked me this morning [about my acting]: 'Did you get better?'" he recalls with a slight laugh. "I've just carried on doing what it says in the manual."

Of course there's no blueprint for becoming a successful leading man, and even if there was, Firth has hardly followed it. The actor had always sought serious roles but has often ended up as the guy chasing the girl in romantic comedies.

"I'm more comfortable in dramas than in comedies, and I think there's a certain irony that for so many years I was involved on the comedy side," Firth said, his easy eloquence, wavy auburn hair and fashionable plastic glasses confirming his reputation as the thinking-woman's heartthrob. "Some of them I'm really happy to have done. But they're not necessarily movies that I would go to."

Although his new role never devolves into bathos, Firth's Bertie doesn't shy from the more brutal manifestations of his disability. "Tom pushed me not to be afraid of how much stammering we were going to listen to," Firth said, his voice occasionally veering into a nasal register that is used to such stark effect in the film. "There would be days when I'd say, 'You want that much, you really want me to do that?' And he'd say, 'We have to go a darker place.'"

Hooper, for his part, says "Colin was concerned there would be too much stuttering and the audience would find it unwatchable. My feeling was [Bertie's condition] had to be profound."

Hooper says that Firth was the rare actor who could pull off the tricky feat of imbuing a remote monarch with heart. "One of Colin's great gifts as an actor is that he's nice to the core of his being, and you can see his tremendous humanity even as he's playing someone who's not emotionally available," Hooper said.

Firth also pored over hours of audio recordings and photographs of King George VI to prepare to play the historical figure. Yet the result is hardly a starchy period piece but an inspiring and often quite comic crowd-pleaser; the movie has played extremely well at the Telluride, AFI and Toronto film festivals, the last of which gave the film its top audience award.

"The emotional response we're getting even from people who couldn't care less about history or English people is almost inexplicable," Firth said. "The only way you can even try to explain it is that the friendship and isolation and parental-heartbreak aspects chime all the way through the story." (Rush has a simpler explanation: "I think that the Americans might connect just on the level of therapy," he quipped at a recent Los Angeles screening. The actor later told The Times that "it was exquisite to watch someone go so deep inside a character in a scene and then, when the camera shut off, be able to stand back and objectify and analyze that character.")

Of course, there's also the fact that royals continue to fascinate the public on both sides of the Atlantic.

Just a week before the movie's U.S. release, the point was proved again with news of the engagement of Prince William, who happens to be Bertie's great-grandson.

Firth said he actually had little interest in the British monarchy — "the first book I read about the royals was for this movie" — and for years has mostly been fascinated primarily by rock stars.

The actor, who had a peripatetic childhood in England, Nigeria and the U.S., said it became clear to him as he shot this film how unappealing a royal's life could be.

"This movie debunks the idea of a privileged upbringing," Firth said. "I wouldn't change places with that guy no matter how many countries are in my empire."
 

MTV, after moving away from music, glances to the past to glimpse the future

Although it dropped the word “music” from its logo earlier this year, MTV is still searching for the right chord.
The main MTV channel hasn’t had a prominent series devoted to musical trends or artists for more than a year, instead riding such popular and rough-hewn reality shows as "Jersey Shore" and "Teen Mom." Distancing itself from music became something of a sore point among some viewers who worried that MTV was straying too far from its roots.
Now the 29-year-old network has tweaked its management structure to place a higher priority on the development of shows that feature recording artists. Signaling the revived effort, the executive in charge of music and talent, Amy Doyle, was recently given additional responsibilties and now has a direct line to one of the network’s programming heads.

 MTV hopes to duplicate the success of the reality series "The Osbournes," which was spun off from "MTV Cribs," the network's long-running series that showcases celebrities and athletes in their homes. Featuring befuddled heavy metal rock star Ozzy Osbourne being outmaneuvered by his family members, "The Osbournes," which launched in 2002, revitalized the English baby boomer rocker's career and became a cultural phenomenon.
“The history of our music development has sort of ebbed and flowed over the years,” Doyle said. “We’re always coming up with ways to express music across the channel’s different platforms. Recently we said, `Let’s figure out a way to do this more effectively.' This [structure] simply establishes a more formal process.”

Doyle now reports to both Chris Linn, who was recently named MTV’s ranking New York-based programming executive, and the network's general manager, Stephen Friedman. Linn's expanded portfolio includes overseeing music development as well as reality shows on the East Coast. He's also been tasked with developing made-for-TV movies, including those that could morph into ongoing series.
This month's management overhaul, which installed David Janollari as head of programming, also was aimed at finding more scripted shows to add to the mix. MTV executives have acknowledged that they hung onto chasing the cynical sensibilities of Generation X a bit too long and were slow in responding to the optimism of the Millennials who came to the fore around the time of President Obama's election. The network now is focusing on diversity in programming.
Owned by Viacom Inc., MTV continues to run its weekly countdown show "10 on Top" on Saturday mornings and the network is pleased with the traction of its topical weekday afternoon series "The Seven," which highlights cultural trends and sizzling news stories. Recording artists, including Rihanna, have performed on "The Seven," which launched in September and is averaging 300,000 viewers per episode.

And on Sunday night, MTV plans to premiere a documentary that delves into the rise of Nicki Minaj, one of the hip-hop world's most promising young artists. The success of that program could give MTV even more incentive to build upon the genre -- and perhaps create a regular series around Minaj.

"Our goals are to continue to identify hot new talent and this is a slightly more organized way to develop shows,” Linn said of the new arrangement. “Working smarter should lead to more and stronger programming.”
-- Meg James

Critical Mass: 'Burlesque' -- just bad, or so bad it's good?

Sometimes Sometimes the blistering reviews for a movie are more entertaining than the film itself. In the case of the Cher and Christina Aguilera song-and-dance vehicle "Burlesque," the critics are having a lot of fun bumping and grinding their way through their analyses:
The Los Angeles Times' Betsy Sharkey calls the movie "top-heavy from start to finish,"writing, "Think of 'Burlesque' as one ginormous music video theme party thrown by Christina Aguilera, with Cher in the house, plus boas, bustiers and dancing girls and about a thousand humongous Broadway-style showstoppers. Which is a far better way to consider 'Burlesque' than thinking of it as a movie — there, words fail."
The New York Observer's Rex Reed says Cher fans will be disappointed by just how little they get to see of their idol, noting, "Instead of an excuse to breathe oxygen into the twilight of Cher's career, it turns out to be a slutty pasteup constructed out of spit and chewing gum to showcase the movie debut of the caterwauling Christina Aguilera."
While most agree on the movie's dreadfulness, critics are divided on whether "Burlesque" falls into the merely bad or the so-bad-it's-good category.
For Time magazine's Mary Pols, "Burlesque" doesn't descend quite far enough. Pols writes, "The movie is frivolous fun, but not, as I had sort of hoped, as sinfully awful as 'Showgirls,' Mariah Carey's 'Glitter' or Britney Spears' 'Crossroads.' Lacking the snap of 'Chicago' or the insane creativity of 'Moulin Rouge,' it's a middle-of-the-road musical."
The Chicago Tribune's Michael Phillips, however, thought "Burlesque" stooped to "Glitter" territory in some satisfying ways, which poses a thorny question for a critic: how to assign a value to a movie so flagrantly bad. " 'Burlesque' is lousy," Phillips writes, "and the risible dialogue kept coming, like gray skies over Buffalo. Yet I enjoyed a fair amount of the movie's badness. Does that sort of enjoyment deserve one star? Two? A rarely deployed zero star designation, with a massive asterisk noting its potential camp value?"
"Burlesque" clearly isn't good enough for the critics, but only time will tell whether it's gratifyingly bad enough for the fans.
-- Rebecca Keegan