Hi, Sharon Stone. It’s me, Burbanked. I figured, as a fellow western Pennsylvanian and an accredited member of the burgeoning Pittsburgh film bloggers community, I would take the initiative to reach out and bestow upon you the kind of true kindness that only kind people can give so freely and kindly.
Sharon Stone, it’s time for [...]

ring-ring. ring-ring.
“Hello, this is Walter Koenig calling. Is Warren available? Yes, of course.”
“Hi, Warren. Yeah, great. Listen, I appreciate all the press notices I’m getting for agreeing to stand in as George’s best man at his gay wedding - ”
“That’s okay, it’s his event, he’s the bride - ”
“No I didn’t.”
“Anyway, what I was wondering [...]

Defamer’s long-time editor Mark Lisanti is calling it quits, and I mention it because Defamer is one of the first blogs that I ever read with consistency and excitement. His style was always brisk, sarcastic, hilarious and insightful - everything I wanted to be when I decided, a couple years into reading his daily output, [...]

“What you can’t change, you’ve just got to ride out.” - Ennis Del Mar
It seems strange that upon the death of a young promising actor that we’ll hear so much talk about a wasted future and the impact on box office grosses, but there it is.
I am utterly amazed by the thought that someone, somewhere, [...]

Since August of 2006, I feel that I’ve been on the front lines of what some would say is an unwinnable fight to support and sustain the celebrity power ranking of 70s icon Barry Williams. With my periodic and fascinated sojourns through the massive backlog of the “Ask Barry” section of the barrywilliams.com website, I [...]

Regardless of what you might read or hope, celebrities are not just like us. For example, when you visit a restaurant, a camera is never focused on each open-mouthed sandwich bite and thought-to-be-discrete nose-pick. And when you’ve popped into your local drugstore for a fleet enema to correct an intensely personal problem, you’re never confronted [...]

It doesn’t take some kind of pop culture genius to suggest that it isn’t easy being a child actor and having to grow up under the bright lights of fame. Few of these poor, lost Hollywood-made kids end up resisting the temptations offered by the dangerous cocktail of money, access, and freedom to do what [...]