Movie celebrities have always been the stuff of public fascination, dating far, far back into Tinseltown’s turbulent history in the near-constant scandals, divorces and sexual peccadillos that have run the gamut from harmless to deviant.
But these days we’re living in a celebrity culture in which all of the taboos are gone. There is no mystery [...]

From Star Trek to Get Smart; from The Day the Earth Stood Still to Friday the 13th; from planned remakes of everything from The Karate Kid to Arthur to Romancing the Stone to A Nightmare on Elm Street, this past year has seen the completion or the launching of movie remakes at previously unimagined levels. [...]

So here I am celebrating Burbanked’s third birthday and it occurs to me that my chances of getting an actual present for this occasion are mighty slim. Seriously, no one I know truly celebrates blog-birthdays outside of their own sites and each time I bring it up with friends and family I just get a [...]

Three years. That’s actually a longer commitment than I’ve given some jobs I’ve had, so I hope you’ll allow me a small amount of pride to slip through here.
Blogging’s gotten a bit tougher for me this year, primarily because of the new job I started this past March. It’s kept me extremely busy, and it’s [...]

When I concocted this bright idea of rerunning 10 “classic” articles from Burbanked’s archives to celebrate my second blog-birthday, it somehow escaped my notice that anyone viewing this site via RSS feed would think that I’ve dropped off the face of the planet for the next two weeks or so. Smart planning, that. So if [...]

To be honest, I’m having a hard time wrapping my brain around the concept of whether two years of blogging is a lot or not. From one standpoint, it seems like a lot. With just under 500 posts to the site’s credit, I’ve tried hard to keep things fresh and interesting, although I know I’m [...]

Don’t worry – I won’t spend a lot of time ruminating on What It All Means To Be a Blogger or anything to mark the occasion. I’m certain that it’s a much bigger deal to me than it is to you, and ultimately it’s not that big a deal to me, either.
And really, the irony [...]