Hollywood’s celebrity actors enjoy fame, piles of money, truckloads of scripts for underlings to read, and regular infusions of narcotics legal, psychological or otherwise that feed particular narcissistic addictions. They keep the showbiz hype machine greased up and moving along with flack-placed stories about personal exploits, wacky political opinions, daftly-named offspring and more.
But what happens [...]

Ah, the holidays – when the movie culture fondly turns its attention to year-end lists, award grabbery and the shameless retail huckstering of DVD reissues. It’s enough to make any cynical heart start vibrantly beating again with enough Christmas cheer to make old Ebenezer himself plotz right over into his yorkshire pudding.
But really, it’s important [...]

Fame in Hollywood is a rare, valuable and dangerous animal. Once you’ve captured and tamed it, you’ve got to feed it ’til it’s full or as surely as the parking valet is rifling your ashtray for cash, that beast will turn on you. No real assignment for you this week, Hollywood, but feel free to [...]