Good day to you and welcome to Burbanked’s first instructional for 2009, A Beginner’s Guide to Comparative Celebrities. In these confusing days of cookie-cutter Hollywood films, with all of the remakes and sequels and reboots and fighting robot movies and fantastically over-edited action claptrap, you have probably become confused and disoriented by a complete inability [...]

There’s nothing like a good headline writer to reduce to ashes the otherwise Herculean efforts of publicists, agents, and the entire D-staffs of action star-vanity production companies to strategically reposition their charges’ publicus personnaeWitness this latest indignity (from The Houston Chronicle) as director Sidney Lumet attempts to pay his Find Me Guilty star Vin Diesel [...]