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The mystery of.... Katie Holmes' Missing Days Tuesday, June 21, 2005 By Roger Friedman Fox News The newly engaged Katie Holmes still has some explaining to do to her friends and family. There were 16 days in April during which no one seems to know where she was. Holmes made a public appearance on A...

And it goes on... Cruise gets punk'd, and he flips out. Prank Against Tom Cruise Leads to Arrest 2 hours, 22 minutes ago LONDON - The London premiere of Steven Spielberg's "War of the Worlds" turned into a war of words after Tom Cruise was squirted in the face by a man posing as a reporte...

Here's a blind item in the Page Six section of the New York Post: "WHICH top leading man interviewed three different starlets for the job of girlfriend/future wife before picking his new beloved? 'Mark my words: They'll have a baby,' said our source. 'Maybe he or she will be conceived in a pet...

Enjoy your American Idol final, guys. (Or has it happened already?) I've heard clips of the final contestants, Bo and Carrie, and they both sounded pretty good to me. I'd say Bo's catch in the throat is more to my taste than Carrie's purty purity. But neither one strikes me as being either great si...

VERY quickly: the documentary Mondovino is a disquisition on the perils of globalization and monopolistic corporations that's far more beautiful, humane and witty than last year's snide, academic The Corporation. Loved it. But see it on the big screen! Old Boy shoulda been called Bull ####. Yet ano...

I never said you said, etc. I type things in a conversational style, and it doesn't always come out how I intended. I thought Drew was delightful as always, but I always find her charming. Fallon's role was tailor-made for John Cusak (star of another Americanized Hornby adapatation), and Fallon is ...

Really? I thought the wholly uncharasmatic Fallon was the worst thing about the film. I thought it was an enjoyable, leisurely diversion, affectionate, not stupid. But Fallon? He brings the whole thing down, playing the comic lead entirely straight with no ability to pull it off. I can't even recog...

Ex-‘Idol’ contestant claims Abdul affair Report: Clark outlines relationship in book proposal By Jeannette Walls MSNBC Updated: 6:20 p.m. ET April 21, 2005 Has Paula Abdul been judging more than the singing talents of the hopefuls on “American Idol”? Corey Clark, a 24-year-old former contestant, is...

Donna Summer's MacArthur Park, one of the worst songs ever. :angry: No! Really? You gotta be KIDDING! What is good about that song??? Because Donna Summer sings it? It does her no favors. Because it's camp? There's so much better camp out there, much of it sung by Donna herself. Or am I misreading ...

I'm tired of this new pope already, so I decided to see a little American Idol. They have this chick Carrie singing Donna Summer's MacArthur Park, one of the worst songs ever. Her voice is all wrong for the song, she can't walk in her heels, and she has no idea how to bring herself across like a di...

My top ten (er, I mean eleven) films of 2005. And they may be the last films I see for the next month-and-a-half. (No, I'm not going to jail.) I'll try to do a write-up some time in the next few days. Mondovino is a beautiful piece of work, and Oldboy is a piece of ####. **** 1. Nobody Knows 2. Mon...

What I meant by A leads to B leads to C is that the screenplay is very conventionally structured for a stoner comedy. Unless I'm mistaken, the detours that the film takes -- while not all of them pertinent -- never meander from the film's sole objective. I mean, we get set-up, inciting incident (th...

Samien and Dabin, you've completely ignored the one thing that gives Harold and Kumar its unique quality: our stoner protaganists are Asian-Americans, and much of the humor is based in ethnicity. This provides us with a whole new level of transgressiveness, not only of the stoner-buddy comedy but t...