Sunday, December 21, 2025

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Damn the Pandemic and Everything Else! Sir Ian McKellen, 81, Playing Hamlet, 30, in “Reimagined age, colour and gender-blind production”

Well, you know, Sir Ian McKellen can do anything. And he is forever young. So it's no surprise that he'll be playing boyish Hamlet, thought...

Elon Musk’s Rejoinder to Jeff Bezos Filing Complaint About NASA Rocket Contract: “Can’t get it up (to orbit) LOL”

Imminent SNL guest host and billionaire entreprenuer Elon Musk has a good sense of humor. When the New York Times tweeted out a story...

Low Oscar Ratings Were Thanks to Pandemic Postponing of Big Releases We’ll See Instead This Year

There's a lot of carping today about the low ratings for the Oscars, blaming the films that made the Best Picture category. But no one...

Maybe a Reason Why Singer St. Vincent Has No Career After 14 Years: Today She Killed a Magazine Interview

Until a singer called St Vincent appeared on "Saturday Night Live" recently, I'd never thought about her or written about her. Maybe it was...

Leonardo DiCaprio Options Oscar Winning Danish Movie About Excessive Drinking, But It Won’t Translate

Leonardo DiCaprio has optioned Thomas Vinterberg's Oscar winning "Another Round" to make in English, and in America. But the movie will not get made, I...

Oscars Ratings As Bad as Feared, Fall to 10 Million from 26 Mil Last Year, Lowest Ever But to Be Expected

We knew this was going to be bad. Last night's Oscars were always going to be a ratings bust. Last year's Oscars hit an...

Michael Jackson Absolved: Second Accusation of Molestation is Dismissed By Court in Final Ruling

"Leaving Neverland," the documentary in which two men accused Michael Jackson of child molestation, has been repudiated in court. The Los Angeles Superior Court this...

Oscars: All About Ann Roth, Now the Oldest Oscar Winner at Age 89, and The Fashion of the Academy Awards

One could suspect from the way the Oscars were put together at LA’s Union Station, this was an unusual year. How do you dress...