As followers of the show know, American Idol finalist and pouty heartthrob Constantine Maroulis took a break from his hard rock band Pray For the Soul of Betty to pursue his solo dreams of pop idolatry on the show. Now that he is in the final six and appears to …
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UnSilent Film 4: Santo Contra la Hija de Frankenstein
Mexican wrestling is in the air! We just mentioned that Jack Black will star in a forthcoming movie about an in cognito wrestling Mexican priest, and now this: SynthCleveland presents the 1971 classic Mexican Wrestling/Horror film Santo Contra la Hija de Frankenstein (Santo vs. Frankenstein’s Daughter) featuring a new live …
Read More »Jack Black: Wrestling Mexican Priest
Jack Black, Mike White, and Jared Hess are teaming on an untitled secret-identity wrestling film as a starring vehicle for Black. Inspired by a real life story, Black will play a Mexican priest who moonlights as a masked Lucha Libre wrestler to raise money to save an orphanage destined for …
Read More »American Idol: Paula Abdul’s Peaks and Valleys
In 1990 I DJ’d a big college graduation party for John Stamos’s sister at Paula Abdul’s top-o-the-Hollywood Hills house. Stamos and Abdul were dating at the time and she had a big spread with outdoor tennis courts, so it was an ideal spot for a party. People think Abdul’s cheerleading …
Read More »Paris and Nicole: Hot Not
I have been somewhat surprised by, and even admired, the way Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie have maintained their rather sweet girlish friendship that is at the heart of their The Simple Life series. But, alas, all good things must end, and SOMETHING Nicole did — besides losing weight and …
Read More »Monday Night Football Moves to ESPN: Nothing Is Sacred
Remember when ABC’s Monday Night Football was an EVENT? When you built your day around meeting the gang for happy hour and variously watching Howard Cosell, Don Meredith, Frank Gifford, Fran Tarkenton, Dan Dierdorf, even O.J., pontificate on the floodlit vicissitudes of the game with palpable electricity in the air …
Read More »Tom Snyder Has Leukemia
Though Tom Snyder, 68, has always been a bombastic blowhard, he’s my kind of bombastic blowhard, full of enegy, life, opinions, self-assurance, but willing to laugh at himself as well. I haven’t watched him in years but I am sad to hear he has leukemia. He blurts that, and several …
Read More »American Idols Past: Aiken Smacks Bullies, Aids Disabled
Claymates, cover your ears. I realize that this may be hard to believe, but Clay Aiken was not always the vicious and feared whirlwind of menace and melody that he is today. At one point in time he was even considered something of a WIMP. Tomorrow on the Dr Phil …
Read More »The Bob Newhart Show: The Complete First Season
The title pretty much says it all. This DVD set contains the first season of The Bob Newhart Show, which aired from 9/16/72 to 3/10/73. The 24 episodes cover both sides of three discs; a little caution is required in their handling. This dual-side method does cuts down on the …
Read More »House of Wax – Perfidious Paraffin, May 6!
What begins as a weekend getaway for six friends becomes a terrifying fight for their lives in HOUSE OF WAX, a re-imagining of the 1953 horror classic from Dark Castle Entertainment and producers Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis. A road trip to the college football championship takes a turn for …
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