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If I was going to pick someone I thought might do a good job with a screen version of Lewis Caroll’s classic opium-induced tale, Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton would definitely be on the shortlist.
I think I’d have preferred to see a Terry Gilliam version, if only because he would have made it darker and [...]

This has got to be one of the most awkward, surreal things I’ve seen this er… week. Joaquin Phoenix on the David Letterman show. This is either comedy genius ala Andy Kaufman, or else Phoenix is off his fuckin’ rocker.

In some bizarre news from celebrity gossip site, Defamer, Michael Jackson was recently mobbed by a bunch of crazy, wild-eyed screaming fans of the new Watchmen film.
One of the main characters in the new superhero/antihero movie based on the DC comic is a cloaked and white-masked dude called Rorshach who wears a black fedora hat.
Unfortunately, [...]

Kirstie Alley seems to be gaining engrams rather than losing them. Who knew Thetans could be so heavy?

Eartha Kitt, throaty-voiced Broadway singer of the hit Santa Baby died on Thursday at the age of 81.
Strangely enough, my wife had compiled a playlist of Christmas tunes to play during our family Christmas party, and I even commented to someone that the random selector on the iPod was choosing Santa Baby quite a lot. [...]

Carrie Fisher is best known for her role in Star Wars as the irate, nubile, bun-headed Jabbaslave called Princess Leia.
What’s not as well known is that she’s also the author of Postcards from the Edge, which was later adapted into the award winning all-star Oscar-nominated dramafest film of the same name (with Meryl Streep, Shirley [...]

While the sad saga of troubled singer Amy Winehouse plays out in very public fashion, one artist in New York has created a grisly tribute to the star.
‘The Only Good Rock Star Is A Dead Rock Star’ is a lifelike sculpture of Winehouse, dead on the ground in a pool of blood, her brains splattered [...]

There are some great photos from the Life Magazine archive of famous 70’s rock stars at home with their parents (in the parent’s home).

Frank Zappa

Eric Clapton

Grace Slick

David Crosby
Source: Apartment Therapy via BoingBoing.

Just to do something a little different, StalkingVenus and Ster-Kinekor home entertainment are giving two lucky readers a chance to win Tony Hawk’s Boom Boom Sabotage DVD!
This animated film uses state of the art techniques to motion-capture the skateboarding action of legend Tony Hawk, as well as Chris Haslam, Alex Chalmers, Keegan Sauder and others.
This [...]

OMFG! Yes, seriously… Michael Jackson has decided to ride the peace train along with Cat Abdullah Ibrahim Stevens and has placed his life and eternal soul in the hands of Allah.
He got to know details about the Islamic beliefs through some music friends and became interested enough to read some books one of them brought [...]