SAG Going on Strike?

We’ve been told often enough that what happens in film, and on TV, is disconnected from reality. So, too, it appears, are the actors, themselves.

LOS ANGELES -(AP)- The Screen Actors Guild said Saturday it will ask its members to

How hard is to to link the credit crisis with the democrats like B.J. clinton and Barney frank?  Not every.  Even Alex Baldwn can connect the dots. Noel Sheppard, Newsbusters:

BALDWIN: I’m gonna rape you…The, the thing we have

CNN is reporting:

Paul Newman, the legendary actor whose steely blue eyes, good-humored charm and advocacy of worthy causes made him one of the most renowned figures in American arts, has died of cancer at his home in Westport, Connecticut.

• It’s August, already? Where the hell did July go?   2/3rds of the summer is gone and I’m just getting started on the stuff I wanted to do this year.
• Honorable Mention at OTB’s caption Contest. I gotta admit, that

Simon Owens over at Blogasm managed to grab an interview with LA Times blog editor Tony Pierce. Yes, that’s the guy who sent the letter that put the kibosh on stories about John Edwards at that Hollywood hotel that’s been

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Dancer and actress Cyd Charisse, whose legs were insured for a million dollars in the heyday of the Hollywood musical, died at her home in Los Angeles on Tuesday, her agent said. She was 87.

Scott

• Leave it to The SUN to get it wrong. Oh, no question that this woman has bigguns. (Warning: NSFW) But I’ve always considered the biggest boobs in the world were Ron Paul supporters, myself.
• Look, Snooper. We’re not going

Noted a resturant review over the weekend in the New York Times… and wouldn’t have said much at all, except that it got so bad with it’s left-leaning, that even left leaner, Ezra Klein can’t stand it anymore.  Yes,

Curses another nefarious plot uncovered and foiled. The liberal intellects over at the Puffiington Post and unearthed yet another white male plot to oppress all women, snotty Hollywood screen writers.

Nora Ephron, Puffington Post exposes her greatest fear, white

Well, it’s about time you figured this one out, Bill. Jimmy Doohan’s dislike of the man is Trek legend, and it appears that only Shattner never knew about all this.

Self-centered, are we?

Sheesh.

Addenudum: (David L)

As a recovering

• April 15th. Tax day. It occurs to me as I watch the mail delivery guy in his jeep dropping off more bills for me to pay, that the tax bill may be due today, but by some estimates we don’t

• “If there is a mystery at the heart of Barack Obama’s “Dreams From My Father”, one thing is not left a mystery, the fact that Barack Obama organized his life on the ideals given to him by his Kenyan father.

President George W. Bush is a foul-mouthed, reformed drunk obsessed with baseball, Saddam Hussein and a conflicted relationship with his dad. Or at least that’s how he’s portrayed in the script for Oliver Stone’s upcoming feature “W.”But how accurate is

You may now take Mr. Heston’s firearms. Charlton Heston is dead at age 84. The Associated Press offers an ironic headline, “Oscar-winning star of ‘Ben-Hur’ was known for heroic roles:”

LOS ANGELES – Charlton Heston, who won the

Piracy by another name, BBC:

Japan’s whaling fleet in the waters off Antarctica has been attacked again by protesters, Tokyo officials have said.

Activists from the Sea Shepherd group threw containers filled with a mild form of acid made