"Hey kids, drugs are bad!" These messages seemed like they went up one nostril and out the other. Maybe if they put some effort into them like these gems, kids wouldn't fall asleep in DARE class.
Just because Nine, which opened this weekend, sucked doesn't mean that it has nothing to teach us. For instance, it can tell us how to keep a disaster like Nine from happening again.
The Spurs' guard and the Desperate Housewives star do a shot-by-shot remake of the classic Grease song. File this one under things that have no need to exist whatsoever.
• Sad news, Tyra fans: This season will be her last, she says. [People]
• Avatar was No. 1 at the box office this weekend with $75 million in domestic receipts. The movie has raked in $617 million globally thus far. [THR]
• The game of chicken between Fox and Time Warner Cable continues. [USAT]
• MSNBC's new schedule will focus more on "the day's big stories" and less on "personality-driven programming"—during daytime hours, at least. [AP]
• Get ready for lots of remakes of old TV shows in the year ahead: Charlie's Angels, Hawaii Five-O, and The Rockford Files are all in development. [NYT]
• Also: Get ready to pay for lots of online news in the near future. [NYT]
• What else is in store for the media for 2010? A handful of predictions. [LAT]
• Tiger Woods' advertising partners haven't fared well in recent weeks. [WSJ]
• Director Roman Polanski, now under house arrest at his Swiss ski chalet, has issued his first statement since his arrest back in September. (He's really thankful for all your support and warm wishes, just so you know.) [Reuters]
• As rumored last week, TMZ is branching out with a sports site. It's also smarting from an "exclusive" this morning that was actually a hoax. [NYT, TSG]
The Way We Live Now: Flowing. As we get poorer, we "flow" from expensive places, like colleges, to inexpensive places, like the courthouse, where we are charged with check-kiting. "Flowing" is a nice metaphor for it, don't you think?
Poor drivers have no worse enemy than icy weather. It not only makes their bad driving more dangerous and obvious, it also makes it more embarrassing. (But, therefore, also kind of funny.)
In your barren Monday media column: wine journalism going the way of wino journalists, a young lady makes a magazine for Christians, Romenesko got jokes, and pay walls cometh.
Well, you can at least check out Avatar: The Making of the Bootleg a funny parody of the movie and "making of" documentary as a whole by the New York sketch comedy group Free Love Forum. And after you watch it, you should rush down to Canal Street to buy the purloined fruit of their labor. OK, maybe just laugh at the video, but either way, this is good stuff.
Reeg and Kelly either don't have a whole lot to talk about or are incredibly self-obsessed. Because, well, what better way to pass the time than by taking a look back at all of their horror-inducing duets?
This is one badass citizen's arrest. After two thieves steal a woman's purse, they make off on a moped. Little did they know they would be immediately thwarted by a man hurling his bike right at their thieving faces.
