Having lived in Malibu where credit watching is an art form and smatterings of applause break out when groups of two or more gather to recognise/wait for a friend’s name to scroll by, I was pleased to see the BBC listen to its viewer complaints for squeezing and speeding up movie end credits into a […]

May and June used to be big wedding months. English Football star Wayne Rooney and his girlfriend spent $5 million dollars on an Italian wedding. But in the narcissism capital of America, Hollywood errr… Beverly Hills, CA 90210 (a city that prides itself on pouty Botox fattened lips, Viagra and silicon/saline implants), it is not […]

My sister and I would rush to get into our pajamas, run to the car as Mum and Dad took us for an evening’s adventure, a first run film at the local drive-in theatre. There was no place like it on a balmy summer’s night. Today, as we celebrate its 75th birthday, nearly every theatre […]

The stars of the long running hit The Simpsons got a big pay raise last week when the ensemble cast inked a deal worth $250,000 per episode. Dan Castellaneta, Nancy Cartwright, Julie Kavner and Yeardley Smith, the voice over actors behind Matt Groening’s dysfunctional family of Bart, Homer, Marge, Lisa and the rest of the […]

Seven years into his job at one of the “last bastions” of live TV, this funny guy talks business.
SNL has become part of the history of the 2008 presidential primary season, as the show was credited with originally helping Hillary Clinton by pointing out the media’s favoritism of Barack Obama. Then this week, SNL had […]

Click on this story to view a YouTube video showing ABC News.com’s raw footage of a “Freeze Mob” of nearly 200 people stopping and standing still at precisely 18:24 pm during a busy rush hour at London Liverpool Station, one of Europe’s busiest and located in the heart of The City financial district.

Similar groups around the world have conducted these freeze […]

Roger Clemens has not had a good 2008. Retired from baseball and named in both the Mitchell Report on Steroid Abuses and under investigation by the federal prosecutor U.S. attorney Matt Parrella for committing perjury by lying under oath in the trial of his former trainer and he countersuing that former trainer for defamation, The […]

A lawyer friend once said “all Intellectual Property disputes can be broken down into two categories, “you trespassed on my property” or “it’s not your property.” A copyright, patent or trademark is a piece of paper much like a deed to your house. So if someone builds something that extends on to your property his […]

Having worked in LA and around famous folks, that was a line I heard dozens of times. Two of Hollywood’s elite, Wesley Snipes and Britney Spears are in hot water for leaving the check to someone else. For once Paris Hilton and her “difficulty in making friends” rant last week will be left where it belongs.

SO did you require an extra cuppa after watching Hollywood’s Oscars until 5am?
Who got your vote? How did you do against the other punters? Were you glued to the tube watching breathless reportage of celebrity parties?