A big, big fan of the cult classic Christmas movie starring Ralphie as the kid who wants a Red Rider BB gun, “Christmas Story”, has decided to take his fanhood to the next level, and has refurbished the actual Cleveland home where the movie was filmed, and made it look exactly like the home, down to details. 

He has recently decided to open the home for tours and hopes that it will become a Cleveland tourist attraction.  The man, who is in the military and has an 8 month old kid, spent half a million dollars on the home’s renovation, and is hoping that charging an entrance fee for the home tour will help him regain some if not all of his investment. 

He also has sold the infamous “leg lamps” that the father wins as an award door to door for a side line for a while, so this guy is truly a devoted fan.  I absolutely love this movie.  I’ve watched it every Christmas since I was about 13 years old and it always makes me feel like it’s really the holiday when I see it. 

Not only that, since it was filmed in Cleveland, where I live only an hour away, and which I frequently visited when my grandparents were alive and they lived there.  I even visited downtown when they still had a Higbees, so this is really like a trip down memory lane. 

Michael Richards apologized for his now famous racial tirade in a comedy club now over a week ago on Reverend Jesse Jackson’s radio show.  Apparently Richards himself cannot even explain why he said the racially charged comments during his standup act when two black men heckled him during his act. 

He says that something overtook him, a rage, and he could not help himself.  He says he tried to look for the two men he insulted after the incident, but they had already left the club.  He also said he wanted to apologize to everyone in the audience during his tirade, but most people had left already at that point.

To watch this tirade is definitely uncomfortable, to say the least.  He goes off after the men (although I didn’t see how they heckled him, it was a poor quality video) heckle him during his appearance, calling them the N word, and saying they would have been hung upside down with a fork in their a$% years ago for interrupting him. 

It’s truly amazing that someone would go off like this in this day and age, even though it was a comedy act, it still makes you recoil in horror!

My boyfriend and I just watched Scary Movie 4, and this franchise should just call it quits right now.  It couldn’t even be rejuvenated by the Zucker brothers, of Naked Gun fame.  The fourth installment in the Scary Movie series insults our intelligence with grade school humor.  Not good grade school humor either. 

We’re talking the kind of humor where characters walk into walls and get punched and slapped and knocked down an innumerable amount of times throughout the movie, in search of cheap laughs and filler, but it only results in you growing tired of seeing people fall after about 20 minutes of the movie. 

I really liked Scary Movie 1 and 2.  Scary Movie 3 was starting to jump the shark a little, and with 4, they’ve blown my mind with stupidity, and mind you again, not the good kind of stupidity, the kind where you wonder if they are only trying to appeal to the sense of humor of a four year old. 

The franchise is done, people.  This movie made money too.  How, I don’t know.  If I would have paid nine bucks to get into this atrocity, I’d be really mad.

Jude Law and Sienna Miller, the super-sexy British couple who’ve had a rocky relationship for a few years, have reportedly decided to call it quits for good.  The two say the decision was a mutual one, and that this is probably for good.  We’ll see about that….these two almost seem to be addicted to one another.

Their relationship first fell apart after Jude was caught messing around with his kid’s nanny and publicly embarrassed Sienne.  On the other hand, Sienna has been quoted as saying that monogamy is an unrealistic virtue and that we’re all “animals”, so did she really care that much?

One thing is for sure, these two could have had some gorgeous little babies, with their gene pool.  Oh well, another one bites the dust.  C’est la vie in hollywoodland. 

It seems some of the unwitting “stars” or the Borat hit phenomena movie starring Sacha Baron Cohen, comic genius, are not so happy that they are forever captured on celluloid looking sort of like fools, even though they all signed releases.  Hmm, perhaps some people wanting a piece of the millions of dollar pie that this film unexpectedly generated?

The frat boys, as you all probably know by now, who appeared in the scene with Cohen in an RV and made several disparraging remarks about women and minorities are suing because they say they were persuaded to get drunk before the shoot, and when they signed the release they did not understand that this would be for a nationally released film, rather some sort of documentary . Not sure what kind of documentary you’d want to be on saying the kinds of things these good ol’ boys did, but whatever. 

Also seeing red is the lady who headed the etiquette school where Cohen handed her what she thought was a bag of feces after he went to the bathroom.  She says she was also misled when she signed the release to appear onscreen that this would be a lmited release film.

OK, so maybe this “release” wasn’t the clearest thing in the world, but it sure did make one funny movie.  Now if they can just appreciate the humor for what it’s worth, let the poor guy make the money he deserves off the best comedy of the year.

OK, this show is definitely not what I’d call “great TV”, in fact the acting is downright substandard sometimes on this show, but I have to admit, Jericho is growing on me for some odd, inexplicable reason.  Jericho is a show about a nuclear disaster of some sort that has hit most of the major cities in the US. 

Only one problem, the show isn’t gritty enough to make you really “feel” like there’s been a nuclear disaster.  Even the details like the dirt smeared on the actors faces isn’t very realistic sometimes. 

Then, this week, that sort of changed a little.  The actors are getting a little more of a feel for their role it seems, and it’s starting to shape up a little more as something I’d like to continue to watch.  Skeet Ulrich is a little wooden in his performance as the main character, Jake, who has returned to the small town of Jericho after being away for five years, doing something that we know was undercover, but that the show annoyingly does not reveal. 

There’s finally a little chemistry between Jake and his ex girlfriend Emily brewing, but the show’s writers clearly do not have a handle on how to write women.  The women in the show are unsympathetic characters that I have no connection to. 

In fact, they’re downright annoying and seem like they are just mantle pieces to spruce up ratings.  So, why do I watch the show?  Well, mostly because my boyfriend makes me keep watching.  Would I have given up long ago if it weren’t for him?  Yeah, but like I said it’s growing on me. 

I went to see Borat last night with my boyfriend.  We are huge fans of Da Ali G Show, which Sacha Baron Cohen starred in as three characters : The flamboyantly gay Bruno who duped designers and socialites into doing assenine things in the name of fashion and avante garde, the naive and ignorantly inappropriate Borat from Kazakhstan, and the mumbling, jive talking Ali G.

All three of his characters are diverse and hilarious, and he pulls it all off with such effortless comedy that you can’t help but double over in laughter at the responses he ilicits from people who don’t know the guy is acting, and think he’s for real.

Borat the movie is no exception.  Baron Cohen continues the streak with a string of mishapped adventures across “the US and A” in search of his true love Pamela Anderson, whom he has fallen in love with after watching a TV show called Baywatch in America in a run down hotel room.  He and his partner were sent from their home nation to travel across America and bring back a journalistic news story.

What ensues is Baron Cohen going from podunk town to the inner city, mingling with all types of people, getting thrown out of places for inappropriate behavior and generally offending everyone, even though he’s usually forgiven because “he doesn’t know any better”. 

One of the funniest scenes, and the scene I laughed the hardest because I couldn’t believe he got this past screeners, was an extended fight scene between him and his interviewing partner who is obese.  They are both naked and are fighting and running down the halls of a hotel, and through a seminar for mortgage people. 

I couldn’t even catch my breath, and had tears streaming down my face.  This movie will shock many, but it will shock you right into laughing like you’ve never laughed before.  I left the theater with streaks of mascara running down my face from laughing.  Ladies, just a warning, skip the mascara if you have a real, down and dirty sense of humor.

A p.o.’d limo driver called in this morning to a Cleveland morning radio show, Rover’s Morning Glory, and sounded off about his limo ride for K-Fed when he was in Cincinnati for a WWE appearance. If his story is true, it goes something like this : K-Fed tried to “not be noticed” but people really weren’t noticing him anyways, he said if anything people thought he was acting weird by trying to be incognito.

OK, so I was initially against the idea of watching a quirky, dark show about a serial killer when my boyfriend brought it up, although looking at the picture on the Netflix envelope of the guy who stars in the show as Dexter, the serial killer was thought provoking because I thought he was kinda sexy if I’m being honest. 

So, against my will, we watched the first episode of Dexter on Showtime on Demand.  I was overall pleasantly surprised, and am now looking forward to watching the second show on “On Demand” now. 

It’s a very different concept, with fresh new acting faces of which looked vaguely familiar to me, but whom I cannot place, except my boyfriend did tell me the lead actor was on the bloody prison drama “Oz” on HBO. 

Well, Dexter is a serial killer, but he is actually a serial killer who goes after other serial killers.  You see, Dexter is a guy who just can’t help himself.  It started with him killing the family dog who was obnoxious and barked all the time in his youth, and he admitted to his dad (who was a cop) in flashbacks that he had the urge to kill something “bigger” like a human. 

His dad then turned things around, later as we see in more flashbacks, hinting to his son that if he could not help himself, why not channel his killing urges into something that could possibly be a sort of twisted justice, killing only those that had ruthlessly killed others. 

We get to see Dexter as a regular guy in his job as a forensics worker at the local police station in Florida, the locale of which has a very low solve rate (he jokes, this is the perfect place for him), and we also get to hear his inner thoughts about life, how he generally has no real feelings for anyone, and we see him as a sociopath, but we also can’t help but root for the guy in some strange, unexplainable way.

I can say this, I’m looking forward to the next episode, and I hope the show doesn’t get cancelled…..

Well, despite the threat of legal action from Paris Hilton’s mother Kathy Hilton, the biographer of Paris Hilton’s life story is going ahead with the release of what is sure to be a well read book, well at least maybe in some circles, of people who still care about this “celebutante”. 

The biographer is Jerry Openheimer, and he says that his book is a pretty accurate depiction of Paris Hilton’s contorversial and very spotlighted celebrity life.  She’s one of the most followed celebrities, and yet also one of the most hated, and he says that the painting of the picture of her as an heiress who stands to inherit millions of dollars is not an accurate one, and that she actually does have to work for a living. 

Among other things, he says that Paris’ maternal grandmother was a stage mother and her mom and dad actually didn’t mind the sex tape scandal because it pushed Paris into the spotlight, where she could seek fortune and fame (based on what though).  They say her mother pushed her to use her natural exhibitionist streak to make headlines basically (I can see why the mother doesn’t want this book released). 

Her mother actually is the spitting image of Paris, and it wouldn’t surprise me if Paris looks much like her mother when she reaches her age.  The book tells of how Kathy Hilton aspired to be a model and actress at the beckon of her mother, but her career never launched and she kind of filtered this through Paris who had a natural flare for being a socialite.  If you’re interested, Oppenheimer’s book is called House of Hilton - From Conrad to Paris: A Drama of Wealth, Power, and Privilege