Movie Cliches that Need to Die a Horrible Death

"Tawny Kitaen has been charged with felony drug possession"

O.J. Simpson told The Associated Press he participated in the ill-fated 'If I Did It' book and interview project for one reason -- personal profit"

• I personally would like to hear his explanation for how he might have dissposed of the murder weapon if he had done it.

Letterman's "Top Ten Messages On O.J. Simpson's Answering Machine"

James Bond intros, opening credits ... this leads to Dr No, but most of them are there.

John Safran vs Mormons

• Australian filmmaker John Safran is so fed up with mormons ringing his doorbell early in the morning that he flies to Salt Lake City, Utah and tries to convert Mormons to atheism. Needless to say, the locals were not pleased.

Great picture: Warning: large vehicle crossing!

THANKSGIVING 2006: President's Sincere and Heartfelt Prayer of Thanks to America's Official (Christian) God (WHITEHOUSE.ORG)

FLEISS DENIES TYSON PROSTITUTION REPORTS

O.J. book removed from eBay after furious bidding

The trailer from Children of Men, Cuaron's futurisic dystopia about the last fertile woman

The trailer for Miss Potter, a Beatrix Potter biopic starring Renee Zellweger

• Beatrix Potter has delighted generations of children with her books. But she kept her own private life locked carefully away. Oscar-winning star Renée Zellweger is now bringing her secret story to the screen in "Miss Potter," the first film directed by Chris Noonan since his charming 1995 movie, "Babe." It is set in the high summer days of late Victorian and Edwardian England, during which Beatrix develops her natural skills as artist and story-teller. When she finally publishes her debut book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," she becomes a writing celebrity. It also leads to courtship and her first love with publisher Norman Warne, played by Ewan McGregor. Their relationship and his marriage proposal in July, 1905, was to change Beatrix's life for ever.

  
  It was a love which she could not announce - or even talk about. In high-society London, her parents had insisted she keep it from friends and neighbours. They considered her proposed wedding a mismatch. Warne, they said, was from 'trade' and demanded that she carefully reconsider their life together. Beatrix allowed herself to be persuaded to leave her fiancé and London. It was supposed to be a time for reflection and calm. But, instead, she faced tragedy and loneliness and returned, with a different outlook. She became a woman of strong views and independence. She also built up a farming dynasty in the Lake District - a dynasty over which she took charge long after her writing career virtually ended in 1913. It established her as a woman ahead of her time. Despite becoming the world’s most successful children's writer and a wealthy landowner and prize-winning farmer, she never forgot her first love.

The trailer for the remake of The Hitcher

• From filmmaker Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes production company ("The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" [2003], "The Amityville Horror" [2005]) comes a remake of the 1986 terror classic. Dave Meyers is directing the new film, which tracks the terrifying cross-country trajectory of Grace (Sophia Bush) and Jim (Zachary Knighton), two traveling college students who are tormented by the mysterious hitchhiker John Ryder, a.k.a. The Hitcher (Sean Bean).

The trailer for Wild Hogs

• Comedy. A bunch of old suburban dudes who ride Harleys run into some real Hell's Angels. With William Macy and John Travolta

The trailer for Epic Movie

• Ya gotta love Crispin Glover as Willy Wonka!
• The twisted minds of two of the six writers of "Scary Movie" tackle the biggest mega-blockbusters of all time in "Epic Movie." The story centers on four not-so-young orphans: one raised by a curator at the Louvre (where an albino assassin lurks), another a refugee from Mexican "libre" wrestling, the third a recent victim of snakes on her plane, and the fourth a "normal" resident of a mutant "X"-community. The hapless quartet visits a chocolate factory, where they stumble into an enchanted wardrobe that transports them to the land of Gnarnia (with a "G"). There they meet a flamboyant pirate captain and earnest students of wizardry – and join forces with, among others, a wise-but-horny lion to defeat the evil White Bitch of Gnarnia.

"In a special pre-Thanksgiving radio address broadcast from the White House, President George W. Bush asked his fellow Americans to join him in giving thanks for the following things"

• Let’s be thankful for global warming, because as these winter months approach, it makes the world such a nice, toasty place.
• Let’s be thankful that by the time I finally had to go to Vietnam, I never had to leave my limo.
• Let’s be thankful that even though my approval numbers are at a record low, they’re still higher than my grades at Yale.
• Let’s be thankful for Sony PlayStation Portable, which really helps you get through those long Cabinet meetings when they’re going on and on about the economy.
• Let’s be thankful that in nine months it will be August and then I can go on summer vacation again.
• Let be thankful that as bad as my career is right now, it's still in better shape than Kramer's.

"Lame Duck Pardons Turkey" ... Bush Makes a Case for Poultry Solidarity

Cut-and-paste headline of the day and, for that matter, most days: "Hollywood star LINDSAY LOHAN narrowly escaped injury when her Range Rover collided with a police car in London on Sunday "

Paris Hilton vomits while attempting to lip-synch her own song

The Washington Post actually used this headline: Penile Plot Prompts Prison Punishment

The world gets one more nuclear power - a high school kid in Detroit

"We were shocked to discover that the dissection kit contains the carcass of a real frog"

Wonder why those German tank divisions might have had had trouble in Russia? "This is the Russian Federal highway, Moscow city to Yakutsk City." ... Russia looks like a wet version of West Texas.

You have to love Scandinavia: "Is it sacrilegious to keep churchgoers warm and toasty in their pews by using the heat from cremated bodies?"

• So here's the Norwegian/Danish plan. When it gets too cold, they let convicted mass murderers out of prison on leave. They kill a bunch of people. Authorities cremate the bodies. Voila! Instant warmth.

Fantastic new site: Leo the Listmaker's Pop Culture Palace

• I'm pretty sure you will bookmark this site! He's been in the process of making lists of the top songs of every year from the 50s - with an embedded YouTube video for every one. He's currently getting toward the top songs of 1956. WARNING to baby boomers: you may waste your whole day here.

New 3-D imaging techniques produce the first remarkable close-up pictures of animals in the womb

Multiple murderer cuts promo spot for shock-jock

• My favorite part of the article is underlined: "Hi, this is Veronica Orderud, and I listen to Mina every day. And if YOU don't, I'll kill you," is the message. The sound bite was recorded in connection with an interview with Veronica Orderud during a prison leave. Where else but Norway would a convicted mass murderer get leave from prison? They should be thankful she only JOKED about killing people.

"Trouble in Toyland: 21st Annual Toy Safety Survey"

• Hasbro's My Little Pony: OK
• Lindsay Lohan's My Little Pussy: considered unsafe.

New technology catches Hitler off guard

• "New computer software that can read lips at almost any angle has helped make sense of one of the Second World War's lingering mysteries —Hitler's home movies. The technology allows the dialogue to be dubbed on to the silent films"