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• Colin Farrell Plays Fairy Godmother to Homeless Canadian

  Remember a year ago when Colin Farrell, in Toronto for the Toronto International Film Festival, gave a homeless man $3,000 and implored him to get sober and get his life together? Yeah, neither did we. But some Canadians haven't forgotten. They've actually gone as far as to track down the man Farrell gifted last year. So how's he doing?   Read More... Posted Sep 02 2008, 12:50 PM by Nicole Pasulka with | with no comments Filed under: charity, Colin Farrell, canada, alcoholism, hollywood, celebrities, angelina joile, homeless, Homelessness, acting

• While You Were Sleeping: James Franco and Sean Penn Go At It

  Doris Lessing, our Hero In Residence, on the teen pregnancy "craze": "I hear girls saying, 'Oh I'm not going to bring a child into this wicked world,' which means they are going to be pregnant next week." Happy 47th to Barack Obama yesterday. Unfortunately, his staff lost their big present to him. The Eva Mendes Calvin Klein ad has been banned from TV... Read More... Posted Aug 05 2008, 09:39 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with no comments Filed under: Lost, Barack Obama, james franco, cars, cnn, celebrities, doris lessing, sean penn, morgan freeman, actors, acting, car accident, montreal, iggy pop

• Morgan Freeman Seriously Injured In Major Car Accident

  Morgan Freeman is in serious condition following a devastating car wreck last night in Mississippi. The latest details, according to CNN, Google, and other sources...   Read More... Posted Aug 04 2008, 01:48 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: cars, cnn, celebrities, hospital, morgan freeman, actors, acting, car accident, Breaking News

• We Saw The Dark Knight In A Cavernous Movie Theater, During The Dead Of Night

  We started putting down our thoughts on The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan's follow-up to Batman Begins, sometime after arriving home at 3:23am. Here are our first impressions-- and one of the first reviews out there that won't be from a stuffy film critic... Read More... Posted Jul 18 2008, 09:50 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with no comments Filed under: movies, Batman, oscars, clint eastwood, dirty harry, christian bale, acting, dark knight

• "Acting With James Franco" Comes Pretty Close to Making Us Cry

  We have seen this clip of Freaks and Geeks and we are aware of James Franco's so-called "acting." And no one was more surprised than us to learn what a superb and nuanced "acting" coach James Franco could be. In the first installment of "Acting With James Franco" below, James teaches his brother Dave about "Sense Memory" and threatens to jerk off into his sock. We definitely learned a lot. If only Spiderman 3 had been this moving.  Read More... Posted Jun 16 2008, 03:46 PM by Nicole Pasulka with | with no comments Filed under: james franco, freaks and geeks, acting