If millions have been spent — and tens of millions earned — on a brand (in this case an actor) you invest some of that scratch back into the brand image. Good genetics get you halfway there, and personal trainers, makeup, wardrobe, some neck and lid work and being sure your PR pics pass through only the best-trained…

"The big, rough lumberman from Oregon. I'll bet you told her all your trees were sequoias."

I'm usually a curmudgeonly old man
But I think he's brilliant. Yeah, sometimes his material turns into variations of past iterations (the Stripped tour's "story of civilization" theme is pretty much just a redo of the theme of the "Circle" tour) and he has some quirks that can be off-putting but he's about the only…

Yeah but chicks dig him because he rarely wears underwear and when he does, it's something interesting.

I met Andi McDowell a few years back, when she was late 40s. The woman is simply naturally gorgeous. Yowza. I think it's a combination, for a lotta celebs, of:

I like the haircut but I have odd taste. Yeah, first thing I thought is that by Hollywood standards she's in her "character actor" years having passed 35 or so.

If you're 29 and haven't been en point in over ten years, yer NOT gonna have your feet in that kind of shape and have fake pro technique in 18 months while also doing non-dancing gigs.

Yeah, but I used that to clarify that I don't have a bias for or against Snoop as a performer. I have no idea who she is.

I don't even own a TV so I don't give a flying fuck about The Wire. From an outsider's point of view, if someone is arrested for conspiracy to distribute heroin and there was enough to make the charges stick, that person — famous or not — should be just as fucked — justly or not — as anyone else who is charges with…

Dude, I fuckin' run a marketing department for an international company (no shit) and if you're Dave Grohl that was fuckin' brilliant PR, and cost-effective. FFs demographic is the 21st century's version of the Camaros and Trans-Ams Rawk an' Damn Roll gang — in 1977 they'd have been listening to Foghat — so he…

Oh, and I had some Japanese live EP that had her on the cover crouching down in a skin-tight catsuit, barefoot, her hair everywhere and holding a mic stand. Possibly the sexiest album cover ever.

I dunno how I got into KB… I guess in the 80s I was just trying to find anything that wasn't sung by bands flush with Lycra pants, Aqua Net and pointy guitars, or fey Thompson Twins synth-pout. It was fun, as I simultaneously discovered Killing Joke's Fire Dances, The Cure's Pornography, and Kate Bush's The Dreaming…

Somehow I thought it was "switchbox," which has nastier innuendo.

This is breathtakingly bad music. Every college town has a dozen guys doing this, and performing it at Blue Hippo Records on a Friday night, wearing skinny jeans and threadbare grey hoodies, nodding intently over a pair of MacBooks, their yearling beards (YES< BEARDS) flecked with cheap organic Mexican burrito…

I am going to have to buy this. I have a foggy recollection of buying it a few years after it came out and being blown away. And my band in the 80s covering "Switchbox Susie," which is a kickin' song. This stuff pretty much set the bar for all power-pop to follow.

Grittier? Rebootier?
As the original was an over-the top gore and violence satire in a Detroit nearly as ruined as present-day Motown, how the hell can they make the Gritty Reboot? The only thing that can possibly come of this is the savage stripping away of Verhoven's bizarre social commentary and barely-winking…

I can own property… because I'm a warlock and not a penniless hippie! *throws brick*

Just adding my voice to the chorus… O'Neal, you are ON IT! How the hell can you write this and This Moment in Charlie Sheen in a day? I suppose if you're covering entertainment, this has been the equivalent of the civil war in Libya. No sleep, shit blowing up everywhere, and you're plugged right into the electricity.

I have to say that throughout this, he's come across as a smart and funny guy who had the censorship center of his brain removed by the CIA or maybe a cabal of celebrity "journalists" seeking to create the perfect monster.

I didn't read all of that stuff but I'm old and from Georgia so here's my $0.02.