Last night, Mel Gibson was on Jay Leno to promote, umm, his insanity I guess. This guy’s made some good movies, but Mel is one big ball of crazy. If Mel was a Scientologist and thetans were measured in craziness, he’d be frickin’ L. Ron Hubbard!

Jay asked the question that was on everyone’s mind: is Mel going to have a child with Oksana? Mel says it’s true, and that he will now have eight kids, just like Octomom, but you can call him Octomel! He then puffs out his lips to mimic the overly collagened Nadya Suleman.

Mel Gibson is the gift that keeps on giving. I think he needs to do the talk show circuit where in each show he’s the only guest, and they just let him talk and talk for the full hour. Who knows what’ll come out of his mouth then? Someone call the networks - let’s get on this!

It's Octomel. Coming soon to a uterus near you!

Critics bash Jon and Kate premiere

Now that the over hyped Jon and Kate show has aired their season premiere on TLC, here’s hoping that the media will leave these two alone. Let their kids live life without the cameras. I know it will be difficult for Kate The Mediawhore, but there aren’t too many people who feel sympathy for her anymore. At one point in the show, Kate complained that her life was "just so hard" due to media attention and pressures on her marriage.

Nobody, even the critics, is buying her fake whining. "Is it really, Kate?" sniped the Baltimore Sun's David Zurwik. "Tell that to a family in which the breadwinner has just lost her or his job, you silly, self-absorbed fool." Zing!

Later in the show, Kate tells her kids to call the paparazzi "the P-people" because "I don't want them going to school being like, 'Well, the paparazzi is following us, like, that's so creepy.'" Says the Star Ledger: "What's creepy is having your children followed around by a camera crew. Any camera crew. Period. It's exploitation, whatever cutesy name you want to give it." Zing!!

Says Entertainment Weekly: "You just wanted to say, 'We get it! You feel you're the Wronged Woman! Aren't you savvy enough by now to know you're not winning us over?' This was especially true when she noted that 'all of a sudden, your kids are calling you your baby sitter's name.' I could almost hear millions of viewers shouting, 'So stay home!'" Zing!!!

Are you listening, TLC? Cancel this show before the backlash happens.

The Hills is less scripted than this stupid show

Buffy to get remade soon, but nobody will watch

The Hollywood Reporter has a story today that Buffy The Vampire Slayer is due for a revitalization on the silver screen. Roy Lee and Doug Davison of Vertigo Entertainment are working with original movie director Fran Rubel Kuzui and her husband, Kaz Kuzui, on what is being labeled a remake or relaunch, but not a sequel or prequel.

The problem with this project is that the show’s creator Joss Whedon is not involved, the new film will have no connection to the TV series, and a studio isn’t even signed on yet. This project may very well come to light someday, but I’d be willing to bet the house that it will fail miserably. By the time the movie finishes production, it’s possible that the vampire craze will have faded, and anyone who loved Buffy the show probably won’t care anyway.

The ONLY vampire drama worth watching on the boob tube or the big screen (including, Twilight), True Blood, begins its second season on Sunday, June 14th on HBO Canada.

You KNOW Kristy Swanson is dying to play Buffy again

More Regina Spektor!

Regina Spektor is getting us all hyped up for the June 23rd release of her new album, Far. The first single, Laughing With is excellent, and now there is another song for everyone to hear.

Spektor performed Blue Lips, the CD’s third track, on the Jools Holland show last week in the UK. The orchestra adds such a nice touch to this great song. Love it!

Blue Lips

French actress wins Cannes, goes nude on beach

37-year-old actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, who just won the Best Actress prize at Cannes on Sunday, took to the beach in St. Bart’s yesterday.
Apparently, Gainsbourg has nothing to hide and/or possibly overlooked the fact that there were cameras all over the place as she was changing in and out of her bikini.

The link contains many pictures, many of which, upon clicking, are definitely NSFW (Not Safe For Work). These images raise so many questions, which are too numerous to explore here. Okay, maybe one: what is up with those big welts on her butt cheeks? I don’t think I want to know.

Wanna see my Cannes?

The best show you’re not watching

With hundreds of channels, it’s impossible to sift through all the shows and find something good when so many of the networks’ offerings are terrible, and mediocre at best. Most TV sucks, but if you’re curious enough, or happen to write about entertainment for a living, you sometimes stumble upon a great show that nobody’s heard of, that people should be watching.

If you subscribe to Superchannel, you owe it to yourself to check out Party Down. The show, which originally airs on the US network Starz, follows a Los Angeles catering team of six aspiring Hollywood wannabes stuck working for tips while hoping for their big break. Each episode finds the hapless (which is putting it mildly) catering team working a new event, and inevitably getting tangled up with the colorful guests and their absurd lives.

Party Down was created by Vernonica Mars creator Rob Thomas, writer John Enborn, and co-producer Dan Etheridge, along with soon to be Hollywood A-lister comedian Paul Rudd (Role Models, I Love You Man). The first season is only 10 episodes, but the show has already been renewed for a second season.

The show is often politically incorrect, and features a mild dose of fowl language and nudity. It’s not a show for the masses, as the humor is subtle and not quite as broad as your typical sitcom. But after watching the first four episodes, this one is a keeper. My wife and I are becoming big fans, and can’t wait to catch up with the next six outings. This is GOOD TELEVISION. While it won't do for Starz what Mad Men did for AMC, I think Party Down is good enough to see an Emmy nomination or two by next year.

Check out the first episode when it gets replayed June 3rd at 7 pm on Superchannel.