What to say about the SAG Awards?

Well, for a Union that really haven’t been able to get their sh*t together for an entire year, they sure know how to take all the excitement out of the Oscar Race.

Kate Winslet swept in for The Reader as Best Supporting Actress, adding it on to her Golden Glob and making her the front-runner for the Academy Award, Heath Ledger nabbed another posthumous win for The Dark Knight, Merryl Streep too the top lady’s acting prize for Doubt and Slumdog Millionaire took “Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture,” which made me scratch my head: how many Slumdog Millionaire cast members are SAG signatories? By now, I’m guessing all of them.

Outside of Merryl, the rest of the winners fell into place. Which is why you can see the complete list of winners HERE, but on The Bad & Ugly, you get the least ugly of the night’s female stars. Namely; Eva Longoria, Katie Holmes, Amy Poehler, Penelope Cruz, Olivia Wilde, Holly Hunter, Anne Hathaway, Jenna Fischer, and Evan Rachel Wood.

We’re living in a post-Bronx Mowgli world here, people. A world where Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz have somehow produced a child they decided to name after a burrough in New York City and a disenfranchised Jungle Boy raised by a bear and a panther

“Which one’s the bear?” questions non-withstanding, E! managed to tease us with an upcoming episode of The Dog Whisperer featuring fame-whoring Simpson/Wentz and their bulldogs Hemmingway and Rigby.

Laugh out loud Pete Wentz quotes: “I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t like talking to other people, but I really like talking to the dog,” he says to a camera crew he let into his house. Is that just talking at people?

Also: “I don’t ever want there to be a situation between Hemmingway and the baby, and obviously I’m going to pick my child over my dog, but you know, like, I love that dog more than almost anything.”

Almost anything? We know the baby comes in over the dog, but what about his wife, his other dog, his band, his clothing line, Papa Joe Simpson? Just what is the thing that he loves a little bit less than the dog?

My guess is: guyliner and/or disguises.

Funny Or Die is using more of someone’s budget to produce a brief, yet star-studded Prop 8 musical to illustrate what they see as the main political points of California’s Proposition 8, the voter-ratified law to repeal gay marriage in the the left most contiguous state.

We get a little nervous talking about Prop 8, because it’s a hot-button issue where a certian grouping of the population says: “We vote on laws, those laws should be enforced,” while another group says: “people can’t make laws infringing on equal rights,” and yet a third group says: “What now? California is having troubles with the gays?”

Regardless of your opinion, check out this cast: Jordan Ballard, Margaret Cho, Barrett Foa, J.B. Ghuman, John Hill, Andy Richter, Maya Rudolph, Rashad Naylor, Nicole Parker, John C. Reilly, Allison Janney, Kathy Najimy, Jenifer Lewis, Craig Robinson, Rashida Jones, Lake Bell, Sarah Chalke, Katharine “Kooks” Leonard, Seth Morris, Denise “Esi!” Piane, Lucian Piane, Richard Read, Seth Redford, Quinton Strack, Tate Taylor, Jack Black and Neil Patrick Harris.

Who doesn’t want a musical from these guys?

So strap on your political/musical/humor helmets and see the video after the cut…

With recent news that Dollhouse is headed for FOX’s Friday timeslot of sci-fi hell, we’re guessing that the first season of Joss Whedon’s new show will be tumultuous and low-rated. What we don’t know is the most perplexing: will the series be any good at all? Are we getting our panties all in a twist over a big mind fart (rare for Whedon, but it does happen)?

All we do know is that we will forever have these large promo images of Eliza Dushku to add to our sexy collection.

Is there a way to combine those two words? Sexlection? Collexy?

The Great Buck Howard, starring John Malkovich, Emily Blunt, Colin Hanks, Tom Hanks, Griffin Dunne and Steve Zahn, first premiered at Sundance this year to little fanfare. Ok, some fanfare, but not the kind you want repeated.

For instance, The Playlist describes it thusly:

The main problem with ‘Howard’ is that it can’t decide if it’s supposed to be a 20-s0mething coming-of-age story for young Hanks or a odd couple relationship story for him and the magician Malkovich, but it fails at either. By the end we’re supposed to ascertain that Hanks learned something from the odd experience of tour managing an goofy and losing psychic, but we’re not sure what exactly. Go your own way? Choose your own destiny in life? Insert cliche here? We learn absolutely nothing about what makes Buck Howard tick other than he genuinely enjoys what he does and entertaining people, but there’s little revealed behind the psychology of it.

Although Magnolia is listed as the distributer of the film, the IMDB page for it is still sans release date, implying that its recent appearence in upstate New York at the Woodstock Film Festival didn’t result in the film getting a distributor.

The preview (below the cut) makes the movie out to be little more than John Malkovich chewing the various crowd-filled scenery, which doesn’t sound all that bad considering flicks like Beverly Hills Chihuahua can hold the #1 spot for two weeks in a row.

Say what you will about the good old excuse of “exhaustion” for stars, it still works and people will still believe it, like people who are rich and famous somehow don’t know how to manage their time any better than we do. If I were to start acting crazy and collapse, then phone into my place of work from the police department claiming “exhaustion,” I’m pretty sure I’d be replaced right quick.

But I wasn’t in Reservoir Dogs, so maybe I don’t deserve to be cut any slack…

If YouTube videos encouraging people to vote were anything but pleasant distractions (and the only time we’ll ever see Rachel Leigh Cook and Samuel L Jackson in the same project), then we would have all voted or died when P.Diddy was telling us that crap a few years ago.

This one, called the “You Vote Video” features some of our favorite actors, plus some Muppetts and John Leguizamo, who Dave once chased from club to club in Manhattan in an attempt to tell him that he was totally okay with the Super Mario Bros movie, and John shouldn’t feel bad about it.

If you are going to make a voting video, at least stray away from talking directly to us in stark black and/or white. Gap’s Vote For _________ Campaign at least gives us a cute, rhyming Kristin Bell.

And yeah, she rhymes “trees” and “reefs” and, yeah, with the economy the way it is, we say f*ck the damn earthworms.

But, it’s okay, because we’re fairly certain that no one goes to YouTube for voting advice. And if we’re wrong for some reason, maybe those people shouldn’t vote in the first place.