Books and diets aren't enough. Oprah is hitting the stump for Obama while Streisand will beat the bushes for Hillary.

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"…the MPAA ratings board will now consider smoking as a factor among
many other factors, including violence, sexual situations and language,
in the rating of films…"

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Christopher Hitchens, on Slate, has the low down on Mel's melt down.

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Looking like Michael Moore was not enough for Al Gore.  The Internet inventor has become a documentary film maker himself.  "An Inconvenient Truth" opened at the Cannes Film Festival.  It is a movie about a slide show about Global Warming.

The former Buddhist nun bag man had this to say in a CBS interview: "There is no more debate. We face a planetary emergency. And the phrase
sounds shrill but it is an accurate description of the climate crisis
that we have to confront and solve."

I agree. It sounds shrill.

While characterizing the Bush administration as, "a renegade band of rightwing extremists", Gore says he has no plans to run for president. "I am involved in a campaign, but it's not for a candidacy. It's for a cause."  Things could get dicey here.  Suppose he changes his mind and runs for president after all. Could "An Inconvenient Truth" become the first major motion picture hauled into court?  McCain/Feingold issue advocacy rules would be the controlling legal authority. 

That would be an inconvenient truth.
 

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The film, The Da Vinci Code opened to poor reviews. Sixty million people bought the book.  Is it possible more people actually read the book than will see the movie?  Must be a conspiracy.

Update: Never mind.  It turns out the movie's a hit.  It raked in $224 mil worldwide over the weekend. Must be the one world conspiracy.