Notes from all over, in no particular order:

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Ladies, I know you’re checking shoe size

Dr Dunlop describes the male “purring” sound as a “C’mon baby” call to females, used as a mating signal.

“The lower the sound, the bigger you are,” she said.

There’s a joke here involving Brad Garrett’s recent divorce, but I’ve got nothin’.

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It’s spin and the lack thereof

When the runoff from farms comes down the Mississippi River and empties into the Gulf Of Mexico, the fertilized water blooms, dies, and then that dieing life decomposes, sucking the oxygen out of the water, starving the fish in the area of oxygen. It’s a seasonal thing called The Dead Zone.

But when scientists attempt the same thing in the ocean, [NYTimes] they’re saving the planet!

Nobody talks about the carbon dioxide being sequestered by the fertilizer runoff coming down the Mississippi.

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The first casualty of the 2007 Writer’s Strike is a comedy scribe for a late night show on FOX.
Tom Johnson, head writer for Talkshow With Spike Feresten, suffered a broken leg when he was run over by a car.

Crime scene photo of shoe

DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com

A lot of the West Coast writers are following Nikke Finke’s blog because many of the normal trade papers take waaaay too many ads from the studios. Variety could be putting out even handed information, but it’s too easy to assume that they’d never say anything nasty about the tactics of the studios.

And yes, the studios reportedly have already pulled at least one dastardly negotiating ploy. Read

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You know those nasty staff germs that are supposed to be resistant to all of our modern antibiotics?

They’re apparently not resistant to our ancient antibiotics.

The $1/day generic drugs from the 30s win!!

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Not So Desperate Housewives

Nothing like a good old fashioned sex party. Wait, who invited the City Council?

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Being very pregnant hurts new album release sales. I’m not sure why.

When you add in the diva factor:

“[She] costs too much money and doesn’t sell enough. The woman requires everything short of flying monkeys to get on a stage.”

All you get is the rumor that you’re going to be released from your contract.

And you don’t even get to keep the flying monkeys.

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And finally, a flop in the (Re)making:

THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL is being remade.
[Original][2008 version with Keanu Reaves]

Why? Is this some sort of anti-war rhetoric in a boring movie being passed off as a cool update to a classic movie? How could this possibly be spun to make it the least bit interesting? A spoof version would be better than a straight remake.

Dear Keanu Reaves: Why do you persist in choosing really crappy movies to get paid for?

Dear Producers of crappy remakes: I have a couple of dozen ideas that are better than this. Contact me. I could get you the movie rights to a project that a big well known Hollywood movie producer (one of them a Keanu Reaves movie!) had to release over contractual issues.