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The Week in TV: "I'll Have...A Birthday Cake!"

​It was a pretty fun week in TV Land: Most of the fall programs are beginning to settle in, the CW continued its inexplicable existence, and David Letterman hit it with some employees. Insert your Worldwide Pants jokes here, and let's get to it! • I won't go into much here about FlashForwa ... More >>

In Honor of Michelle Obama and "Shortsgate," the Best Ass Songs of All Time

In a year when the biggest news stories aren't about war or the environment but a mentally unbalanced woman having a litter of children and the death of a creepy pop singer who hadn't put out a decent album in 25 years, it should come as no surprise that so many people would be up in arms ... More >>

Unwigged & Unplugged

Spinal Tap Breaking Like the Wind at Jones Hall

Spinal Tap (and friends), "Big Bottom," Live Earth, Wembley Stadium, London, July 2007 www.unwigged.comLegendary British heavy-metal pioneers Spinal Tap, authors of albums such as Smell the Glove and Shark Sandwich and stars of Rob Reiner's groundbreaking 1984 "rockument ... More >>

Five Best Strip-Club Movies

In concluding our tribute to the recently departed Penthouse Club, and as a service to future generations who may never know the joys of spending $9.50 for a Miller Lite or learn what a "bottle charge" is, here are some of the more memorable movies where strip joints serve as the main setting.5. Va ... More >>

The 12 Greatest Christmas Songs of All Time, Part 2

"Christmas in Hollis" As promised yesterday, on with the countdown... 6. "Frosty the Snowman," the El Orbits. If you have kids, they'll love the Dazzling Pete Gray's Jimmy Durante impersonation. 5. "Christmas in Hollis," Run-DMC. The boisterous spirit of Queens's most illustrious (and cold illin') ... More >>

Worth the Gamble: The Grand

Forget this movie's poker face. It's the people who are cards.

The Princess Bride, Killer of Sheep, Innocence, La Vie en Rose

L.A. Story

Hooray for Christopher Guest's Hollywood, where Purim gets Oscar buzz and Charlie Rose his due

Shandy Everybody Wants

Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of a classic loads on the Bull

The Nude Bomb

Mrs. Henderson shakes up war-torn Britain with an assault of the flesh

Call the Cops

Stick it to The Man and avoid this slipshod, ugly mess

Lez Hook Up

A new mockumentary teaches ladies How to Pick Up Girls

The Breeders

Pooches swarm Reliant Center

Fuddy Buddy

Hollywood Homicide tries to mock cop partner flicks, but the joke's on it

Mighty Mediocre

Wind bags a few charming laughs, but mostly meanders

Count Down

In this Monte Cristo, revenge is a dish best served reheated

Shearer Delight

The voice of Flanders is the voice of reason, absatively posilutely

A Holiday Wish

All he wants for Christmas is to pump iron

The Man of Many Face

Christopher Guest takes his comedy very, very seriously

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