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The unkempt Shaggy of Scooby-Doo fame has a rather proper real name — Norville Rogers.
22 fictional characters whose names you don’t know
(via Mental_Floss)
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Daniel Craig “has evolved into arguably the best Bond ever,” says Charlie McCollum at the San Jose Mercury News.
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It took the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, 14 years and six months to accumulate 50 hits on the Billboard Top 100. With her fourth studio album, Red, Taylor Swift will have achieved the same in just six years and one month since the release of her 2006 debut, Taylor Swift.
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ER did more than make George Clooney a superstar. It also changed the way America ate. In three 2004 episodes, the show explored a minor plot arc about a teenager who learns he has high blood pressure. The show’s physician characters advise the young man to exercise and eat more fruits and vegetables.
While the plot sounds humdrum, it scared viewers straight. In 2007, researchers from the University of Southern California’s medical school published a paper in the Journal of Health Communication that found that viewers who caught these episodes of ER had started walking or exercising more, eating more fruits and vegetables, or getting their blood pressure checked. How can anyone say watching TV is bad for you?
The 25 most powerful TV shows of the past 25 years (via Mental Floss)
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Barbie’s body dimensions may be physically impossible for a human to achieve, but that isn’t stopping a growing number of women in the Ukraine from trying.
After one Ukrainian woman gained international notoriety for her transformation into a “living doll,” at least two more have surfaced as devotees of the beauty trend, nicknamed the “Barbie flu.”
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The daily gossip: Russell Crowe and Danielle Spencer split up, Crowe grows massive breakup beard.
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“Every journey ends, but we go on. The world turns and we turn with it. Plans disappear. Dreams take over. But wherever I go, there you are — my luck, my fate, my fortune. Chanel no. 5. Inevitable.”
So, Brad Pitt did an ad for Chanel no. 5, and it is “embarrassingly awful.”
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“I careth not where thou has traversed from, varmint!”
Rainn Wilson, aka Dwight Schrute from The Office, wants to make Voting Day a national holiday, because voting on a Tuesday is “a pain in the ass.”
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“Gangnam Style Mom” — Offering proof that “Gangnam Style” is a multi-generational phenomenon, this video, shot with a stationary camera in a living room, showcases the impressive synchronized dancing talents of a mother-son duo. This unlikely “Gangnam Style” collaboration, reportedly PSY’s favorite parody, earned its participants a guest spot on Ellen.
Ladies and gentlemen, we give you the 8 best ‘Gangnam Style’ parodies
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Twelve years after he left his last regular TV series, Spin City, to deal with his Parkinson’s disease, Michael J. Fox is returning to prime time.
According to Josef Adalian at New York’s Vulture blog, the 51-year-old Fox has already pitched a new single-camera sitcom to all four major networks, and “two industry sources — using phrases such as ‘feeding frenzy’ and ‘bidding war’ — tell us it’s now just a matter of which network will offer the most attractive deal.”
Here’s what we know about the anticipated return of one of America’s most-loved TV stars.
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We can rest easy: America’s lovelorn sweetheart Jennifer Aniston is engaged to Justin Theroux. But her romantic journey has not been easy. Aniston — a favorite tabloid target since her 2005 divorce from Brad Pitt — has endured countless gossip-rag reports of heartbreaks, fizzled romance, and even pregnancies with a string of Mr. Wrongs.
Here, a look back at the magazine covers that hysterically tracked her road back to the altar.
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“There was a real villain” in that theater, “a gunman who shattered multiple lives. But there also were real heroes that night, and they weren’t Batman.”
— Karin Klein from the The Los Angeles Times says Christian Bale doesn’t need to visit Colorado shooting victims.
(Source: theweek.com)
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American Idol is in the midst of a major shake-up. Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez have announced their departure from the judges table, while veteran judge Randy Jackson hasn’t signed on for another season. With less money to splurge on big-name talent, there is no telling who will end up filling the empty seats.
