Having been a pop culture nut since my younger years, I've been surprised in the past several years at how much motherhood has broadened my views and expanded my capacity for (mostly useless) knowledge. I've also been amazed at how much of "grown-up" pop culture reaches young kids (my 7-year-old knows more than I ever wanted or expected him to know about Sanjaya, Andy Samberg, and even Anna Nicole Smith), and I've found that what's hot with the kiddies is an important part of the big picture of pop culture.
So what is hot with the kiddies these days? In a word, Spider-Man.
Angelina Jolie is making big demands of the producers of Wanted, the action flick she begins shooting in the Czech Republic next month, replacing Halle Berry.
Angie's demands:
Brad Pitt is to be given free helicopter lessons in Prague.
Brad's prized Bugatti car is to be shipped in to location.
Brad is to be given a
mansion with a helipad.
Brad is to be given free pony rides.
(I may have made one up.)
Click for the full story, including a breaking video of Angelina leaving the Tribeca Film Festival on Friday. Please to take special note of how
people actually burst into flames when she touches them.
I used to be a big fan of the now defunct VH1 series Behind the Music and thoroughly enjoyed watching somewhat predictable biographies of yesteryear's most popular performers. You could always count on the ascent to stardom, the peak and nearly always, a self-destructive crash of one kind or another and I loved EVERY SINGLE overly dramatic episode.
So...I think Final 24 on Biography might be just the ticket to fill the void since my beloved BTM lives on only in late night re-runs. It's one of those shows that feeds on one's morbid curiosity about the last hours of dead celebrities lives, particularly those whose deaths were mired in mystery, scandal or notoriety.
I came to a realization last night, and that is that Entourage follows, at least partially, the format of a schlocky horror movie. I mean, you can see the disasters coming a mile away. Has anyone else noticed that any time anyone on this show has sex a catastrophe follows? Or when, like E in last night's episode, any time someone says "I'll be right back" or "I'm going to the bathroom" a foreboding phone call takes place. Or take for example...anything that Drama and Turtle do together.
Awful Plastic Surgery.com is being sued by Hunter Tylo for publishing "false and defamatory" plastic surgery photos of her on their website. Her lawyers maintain that the photos of Hunter's (obviously augmented) lips and breasts are "completely lacking truth".
You be the judge:
Maybe she's wearing those wax lips? Or I know! She's allergic toshellfish. Yes, that's it.
Lest ye forget: the sparkly, sequined drama continues tonight on Dancing With The Stars, wherein the remaining contestants will be inflicting on us gracing us with their renditions of a Latin and Ballroom dance. Join us over at MamaPopTalk tonight starting at 8pm ET for all the ackshon and drunken (heh) banter! Also, relatedly: I need your help pulling together a comprehensive collection of Bruno one-liners, so please help a sistah out and add your favorite insane Bruno quotes here!
Finally, please don't forget about our current MamaPopTalk Giveaway, which ends one week from today, with the lucky winner to be showered with over $200 in fabulous prizes! Chop-chop, my friends!
So, Tyra was on The View last week, and it's like she thought she was on her own damn talk show or something, because she gave Rosie's boobs the honk! honk! treatment she usually saves for the female celebrity guests on Tyra. All I can say is, thank God Bawbwa Wahwah was not there that day, or her poor head would have probably exploded. Like mine did.
Warning: The faint of heart should not proceed over to the jump.
ED NOTE: Today I have the distinct pleasure of introducing to y'all a brand new contributing writer on MamaPop: Joy! A Brit herself, Joy will be primarily in charge of enlightening us Yanks with regards to all hot and happenin' things British in her weekly column Pop Britannia, the first of which you can read below. Please give Joy a warm betches welcome, won't you?
So Prince William has chucked that plummy tart, Kate Middleton, and the competition to be the next Queen of England is on. I don’t know about you, but I have a raging crush on the young prince and am not afraid to own it. Perhaps this is an unsuitable comment for a 36 year old mother of boys to make, but Wills is seriously “gorge.” (And I say this as someone who hit puberty in England in early 80s, and who tried to fancy Charles, but just couldn’t. [Obviously]. So I consider this my due, actually)
The BBC is reporting that Katie Jordan Price's husband, Aussie Peter Andre, is battling meningitis. Peter, 34, has been in the hospital for the last week battling what was initially a mystery illness. He underwent a brain scan last night and a barrage of other tests, as doctors work around the clock.
Jordan, 28, who is eight months pregnant with their child, has been holding a vigil at his bedside and is said to be "frantic with worry".
The drama began when the pair visited the U.S. earlier this month to promote their new reality TV show.
It has been brought to my attention that I have yet to feature one of the Swedish Chef's cooking demonstrations. Well bork my buttons, that's downright shameful. Please to allow me to be remedying this righty this minightey.
Oh, what the hell. Let's do two. It's already that kind of week.
Does Tom Cruise doubt that Katie Holmes can take care of Suri, 1, by herself?
First, Katie learned that Tom wants her to take Scientology "Mommy Classes". Now, she's discovered that Suri's live-in grandma of the last six months, Mary Lee, is a permanent arrangement. Katie has reportedly "had enough" of her mother-in-law living with her family and "feels watched".
Congrats to the guessalicious Kim, Katie, Sarah, Michelle Nicole, Helena, Alyssa, DDM, Maggie, and Jayden Elizabeth. And an extra shout out to Danny for guessing "Amalah and Noah" - I'm sure she appreciated that.
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Having been a pop culture nut since my younger years, I've been surprised in the past several years at how much motherhood has broadened my views and expanded my capacity for (mostly useless) knowledge. I've also been amazed at how much of "grown-up" pop culture reaches young kids (my 7-year-old knows more than I ever wanted or expected him to know about Sanjaya, Andy Samberg, and even Anna Nicole Smith), and I've found that what's hot with the kiddies is an important part of the big picture of pop culture.
Lest ye forget: the sparkly, sequined drama continues tonight on Dancing With The Stars, wherein the remaining contestants will be 
