Poppedy Popped Culture

Sarah Silverman still is responding to the negative reaction to her Britney Spears jokes at the MTV Video Music Awards. “The joke that everyone was upset about — me calling the kids `adorable mistakes’ — was the most innocuous joke,” the 36-year-old comedian tells Us Weekly magazine in the issue that comes out Friday. “It […]

Broadcast journalist Barbara Walters is 78.
Country singer Ian Tyson is 74.
Rhythm-and-blues singer Joe Russell is 68.
Actor Robert Walden is 64.
Actor-producer Michael Douglas is 63.
Model Cheryl Tiegs is 60.
Actress Mimi Kennedy is 58.
Actor-director Anson Williams is 58.
Actor Mark Hamill is 56.
Polka bandleader Jimmy Sturr is 56.
Actor Colin Friels is 55.
Actor Michael Madsen is 49.
Actress Heather Locklear […]

It is great to want equality for all. But I’m sorry without networks like BET, black artists would have never been on TV. In the 80’s, pop music was not as inclusive as it is today. MTV sure didn’t feature any black artists, other than sporadic appearances by Michael Jackson. So while there may not […]

Actor-singer Herb Jeffries is 96.
ABC sportscaster Jim McKay is 86.
Actress Sheila MacRae is 83.
Rhythm-and-blues singer Sonny Turner (The Platters) is 68.
Singer Barbara Allbut (The Angels) is 67.
Singer Phyllis “Jiggs” Allbut (The Angels) is 65.
Singer Gerry Marsden (Gerry and the Pacemakers) is 65.
Actor Gordon Clapp is 59.
Former U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy II, D-Mass., is 55.
Actor Kevin […]

Marcel Marceau, whose lithe gestures and pliant facial expressions revived the art of mime and brought poetry to silence, died Saturday. He was 84.
When I was a kid in the 70’s, he was quite popular. Everyone was trying to break out of that dang box.

Actor Mickey Rooney is 87.
Actress Margaret Pellegrini (”The Wizard of Oz”) is 84.
Singer Julio Iglesias is 64.
Actor Paul Petersen (”The Donna Reed Show”) is 62.
Actress-singer Mary Kay Place is 60.
Rock star Bruce Springsteen is 58.
Actor Jason Alexander is 48.
Actor Chi McBride is 46.
Actress Elizabeth Pena is 46.
Country musician Don Herron (BR549) is 45.
Actor Erik Todd […]

This Wk
Title
Weekend Gross
Cumulative
Gross

1
Resident Evil: Extinction
$24,000,000
$24,000,000

2
Good Luck Chuck
$14,000,000
$14,000,000

3
The Brave One
$7,425,000
$25,115,000

4
3:10 to Yuma
$6,350,000
$37,911,000

5
Eastern Promises
$5,747,000
$6,549,000

6
Sydney White
$5,323,000
$5,323,000

7
Mr. Woodcock
$4,975,000
$15,700,000

8
Superbad
$3,100,000
$116,171,000

9
The Bourne Ultimatum
$2,793,000
$220,160,000

10
Dragon Wars (D-War)
$2,513,000
$8,435,000

11
Rush Hour 3
$2,205,000
$136,094,000

12
Halloween
$2,165,000
$54,588,000

Baseball Hall of Fame manager Tommy Lasorda is 80.
Musician King Sunny Ade is 61.
Actor Paul Le Mat is 61.
Captain Mark Phillips is 59.
Rock singer David Coverdale (Deep Purple, Whitesnake) is 56.
Actress Shari Belafonte is 53.
Singer Debby Boone is 51.
Country singer June Forester (The Forester Sisters) is 51.
Singer Nick Cave is 50.
Rock singer Johnette Napolitano is […]

A lot of divas and others have decided that November is the month to release an album:
Rumored releases:

Mariah Carey
Mary J. Blige
Britney Spears
Madonna
Jay Z

Locked in dates:
November 13th

Celine Dion “Taking Chances”

November 26th

Kylie Minogue “X”

WTF?… Volume 8