Entertainment

Okay, now Brokeback is number one at the box office. Link [http://boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/?sortdate=2006-01-18&p=.htm]. I give it credit. I resent the industry's determination to shove it down our throats, but it is number one.

Day two was remarkably more subdued than day one (see my previous post [https://thedailyeudemon.com/3680/]). The level of ridicule was back to the old levels (mostly reserved for the pompous), they had a great "feel good" story, and the best contestant was a modest and attractive

Johnny Cash was gay, at least according to the results of the Golden Globes last night. With a few exceptions, only gay-themed movies won anything: > "Brokeback," which has wowed critics and found a sizableaudience at box offices with its homosexual love story, walked off with four

> Jim Carrey has never been happier after embracing a healthy lifestyle and cutting his caffeine intake considerably [http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/carrey%20happier%20after%20cutting%20back%20on%20caffeine] . Good, now maybe he'll stop that annoying shtick that they call "cting."

John Miller writes at National Review Online: > The ads with Peyton Manning, who won't be appearing in this year's Superbowl, are funny, as he acts like a crazed fan cheering on everyday people as they perform ordinary jobs. The one where he asks the grocery

HBO will air Big Love, a series about polygamy in Utah. > The show premieres March 12 on the pay cable network and will air after HBO's most-revered series, The Sopranos, every week. > Big Love follows polygamist Bill Henrickson and his three wives as they lead

I've been enjoying TV Land's All in the Family coverage this weekend [http://www.tvland.com/schedule/index.jhtml]. It's showing more reruns all day today, but they're the later ones and, if memory serves, the show became much more agenda-driven

But how's the kid supposed to live? > Nicholas Lavin said that he played PlayStation constantly over the holidays at his home in San Diego and began to notice that his head would jerk back and forth. > "I would do funny things with my head,"

A favorable look at Albert Brooks' Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,181631,00.html]. It opens January 20: > Brooks said the film was originally supposed to be distributed by Sony, with an October 2005 release date (the current distributor