This might be old news to most everyone, but it seems Keri Russell is in talks to land the speaking role for a new Wonder Woman Direct-to-DVD cartoon! Yay?  

I have no probs with Keri Russell voicing my beloved Amazon Princess, I think she is a capable actress and her voice is, uh, nice and all, but my main concern is if this DVD project will ever actually see the light of day. DC claims that Wonder Woman is the third most important character in their line of books (next to Superman and Batman of course), but that “fact” sure isn’t represented.  

As much as I would love to see a movie staring Wondie, cartoon or otherwise, I have doubts if the suits will really sink the money into making it happen. Unlike Batman and Superman, Wonder Woman just never gets the love from her corporate owners. Her live action movie - which had been in development for what seems like a millennium – has been shelved, she has never maintained her own solo cartoon series, she only has one comic book produced a month, and she hasn’t even been featured in the flesh since her short-lived 70’s TV show.  

Is there no audience for Wonder Woman? Is this the reason for her absence in the mainstream entertainment medium? I refuse to believe this, you don’t maintain a 60 plus year career if you don’t have fans. Get it together DC and don’t pull the rug out from under us, we Wonder Woman lovers are many, proud and ready to devour this movie - as long as you don’t make it suck!   

I just got around to watching Bravo’s overly-promoted new show Make Me a Supermodel (do we need another model show?) last night and I was surprised with openly gay contestant/model-in-training Ronnie and his blatant attempt at snagging some screen time by making plenty of “witty” remarks.  

The moment that cemented him as a “reality-star” was when he cheekily revealed the names of his mighty pectoral muscles - which he referred to as the “girls” - as Cher and Madonna. Oh my, what cleverness, and what better way to gain some gay street creed then by name-dropping two of the stereotypically gayest of gay icons? You go, Ronnie! Work those sound bites!  

I can get behind men naming their gonads (whose significant other hasn’t named their twig and berries?), but naming their chesty region? Perhaps its common place for women folk to have names heaved upon their breasts, but for men? Is this undiscovered territory for me or is giving a moniker to man-boobs the new cool?

From The Breast Cancer Site, part of the GreaterGood Network

A favor to ask, it only takes a minute….

Please tell ten friends to tell ten today! The Breast Cancer site is having trouble getting enough people to click on their site daily to meet their quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on ‘donating a mammogram’ for free (pink window in the middle).

This doesn’t cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors /advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate mammogram in exchange for advertising.

Here’s the web site! Pass it along to people you know.

http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/

The headline of their third most read story at present?

Spider-Man Splits with Mary Jane, Wife of 20 Years

Talk about burying the lead. They kind of missed the boat on what pissed off fans about “One More Day”, and reacted like “Oh well, they broke up.” When I first clicked the headline, I totally thought that they would have been running something like …

Spider-Man Implicated in Marriage-for-Health Scheme

or

Spider-Man: Hero, Menace, or Devil Deal-Maker?

or

Liberal Vigilante Dumps Soap Opera Trollop for Old Woman

or

Spidey and Mary Jane: How It’s Hillary’s Fault

For those of you who are unaware, Shots in the Dark is the official podcast of Shotgun Reviews. Its hosted by regular Shotgun contributors Lucas Siegel, Janelle Siegel and Vince Scalabrino. They’re joined by Imoticon, JB, and The Viceroy, expert gamers and a professional video game designer. These heavily opinionated folks dissect and occasionally eviscerate pop culture with the same tongue-in-cheek cynicism you’ve come to know and love here at Shotgun.

In their most recent episode, the Shots in the Dark crew reviews Talisman: The Board Game, coupled with a lively round table discussion of the most controversial Marvel arc of the 21st century, Spider Man’s One More Day. And if you’re into video games at all, you’d be interested to hear the exclusive cheat for Rock Band that the crew discovered. Curious? Head on over and give them a listen. Or just click on the big, blue, appropriately-named button above and get your fix.

As a child, my favorite superhero was Batman. As an adult, my favorite superhero is Batman. Batman has a quality that many of the other heroes lack: he is just an ordinary human. None of the things Batman does are things an average Joe could learn to do if said average Joe stuck with it and persevered.

As a Bat-fan and also a girl, there were many women I could have chosen to look up to. In the end, for a silly reason, I chose Barbara Gordon as Batgirl (hey, we have the same name, and she’s awesome). Now, my fangirlism has lain dormant for awhile, given that I have tried to put every Batman between 1989 and 2005 out of mind, but Barbara Gordon has remained in the back of my mind.

I was doing some Wikipedia searching on characters in the DC universe recently and I decided to see what the Standard Repository of All Knowledge had to say about my old friend. I discovered a character I knew nothing about, Oracle, who was the crippled ace computer hacker to the Justice League. AWESOME. She is also the only woman represented in BusinessWeek’s top ten list of most intelligent superheroes.

According to the same Wiki page, however, at one point it was suggested that Babs use the Lazarus pit to de-cripple herself and come back as Batgirl wearing a variant of the cape and cowl with red accents instead of yellow. This idea was ultimately turned down, but I think it has some merit.

I mean, imagine this: Babs remains undercover as Oracle, despite her newfound ability to walk again. She maintains not one, but TWO secret identities, the second of which would be THE COOLEST BATGIRL EVER. I mean, come on. She’d be batshit insane, smarter than most of the supervillains out there, and she’d be able to show Batman a thing or two about a thing or two with regards to vigilante justice.

Not only this, but girls get a comic book character they can identify with, whose costume doesn’t consist of a thong and a corset, and who isn’t a complete bimbo.

Now there’s something I could get behind.

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It is hilarious. Watch the reporter try to bend the kid to her will and hope to put him in a crying situation. He’s just too damn cocky and ego-filled to care. He’s definitely a bit of an ass, but the way he makes the reporter eat it? Priceless. :)

It’s barely three weeks into 2008 and it appears we already have a major contender, if not the hands-down winner, for the worst movie of the year. Yay! Congrats to you, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (can the title be any longer or cheesier?), for firmly and proudly staking your claim for the “top” prize.

Not even hottie Jason Statham could redeem this movie for me as I was so overwhelmingly astonished and shocked by its sheer horribleness that I actually walked out of the theater! Being the major movie buff that I am, I never walk out of movies. Ever. Nor have I ever asked for my money back, until last night.

The level of awfulness on display was so pungent that any attempt to find enjoyment in the mocking of the actors, the script, the direction, or the score was simply impossible, as this film boldly out-craps all others. Below, a smattering of just a few elements that contributed to the movie’s overall stank-factor:   (more…)

That’ll never be me…
That’ll never be me…
That’ll never be, never be me.
NO… NO, NEVER, NEVER, EVER.
And don’t you EVER THINK IT.

From a Clay Aiken interview with Newsweek on CNN.com . . .

He told the magazine he was so sore from rehearsals he “couldn’t even get off the toilet the other day.”

In how many ways is that just a little too vivid?

Want to know what Britney did?
Nicole Richie had a kid
Hilary feuds with Obama
Xtina is also now a mama
Christina sings better than Spears
K-Fed never pays for beers
Golden Globes felt strike pain
We’re kinda tired of John McCain
John Edwards isn’t much better
Mitt Romney wears goofy sweaters
Most candidates try to please us
Huckabee just runs for Jesus
Sex on tape for Amy Fisher
Whatever happened to Catherine Disher?
Chargers make the Colts their victims
Cowboys lost to Jessica Simpson
It snows 14 inches in New England
Would Tom Brady bang a penguin?
Would he ditch a brand new egg?
Britney’s custody on last leg
U.N. ignores procurement ban
I don’t think Bush likes Iran
Alligators attacking dogs
No marine jokes in our blogs

Thank you!
*snap snap*

Check this out.

Can you imagine the conversation on the inside?

“What are you in for?”

“DUI. Meth. Intent to distribute. You?”

“I left my toddler in the van in freezing weather so I could go to a strip joint.”

“Now really . . . which one of us has the bigger problem?”