Maureen McCormick Marcia, Marcia, Marcia: A date with...Michael Jackson? Really? Frederick M. Brown, Getty Images

 


by Linda Holmes

• I'm truly not one for celebrity gossip, but I admit that I found it difficult to resist the pull of stories revealing that Marcia Brady went out with Michael Jackson. Seriously. In her new tell-all book, Maureen McCormick not only details her well-known relationship with her on-screen brother Barry Williams, but also reportedly describes dates with Jackson and with Steve Martin.

Wall Street, 'Mad Men,' and movie posters, after the jump...

• Stanley Weiser, who wrote the screenplay for Wall Street, is a little surprised that there were people who didn't know Gordon Gekko was a bad guy, and he writes about it today in the L.A. Times. All that comes just as it's announced that a Wall Street sequel is planned. I wonder if the tagline will be: "Public money is good."

• One of the things I really like about the Mad Men phenomenon is how adult the discussions of episodes after the fact tend to be. This Sunday's episode, "The Jet Set," was controversial with viewers, but the analysis after the fact from critics like the Chicago Tribune's Maureen Ryan and the New Jersey Star Ledger's Alan Sepinwall have been thoughtful and intrigued, rather than thumbs-up/thumbs-down affairs, and for the most part, fans have followed suit in their comments. Better television makes for better discussions about television -- intuitive, maybe, but not always obvious.

• One more interesting L.A. Times nugget: The lousy opening of this weekend's Body Of Lies -- Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio lost out by a large margin to the second weekend of Beverly Hills Chihuahua and by a smaller margin to the horror film Quarantine -- may accelerate the trend away from arranging movies around bankable stars.

• A feast for the eyes: 50 Beautiful Movie Posters.

categories: Roundups

8:47 - October 14, 2008

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