Here’s Hollywood’s favorite joke:

Pete and Repeat went down to the lake. Pete fell in and who was left?

As Homer Simpson would say, it’s funny because it’s true.

I’m talking, of course, about Hollywood’s incessant need to mine the past – old movies, old TV shows – and redo them for a new audience.

Except that, recently, instead of calling them what they are – which is remakes – the marketing geniuses have come up with a new term: “reboot.” (More…)

The “Real Housewives” series on Bravo – which this week launched its “Real Housewives of New Jersey” franchise – would be amusing if it weren’t both pathetic and frightening.

I hesitate to call it a reality series, given that there’s nothing remotely real about these women. And calling them housewives does a disservice to any woman who ever took that job description, willingly or unwillingly. (More…)