Roman Polanski (Rosemary’s Baby, Chinatown) is 76 years old and until recently has been living the life of a jet-setting fugitive for 30 + years. It was 32 years ago that the mercurial young director had admitted he had sexual intercourse with Samantha Geimer, now 45, in the Hollywood Hills home of Jack Nicholson. He [...]

Viral marketing be it for a film, beauty product or charity may be overtly manipulative but that doesn’t mean it can’t be entertaining.  Places like YouTube, Twitter and the web’s plethora of gossip sites are great launching pads for these creative vehicles that are anonymous and compelling and downloaded a million times before lunch.  What [...]

The Daily Helping likes to provide entertainment news worth looking forward to.  It’s easy to cast a disparaging eye on some of the antics of entertainers and  the questionable appetite of fans around the world, but there’s great satisfaction in finding something off in the distance, off the radar, so to speak… that can generate [...]

Two members of  the creative team at a popular Canadian fashion house recently quit over the  designer’s decision to use size 12 and 14 models in his catwalk shows during London’s Fashion Week.   The Canadian designer, Mark Fast showcased his Spring/Summer collection in front of a star-studded audience using only ‘normal’ sized women.  Though the [...]

A film that has been getting a lot of positive buzz for the past few months is a pretty dark and weirdly funny film by the guy who wrote “The Wrestler”. The movie is called, “Big Fan”. Writer (and now director) Robert D. Siegel has touched on mainstream sport and the almost unhinged devotion that [...]

Adrianne Curry was the first winner on Tyra Bank’s reality show, “America’s Top Model”. It’s an American Idol show for aspiring super models.  (The show has been on for 13 seasons,  which is slightly more incomprehensible than the 8 year run  of “According to Jim”, staring James Belushi). Adrianne parlayed her big win with a [...]

There’s misconception regarding high school. For as long as they’ve been sending kids to school, there’s been an underlying belief that nothing you’re going to learn there; will ever relate to your life as an adult.  That may very well be the case with Algebra II or understanding the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, but [...]

The title of “Comic Genius” gets tossed around a little too freely, and dilutes the real weight of such a moniker.  A comic genius changes the landscape of comedy and breaks new ground.  A comic genius is prolific, original and creates a legacy with work that stands the test of time. Last Friday, the entertainment [...]