The appeal of the Golden Globes and to a lesser extent, the Red Carpet ceremony is to see the big stars behaving as you’re not used to seeing them….like ordinary people. As fantastic an actress as Meryl Streep may be, there’s a hard to define pleasure in seeing her laugh, mingle and behave like the [...]

In the past, DailyHelping has weighed in on the Oscar, but never followed up to crow or eat crow. Today, we’ll stray from the norm…and see how we did. Best Picture went to The Artist. This felt like a foregone conclusion, but the appeal of this movie is confounding. Perhaps the Academy wanted to celebrate [...]

                Best Picture The Artist  (We just don’t understand the appeal. Old story, boringly conveyed. ) The Descendants  (Clooney did better elsewhere) Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Met anyone who liked this? We neither) The Help (Possible surprise winner here) Hugo ( Let Nickelodeon give it an award) [...]

Kate Upton is everywhere, and that’s not a bad thing. Recently picked to be the cover model for Sports Illustrated coveted swimsuit edition, the young woman is definitely not afraid of over-exposure. She’s the featured “Woman We Love” in this month’s Esquire magazine and in major motion pictures like the Farrelly Brother’s reprise of The [...]

The Jack in the Box fast-food franchise has launched a fairly ridiculous sales campaign around one of the world’s most desirable resources.  Bacon. They’ve created a young character called Neal whose fetish for the savory goodness has him utterly consumed. The commercials that show him getting married to a slice of bacon are fairly disappointing [...]

Are “prequels” any better than “sequels” or “re-boots”? In the right hands, they can be very entertaining, providing compelling back stories for characters we thought we knew well. It can be said that some of the more compelling aspects of the first Godfather film were those scenes with Robert DeNiro playing a younger Vito Corleone. [...]