North Carolina men's basketball coach Roy Williams grooms one of the top teams in the country year after year, but he'd fail a pop culture quiz miserably.
A reporter recently threw a question at him beginning with "I don't mean to be Dr. Phil-esque with this, but ...” One problem: Williams had no idea who Dr. Phil was. And years ago, when he coaching at Kansas, Williams reportedly judged a celebrity look-alike contest and couldn't identify Kramer from Seinfeld.
Amy Winehouse's mother Janis is saying her daughter is on the road to recovery, according to the Associated Press. The proof? Her performance on the Grammys Sunday night.
“Well, as you saw, she looks good and it's a case of she's on the road — and that's what it's about — she's on the road to recovery,” Janis said in an interview with Britain's GMTV.
Well, if that's what we call "looking good," then Britney must be completely cured.
We wish Amy the best though. It'd be awful for that kind of talent to go to waste. Amy's public relations firm says she is still under medical supervision and getting outpatient treatment. The firm also said it was too early to say whether a rumored performance at the Brit Awards on Feb. 20 with “Back to Black” collaborator Mark Ronson would happen.
The Associated Press reports that an outage has disconnected BlackBerry smart phones throughout North America:
"AT&T Inc. says the disruption Monday is affecting all wireless carriers. AT&T first learned about the problem at about 3:30 p.m. EST.
There's no word on the cause or when the problem might be fixed.
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion did not immediately return a phone call."
It's only fitting that they haven't returned phone calls. They probably all have BlackBerrys.
Are there any other fans of HBO's The Wire out there? If you haven't seen the latest episode that aired last Sunday, then don't read this. But this season is so stressful that I almost can't take it. Everything is unraveling. When Omar starts breaking his code and unnecessarily taking lives, you know the fit is about to hit the shan. Will McNulty and Lester get caught? Does the reporter/liar/tool finally go down? And is Clay Davis going to get away with his shady dealings? For a sign of things to come, you might want to check out the prequels that are available on Time Warner Cable's On Demand. At first I thought these were pointless, but they seem to be offering viewers a bit of foreshadowing.
Ugh, didn't I vow to skip over trailers of spring movies?! Yet I keep getting sucked in! Anyway, Smart People got some buzz at this year's Sundance festival, and has a lovely marquee. But hopefully, Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker and Ellen Page make the movie way more interesting than the trailer. The movie's apparently about a laid-back relative (Thomas Haden Church) moving in with Quaid's uptight professor and his daughter (Page). Somehow, SJP falls for Quaid's stuffy-seeming character. And hilarity ensues?!
Release date: April 11
Chance of box office success: Not great. I got bored with the trailer a half-minute in. Plus, SJP -- playing a doctor! -- looked way too Sex and the City compared with the rest of the cast.
Should you see it?: I'd wait till the DVD release.
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