August 12 - 18 – We admit that we’d never before heard of the underground comic book writer Harvey Pekar, the subject of the new HBO film American Splendor. Apparently we’re alone, because Sean Astin, Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Sopranos’ Drea DeMatteo, Steven Schirripa and John Ventimiglio, Helen Gurley Brown and Gretchen Mol all are fans. American Splendor, starring Paul Giamatti, James Urbaniak and Judah Friedlander, has received tremendous buzz and critical acclaim. We’re humbled.

At the premiere of And Starring Pancho Villa, when a reporter asked star Antonio Banderas who’d made his black suit, Banderas opened his jacket, glanced at the label, and replied, “That’s easy. Versace.” His wife, Melanie Griffith, responded to the same question about her black pantsuit with, “Zac Posen. But I just found that out.” Super-svelte, Griffith claimed that dancing on Broadway in the musical Chicago keeps her in shape. Then Griffith got profound, opining in her breathy, little-girl voice on the previous week’s massive blackout, “Well, it was hot and dark, wasn’t it?”