Kim Cattrall (center) looking as good as her younger counterparts. (Photo copyright Tom Hunter)

More evidence that middle-aged women still have what it takes: Kim Cattrall of Sex and the City posed for photographer Tom Hunter amid some nubile twenty-somethings as part of a high profile plan to save an art masterpiece. No wonder MILF has entered the universal lexicon! For details click here

Entertainment Weekly reporter Dave Karger has seen Gran Torino and thinks that, although the film is a long-shot for a Best Picture Oscar nod, he thinks Clint Eastwood's swan-song acting performance is impressive enough to merit a nomination. For more click here

McQueen in The Sand Pebbles

Unlike many contemporary stars who use every good deed as a self-serving photo op, Steve McQueen chose to perform acts of kindness without any fanfare whatsoever. It is only now that the true extent of this man's charitable works is emerging. While shooting The Sand Pebbles in Taiwan in 1966, he became the patron of a local orphanage. He had a weakness for kids in trouble because he could identify with his own troubled youth. Throughout his adult life, he gave generous charitable donations to various causes, and backed it up with unpublicized personal appearances to boost the spirits of children who were sick or impoverished. Near the end of his life, he visited a dying teenager's mother and promised to make good on her wish that her daughter receive a good education. McQueen and his wife Barbara  insured that the girl was sent to an expensive boarding school where she received a top notch education. For more on McQueen's charitable works, click here.

Entertainment Weekly has put together a list of the 20 most appalling TV shows ever. It says a lot about our society that virtually all of them have aired of the last few years and each one is a so-called "reality" show (assuming your life is filled with Botoxed, plastic-boobed, brain-dead women and beefy men whose combined I.Q doesn't equal their shirt collar size). It's hard to argue with the list, though we confess to not having seen all of them. The shows are so awful that Jerry Springer barely eeks onto the list at #20. In between we have shows dedicated to cheating on your significant other, shows in which stupid women pretend to be even more stupid than they really are to convince stupid viewers they aren't acting stupid, O.J. Simpson taking time off from tracking down his wife's killers to allow himself to be filmed in jail during his latest stint behind bars, dating shows for little people, Kid Nation in which CBS abuses children in ways William Golding never imagined possible when he wrote Lord of the Flies, a show devoted to the daily activities of the new Marilyn Monroe-Anna Nicole Smith (minus the looks or talent), a show called wife swap that is so intellectually dishonest it doesn't even involve sex but rater, trashy women kvetching at red neck guys who wear baseball hats backwards, and a show in which normal looking women are gently educated that their lives are worthless unless they increase the size of their tits and undergo massive makeovers, etc, etc. However, we can now say that we've reached a point in popular culture in which My Mother, the Car and Hee-Haw now look like the works of John Ford. - Lee Pfeiffer For the list click here

Most people's perception of secret agent Matt Helm was derived from the four 1960s big screen feature films starring Dean Martin as a thinly-veiled Hugh Hefner, mixing sexual escapes, hi tech gadgets and puns that qualify as guilty pleasures. However, those films were always a thorn in the side of purists who were dedicated to the real Matt Helm, whose adventures they enjoyed in the pages of the novels written by Donald Hamilton, who passed away in 2006. Matt Helm: The Unofficial Homepage offers interesting insights and articles pertaining to the literary aspect of the Sixties superspy - and he's a far cry from Dino's interpretation. Hamilton created his hero as a serious persona who engaged in gritty espionage work with nary a Slaygirl in sight. To visit the site, click here.

The TV Party web site has a great chronology of John Wayne's appearances on TV from the 1950s through the 1960s including clips of him clowning on The Dean Martin Show, appearing in sketches with Lucille Ball and someo of the promos he did to raise funds to fight cancer. It's a gold mine for fans of the Duke. To view the articles and clips, click here

The Magnificent Seven is among the MGM films you can now watch on Youtube.

MGM has entered an agreement with Youtube to allow the web site to begin broadcasting full length films from the studio. They will be uncut but a side panel of advertisements will be visible to viewers. For more click here

Here's one fans of Clint Eastwood's Kelly's Heroes won't be able to live without. Artist Dave Avenell has created a commemorative print of Donald Sutherland as Oddball. Get it if you want to minimize the negative waves in your life. Avenell also has some other cool pieces of concept art based on popular films. For more click here

We've all been in the presence of those snooty, ascot-wearing, pseudo-intellectuals who are always compelled to tell you that the book was better than the movie. However, in some cases, the book actually is better than the movie. Entertainment Weekly takes a look at some of the more notable examples. Click here to read.

Here's another good one from whoever the lunkhead is employed by Cablevision of central New Jersey to write up descriptions of movies being shown that week.

Babe, Pig in the City: "A farmer's wife and her young porker are detained in a city rooming house with a menagerie."

Keep in mind, someone gets paid to write these! We can just imagine their synopsis for Gone With the Wind: "A poor southern belle uses curtains for a dress."

He was one of the best second bananas in 1960s British films. Victor Spinetti appeared with The Beatles in both A Hard Day's Night and Help!  Click here to read his memories of making both movies.

RARE ORIGINAL 1977 PROMOTIONAL COCA-COLA TIE IN FOR STAR WARS CAMPAIGN IN JAPAN

Planet of the Apes fans will want to check out several new videos available on the www.PotaMediaArchive.com site. They include ‘Roddy McDowall’s Home Movies’ taken behind the scenes during the filming of PLANET; the ‘Original Screen Test’ from 1965 with Edward G. Robinson as Dr. Zaius and the Beneath preview film for the National Associations of Theater Owners. The ‘Beneath NATO film’ features extended versions of several scenes such as General Ursus’ speech and the Turkish bath scene. To view all the videos click here: http://www.potamediaarchive.com/Videos.htm

In case you've been lying awake sleepless at night pondering whatever happened to the bus Clint Eastwood drove in his 1977 film The Gauntlet, you can now put your mind to rest. The bus has had a history that is far more interesting than the movie it appeared in (arguably the worst of Eastwood's career, though The Rookie might also be worthy of the dubious honor). In the film's most absurd sequence, Eastwood, playing a renegade cop, drives the bus through a gauntlet of heavily armed police offers who pour thousands of rounds of ammo into it. Eastwood and Sandra Locke emerge unscathed due to a Rube Goldberg-like home made armour protection system he has installed. The film never explains why intelligent police officers would shoot through the bus with every epectation that rounds would kill their fellow officers on the other side. Nevertheless, we digress. The bus had been purchased by a couple who spent over $60,000 repairing it and taking out the bullet holes so they could use it as a recreational vehicle. They have now doated it to the Salvation Army, which in turn auctioned it to another man for $10,000. He intends to use it as an RV and also as a guest home named Gauntlet's Ghost. (We don't envy the tenants who have to rely on one of those dreadful bus toilets in which to relieve themselves!)