- The critics are not exactly sandbagging Spidey-3, but they aren't singing its praises either. The lovely Manohla Dargis weighs in on the wheezy franchise.

Sex change anyone? Alexis Arquette celebrates the doc about her life "She's My Brother" in NYC with some shirtless friends. The fellows look like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Football team.

 - Patrick Rodio, aspiring screenwriter, has hit the wall and needs some advice: "I visited a message board recently, with screenwriters talking about all the contests they've won, and they are NOWHERE. And they had some decent placements in some good contests. I keep seeing the same names pop up as winners of various contests, with the same script, all the time. After winning these contests, they haven't gone anywhere? What the ****?"

- Was it a blackened-by-gunpowder fingernail or a tooth? Boy, these celebrity trials! Phil Spector, just by looking and being Phil Spector, is going to have a hard enough time convincing a jury, even an LA jury, he did not shoot Lana Clarkson which she drunkenly told him she "personally thought the wall of sound is overrated."