***Nothing gets butts in seats like baiting a generally well-liked governor who's sort of on your side to begin with. At a rally in Los Angeles yesterday, Michael Moore taunted Arnold Schwarzenegger (who was not present) for becoming a bodybuilder on the back of the Austrian universal health care system. "I would like Gov. Schwarzenegger to say that he wants the citizens of California to have the same, fine, universal health coverage he got as a young man in the country of Austria," Moore said. "That great Austrian health care system that provided you with that fine body that you brought to this great country."
***Sony has hired novice David Ondaatje to write, direct and produce an update of Alfred Hitchcock's 1927 silent film The Lodger. Ondaatje's version, which will presumably be shot with sync sound, is expected to transplant the original serial-killer source story to modern-day Los Angeles.
***Apparently locating its demographic as "middle-aged men too lazy to change the channel", FX has paid $16 million for the cable premiere rights to Wild Hogs.
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