'Bred Crumbs

11:24 PM A shoutout* to noted Trek fan Gabriel, who found my scribblings about his appearance in a certain documentary "amusing, actually" and dropped me a note. Gabriel is now married, mullet-free, and appearing occasionally on a TV near you via Comedy Central's Beat the Geeks (the next scheduled Gabriel ep is Friday). Find out more about his real life now in the news section of his site.

The fact that I was so intrigued by that brief, filmed glimpse of Gabriel's young life, and that it made him somewhat famous, and that I'm kind of excited to have been contacted by him -- all this has me thinking about the nature of modern American celebrity until my head itches.

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Speaking of modern American celebrities who make me itch, here are two.

-- Michael Rosenbaum: Far and away the best reason to watch Smallville (though the show itself is getting better). Those sly eyes, that crafty smile, that great pate. And he gets extra points for voicing Flash on the new Justice League cartoon -- which I can't see because of my crappy cable system, which now falls into the hands of Comcast -- which, as fate would have it, ran the very first cable system I was ever hooked into. Anyway, Michael Rosenbaum is shiny.

-- Sean Astin: Puts the hot in hobbit. Who knew from The Goonies that he would grow up so, so nicely? (Although Toy Soldiers was a clue.)

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What's that grumbling I hear beneath the film acclaim for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring? Why, it's long-forgotten animator Ralph Bakshi, being shocked and appalled as only an out-of-touch egotist could be that no one consulted him before making this movie. What, the maker of a drab, botched film version that no one saw wasn't consulted?

* "Shoutout" -- a chunk of slang that was popular among teens for about a month a lustrum ago, yet it still amuses me greatly.

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