"Nip/Tuck" really isn't THAT bad.

Even if it is pretty trashy in retrospect.

Also, I saw American Dreamz and loved it. It's basically a parody of "American Idol," except they really do get every last detail right (the winner's song "American Dreamz with a Z" and its surprise gospel choir backup singers are a scream). I was laughing, for the most part, but it was pretty uncomfortable laughter: One of the major plot points revolves around the producers having an Arab terrorist-in-training and a Jewish cantor competing against each other on the show, and another only promotes the conspiracy theory that Dick Cheney is doing all of the work for W by prompting him on what to say. Don't watch this movie as a double feature with Borat. It will only remind you of how much is wrong with America right now.

Thank goodness we still have Stephen King to set us right.

And he's actually still writing!