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Not funny, totally shouldn't-be-working anymore Dan Akyroyd is excited about the new Ghostbusters movie that he's working on. "I'd like it to be a passing-of-the-torch movie. Let's revisit the old characters briefly and happily and have them there as family but let's pass it on to a new generation," he said to the LATimes. Alyssa Milano (who is a voice in the upcoming "Ghostbusters" video game) and Eliza Dushku are his two top choices for sexy young female Ghostbusters. "I think they're amazing," he said. "And I'm excited about the whole idea of getting this done." ("Because I'll make a ton of money off it", he forgot to add)

So, apparently, in Cannes, at a news conference, self-declared "world's greatest director," Lars von Trier yelled at reporters and defended his new horror movie Antichrist. I love totally delusional directors who love themselves (Uwe Boll). Who doesn't? Lars really comes off as an asshole, but the kind I'd like to support by reposting about his films...

As she was applauded after the recent Cannes screening of her gothic romance Bright Star, which tells of the romance between the 19th century romantic poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, New Zealand director Jane Campion had a few things to say about how male-dominated Hollywood stinks. She's the only woman to have ever won the Cannes Palme d'Or for 1993's The Piano, and she's one of only 3 women directors who have films in competition at Cannes this year out of 20 (Andrea Arnold and Isabel Coixet are the others) "The studio system is an old boy's system, and it's difficult for them to trust women to be capable," said Jane. "So good luck to my female friends in the competition. They represent half the population [who] gave birth to the whole world."

Megan Fox can suck me. Complaining that she's not being taken seriously in Hollywood because she's too beautiful, she claims she's hungry for some really good roles but just isn't being given a fair shake because of her unearthly and amazingly wonderful good looks. She says, cussing like a low-class tramp, "It p**ses me when people f**king complain that I'm too beautiful to get a part. That's bulls**t." Megan, who feels that starring in the Transformers franchise isn't a sign of being taken seriously, sheds some wise light on what's wrong with the world in general: "You wouldn't be working if you weren't attractive. Hollywood is the most superficial thing you could possibly be a part of. And if I weren't attractive I wouldn't be working at all.” She's so right. The truth is, Megan, that no one will hire you for good roles not because you're too pretty, but because you are a terrible actress. So... go away.

I just love nutjobs on the Internet, don't you? recently, on the Hallmark Channel community, a new crazy created a forum topic asking Hallmark Channel to please stop actress Catherine Hicks from appearing on the network anymore because of her work in horror movies. Hicks starred in Chucky's debut movie Child's Play, the thriller Turbulence, as Dr. Gillian Taylor in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and the 1982 slasher Death Valley. Oh! And she's also the mom on 7th Heaven, the obnoxious family show now running on The Hallmark Channel. "She is sending out something subconscious in her onscreen work. The character Annie may be a ministers wife, but the actress Catherine Hicks is a mercenary - selling her own soul, and endangering the sensibilities of her viewers, just to make money." says Crazy...

That's right. Infamous porn star and underground cinema cameo queen Traci Lords is 41 today. After starring in hundreds of X-rated movies (starting at the tender age of 16), Traci appeared in the vampire movie Blade as 'Racquel', 1993's Stephen King adaptation The Tommyknockers, 'Wanda Woodward' in John Waters's Cry Baby, and so many more bad B-thriller, destruction movies, low-budget action flicks, and horror movies that we can't even express our gratitude to this tacky broad.

Comedian Dom Deluise passed away yesterday in Santa Monica, California at the age of 75. Dom Deluise was a man, but his portrayal of the fiesty and over-the-top Aunt Kate in the 1986 classic horror homage Haunted Honeymoon makes this a sad loss for funny women in horror everywhere. "My brother John, from whom you are all descended, was bitten on the back of his neck by something that was half animal, half human. From that moment on, he was hairy, all over." - Aunt Kate. In addition to Aunt Kate, Deluise was the monstrous edible Pizza The Hut in Spaceballs, Guilt in an episode of Amazing Stories, Dr. Dudley in the 1960's TV horror series The Munsters, and just finished a cameo in the upcoming horror movie Horrorween...

Emma Caulfield, who played the she-demon Anya on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, during a WPIX interview about her new sci-fi/romance film TiMER (which premiered at the TriBeCa FIlm Festival Sunday night), reveals that a Buffy reunion film is an idea that has been "circling" among her former Buffy castmates and Joss Whedon. Caulfield goes on to say she keeps in touch with her Buffy co-stars and even though her character died in the TV series, "anything is possible" given the fantasy genre of the show. She gives us hope. Watch!...

Deborah Perez claims that her father, Guy Ward Hendrickson, who died in 1993, was the Zodiac killer who murdered at least five people in the late Sixties. The grisly murder mystery has inspired countless movies and true crime novels, and for more than 40 years no one has been able to name the killer who terrorized San Francisco by shooting or stabbing couples as they 'parked' in their cars at night...

Femputer: 'Have you any idea how it feels to be a fembot living in a manbot's manputer's world?' Actress and comedienne Bea Arthur passed away yesterday, April 25th, at the age of 86. Though best known for her work in the TV comedies Maude and The Golden Girls, Arthur was the voice of the 'Femputer' (female computer) on the all-women Amazon planet in the 2001 Futurama episode Amazon Women in the Mood. She also had memorable roles in Mel Brooks' History of the World: Part I (1981), as 'Ackmena' in The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978), and on several episodes of the 1950's Kraft Mystery Theatre genre series...