Before They Were Stars: A Mega-Mix

25 fresh-faced pre-celebs in some rather embarrassing, perhaps best-forgotten roles you might have missed...

The Post-Oscars Thing

Between busily adding movies to the site and watching a live web stream of the Oscars yesterday afternoon (and also tweeting), I didn't really get a complete feel for how it all went down, but it seems like the general consensus is that it was another ho-hum year, even though it was reportedly the most watched Oscars in five years. One surprising, perfectly cringey and awkward moment is worth mentioning - it's been called "Kanye moment" of the Oscars: during the Best Documentary Short award - which went to Music By Prudence - director-producer Roger Ross Williams was ambushed on stage by producer Elinor Burkett, who went on to hog the microphone for the rest of the acceptance speech. Watch the video below and then head over to Salon to read an interview with the filmmakers about what happened:

One for the Dogs

It seems after a brief career resurrection with Pulp Fiction, John Travolta has gone back to his old Look Who's Talking days. I guess it's been 15 years since that comeback, so it's not such a big surprise, but I think he's hit rock bottom here. Watch this music video (a cover of Bobby Brown's "Every Little Step"!!!) Travolta did with daughter Ella Bleu for his "family" comedy Old Dogs and weep. It's one of the cringiest famous-people-do-headslapping-things I've seen in a while: