Stone Cold Crazy

Having previously trained his camera on Fidel Castro, Oliver Stone raises right-wing hackles again with his South Of The Border documentary profile of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who appears to have become America’s Public Enemy #1.

“He’s more dangerous than Bin Laden,” thunders a CNN commentator somewhat hysterically. “The effects of Chavez and his war against America could eclipse 9/11.”
Whatever your political leanings, the southoftheborder.dogwoof.com trailer suggests we’re in for another treat when the film lands here later in the month.
Meanwhile, if you’ve ever had impure thoughts about Tiffany and Debbie Gibson having a food fight – we at Caught In The Net certainly have! – then all your mucky Christmases have just come at once!
Yup, the word from Hollyweird is that the ‘80s pop moppets are co-starring in the new SyFy Channel movie, Mega Python vs. Gatoroid.
We’re sure a lot of men – and women – of a certain age will get a kick from the www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ-TmUg3w9o preview footage. The follow up to the equally challenging and thought provoking Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus is due in early 2011 and will no doubt clean up at the Oscars.
Political animal that Caught In The Net is, we were v. grateful to reader Danny Wright for alerting us to the Republican candidate for the Governorship of Tennessee and his, er, remarkable oratory style. If you’ve yet to make Basil Marceaux’s deranged acquaintance, you can do so now at www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hvaeHllwtw&feature=player_embedded#.
Congratulations to him and the Grand Old Party for coming up with somebody even more unelectable than Sarah Palin.
Which just leaves time for quick visits to www.dailylit.com (free books dropped into your inbox); www.trinnyandsusannah.com (British fashionistas in self-parody sense of humour shocker!); and www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RDX8U-sgZg (video for The Inspector Cluzo’s fab ‘Fuck Michael Jackson’).