I’m sure it comes as no surprise that a film featuring the likes of Brad Pitt, and director Quentin Tarantino has found its way to the top of the box office charts during its opening weekend. Sitting on my new classroom furniture I see that “Inglourious” has achieved a record opening for the famous director topping his April 2004 opening of Kill Bill Vol. 2 by more than $12 Million.

Inglourious Basterds opened the weekend with a $37.6 million take, overtaking last week’s number one District 9.

District 9 did incredibly well considering “Basterds” was angling directly for its male audience. The $30 million sci-fi movie from newcomer Neil Blomkamp dropped a scant 49% to $18.9 million putting its total ten day gross at an impressive $73 million. G.I. Joe also hung in for its third week in theaters. The high-octane action movie fell only 44% to $12.5 million. It’s three-week cume now stands at $120 million.

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Just browsing through the entertainment news today and see quite a few people talking about how terrible the Octomom Special was yesterday. Almost all say that if they didn’t have to write about it they wouldn’t have watched it past the first 15 minutes.

Octomom: The Incredible Unseen Footage, was a 2 hour special that showed Nadya Suleman, and her 14 kids, including the 8 octuplets in their “natural environment” we’ll say. Obviously the lady is a whack job and the kids are pretty much being exploited at every corner.

Trying to act as if she is avoiding media losers she covers her kids with a blanket and then proceeds to put on some make up and probably pop a couple weight losss supplements “just in case”.

I don’t even consider this a train wreck that you can’t turn away from. It is so far beyond that it probably isn’t even worth looking at anymore. Her “celebrity” life is pretty much over I would guess.

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Dr. Conrad Murray, the personal physician of Michael Jackson, released a statement today to his supporters on Youtube (Comments are off, but I’m sure you can find another place to rant if you choose). At the same time there have been several reports surfacing that he will be charged with some degree of manslaughter int he death of Michael Jackson.

Jane Robison, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office, denied that prosecutors had decided to charge Jackson’s physicians. “Until police complete their investigation and bring it to our office, there is no way to know what charges may be filed and against whom,” she said.

But the source told FOXNews.com that the DA’s office is currently in talks with investigators about whether they will offer Murray the option of surrendering in Los Angeles, or if he will be arrested in Houston, where he is currently staying.

This involved with the investigation call the video a PR stunt. Only posted to draw sympathy from the jury pool.

A spokeswoman for Murray’s legal team said the video was simply Murray’s way of thanking his supporters, and that the doctor’s friends and supporters who had provided contact information to the attorneys received an e-mail with the link to the YouTube video yesterday.

But others said the video was Murray’s “last testament” — a transparent attempt to garner sympathy and influence a jury pool. Kind of like he was showing off his costume for Halloween party invitations he had been getting.

“This was a total PR stunt,” said former Broward County prosecutor Kenneth Padowitz.

“I think what they’re trying to do is humanize him, trying to make him seem like this is somebody that maybe you could know and this is not a bad guy—that’s what they’re trying to do,” Padowitz said. “And for that limited purpose, it probably was effective….

“Is it a transparent attempt to get feelings in his favor? Yeah. It’s a gimmick.”

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The lovable, yet kind of dirty children’s show host. Pee-wee Herman is reprising his role after a 20 year absence in a new stage show.

Actor Paul Reubens is bringing back his beloved character in a stage show this coming November at the Music Box at The Fonda in Hollywood.

“I’ve put part of him away for a long time, but part of him has always been here with me,” the actor told the Los Angeles Times. “I think it will be like riding a bike — which is not a bad analogy for Pee-wee, by the way.”

After a bunch of supporting cast roles like his Florida vacations binge of cocaine in “Blow” and others, Reuben is finally bringing back what got him famous in the first place.

“I have some fear that he won’t be funny after all this time,” he continued. “I don’t want to ruin it.”

The stage show, titled “The Pee-wee Herman Show,” is based on the first version of the actor’s theatrical endeavor, which he launched at the Groundlings Theatre in LA in 1981.

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According to the godfather of Michael Jackson’s 3 children he thinks that he may be the biological father of Michael’s daughter Paris. Mark Lester , a longtime friend of Jackson’s, says Michael asked him if he would donate sperm during the time the singer was married to Debbie Rowe. He says a London clinic contacted him and he obliged with the donation.

Now he says that Paris bears an uncanny resemblance to his own daughter HArriet, and is willing to take a paternity test to find out if he may in reality be Paris’ actual father.

“It’s been a secret for so long,” said Mark. “In 1996 Michael asked me if I would give him my sperm and I said yes. It was a gift to him, no money was paid, it was something I was honoured to do. He wanted children so badly.”

“With Michael’s mother Katherine now their legal guardian it’s like the kids are being isolated,” he said. “Up until Michael’s memorial I was in touch with them on a weekly basis.

“I’m the Godparent to them and Michael was Godparent to all my four kids. Our two families spent a lot of time together, and had a lot fun together. Now I’m not able to have any communication with the children. My repeated phone calls aren’t returned and emails go unanswered.

“This isn’t what Michael would have wanted. I feel I have to come forward, as my only way of saying, ‘Please don’t shut me out!’”

Well…it doesn’t sound like it is for money, or the kitchen sink or whatever people think it is, so why the heck not let him find out? At the very least let the guy see the kids if he is indeed not lying about wanting to see them.

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I’ve seen some pretty silly stage hijinks at concerts before, but I don’t believe that faking an injury has been one of them.

Aerosmith fans at a Wednesday night show in Rapid City, South Dakota apparently thought they were seeing this spectacle, and obediently cheered the singer’s tumble. Not sure if any camcorders were on hand, but surely this will be on Youtube soon.

“We thought maybe he stage-dived into the crowd, but he didn’t get back up,” Jessica Kokesh, a University of South Dakota journalism student who was covering the concert, told the AP. “I thought he was falling back to crowd-surf.”

Security guards rushed to Tyler’s aid, and he was taken backstage to be attended to by a physician. Eventually, Tyler was loaded onto a helicopter bound for the Rapid City Regional Hospital, where, according to several reports, it was revealed that he suffered minor head and neck injuries, and an injured shoulder as a result of the fall. Shortly after the incident, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry informed the crowd that Tyler had been airlifted to a hospital, and the show was over.

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