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No matter if you hate them, you have to acknowledge:

Star power isn't opening something [a movie] that is already highly appealing to a mass audience that has the benefit of your name on the poster. Star power is scoring a reasonable or better opening weekend for a film that has nothing to offer except your name on the poster. On that scale, Miley Cyrus, Zac Efron, and Robert Pattinson are genuine movie stars.

--Scott Mendelson, Zac Efron, Robert Pattinson, and Miley Cyrus ARE genuine movie stars. Because true stardom is opening a movie with just your face on the poster. 

Slim Fast & Secret Fat

When I think of Slim Fast, I always think back to my fifth grade teacher Mrs. M, who was a rather tall, large woman of impressive stature and intimidating nature; she was a bit like a human-sized bull dog with a propensity for barking out advice and demanding discipline (a bit similar to this lady, but slightly less dominatrix/Nazi-like), and part of her own discipline was downing many a can of Slim Fast everyday (my third-grade teacher Mr. L had a similar addiction to a canned beverage, but he didn't need to lose weight; he drank Coca Cola during the day to stave off cravings for the cocaine he had to wait until school let out to snort).

Coming across these Slim Fast wedding cake ads on Fashion Foie Gras, I was immediately immersed in a nostalgia for those long-gone elementary school days of simple humor:

RIP Rue

Rue McClanahan, most famous for portraying Blanche Devereaux on The Golden Girls. Image via The Mick's Grill.

I never really watched her show, but whenever I flipped to it and she came on the screen so unabashedly comfortable and vibrant with her need for physical intercourse in the years where we don't like to think about people having sex (spoiler! The Notebook's ending = 2 old people having sex = ewwwwwwww). Blanche really knew how and quite shamelessly liked to get it on. She's like the original Samantha, so props.