Some rich dude's house or something...

Premiering in syndication in 1984, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous was one of the most popular shows of the decadent '80s, showcasing the spoils of being successful and/or born filthy stinking rich.

The very voice of host Robin Leach became synonymous with excess and guilded banisters, and his tagline wishing everyone "champagne wishes and caviar dreams" alternately irritated and motivated most of the viewing public. People would daydream of hearing narrator David Greenspan describe their imaginary houses.

Of course sometimes the LOTR&F team would make more peculiar visits during the show's run and see things that still boggle the mind. Who knew that David Lee Roth's dad lived in a mansion and wrote novels?

These days you can see Leach appearing on Fox News railing on Comrade Obama for his socialist ways.

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Time's almost up, dude.

Houston has a zombie bar crawl at least every other weekend, with the ghastly undead walking amongst us, running up monstrous tabs. Teen girls are now just finally putting down their Twilight books. Wizards and warlocks were Potter-ed to death the past decade, leaving just the withered husks of Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint.

Each Halloween thousands of faux-pirates in poorly applied eyeliner descend onto your house parties dressed in raggedy, puffy shirts or cleavage-baring corsets that they will only wear once and throw away. Ninjas are an ever-present topic of Internet discussion. And, you never know, one could be right behind your chair.

Damn, you just missed him.

But who or what could be the next big thing when it comes to go-to pop-culture characters? They don't even have to be real. I mean, it could be argued that zombies are real, since the brain-starved LMFAO is so popular, and pirates are still roaming the high seas, albeit with machine guns in much smaller boats and with less bling in their hair and teeth.

Even Saturday Night Live lampooned the vampire craze with a sketch ("Firelight") about Twilight-style sexy Frankenteens, with Taylor Swift in the role originated by Kristen Stewart.

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Yesterday the first official trailer for this fall's star-studded, Instagram-colored gangster flick The Gangster Squad was released, featuring Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn with a Dick Tracy-style facial appliance, Nick Nolte Nick Nolte-ing the scenery and Josh Brolin frowning for the big bucks.

Emma Stone shows up in glamorous '50s pin-up drag to ably entice Baby Goose Gosling as a gun moll. The thought of Penn putting his mitts on his screen gal Stone makes me sick, like "Octomom" sick. Will she be believable as anything but a cute and funny redhead? Will I still follow 17 Tumblr blogs devoted to her? We'll just have to wait and see.

Oh, and at the end of the trailer some hip-hop gets thrown in because dumb, stupid wiener kids won't come to the theater unless there's hip-hop involved, or so think the studios. This is 2012, you guys. This same thing turned me off seeing The Rum Diary in theaters because we needed some reggaeton or whatever to sell the trailer to people who didn't know the source material.

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This week the trailer for this summer's Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis vehicle The Campaign dropped online. The film chronicles the political campaigns of Cam Brady and Marty Huggins, played by Ferrell and Galifianakis, and will surely catch fire in this presidential election year.

The only problem that one could have with The Campaign is that Ferrell seems to be playing his Dubya act through a Step Brothers Instagram filter. And Galifianakis is doing his meek Fugees-loving "Seth Galifianakis" character from a few years back.

But yeah, this still looks entertaining. And you will still go see it. Director Jay Roach's last effort was the 2008 election docu-comedy Game Change for HBO.

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By now we have all read about the lurid accusations against actor John Travolta that have been leveled by not one, but two male masseuses. Or is it masseui? Both men have now filed lawsuits and the details of each allegation are disturbing. Travolta's people are denying each man's story vehemently.

If you haven't been paying attention, this isn't the first time that the actor's sexuality has come into question. His alleged secret sex spa life has been tabloid fodder for years. Vocal Scientologist Travolta has been married to actress Kelly Preston since 1991.

Oddly enough, Travolta and Tom Cruise have been the most out-but-not-out actors in the industry, according to fanciful gossip rags. Not a week or month goes by without a new story about one of them either hitting on a dude or trying to cop a feel.

When Travolta took on the role of Edna Turnblad in the musical Hairspray remake, originated by drag queen Divine, the world exploded with rumor.

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Last night a new trailer for this summer's surefire The Dark Knight Rises hit the Internet, featuring more footage of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a new face in the story, Batman looking beat to hell and defeated, and Bane sporting a new, clearer speaking voice.

Tom Hardy's muffled dialect as Bane was a fun bone of contention with fans and critics when the first few minutes of the film were released months ago. It sounds like Christopher Nolan and crew may have had Hardy dub new lines for Bane as the July 20 release date edges closer and closer.

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In a recent story in The New York Times, it was noted that relationships, which already face numerous hardships, have a new foe: social networking. More specifically, sharing too much information about a partner or loved one can, in short, really piss them off. To be sure, figuring out what is okay and what isn't in a relationship is difficult enough without the added dimension of an audience. This sort of micro celebrity lifestyle places added pressure on both people to find a balance between freely expressing personal, sometimes intimate details of their lives and maintaining healthy levels of privacy.

And those levels are different for everyone. Some people, however crass it may seem to some of us, actively encourage their friends and family members to tweet and post on Facebook at events like birthdays, weddings and even during childbirth (ew). More than the revolution will be televised, it would appear. Others eschew all forms of social media and dream of living "off the grid."

Still, there are some fairly simple guidelines you can follow to avoid getting caught in the crosshairs of an angry significant other.

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I first learned about Pinterest over last Christmas when the girlfriend would spend hours staring at her phone or laptop while we were being all domestical, looking at pretty pictures of puppies, food, babies and house crap. I remember saying, "Meh, it's just Tumblr for chicks," as I clicked on my Tumblr app and looked at memes of puppies, food, babies and naked girls.

I'm not going to lie, the recipes on Pinterest have proven to be profitable for my waistline, and they make grocery shopping fun. Texas Toast has so many possibilities!

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When I was a kid, most of my makeup consisted of hand-me-downs from my mother's cosmetics case, or 99 cent Wet n' Wild purchases from the local Rexall Pharmacy. On Saturdays, my friend Andrea and I would ride our bikes downtown and shop for cheap makeup created, branded and marketed (it seemed) for little girls like us. Fast-forward to our teen years, when I started hanging out with my friend Jessica, who had a drawer full of expensive makeup from brands like Clinique, Estée Lauder and Shiseido. Jess would gift me the items too light for her Italian princess coloring, which often came as a gift with purchase (GWP). The first time I hit the department store to replace one of these items, I was in for a serious case of sticker shock. Twenty dollars for a lipstick? Thirty for face cream? It was too rich for my blood, and I returned to the world of drugstore makeup, supplemented by the occasional castoff from Jessica.

If a stroll through the beauty counters at your favorite department store leaves you with a similar case of sticker shock, you aren't alone. Beauty magazines regularly feature "spend vs. save" articles, as well as pieces on "Drugstore brands celebrities love!"

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A few weeks back while deep into hours upon hours of research for a Pauly Shore blog post -- joking -- I came to realize that 1992 was a big year for movies. It's unsettling to think that all of these movies are two decades old, because in 1992 when these flicks were released, 1972 was only twenty years in the past.

Did you know that kids born in 1992 can now vote, buy cigarettes, be in porn films, and buy industrial paint and glue from a hardware store? Where is my cane? Do I even need a cane? Who am I kidding, I'm only 28.

Just a few weeks ago, I chronicled the influence of Wayne's World -- a '92 baby -- here on Art Attack. This past week Dana Carvey teased ideas for a Wayne's World 3, getting our hopes up way too much.

Even freakier is that Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs turns 20 this year, meaning that we have now had to deal with cheesy QT knockoffs for two decades and change. Be original and steal from Jackie Brown, young filmmakers.

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