The bikini that made young boys into men.

Check out our interview with Carrie Fisher.

Now through Sunday, May 20, the lady who once famously donned a gold lamé bikini will make her way to the stage of the Hobby Center. Carrie Fisher, in all her self-actualizing, uncompromising glory, will have a six-day stint in Houston for her celebrated live solo show, Wishful Drinking.

Fisher has been in Hollywood for a long time. Her mother is actress Debbie Reynolds and her father is singer Eddie Fisher. Carrie Fisher was born into fame. Being Hollywood royalty did not make for an easy life. Fisher has often been frank about her battles with drugs and her time spent in rehab. Her first novel, Postcards from the Edge, touched upon her addiction issues in a semi-autobiographical way.

Wishful Drinking was first created for the stage in 2006, then was turned into a book, then a documentary and then back to the stage. The show has garnered rave reviews for its funny and honest portrayal of Fisher's life.

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On Wednesday, Sotheby's set a new world price record for art sales, bringing in $44.6 million each for Roy Lichtenstein's Pop Art painting Sleeping Girl and Figure Writing Reflected in a Mirror by British artist Francis Bacon.

A total of 46 pieces were sold for a combined $266.6 million, including a $37.04 million sale of Double Elvis [Ferus Type], Andy Warhol's silkscreen and paint portrait of The King.

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Now that we know that 11 members of President Obama's Secret Service detail don't like paying hookers for services rendered, the top executive security detail is under heavy scrutiny. The elite team of guards, known in pop culture as spy-cool, levelheaded and omnipresent protectors of the president and his family, are now being compared to naughty frat boys during spring break.

The recent incident in Colombia is a black eye to the protective force, which is tasked with looking after the president, the vice-president, past presidents, presidential candidates and also handling the stopping of counterfeiting currency and fraud. This isn't the first time the Secret Service has been under a microscope, either. After the JFK assassination, they were beaten pretty badly in the press for their supposed failures leading up to the shooting.

Most every movie in history has depicted the Secret Service as upstanding -- for the most part -- civil servants who will take a bullet or a train for their precious cargo. With the allegations that guys were being entertained by hookers while prepping for a presidential visit to a Colombian hotel during a trade summit, that image is tarnished.

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We got very excited to read that tonight, the Alamo Draft House in Katy is screening the absurdist-action flick, Big Trouble in Little China. This made us daydream about how ab-ripplingly amazing Kurt Russell used to be, and then we wondered where in the hell he had been in the past few years? Russell's last big screen appearance was in 2007's Death Proof and he hasn't been up to much since. We were giddy to read he will supposedly be making an appearance in the upcoming Quentin Tarantino movie, Django Unchanged, but who knows when the hell that will actually come out.

Other than his most recent lull, Russell has been working very consistently since the late 1950s, playing minor characters on television shows such as Gun Smoke, Daniel Boone and Lost in Space, to name a few. In 1979 he played Elvis in a mini series about the deceased rocker and was nominated for an Emmy. And it was all up hill from there!

In 1981 he played the cool-as-hell Snake Plissken in John Carpenter's Escape From New York and his level as an action star flew to the top of the badass-meter. But it hasn't all been butt-kicking roles for Russell. He has also done quite a few dramatic parts, in addition to a host of comedic roles, some were not necessarily funny (Captain Ron, anyone?).

Here are our top five favorite Kurt Russell movies.

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Steve Carell and Keira Knightly finding love post-apocalypse

I have very mixed feelings about the new Steve Carell apocalypse movie, Seeking a Friend For the End of the World. On the plus side, the movie is packed with brilliant cameos to the tune of Patton Oswald, Gillian Jacobs, Rob Corddry and Rob Huebel, (Children's Hospital) just to name a few. Additionally, I love apocalypse scenarios, the more illogical the better.

In the film at hand, the media gets wind of an approaching asteroid that will ultimately destroy the world and everything in it. The trailer takes us through people's absurd, yet seemingly accurate, reactions to the news. Do you fire your house cleaner? Drink like there's no tomorrow, because there isn't? Cheat on your wife? Run for the hills? Or wallow in your own self-pity? Any and all of these are appropriate responses to the news of the end of days.

Where I see this movie potentially bombing is its very apparent love story angle. The plot takes Steve Carell and his longtime neighbor Keira Knightly on a road trip to find Carell's long lost sweetheart and Knightly's family before the planet turns into dust. If I were a gambling man, I would put money on a Carell/Knightly make out scene at the end of the movie. Isn't it always when the world ends that you find your true love (I might even put money on the world not ending in this flick)?

As someone who's been enamored with apocalypse films, I have found that there are several common attributes that stick out as to how the end of days will play out and absolutely none of them are true.

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If you were walking down the street and a crazy-looking homeless lady wearing a Target bag fashioned into a serape turned to you and said, "Beware the Ides of March," what would you do?

1. Laugh in her dirty face and walk away.
2. Ask her what she meant by that, and then laugh in her dirty face.
3. Get totally freaked out and watch your step all day.
4. Wonder why you are walking outside, as it is Houston.

If you were Julius Caesar, you would opt for choice one or two and then wind up dead several hours later.

That's right, March 15 is that infamous day in history when Caesar was betrayed by his so-called comrades and stabbed by his bestie Brutus. We can all thank Shakespeare for stamping this fateful day into popular culture due to his historical fiction drama Julius Caesar.

The thing that gets us is why he didn't heed this abnormal warning. It's not every day that someone tells you to take stock of something, so why the ignore? This wasn't a silly e-mail he received from one of his friends telling him that if he didn't forward it on, he would never get married. Those are the types of warnings that you should regularly delete from memory (unless they are about Microsoft giving you money -- they might!).

Other warnings worth slighting are those from your grandmother, when she tells you not to take cigarettes from strangers because it could be drugs, or when your mom says if you swallow your gum it will come out in your poop. These types of cautions are merely suggestions, and they rarely amount to much. But warnings from seers, fortune-tellers, ghosts, strangers or anyone else that looks weird or scary should be taken more seriously.

Movie characters are classic for not taking advice and, by golly, they always get it in the end. We dug up some of our favorite warnings in movies that should have been paid more mind to, but alas were not.

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Photo by Ruby Yeh

Tootsies displays racks upon racks of colored pieces to brighten up your wardrobe.

As daylight savings time forces us to lose an hour of sleep and spring forward, you should be thinking about acquiring some new pieces for your spring and summer wardrobe. In a conversation with Art Attack, John Maguire, dress buyer, and Jennifer Cunningham, contemporary buyer at Tootsies, one of Houston's top-tier boutique department stores, laid out this year's spring and summer must-haves.

1. Prints
According to Maguire, the basic necessity for summer is having a versatile printed dress. Designers such as Nicole Miller and Alexis have been embracing the new tribal print trend and incorporating it into their lines.

"Prints are big, especially tribal and Hawaiian prints. Those are really big for the season, and not just in dresses, but also in accessories. There are a lot of graphic and tribal prints, especially in scarves. It really changes the whole outfit. People come in and see dresses that are just a solid color, but I say don't look at it like just a solid dress, look at the fact that it's a canvas for you to essentially paint on, with a belt, with jewelry or with a printed scarf."

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You know it's just a matter of time before someone tries a remake.

Since Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 novel Fight Club was made into one of the most controversial and most talked about films of the late '90s, starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, every work since has been bandied about as a possible film in one way or another.

Producers wait with bated breath for the galleys to see if they could replicate the backdoor success of Fight Club, which has grown to become a sort of 21st century Clockwork Orange for some. Feature film rights to Palahniuk properties became hot commodities.

The last Palahniuk to make it onto the big screen was 2001's Choke, which was made with Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston in 2008.

According to IMDb Pro, there are four Palahniuk books in development in Hollywood, including Invisible Monsters, Snuff, Rant and Survivor. Plenty of movies, though, languish in development hell, right, Jim Carrey?

Snuff was rumored to star Daryl Hannah as Cassie Wright, a retiring porn actress, but Hannah denied climbing on board due to the novel's ties to sex trafficking.

Palahniuk, who turned 50 years old Tuesday, has never been one to balk at his books being made into films. Some novelists fight adaptations at every turn, or blackball the final product. He had a small cameo in Choke, and he applauded Fight Club director David Fincher for even attempting to make some of his more base imagery in that novel come to life.

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Troubled pop/R&B superstar Whitney Houston died Saturday afternoon in Los Angeles, hours before a pre-Grammy party hosted by Clive Davis. Houston, 48, was pronounced dead at around 3:55 p.m. that day at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills.

Her death sent the music industry reeling in shock -- sorta -- for hours and hours. Radio stations around the country were playing blocks of her pop hits and social media was clogged with updates relating to her life and career. Mostly centered on her drug use. We all mourned the loss of Houston, while also remembering that this seemed to be a long time coming, sadly. Years of erratic behavior and run-ins with the law left the public with little doubt that she was a drug addict.

With her early demise, we lose lots of things, namely the chance for her to redeem herself through her film and music projects. It would have been amazing to see her channel her drug struggles into a dramatic role, and apparently the upcoming Sparkle could have been that chance.

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Time to clean this thing up!

By now you have either disregarded your New Year's resolutions with a long list of very convincing reasons (I actually enjoy being unemployed) or you haven't even started them yet. If cutting back on the excess was on your list of things to do in 2012, it's certainly not too late to start. When we say excess, of course, we aren't talking about all the donations you made in December to local charities. You may be trying to forget the obscene amounts of cookies, cakes and chocolate-covered anything you ate, or the copious amounts of eggnog, cheap Champagne and seasonal beer you consumed, but a liver never forgets. It's detox time!

Detoxing is the process of attempting to rid your body of harmful toxins through seemingly psychotic methods. Many folks swear by them, others think they are nothing but garbage. Regardless, they are on the up and up. According to The New York Times:

A survey by Mintel International, a Chicago-based research firm, found that 54 food and drink products were launched in 2008 with the word "detox" in their descriptions -- up from 15 in 2003.

People are just gaga over the idea that they can clean a year of crap out their bodies, in just a matter of days. It's like Lent, but quicker and with Yelp reviews. One person who loooooves detoxes is the Lady Gwyneth Paltrow, who now hocks her own favored system on her blog GOOP. She is just one of the many celebrities who stand (shakily from lack of food) behind the concept of self-starvation. Houston is also on the detox-tip. Local health food joint Snap Kitchen offers a juice-only one-day kick-start to their 21-day diet.

We are all for quick fixes, but consuming nothing but green liquids all day seems a little nuts to us, and the juice method is probably the most sane of all the detoxes we've found.

Pick your poison err... detox. Art Attack's Top Five Craziest Methods for Cleaning Your Colon.

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