This week, attached to prints of The Dictator came the teaser trailer for Anchorman 2, with the original cast of boys spouting off their trademark borderline profanity from out of the holes where their moustaches lay.

When production of this sequel was announced, the social media world -- I guess we should just say world at this point -- lit up with excitement. The original film, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, ended up being a comedy classic and the source for endless quoting. It's the pleats...

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What a prick.

There are a lot of people to hate in the cast of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. The bratty kids, the arrogant and maniacal Wonka, the ineffectual parents, maybe even the whiny and frail Charlie Bucket, who wastes his time trying to win a ticket to a chocolate factory while his family starves.

The 1971 musical comedy, based on Roald Dahl's 1964 children's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, remains a must-see for kids of all ages. The older you get the more twisted it becomes, though.

But Grandpa Joe? Portrayed by the late Jack Albertson? The "man" from Chico and the Man? What did he do to anyone, besides get out of bed, instill hope in his grandson and bark at Wonka when he did his grandson dirty?

According to this Facebook page, "The I Hate Grandpa Joe From Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory Page," there is plenty to hate him for.

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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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Since its first release in the summer of 1977, Star Wars and the rest of the films in the series' canon have been fetishized by mega-fans. They have devoted much of their lives to collecting anything they can get their hands on related to the movies, and spend much of their waking hours talking about the adventures of Luke, Han, Princess Leia and the menacing Darth Vader.

Some have gone beyond mere fandom and prefer to get their rocks off with naughty items catering to the seamier nerds in the general population. Of course, Leia in that slave-girl bikini in Return of the Jedi was the original mother lode for horny fans. A generation of young men still point to her appearance in that skimpy suit as one of the key moments of their sexual awakenings. Rachel wearing one on Friends for Ross wasn't awful, either.

Friday is May 4, the official unofficial Star Wars Day. Har-har, "May the fourth be with you..."

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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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This year the 1987 teen classic Summer School, starring a pre-Navy Mark Harmon and a svelte Kirstie Alley, turns 25 years old. The film, released on July 22, 1987, was directed by comedy legend Carl Reiner and written by future Full House creator Jeff Franklin. A must-see for '80s fetishists, the flick is also notable for featuring Courtney Thorne-Smith as a teen surfer girl out to get into the pants of Harmon's Mr. Freddy Shoop, an apathetic, free-spirited teacher. Tasked with getting a group of losers through a semester of summer school, he ends up changing their lives for the better. And throwing wicked parties.

Thankfully, this is also one of the few raunchy '80s romps that haven't been plundered by Hollywood for use in the 21st century, though they keep getting scarily close. The clown prince of darkness, Adam Sandler, has circled around the idea for a few years now, which makes my bowels liquefy thinking about it. If I had to have a remake of Summer School, at least they could use Bradley Cooper. Have you ever looked into his eyes?

Growing up, it always made the thought of summer school seem less like the last resort for the bad kids to graduate, and more like a party. Thankfully, I never had to find out.

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By now everyone has seen Entertainment Weekly's new stills from Quentin Tarantino's upcoming western, Django Unchained, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Sacha Baron Cohen and, well duh, Samuel L. Jackson.

The story of a freed slave, a German bounty hunter and a slave-holding plantation owner who makes his property fight like gladiators promises to be hip, bloody and full of all the trademark QT touches that we have grown to love since 1992's Reservoir Dogs.

For one, I am excited about seeing Leo as a bastard slave owner after years of him being the hero, and seeing Jamie Foxx not behind a microphone trying to sex my ears down will be a fun change of pace. And now that it seems that Waltz is a member of the QT starting squad, all is right in the world. One possible downside is that, seeing that this is a period piece about slaves, QT will be using that word a whole lot, so expect this to be a point of contention upon its Christmas Day release.

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