Respect Authority

So much going on in the news these days, like Obama schooling Chinese children on how awesome it is to live in an uncensored country, and three-year-old Suri Cruise already being more adept at wearing heels than I am.  Here’s a Monday morning roundup.

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Megan Fox managed to once again perpetuate the idea of herself as an intellectual and under-challenged actress who was duped by the type-casting slobs of Hollywood into limiting herself career-wise to Michael Bay action flicks and thinly veiled soft-core porn horror films. Sorry Megan, you can talk to as many New York Times reporters as you want, women will still hate you.

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Time Inc. is sponsoring “Selling Detroit,” a contest in which five advertising agencies are producing campaigns to encourage young and creative types to consider Detroit as a place to live/work. Somehow I feel like they’d have better luck just…actually selling Detroit.

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Courteney Cox, David Arquette and Neve Campbell are all on board for Scream 4, written by Kevin Williamson, the genius behind Scream and Scream 2 (not sarcasm, I love those movies). I’m just not sure which is more indicative of a career plateau–starring in an ABC show about an older woman gaming on younger men, or returning to the same role you played 13 years ago.

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Former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey, who went down in flames after revealing an extra-marital affair with a man (and who also wrote a book where he admitted to doing dudes in “book stores and rest stops”), is currently training to become an Episcopal priest. …No commentary necessary.