Pop Culture Quickies

-On Thursday came news that Demi Moore had filed for divorce from her husband Ashton Kutcher after six years of marriage. Personally I don't think you should ever be surprised when a Hollywood couple calls it quits, I don't care how long they have been married or what the age gap is between them. But what I can't get over in this case are the people who appear shocked by this development. Seriously? Do none of you remember all the jokes that were made about these two when they first got together? If you had bet the over/under in Vegas for the length of their marriage, six years would have been way over. You know those couples that get married and everyone quietly whispers behind their backs about how little hope they have of the couple actually making? Well, this was one of those couples. You can't suddenly act surprised when it turns out you were right.

-This morning it was announced that the Los Angeles Police Department would re-open the case surrounding the death of actress Natalie Woods. Woods drowned in 1981, but now the captain of the boat she was on the night has come forward with his suspicions that the actress's husband, actor Robert Wagner, may have been involved in her death. Not surprisingly, this captain has a new book coming out in which you can read all about the new details he apparently didn't think were important enough to bring up until someone was paying him for them. You know, there are plenty of reasons I wouldn't want to be a cop, but I really wouldn't want to be a cop in Los Angeles. Every time someone starts making stuff up just to sell a book about a famous death you have to pretend to take it seriously or risk being accused of not doing your job. It has to be a tremendous waste of time.

-Earlier this week People magazine named actor Bradley Cooper the Sexiest Man Alive. Immediately females across the world took to the internet to protest, claiming that Ryan Gosling should have gotten the title this year. Um, ladies, you do know that it doesn't actually mean anything, right? Cooper gets no powers, no responsibilities and no additional bump from this. I mean, it's not like he gets to take "Case 39" or "All About Steve" off his resume. So, how about you all stand down? Basically, all you've done is make the editors at People Magazine jobs that much easier, because I think it is a pretty safe bet as to who wins it next year.

-When director Brett Ratner used a gay slur during a red-carpet event, he was almost immediately removed from directing this year's Oscars, taking scheduled host Eddie Murphy with him. The safe, non-offensive Billy Crystal will replace Murphy as the master of ceremonies. Meanwhile, over at the Golden Globes Ricky Gervais has hosted for two straight years and has pretty much used the opportunity to blast everyone in the room. I distinctly remember last year he ripped into people so badly that everyone said there was no chance he would ever host the show again. Well, joke's on them, because this week Gervais was named the award show's host for the third straight year. Just goes to show you - there are some people out there who think there is no such thing as bad publicity.