News du Jour

A new poll claims that 70 percent of Americans believe films that show actors smoking should receive an automatic R rating. This is presumably because impressionable kids who see actors smoke will be moved to try it themselves. Liz and Valerie think that 70 percent of Americans need to learn how to take responsibility for their own actions and talk to their kids instead of surreptitiously censoring the film industry.

In other news, almost a third of British people surveyed think that the following actions, if performed by a woman immediately after sex, can prevent pregnancy: jumping up and down, washing or urinating. Valerie and Liz hope that the British are equally confused about how to actually have sex, otherwise there may be a lot of babies with cute accents running around in the next 9 months or so.

Last, but certainly not least, George Lucas recently presented an award to the publicist of The Empire Strikes Back, and he actually said, "Sid is the reason why The Empire Strikes Back is always written about as the best of the films, when it actually was the worst one." He was allegedly joking, but for some reason Liz and Valerie aren't laughing. Maybe he should have told the one about the baby seal who walked into a club.