In 2006, Saturday Night Live aired “Dick in a Box,” a hilarious music video that would become a holiday anthem. Ironically, the digital short starring Justin Timberlake and Lonely Island frontman Andy Samberg, almost didn’t air on SNL.  ‘Dick in a Box’ came out 14 years ago  The Lonely Island, featuring Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone, worked with Timberlake to create one of the most hilarious holiday-themed digital shorts for Saturday Night Live.

MoviesObituaryJoan Leslie obituaryVersatile actor from Hollywood’s golden ageFemale stars of Hollywood’s golden era were usually divided into sex goddesses, femmes fatales or nice girls. In line with the old sporting dictum, “nice guys finish last”, nice girls in movies seldom won the attention they deserved. Joan Leslie, who has died aged 90, was once described as “sweet innocence without seeming too sugary”. But she was versatile: she took roles in dramas, comedies, westerns or musicals, opposite actors such as Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Gary Cooper, Henry Fonda, Randolph Scott and Fred Astaire – she was a good enough dancer to partner Astaire in The Sky’s the Limit (1943).

Jim Carrey speaks onstage during Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond — Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton at AFI Fest 2017. The New York Times published a new profile of Jim Carrey today to promote his upcoming Showtime series Kidding, and if you’re in the mood for some high-quality bong-rip enlightenment quotes, boy does it deliver. Reporter Dave Itzkoff did us all a solid by including plenty of bits of trademark Carrey wisdom throughout the piece.

Update, October 11: Paging Doctor Wu. The prayer circle worked! Rolling Stone reports that Donald Fagen is out of the hospital and expects to return to the road with Steely Dan “soon” as Eagles openers. Original story published October 10 follows. Only a fool wouldn’t be a bit concerned about this. Steely Dan has been replaced as the opener for the Eagles’ current farewell tour due to the hospitalization of front man Donald Fagen.

A woman found in a ditch near her home in Waltham Abbey at the weekend is believed to have drowned. Essex Police were contacted by the ambulance service shortly after 8am on Saturday March 10 following reports that a woman's body had been found in a ditch off Daws Hill near Sewardstone. They arrived to find the body of Jan Downey. A provisional post-mortem examination result showed the 62-year-old woman from Daws Hill in Sewardstone to have died as a result of drowning.