Happy Thanksgiving: The Ten Biggest Turkeys of the Decade

I hope you are having a good Thanksgiving. I thought I'd give you a little bit of turkey for the holidays. According to Rotten Tomatoes, here are the ten worst films of the past decade:

1. Ballistic: Ecks & Sever (2002) - with Antonio Banderas & Lucy Liu (Congratulations!)

2. One Missed Call (2008) - with Edward Burns

3. Pinnochio (2002) - with Robert Benigni

4. King's Ransom (2005) - with Jay Mohr

5. National Lampoon's Gold Diggers (2004) - with no one you've ever heard of before.

6. Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004) - with Jon Voight and Scott Baio (together again)

7. Strange Wilderness (2008) - with Steve Zahn and Jonah Hill

8. Strikes (2000) - with no one you've ever heard of before.

9. Redlines (2007) - with Eddie Griffin

10. Witless Protection (2008) - with Larry the Cable Guy

And what about some of your other favorite turkeys of the decade? Here's how a few more of your non-favorites fared on the list of the 100 worst films:

Battlefield Earth (2000) - with John Travolta #27

Swept Away (2002) with Madonna #65

The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) with Eddie Murphy #79

Glitter (2001) with Mariah Carey #99

Top Ten Most Overpaid Stars

Shia LaBeouf's movies make $160 for every dollar he was made, making him a really good investment right now. On the other side of the equation, there are a few actors who seem dramatically overpaid. Will Ferrell tops the list. His films earn only $3.29 for every dollar he gets paid.

Using the formula of how much the movie made at the box office and comparing it to their paycheck, Forbes came up with their list of the ten most overpaid stars working in film right now. The number beside their name is the amount their movies made for every dollar they earned:

1. Will Ferrell ($3.29)

2. Ewan McGregor ($3.75)

3. Billy Bob Thornton ($4)

4. Eddie Murphy ($4.43)

5. Ice Cube ($4.77)

6. Tom Cruise ($7.18)

7. Drew Barrymore ($7.43)

8. Leonardo DiCaprio ($7.52)

9. Samuel Jackson ($8.59)

10. Jim Carrey ($8.62)

New Moon & Modern Warfare 2: Entertainment Sales Records Falling Like Flies

We still might be in the tail-end of a recession, but there are still plenty of room for a few very hot entertainment properties. Here are five sales records that have been broken in the past week or two:

* New Moon knocked Harry Potter out with the biggest midnight showing in film history, earning $26 million in a single showing.

* New Moon also set the largest single day box office record this weekend with $70 million during its opening day alone.

* Susan Boyle has sold more pre-orders that any other CD in Amazon.com history, according to the retailer.

* Windows 7 (though not technically an entertainment property, but certainly a big part of entertainment world with gaming and online access) has broken sales records, selling a whopping 234% more than its much berated predecessor Vista. I'm a Mac guy, but I thought I'd at least mention it!

* Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 sold $550 million in just 5 days, making it the "biggest entertainment launch in history." That's right, the biggest of any entertainment property ever. For those of you who haven't played, you need to know it lives up to the hype.

SNL Gets Shot of Adrenaline from Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Saturday Night Live has been limping along here in its 35th season, hitting a low spot with the January Jones edition where nothing at all worked. I never fault the show when they try, even if it's a swing and a miss. My biggest complaint this season has been the lack of energy and enthusiasm about the show. It just seemed like they were trotting out one uninspired or recycled skit after another, wasting the talents of potentially good hosts like Ryan Reynolds.

Well, that changed with last night's (Nov. 21st) edition of SNL when Joseph Gordon-Levitt hosted. The guy was literally bouncing off the walls and pinwheeling on the ground during the opening monologue in a tribute to Donald O'Connor in Singing in the Rain. What made the opening special wasn't that it was so funny, but that it was so full of life, even a little nerve-jangling in its intensity (He's doing a backflip off a wall on live television?! And another one?!). Gordon-Levitt kept the intensity up throughout the 90 minutes, even announcing The Dave Matthews Band with an enthusiasm that bordered on psychotic--twice! I almost had the sense that they put The Mellow Man Show skit in just to give a break in the intensity.

All in all, I felt like Gordon-Levitt came to play with a team that was in a slump. He was giving the rousing half-time speech, throwing chairs around the locker room, getting the crew fired up again. The show was not that funny overall (though there were a few bright spots), but it felt like they had finally come to play this season. And for that, I'm grateful. Bring Joseph Gordon-Levitt back again next season for sure. They will undoubtedly need another early season pep talk.

Five Best Reality Shows of the Decade

Admittedly, I don't watch all the reality shows and there are some (like Project Runway, Top Chef, The Apprentice, etc.) that people love but I don't really watch. That being said, I have tried to sample many of the better shows and there seem to be five that really stand out as the best of the genre. Here's my take on the best of the decade:

1. The Amazing Race - the best of the best.

2. American Idol - a phenomenon that will be the defining show of this generation.

3. Survivor - a great social experiment and a great show.

4. So You Think You Can Dance - a showcase of remarkable talent.

5. The Deadliest Catch - an absolute marvel of a show.

I'm not sure where this show fits, but Mythbusters would also need to be on a short list of cool TV shows of the decade. It probably goes in the reality genre, though I'm not quite sure that's where it belongs. It's a good one.

Any great shows that I missed?

Ten Breakout Performers for 2009

There have been a number of breakout performers this past year. In some case, these are folks who have been around for awhile, while in other instances they were new to the scene. Either way, this was their year:

1. Sam Worthington - star of Terminator Salvation and the upcoming Avatar.

2. Carey Mulligan - everyone's raving about her performance in An Education.

3. Justin Bieber - big album sales this week for the little guy who has already become a tween heartthrob.

4. Cat Deeley - after six seasons as host of So You Think You Can Dance, people are really beginning to take notice of how great she is at her job.

5. Chris Pine - the new James T. Kirk has a big career ahead of him.

6. Zach Galifinakis - he's been around for awhile, but The Hangover star finally had his breakout year.

7. Max Records - one of the best performances from any actor of any age this year came from this kid in Where the Wild Things Are.

8. Orianthi - guitar virtuoso wows audiences of Michael Jackson's This Is It. New album on the way.

9. Anna Kendrick - stars opposite George Clooney in Up in the Air. Raves reviews suggest big things ahead.

10. Jeremy Renner - as adrenaline junkie in The Hurt Locker, his every move kept the audience's rapt attention.

Ten Celebrities with Learning Disabilities

The magazine Mental Floss reported on a list of well-known people with dyslexia, which is a broad term for some specific language-based and reading learning disabilities. A learning disability is when someone's ability to learn in a certain area (like reading, math, etc.) doesn't match their overall intelligence. Often people with learning disabilities are very bright, but have problems in a certain area of academic learning. Here are ten famous people from the Mental Floss article who are reported to have a learning disability:

1. Whoopi Goldberg

2. Ozzy Osbourne

3. Cher

4. Jay Leno

5. Keira Knightley

6. Bruce Jenner

7. Agatha Christie

8. Henry Winkler

9. Alyssa Milano

10. Charles Schwab