So who does not know Kenny Rogers?  The man who made poker one of the most well known old west games with his soulful “The Gambler” song in the early 1980’s.  He has long been a staple of the country music scene even though he seems to be a bit behind the times when it comes to the pop music that now passes for country.  This is nothing that surprises many as Rogers has been linked to a good many stars with his duets and such.  Of course there is the matter that he has had several wives.  He has many times confessed that he is incredibly hard to live with and can be a bad husband at times.  So many people are now asking how he managed to get the new youthful look.  Once he was the rugged looking type that made the songs he sang about the old west and such have some credibility but now that has all changed.  There has been some Kenny Rogers’ plastic surgery going on and that is no surprise to anyone in the scene.

Early in his career Rogers was often times teased about his weight.  While he has never been what you would call fat, he has been heavy and sometimes looked a bit bloated.  For this he enlisted some help to make himself more on the cutting edge of the new stars that were appearing.  He managed to get his weight under control and that meant a lot of work but it has worked for him well.  (more…)

Whether the new Sherlock Holmes movie is any good is a mystery that may be impossible for even the famous detective himself to solve.  The truth is, director Guy Ritchie’s film is rather schizophrenic; at times fun and exciting and at others dreadfully tedious and boring.  The plot or central mystery is all but incomprehensible, yet watching Robert Downey Jr. as the veteran sleuth solve said mystery is quite pleasurable indeed.

This new Sherlock Holmes is very much the intelligent master of deduction that he has always been but now he is also a straight up action hero, who does as much thinking with his fists as with his brilliant mind.  It’s kind of like Sherlock Holmes mixed with Lethal Weapon with a dash of Indiana Jones thrown in for good measure.  The fact is the film is more concerned with being a buddy movie than creating a satisfying mystery that the audience can participate in. (more…)