Seeing The Phantom Menace in 3DIn 1977, over a bucket of buttery popcorn in a dark movie theater, I saw the original Star Wars with my family. I was only 6, and I had no idea I was witnessing the start of a long-lasting, ever-beloved phenomena, but as soon as that prologue rolled up the screen on a field of stars, I was hooked. I desperately wanted a pet R2-D2 (like you didn't), and by the time Return of the Jedi came out, I was 12 and wanted to kiss Han Solo, marry Luke Skywalker, and then leave them both behind to tend the baby Ewoks while my BFF Princess Leia and I blasted off for galaxy do-goodery. Oh yeah, the Force totally got me.

More than three decades later, my own son's Star Wars mania has far surpassed my own, thanks to the animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series and its coordinating books. So imagine our excitement when recently we both were invited on a Star Wars excursion of a lifetime -- an amazing Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace 3D preview weekend.*

Oh, Madonna. You made my night at the Super Bowl viewery called my living room worth every ... single ... blessed moment. You see, I'm trying NOT to be a complete sports neophyte since my kids show interest in such things, but secretly I was just waiting around for the Halftime Show and you, my old friend. And by old, I obviously mean we go way back -- remember that fall day in 1984 when I rushed home after school to catch your "Lucky Star" video on TV for the first time -- oh wait, I guess you wouldn't remember -- after all, it was me watching you, me getting my completely mind blown, and you gyrating in that belly shirt, becoming the queen of my entire girlness.

So tonight at the Super Bowl as you burst out VOGUE-ing on your well-manned Chariot du jour, it all came flooding back. That same familiar smile sneaked across my face, and once again -- and in that big ol' Super Bowl of testosterone infusion -- you made womanhood completely frickin' rad. Oh yes, you did.

Robert Pattinson in 'Cosmopolis'What do you think of the new Robert Pattinson photo recently released over on the site of his upcoming film Cosmopolis? Hot, right? I mean, what's hotter than RPattz with his Edward fangs and pale and sparkly vampire skin? Well, bad-ass, indie RPattz with a so-kooky-it's-hot-haircut and a gun, of course. Oh yeah ...

Seriously, people, Rob may actually be getting hotter. Based on the MTV Movie Brawl 2012 that just took place over on MTV.com, Pattinson's hot Cosmopolis look may not be the only arena in which he outdoes and surpasses his beloved Twilight character on the big screen. It's true. Check it out. In a virtual cage match of sorts between "indie Rob" in Cosmopolis and "Edward Rob" in Breaking Dawn, Part 2, guess who won!?