Burt of a rip-off
Our favourite piece from Burt Reynolds’s Burt Reynolds-themed art collection, currently up for auction? The Five Faces Of Burt, a nightmarish composite portrait of the actor’s many looks. Starting bid: $300.
A view to a (song being) killed
Lindsay Lohan’s guitar-pop opus Speak turns 10 this week, and more “music” is now in the offing; she’s been pictured recording with Duran Duran.
Chat out of hell
Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz’s afterlife radio show The Other Side is back for a new episode, in which – gulp! – David Frost interviews Jimmy Savile in hell. Listen here.
Assam-ese dream
In “rock stars who’d rather be anything other than be rock stars” news, Billy Corgan is opening a pop-up tea shop while Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor has published a cookbook.
Bluth stranger than fiction
Good news for Arrested Development’s Gob: magician Adam Wilber has invented a wrist-based device, Pyro, that fires out fireballs on demand.
The humours are dead
A YouTuber has immeasurably improved the po-faced trailer for Terminator: Genisys by setting it to Flight Of The Conchords track Robots. Watch here.
An Offerman you can’t refuse
Nick Offerman’s hand-crafted wooden emojis, first seen in a Conan sketch, are now actually a thing, with the show selling replicas for charity. Check them out here.
