Original: Jerry Lewis (L) looks through a cine camera during the shooting of “The Day the Clown Cried” at Cirque D’Hiver in Paris on March 22, 1972. STF/AFP. One of the film world’s biggest mysteries could be solved this year. How horrifying is Jerry Lewis’ 1972 Holocaust film, “The…

Insert Foot on the new (old) controversy surrounding “Nevermind” by Nirvana. The kid who got famous on the cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind just got his lawsuit against the band revived by a federal appeals court. He says the iconic photo of him naked, swimming after a dollar bill, is…

Insert Foot ready to make his move on Mickey Mouse. My family still hasn’t decided how we’re going to celebrate “Mickey Mouse Escapes Disneyland Day.” We’re leaning toward driving a large featureless white van to Anaheim, and waiting for the big New Year’s Eve fireworks show to start so…

Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. There’s a ruckus among the people who thought the term “snowflake” was hilarious until it started getting turned on them. They don’t like history books, especially the kind in which they’re portrayed as starting wars or enslaving people. Very defensive about slavery, these folks. Some would…

Insert Foot sings “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” It’s December and, for once and for all, it’s time to answer the age old question that everyone wants answered; the No. 1 question on everyone’s lips – young and old, male or female – this time of year: Is “Baby, It’s…

Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. I’ve cross dressed. When I needed a cheap laugh as a child, I’d go find some stuff in my mom’s room—maybe a hat, some shoes, a scarf, some jewelry. There’s a photo of me in a high school yearbook wearing a woman’s nightgown with my hair…

Eddie Van Halen performs with Van Halen at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, Calif., on July 16, 2015. Derek Tobias/STAFF. Former members of two of my three favorite bands when I was 13 are talking about hitting the road without my favorite members of my old favorite bands,…

Insert Foot gets a colonoscopy. There’s a lot of terrible stuff going on in the world today; things for which we need serious people to find serious solutions instead of falling back on absolutes, hatred and misunderstanding. So I’m going to write about a stranger shoving a camera up…

Insert Foot on the powerful Taylor-Swift-loving women of the world. It’s become obvious we’re stuck with Taylor Swift for the rest of our natural lives … and maybe beyond. Maybe the rest of her life as well. Which could be centuries. She’s almost 34, born in December 1989. So…

Original: The Beatles photographed at St. Pancras Old Church gardens in London on July 28, 1968. Courtesy. So the Beatles are releasing their new single this week. I do know it’s 2023 and half of them are dead. I don’t care. Well, I don’t want them to be dead.…