It only took a few millennia, but might angels finally become cool? In theaters next week is "Legion," an apocalyptic fantasy film in which Paul Bettany plays a fallen angel attempting to thwart hordes of God's wrathful minions. And then there's "Mercury Falls," a comic fantasy novel written by Robert Kroese, about a sarcastic angel who cares just enough to save mankind from the apocalypse. ...

A new book theorizes that Warren Beatty has slept with 12,775 women in his life. Beatty's camp emphatically denies it -- a classic case of he said, he said. But we'll settle the argument. Sorry, Peter Biskind, author of "Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America" -- your numbers just don't add up. We're siding with Beatty on this one. Read on to see our rudimentary mathematical proof. ...

Fans of the anachronistic eyewear associated with Mr. Peanut and Colonels Mustard and Klink can finally celebrate: Monocles are all the rage again. Well, that's if a United Kingdom optical chain that has started selling them is to be believed. We're inclined to take Vision Express at its word. Why? Certainly not because we're advocating that our readers start wearing them. No, we want to ...

We've been enjoying the Village Voice blog's month-long countdown of the top 50 worst songs of the decade. And we'll admit that their selection for the vilest track of the past 10 years nearly brought us to our knees with the painful memory that the song ever happened: the Counting Crows' cover of Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi." Their bouncy, Lite FM version of the 1970 folk classic offers ...

For many couples, getting a wedding photograph reprinted in The New York Times is the final, classy step in an elegant march down the aisle. But on Sunday, Peyton Rodgers and Jessie Fuller turned that stodgy notion on its head. In the happy couple's photograph for the newspaper's highly selective weddings section, Will Ferrell loomed large behind them, seemingly without explanation. In the ...

Yes, we support the practice of giving gifts to our significant others at Christmas. Yes, we realize that many women love to receive jewelry. And no, we don't have anything against deaf people, unless they flip us off and then pretend it's just sign language. But Kay Jewelers is single-handedly thwarting our ability to keep supporting all of these notions by repeatedly re-airing a particular ...

We'll admit it -- we've never eaten at Juan Pollo. Clearly, this is our loss. I mean, just look at that delicious chicken! But the restaurant chain, which operates dozens of locations around California, has more to offer than just splendid-looking char-broiled chicken. It also has an amazing Web site. You get the image of the woman holding stick meat. You get an animated hen in a sombrero ...

By now you've undoubtedly heard the insane news that Billboard has named Nickelback its band of the decade. This is sort of like calling Dick Cheney the cuddliest politician of the 2000s. While Nickelback actually placed seventh on Billboard's list, behind hugely successful solo artists such as Eminem and Beyoncé, the bland Canadian rockers were the highest-ranking group, according to ...