Almost forgot to mention that the Man in Black would be turning 77 today if he were still alive.

The Jams 7 game win streak came to a close yesterday, as two members of the Kingdom knocked ’em out at the Vous last night and collected the $30. The parity party continued at the Black Sheep, as we had our fifth winner in five weeks. Tonight, we’ve got the Good Dog kicking off at 8 p.m., and the Bards at 10 p.m. Hope to see ya tonight!

Think I might check this out on Sunday and thought you guys might wanna do the same. It’s a Beef and Beer, it’s $25 for all you can eat and drink, and it benefits a great cause. There are also gonna be a ton of really cool prizes auctioned off during the event. Here are the deets:
Beef and Beer to benefit Andrea Corey
Andrea is currently battling pancreatic and liver cancer
Sunday, March 1st from 3-7 at Bonner’s Irish Pub (23rd and Sansom)
$25 at the door gets you all you can eat and drink (beer only) – liquor isn’t included

Items to be raffled off during the event include:

• Dinner and a room at the Borgata for a night
• A suite for 16 including food and beverage at Camden Yards
• Four tickets for a suite at a Boston Red Sox game
• Certificate to be a ball boy/girl at a Phillies game plus 2 club box tickets
• Sixers basketball autographed by the entire team
• Thaddeus Young autographed sneakers
• Various gift certificates to area restaurants
• Gift certificates to salons, etc.
• Various tickets to upcoming events at the Wachovia Center and Spectrum
• And much more, including Flyers memorabilia.

Also, there are rumors that local megastar Chip Chantry will be attending. You know Chip, the one who decided to title our two man show “Chip Chantry’s One Man Show”? Yeah, great guy. A real pal. Anyways, I hear he’s going to be there. And me too. The star power in that room is going to be like a freaking, uh, star. Be there!

The Jams have succesfully fought off the bounty the last two weeks by a total of 2 points. WIll this be the week they finally fall? We’ll see. Rumor has it that there are some big names playing tonight, including the Kingdom and possibly Lamda. If you wanna see how you stack up against the big boys, tonight’s the night.

The Champ turns 60 today. Woooooooooo!

You know the deal. O’Neals at 8 p.m., Bards at 10:15 p.m. And don’t give me some “I can’t go to quizzo because the State of the Union is on tonight” excuse either. There are no jobs, no hope, and everything is going terribly wrong. There you go. There’s your State of the Union. Now play quizzo.

Any of ’em you think they screwed up? Any they got right? I heard the Kate Winslet movie was slow as all get out. But Holocaust movies always get Oscars, even if they make Nazis sympathetic, like they did in The Reader. So you knew she was going to get it. And sorry, but I thought Penn had the third best performance I saw over the weekend. Shoulda gone to Langella, though Rourke woulda been fine as well. I thought it was I liked Slumdog a lot, but I wasn’t crazy about the ending. But I can see why it got Best Pic. I never did get around to seeing Benjamin Button. I understand it was a perfectly good movie, but not Best Picture Worthy. And I have to disagree with Smackdown’s assessment that Penelope Cruz is one of the best actresses going. But I didn’t see any of those Best Supporting Actress Movies, so sure, she wins. Best Supporting Actor? I only saw two films, and thought Brolin and Ledger were both terrific, but it was pretty predetermined that Ledger was gonna win. Your thoughts?

Alright, kids, gonna actually get these up on time this week. This week the questions are about movies that won Oscars last night. One guess per person.

And the award for Best Actor goes to…The back of Mickey Rourke’s head. Seriously, the back of his head took up like half of the running time. That being said, though, I thought this was a great film. As a fan of wrestling in the 80s, more than a few of my old heroes are dead now due to the same excesses that Rourke grapples with. And Marisa Tomei, wow. That was a, ahem, terrific performance. In terms of Best Actor, I still think Langella was more impressive. Sorry, but asking Mickey Rourke to play a down and out hero hero from the 80s with a drug problem wasn’t exactly asking him to play Hamlet. But I do think the film probably deserved a nom for Best Picture instead of the Reader. Not a single person who has seen that movie thought it was very good, and the reviews weren’t all that great either.

Milk was a very enjoyable film, though not Best Pic worthy, in my opinion. Sean Penn was great, and Josh Brolin was also very good as Dan White. Langella still deserves it over Penn. Let’s see how he holds up against Rourke. Off to see the Wrestler. Let you know how it is later.