1. XL all the way
There’s something about a week filled with Super Bowl festivities, celebrity breakups and overeating that brings out the American in all of us.
2. Easy rider
That Lance Armstrong-Sheryl Crow breakup caught all of us by surprise, didn’t it? But if there’s a silver lining for Sheryl, it’s that her Sunday bike rides are now 10 1/2 hours shorter.
3. Name that toon
“Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit” won big at the Annie Awards for animated movies and TV. Michael Jackson’s still a little steamed about not winning best cartoon character.
4. Use your imagination
Hot on the heels of krumping and footworkin’ comes the next hot dance form: suggestive miming.
5. Show’s over
The president reportedly plans to propose a $2.7 trillion budget that ratchets up defense spending, which we can only hope is aimed at stopping the proliferation of ballroom dancing shows.
6. Deja vu
Courtney Love says she’s over her drug problem and ready to turn the page. Whoops–looks like I was reading an old story. Here’s the new one: Courtney Love says she’s over her drug problem and ready to turn the page.
7. Stones cold
One group estimates that Americans ate 27 billion calories and 1.8 billion grams of fat Sunday. Well, duh. We had to store up for hibernation at halftime.
8. Hey now
I don’t want to say the Rolling Stones were bland at the Super Bowl, but I’m pretty sure I saw a flock of buzzards next to the stage.
9. Free pass
A 14-year-old named Evanna Lynch beat out 15,000 other actors for a role in the next Harry Potter movie and VIP treatment at comic-book conventions for the rest of her life.
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lebersole@tribune.com
