First, there was Mark Wahlberg Talks to Animals. And now...

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The old guard gives way to the new?

Marc Malkin of E! reports that at today's Hollywood Foreign Press luncheon in Beverly Hills, Mark Wahlberg warned Leonardo DiCaprio that they'd been rendered obsolete -- by Taylor Lautner. I think he was kidding. I mean, surely Wahlberg knows that Lautner has yet to make a movie as cool as Four Brothers or Inception -- right?

"So you're a dog, right? What's that all about?"

I cackled like a besotted hyena when I saw Andy Samberg's "Mark Wahlberg Talks to Animals" segment last night on Saturday Night Live. And I've laughed just as hard while repeatedly viewing this clip today. Don't get me wrong: I like the political stuff on SNL so far this season. But there's something almost Monty Pythonesque about the off-the-wall, WTF absurdity of this sketch. It helps, of course, that Samberg has Wahlberg nailed. But it also helps that... well, his co-stars are so delightfully deadpan.

Pre-game peeks

From the look of the pre-game commercials, looks like Oscar winner Nicolas Cage will burn up the screen this month, and Oscar nominee Mark Wahlberg will do some serious ass-kicking in March. But would Eddie Murphy's Oscar chances be helped if folks didn't see commercials for his next film? (Is that the lamest Super Bowl posting on line today, or what?)