Need a Will Ferrell fix? I do. The wicked clown who skewered Dubya, among other targets, left SNL last year after seven seasons and two Emmy nominations to go Hollywood. Ferrell's movies are mostly throwaways — though I'll defend Zoolander and A Night at the Roxbury — but he is hilarious in all of them, even — gulp! — The Ladies Man. You take Ferrell where you can get him.

Which brings us to Old School, a crassly eager-to-please mix of Animal House and Jackass in which Ferrell, Vince Vaughn and Luke Wilson play old guys (they're thirtysomething) who open a frat house — Snoop Dogg is their house band.

The film, directed by Todd Phillips (Road Trip), is only fitfully funny, except when Ferrell is onscreen — then you won't stop laughing. As the just-married Frank, he reverts to a streaking party animal who recalls John Belushi's Bluto, only grosser. Ferrell is an asset to any film — even if he does have a thing for baring his flabby ass — so somebody, please, write him a good one.

“Is It True”

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."