On this morning's Howard Stern radio show, Ben Stiller phoned in to promote his new movie, DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story. Stern made him run through his entire sexual history with celebrity partners, nothing unusual there. [Ed. note—Calista Flockhart?] But notable among the rote movie-pluggery was Stiller's repeated invocation of the phrase "I stand behind this movie." Are those campaign reform laws that require political candidates to declare that they "approve this message" on their commercials creeping into Hollywood? Think of how many people could be saved from ill-advised ticket purchases if stars were required to give their explicit endorsement of their shitty movies—or the truth: "I'm Bill Murray, the voice of Garfield, and someone at Fox has video of me reenacting Behind The Green Door with five donkeys."

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