Look! Bob Dylan's paintings are half-assed, too. But, as usual, good luck getting anyone in the mainstream media to admit it:

He never does anything - be it his retro-western clothes or those huskily claustrophobic radio programmes - without a powerful sense of style. And surely the fiercely cantankerous intelligence that produced 'Like a Rolling Stone' wouldn't allow anything into the public gaze that would compromise his carefully developed mystique.

He's the most critically acclaimed Victoria's Secret spokesman ever.

After all that begging, I sit here, typing through the tears (OK, maybe that's a bit melodramatic), hoping for a miracle to save Jason Castro. Except maybe I don't want him to be saved. After last night's unwarranted beating by the judges, maybe he deserves to be done with this show and the horrible people who run it; the brutality will be even worse if he survives this week, and the public will hate him for not being voted off after his roughest night to date.

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A good work ethic on the part of the actor and the styling team can do wonders, but it's solely up to Blanchett to capture the correct inflection in the irritating mumble all the boomers get weepy over.

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Last evening Fergie shilled for Lyric Jeans Inc at the Avalon in Hollywood. Nice hat, but it looks like the lyrics to this song are part Bob Dylan, part Joni Mitchell, part Carly Simon and part Black Eyed Peas. Which means that it's blowin', blue, vain and derivative. Should be a hit on MTV.

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Ms. Regal herself, Cate Blanchett, as Bob Dylan. Do you see the resemblance? Someone sure did, because in the new motion picture biopic about Bob Dylan's life, the role of Dylan will be played by multiple actors, one of whom is Cate.

Cate Blanchett will play Bob Dylan in his "androgenous phase" (sic) in a new biopic of the great poet-songwriter's life, it was announced, as Dylan turned 65.

I don't know Dylan well enough to be able to say when he went through said androgynous phase, but now that I'm looking at these two pictures side by side, I can play along. It will be interesting to see Cate sing like a man, especially in the uniquely raspy voice of Dylan himself. She's a beautiful lady, hopefully Dylan is happy with the choice. Not that he has any shortage of pretty women around him these days.

Dylan has clearly shrugged off retirement age, taking on a new job as a radio DJ, publishing a selection of his memoirs, musing in a Martin Scorcese documentary, authorizing a stage musical with his songs — and appearing in an advert for the Victoria's Secret lingerie store chain.

And on Dylan's birthday, the Hollywood press reported that Blanchett would be among several actors — also including "Brokeback Mountain" star Heath Ledger and Richard Gere — to portray the great American folksinger in a film.

Those Victoria's Secret ads are a bit unnerving, but this movie may take the weird Bob Dylan cake. It's a thin line between genius and disaster. A line this film sounds like it may very well be treading.

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