… The "Movies" channel has been leading up to Halloween with horror and sci-fi offerings. This week, it was crawling things—killer cockroaches, killer bees, killer ants, bigger killer ants, giant scorpions and Mothra. I was disappointed they didn’t show the cult classic, “Mothra meets the Orkin man”. Then there’s the gangster-insect mashup in which mutant roaches stage a breakout from a roach motel. And in a proposed addition to the Men In Black Series, giant spiders entomb all the personnel at MIB headquarters in cobwebs in “MIB: The Creatures’ Revenge.” … Former basketball great and eccentric Dennis Rodman has been charged for allegedly hitting a man at his birthday part in a bar. Rodman denies the assault occurs but maybe he was just following a tradition in which the birthday boy gets to hit one guest for each year of his age. Rodman has 57 guests to go. Make that 58, and one to grow on. … I have an admiration for the talent of actors who do commercials. You have to have something special to look lovingly at a round end tooth brush and be convincing or look happy in a hemorrhoid commercial.