_POP PSYCHOLOGY: Untapped potential in children’s films_

Some intriguing news surfaced on Entertainment Weekly’s website Thursday, revealing that Elton John and Lady Gaga are collaborating on an original song.

More intriguing, though, by several notches on the scale, is what the song is for: “Gnomeo and Juliet,” an upcoming children’s animated film from Touchstone Pictures, which reimagines Shakespeare’s greatest love story with rival families of garden gnomes.

Oh how silly, you might say, but why should we care?

_’Life As We Know It’ has already been done before_

I want to like Katherine Heigl.

But I don’t ““ the lack of range in her characters over the last three years seems to point toward an inability to play someone interesting, and the type of character she plays automatically puts her in the background ““ and yet something inside me wants to feel like I can relate to her.