Star-gazers might want to note that Michael Keaton is coming to town in a couple weeks to shoot a movie called Penthouse North . He's playing the googly-eyed bad guy. Figures. I used to be a big Keaton fan in the early days. When he played Beetlejuice . And Mr. Mom . When he was on the Night Shift . In other words, I used to love the old Michael Keaton, before he played Batman . Talk about casting against type. Tim Burton must have been doing some pretty good 'shrooms in those days. We rarely see Keaton these days -- I saw him last week in a bit turn as a janitor on 30 Rock . Mostly, he's been doing cameos. Which pretty much explains why he's coming to Ottawa. Ottawa, the graveyard of old movie stars and has-beens. Lou Diamond Phillips. Cuba Gooding, Jr. Christian Slater. They come to Ottawa as a last resort, to star in rock bottom remainders usually destined for U.S. cable. Like the Lifetime Network, with such inspired offerings as A Nanny'...
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