Brain Freeze: Fox News' Steve Doocy is afraid 'Frozen' is a form of emasculation

IF "AMERICAN SNIPER" can fire a shot in the culture war, why not "Frozen"?

"Frozen"?

Yesterday morning, Steve Doocy, of "Fox and Friends," led off a segment on the megapopular animated movie with the basic premise that its intention was to emasculate men.

(Actually, its intention was to sell a bazillion CDs, DVDs, costumes, coloring books, etc., but why let the free market interfere with Fox News silliness? Although it is true that male testicles get very small when they're frozen.)

Asked Doocy: "Are movies like the Disney smash hit about an ice queen and her sister empowering girls by turning our men into fools and villains? It would be nice for Hollywood to have more male figures in those kinds of movies," he said later in the segment.

See, that's why the "Saturday Night Live" spoof of this show doesn't work. It's already low comedy.

Could Doocy really believe that the problem with children's entertainment coming out of Hollywood is that there aren't enough male heroes? You know, like Iron Man, Spider-Man, Batman, Superman, and more? Or Disney cartoons like "Aladdin," "Tarzan," "Toy Story," "Robin Hood" and so on.

Besides, how does an empowered princess emasculate a man? Why can't both sexes be empowered or, Mickey Mouse forbid, share power?

E! News reports that Johnny Depp and Amber Heard will wed this weekend after a year's engagement.

People mag says the destination wedding will be on Depp's private island in the Bahamas.

Tattle says the guests invited to this destination wedding will be unique for such affairs, in that they actually will be able to afford to attend.

This will be the first marriage for Heard and the second for Depp. He has two children with ex Vanessa Paradis.

Felicity Jones, Oscar-nominated for "The Theory of Everything" but a Tattle fave since her role as Emily Dalrymple in "Hysteria," is the new favorite to star as Princess Leia in a "Star Wars" stand-alone movie to be directed by Gareth Edwards ("Monsters," "Godzilla").

Entertainmentwise.com says Felicity beat out Rooney Mara and Tatiana Maslany for the role.

* The New York Daily News reported yesterday that the family of Bobbi Kristina Brown has been told by doctors in Atlanta that there's nothing more they can do for her and that the family has been given the choice as to whether to take the 21-year-old daughter of the late Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown off life support.

Bobbi Kristina was found Saturday submerged in her bathtub.

* It's only a few days until the Grammy Awards, but iHeartRadio has announced the nominations for its own awards. 

Iggy Azalea and Sam Smith lead with five nominations apiece, with Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande each receiving four nominations.

iHeartMedia and NBC announced the nominations yesterday. The awards will be presented March 29 at the Shrine Auditorium in L.A. The event will be televised live on NBC and air simultaneously on iHeartMedia stations and across the network's digital music platform.

Swift, Azalea, Grande, Smith and Luke Bryan are nominated for artist of the year. Best new artist nominees include Azalea, Smith, Bastille, Cole Swindell and Meghan Trainor. Other categories include song of the year and best collaboration.

Fans can vote for three awards, including best lyrics.

* With "1989," Taylor Swift has become the second woman in the history of the Billboard music charts to have two albums hit No. 1 for at least 10 weeks.

The late Whitney Houston had three albums top the charts for at least 10 weeks.

According to an interview with the Associated Press, Bruce Jenner's 88-year-old mother, Esther Jenner, said that she's supportive of her 65-year-old son transitioning to become a woman.

"I never thought I could be more proud of Bruce when he reached his goal [of winning the Olympic Decathlon] in 1976, but I'm more proud of him now. It takes a lot of courage to do what he's doing."

Oh, Bruce, why did you spend so much time watching "Frozen"?

- Daily News wire services

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