Wacky actor Mel Gibson has been the gift that keeps on giving to online gossip sites, with a string of ever more controversial episodes in his personal life.

Well, a new movie, “The Beaver,” about a man going crazy and the beaver puppet that returns him to mental health, is not going to help much to make anyone think Gibson is sane.

View the trailer below and you’ll see why he seems to inhabit the character fully.

Enjoy:

BoomTown is not even going to try to explain this trailer for the movie “Jackboots on Whitehall,” except to say:

No 3-D.

Foul-mouthed puppets.

World War II.

Coming soon to a theater, but here’s the film’s trailer:

BoomTown is spending the day at Microsoft (MSFT) HQ in Redmond, Wash., interviewing a passel of execs about the Yahoo online advertising and search partnership (videos to come soon!).

But, while here, I have not been able to resist trotting out this very funny puppet video by 1938 Media of sweat-stained Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gone wild, screaming about how he smoked Yahoo (YHOO) in the deal, to every Softie I see.

Because I am that sensitive.

Enjoy:

Finally, the kind of response this whole increasingly silly circus around TechCrunch publishing the Twitter stolen documents deserves.

Funny, rude and pretty much the only good way to excuse it all, via expletives deleted, courtesy of 1938 Media.

Now, BoomTown can go back to real issues, such as obsessing about when the Yahoo (YHOO) deal with Microsoft (MSFT) will drop, if ever!

Here’s the entertaining video:

The ubiquitous puppet interviewer (not) Shel Israel–who BoomTown has definitively determined is powered by the hand of the very funny Loren Feldman of 1938 Media–came to ATD HQ (aka, the cottage behind my house) yesterday for a lovely chat.

In our interview, I revealed that I was indeed the actress who played Princess Leia Organa Solo of Alderaan in “Star Wars” and also, given that the California Supreme Court has recently approved gay marriages, my upcoming nuptials with a certain tech blogger I have written about.

In all seriousness, I really like Feldman’s video work, although it is definitely strongly rendered.

Why? Because it is just the kind of innovative original material that is a key part of creating a whole new genre online.

His use of puppets is clever, but he also does more thoughtful, though still humorous, video essays as himself, which I also think are unique and bracing (that is a polite way of saying he does not hold back much).

Here’s my interview, along with another Israel puppet report on the MicroYooHoo deal and then another of Feldman’s on Google Health’s debut below it:

Kara and Shel

Shel on MicroYooHoo

Feldman on Google Health

But it includes puppets and who doesn’t love a roiling puppet-war?

No one, that’s who!

So here are two recent ones Feldman posted on his 1938 Media site, one with his Shel puppet and one using a Robert Scoble puppet interviewing Techmeme’s Gabe Rivera: