So, Kate Beckinsdale of Van Helsing fame was recently reported to have demanded a body double in her latest movie because she thinks she's fat as hell. More specifically, she said she "loathes" her ass. She may be a diva, but at least she's self-aware.

Sarah Michelle Gellar also insisted upon having a body double in Scooby Doo. At this point, the producers should have sat her down and calmly explained that no one in their right mind would be seeing this film anyway, so it wouldn't matter whether or not it was her actual ass in the shots. (Okay, so maybe I have Scooby Doo on laser disc and maybe I've jerked off to the visual of Daphne running down that tunnel naked more times than I can count, but we've all got skeletons in the closet. Leave me alone.)

In all seriousness, how strange do you find the concept of body doubles? Usually you hear of instances of the KB variety cause there's a bunch of sex scenes and close-ups of an actress as she moseys toward the bathroom after a heated screw; in these instances, I get it. Sure, these flawless stars don't really need body doubles, but if there's a money shot of Matthew McConaughey doing you from behind, living in footage of some film and you plan on having kids, it's nice to know that you'll be able to tell your son or daughter that that sleazy close-up of a sweet tit or sweaty thigh wasn't really yours.

Journey recently got a new body double of sorts as well. I'm guessing you folks like Journey, because everyone likes Journey. (It's really annoying that everyone likes Journey, for the record. People pretend that Journey is like Michael Bolton or the Goo Goo Dolls — terrible recording artists who are so bad they're good. Not the case with these guys.) Ever since "Only the Young" played during Matthew Modine's inspirational workout montage in 1984's wrestling movie Vision Quest, I've had a hard-on for Journey. And former lead singer Steve Perry is no longer with this genius band. Hasn't been for a while, actually.

Miraculously, they found their newest replacement, Arnel Pineda, on YouTube. A musician born and raised in the Phillipines, Pineda's friend had posted clips of his band covering Journey songs. Journey member Neal Schon had seen some of these performances on YouTube and went about contacting Pineda, who was invited to come to the States to audition. The rest is history. The thing that's eerie, though, is not just that Pineda's voice sounds exactly like Steve Perry — it's that he simultaneously manages to sound a thousand times better. It's evident that Pineda has little to no idea what he's singing (obviously he now sings in English, which is not his first language), and pronounces words like "together" like this: "togedder," but his voice will blow you away regardless.

If I was an actress in Hollywood, I think I'd feel a bit of shame about having my ass Pineda-fied. In other words, having folks who've seen my real ass stare at my body double's ass onscreen appreciatively, sucking air through their teeth as they surely think the following thought: "MAN her ass is better than Katie's. Good thing she scored a stand-in for this shot."