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The farce awakens

I’ve got a bad feeling about this: You can relax; we’ve read Herald movie critic Robert Horton’s review of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” and there are no spoilers to ruin your movie experience.

Of course, we didn’t say we wouldn’t spoil it for you: Luke Skywalker is Kesyer Soze. The actual name of Han Solo’s Millennium Falcon is Rosebud. And the first three prequel “Star Wars” movies were just a really bad dream George Lucas had.

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Pharma karma: Martin Shkreli, the 32-year-old entrepreneur who jacked the price of a drug used to treat cancer and AIDS patients by 5,000 percent, was arrested by the FBI on unrelated fraud charges.

Ever the capitalist, Shkreli said he would take the news of his arrest, distill it and turn into a pill that will be marketed as an anti-depressant.

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Channel-surfing the vast cultural wasteland: Among the holiday specials on TV tonight is “Yes, Virginia,” about the little girl who writes a letter to a newspaper editor asking if Santa is real.

A modern remake, “No, Justin,” is about a little boy who asks Santa what a newspaper is.

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