People are still talking about Ricky Gervais and the Golden Globes. One of the talkers is Jennifer Lopez. In an interview, posted below, Jennifer said that while Gervais' routine was good fun, it was also a little strong. The fact that most of Ricky's targets were right there in the room made the situation even more socially awkward. As Lopez said, she kept looking nervously around the room to see how many of the mentioned were sitting around taking the routine in.
Lopez shows that she's a good sport and gets it by going on to say, with a mischievous smile on her face, that she cornered Ricky backstage. Lopez was also a presenter, and as she was getting ready to go on she collared Gervais and told him that she would beat the shit out of him. She reminded him that she was from NYC, and that booth she and her husband - Marc Anthony - fight. Than she said some other stuff that couldn't be repeated on morning chat TV. In fact there were more bleep bleep's than a road runner cartoon. Here's Jennipooh to describe the situation in her own words.
So if we know anything about JLo it's that the chick ain't one but shy. She's also a pretty good sport. If she can bring that combination to American Idol this season it should make for some entertaining viewing. Especially with Wild Card Steven Tyler seated right beside her. Now you'd have to watch for that alone!
The morning following the Golden Globes was the first time that the event was generally talked about since ever. In fact people are still talking about it. The reason everyone is talking about it is because of the host - Ricky Gervais. If you'll recall, and I'm sure you do, Ricky went in to the Beverly Hilton with a big assed pair of sun glasses and loaded for bear. He started his opening monologue with a crack at Charlie Sheen. He then went on to take a swipe at everyone in the room. By the time the ceremonies mid point rolled 'round the Rickster was absent, and rumors were swirling that he'd been fired mid show. Seems that Ricky tread on some pretty sensitive toes. in fact a comedic monologue didn't go down as bad with the targets since Homer Simpson sent up Mr. Burns at the old bastard's birthday bash.
same non coverage, but not the same non event!
So that had everyone speculating about Gervais future in Hollywood. Except for the ones who didn't dare breath a word about it, like ET. They cover the usually bullshit like, are Brad and Angelina still in love, and wasn't Selena Gomez's dress pretty. It was ET's usual "Who lost the most weight" type of coverage.That's why ET has zero creditability. If the sound of Mary Hart's voice didn't trigger seizures in epileptic no one would pay any attention to the show.
most wanted but least liked
As for the rest of the world, they wanted to know whether or not Gervais was still alive and well, or whether a coalition of Scientologists, star whackers, and disgruntled celebrities had gotten together and bumped him off. Gervias himself put those rumors to rest with an outrageous post fall out public appearance - in which he showed off his own golden globes. here's a little peak at that for your viewing entertainment!
Remember me? I'm still here!
So Gervais is very much alive and unrepentantly outrageous. That still leaves the question open of just how much shit the poor man has gotten himself into. Officially he's very much in shit. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which sponsors the big to do, made released this statement shortly after the shit hit the fan:
"We loved the show. It was a lot of fun and obviously has a lot of people talking. When you hire a comedian like Ricky Gervais, one expects in your face, sometimes outrageous material. Certainly, in this case, he pushed the envelope and occasionally went too far. The HFPA would never condone some of his personal remarks. Overall, however, the show was among the best we've ever had and we were pleased."
Hollywood in a state of shit shock
Now that's kind of ambiguous. When ego's need stroking you have to be clearer. So a little later on President of the HFPA Phillip Berk said - "He definitely crossed the line. And some of the things were totally unacceptable. But that's Ricky." Like Ricky's gold boxer trunks, Berk wanted to leave nothing to the imagination. He did seem to hedge with the "But that's Ricky" ender. So later he went a little further, saying "I had absolutely no idea what Ricky was going to say so anything I heard was heard was the same time you heard it," Berk said. "When you hire Ricky Gervais, you expect the unexpected." The trouble with expecting the unexpected is that you can still get the shit shocked out of you!
non commentary in the echo chamber
That may have been the word from Berk's office but insiders were putting it even more emphatically. An unnamed member of HFPA, was quoted in HuffPo by way of Popeater (at least the Daily Beast can come up with original commentary - I'm just jumping on the bandwagon here because I don't actually read TheDailyBeast, or even HuffPo) said, and I quote: "Ricky will not be invited back to host the show next year, for sure," the HFPA member said. "For sure any movie he makes he can forget about getting nominated. He humiliated the organization last night and went too far with several celebrities whose representatives have already called to complain." So in other words a bunch of oversensitive celebrity cry babies got their surgically bobbed noses out of joint.
Being Frank
That raises another good question - are these stars so fucked up and full of themselves that they can't take a joke? Back in the old days of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roast that kind of routine was expected. Frank Sinatra had to sit through a bunch of B Listers and failed Vegas stand ups talking worse trash about him more than once, and Frank had a temper. However Don Rickles never did get knee capped. In fact he was back again and again and again to stick it to the Rat Pack (until his routine got so tired than many wished Frank would have him knee capped). The difference between Frank and the current crop of celebrity wannabes is that Frank could take it and laugh.
Remember when celebrities had the style to take a joke?
Entertainment Tonight - a dial tone in a digital universe
It brings up another point too. As said previously, this is the first time ever that regular people were talking about the Golden Globes the day after (and still the day after that) rather than tuning out the Entertainment Tonight blathering static - "How Demi Moore lost 15 pounds for awards night & what Oprah's eating!". It seems like the celebrity set are content to be completely irrelevant as long as they can go on being famous!
let's give them something to talk about
The catch there is that celebrities are raving ego maniacs (except for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Jolie was in total bitch mode at the beginning of the evening, as she coiled next to Pitt with the usual look in her eyes that made you ask whether she was on drugs or completely possessed. After Gervais got into full swing camera pans showed Jolie loosening up, sitting up in her chair, and laughing mischievously. This even though she herself was the butt of some of the humour! Though Wondertrash has been no Jolie supported in the past, the official policy might have to change!). Raving egomaniac means 'not able to take anything remotely resembling criticism'. However it also means 'can't bear not being talked about'.
"me first" again - one way or another
Now, for the first time in a generation, real people are really talking about them. That's got to mean something. In fact I'm guess that Hollywood's "Me Generation" could even get used to that. So once reality sinks in - and good luck on anything like reality ever setting in anywhere near Hollywood - Gervais might get forgiven. Who knows, we might even being seeing him again a lot sooner than insiders would lead us to believe! Let's just say Gevais is the price celebrities pay for remaining relevant. Meanwhile we can always rely on ET to keep us abreast of Kim Kardashian's new boob implants!
"My lawyers helped me with the wording of these jokes"
When you MC an awards show the usual routine is to stroke famous egos by kissing everyone's ass. Ricky Gervais brought it back to Dean Martin Celebrity Roast level by taking aim and letting fly at every over inflated tin plated ego in the room. As a matter of fact there's little I can say about that - except Ricky I'm gonna miss you - so here it is! Oh yeah and thanks for reviving the dead art of stand up comedy.
"oh Ricky you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind!"
Now this performance is a departure from the usual MC suck job. People don't go to this things to get sent up or put on; they go to debut their new plastic surgery, or their new relationship, or their new designer duds. Then they run out the next morning to get the press clippings about them. Though the press clippings are usually the same "Brad and Angelina still together" (I think that's a case where the new astrology applies - she's more Taurus than Gemini; she won't leave cause she's too bloody minded too quit! Just like Hitler in WW2.), "So & so lost weight", "Nicole Kidman had a great dress but her face still looks like she just came from the dentists"; they never get tired of reading bland compliments about themselves. So the art of the host is to be blandly complimentary! If he can do that without being obvious and while keeping up a semblance of comedy he might make toast of the town. If the MC can throw in a few cracks at Sarah Palin he might become the next Jon Stewart (though no the next Steven Colbert - cause that guy's genuinely good!).
Strangers with Comedy- British American celebrity relations hit an all time low!
Now last night Gervais didn't make any pretense to ego stroking. He let everyone have it by more or less telling it like it is. No one in entertainment is gonna stand for that because they spend alot of time and money trying to avoid seeing how it is! As a matter of fact they'll even drop wads of cash attending New Age type seminars teaching them how they can more effectively avoid reality - "The art of the secret is focus on what you want!" In other words you don't need drugs and booze if you can keep your head full of shit at all times!
Gervais goes off like Carrie on prom night - is there a doctor in the House?
So they're not really emotionally equipped for that much reality in one concentrated doses. Especially not at an Awards ceremony - it's like telling kids that there's no Santa Claus on the night before Christmas. Let's put it this way - Gervais act was so strong that not only will he never eat lunch in that town again, but Hugh Laurie could get fired off of House over it, just for being British. That puts Gervais career right down the crapper. Then again telling everyone what they wanted to hear would be too easy, wouldn't it?
Celebs on Awards nite - "I feel bigger than Hitler after he invaded France!"
We can only hope that celebs try to keep this in perspective - for one thing this is the first time since - ever - that anyone not on the guest list has been talking about the Golden Globes that morning after. So what the beautiful people have lost in pride they've gained in relevance; thanks to Big Rick. Trashing the poor man's career would seem to be a high penalty to impose simply for making the celeb set genuinely interesting, outside of a supermarket tabloid context. Besides, if they take it egotistically it might not be so bad - if the Rat Pack could take it from Don Rickles, then surely they should be big enough to take it too. The human ego is so fucked up that it will even feel good about shit eating if it can find away to feel important about it - and let's not kid ourselves, an award's nite gala is all about feeling as important as you can!
"I don't know if even a make over can save him now!"
Now here's a some some of the shots fired, courtesy of THR:
Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais kept his promise from last week that Charlie Sheen would be one of his comedic "targets" at Sunday's show.
"It's going to be a night of partying and heavy drinking -- or, as Charlie Sheen calls it, breakfast," the comedian quipped at the start of the show. "Wow, so let's get this straight, so what he did was, he picked up a porn star, paid her to have dinner with him, introduced her to his ex-wife -- as you do -- went to a hotel, got drunk, got naked, trashed the place while she was locked in a cupboard, and that was a Monday. What does he do New Year's Eve?"
Sheen isn't the only one who was the subject of Gervais' jabs. In addition to suggesting that certain "famous Scientologists" are gay, he took several shots at The Tourist. The widely panned movie became the subject of controversy when the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. nominated it for multiple Golden Globes last month, including best comedy or musical film as well as acting noms for stars Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie.
"It was a big year for 3D movies. Toy Story, Despicable Me, Tron," he said. "It seemed like everything this year was three-dimensional. Except the characters in The Tourist. I already feel bad about that joke.
"I tell you what, I'm jumping on the bandwagon, because I haven't even seen The Tourist. Who has?
"But it must be good because it's nominated, so shut up, OK? And I'd like to crush this ridiculous rumor that the only reason The Tourist was nominated was so that the foreign press of could hang out with Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie. That was not the only reason; they also accepted bribes."
Also on Gervais' hit list:
-- Bruce Willis, whom Gervais introduced as "Ashton Kutcher's dad." (Kutcher is married to Willis' ex-wife, Demi Moore, and stepfather to their three children.)
-- The Sex and the City 2 cast: "There were a lot of big films that didn't get nominated this year, nothing for Sex and the City 2. No, I was sure the Golden Globe for special effects would go to the team that airbrushed that poster. Girls, we know how old you are. I saw one of you in an episode of Bonanza."
-- Jorge Garcia, who played Hurley on Lost: "One of the biggest TV events of the year was the finale of Lost. It was quite a complicated finale, and I'm not sure I understood it all. From what I can make out, the fat one ate them all."
-- Cher: After quipping that the HFPA were bribed to nominate Tourist, Gervais joked: "No, all that happened was some of them were taken to see Cher in concert. Now how was that a bribe, really? It's not, because it's not 1975."
-- Talking about how Eva Longoria's introduction of the head of the HFPA compared with his tasks of the night: "I helped him off the toilet and popped his teeth in."
-- Hugh Hefner: "There's been some great new TV dramas this year, like Boardwalk Empire and The Walking Dead. Talking of the walking dead, congratulations to Hugh Hefner, who is getting married at age 84 to 24-year-old beauty Crystal Harris. When asked why she was marrying him, she said, 'He lied about his age. I thought he was 94.' Calm down; just don't look at it when you touch it," Gervais added, complete with helpful suggestive gestures.
iconoclasm makes a comeback
I guess that Ricky must've left that event via the back door, since it must've left everyone as emotionally drained as an execution. That being said - I like his style, and it's about damned time that some one stood up and said something like that! Besides it might have been much worse -
BTW Gervais was completely out of line when he said that entertainment journalists take bribes (they're called swag), but Wondertrash is currently entertaining offers!
BTW Gary Bell & The View From Space has found a new home @ Wondertrash's sister blog Area 51. This blog is 100% conspiracy theory, so if you have to read it, wear your tinfoil hat!
Now for the many many fans of Gary Bell & The View From Space, here's the latest broadcast!
Now here are some of those Emmy Award winners!
Drama Series: Mad Men Comedy Series: Modern Family
ACTING:
Lead Actor in a Drama Series: Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad Lead Actress in a Drama Series: Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory Lead Actress in a Comedy Series: Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Archie Panjabi, The Good Wife Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series: Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series: Jane Lynch, Glee Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie: Al Pacino, You Don’t Know Jack Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie: Claire Danes, Temple Grandin Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie: David Strathairn, Temple Grandin Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie: Julia Ormond, Temple Grandin
DIRECTING:
Drama Series: Steve Shill, Dexter Comedy Series: Ryan Murphy, Glee Variety, Music or Comedy Special: Bucky Gunts, Vancouver 2010: XXI Olympic Winter Games Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special: Mick Jackson, Temple Grandin
WRITING:
Drama Series: Matthew Weiner and Erin Levy, Mad Men Comedy Series: Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd, Modern Family Variety, Music or Comedy Special: 63rd Annual Tony Awards Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special: Adam Mazer, You Don’t Know Jack
Made for Television Movie: Temple Grandin Miniseries: The Pacific Reality Competition Program: Top Chef Variety, Music or Comedy Series: The Daily With Jon Stewart
And the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award went to George Clooney.
BTW Dexter's Michael C Hall was totally robbed! Let's face it - it takes an amazing actor to make an emotionally alienated serial murderer sympathetic and likable! Even John Lithgow didn't manage that during his time on the show.
Unemployment must not agree with Chris Brown. That's understandable when you're about 21, worth millions, had the world at you feet, and then the ground suddenly opens up underneath you. Well it's not so much that the ground opened up as that he smacked the shit out of his then gal pal Rihanna Robyn Fenty. Brown did a number on her that got world wide attention. When the pictures of Rihanna's battered face started making the rounds, folks couldn't stand the sight of Brown's face anymore. So he had to take a little sabbatical from the lime light.
Redemption American Style - fake it till you make it!
Well CB seems like he's getting ready to make a comeback. Chris was at the BET Awards recently where he gave an emotional tribute to the late pop icon Michael Jackson. When I say emotional I mean that he actually broke down during his tribute performance. He didn't break down in a jarring Kanye West way either. Nobody's microphone got snatched out of their hands & Brown was actually in tears!
"If you forgive me, I promise not to beat up any more women!"
The emotion didn't stop there either. During a presentation Brown took some time to say that he's really really sorry for doing all that unlicensed facial deconstruction on Ms. Fenty. Further more he knows that it was just plain wrong. If he hadn't already known that then I'm sure that the Brown Fan Boycott against any project he involved himself in helped him to figure it out! He get's it now because his profuse apologies also came with a guarantee - "I'll never ever do anything like that again!" You don't have to read about it though; cause you can see for yourself via this youtube clip:
Hennigan's shenanigans
Kanye West also attended. Now Kayne didn't really do anything comparable to Brown's savage assault. Kanye was merely drunk and disorderly during a past VMA Awards show. Believing that Beyonce Knowles had been passed over in favour of new comer Taylor Swift, Kanye and his bottle of Hennigan's hopped up on the stage to say that Taylor's a great gal and a talented singer but giving her the award was just plain wrong. It was almost chivalrous in a drunk, misguided way. Imagine poor Kayne's embarrassment and shock when he realized that Beyonce had not been passed over. The big prize, video of the year, had been saved up for her.
Chivlary is not dead, just a little drunk & rowdy
That lead to Kanye's year of shame. Jay Leno publicly took him to task on The Tonight Show. Jay might've been more cautious. The karma wheel turned on Leno fast after he developed his own image problems during the Conan O Brien affair (Leno couldn't have come off worse if he'd admitted to having sex with David Letterman!). Leno had company in the Kanye bashing. Even the President was goaded mischievously, by members of the media, into commenting on the affair. When asked for an off the cuff response during a media briefing, Pres Obama called West a "jackass". Getting called out by a man who was at the time the most popular president since FDR has got to put you in that "how bad is this thing gonna get?" mode. In fairness though the President seemed a little unsure of who Kanye was.
Next award show, take a pill
So Kayne took a brief hiatus (hiatus is a word you use for "break" when you've already used up sabbatical). He also conducted himself with a little more dignity than we're accustomed to seeing from celebs. he made a public apology to Ms. Swift. He also made a private call to once again say sorry for spoiling her moment. Then he went away for awhile: no media releases, no sneaky attempts to get back in the limelight, no phony sensitivity. His recent BET appearance was likewise cool & professional. So it looks like at least one of them has learned something from their year in exile! Maturity comes to those who wait, and is possible even for a professional celebrity!
Gibson still Mad Mel
BTW speaking of some one else with image problems, and who doesn't seem one bit sorry, Mel Gibson has been caught in yet another racist tirade. Radaronline is claiming that they've have a tape )perhaps the very same tapes that Oksana claimed to have recorded and that the courts barred her from releasing - wait for the "they were stolen" story), probably from Gibon's ex Oksana Grigorieva, in which Mel uses some very vulgar language. Some of it was racist, the rest just nasty threats directed against Ms. Grigorieva. Here are the Young Turks with their take on that.
Reps of Radaronline have confirmed that they have the tape, that they have heard the tape, and that Mel says all the stuff that he is alleged to have said on the tape. This adds credibility to Oksie's claims to have been battered by the disgraced drunken actor. It also means that after a few years of careful image management and some tentative steps towards a career comeback, Gibson is officially done!
Sandra Bullock made her first post scandal appearance recently at the Guys Choice Awards. Sandra arrived without her usual escort to such functions - Vanilla Gorilla Jesse James. She did bring her sense of humor. Just take a look at the following short video clip and watch how Sandy handles herself in what might have been an awkward situation.
A little humor goes a long way in dealing with life's hard to handle moments. Besides, it could have been so much worse. At least James wasn't indicted for swindling the Vatican or anything. Besides there are other fish in the sea, as Sandra seems to be discovering while getting lippy with Scarlett Johannson.
So is anyone interested in these things? They will be Sandra Bullock's 1st 'post humiliation' outing. Everybody probably remembers what happened the last time Sandy appeared at an awards show. She thanked the little people who made it possible, she thanked the Academy for giving her the opportunity to wear them down, and she especially thanked her estranged husband, Mr Real, Jesse James.
Morgan Freeman wants his email address back
She claimed during that unfortunate speech that living with Jesse made her a better actress, Not surprising since as it turned out life with Jesse was pretty much a tissue of lies. The world found that out in an explosion of neo Nazi tattooed porn actresses. What followed was a media maelstrom. Sandy laid low, and eventually adopted; while Jesse went on a public mea culpa binge. He also started blaming his step family for making him a monster (they claimed he was like that when they got him), and trying to sell his jet - the one featured in the nazi photos, as a piece of pop cultural history! In fact he was so clumsy in his attempts to save himself that it had people, like me, asking how could this monkey stay a step ahead of a Sandra Bullock for so many years? Love is blind, not mentally retarded.
company in the hot seat
Anyway Sandy once again feels confident enough to venture out in the open without the fear that lightening will strike or anything. Many will be watching just in case it does. Others will want to see those Twilight kids. Pissy Krissy, or Kristew who has just done her "Me & my big mouth" apologies, over the rape remarks, will be there. Though it was in bad taste I'm sure no one was seriously offended, except for actual rape victims. Anyway it will be interesting to see if Krissy does any squirming.
peaking at the pecking order
Also the Twilight kids have pride of place, seated right behind Sandy, who seated front row center. Now that has watchers of the Follywood pecking order picking Twilight for a sweep! Watchers like Dana Ward from Clevver TV. I don't know whether she's been lurking around and noting the seating arrangement, but she might well be onto something.
Megan Fox Countdowns for Jonah Hex (73 days) and Transformers 3 (451 days till in theater).
Hopefully her character has one of those corny James Bond Pussy Galore type names. Lucida Grande maybe? Now that's a 'type name' anyway.
You've got to give Meggers credit: Love her or hate her - and many do a little of both - in an industry where "world's hottest" come and go she remains the one to beat. Rock on Meggers!
Palm d'Or to go please
Megan isn't the only person with movies on her mind. A certain Desperate Housewife seems to have them on the brain right now. Eva Longoria has taken time out from the Follywood scene to go have her picture taken with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan again. She had to fly all the way over to France to get it done too. That's the only time those two are ever photographed together in public. However every year at the Cannes Film Festival organizers wind up putting the desperate housewife and the goddess side by side for some publicity shots.
Les Miserables
Eva loves the annual trip, even though her knowledge of France is limited to "wine & cheese" picked up from her husband. It gives her a chance to push her agenda by hobbknobbing with the European glitterati and reminding them how great she'd be in their films, even if she only has a shaky grasp of their languages. Here's Eva to explain herself for herself for a change. Let's watch.
Wasn't that a treat? Eva has shown how to comport yourself as an American in Paris. For instance "France" is pronounced with a hard "ra" like "Frank" not softer like "bra". Ordering out with her must be like the Spam scene in Monty Python! Fortunately she's got her husband to do the talking for her. I'm sure he used to taking her orders by now. During her next trip to Cannes, Tony should take some time out to educate her. Maybe he could introduce her to Paris' seamy underbelly (Does the phrase 'seamy underbelly' combined with the name Paris make you think Hilton?) ! So Eva baby, you having extra Velveeta® with those cheese burgers over there?
Show business quote of the day:
"I like to play bad guys, since good guys are always beaten up several times during the movie. Bad guys are beaten only once, in the end."
The paper work isn't in yet but it might be safe to call this another drug related death. Haim claimed on his Two Corey's TV show that he developed drug addiction shortly after being sexually molested by various people in the entertainment industry at age 14.
Haim's struggles with prescription drug addiction were well publicized in the media and on his reality TV show. Haim at one point was taking 85 Valium a day. Recently he claimed to have cleaned up and even to out advertising space in Variety Magazine announcing that he was 'back'. He was most recently working on a B Movie project called American Sunset. The story of Hollywood could well be a B movie called American Sunset.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has apologized for the Farrah Fawcett snub, sort of. They're sorry that the public is mad with them, but they stand by their decision.
As part of the Academy Award proceeding a memorial was included to people notable for their participation in films. Notable by her absence was Farrah Fawcett. The Academy claimed that too many people had died in 2009 - it was a hard year on celebrities - and they couldn't include everyone. The inference being that Farrah was a television actress and so not important enough to make the Oscar death list. Hollywood thrives on self importance and it wouldn't be much of a list if it weren't exclusive. In plane language some one had to be left out to make everyone else feel important.
Now the Academy may have over looked a few things when they decided not to include Fawcett. For one thing Farrah had done film work. In fact she starred in the 1976 sci fi classic Logan's Run. That was the first sci fi flick ever to win an Oscar. It picked up a coveted statuette for best FX in a motion picture. As an Academy first you'd think that would make it notable. Since Farrah participated in it you think that would make her notable enough, in addition to her contribution to popular culture (she was an icon!) to get a mention. After all the 82nd Oscars were supposed to be a night notable for firsts, especially involving women. Doesn't the Academy respect it's own history & tradition?
Such are the perils of live television broadcasts. TV has been undermining the film industry for years, according to the film industry. They must believe that since they scheduled a prime-time Sunday night slot. If you can't beat 'em join 'em. Now there are no retakes when you go live. If it's not walking the tight rope without a net then it's flying by the seat of your pants. Occasionally things like that happen. The opportunity to make an ass of yourself in front of a nation wide audience is too much for some people. It's ironic that the movie industry entrusts their high holiday to the TV networks, and then the medium can't help but make the proceedings farcical,or boring, or both!
It seems like the Oscar after parties are getting more talked about than the Oscars. Today on the View Sherri Sheppard bragged that she had been to two Oscar parties. The second one had cost 25 000 per admittance ticket. Sherri went on to reassure the audience that "I didn't pay for that". I guess that Barbara Walters really does have some deep pockets! Ordinary people too were either hosting or attending Oscar Parties. I even had my own personal Oscar Party Celebration. I won't say how it went but I will say that this morning I tried to pay a shop keeper for a $4.15 purchase by asking if I could give him 3 twonies and 15 cents he could give me back a twonie in change. Why don't you just give me 2 twonies and 15 cents?" he replied.
Loony Town
As for the main event, the verdict is in on last night's Academy Awards ceremony, and that is that they sucked. Opinion is vaguely approving of Sarah Jessica Parker's dress & hair. People also seem mildly pleased that the smug James Cameron got taken down a peg or too. In this case schadenfreude may seem justified since only his ego got damaged, and he has 100's of millions to console him. Apart from that the award show was bland and inoffensive, though very slick. Sacha Baron Cohen's Avatar sketch was taken out, since James was gonna get his comeuppance in due course. Also Tiger Wood's jokes were explicitly forbidden. Follywood is packed full of philandering husbands who don't want o be reminded what drain their hard won lucre is eventually going to disappear down. So the affair was bland and unentertaining.
Is the cracker factory running out of cheese?
Entertainment didn't always used to be this way. Long ago, back in the days when the industry still lacked anything like production values people gathered around their TV to watch fare they seemed to enjoy. It was often offensive and more than occasionally entertaining. It's tempting to say that part of the charm of the period was that the entertainment business had still retained some innocence, but that business has never been innocent. Not since the days when the snake offered to make Eve a star by putting her in a movie about an apple (The snake was either Cecil B Demille or Louis B Mayer, and Eve was either Greta Garbo or Ingrid Bergman and had to work briefly as an escort to gasngsters - accounts vary.). Let's just say that it was still genuinely and unintentionally cheesy, & they don't make stuff like that anymore unless they do it on purpose. So here now is a blast from that past, from the days when entertainment didn't advertise that it had lost it's soul. Perhaps it hadn't yet realized that.
Sandra Bullock has accepted her Razzie for worst actress in person! She claims that she was blindsided by her Oscar Nom. Whether or not it's an honor just to be nominated for the Academy Award, should she be bested by the competition tonight, she will have her Razzie to console her.
She's just so happy to get an award - any award. Now here's a little video guide to the Big Enchilada - the Oscars!
Just kidding! That Oscar winner wabbit Bugs Bunny hasn't been considered for Oscar MC since 1968. Warner Bros just doesn't have the corporate clout that it used to. Now here's the real video.
The Academy Awards are almost upon us, and every celebritard in Follywood is twitching in anticipation; except for Pamela Anderson - who's celebrating her new fragrance, and Kirstie Alley - who couldn't interrupt her hectic Twitter schedule. Everyone else is up for the occassion. Some are even trying to shift the odds in their favour, as discussed in the following short video clip.
James Cameron won't get it because he's made politically incorrect statements about one of the competition who also happens to be one of his exs. They can't give it to her now either, since he's called them on it. There's still that Precious guy that Oprah likes so much. BTW Linda Hamilton has come out and described life with Jimbo as 'hell on many levels'. At least Jimmy will have an excuse for not wining this year. He can always claim that it was thwe quality of his public comments and not the qualioty of his work that cost him the coveted statuette. It pays to cover the angles, and if you can't cover the angles then at least hedge your bets!
Conan O Brien's gone and nearly forgotten, Jay Leno's back with Lindsay Vonn to help him warm things up, so the only real question is how NBC will fill that hour of network prime time every week night at 10 PM. My guess is reality TV pilot after reality TV pilot after reality TV pilot. At least that would give them a real shot at winning their time slot - although with the new guy still in charge @ NBC I guess that they don't do that anymore. If you've had an idea for a TV series floating around in the back of your mind now might be a good time to pitch it to NBC!
BTW Jay Leno isn't the only bug big name who's back. Harrison Ford is back again in a new film called Extraordinary Measures. Everyone knows who Harrison Ford is, but for those under the age of 18 Ford is the 80's movie icon who didn't fuck up on Oprah or get busted for DUI. This isn't an action film even though the title sounds like one. What it is is as explained by Mr. Ford in the following short video promo:
The Oscars are back too but that's not news since they come back around every time this year. What is news is that Woody Harrelson is back with them. He was the guy who played Tony Danza on Cheers. His new flick is getting some good buzz.
Speaking of the 80's Corey Feldman is back and attracting a lot of attention. He was recently at La Vida - where he may or may not have been valet parking - it's not clear from the video clip, & and getting a lot of young women mildly excited. Getting a lot of young women mildly excited is what he used to do best!
It's good to see that he's still got it. I was afraid that the Fonz might be losing his cool for awhile. Splitting with his wife and palling around with Cory Haim again really seems to agree with him. Haim has really put on quite a little bit of weight since trying to kick prescription pills I hear. Corey mentions having a lot of projects in the works like The Goonies 25 year reunion, so he may have been joking about having work.
Some one who's going rather than coming is Simon Cowell. He's leaving American Idol to start up an American version of X Factor with Paula Abdul. While Simon is leaving he has tapped Howard Stern (who's name re arranged spells 'wondertrash'!) to replace. So welcome back to Howard too. He hasn't been a household name since he moved to Sirius satellite radio.
That pesky paparazzo might have been on to something with his Perezhilton idea! Meanwhile Simon is getting married - I hope this isn't anything rash. I really hope it works out better for him than satellite radio did for Stern. Then again Stern should've known that talk radio listeners are gonna avoid anything called Sirius, on the basis that it might be a front for the Illuminati! If it doesn't work out, Simon can always come back to TV! I'm sure that Howard would offer him his old spot back - just like Conan with Jay Leno!
The catch there is that celebrities are raving ego maniacs (except for 
