Murphy's Law: What ever happened to Jim Corr

goosing loose ends

Back in the early 90's the Irish pop group the Corrs picked up a whole lot of international attention with their smooth light pop stylistics. The group had some real success and then went their separate ways. The sisters went on to marry and quarrel amongst themselves. That left brother Jim at loose ends. Now it is sort of an unwritten law of the universe that when some one is at loose ends something is gonna come along to fill that void. In Jim's case it's an avid and active interest in conspiracy theories.

It's life Jim, but not as we know it

What sort of theories is Jim interested in? Well you know the usual stuff - the Royal Family are shape shifting reptilians, air port security is a plot to render the American male impotent, the financial crash was engineered by the Rothschilds, and oh yeah - 911 was an inside job. Here's a little video that just recently surfaced on the Irish Central website. It features Jim defending his beliefs against some glibly dismissive assholes.



Now I know that looks bad but wait - it gets worse (getting worse is an inviolable law of the universe. Cynics call it "Murphy's Law" but physicists know it better as the 2nd law of thermodynamics. IN practical terms it means that things fall apart because it's thte tendency of things to do so.). Jim had this to say about the usual suspects and the usual subjects.

WTF?

Saying that Jim finally found a way to take the attention away from his beautiful sisters would be cheap shot - so naturally most people are gonna do that. I feel that Jim isn't really to blame for whatever ideas have found their way into his head. I think that the blame goes directly to George W Bush. I mean his two term presidency was an unmitigated disaster; that saw the tide run out on the USA, and inflamed the market for conspiracies theories to the point that Alex Jones reputedly has a small shrine dedicated to W in his home and makes daily thanks offering to it.

The Menacing Idiot: Presitard

So that had people who's brains weren't completely numbed with denial asking "what the fuck actually happened in the past 8 years?" It's a fair question. During the Bill Clinton Era America ruled the roost. When the President said "jump" foreign leaders said "how high?" (nowadays they simply guide the President to the nearest ledge and say "you first"). The economy was in overdrive to the point that any Forrest Gump type numskull could make it rich if he wasn't too honest and knew how to bend the rules. Now middle class Americans have to ask for govt stimulus packages so that they can avoid the indignity of buying smaller cars and flipping burgers to make ends meet.

Who spiked the Punch? Optimism is seeing the glass as half full; paranoia is asking what it's full of!

So what went wrong? The inevitable conclusion seems to be, as usual with pro politicians, that Bush was either dishonest or incompetent. Jim Corr has given W the benefit of the doubt and decided he's dishonest, rather than a fucking moron. While that may be the flaw in his conspiracy theory, you do have to empathize. The alternative is that a majority of the American public voted a moron into the Presidency - for a second term if not a first. That would be enough to undermine a sensible person's faith in human nature ( a really sensible person has already lost that). So you can't blame Jim for wanting to give just plain people, as well as W, the benefit of the doubt. Jim Corr - I salute your crazy optimism!

Kathy Lee Gifford is still mad

It has been recently revealed that Regis Philbin has decided to follow Larry King into retirement. This supposedly follows a decision by his producers to cut his salary if he decided to stay on. Regis took that as a slap in the face and walked. Someone who knows a thing or two about face slaps Regis' ex partner Kathy Lee Gifford.

Regis & Kathy Lee started out as a local New York morning chat show. They quickly became the biggest deal in their market. Then the show got syndicated and went national. They rest of the nation decided they liked the pair as much as New York, and their friendly animosity routine took them to TV stardom.That's when things started taking a bad turn for Kathy.

She got involved in some scandals - like her husband getting caught taking a hooker to a hotel room. Kathy carried on like she had the perfect marriage (and sort of originated the Elizabeth Hasselback routine, you know "I couldn't decide whether to decorate my new living room in pink or dusty rose, so I let hubby decide. I think we're gonna have an NFL theme! I should've asked Angie Harmon for advice instead."). So the cheating kid of deflated the whole Stepford Wife image. Things only got worse when Kath was linked to some kind of New York sweat shop. Her name became mud. So Regis cut her loose. Those are the times when you find out who your friends are.


Kathy had good reason to remember that friendship too. As Regis broke in the newer younger Kathy Lee, in the form of soap opera actress Kelly Ripa, Lee's career went into a downward spiral. A sitcom she'd planned fell through. Some musicals she'd written never got anywhere near Broadway. Oh yeah, and she did an album that went nowhere. Eventually she had to take work as and entertainment corespondent with Pat O Brien's show. Now once did Regis ever lend his support to the woman who helped him make it to the top, and that had Kathy Lee telling anyone who would listen that "Regis betrayed me!"


The people she was telling were notables like Martha Stewart. Kathy confided to Stewart that she would've loved to have been invited back to the show, perhaps on some kind of regular guest host ticket. Lee went on to tell Stewart that it would only happen "when hell freezes over". What set that off was Regis' New Years Eve gig with FOX back in 05. Kathy was hoping to get picked up for that, but Regis once again went with a younger woman -weather girl Jillian Barberie. That brought the bad blood, which had been simmering for awhile, to the boil.

Kathy is boiling again. It's not that she expects any help from Regis. She's found her way back onto daytime TV, with her Today Show gig opposite Hoda Koth. It's Regis retirement plans that have her hot under the collar. Now that Regis has some extra time on his hands he's decided to write his memoirs, for fun and profit. That has Kathy nervous. She and Regis had plenty of fights behind the scenes, and since Regis doesn't share Gifford's ideas of loyalty, she's afraid that the old boy will spill the beans. In fact she's terrified that he's gonna vilify her in his new book so that he can come off looking good - or simply to settle old scores. Anyway with Gifford only recently climbing back into the mainstream media, a smear job couldn't come at a worse time; and that has her reminding everyone off how Regis gave her the shaft.