- Kristin at E! says that Tyler from MTV's Fresh Meat is blaming his recent mega-blowup on Svetlanta (Fitz). He says that Fitz found a notebook on Michelle Kwan and pretended it was his burn book with bad things about her. Uh, yeah. Nice try, Tyler.
- Good luck finding anything else on the news tonight other than Valerie Plame suing Dick Cheney and Karl Rove. Yay, Val!
- Project Runway's third season premiere did so well this week on Bravo that NBC is airing it this coming Monday at 8 p.m. Those of you who don't have cable (and just how can that be?) have no excuse for not watching.
- I just read in Variety and TV Guide that NBC is remaking the Heat Miser and Snow Miser Christmas special, but with actors! Although it's interesting that Delta Burke and John Goodman are going to be Mrs. and Mr. Claus, the whole concept is still way crazy!
Friday, July 14, 2006
More TV News
The Studs of Summer
In the midst of the summer heat, and endless re-runs, there are still plenty of hot guys to watch on the tube. If you are a savvy Tivo user you can carefully pause to see a nipple or salacious part or two. Say it with me now, "Grrr...."- James Roday (pic on the right) pretends to be psychic on USA's new show Psych and just barely beats out Joel Gretsch, on another USA show (The 4400), for ultimate tv summer hottie.
- Jeremy Piven (HBO's Entourage) was the summer hottie frontrunner until USA started airing all its gorgeous talent.
- Ben Browder heats up the long-running Stargate SG-1.
- Robert Best, the cutie designer from Bravo's Project Runway, makes me smile.
- Can't forget most of the models on Oxygen's Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency.
- Take a bite out of the very delicious Dave Lieberman on Food TV.
- Luis Lopez Fitzgerald on NBC's Passions is muy caliente.
- I heart CNN's gunmetal grey Anderson Cooper. [Sigh...] He's even cuter in person. But when I met him in a bar, he was missing the acerbic wit I expected.
- I don't watch ABC's All My Children, but could Cameron Mathison be any hotter?
And these guys are so pretty, I don't mind watching them a second time on repeats:
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Baby Suri or Fake Pregnancy?
Thanks to Jeff for finding this pic of Katie Holmes' shapeshifting stomach from a few months ago. Awfully suspicious.
Poor Katie, er Kate (the Tom-approved name). Did she really know what she was getting herself into?
TV News: Did you hear...?
The Sopranos won't be starting in final season this January as originally planned. Looks like March instead. Rome will begin again in January, but its 2nd season will be it's last. Alas...I will begin my grieving now for Pullo (see pic ).- Turns out that Project Runway's Nina Garcia is even cooler than I thought. Tim Gunn says that everyone was set to vote Daniel Vosovic as the winner for season 2, but Nina swayed them all with a passionate speech about Chloe Dao. Nina's plea made the difference--Chloe won.
- Wes and Johanna from MTV's Fresh Meat are still an item, according to Kristin at E!, despite Wes's barbaric mohawked blowup at her.
Superman: Victim of a Hate Crime?
I don't feel bad mentioning this since the movie's been out a few weeks now, but if you haven't seen Superman Returns you may want to skip this entry.
Sitting in the theater as the John Williams music soared and the Superman titles shot across the screen, I felt like I was a kid again--complete deja vu. And though the new movie is fantastic, there is one 3-minute scene toward the end that nearly ruined the whole thing for me.
In this scene, Superman is dragged by his face along the ground, kicked in the stomach, pulled to his feet by his hair, and then repeatedly kicked, punched, and beaten. The scene was completely jarring--not the cartoonish Tarantino-esque violence I expected, but just brutual and gratuitous fury. It was hard enough for me to watch, but thinking about the kids in the theater, I was cringing. Several friends mentioned being taken aback by the scene as well. I'm actually surprised the scene made it into the movie in its current state.
Sitting in the theater as the John Williams music soared and the Superman titles shot across the screen, I felt like I was a kid again--complete deja vu. And though the new movie is fantastic, there is one 3-minute scene toward the end that nearly ruined the whole thing for me.
In this scene, Superman is dragged by his face along the ground, kicked in the stomach, pulled to his feet by his hair, and then repeatedly kicked, punched, and beaten. The scene was completely jarring--not the cartoonish Tarantino-esque violence I expected, but just brutual and gratuitous fury. It was hard enough for me to watch, but thinking about the kids in the theater, I was cringing. Several friends mentioned being taken aback by the scene as well. I'm actually surprised the scene made it into the movie in its current state.
TV Shows I'm Watching This Summer
My favorite shows not in re-runs:- Entourage--hard to get in to at first, but completely addictive (HBO)
- Fresh Meat--I love watching stupid, ignorant youth suffer (MTV)
- The Hills--or as I call it, Laguna Beach-lite (MTV)
- Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency--it's a tv trainwreck (Oxygen)
- Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List--funny as hell (E!)
- Project Runway--see post below (Bravo)
- The Real World--I'm waiting for stupid, ignorant Tyler to suffer (MTV)
- Good Deal with Dave Lieberman--Dave's smile makes my weekend. Period. (Food TV)
- Road Tasted--Paula Deen's sons. I've got dibs on the closeted one. (Food TV)
- Paula's Home Cooking--she eats like nobody's business (Food TV)
- Small Space, Big Style--really cool apartment ideas, but annoying rich people (HGTV)
- Las Vegas--the Josh Duhamel show (NBC)
- NCIS--really funny, actually. Give it a chance. (CBS)
- Stargate SG-1--the Ben Browder Show, see the pic above (Scifi)
Project Runway
Last season on Project Runway...clothing designer Michael Kors deadpans: "Your dress looks like barefoot, Appalachia, Li'l Abner Barbie." And that's all you need to know to catch up.
If you haven't checked out what will prove to be this summer's most delicious reality series, then you need to jump on the ever-growing Project Runway bandwagon. Mix together a gaggle of clothing designers--a few cute gay guys with classy designs, some of the world's most arrogant straight men, a couple of down-to-earth sophisticated women, and some nutjobs who can't even sew--and you've got me screaming and laughing at my tv every Wednesday night at 10 p.m.
This summer's Project Runway promises to provide even more wonderfully saucy quips than last year. Honey, the dagger-like verbiage is flying, from Tim Gunn's gem in the first five minutes of the show ("When I thought about having to work with Santino again, my brain began to bleed") to Michael Koors indictment of a designer's awful dress ("I don't want to see my Grandma's undies"). And where would we be without the no-way she's-gonna-say-it digs of Heidi: "Is his accent even for real?"
A few thoughts about last night's premiere episode:
1) Why wasn't Michael, the guy who made the dress out of coffee filters, in the top few designers?
2) How many more times will we have to see/hear Malan "I'm the greasy white guy from Taiwan who talks in a fake British accent" break out into creepy laughter? It was bone chilling.
3) Wasn't it great that the person who deserved to go actually got voted off? Although with Stacey not hanging around, we won't get to see her learn to actually use a sewing machine.
4) Is it just me, or is Laura, the mother of five kids, a Rene Russo look-alike?
5) Rock designer Jeffrey is so Santino it just isn't funny. I mean, not funny. Not. Even. Interesting. I think we've been there, done that.
My picks for the top three this season, and I reserve the right to change my mind: cute gay Robert from California; Uli, the cool blond German lady; and Bradley from LA. Now, I love Rene Russo, but she doesn't have the (designing) legs to stay. And the same with Michael and Keith. Good designs so far, but can they keep going to the end?
My choices for the next three to leave in no particular order: Vincent, who shall be referred to hereafter as Crazy Hat; Malan, who I'm guessing causes some scandal (and is the accent real?); and poor, poor Bonnie who's first dress looked like a tablecloth--granted, it may actually have been made from a table cloth.
More scoop on Runway later!
If you haven't checked out what will prove to be this summer's most delicious reality series, then you need to jump on the ever-growing Project Runway bandwagon. Mix together a gaggle of clothing designers--a few cute gay guys with classy designs, some of the world's most arrogant straight men, a couple of down-to-earth sophisticated women, and some nutjobs who can't even sew--and you've got me screaming and laughing at my tv every Wednesday night at 10 p.m.
This summer's Project Runway promises to provide even more wonderfully saucy quips than last year. Honey, the dagger-like verbiage is flying, from Tim Gunn's gem in the first five minutes of the show ("When I thought about having to work with Santino again, my brain began to bleed") to Michael Koors indictment of a designer's awful dress ("I don't want to see my Grandma's undies"). And where would we be without the no-way she's-gonna-say-it digs of Heidi: "Is his accent even for real?"
A few thoughts about last night's premiere episode:
1) Why wasn't Michael, the guy who made the dress out of coffee filters, in the top few designers?
2) How many more times will we have to see/hear Malan "I'm the greasy white guy from Taiwan who talks in a fake British accent" break out into creepy laughter? It was bone chilling.
3) Wasn't it great that the person who deserved to go actually got voted off? Although with Stacey not hanging around, we won't get to see her learn to actually use a sewing machine.
4) Is it just me, or is Laura, the mother of five kids, a Rene Russo look-alike?
5) Rock designer Jeffrey is so Santino it just isn't funny. I mean, not funny. Not. Even. Interesting. I think we've been there, done that.
My picks for the top three this season, and I reserve the right to change my mind: cute gay Robert from California; Uli, the cool blond German lady; and Bradley from LA. Now, I love Rene Russo, but she doesn't have the (designing) legs to stay. And the same with Michael and Keith. Good designs so far, but can they keep going to the end?
My choices for the next three to leave in no particular order: Vincent, who shall be referred to hereafter as Crazy Hat; Malan, who I'm guessing causes some scandal (and is the accent real?); and poor, poor Bonnie who's first dress looked like a tablecloth--granted, it may actually have been made from a table cloth.
More scoop on Runway later!
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