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5 Reasons This Susan Boyle Crap Needs to Stop

by Mindy Monez April 20, 2009 12:27 PM
5 Reasons This Susan Boyle Crap Needs to Stop As you've no doubt noticed by now, Britain's Got Talent contestant Susan Boyle has recently taken over the world. She is everywhere, and I'm being told incessantly that I'm to find her an "inspiration," even though that makes no sense. I don't begrudge the woman herself for it, because how was she supposed to know the world was going to go apeshit over her? Aside from being really sick of having Les Mis stuck in my head all the time now, I do, however, have a huge bone to pick with the media fervor, and here's why.

HBO's Grey Gardens Not-Remake is Surprisingly Awesome It really is. If you've never seen the original documentary, you're totally not going to get it, but if you have, and particularly if you're one of the crazies like myself (and Drew Barrymore, clearly) who has seen it a million times and does your own Little Edie dances on a daily basis, you're going to love it. It was like watching a really well done, high budget version of a YouTube fan tribute to the original. Everything the fans will want to see is pretty much in here, and it's all hilarious -- Little Edie's legendary "best costume for the day" monologue, all the raccoons, the "Tea for Two" scene, even Big Edie's famous boiled corn was included! There were some minor diversions, but one of them was for the better: the "that cat's going to the bathroom behind your portrait, Edie" line was said by Jackie fricking O (played marvelously by the lovely Jeanne Tripplehorn) instead of one of the filmmakers, as it was in the original. That, my friends, is a fabulous upgrade. I died.

Today's TWOP News: April 17, 2009

by Rebecca Bellotto April 17, 2009 3:16 PM
Today's TWOP News: April 17, 2009

So unless you're one of the 26% of people that the Sprint commercial told me had never heard of Twitter, you know it's been a big week for tweeters. Tweeting? Twits? This lingo is killing me. Anyway: Ashton Kutcher won the race to 1,000,000 followers! Suck it, CNN. And Oprah's on Twitter now! Preemptively suck it, Ashton! But there's an even more exciting piece of Twitter news, one that brings us more joy even than the news that we can now follow Ice-T (and by the way...we're on Twitter too!)...

Law & Order: Vincent D'Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe Talk Criminal Intent

While Law & Order: SVU and L&O: Original Recipe have been getting on my nerves lately by veering into ridiculous territory, Criminal Intent has always had one foot in the bizarre, thanks to the constant hulking presence of part-genius, part-madman Det. Robert Goren. In last season's finale, Goren's world crumbled around him, so I'm looking forward to seeing him pull himself together in the new season, especially now that he'll be trading nights with Jeff Goldblum. ("Chris Noth... out!") Vincent D'Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe, who plays Goren's partner Eames, held a conference call to promote the new eighth season, and we got some quirky details out of them.

TWoP 10: Reality TV Pet Peeves

We realize we watch more reality television than the average person, but we just can't help ourselves. However, there are quite a few irksome things that recur on so very many of them, that we've just had it. Since reality TV didn't die off like the fad it was predicted to be eight years ago, we're hopeful that producers, networks and aspiring contestants or actors will take heed to avoid these common problems in the future.

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Sit Down, Shut Up: It Comes From the Land Down Under

All you crazed Arrested Development fans out there who have been waiting for just a little taste of something more and can't wait for the movie can whet your appetites on Sunday when the new animated comedy Sit Down, Shut Up premieres. It's a cartoon adaptation of an Australian live-action show, and is from the AD creator Mitch Hurwitz. It also features the vocal talents of Arrested alums Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Henry Winkler, as well as some SNL talents like Kenan Thompson and Will Forte. Hurwitz and Forte hopped on a conference call recently to ostensibly answer questions from the press, but mostly ended up talking to each other. The highlights of this chaotic call are below.

The Jack-ets Take Manhattan: 24 Season 8 Fan Fiction So 24 announced this week that they're moving the show to NYC next season, and we couldn't be more excited! They haven't revealed very many of next year's plot details, so we've decided we should just make up our own for now. Let's just say Jack needed a change of scenery after that whole almost-got-sent-to-prison-forever Washington, DC debacle, so he goes to NYC for a little Jack time. What could possibly go wrong?

Today's TWOP News: April 16, 2009

by Rebecca Bellotto April 16, 2009 2:58 PM
Today's TWOP News: April 16, 2009

Wondering who the woman in the photo is? Think back to a time of professional parents who were home all the time and crazy sweaters and Lisa Bonet without dreadlocks...yes, I'm talking about The Cosby Show! Man, that show was awesome. But if I were going to give one of those actors a reality series, it probably wouldn't be Keshia Knight Pulliam...what do you mean who's that, she's the one who played Rudy! C'mon people, the littlest Huxtable? She loved her little neighbor Bud? She sang "Night Time is the Right Time"? She was completely upstaged once Raven came into the picture? Oh well, I tried...

The Bravo A-List Awards: Moments of the Night The Bravo A-List Awards (or as we affectionately refer to them around here, "The Bravo Prom") aired last night, and as expected the show was a mixed bag of really entertaining and really frustrating -- hey, kind of like Bravo programming! They are so meta over there. Anyway, if you're as much a psycho Bravo reality fan as I am, read on for my picks for best and worst moments of the night, and play along at home!

Today's TWoP News: April 15, 2009

by Mindy Monez April 15, 2009 1:56 PM
Today's TWoP News: April 15, 2009 As far as the happy to horrifying ratio goes with today's news roundup, we're like two to fourish, so don't read this if you're already depressed. I'm sorry.

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