Ahh yes, it's the Holidays, time to head off to your family or pseudo family's home for a time of sharing and fun or in my family the Rockefeller Family Christmas from Hell. My mother will tirelessly cook and then make us place silver, crystal, china, and linens just so-or be forwarned we will be forced to place them just so over and over and over and so it's been since I was six yrs old. But I have revolted and luckily my Mom's best friend has offered to have us for dinner.
Thank God for the little things.. anyways-in the midst of all the shenanigans I call Christmas and New Year's there is a wonderful array of TV fare from the last year-Talk Soup's Clip Countdown! And shows on hiatus-I'm seriously going into withdrawal without Desperate Housewives, and then there in the middle of December is the Season Finale of Nip Tuck. A smart idea to place a finale in a month of reruns and Christmas-Holiday movies but alas, I didn't even watch the Finale. Why? Por Que?? http://www.tv.com/nip-tuck/gala-gallardo/episode/912025/summary.html?tag=ep_list;title;14
The Show has inevitably and untastefully jumped the shark. Joely Richardson is nowhere to be found in the end of the show. Julian McMahon has gotten fattish( I do not like middle aged paunch on sex symbols) and since I specifically watch the show to ogle him-this is no good. Sure, a real plastic surgeon can have a big belly, he's also not paid to look good he's just paid to make other people look nice. But I digress, I am unsure where to put the blame for this moment in the show that combines the icky with the dramatic and the sexy. Sometimes the show just made me nauseous, but I usually came back for more..until now. I would like to line up the ways this beauty has gone to pot.
First of all, the plotline of Julia McNamara falling in love with the Dwarf Marlowe Sawyer played by Peter Dinklage is nuts. It's just too much for a soap opera. It fits nothing in the show since the show usually pursues icky sexiness bordering on depravity not true drama. It seems overblown and far fetched.
Christian Troy played by Julian McMahon having sex with Rosie O' Donnell's character whom I cannot be bothered to name. But I hear O'Donnell is thinking about leaving the View to go star in that same recurring role on Nip Tuck next season! Oh joy, I can hear the screams now. Please, please, please the sex scene with those two was far more gratuitous than any surgery scene from this show's entire history. Really. Gross. Not cool with the show's original vibe.
Then there is the weird kidney plotline played out between Vanessa Redgrave's character-Erica Noughton and Sanaa Lathan's Michelle Landau. Really weird, hard to understand and again too far fetched. But, I at least found this one more plausible than the above and somewhat more compelling to watch.
And here is the point I hesitate to make, the character of John McNamara played by John Hensley. This actor has aged and his receding hairline is really icking me out. He's supposed to be the young son, precocious and basically good, but he's an adult now. And his face has aged in a way that cute boyish looking men do not usually survive. In other words, he needs to beef up his build, wear lifts?, and really compete physically with the two other men on the show, or get the hairline fixed in order to revert back to his Season 1 look. Sorry, I don't care what people look like in the real world, but on this TV show which is based on beautiful people living neurotic lives, he just doesn't fit right now.
I will give the show's 4th season Two saving credits. The plotline between the Roma Maffia's character and Alanis Morrisette's strike some real insight into the complexity of what happens when one person has low self esteem and seeks plastic surgery to please their partner. And finally, the baby drama for Julian McMahon's character-Christian Troy, I actually want him to have his adopted baby and be happy. I really do hate his ex-wife.
This show has lost it's grip as if it were a metal pot on ice. While the show strives to maintain it's sexy and somewhat dangerous balance but it seems to have skittered uncontrollably of course banging and clanging all the way. The oomph is just gone, leaving some really weird episodes behind that in other shows history always seem to forcast the end. I mean, Friends? This show is not.
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Saturday, December 02, 2006
A Healthy Sense of Life...Tyra, Brittany, and Paris
http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/vh1_goes_inside/85914/episode.jhtml
I am currently watching America's Next Top Model marathon on VH1. I have to admit these girls are the prettiest of any group so far.. I never watch the show during primetime-NO TIME! But I love the VH1 marathons of the show and I have seen every season as a result! I know I'm not alone because I always dish about the show with other career women who are too busy to watch during the week! BTW-as I am about to dish on women who are seemingly out of control when it comes to their publicity picks and personal life-I have to comment that Tyra Banks always seems to be really on top of things. I can only imagine how hard it is for her to have a love life with her anal retentive nature but, you won't find her drunk and ranting in the street like so many other celebs or running around H-wood without her underwear and she's obviously worked for what she has got....I figure she can always loosen up when the camera is not on....ignoring the time she went off on camera at an incompetent ATNM contestant.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/149556,CST-CONT-paris26.article
Paris Hilton-I have to post this article because it's great! It summarizes everything about Paris Hilton-it's true hating Paris Hilton or at least being non-plussed by her is the mark of a person who is self aware, involved in the rest of the world, and who has a sense of morality and ethics. Paris is gross not because she is just slutty, materialistic, power hungry, and attention starved-but because she is a snob who values nothing in life that has real value, has never worked a day in her life and doesn't know the value of hard work, doesn't have values, and is ignorant to the extreme. As an example: Many people dislike Madonna, but no one can argue that she did not work hard, really really hard to get where she is, and she obviously has a sense of what is important in the world. In fact, she has used her sense of pop culture, politics, and life to inflame, sell records, and frankly make money. Whatever I think of her sketchy Kabbalah practices, superficial use of politics to sell records, and her latest adoption... She is quite honestly the mirror opposite of Paris Hilton. Paris' list of items she seems to be ign0rant on is long and involved. The truth is she would do her life very differently if she had a clue, but she is not just unaware of the real world or even what the real world thinks-she is pathologically stunted in her ability to conceive of what her life means in the big picture. It's probably all the drugs. I blame her parents as well but, today as an adult she is to blame.
http://www.eonline.com/photogallery/index.jsp?category=editors&galleryUUID=7bbbbcdc-1cb3-4114-81b6-cd448ed27cf7&uuid=a6dc5a2d-b3f7-4d6c-9567-002edada9a93
Brittany Spears-I'm so glad I'm not the only person in the world who is upset by her going out partying and hanging with the likes of Paris Hilton. I wanted to blog on this earlier this week but I am so busy. It's true. She should not be running around partying in public like that with Paris Hilton, I can see her desire to get out, show she is hot, and reve up the career. But the reality is life is different now for her, she's got responsibilities. And the public knows that-she's a divorcee with two kids, and her image needs to reflect that or she will find people talking about her mistakes-not buying her records. And right now everyone is wondering if she will jinx her slam dunk divorce from KF with bad PRand allow him to gain the upper hand in court. Frankly, I need her to be entertaining not make me wonder about her kids???!!!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,233458,00.html
I am willing to give her a shot again as she enters the Entertainment industry again. The process of watching her marry Kevin Federline, finding out she is really dumb(that it is all about her old manager-who she finally hired back! Good move!), and watching her loose that great body(and trust me, no matter what she does, that old body is gone) has convinced me that she deserves a break. But first she needs to stop going around with no underwear on and flashing the Press because-nothing is going to turn off her audience faster than showing her hoochie with a C-section scar!!! AAAAAAH!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/6/story.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10413503
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=7&entry_id=11449
I originally wanted her to go away for good but that bad marriage and baby issues have humanized her. People want to see her succeed. One of my girlfriend's recently began chanting her praises at a party to my confusion, she screamed that the b-girl would be back bigger and better. That remains to be seen.
At the end of the day in Hollywood it's a dose of real world understanding and the ability to empathize with what the public sees outside the bubble that makes a good and long career.
I am currently watching America's Next Top Model marathon on VH1. I have to admit these girls are the prettiest of any group so far.. I never watch the show during primetime-NO TIME! But I love the VH1 marathons of the show and I have seen every season as a result! I know I'm not alone because I always dish about the show with other career women who are too busy to watch during the week! BTW-as I am about to dish on women who are seemingly out of control when it comes to their publicity picks and personal life-I have to comment that Tyra Banks always seems to be really on top of things. I can only imagine how hard it is for her to have a love life with her anal retentive nature but, you won't find her drunk and ranting in the street like so many other celebs or running around H-wood without her underwear and she's obviously worked for what she has got....I figure she can always loosen up when the camera is not on....ignoring the time she went off on camera at an incompetent ATNM contestant.
http://www.suntimes.com/news
Paris Hilton-I have to post this article because it's great! It summarizes everything about Paris Hilton-it's true hating Paris Hilton or at least being non-plussed by her is the mark of a person who is self aware, involved in the rest of the world, and who has a sense of morality and ethics. Paris is gross not because she is just slutty, materialistic, power hungry, and attention starved-but because she is a snob who values nothing in life that has real value, has never worked a day in her life and doesn't know the value of hard work, doesn't have values, and is ignorant to the extreme. As an example: Many people dislike Madonna, but no one can argue that she did not work hard, really really hard to get where she is, and she obviously has a sense of what is important in the world. In fact, she has used her sense of pop culture, politics, and life to inflame, sell records, and frankly make money. Whatever I think of her sketchy Kabbalah practices, superficial use of politics to sell records, and her latest adoption... She is quite honestly the mirror opposite of Paris Hilton. Paris' list of items she seems to be ign0rant on is long and involved. The truth is she would do her life very differently if she had a clue, but she is not just unaware of the real world or even what the real world thinks-she is pathologically stunted in her ability to conceive of what her life means in the big picture. It's probably all the drugs. I blame her parents as well but, today as an adult she is to blame.
http://www.eonline.com/photogallery/index.jsp?category=editors&galleryUUID=7bbbbcdc-1cb3-4114-81b6-cd448ed27cf7&uuid=a6dc5a2d-b3f7-4d6c-9567-002edada9a93
Brittany Spears-I'm so glad I'm not the only person in the world who is upset by her going out partying and hanging with the likes of Paris Hilton. I wanted to blog on this earlier this week but I am so busy. It's true. She should not be running around partying in public like that with Paris Hilton, I can see her desire to get out, show she is hot, and reve up the career. But the reality is life is different now for her, she's got responsibilities. And the public knows that-she's a divorcee with two kids, and her image needs to reflect that or she will find people talking about her mistakes-not buying her records. And right now everyone is wondering if she will jinx her slam dunk divorce from KF with bad PRand allow him to gain the upper hand in court. Frankly, I need her to be entertaining not make me wonder about her kids???!!!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,233458,00.html
I am willing to give her a shot again as she enters the Entertainment industry again. The process of watching her marry Kevin Federline, finding out she is really dumb(that it is all about her old manager-who she finally hired back! Good move!), and watching her loose that great body(and trust me, no matter what she does, that old body is gone) has convinced me that she deserves a break. But first she needs to stop going around with no underwear on and flashing the Press because-nothing is going to turn off her audience faster than showing her hoochie with a C-section scar!!! AAAAAAH!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/6/story.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10413503
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=7&entry_id=11449
I originally wanted her to go away for good but that bad marriage and baby issues have humanized her. People want to see her succeed. One of my girlfriend's recently began chanting her praises at a party to my confusion, she screamed that the b-girl would be back bigger and better. That remains to be seen.
At the end of the day in Hollywood it's a dose of real world understanding and the ability to empathize with what the public sees outside the bubble that makes a good and long career.
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