No more Rosie

So today it was announced and I am sure you have already heard that Rosie O'Donnell will not be staying with the view. The network said they wanted three years for a contract, she wanted one and there was a mention of too much money being asked for-Barbara Walters has nothing to do with it...supposedly, but she is 50% of the show so I don't know how that works..

I'm convinced it has to do with the fact that while she raised ratings, I don't think she raised them in the kind of way that would bring in more sponsors and it was a only a matter of time before she dropped something really big-the 9/11 conspiracy by our government was pretty bad, but it can get worse. And then what do you do when your current sponsors leave? Uh oh.

It's been obvious something was up, she was way too nice to Elizabeth Hasslebeck this week. I thought maybe they just dropped the show drama of Rosie being a bully, but..that doesn't seem realistic.

Also, if you watched Barbara in recent weeks she looked like she was going to loose her mind if Rosie didn't get less belligerent and indiscreet. Really, she was spouting bad information all the time and her put down on EH last week over abortion was really weird . I also know no one at a major network wants a show that gets people riled in the blogosphere the way she was..the execs still remember Dan Rather's lesson from 2004. Booyah!

Oh well, I suppose she will go back to her life and a new show soon, and I will learn to like her more again like I did when she was on her talk show in the 90's and crooned over Tom Cruise. Ock, there's another one that makes me feel gross to look at now.

Jokes on you! Heid and Spence and the prolific nature of Dave Chappelle

Let's start with Dave Chappelle, I just watched the Negrodomus skit from the second season of the Dave Chappelle show-does anyone remember the part where Negrodomous predicts Rosie O'Donnell will become a man marry Liza Minnelli's husband and beat him? It seems better now, and then Negrodomus predicts that Star Jones will have two jobs one on the View, take her wig off and do the weather.
Well Star Jones certainly changed her entire appearance since then and now she is not on the View at all...Hmmmm? Coincidence I think not.

Now let us get into the newest edition of Us Weekly in which as a sidebar article, and I say that because it is one of the last I read after the ones on people's clothes no less. The article to which I refer is called Heidi and Spencer 'Their side of the Story.' Huh? I don't care what their side of the story is? Didn't they get the memo? There just tools for MTV to use to further the show The Hills and their star Lauren Conrad. (Sorry MTV, I didn't mean to ruin anything, but don't worry no one who reads this will be surprised anyways.)

Really, many of my friends have spent many a great minute laughing at Spencer or talking about what an !@#$U^# he is...and then moved on because guess what? It's a show that is obviously scripted for the entertainment of TEENAGERS. And the rest of us, and by that I mean those of us who work for a LIVING, don't have our parent's handing us money, cannot pay people to style us and work us out (but still look good anyways because we can read), went to college, and have actual goals that mean something to the world and not just ourselves. Ugh, and that's just those of us in DC who are average. Don't get me started on the brainiac world changers because they make me feel mediocore.

Oops, did that sound mean? Well it's the truth, this show is for our entertainment and that's it, the self importance these two put into their article is ridiculous, they just don't get that there's a joke here and it's them. I would have to say Lauren Conrad does well only because she doesn't seem to take it too seriously and she seems earnest more than anything else. I have no problem believing that Heidi is a dumb girl who is happy to be controlled by this guy.

Seriously, she got a boob job and rhinoplasty because of him and she doesn't need either, the guy called himself 'the world's greatest boyfriend. ' Wow, dummy, she's supposed so say that about you, not you about yourself. That's okay, it makes us laugh. The best part of the article is when Heidi says she never made Lauren pick between Jason (who is in jail for beating people up, good one, looser). Uh, wait a second, didn't Lauren dump him? And he never tried to drive you away from her, like Spence did, eh?

I can totally buy that these two were playing games with each other, except Heidi was a total bitch to Audrina like she took it very seriously. If they were playing games you think she would have clued Audrina in instead of making her cry for being a friend. Huh, unless Heidi is just as gross as Spence....hmmm.

And why am I supposed to believe that because Heidi 'didn't call Lauren' when her sex tape broke that she didn't leak it, huh. Was she high when she thought of that logic? Maybe it was the same logic that lead Spence to dress in a count as Vampire outfit for his picture with Heidi for Us Weekly with drinks in their hands??? :)

And best yet is when Spence says 'Lauren couldn't get into clubs before she met us!' Really, she couldn't get into clubs but she got a show on MTV that she stars in and you two will probably not be apart of because you are too stupid to realize how unimportant all this bickering is, because you are too bored, too dumb, and need to be stuck in the real world without a credit card for awhile-to value friendships or people.

And I have to end with this, Spence looked like a @#$%@#%& in the show because he is a %*@!&%*, and Heidi looks dumb, because she is, there are just some parts of the show that come through the script.

In the end, it's all just great entertainment, I don't care if Lauren has a sex tape, she was dumb to make it. And I laugh as Spence and Heidi continue to spin not realizing no one cares if they are really nice people because they probably aren't and their spot on the show was small and entertaining.. really.

People who are just not appealing..

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1195992,00.html

Gore Movie Premiere, that's it.

Work out to I love New York

Excuse me for a minute while I comment on the evergrowing weirdness of celeb reality TV. I made the mistake of watching about ten minutes of Work Out about the gym in Los Angeles featured on Bravo. I saw the ten minutes where the main character (Jackie) makes out with one of her female employees named Rebecca, her other employees get freaked out, and then Jackie's other date arrives. Jackie then drops Rebecca and the drama of her employees wondering why she is trying to date her employee Rebecca is dropped for the shock of Jackie ditching her for the new date. This is all in a sushi bar restaurant that just happens to be mostly empty??
http://www.bravotv.com/Work_Out/index.shtml

There was lots of Lesbian making out after that and dissing of Andre because he was outraged at the way Jackie was treating people. He must have some kind of friendship with Jackie off camera because the rest of her staff seemed afraid to say anything. The show then spent about five minutes on how Andre was just unmanned by Jackie's 'prowess'. Apparently Jackie gets whomever she wants gay or straight, and Andre just can't deal with that, huh. OKAY. I had to leave the show when they started the lesbian making out-not my cup of tea. Obviously the show is geared towards men and lesbians. Thereby leaving people like me out of the loop of interest.

I was left with the impression of a show that was seriously striving for ratings, I didn't believe for a minute that Rebecca really wanted Jackie, that Andre was really pissed, or that the second date was an old flame that was done, up until the night she stopped off at the restaurant. And Jackie said she wasn't expecting the girl either, huh? She didn't act like she wasn't expecting her or that their relationship was over. It was all too staged for me.

What I don't know is why anyone would want to watch the show, all the people including Jackie are attractive and seem interesting enough, but really, the show is flat. I would rather watch a drama with the people from the L.A. club who train real celebrities. I know my sister used to there.. this show just reminds me of the Real World Las Vegas, where the MTV show turned from fun everyday people living together into a three ring circus of make outs, fake fights, staged threesomes, and treachery?

Eh. It was good for that season, but the show lost it's verve after that.. the B-grade actors they pulled in left an indelible mark on the memory of the show to the point now where most of them have regular Hollywood careers-not A list careers but they work. I tried tuning into the show recently and found it to be just disgusting...if you wonder why-check out E!'s the soup with Joel McHale on Friday nights at 10:00 pm for the hit list of why the show is going down the tubes. AND when are they going to do one in DC??? HUH? I want a DC show, so I can go crash their house and get my ten minutes of fame. :)

And now I will apologize because I have to admit I did watch 'I love New York' on VH1. The season just ended and while I never wasted time watching it the first time each episode was aired, why would I? But the show is strangely entrancing, I've never seen so many male hoes. And I love trying to figure out who is actually just a musician or actor trying to make it. Some of the men are just crazy, I think Romance may actually be crazy and a wannabe something..I just can't figure out what.. 12 pack is looking for work as an Actor, please. And White Boy! He is the most hilarious person, he totally reminds me of people I know here in DC.

I never watched Flavor of Love, there's just something gross about those yucky women trying to get with Flavor Flav. Really, he looks dirty to me and makes me feel sick when I think of him getting romantic with anyone or anything. He might he a nice person, but ewwwww. So when the network said they were introducing a new show with New York I thought they were crazy, but actually....well I'm completely convinced that She is not a real person who went on a reality show but an actress that made her way by being crazy on the first season of Flavor Flav.

She has too many moments where she pulls a charismatic act, and then goes street on people too fast, she probably is crazy, most actors are, but I don't believe her. This finale show of I love New York was great. The funniest part was when Mr. Boston brought out his friend Ben who dresses up as him and tries to get chicks, and the Pumpkin bit? It's so obvious that Pumpkin must be an actress too, I have no idea what Mr. Boston is trying for, maybe to leave his 6 figure job for something more in Hollywood. Although I would not be surprised if they are actually dating, if you don't know what I mean-watch the finale show with La La, it will be run at least ten times on VH1.

Jerry Springer is launching a reality show that lets you in on what the producers tell people to get them to act crazy on the show, I have a feeling something like that goes on before the Flavor of Love shows and maybe I love New York-throw in some plant actors and you have craziness for the masses.

At least when I watch I love New York it's so over the top, I know it's all for entertainment whereas when I watched Jerry Springer once or twice in the 90's I felt sickeningly sure that a lot of the people really were just trailer trash.


Anyways, I just wonder why people want to watch this stuff, I mean why am I watching it? I don't know, I Love New York brought in 4 million viewers, I think maybe it's because the idea of this crazy woman dating all these man hoes is so novel, not the like the Bachelorette at all. It was really interesting....and I was drawn in, whether I liked it or not. At least you can say there was a 'Freemarket' mentality to who New York picked..

VA Tech shooting

It was a very windy night with objects hitting our window and a howling in the air, that lead into this morning here in Virginia. If this were a book it would be a great prelude with forboding to the shootings today at VA TECH. The President will be on at 4:15 pm est to talk about the shooting as Governor Tim Kaine comes back from trade talks in Asia to comfort the public.

The last report I heard is that it's 32 for the count of people dead on Fox News and maybe more... I've watched as the President's press person announced that this is the worst shooting in the history of the U.S. Call me jaded but I find that hard to believe after Columbine and the shooting in PA last year.

I think I would rather not think about the events competing with each other. There was just a guest commentator on Fox about 5 minutes ago saying that this is all because we have a media that glamorizes death and violence and that we are too engrossed in video games that encourage people to behave this way.

Personally, I have a hard time blaming a video game for this mass shooting, maybe video games full of violence are not good for people on the edge. I think the real issue is that as a society we are more fractured as institutions are broken down and people are stressed, pushed to perform. I think these shootings are more a result of our post modern culture, the overall structure was broken down in the modern era. And now, in the post modern era their is a desire for structure and struggle for community that is harder to attain.

It's just easier for someone to fall apart and go nuts shooting people, without anyone taking notice first-apparently this guy was looking for his girlfriend to kill??? That's the report that keeps coming from students on campus who call into Fox. Student's jumping out of windows to escape the gunfire, a campus on lock down, FBI agents and shock..it's so strange that this is the second shooting at this school in not a year, but less than 9 months.

It reminds me of 9/11 and how I was thrown off my college campus because some jerk called in bomb threats. It wasn't enough that we were in shock over the attacks in New York and DC- but then someone had us kicked off our campus and even more terrified.

Now political contenders want in...Senator Barak Obama, Nancy Pelosi, I think I should make a list of all the politicians who will want to talk about this.. My mind only imagines the reaction from politicians and what kinds of solutions might be introduced..

I think big government restraints on violence and behavior would do nothing but make people feel more alienated. It's important for local communities to work harder to care for each other before something like this happens...of course no one can predict these sorts of things..

Don Imus Liberal Racist

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/12/national/main2675273.shtml


I find it completely outrageous that the Liberals who have supported and coddled Don Imus all these years-HE WAS ON CBS RADIO-duh! Now they want to either say what he did was not worth getting fired over or that he is a conservative. GROW UP and grow some !@^$@#s.

The man should have been off the radio years ago as Wanda Sykes put it this week, 'I thought he was off years ago, I didn't know he was still on.' And it's true the man shouldn't have been on the air this long, I don't care about other shock jocks, he is a shock jock who is made of racism, bigotry, and sexism. He is the worst kind of liberal-one who believes that because he advocates welfare and gives money to 'nice' liberal groups that he can say whatever he wants and it doesn't matter.

His whole show was about degrading people of importance in our society-the most righteous liberal who tears everything up and leaves nothing sacred behind. More importantly, his behavior shows that he is not sorry, he attacked Al Sharpton and it's true neither Sharpton or Jesse Jackson can say they have never practiced hate speech because they have-the whole situation had the effect of being a laundry clearing house for people who are hypocrites or just racist.

He's a relic, I listened to his show once in 2004 on election day thinking it must be really important and was sadly dissappointed. I saw just an old man with a haggard face and frame of a drug addict that seemed more cantakarous than entertaining to my ears. Really, I had no idea why he was on TV. (See his 2005 interview in Vanity Fair for a history of his drug abuse, also Vanity Fair only profiles people they flaunt as liberal fans for their values.)

It's just a fact that many liberals are racist themselves in that they assume everyone is a racist jerk or worse yet that because they have some friends who are not white or because they lib women's rights that they can talk in the same way that encourages the behaviors they say the oppose.

IN fact, CNN aired a segment today saying that Don Imus will be carried on one station only in San Bernardino for the LA market-get it? Crass and liberal people, which is what I generally encountered in Hollywood as a menacing undertone to all the openness. Think Paris Hilton using the n-word and you begin to understand...

The Washington Post ran a piece yesterday on Don Imus and his behavior to call him a conservative which is true if you think the Pope is Muslim. Why else do you think so many of the media defended him? Why else do you think MSNBC and CBS allowed him to continue on?

I have entertained the theory and I think anyone who has spent time in the work world will agree-it's possible Don Imus was a relic that only survived as long as he had endorsements, there may have been a long line of people just waiting to fire him, salivating to see him get it for all the nasty things he has said, and all that needed to happen was to stop the precious money flow behind him. This actually comforts me.

The man is just past his time and this was overdue.

It's a Good Question

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/04/whos_next_to_host_abcs_the_vie.html

I thought that ABC would cancel the View a long time ago when it was clear that the Hosts specifically, O' Donnell were going to punch their way through the show. Worse yet was the statement by Joy Behar two days ago that Imus' behavior last week was freedom of speech.

Why is it when a conservative says that everyone calls for their head after the Imus incident? But if a liberal says it it's considered enlighthened? Really? Maybe the argument is that people want to right to express themselves without the government's interference is being stretched to include jobs?

By the code of most diverse work places in the U.S. Imus would be fired, or at least put on a longer penalty of being fired. The first Amendment is about a person's right to say what they want and take the consequences of other people's reactions and attitudes without government interference. It is not about someone having a 'right' to be nasty and rude without suffering the public's condemnation, as if they were special . Now that the sponsors have pulled out Imus is loosing his place at MSNBC, but he keeps his radio show. It seems fair to me. I think his brand of humor which is really just taking very well known and highly regarded people and insulting them as a backhanded compliment went too far. I actually wondered if he thought this team was so famous his words would be taken that way. Whatever the case, I have listened to Howard Stern and Opie and Andy and never felt offended the way Imus offends. He just sounds like a cranky old man to me. I don't care how much money he raises for children, for all I know he raises it to make his guilt go away for himself.

This said, the public has obviously not made enough noise to have the View taken off the air. ABC has seen some rising ratings and they like that! Money in the pocket is more important than quality TV and programming. Really, I myself want to like Rosie' but she just has too many nasty moments. Her palpable anger scares me and I hate it when Joy acts like a boar and mows over people as they try to talk.

Maybe they should be sent to Charm School a la the girls from Flavor of Love II.

Don Imus

'Some Nappy headed hoes there-' That was Don Imus last week. I have heard so many things that make me feel weird about this situation. On the View Joy Behar was arguing that it's free speech and I think a few other people have said things like this-that he has a long career where he was not that offensive in that brand, and that maybe his behavior could be recanted by the creation of a scholarship.

I would have to agree with what Joy said when she thought that he could pick on the bigger guys instead of the weaker ones with his humor. It was a strange statement after so many years of being on the air. And when did being a shock jock mean you were just saying annoying rude things? What happened to the cleverness? I always feel like Howard Stern is clever even though he is talking about boobies or whatever.

Or how about Elliot in the Morning here in DC? I love him and he never puts down any group without making an equal remark on some other group. And certainly never anything as dumb as calling a group of women hoes. Imus must be loosing his touch, it was the statement of a teenage boy, not an entertainer.

More so, what's in the water this year that all these people keep making nasty statements and then apologizing or saying they are alcoholics? Have we all become more sensitive? Or is the culture becoming more lax and allowing people these statements? And how come they always come from Men on racial issues?

A scholarship is just a spanking and not enough to deter anyone from making these statements, but loosing their job, that makes a statement. Doesn't anyone remember when people got fired on SNL for saying the F-word?

And really, isn't a scholarship just trying to buy away the offense? Guilt money? I also don't appreciate him calling a bunch of hard working women hoes. Was he secretly emasculated by their strong lithe strength and athleticism in comparison to his old bones? Thereby he was prompted to try and bring them down by making nasty remarks??

Who knows? I surely don't..

Celebs Opinions?

So funny today on The View Joy Behar and the rest of the cast sans Rosie are fresh back from a vacation!

Joy Behar was talking about the ridiculousness of the idea that anyone cares what Paris Hilton thinks-and I agree-I am actually more turned off on products that she endorses and E! took a poll in the end of 2006 that said most of the public would like to see less Paris Hilton.

Maybe it's from the Southpark episode eschewing her and her image of posh sluttiness. It was fabulous!

Anyways, back to the View, Joy Behar then said I believe incorrectly that no one cares what Anne Coulter says which is an extremely dense statement. Paris Hilton's career is based on looks and behavior, we don't need her to talk and the more she talks, the less people like her-Anne Coulter's is entirely based on her ability to make interesting and provocative statements. Her ability to anger and excite people with words is her appeal.

Anne Coulter is highly educated and what many would call a very sassy pundit and entertainer like a comedian. And like a comedian she went to far with her verbal chicanery when she recently called John Edwards gay at CPAC. It was a total Andrew Dice Clay moment of shocked 'ouch' ness.

My guess is this is what prompted Joy Behar to talk about her in the first place.


I'm still waiting to see what happens-supposedly the ACU has banned her from future CPACs.

Pelosi of Damascus?

I just saw Nancy Pelosi's statement to the press after her trip to Syria to encourage this terrorist sponsoring country in their plight as a country that has been punished unfairly for their behavior. Right?

No, Pelosi's actions are nothing short of stupid, she even made the statement that the President should stop threatening her and said 'there is a new Congress in town.' Huh? And what congress would that be?

Certainly not this Congress which is barely a Democrat majority and not meant to be abused this way. She's gone beyond the pale of acceptable behavior for a Speaker of the House.
Here are my thoughts:
1.) She can't make any real promises to the Syrians since she can't really do anything w/o the President's approval.
2.) She's a woman and they don't respect Women in Syria like we do..but Condi has done okay since she's made it clear you get the barrel of a gun in the face if you don't show respect...
3.) The President hasn't threatened her, but everyone else has said her behavior was out of line. 4.) Congratulations on raising the Syrians hopes and making the situation more complicated.
5.)Does anyone inside the beltway find this whole thing funny? I mean the White House knew she was going, they had to have known, and they didn't stop her, maybe even they sent her hoping it would blow up in the Dems faces, and the Dems wanted her to go, hoping it would make the problems worse in Iraq so, they would not loose face if the surge is successful?
6.) The surge cannot be successful without the Dems looking stupid. But they will deny it's success anyways.
7.) The Dems were hoping it would give them a chance to broker peace and be heroes? Gotta give 'em credit for trying, but that should be left to charismatic snakecharmers like Bill Clinton, and be prepared to serve up a few interns in the process for him.
8.) Nancy Pelosi sounds crazy and I now feel bad for wanting to make the GOP pay during the election, when they said we wouldn't like her tax policies I never thought it would really be that I didn't like her renegade paranoid rantings.
9.) I live in a very liberal area of Arlington, no one in my apartment complex likes Bush and they all used to hold me responsible for his behavior-like I have any comtrol over that! -That said. I know NO liberals who like or trust Syria at this time anymore than they like Iran. Her behavior does not reflect the majority of American opinion, it only reflects the way stupid rich people in California feel...

Grindhouse

I had no interest in seeing Grindhouse-Quinten Tarantino's new movie, until I saw the E! special on the movie yesterday..why? The superb special effects especially the woman strapped to the hood for the longest craziest car chase I have ever seen.
It's sad, one PR promo and I am hooked when I didn't want to see it at all. The actress really is strapped to the hood, the driving is real, and Rosario Dawson really is in the car most of the time to help the actress have someone to respond to as the car is being driven.
I love the fact that QT has embraced women as fighters, heroes, and physical actors. It must be all about marketing because men love action with girls, and women can relate to the characters better.

Do you resent rich celebrities?

http://cafehayek.typepad.com/hayek/2007/04/the_income_race.html

I have to say this article above is very solid on it's statistics and asks a good question. DO you resent the super rich in Hollywood? Or in the other various entertainment fields? Sports, music, etc?

Personally, there are days when I resent Paris Hilton, Brandon Davis, Nicole Richie and some of the other endowed children of moguls. Especially, when they seem to be so bent on doing nothing but buying fame and shopping while they fight with each other out of boredom. They're gross people and I don't like them at all. And I am sick of hearing about them.

Do I resent people like Lindsey Lohan who work for their money and are bent on being crazy despite success? No. I think anyone who has earned their money through hardwork in the Entertainment fields is entitled to their wealth, I mean, we the 'American public' gave it to them. Plus it's quite clear that fame comes at a price mentally for these stars. Look at all the articles on celebrities who are checking in and out in and out of rehab centers at your local supermarket and it becomes obvious.

It does need to be asked though, a recent Newsweek issue on 'Kids' in other words teenagers asked if the public images of people like Paris Hilton affected them. And polls showed that 80% of teenagers today think it is most important to be famous and/or rich.

One response I can think of to that desire is you probably can find your 15 minutes of fame on the internet through You Tube or some reality show. The results of that experience would probably cure most people of the desire for fame in the first day.

What happened to wanting to make the world better or finding the cure for cancer? I know that was what I focused on in High School, and still do in my long term goals, although I can't get the cure for cancer-no math skills! :)

I recently visited Randolph Macon college for an event on awareness of rape and incest issues. I found a large group of people who were dedicated to changing the world. And one of the co-chairs of the event even used Helen Keller quotes in her all her emails.

I am only one; but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.
I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
~Helen Keller

That doesn't give the impression that 80% of the young un's are looking for nothing but fame and fortune. Maybe Russel Roberts is right and the media is skewed due to their own lives and ideas. Really a lot of reporters have no money and feel unloved for their dogged work. (LOL) Well, join the real world.