Entries from April 2008 ↓

(With any luck this post and its comments will contain spoilers for GOSSIP GIRL.  Read at your own risk) Bad blogger.  Bad, bad blogger.  I call myself a TV fan and a fan of GOSSIP GIRL yet I just realized that it’s Wednesday and we still haven’t talked about Monday night’s episode yet.  That’s what I […]
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No, Paula, everyone loves who you are!
Sigh. It’s the results show on "American Idol’s" Neil Diamond Week, and the worst part is we have to sit through a recap of the almost uniformly terrible performances. Just me, or was this the worst week ever, musically? And now a live medley….Sing Sung Very Blue.
At least last night there was the comedy highlight of Paula reviewing Jason’s two performances - before we’d heard the second one. The first big moment in tonight’s show is when Ryan talks about the judges being thrown a "curveball" during the performance show and how that resulted in a lot of "rumors" about Paula and how those rumors aren’t true. Paula looked mortified and then relieved and validated. Because, you know, everyone loves her and stuff. That doesn’t explain her surreal gaffe, but…

And the first reveal - Jason is safe. Of course. Since he was the […]

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No, Paula, everyone loves who you are!
Sigh. It’s the results show on "American Idol’s" Neil Diamond Week, and the worst part is we have to sit through a recap of the almost uniformly terrible performances. Just me, or was this the worst week ever, musically? And now a live medley….Sing Sung Very Blue.
At least last night there was the comedy highlight of Paula reviewing Jason’s two performances - before we’d heard the second one. The first big moment in tonight’s show is when Ryan talks about the judges being thrown a "curveball" during the performance show and how that resulted in a lot of "rumors" about Paula and how those rumors aren’t true. Paula looked mortified and then relieved and validated. Because, you know, everyone loves her and stuff. That doesn’t explain her surreal gaffe, but…

And the first reveal - Jason is safe. Of course. Since he was the […]

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No, Paula, everyone loves who you are!
Sigh. It’s the results show on "American Idol’s" Neil Diamond Week, and the worst part is we have to sit through a recap of the almost uniformly terrible performances. Just me, or was this the worst week ever, musically? And now a live medley….
At least last night there was the comedy highlight of Paula reviewing Jason’s two performances - before we’d heard the second one. The first big moment in tonight’s show is when Ryan talks about the judges being thrown a "curveball" during the performance show and how that resulted in a lot of "rumors" about Paula and how those rumors aren’t true. Paula looked mortified and then relieved and validated. Because, you know, everyone loves her and stuff. That doesn’t explain her surreal gaffe, but…
And the first reveal - Jason is safe. Of course. Since he was the one who totally […]

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Could there be some "Gossip Girl"-on-girl action coming up? (E! Online)
Whoever was watching "American Idol" on Tuesday was not a solitary man, sez Nielsen. (TV Decoder)
Apparently they still give Emmys for daytime television, because the nominations were announced today. (TV Squad)
Who’s tops with the demo that matters? (TV By The Numbers)
On "Idol," Carly Simon sez, Brooke is tops. (AP)
"Terminator" Summer Glau wants more action. Write your own joke. (EW.com)

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Don’t look now, but David Blaine has performed another pointless stunt of human endurance/freakitude. Today on "Oprah," the Blainester held his breath for just over 17 minutes, breaking the world’s record and realizing what only he would call a lifelong dream. Will someone please tell me why he won’t just go away? Does anyone remember "David Blaine: Street Magic?" That brief moment when David Blaine’s cleverness outweighed the massiveness of his ego seems long, long gone now. Now, all that remains of the card-tricking, levitating weirdo is a bloated self-image and a freaky stare.
Funnyordie.com has a whole series of videos that lampoon Blaine with painful accuracy - they’re screamingly funny. But be warned, they are only safe for work if your work is okay with people screaming obscenities at the tops of their lungs.
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"American Idol" knows damage control. Paula Abdul has come up with a cover story explanation for her fugue state slight mistake on Tuesday night’s show, when she criticized both of Jason Castro’s songs even though he’d only sung one. According to E! Online, Paula explained on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show that the last minute addition of a mid-show judging segment caused her to become confused, so she misread her notes, mistaking her scribblings on David Cook’s performance for a second song by Jason. Because, you know, it had been a whole ten minutes or something since Jason had sung, so it was really hard to remember how many songs he did. The certainty with which she spoke of this imaginary performance really gives a lot of other credence to her other critiques, doesn’t it? Needless to say we’ll be liveblogging tonight’s ep, at least if we get back from the […]

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Apparently, inside every Toyota, there are a large number of small men doing your bidding.

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Tonight on "Top Chef," half the chefs are gone, and the house is getting kinda empty Oprah’s personal chef will be the guest judge. Also, according to Eater, the quickfire will take place in only fifteen minutes, and will involve instant rice, a lemon, and a microwave.

TC Preview from Eater on Vimeo.
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Miley Cyrus got nothin’ on the nubiles in Disney-branded Chinese lingerie ads. Slate offers a thoughtful piece here, with a pic of a Beijing billboard. TMZ offers a somewhat giddier take, complete with a photo gallery of pix like the one at right. So maybe, Mickey Rat, you could be just a little less hypocritical about the whole Miley/Vanity Fair thing, eh?
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