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Friday, March 19th, 2010
Posts Tagged ‘celebrity’
Howard Stern on Precious Fatty
Thursday, March 11th, 2010Howard Stern said what all of us were thinking about Gabourey Sidibe and actually, I’m surprised he’s the only one who’s said it publicly – especially the way he did so. The whole spiel is very un-Sternian in its lack of crudeness and cruelty. He really just says the truth: she’s unhealthily huge and should change that and that Hollywood isn’t an industry-town that rewards obesity with acting roles. If you’re a big fat fatty in Hollywood, you can be a comedian or a one-shot role player and Gabby is the latter. It’s not mean to point that out – it’s mean to lead her on by pretending she’s going to move on to an illustrious career after this. eek.
Which is not to say that she’s gonna vanish immediately either. duh. not after all the buzz on her. Actually, I hear she has been given a role in the Showtime series The C Word and a role in a feature called Yelling to the Sky, so ya, she’ll have some kind of a wave to ride at least. But staying that size isn’t going to make that surf a long one. just makes sinking inevitable.
Stern also made the same Gabourey/Cabaret song acknowledgment that I’ve been saying to myself every time I hear her name, so I liked having that validated as a reference.
Britney Murphey is not alive anymore
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009At least King of the Hill won’t need to awkwardly deal with the passing of Britney Murphey since it was canceled last season…
RIP
Greta on does Tiger
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009Just heard this:
“Tonight, Tiger is not…out of the Woods”
….
Shame on you Greta Van Sustren… I’m making a citizens arrest and taking you to Pun-jail immediately.
In Defense of Seth Green
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009So there’s a video of Seth Green yelling at someone on set. big deal.
I’m annoyed because I clicked over to the video from a link that called it a “tantrum” and had lots of Green bashing comments, and indeed on youtube “Green is a douche” is the overwhelming sentiment. But just hold the hell on: lets examine the evidence here first…
Video of a guy yelling at someone is just that. Now, at the end he does something a little tantrumy that puts it over the line, but before that its just your run of the mill “you fucked up and you’re clearly not sorry about it at all, which i find extremely irritating and disrespectful” rant. The video does not show and does not make any claims in adjoining text anywhere on how it started, so wtf? How do we know the person getting yelled at didn’t start it or at least deserved it? There are a lot of stupid idiot arrogant smug jerkass self serving assholes on movie set staff. The gophers, the assistants, the prop guys: there is a straight 50/50 chance that any one of them will be competant and pleasant or completely horrible at life and apathetic about it and needs to get browbeaten and yelled at.
Again: the table + storm off is not the finest move. but there are not circumstances that could not justify them, so I’m waiting to hear them before passing condemnational judgment.
I’m also inclined to side with Seth in this brief, out of context clip because of the bullshit “hey man, chill out” physical contact. I hate that. there’s no reason for it. Green wasn’t getting violent and wasn’t, presumably, going into unhealthy or disturbingly nasty or long winded hate rants – he was telling someone what was up, so don’t try and pull this “hey, my healing touch will settle your mood” OR the more condescending “im going to step in and mother you right now even though you’re not wildly out of hand”. Green rejects the physical contact and tells him to back off, as he should have.
You people outside the business don’t realize what big important Hollywood stars like me and Seth Green have to deal with on a daily basis… Every celebrity yelling is not necessarily a tantrum.
I fully understand the penchant to view Seth Green as a total douchebag – he has everything working against him: he’s rich, he’s successful, he’s into nerd stuff, he’s short and when he plays a character on-screen, that character has mostly negative and douchie qualities. I get it. But these are not reasons to smear the real-life Seth Green, and I have reason to believe he is a normal and possibly even cool individual. If I’m wrong then fine, but out of context yelling does not a douchebag make, and I will defend that notion to the death (or at least till there are signs of injury, then I bail. but before then: I’m fighting god dammit).
Besides: there is always the (in my opinion, likely) possibility that this, with its convenient timing/editing and quick ending, is a total setup and all you attackers are playing right into a viral marketing scheme. I did recently hear him on the Dennis Miller radio show plugging a partnership with Butterfinger candybars, though idk how that specifically would enter into a video like this where no candy is visible or present, but that could be a later-reveal too.
I give the following odds of liklihood: 53% staged, 45% Seth was right, 2% Seth’s reaction was an unjustifiable crybaby tantrum.
Anyone wanna bet with me?…
UPDATE: BAM baby. Good thing no one bet me, cuz I’d own yo azzes. The video was a preview of the Butterfinger promo site http://www.dudewheresmybar.com featuring Mr Green.
I stand by everything I said in the original post, including the defense of Green under the supposition that it was a real tantrum caught on tape (which I only gave a 45% liklihood). EAT IT SUCKERS!
Pee Wee’s Big Comeback?
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009What in the HonkeyTonkFunkyTown? @PeeWeeHerman on Twitter is a verified account? big news? new show? On Leno tonight???
PeeWee.com reveals:
Let the fun begin! Pee-wee Herman is inviting you – and all your friends – back to Puppetland. Come join Pee-wee, Miss Yvonne, Cowboy Curtis, Jambi, Chairry and all your favorites, live on stage.
Re-imagined, re-invented, and nuttier than ever, “The Pee-wee Herman Show” will be LA’s theatrical event of 2009, with its live-action cast and puppets galore!
“The Pee-wee Herman Show” will be at the Music Box @ Fonda, on Hollywood Boulevard, from November 8 for a VERY LIMITED engagement. (And tickets are sure to sell out — so book now!)
And some more background for you youngish types:
“The Pee-wee Herman Show” debuted at The Groundlings Theatre in 1981, and later an HBO special (I had on tape and watched a thousand times or so). In 1985, Pee-wee’s first movie “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” was also Tim Burton’s feature film debut and Danny Elfman’s first original film score.
The CBS television series “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” premiered in 1986.
“The Pee-wee Herman Show”, and “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” were an homage to an earlier generation’s television classics – “Howdy Doody,” “The Mickey Mouse Club,” “Captain Kangaroo,” “Kukla, Fran, and Ollie,” and “The Shari Lewis Show” — show formats that don’t really exist anymore, where the host would just be playin around doin their thing and the children at home just happened to come visit via camera.And because nothing is real to people under 20 unless it was on Family Guy:
UPDATE: The Leno appearance is below, and he can still pull off doing Pee-Wee without it being creepy (which is important, because Pee-Wee is child like in an innocent way, not a man-child wtf way), but he breaks character a bunch. The character we see here is a Paul Reubens Pee-Wee hybrid. Part Reubens talking about Pee-Wee, part Pee-Wee leaking through to talk about himself. I had heard the indian-pageant story before and its interesting history and all, but its distinctly Reubens history, as Pee-Wee was never a performer to be bitten by any acting bug – he just lives his life and it happens to be entertaining.
Alison Brie is a cool chick
Monday, September 21st, 2009I just watched this Red Eye and she was great enough to make me investigate this Crazy Men show thing that I hear the kids talking about (something about Austin Powers, lots of sex and smoking?) and her new show Community. She’s one of the few in the business that I like to call “not a raging bitch ass shallow c*nt whore with no personality who should die”. I like her.
Lindsay Lohan’s voicemail password is 1234
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009In the spring of 2008, LiLo made the unfortunate decision to post her private information — including her cellphone number — on Facebook which was soon snatched up and passed around by approximately half the internet population.
As a result, Lindsay left her private voicemail easier to hack – even EASIER to hack once it was learned that the 4 digit password she chose was… “1…2…3…4″
Yes…1 2 3 4 5. So the sneak who cracked the code then put what is allegedly her voicemails up on the interwebs, and shown here below. Another reason I don’t have voicemail on my phone anymore… Be sure to listen to the end where apparently “her desperate deadbeat father warbles a heartfelt message and then holds his cellphone up to the car stereo speakers to let her know he’s listening to her new CD as he drives.” yikes…
Patrick Swayze dies at 57
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Kanye West sh*ts on Taylor Swifts big moment
Monday, September 14th, 2009Alternate title to this post: Kanye West shows Joe Wilson how it’s DONE. UPDATE: Someone pounced on that gag already. geez, that was quick.
Alternate title #2: Kanye West doesn’t care about white people…
I’d love to think Kanye West is not an insensitive narcissistic asshole. but… dude…
Tonight’s VMA awards were messy. The transitions were sloppy. The performances were so-so. And the emotional outbursts were, well, tacky. Our evidence: Kanye West upstaging Taylor Swift’s big win. In a bit of a surprise, singer Taylor Swift won the Best Female Video for her track “You Belong With Me.” Sure, many of us aren’t familiar with this 19-year old country girl’s entertainment outputs, but that’s really no excuse for Mr. West, a man so consumed by his own fame that he has no respect for fellow travelers in the starosphere, to take the mic and declare Beyonce and her silly “All The Single Ladies” video the real winner. “Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time,” he declared, although that’s wrong on more than one level.
Honestly, Kayne, you look like an asshole. More so than usual. This poor girl had a moment to shine and, as is apparent by her reaction, you stole that and ruined what should have been a proud moment. That’s mean and childish and you should be publicly shamed. Oh, wait. Your own fame guarantees that. Good. As for Beyonce. She looked somewhat appalled, albeit under the guise of self-conscious humility.
First President Bush, now Taylor Swift. why is Kanye always picking on little girls who did nothing wrong?
(video updated since MTV keeps yanking uploads off of Youtube)
The contrast in this picture says it all: Classy, elegantly dressed young woman with good posture vs some hunched over thug-douche wearing sunglasses inside a brightly lit facility with a topiary maze shaved into his head, wearing a black (pleather?) shirt with – are those sleeves rolled up?? – and torn up jeans? wtf.
19 year old Swift was reportedly spotted “crying hysterically” backstage afterwards.
Stars watching the show and tweeting immediately posted their thoughts on the incident:
“Kanye needs to learn how to wait his turn,” Zac Hanson wrote. “I am sure he will get plenty of mic time to say something stupid later in the show.”
Country singer John Rich went even further with his tweet: “KanyeWest is a lowlife. He needs to have his @@@ kicked in the middle of the stage right now! What a piece of @@@@!!! Go TAYLOR SWIFT.”
Pink, who was also nominated for best female video, tweeted: “Kanye west is the biggest piece of s– on earth. Quote me.”
And Katy Perry followed suit: “F– U KANYE. IT’S LIKE U STEPPED 0N A KITTEN.”
Later, when Diddy and Jamie-Lynn Sigler took the stage to announce the best male video winner (rapper TI took it), they mentioned each of the nominees, including West, who was loudly booed by the crowd.
Flashback from 2007 when there was this: Video: Whiny loser loses, whines like a five-year-old at Video Music Awards... but actually it’s so much “whining” as it is a race-based hate tantrum…