Happy Monday entertainment round-up: Oscars and SNL
Crazy lady walking! Oscar winner Elinor Burkett
I haven’t seen most of the movies that were nominated for Oscars, but still enjoyed the telecast last night, for the most part. On the list to see now: “The Hurt Locker” (first woman to win a directing Oscar, not bad at all… “Precisou”, which made Geoffrey Fletcher the first black Oscar screenplay winner for his adaptation of “Push” … “Up” (more statuettes than expected) and “Up in the Air” (two words: George Clooney.) Another first last night: Roger Ross Williams became the first African-American to win a documentary award for “Music by Prudence,” and his co-winner, producer Elinor Burkett became the rudest Oscar Oscar winner ever for her Kanye West/crazy lady moment interrupting his acceptance speech … Read more
John Mayer’s Twitter falls silent
Is that crow in that mouth?
Waa… I guess it’s just not fun anymore, eh, Mayer? Well, at least not for you…
Related: The John Mayer page of shame.
Monday TiVo: General Larry Platt to perform on ‘The View’
“Pants on the Ground” goes daytime Monday. Set your TiVo or DVR now so you don’t miss it! In case you haven’t gotten with the Idol hit (with a great message) yet, here you go. Oh, and here’s a pretty good re-mix. And here’s the Neil Young version, as performed by Jimmy Fallon. Hilarious, much-needed comic relief! (And General Larry just might finally end a really ugly, ridiculous fashion trend once and for all! Here’s hoping…)
Will Adam Lambert ‘tart up’ the CBS Early Show?
Lambert’s AMA performance: the most offensive part was the singing…
CBS mornings may never be the same. The excitement-challenged morning show will grab ABC’s sloppy seconds, booking Adam Lambert for a morning concert performance. (Onlookers may want to stand back to avoid the whips.) As for ABC? Well, they’re taking a pass on a second helping of the caterwalling, over-the-top, Idol runner-up who seems determined to become an asterisk in the music world by overdoing the theatrics and under-doing the song and vocal quality. It’s a shame. They guy has a good singing voice (when he’s not shrieking like a banshee). He kind of had us at “Mad World,” and probably should have left it at that.
But you know who’s thanking him right now? That other kid, you know, the one who won Idol. His stock just went way up with the family values music buying crowd.
UPDATE: CBS lets Lambert explain himself, and then they step into some gay type controversy of their own by blurring out the man on man action. Um … maybe it’s just me, but isn’t early morning too early for images of someone shoving another person’s face into their crotch?
A brief ‘Twilight’ review
So … I took my kids and a couple of my daughter’s friends to see “Twilight” last night. It was quite an experience, first, just getting tickets. I logged onto Fandango at about 2:00 to check for available showtimes at the two big theater chains around here, and surprise! Every bloody showing (no pun intended) was sold out at the larger, 24-screen complex, until 11:10 at night. At the other, smaller theater (not the one usually clogged with teenagers) the first available showtime was at 8:50 p.m. So, I bought six tickets. We were a go.
At the theater, the line for seats was out the door at 8 p.m. We joined the line, where a lady was walking up and down with mini-pencils signing people up for a contest to meet the cast. After our nearly hour wait, and a bunch of previews (including a strange look at Glenn Beck’s “The Christmas Sweater,” which seemed to stun the audience to silence, except for the uncomfortable whispering…) the movie got going.
And may I just say … the studio should have kept the first director. Stop here if you don’t want details about the plot. I promise I won’t tell you how it ends… Otherwise: Read more
SNL skit tweaks the wrong Fox anchor
The skit this Saturday ripping Fox News would have been funnier had they not chosen the one Fox News man who really is fair and balanced — Shep Smith — to include in the skit. What — no Bret Baer impersonators available? Kristen Wiig was great as a ridiculously Botoxed Greta though, and the Glenn Beck was dead on. Watch:
If I’m Shepherd I’m asking for a recount.
Don’t blame the ‘balloon boy’ people, blame ourselves
It was interesting last week watching Arianna Huffington scold Ed Schultz on his MSNBC show for continuing to talk about the “balloon boy” story after it had been determined that the boy had not, in fact, floated away, but was safe and sound. Ed seemed plainly offended by Arianna’s questioning of his team’s news judgment, but he failed to point out an obvious irony: Arianna was bemoaning MSNBC’s coverage at the same time the balloon boy story was emblazoned across her own website, the Huffington Post, as red hot Breaking News. As a matter of fact, at this very moment, it still is:
So you’ll forgive me if I take Arianna something less than seriously on that score. Meanwhile, the substance of that Huffpo report, which is also the current top story on CNN.com, is that the boy named Falcon, who didn’t float away in that spaceship shaped balloon, was instead part of a hoax cooked up by his parents as a ruse to get them back into reality TV. Shocked? You shouldn’t be. Read more
Tom Delay’s last dance
In the fine, growing tradition of conservative Republicans, Tom Delay … a/k/a “The Hammer,” has quit “Dancing with the Stars.” But not before dancing the Samba in a crazy looking GOP outfit. Enjoy!
SNL mocks Beck, Obama appears on everything but Fox
Courtesy of HULU:
Friday funnies: all the single babies
Watch this baby work. Hilarious!
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