Entries For: January 2007
01/31/2007
Sienna Miller's F-Bomb on the Today Show
“Oh look at me. Aren’t I just so cute and happy? My new movie going to be amazing. Smile. Wave. Smile. Is this the Miss America wave that I’m cleverly abusing as my own? Why is the damn camera still on me? This is really awkward. F%*# …..”
Above is what I suspect to be the internal monologue of Sienna Miller prior to dropping the F-bomb on The Today Show this morning. In the brief interval between the video cutting out and going to commercial, the Factory Girl stopped awkwardly posing and took a moment to tell us how she really feels. Granted, this is no Janet Jackson nipple slip or Minnillo New Years. Probably, because a very smart producer seems to have heard the start of her cussin' and cut the audio from her mic.
01/30/2007
Gene Kelly Toons into Family Guy
Stewie and Gene Kelly make the dancing duet culturally relevant again!
This scene with Family Guy's Stewie is taken from "Anchors Aweigh," the only film role for which Kelly was nominated for an Oscar. In the film's trailer you can just barely see Kelly dance with Jerry Mouse (of "Tom and Jerry" fame). If you watch "The Family Guy" clip closely you can see Jerry's reflection in the floor... (YouTube commenters have such sharp eyes! I didn't notice this when it aired on TV, but sure can see it now.)
I dont have any real opinions about what this means or why it is important, I just know that I laughed out loud when I saw this Sunday night, perhaps because I'm a sucker for 1940s musicals. Oh, and anyone who describes himself as a "dancer for the proletariat" (as Kelly once did) is alright with me.
01/19/2007
Hot O'Reilly-on-Colbert Action
So, it turns out that agreeing with every word Bill O'Reilly says is the best way to keep him from shouting at you, cutting your mike, or ripping off the top of your skull to consume the sweet delicious grey matter within (we don't want to SAY that Bill O'Reilly is a brain-eating zombie, but the odd rumor's popped up). At least, this is the lesson we learn from O'Reilly's appearance on Thursday's Colbert Report and Colbert's appearance on Thursday's O'Reilly Factor.
It's hard to tell from these clips whether or not O'Reilly is truly in on the joke, but you have to admit that it's big of him to appear on a show that is an acknowledged satire of his livelihood. Sure, O'Reilly has it coming, but that doesn't mean we thought he'd ever admit to it.
"If you're an act, then what am I?" Oh, Colbert. You're what you've always been: exactly what an increasingly ironic America needs. Someone who tells us lies, because that's the only way we'll ever figure out the truth.
01/17/2007
America Ferrera Wins Golden Globe
Hopefully, the acceptance speech of the curvaceous, Honduran femme will send a message to Hollywood about celebrating diversity, both of body type and of ethnicity.
By beating out stick figures like Marcia Cross and Mary-Louise Parker, Ferrara's win makes the most powerful of statements about the triumph of a good spirit over superficiality. Plus, her winning means that we get to see more of her purple dress. And we really like her purple dress. It's pretty.
