This one is on us America — and quite frankly you can thank us too World. I haven’t talked to Rufus but since I know he is independently upper middle class he won’t mind if we forgo our usual fee. We have solved America’s problems in our Friday Open Thread. Who knew [...]
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This week, PBS’ Live from Lincoln Center has reunited the cast from the 2008 multiple-Tony-award-winning production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific. Never my favorite of the duo’s, but I love the music; even if the “Small Town American Girl Overcomes Prejudice To Marry Rich Old French Dude” main plot always left me rolling my [...] The Five has taken to Our fainting couch this week, trying to recover from not one but two invitations lost in the post. First the Clintons; now Michelle? what was the point of those new scarlet Louboutins? if not to put The Five at eye-level with all those divine Secret Service men. Anyway. Who’s your Top [...] Screenwriting 101: Your audience must like something about your hero. If they don’t, they won’t keep watching. Make him a good man; a funny man; a strong man. And if he’s…morally questionable, make him the smartest man in the room. The Sunday night premiere of Mad Men began, as it should have, with an off-screen voice [...] Yes: it is l’anniversaire du Wankette! Feel free to leave flowers, poetry, songs, psalms, naughty limericks… I’m spending the day with a few of my favorite boys. Of course, Aidan Turner’s Mitchell from Being Human tagged the overnight shift. As a vampire should. Share on Facebook This topic just came to me…out of a dream…or, uh, something. Name your favorite local sports guys (or gals). Because the WFive is all about taking you to Homer!Town. 5. Tom Watson: An elegant golfer and man. I love the fact that he’s still out there threatening, in his dotage. 4. Len Dawson: Lenny the Cool stayed on [...] Because he sure brings Teh Pretty. Because in his interviews, he’s self-deprecating & funny — it’s the Brit in him — and that makes him the perfect man. Because he refused to rise to the bait of the dumbass Entertainment Weekly reporter who tried to get him to knock author Stephenie Meyer’s Mormonism. He obviously likes and [...] Because I’m sure most mornings he wakes up feeling like Yossarian. Yet he keeps fighting the good fight. Because yesterday I heard him explode, albeit politely, on Sean Hannity’s radio show. He was talking about the pig’s breakfast that various acronyms have been making of the oil spill. Where’s the Diane Sawyer-lead-story wit’ dat? Because I could [...] – because Father’s Day is tomorrow, and last year we did Movie Dads. A special shout-out to Dad du Wank, who is many things that make me crazy, and everything that a great father should be. 5. Adam Braverman (Peter Krause, Parenthood): The Eldest Child as Good Father, with all the neurotic, perfectionist, overdoing, overbearing tics that [...] – because, does he need more of a title than that? I was not much of a fan until I was a grown-up, though I grooved on the occasional single. This is probably because as a kid, I was dragged into secondhand fandom via a best friend who was an Elvis freak; by the age of [...] Because all this controversy is hilarious. If I know Persian women — and I do; I am one — they won’t be checking out his authenticity. They’ll be checking out his ass. Because Jake looks way more Persian than my brother. And my brother is way more Persian than Jake. Because Avatar, shmavatar! where’s the 3D glasses [...] Because he was the Olympic Ice King — a gold medalist who was put down as all technique and no art. And she was the Russian Ice Queen who didn’t inspire emotional investment. But they melted each other. Because I already knew about their work ethic. The past few weeks I saw them bring the [...] Because Ethan from The Searchers lives! Because first in Life on Mars, then Ashes to Ashes (now showing Season 2 on BBCAmerica), he’s given us a police officer for the ages. Because his DCI Gene Hunt is a non-PC dinosaur in a tar pit. And Glenister makes him a hero. Because he does a boffo Manchester accent. Because he [...] Because he’s my first from-the-beginning Doctor Who. Because five minutes into “The Eleventh Hour” I was, “David who?” Because of lines like “You’re Scottish — fry something!” and “Basically: run!” and “Bowties are cool.” and “I am definitely a madman in a box.” Because I am helpless in the face of geeky gallantry. Because he makes me wonder if [...] In the great wide wonderful world that is internet fan devotion, a new vocabulary has arisen; a shorthand for the devoted and devout. People who yearn for specific couples to – well – couple – are known as “shippers”, as in, “relationship”, as in, fans of a particular pairing. And yes, they get celebrity-branded with [...] Because hot as he was when he was scruffy, he’s gut-punchingly gorgeous after he shaves: Because the tough guy in him was always undercut by the passionate rogue. And that’s what redeemed his characters. That, and the sheer decency of the man, apparent even when he played the bandit in Rashomon. Because while laid up I watched [...] The four #1s, in order: Kansas, Kentucky, Duke, Syracuse. Discuss away. Brackets forming now! Share on Facebook Share on Facebook Former Kansas City Star (and current Sports Illustrated) scribe Joe Posnanski wrote the following column October 7, 2006 — the day after his friend (and frequent subject) Buck O’Neil passed away at 94. I share it with you today because I shared it with some morons college students this morning and the resulting non-reaction hurt more [...] I confess: I am so in the tank for Jay Leno, I may actually be the tank. Loved him when he appeared on the old Letterman show (back when they were buddies), and he had his own segment (“Jay’s Beef”), where he would gripe eloquent on his sore subject du jour. Then I started catching his stand-up. [...] No embedding available just yet, so please go check out the trailer here. Needless to say, looks pretty damn awesome! Share on Facebook Because in Son of Miracle on Ice, he blocked 42 shots. Forty-two. Shots. Because if you haven’t watched in the 30 years since (Thirty years. Since.), check out Team USA in Wednesday’s quarterfinals. Because there’s finally a reason to watch MessNBC. Because, did I mention, forty-two freaking shots??!?!! Share on Facebook Because he’s now the most-decorated U.S. Winter Olympian, ever. Because he did it in the most uproarious of events: short-track speedskating. Because sure: Eric & Bonnie have more Winter golds. But they never had to do it with someone grabbing their ass. Because he was also the best Dancing With The Stars champion. Watch this ice skater’s leap [...] Continuing with Oscar-bait Watch 2010… The Academy is known for handing their Little Man to the right performer a year (or twenty) after the right performance. This is called the “Whoops! Our bad” Award. Edited for further explanation: This is not a list of people who should have won but didn’t. (that was a previous 3D5) Or [...] She died yesterday. Kiss Me, Kate is my favorite movie musical; one of my favorite scenes in film history is Kath & Howard Keel waltzing & singing to Wunderbar. Utterly unforgettable. Thanks for the memories. Love to your family. What a great chorus there is in heaven today! Share on Facebook – or at the very least, I’m saying it to my students tomorrow. Dick Cheney Drives CPAC Wild With Killer Quote: “I Will Bathe In Your Blood Before the Children of Babylon!!!” Because a certain short-track star was going to be first, until I saw this: Because America’s all about Second Acts. And he didn’t blow his. Because I like how he embraced the spirit of the Olympics this time ’round. Because this should be an all-nude shot after what I was forced to witness “below the fold” earlier on [...] At least the Repubs were polite enough to stay awake. I saw the foto of JNo (our crack DHS sec’y) with both eyes shut. Hey Janet! Woulda been my response to it too. Must be why they asked Bob McDonnell, and not me, to give the response. By the way, Barry: a big two fingers up for [...] Because while trolling the ‘net for naked pictures of Chad Kroeger — my attempt to lure June Cleaver out of hiding — I came across these guys. And my heart stopped. Because I never would’ve predicted those sweet, dorky little long-haired Leif Garrett-lookalikes would age so verrrry nicely. Because their breakout bubblegum hit (“Mmm Bop “) is more [...] I confess to having no dog in this hunt. In fact, all due respect, I’d be okay with all four of ‘em losing. But I am very fond of love adore light a small candle & chant to a picture of his dad, so he wins the money shot. Bring on March Madness. In the meantime, chat away.
In a snit the other day, and arguing with a friend (male) about the inability of his sex to understand the erotic appeal of the written word. ” ‘fraid we’re all visual, Luv,” he dismissed me, airily. ”Dear Penthouse Forum…” notwithstanding, I guess that’s true. But just like little girls sometimes like to dress themselves up in [...] Because a few weeks ago, not even conservative pundits gave him a snowball’s chance in hell of pulling this off, and refused to do any water-carrying because of it. And he’s ahead anyway. Because he kind of looks like Richard Gere here, and I am down with that. Because his opponent is a cloth-eared doofus who embarrasses [...] Because those who only know him as Mr. Chips are missing a lot of other cookies. Because this amazing, gentle Englishman acted in only 19 films, but left an indelible mark on his medium. Because of the look on his face as he confesses to love at first sight (“You turned around…and I was lost…”) in Knight [...] Since the New Year is always ripe with the possibility that, among other things, something as exciting as what these characters live through, could actually happen: 5. Han Solo (Harrison Ford, Star Wars): Sometimes the Hero’s Best Friend is way cooler than the hero. And, p.s., “A New Hope” should refer to a Bob movie you haven’t yet seen; [...] Because his Doctor Who is coming to “The End of Time” this Saturday on BBCAmerica. Because he’s done more for trench coats than anyone since Bogart. Because his Tenth Doctor blew life into a creaky sci-fi series with intensity, humor, and crackling chemistry with his leading ladies. Because his Hamlet’s pretty good too. Because he’s proof that every woman [...] edited to add: Hewonhewonhewonhewonhewonwonwon!!!!! A favorite story of mine involves two great storytellers in their own right: Garson Kanin was chatting with David Niven and mentioned in passing something to the effect of, “Now that we’re both middle-aged men…” Niven said, “What are you talking about?” and Kanin admitted he’d just turned 55 the day before. “And how [...] Because here’s the reason Sarah’s always smiling: Because he’s further proof (because I say it’s so) that Conservative women love sex. Because there are Conservative men like him. Because I’ve been thinking about Republican spouses lately, and noticing that, while supportive, they all seem to have their own lives…they’re not really into that “Two-for-One”/policy-making/job-whoring-out thing that some [...] Okay, Stones fans, you won the Weekend 5…But this one’s for me. The song remains the same! He makes Eddie Vedder look like Josh Groban. Jimmy Page: a Hubba for the Ages! Share on Facebook Because, after a season of blah, he brought Mad Men back to life in the finale. Because his portrayal of adman Roger Sterling — is exactly that. Because his character’s true love is Joan Holloway; further proof that he’s the smartest guy in the room. (He didn’t marry her, though — proof he’s also the dumbest. Of [...] Because Rich might be speaking to him at this moment, and happen to mention that he’s a 3D pin-up, and I don’t want him to have any trouble finding himself. Because I’d do those Fox boys alphabetically. But I’d start with him. Because he’s so much better than his caricature at Weekly Standard. Because until Jonah gets [...] Because decency is the new black. Because I’m so very fond of that hangdog, hound dog mien. Because his voice. And those hands! Make me swoon. Because he was the best, and the last, of the great news anchors. Because even after suffering unspeakable tragedy, he stayed on and did his job, and did it with grace and honor, [...] Because he’s proof that Fox has the Real Men Market cornered: he was in the U.S. Army. Because he turned a 30-second gig into superstardom. Because he manages to be macho and pixie-ish all at once. Because he dries off the all-wet of the nightly news. Because “That’s all I got.” Share on Facebook Because sometimes you just have to state the obvious. Because he’s always in a good mood. How is this possible? Because we are exactly the same age, and now that Di and John-John are gone, it’s up to us to hold the fort for Attractive Sexy People Born in 1961. Because, as opposed to his inferiors counterparts on [...] *as I was running, screaming, out the door… Love this guy. Here’s from “Tweet Tracker” at NRO: @jimgeraghty Just to clarify, the administration says they will treat Fox News as “an opponent” while they say the Taliban is not a “direct threat”? Share on Facebook |
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