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By Beth in NBC, Hollywood, CBS, celebrity, gossip, Ghost Whisperer, Medium, Patricia Arquette on May 20 2009
 NBC canned “Medium” and the lovely Patricia Arquette only to have the show brought back to life by those silly “Ghost Whisperer”(s) over at CBS. Now all we need is Roma Downey to join the cast and we can exit stage right and proceed directly to heaven.
CBS takes death very seriously. In fact, all this repetitive ghost stuff makes me think that they just don’t know when to kill a decent storyline when they see it. In other words, get rid of J.Love and keep Allison Dubois.
By Beth in Entertainment, Politics, Smut Advertising, love & lies, TV, pop culture, media, gossip, Obama, Sarah Palin, John McCain, Bristol, parody on September 2 2008
No, this is not a direct quote from VP ticket Sarah Palin, but might not be far from the truth after reading the “personal, private” blog of Palin’s pregnant daughter’s boyfriend’s blog.
In his blog, Levi Johnston, a high school hockey player from Alaska and our favorite foot-in-the-mouth Baby Daddy, writes about Palin’s daughter, Bristol, and her considering an abortion just days before her mother found out and McCain nominated her.
In his sensitive blog entry Abort! Abort! Abort!” Levi pleas for funds to abort the baby and asks for where the nearest abortion clinic is. Even better someone calls Bristol a “hoor” while another commenter calls Palin out as a total hot “MILF.”
Seriously though, Obama couldn’t have wet dreamt himself a better outcome than this…Parody or not. I prefer to think of it as art.
By Beth in Entertainment, Money, Movies, Hollywood, TV, relationships, pop culture, media, gossip, Oprah, Will Smith, Scientology, TomKat, cult on July 10 2008
Hollywood’s golden couple, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett blah-blah-blah have officially got with the program and are opening a “non-affiliated” private school.
On the mythological waiting list/roster of shoe-in attendees, Suri Cruise and possibly the Preston-Travolta clan. While the Hancock star and his wife are insistent that the school is not grounded in L. Ron Hubbard’s teachings, “several teachers on board at the school are members of the Church.”
Will and Jada’s New Village is different. For one, unlike your standard everyday brand of school sports which are nothing more than thinly veiled exercises in masochism where humans get used as target practice (dodgeball, kickball), New Village students will have the option of doing yoga. How very progressive. We’re no Scientologists here (and therefore ignorant as to the ways of the future), but we foresee a very heartfelt Oprah episode airing towards the mid-August in which Tom and Katie make cameos alongside their bestest friends and everyone shares some “I love you(s)”.
If only the ending to this sad story weren’t quite as predictable as Hancock’s twisted denouement.
By Beth in Entertainment, SNL, TV, pop culture, gossip on June 24 2008
 Last night’s episode of “Weeds” featured a noticeable absence of song (and cheer) at the episode’s opening. So glaring was it that the opening shot simply showed a highway, the Mexican border, and two signs with the words “Weeds” and “Creator: Jenji Kohan” and jumped to Mary Louise Parker attempting to use bubbe’s vibrator as a hair dryer. The latter was more awkward funny than real funny.
Am I excited that Weeds is back for another season? Of course! Do I like the current storyline of Nancy, her brother-in-law, Andy, and her kids on the lam hiding out with Albert Brooks? Damn straight! More opportunity to hear the word “schlimazel” outside the context of 80s sitcoms. Ok, so I stolethat line. But I also miss the entire cast together and want some promise that their current non-Agrestic lives will be colliding in the near future with the people and storylines left behind, and most crucially the Nancy-Celia storyline.
Last night’s “Lady is a Charm” episode gave viewers a twist of hope in this department.
Elizabeth Perkins hinted that Nancy and Celia will be reunited and it only makes sense since Celia is currently taking the fall for Nancy’s booming pot business and it’s only a matter of time before she’s sprung free. To boot, Celia’s loverboy detective visited her at the end of last night’s episode and revealed an incriminating photo of Nancy and her drugpin boss, Guillermo, leaving us with the words, “I’m starting to believe you.”
While this season struggles to find its identity, I’m left with the disturbing thought that Showtime might try to make some sort of web contest to find the next theme song for Weeds. Hell, it might even become the next big reality TV show competition. In the meantime, however, crystal balls aside, it appears that more Yiddish vocabulary is in our immediate future and it’s fairly safe to say, Nancy will be assuming more drug running activities both north and south of the border.
By Beth in Politics, Hollywood, Female Empowerment, TV, film, pop culture, media, gossip, Barack Obama, Scarlett Johansson on June 16 2008
Another blond Hollywood starlet with ample assets has been possessed by the politician bug, at least virtually. Actress Scarlett Johansson has been exchanging emails with presidential hopeful Barack Obama. The connection? Her twin brother, Hunter, works for the Obama campaign after conveniently leaving his gig as Community Liaison for Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer a few weeks ago.
While all this background might explain how Obama and Scarlett were introduced, it doesn’t quite explain why the Dem candidate is garnering “advice” from the Hollywood hottie or why Scarlett is gushing about Obama’s prompt responsiveness to her emails all over the political site, Politico.
Kinda sheds new light on the whole “Yes we can” linchpin of Barack’s campaign.
By ariel in Uncategorized, News, Tech, Money, business, Corporate, media, Web 2.0, gossip, Ebay, Skype, Auction on April 30 2008
3 Years ago, Skype was the hottest thing in town. Then the bidding started, and when it comes to bidding no one knows how to do it better then eBay, who, with plenty of woo ha, paid a modest sum of $2.6 billion for their new toy. But, a while later, eBay, who also own PayPal, realized, that its harder to integrate the technology into its auction business then they first thought, Skype has become the hot potato that no one wants, even the appointing of Josh Silverman as the new CEO in February did not seem to help, and now eBay is considering selling the VoIP provider. Skype is quite good actually, it allows free PC calling, and saved me a lot of money when I used it to call computers internationally.
By ariel in Uncategorized, Entertainment, Quotes, Movies, British, Music, TV, Pop Music, pop culture, America, celebrity, gossip, Eli Stone, George Michael, Trainspotting, Sick Boy, Jonny Lee Miller on March 7 2008
I thought that the whole thing about Eli Stone was that George Michael appears in all of his visions/ hallucinations.
Now I’m curious to know where George is. We he is not so good in hiding. A permanent role for the singer, will improve the show greatly.
Just to think of the long way Sick Boy had to go, from a drug addict to Eli Stone….
Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life… But why would I want to do a thing like that?
Trainspotting 1996
By ariel in Uncategorized, Entertainment, News, Money, stereotype, Classic Rock, pop culture, America, celebrity, gossip, Family Guy, Gene Simmons, Kiss, Sex Tape, avn.com, Chaim Witz, Lois Griffin on February 21 2008
 /best_dressed_animation_lois.jpg "Lois Griffin did Kiss") Seriously, who the hell gives a damn about Gene Simmons’ sex tape? So he was having sex with a model, so what? Is it not mandatory for a Rock star, especially almost a has been like our Chaim to fool around like that? And one more thing, who the hell wants to see a 59 year old man perform? Apparently, plenty of people not only want to watch it but paid good money to avn.com, a site that flourishes from such events for the pleasure to watch the clip.
I know that Shannon Tweed has been Gene’s girlfriend since 1985, and that they have two kids together, and that she is defiantly, not the woman from the clip, but come on, he’s a rocker.
Any way, it remind me of that Family Guy episode when the Griffins meet Simmons in a diner, and Lois recognizes him as without his makeup as Chaim Witz, who she dated before he changed his name, and Peter is so proud that he announce that his wife did Kiss on public television… That was a great episode….
By the way, although he did not deny it has not been confirmed yet that the man in the clip is actually Gene Simmons. Therefore, this all might just be much ado about nothing.
By ariel in Uncategorized, Entertainment, News, Money, Hollywood, pop culture, media, America, celebrity, gossip, Britney Spears, Heath Ledger, Overdose on February 6 2008
Now they say Heath Ledger died of an accidental overdose. Well, I’m not sure what it means, but regardless, does it help his family and friends that on top of mourning his death had to deal with those ugly suicide assumptions? And what about all those pre-written eulogies which guarantee celebrity’s life summery even before his or her last breath. The media should take a step back not before something bad happens, because it’s already happening. Cynicism is a great defense mechanism when you are 15, but when adults over use it, like in the case of AP and the rest of the gang, it’s a dangerous weapon, a weapon of mass communications.
By Beth in Entertainment, Movies, Hollywood, film history, film, pop culture, celebrity, gossip, Heath Ledger on January 22 2008
Film star Heath Ledger died today of an alleged drug overdose. The 28-year-old who recently split with his Brokeback Mountain co-star Michelle Williams, with whom he shared a daughter, was found dead in his NYC apartment this afternoon by his maid, naked and unconscious. While sleeping pills are rumored to be the culprit and foul play has not yet been ruled out (but most likely will be), police are awaiting a formal autopsy before they make an official call.
A bizarre twist on all this: The deputy police commissioner originally cited that the apt. Ledger was found in was owned by none other than troubled former tween queen, Mary-Kate Olsen - no stranger to emotional foibles herself. The commissioner later retracted his comment when Olsen’s publicist went on record denying the twin owned the apartment.
Ledger had been cast as The Joker in the upcoming Batman movie and was already filming The Dark Knight with former Brokeback co-star, Jake Gyllenhaal’s, older sister Maggie. No word on how/if this role will be recast.
By ariel in Uncategorized, Entertainment, Amy Winehouse, British, Music, celebrity, gossip, Blond on January 9 2008
 Amy Winehouse, now with a new hair, is working on her singing skills with her dad to improve her self confidence. A source told Showbiz Spy that:“She often has friends round for drinks and inevitably most of the time she ends up singing. One night Mitch (Amy’s dad) joined in and Amy loved it. They had a great giggle and it really made her feel good about herself so Mitch wants to repeat the experience as often as possible.” It’s also a good practice before her scheduled appearance at the Grammies next month. If to judge by this picture, it looks like the problem is not her singing or her hair cut, she is in a dyer need of a good meal, make it two.
By ariel in Uncategorized, Blog, Amy Winehouse, Music, celebrity, gossip, Britney Spears, Jennifer Love Hewitt on December 12 2007
 Two of our little blog’s favorite subjects are in the news lately.
Amy Winehouse, who’s always in the spotlight, has been nominated for 6 Grammy awards, including one for Album of the year. Despite the wide varity of her recent issues, Amy is eager to perform in the show. One of the singer’s reps told People Magazine, “Amy is thrilled to be nominated for six Grammys and is very much hoping to attend. She is determined to be ready and well for that performance. It’s a really difficult time and she’s been channeling it into her music.”
Jennifer Love Hewitt, who just  recently announced her  engagement to actor Ross McCall is now suffering the wrath of all sorts of gossip websites, and all because of some unflattering pictures of her that appeared on the cover of People Magazine, wearing a bikini … If this new obsession with Love Hewitt’s butt suggests that we’ll hear less about Britney’s, it’s great, but I don’t think it’s gonna happen…
By ariel in Uncategorized, Amy Winehouse, British, Music, relationships, pop culture, quirky newsbits, celebrity, gossip on November 14 2007
Amy’s family are so freaked out about the possibility that their daughter will do something stupid after her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil got arrested, and because she is after all, Amy Winehouse, that they had to call the police when they couldn’t get a hold of her last night. “Amy’s family are petrified she’ll do something stupid. They know she’s very low at the moment and misses Blake terribly.” A “source” told the Daily Mail.
By ariel in Uncategorized, Entertainment, Weird, CBS, TV, pop culture, celebrity, gossip, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ghost Whisperer, Ghost, superstitious on November 13 2007
TV ghost whisperer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, called a real one to once and for all rid her Los Angeles home of two ghosts. Apparently, she freaked out when they started turning the lights on and off… She later described how it worked: “This woman came over, talked to the ghosts, asked them if they were ready to go into the light and sort of crossed them over.”
PR-inside reports that Love Hewitt is kind of obsessed with superstitions and convinced of the presence of spirits on the set of her CBS TV show Ghost Whisperer.
By Beth in Entertainment, Blog, News, Jay Leno, ABC, Lost, Money, Hollywood, Music, TV, pop culture, Amaldo.Com, media, MTV, gossip, Britney Spears on November 10 2007
I’m a lover scorned. A meerkat whose mother has been viciously killed by a snake leaving me to make my way thru the wild without any well-trained defenses or line of attack. I’m Rambo without any ammo and Schwarzenegger without the Kennedy connections and steroids that made him.
I’m also fed up with the writers’ strike and feeling pangs of loss that can best be expressed thru the myriad of metaphors above.
And how it could potentially affect my January, no wait my FEBRUARY? That’s right, Lost fans will have to wait till February now to see just where things left off post-Looking Glass. Given that the show’s executive producer is claiming that only 8 shows have been written out of the regular 16, and that the final 8 will tie up all the loose ends presented in the first 8 (and that I happen to LIVE for resolutions), you can understand why the writers’ strike is getting me down.
I can do without Leno and his glib comments to Halle Berry, grimace at Tina Fey as she takes to the picketing stands (she is an executive producer after all) and bands with her fellow starving artists (?), but seeing writer/creator/executive producer Damon Lindelof lament the plight of writers (and himself) not getting their/his share of the moola generated by all the new media around makes me wanna lose the one I’m with and start a new relationship.
We understand fame and new-found fortune is enough to even make a decent man turn to debauchery. But really, how long do the producers at Lost think that they can play with their fanbase before their numbers of viewers start to diminish?
By ariel in Uncategorized, Entertainment, News, Quotes, Money, Retro, Music, Pop Music, media, celebrity, gossip, Comeback, Michael Jackson, Thriller on November 7 2007
  That’s how it goes, from public enemy No. 1, to a saint. That’s what is happening to Michael Jackson these days. As we approach the 25th anniversary of Thriller, the album who broke any record in the record book, Jacko is back in business with an exclusive interview after 10 years to “Ebony” magazine. Harriette Cole, editor of “Ebony” magazine said on The Today Show that: “The thing that was most impressive to me about him (M.J.) is that he is so loving and generous to everyone, we photographed in the Brooklyn Museum. It was the guard he made sure he spoke to, the elevator operator, everybody who was there was someone he wanted to treat with kindness.” Rumors about a new album were also thrown in the air.
In 1982, as a little kid, in the land of far far away, I had a small cassette player with Thriller on it. Michael Jackson just before going nuts was my hero. I can’t believe it’s been 25 years.
If he can make a comeback, everyone can.
By ariel in Uncategorized, News, Money, Dancing With The Stars, British, Female Empowerment, stereotype, TV, relationships, pop culture, media, celebrity, gossip, divorce, Heather Mills, Paul McCartney, The Today Show, Paparazzi, Gold Digger on November 1 2007
 If you’ve been watching any of Heather Mills’ interviews in the last 48 hours, you probably notice a major tone change. No more ignoring the media’s bad mouthing of her, or the acceptance of the lurking Paparazzi now she decided to fights back. And what’s a better way to fight back then to through all the blame and responsibility on her soon to be husband? “Please protect me,” she said she asked Paul McCartney, and if he did: “It could have all been over, and done with very, very quietly.” Said the ex Dancing With The Stars contestant.
She also say she is not a gold digger, and the divorce issues are all about their little daughter. I am the first to agree that the media has a major part in destroying our dear celebrities’ lives, but Heather Mills should have known what she is getting into when she married a public figure in the magnitude of McCartney.
By Beth in love & lies, relationships, dating, pop culture, Amaldo.Com, indie, quirky newsbits, gossip, Ilana Donna on October 27 2007
Ilana Donna is back (after a very long hiatus) going undercover to find out exactly how two men from the South can be gainfully employed as “dating coaches” (er, um pick-up artists) in the cynical metropolis of New York. Watch and be amazed as our lovely vlogger, Ilana transforms from skeptic to smitten kitten in this video clip, guaranteed to get all gals (and guys) guessing. What really happened next?
By ariel in Uncategorized, News, Amy Winehouse, British, Music, pop culture, Amaldo.Com, celebrity, gossip, Regina Spektor, Lindsay Lohan, Live Show on October 22 2007
 Amy, Amy, what are we going to do with you? After the Norwegian Police arrested one of our blog’s main subjects, she was released just in time to go on stage and do her thing. I also hear that some of her friends seemed pleased of the fact she only got arrested for the possession of weed and not something stronger. If they are so concerned about her they should send her to this place in Utah, to dry her talented but disturbed soul of all the shit that runs there. After watching Regina Spektor performers last week, without all the meshigayes*, but with a lot of magic, I understand that you don’t have to be a nut job to succeed, well maybe just a little…
*Craziness
By Beth in Music, folk, acoustic, pop culture, MTV, gossip, Regina Spektor, MySpace, Amaldo Concert Review, Only Son, iPod Man on October 21 2007
I’ve been owing readers here a recap of the Regina Spektor concert I attended last Sunday for roughly a week now, so here goes. In my defense, I turned the big 3-0 last week and was slightly preoccupied with birthday shenanigans. So now I’m back and ready to give Regina Spektor, experimental folk-acoustic, seductive songstress du jour (du semaine) a proper ode.
Headlining the Regina show was Only Son, aka iPod Man. His act was decent enough, but he went on for way too long and his shtick involved an iPod, which he used in lieu of a band. It got a little irksome after a while and as he came onstage drunk and saying a little too many “F*cks,” I quickly realized that a) I’m too old to find this MySpace-generated Mick Jagger/Bono wannabe remotely appealing and b) My generation (X) is WAY cooler than the 18-year-olds bopping along to the Yeah, like, that’s so f*cked man. Shit, ya know. Yeah, f*ck. Then again, maybe I’m being way too hard on our nation’s youth and even more frightening, maybe my generation sounded like that 12 years ago.
But then again, why were all these youngsters who I couldn’t envision really “getting” Regina’s brand of music, the overriding demographic present at her show?
Regina came out onstage 1.5 hours after the 7:30 starting time. While one can argue that the wait augments the level of anticipation, being stuck in the auditorium seating in Boston’s Orpheum Theater- whose seating was constructed and hasn’t been renovated since the early 20th Century when my height of 5′3 was the average height of a male, you can imagine the physical comfort level by the time the illustrious Ms. SpeKtor finally came onto stage.
Don’t get me wrong. Regina is a force to be reckoned with and well worth any wait. Coming onto stage, bright curly red hair, bright royal blue babydoll dress, with intermittent sprinklings of softspoken “thank you(s)” between belting out “Mary Anne is a B*tch” (it’s a song) and songs about people f*cking to her music, she carefully positions herself as the naughty nice girl. Others have gone down this road before in more gimmicky fashion, but Regina successfully avoids the common pitfalls of her peers and predecessors, salvaged by her musical range (high-pitched, discordant elongated shrieks a la Laurie Anderson to heavy, bluesy spirituals) and well, her, incredibly diverse RAW talent. (Norah Jones may also sing to the tune of the sweet songstress, but doesn’t manage the same sub-alt following, perhaps limited by range and level of experimentation. ) The difference being Regina owns her music, even when it’s not her music. Take her cover of John Lennon’s “Real Love” or her recent gig covering “Little Boxes” for the show Weeds. You can’t imagine (no pun intended) either song wasn’t written by her for her.
But back to the concert’s finale, Regina gave us our encores (”Samson”/”Fidelity” et al) and didn’t hold out on her audience, instead generously playing to the crowd, amidst delayed starts and iPod men that read more like boys. Oh, yeah. And really young kids yelling, That’s the f*ckin sh*t iPod Man!
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