Who Do You Think You’re Fooling, Will(is)?

By Beth in Entertainment, Money, Movies, Hollywood, TV, relationships, pop culture, media, gossip, Oprah, Will Smith, Scientology, TomKat, cult on July 10 2008

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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.

Oprah [& Her Friends] Can’t Save XM

By Beth in ABC, Tech, Money, pop culture, media, podcast, Oprah, Sirius on March 24 2008

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The Justice Department just approved a merger between former satellite radio arch-nemeses, Sirius and XM radio. In short, Sirius bought XM out for $5 billion. Maybe it’s just me, but I kinda miss the whole healthy, clean days of competition a la Battle of the Network Stars. Then again, with Howard Stern and Martha Stewart doing the Sirius circuit, I’m not sure even Oprah (& “Her Friends”) stood much of a chance…

Jessica Seinfeld Would NOT Approve

By Beth in NBC, comedy, pop culture, Corporate, media, Jerry Seinfeld, Bee Movie, Jessica Seinfeld, Oprah, McDonalds on October 28 2007

McDonalds Bee MovieJust when news circulates that all might not have been kosher with Oprah’s ecstatic endorsement of heiress Jessica Seinfeld’s new kid’s cookbook (the one that’s all about tricking your kids into eating spinach brownies) comes hubby Jerry’s latest corporate plug for Bee Movie at the hands of the nefarious, fast-food gluttonous empire. No, we’re not talking about GE…

Surely Jessica and the $$ Jerry sunk into Oprah’s deceptively delicious campaign would not approve of such a stint, even with the “billions served.” Afterall, arches whose very existence is not reliant on being botoxed, plucked, and tweezed are so not relevant.