Entries For: June 2007
06/12/2007
SOPRANOS: Gone For Good?
The final moments of The Sopranos have had the internet buzzing for the past forty-eight hours straight (beware, clicking on that link takes you to a SPOILER). But soon that buzz will die down, and what will we be left to discuss? The twists and turns of Pirate Master?
Fortunately, our friends at This Just In have a humble proposal. After all, who brought more fun and laughter into the back room of the Bada-Bing than good ol' Paulie Walnuts? And who can make fun and laughter even more magical? A whole day care's worth of kids! Just you wait, if you can, for The Walnuts. It's just like Joey!
Except, you know, successful? Well. We'll see.
06/05/2007
Paris Hilton: Terrorist on the Run!
In what may just be the best screw-up on a national news show ever, yesterday's Today Show inadvertently confirmed that Paris Hilton is indeed what is wrong with America when it accompanied a promo of its "Terror Within" segment with footage of the beleaguered heiress leaving the MTV Movie Awards. The resulting pastiche is truly magically delicious -- particularly when Paris hops into her chaffeured SUV just as Matt Lauer is gravely intoning that the fourth suspect in the JFK airport bombing plot is "still on the run."
One has to wonder if the mistake was not a mistake at all, but merely the brainchild of an overworked, underpaid intern, trapped somewhere in the bowels of Rockefeller Center with nothing but an overdeveloped sense of schadenfreude and an underdeveloped sense of job preservation. Now that's hot.
06/04/2007
Sarah Silverman Skewers Paris at MTV Awards
Last night was an eventful one for Paris Hilton. At about 10pm, she turned herself in at Lynwood County Jail to begin her much-publicized three week stint as a guest of LA County's penal system. But just hours before that, she glammed up and held her head high as a guest at the MTV Movie awards. Good news for host Sarah Silverman, who got deafening cheers from the audience just by mentioning the heiress' upcoming incarceration, and followed that up with a raunchy joke at Paris' expense that brought down the house.
Sprinkled in among the reaction shots from -- the hell? -- Jack Nicholson, there are some good long cuts to Paris herself. She starts off with what is presumably her version of a good natured smile. By mid-point she's working more of a "do I really have to put up with this" expression, and then at the end she forces a small smile again -- but it's the sort of smile that says, "Yeah, I'm smiling. I'm also simultaneously plotting your death and throwing up in my mouth a little." Good times, good times.
