You know, I was going to quit this blog to join Sammy Davis Jr. on his tour of Vietnam. Ah, maybe next year. In the meantime look what's canceled!
The Nate Berkus Show- While you were out being a conscientious shopper and ringing in holiday cheer, your favorite show was being snuffed out. "The Nate Berkus Show" was relieved of its duties late last year. Isn't that something? I bet he didn't say a peep about it when you bumped into him. This program was a joint production vehicle for Sony and Harpo. And you know what? This show was always hellacious. Here's what's going to happen. They're going to let this wreck stagger on for the rest of the season and that's it. Finished.
The Nate Berkus Show-2010-2012 and a half.
The Martha Stewart Show- This is a goner too. Believe it or not, I thought it was gone already. This snoozer debuted in 1959 2005 and escaped to the Hallmark Channel where it proved to be even more irrelevant. Really, how do you get canceled on the Hallmark Channel? That's a feat right there. During her Hallmark Channel run Stewart had no problems with the normal syndication woes of awful times and production value deficits. Martha did have one big issue though: No one cared about her show! GoOdBye!!!
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition- Uh oh. I bet you didn't know this was off the schedule did you? I'm the bearer of bad news. Well if you ask me, it's good news! ABC lowered the boom on Ty Pennington and the Gang a few days 'fore Christmas. Ain't that something. But to be honest this show had lost it's way years ago. I think the saddest show was when Ty put a couple of kids in a cannon, pulled the rope and said, "We're going to Sears!"
Through the years, Pennington's over caffeinated and corny demeanor had grated let's face it, some of those houses were ridiculous. The design teams were also annoying as well as the picks. In the shows later years rapper Xzibit joined the show as a last ditch effort to get viewers. It didn't work. Xzbit hadn't had a hit in 50 years, they might as well have had Lloyd Price driving in nails.
Part 2: The show ran for 5,000 years. We'll miss it.
Oh hi. Look what I founded on the YouTubes, an interview of Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner for Evening Magazine. You remember Evening Magazine don't you? It was a syndicated show with stars and whatnot. For this episode we had separate interviews of Wood and Wagner discussing their marriage. I'll discuss their marriage too. She could have done better! But I digress...
Got to say Robert Wagner was really candid in this interview whatever he wanted to be or not. He mentioned that the first marriage was filled with his insecurity (about things) and his jealousy. According to rumor, the first marriage busted up because Nat caught "RJ" in bed with a man. Ha!
In clinical terms, Robert Wagner sure looked crazy in the face during this interview. Oh he was a mess. We could see he was sluggish and bloated. And his eyes--you could see the anger right under the surface despite his bone tired, bon vivant attitude. This time "stamp" is important. I've seen pics of Robert Wagner from earlier times being tagged as close to the accident. They really weren't. This is the Robert Wagner who did God knows what that evening in question. At the very least? He didn't help or search for his wife in a timely manner. It looks all kinds of bad.
As for Natalie, she looks great here. She's on the set of Brainstorm with co-star Christophen Walken. Walken ended up Splendour that night in question too. Good lord. From the interview (done by Maria Shriver when she was 9) I found out that RJ visited the set of Brainstorm, in North Carolina. Oh wow, I wonder how that went. In any event, Natalie's not saying anything out of the ordinary, in fact she does look like a woman devoted to her husband and family.
On the other hand, RJ Wagner looks especially unctuous in this clip. I can't get over it. Him and those damn scarves. A young Maria Shriver wasn't really the one to cut through Wagner's BS--but it's here. By contrast, Wood doesn't give stock answers, is actually present during the interview, etc. Back to Wagner, whatever he was coming off an especially taxing shoot of that silly Hart to Hart show or what have you--he looks awful here. I think he may be drunk or suffering from the effects of drinking. I told Marcus Welby to look at the clip and he agreed!
Oh Yeah- Wood was still shooting Brainstorm when it all happened on November 28, 1981. After years of speculation, the case has been reopened.
Well it's come to this, a show with so much promise. Here's a recap of the first live show (October 25th) that resulted in the first eliminations in the finals round. Do you remember? We were young and innocent then... Here's what our evil judges had to contend with...
L.A. Reid-What a rag taggle group LA put together. As if you didn't need the heads up, Astro the Rapping 14 Year Old is an alien. That's why his rapping over a 123 year old Kris Kross song makes perfect sense. He's going to learn even the most fetid parts of our culture, go back to his home planet and push a big red button. Chris Rene sang too! Really he looked like a little street urchin Will finds on a very special episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. tIreDZzz!!
That's not it for LA's frightening cavalcade of talent. Little Phillip Lomax show up to the party party. Can I say I never liked him. Lomax seems to be part of the retro-nouveau hat brigade. You know, say you like Frank Sinatra, wear a little hat--and be totally sucky. And that's what Lomax did that night. LA put him in the suicide slot and made him sing, "I'm a Believer" without his dome cover. Doom... Got to say Phillip was a bit pissy....
Dismissed: Phillip Lomax
Paula Adbul- Let's face it, Paula had the crap category. A Facebook friend of mine tweet at me that Blue Magic was going to happen by and sang. I watched and there was no Blue Magic to be found. Unfriended! You know Paula's problem, she's got even more bodies to unload. The country girls Lakota Rayne sang that old chestnut, "Come on Eileen." Goody... Paula also had a group of dudes called the Stereohoggz. Who's that? Who's there? They are an acrobatic lot, they did everything but get into life-size Chesterfield boxes and do a can-can. Still, I don't care. They're no Blue Magic!
Dismissed: Someone
.Nicole Scherinzger-This young lady had some working to do! Everyone was talking about what a boffo Ms. Rinzger did with the geriatric division and now it was her time to be a dream destroyer. Leroy Bell sang "Wow, This Is Draggy Ass Song." You know what? I've got albums with Leroy Bell writing credits going back 50 years. Didn't he sing with Tommy Dorsey? In startling passive-aggressive news, Nicole botched Dexter Haygood's chances by giving him a Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl." You know? It kind of loses it's meaning when it's sung by a 49 year old man.
Dismissed: Dexter Haygood
Simon Cowell-Let's remember the real Simon Cowell and not this lost person... I've got to admit it, it was joyful to see his two science experiments tumble down to the ground like so much Skylab. Simon's Girls, Tiah Tolliver and Simone Battle both turned in wretched performances.Tolliver screeched over "Sweet Dreams" and the set looked like something from that horrible play in "Stayin' Alive." That child can't sing, that's pretty much it, isn't it? Not so fast. Simone Battle had to mess stuff up too! She sang "Just Be Good to Me" and you should have seen Simon's expression/reaction shot. He knew "hisself" that it was so Oversville.True story: Simon Cowell peed his pants after the "performance." That little midget Rachel Crow sang something, so did like Drew Ryniewicz. Did you know that Drew dropped her last name? Who does she think she is?
