Major Annoyances

See, I was trying to be nice--and look what happened...




That's pic is stolen! Anyway I'm sick of the coverage of Anna Nicole Smith. I did like her--but this is getting out of hand. I was innocently reading stuff and now I find out through the autopsy that the coroner found her anus to be "unremarkable." Good lord, we've got people in Iraq getting their legs blown off, Anna's gone and people are talking about this?


File Under: ET, Mark Steines, Crying Howard K. Stern, Obsessive Reporting, Anna's butt, Give it a rest, Show's over...





Jennifer Hudson and That Damn Oscar- She needs to put that thing down...Maybe I'm overreacting. I was watching TV and I saw her with this thing, again. Let's hope it's a rerun or something. Hudson also is still pissed with Simon Cowell. Cowell thinks she's not thankful enough for her American Idol stint. That caused this unwarranted attack on the 10th best fast food chain...

Pop Culture Idiot Rewind: Hudson said "...If I'd been any better at my job when I was at Burger King in my middle teens, I wouldn't be here either, so should I thank them, too?"

Well that's kind of mean--and yeah, thank Burger King, why not.


Geez... Can you imagine... After tanking nightly on the CBS Evening News, Katie Couric came out with all guns blazing after John and Elizabeth Edwards. To be honest I didn't hear the whole thing--but what I did hear was disgusting. I can't believe someone has the audacity to think the Edwards's reaction to this news was a political move. Awful. Didn't Couric have experience with this tragedy too? I guess having her face pulled so tight has affected her memory.



Bill Geddie- At one time I enjoyed Bill Geddie's corny segments on the View. It turns out that the shtick came from a power-hungry, devilish man. You'd think he'd be the voice of reason after the show turned into Rosie O' Donnell's Psycho Circus. It turns out he's all for the change, apparently like the strident direction and is jonesing for more. More ratings, more controversy, more nasty comments about Star Jones. Bill Geddie is a glutton!



50 Foot Michael Jackson... Got megalomania? It was just a matter of time before Mike was going to take it to Vegas. This time, it seems like he's also got a friend. Jackson is planning to build a 50 foot replica of himself to perform and greet. Yuck. Is he alright? I know the Jackson's aren't rocket scientists, but does he have any idea how gauche, ungainly and sick a 50 foot thing is going to be?

Update: Reportedly, Jackson also wants lasers to shoot out of the 50 foot Michael Jackson "deal." I think I'm going to be sick...


I can't tell the difference anymore....

Kind of Watching It DVD's: Junk From My "Collection"

I got into collecting DVD's when I "visited" someone's house. They have, I mean, had a nice stash. Here's a few of the favorites...

The Affair (1973) Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, Young Bruce Davidson and Schneider from One Day at a Time.


It was something seeing these two joining forces for this 1973 Aaron Spelling/Leonard Goldberg TV movie. Natalie Wood was carrying R.J. the whole way. Wood played the virginal Courtney Patterson. Patterson was a successful songwriter and she happened to have polio and or Polo. Wagner played Marcus Simon, an almost uncutous bon-vivant. What range!

The draw here of course is Natalie Wood. She was in her early '30s here and had a luminous and almost goofy presence. She looked great with everything, those big '70s glasses, odd clothes and even the world's biggest crutches. That wasn't enough for the slightly paunchy Marcus however. He broke camp and left Courtney all by her lonesome. Whenever I think of Courtney all alone, I pee pee myself.

Tech Stuff: Despite a multitude of options to clean up video/film for DVD releases, the folks at Vina chose none of them. This looks dreadful and probably a bit worse than the original TV movie did.

Best Scene: When Courtney told Marcus she was a virgin. Good times...

Rating: ***

Bubba and Fred reacting to the news that Marcus left...









Shaft's Big Score- (1972) We can call this Shaft's Big Bore. I find it stupeyfing that the makers of the iconic and excellent Shaft could come out with the worst action film this side of John Wayne's laughfest McQ. They did it alright. Shaft is of course played by Richard Roundtree and this time he's not cool but a total drag and a little annoying. And you know what else? The soundtrack's lousy, so is the script.





The Good Part: I got this as a "Double Feature" with Shaft. Also I've got trailers of all three movies including Shaft in Africa. You haven't lived until you've seen Shaft kicking up dust and fighting with a spear. It's so--inane...


Fast Fact: Shaft was part of CBS's New Tuesday Night Movie with Hawkins and ran from 1973 to 1974.

Commercial Stuff

Guess what, I've been busy helping the youth. I'm teaching them to be as expedient and untrustworthy as I am. The good news is I've seen a few commercials that all are a bit annoying, in their own special way...


This is an especially cute commercial for Special K. The actress in the clip is Elizabeth Hendrickson . I was surfing and found out she's also on All My Children, she's very attractive. And oh yeah, hot women don't eat Special K? Does anyone? See, I go back to the Kellogg's Snack Pack days and Special K is great in theory but often not worth the bother.





This commercial is for Special K with chocolate chunks. Sounds, bad!









Wouldn't you know it, I was puttering around the Special K site,smokin' and drinkin ' and look what I found. Oddly enough this spot ran a good time after Christmas. While I didn't recognize the rear end, I certainly knew who it was after a while...






Why, that's Stacy Edwards, one of my favorite actresses. She's been in a lot of stuff and even played the way boring Hayley Benson on Santa Barbara. She's probably best known as the girl in In the Company of Men and she did a bid/stint on Chicago Hope. So yeah while it was a pleasure seeing her here I don't have any idea why. She should have her own show or something...






Subway- Well it looks like Subway made short work of Jon Lovitz's dreary ads. Look who's back, Jared. This time he's
brought some friends. Jared's done a few of these joint ads and I just hope he's not starring with a person who will replace him. That would be a doggone shame. And granted, I'm no skinny dude myself but as I've stated delicately in the past, Jared looks like he's getting chunky again. He's certainly not svelte or in good enough shape to make eating at Subway a necessity.

Tales From The Road: I tried Subway's new Pastrami sandwich and it made me hurl.



Makes me want to hurt myself...The Singing Maxwell House Lady

There's no sense in trying to be hi-fi, we all know who this is. This is the singing woman from the Maxwell House commercials. She's first seen singing with her stolid crew and then she has a solo spot and shows the world how shrill her voice really is. I bet she expected her phone to ring off the hook, you know Clive Davis,
Clifton Davis, Clive Owen, whoever. It's time for me to ease her mind: Hey, Maxwell House Lady, you can't sing! Now!



Geico- I'm probably the only person who finds this ad totally annoying. I just don't think it's funny and I'm sick of seeing it. For me, the things the announcer said just weren't humorous at all. That's the object and at this point, I don't even know what Geico does.

The Good News: Blousey shirts and funny-looking pants are back!