Just Say Bleep

Equality for the deaf; they get censorship too!
Deaf actress Marlee Matlin, when told about the PBS censorship policy requiring additional visual pixelization (for the deaf) of recognizable lip movements of sworn words:

"I've been reading the lips of bleeped-out words of angry baseball players and stoned rock stars on awards shows for years and it's been hilarious. Everyone is always asking me what the bleeped parts are... Just say no to pixelization!"

That made me LOL. - 'Go Marlee!'

*Know what else makes MM unique? 'Jodi' is the only character on TLW not suspected of killing Jenny - so of course she totally did it.

RRay of Light

How did I miss this? KG putting 'Today' show to shame:

'Turns out she would do this New York press only if she could include a wounded serviceman and a service dog to represent her favorite charity - Vet Dogs - but, she says, the fourth hour of "Today" and People magazine complained it was "too depressing" a concept.'

Meanwhile, 'Rachael Ray said 'yes'. And apparently the bit was a hit. I'm sorry I missed it - I only linked to the part of the RRay show where she & KG played 'Would You Rather..' (I'll link to any extra video I find...)

More good news: Next June on the D-List We'll be seeing Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Paula Deen, Suzanne Somers, Gloria Estefan, Rosie O'Donnell, & even Don Rickles himself.

_{original article on the: KG Forum}

House Payment

_{pic credit to www.whitemountainwheels.com}Beals (left) on 'The Book of Eli' set, Carrizozo, NM.*
Jennifer Beals once said she took some acting jobs 'to pay the mortgage'. Well, this post-apocalyptic movie where she plays a mom who's btw also a blind sex-slave?... smells like another 'house payment' movie to me. But then again, the script can't be worse than her last one, Sunday's TLW finale, can it?

Wait, maybe it could be worse. The script was by a rookie, who reviews video games & comics for a living. It got greenlit just because comic book movies are 'in' right now.

The rewrite? By A.Peckham, who's never had a successful film.
The directors? Have a rep for lousy female roles, ala 'American Pimp'
The premiere? Jan 2010, a January release = no faith in the movie
The verdict?... Only Denzel as the lead gives it a chance.


*near 'futuristic' old lava in Valley of Fires{4-min} park.

Swan Song

The finale wasn't music to anyone's ears, unfortunately.

"L" Is for Lousy - The series finale of The L Word set lesbianism and the art of storytelling back about fifty years. It couldn't have dribbled to a more feeble, unfulfilling letdown ...

James Wolcott, of Vanity Fair
That was a typical review. How sad. No show deserves to die like that. Its the one time they should have called Weho's seemingly only lawyer Joyce Wishnia, and of course they didn't. Bet they could've gotten a group rate, too.

Prolong the death throes: Go here Mondays for clips.

backstage clips during last week of filming.

Top Comic

'Top Chef' Tom's Nightmare... (click to embiggin'*)

'Wendy','Ronald','B.King' & Padma say: 'Tom, PYK&G' - Ha!.

So Tom C has really hit the bigtime - today's Sunday comic page.
Opened up the funnies and there he was, but with a banana-nose.
Then again it must be catching since Padma has one too. ;-)

*_{credit to comic page of: Argyle Sweater}

L = Last Items

The last show of TLW is tonight, and yet I'm actually more interested in hearing the details of yesterday's auction of the last items off the set. Isn't that sad (and odd) that after five years of watching this show I'm still not invested in the finale?. Granted I'm a big spoiler ho, so I'm already annoyed that the producer... *unspoiled? don't read the tiny print* ... _{refused to actually wrap up the final storylines!} ... MoronIC, yes?

So, while waiting for the auction results, I did a 'Wordle' by taking a TWoP page, and letting the program form the words into a label-cloud. Naturally B&T are big - popular words are the largest - but this (click image on left) shape was unusual. The smaller ones randomly clustered around Bette, leaving Tina an island? - how odd.

You'd think one of Bette's army of minions programmed it.
(other samples on other topics looked nothing like this)

Try your own: Wordle.net, - _{( orig link via The Claw, thanks! )}

Juicy Chefs

More TC reunion from this week's TVguide.

TVguide (paper version) had unseen bits from the reunion. Good little article - wish it was longer. And, just because I'm the sharing type, here's my scan of the (2/3 page) article for y'all - just click it. ;-)

Loved Stefan's reply when asked if he cared that he lost: "Don't give a rosy rat's ass!" - And he also quotes a website that compared his face to a cross between that guy on 'The Shield' and Brad Pitt(?)

Meanwhile the others joked with Ariane about being on Bravo's future version of Desperate Housewives: New Jersey. And the chefs also kidded Padma for details about her love life, but she clammed up. Speaking of Padma, a favorite moment of Stefan's? - smoking outside with Padma after the finale.
Enjoy.

Out of Step

Mediocre editing, yet another bugaboo of TLW.
If you saw Ep 607 you know what I mean...

That's why its interesting to see unpaid fans remix the scenes that IC's clumsy yet paid editors & director have chopped apart. Here a fan restored some flow to a dance sequence that had been roughly intercut with 2 other storylines in the aired version of the ep.

* credit for this 607 remix goes to beakerJT
{1 min}

Makes quite a difference. Too bad the amateur editors employed by TLW didn't know the golden rule of editing video - if your audience has never seen it before, don't cut away. Put another way, if its something unique, you need to let your audience have a chance to savor it. If it was a cola ad? - feel free to do as many cuts as you like, but the only choreographed dances in TLW deserved better.
(Direct youtube link to the same video)

Chop Shop

aka The Top Chef Reunion Show
Tonight on Bravo, The chefs return! chop-chop!...

j/k - But am looking forward to hearing what S5's crew says about NY & New Orleans. Fan favorite?... I'm placing my bet on Fabio, since he had better menus than Carla right at the time Bravo was pushing for votes.

eta: Congrats to Fabio, but that was slooowww

Tidbits from the TC Reunion:

The Stefan & women montage, followed by his stare at Padma when she walked in, priceless!

Toby asking if Fabio & Stefan 'hold hands' walking in Santa Monica and Fabio replies 'No', that he uses a leash.

The chefs made Glad-toys in the stew room! -LOL- I wish we'd seen that -during- the show. (Did Glad wonder why they had to re-stock so often?)

Don't care for host Andy C. But at least I'm not alone - 'Pepper M' (of TWoP) has something to say about him:
'Shut up, you charmless, unintelligent twatwaffle'- I LOL'd.

Sequestered for 6 weeks? H. must've included the finale time, because no way were they in Brooklyn for 6 weeks!

The 'birthday curse'...
Amazed that didn't leak earlier: 'Happy B-day, pack'm'up!'
Loved Leah dismissing the curse just before it bit her.

Dead Ahead

How I think Season Six really happened:

Once upon a time, back in June 2008...

Voila! - TLW turns into an 8-part mystery tour.

But lets not dwell on that. Having seen the first seven episodes, we're all afraid of what will happen next, but instead of worrying, please enjoy a fun Alice-Jenny scene - Jenny begs for a kiss!

SuperSonic Me

Or Ms. Fearless Supersonic Angel if you're nasty...
Yup, its silly. But hey, since I'm now a Superhero, I've decided my Super Quest is going to be to fight to give comic books back to kids. All the recent 'comic book' movies are inappropriate for kids -and- not any fun. And that's beyond silly. Link to do: Your very own SuperHero Makeover.
*hero link rec'd by Lisa, thanks!

eta: Oh No, not more no-fun 'kid' movies?!:

Ant-Man (2010), Avengers (2011), Black Hole (2010), Button Man (in production), Deathlok (2011), Doom Patrol (soon), The Flash (2010), Hack/Slash (2009), Iron Man 2 (2010), Madman (2009), Nick Fury (2010), Red Sonja (2009), Ronin (in production), Spider-Man 4 (2011), Thor (2009), Watchmen (2009), Whiteout (2009), The Witchblade (2009), X-Men: Wolverine (2009)

Anyone else think these 'comic' flicks sound depressing?

Fabio > Toby > TomC

TomC makes me like Toby...

... As for the decision to name Rosenberg the winner, Colicchio says he’s "not positive" if it was completely unanimous.

“It may have been three out of four [judges],” he says. “I don’t remember one hundred percent. I think Toby may have wanted to give it to Stefan if I remember correctly.”

And I hope this comes to pass:

Adds Colicchio, “At the end of the day, I would say Fabio will end up doing more than the winner only because of his personality. That’s where the personality comes in. This season, most people are going to remember Fabio.”

*Hopefully Hootie Hoo too. ;-)

MSNBC link: TC finale interview