I’ve always wondered how SNL cast members felt about retiring their best caricatures. I, for one, am really stoked that former cast member, Tina Fey is bringing back her Emmy winning Sarah Palin character, if only for one episode.
Fey, who has gone on to starring in Thirty Rock, [which apparently you can’t pay anyone to watch], will be hosting this week and bringing back an old favorite. She no doubt wants to go back to doing something successful.
This also gives SNL a chance to revisit success. It is Sweeps month, so they’re pulling out all the stops. Fey’s Palin character was definitely a favorite, for fans and haters alike; with what Chatterbox Media calls her “twangy Palin voice and over-the top folksy and “mavericky” mannerisms.”
I wasn’t a fan of her as a snarky Weekend Update correspondent. I felt like she constantly had to get her partisan digs in. [Something that hits too close to home for me, perhaps?] No, the Sarah Palin caricature was the gem of her SNL career.
With Palin’s new book and TV show, there will be plenty of material for Fey to work with; plenty of Palin-isms for Fey to mock. There is even talk of having her be a weekly presence. People will continue to laugh at things like her claim that she could see Russia from Alaska.
She will continue to provide them with comic gold, because it is easier to laugh at her than to admit that she might be relevant, with her counter-culture, un-PC ideals.
Things like not aborting your baby with Downs Syndrome and being a Christian who walks the talk.
Fey will have to beef up on her Palin-ese. She admits,
I haven’t been watching her on television lately because I’ve been working on 30 Rock,” Tina Fey said.
But she’s back doing something she’s really good at. You know you’re successful when the object of your jokes thinks they’re funny. Sarah admitted that it was “hilarious.”
In a poll asking if they should bring back a Palin character on SNL, played by cast member Kristen Wiig, people polled responded with a resounding:
“You betcha!”
c. 2010
Friday, June 4, 2010
ANGELINA JOLIE : BACK FROM BOSNIA
While I was celebrating Easter in a safe place with my basket and chocolate eggs, Angelina Jolie (though probably not giving much thought to the true meaning) was actually living out Easter. She and husband Brad Pitt went to Bosnia to help refugees. [I just hate it when I feel shamed by the Hollywood elite].
Jolie, the most notable Hollywood “do-gooder,” who seems to collect children from far off lands, has been a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Ambassador since 2001. She has made prior humanitarian trips to Haiti, Syria and Kenya, and helped with some of the projects of the agency that deals with the 117,000 refugees in Bosnia whose homes were destroyed or lack adequate infrastructure in their villages due to the war 15 years ago.
The war, which lasted from 1991 until America stepped in, as President Clinton said, “make the United States the catalyst for a collective stand against aggression,” calling an end to the mass rapes and genocide.
Jolie says,”[I am] so inspired by these families. Despite the grim realities of their unsettled existence, they have an incredible determination to make a better future for their children. I hope we can find solutions for the remaining tens of thousands of displaced people… only then can we really close one of the most tragic chapters in modern history.”
“[I hope] to return to this beautiful country soon and meet with political representatives to further discuss the solutions that are so badly required.”
I have to applaud Jolie for using her stardom for good. So many don’t. I don’t know if I would. I think she is a great example. There are those who protest, this is merely a publicity stunt. So what? It doesn’t matter what the reasons behind her actions are, it just matters that she is doing something.
c. 2010
Jolie, the most notable Hollywood “do-gooder,” who seems to collect children from far off lands, has been a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Ambassador since 2001. She has made prior humanitarian trips to Haiti, Syria and Kenya, and helped with some of the projects of the agency that deals with the 117,000 refugees in Bosnia whose homes were destroyed or lack adequate infrastructure in their villages due to the war 15 years ago.
The war, which lasted from 1991 until America stepped in, as President Clinton said, “make the United States the catalyst for a collective stand against aggression,” calling an end to the mass rapes and genocide.
Jolie says,”[I am] so inspired by these families. Despite the grim realities of their unsettled existence, they have an incredible determination to make a better future for their children. I hope we can find solutions for the remaining tens of thousands of displaced people… only then can we really close one of the most tragic chapters in modern history.”
“[I hope] to return to this beautiful country soon and meet with political representatives to further discuss the solutions that are so badly required.”
I have to applaud Jolie for using her stardom for good. So many don’t. I don’t know if I would. I think she is a great example. There are those who protest, this is merely a publicity stunt. So what? It doesn’t matter what the reasons behind her actions are, it just matters that she is doing something.
c. 2010
SAY IT AIN’T SO! LUKE WILSON, A DIVA?
Rumor has it that nice-guy, Luke Wilson is a [gasp] diva. The rumors are with regard to the AT&T commercials. Luke wants to make movies. Apparently, according to the entertainment blog on FoxNews.com, Wilson is annoyed that he is stuck with the commercials as his source of income, and he’s ended up making others unhappy as well.
This is a classic stress response, straight from the reptilian brain. Who hasn’t behaved this way on some level? I would imagine that anyone who has ever been unhappy with their job, has behaved in a “diva-like” manner to some extent. I know I have.
He’s talking back to the director, insisting that his lines be rewritten and refusing to shoot scenes with other actors, according to FoxNews.com.
“There were some lines meant to direct the commercial in a certain way, but Luke downright refused to say the lines at all. Luke kept saying, ‘I would never say that and I will not say that!’” the source tells FoxNews.com. “It’s unprofessional and unpleasant.”
AT&T and Verizon who have spent a combined $4 billion on the ads, vehemently deny this rumor.
“We’re very pleased with our relationship,” a spokeswoman for Atlanta-based AT&T Mobility told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
While Luke’s behavior is perhaps understandable, it will get old after a while. People will tire of catering to him and eventually stop hiring him for roles.
So Luke, if you’re listening, please heed my warning. You are too good an actor to become a has-been, but if you are miserable to work with on the small stuff, people will think twice about hiring you for the big stuff.
c. 2010
This is a classic stress response, straight from the reptilian brain. Who hasn’t behaved this way on some level? I would imagine that anyone who has ever been unhappy with their job, has behaved in a “diva-like” manner to some extent. I know I have.
He’s talking back to the director, insisting that his lines be rewritten and refusing to shoot scenes with other actors, according to FoxNews.com.
“There were some lines meant to direct the commercial in a certain way, but Luke downright refused to say the lines at all. Luke kept saying, ‘I would never say that and I will not say that!’” the source tells FoxNews.com. “It’s unprofessional and unpleasant.”
AT&T and Verizon who have spent a combined $4 billion on the ads, vehemently deny this rumor.
“We’re very pleased with our relationship,” a spokeswoman for Atlanta-based AT&T Mobility told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
While Luke’s behavior is perhaps understandable, it will get old after a while. People will tire of catering to him and eventually stop hiring him for roles.
So Luke, if you’re listening, please heed my warning. You are too good an actor to become a has-been, but if you are miserable to work with on the small stuff, people will think twice about hiring you for the big stuff.
c. 2010
ALL WE HEAR IS RADIO GAGA
So Lady Gaga has apparently “outed’ herself. Is anyone surprised? Is this really news? Does anyone really care?
I don’t know of anyone who really gave it a second thought when she said she was bisexual. I don’t understand why she feels the need to air her sex life on the tabloids.
It would make more sense, perhaps, if she were making up for a lack of talent by constantly doing over the top things to keep newsworthy. But she’s not a bad musician, [I must admit I do like Paparazzi].
The most recent picture of the gay activist floating about the internet is disgusting and a total PR stunt. Why she feels she must stoop to these levels is beyond me, but it says more about our culture. She does it because it works. I should say, it works with gay men. Gay women, seem not as impressed.
She is a total publicity whore. She’s made sure that even if we are not smitten with her, we are smitten with what she’ll do next. Either way, she’s guaranteed to be in the news.
Ironically her name, “Lady GaGa” is an inadvertent reference to the Queen song Radio Gaga. I find that to be very telling. Do we really have nothing better to talk about than whether or not she is gay or a hermaphrodite?
She actually attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. How is anyone supposed to recognize her talent when it is her shameless PR stunts that are making headlines? And even if they do recognize that she is talented, how can they not be alienated by the antics?
As annoying as she is, the more confounding thing is that people are eating it up. I suppose these are the same audiences as reality shows have. Kind of like a bad wreck; you can’t NOT look.
“Stephanie Germotta, We see you!” quoth fellow Parcbench writer, Don Smith, with empathetic pity.
Despite my disgust for her antics, throughout the course of writing this article, I really got in to her music. Because it’s good, catchy, fun music. Well done, Lady Gaga!
c. 2010
I don’t know of anyone who really gave it a second thought when she said she was bisexual. I don’t understand why she feels the need to air her sex life on the tabloids.
It would make more sense, perhaps, if she were making up for a lack of talent by constantly doing over the top things to keep newsworthy. But she’s not a bad musician, [I must admit I do like Paparazzi].
The most recent picture of the gay activist floating about the internet is disgusting and a total PR stunt. Why she feels she must stoop to these levels is beyond me, but it says more about our culture. She does it because it works. I should say, it works with gay men. Gay women, seem not as impressed.
She is a total publicity whore. She’s made sure that even if we are not smitten with her, we are smitten with what she’ll do next. Either way, she’s guaranteed to be in the news.
Ironically her name, “Lady GaGa” is an inadvertent reference to the Queen song Radio Gaga. I find that to be very telling. Do we really have nothing better to talk about than whether or not she is gay or a hermaphrodite?
She actually attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. How is anyone supposed to recognize her talent when it is her shameless PR stunts that are making headlines? And even if they do recognize that she is talented, how can they not be alienated by the antics?
As annoying as she is, the more confounding thing is that people are eating it up. I suppose these are the same audiences as reality shows have. Kind of like a bad wreck; you can’t NOT look.
“Stephanie Germotta, We see you!” quoth fellow Parcbench writer, Don Smith, with empathetic pity.
Despite my disgust for her antics, throughout the course of writing this article, I really got in to her music. Because it’s good, catchy, fun music. Well done, Lady Gaga!
c. 2010
HOME EC FOR THE MODERN TIMES
Japan’s Home Ec classes are a tad more modern than ours. Instead of egg babies, they have robot babies.
These are especially popular now, as Japan is trying to encourage it’s females to have babies. You see, the once booming Japan is suffering dire economic consequences because their population is at an all time low, with a birthrate at 1.37%. Compare that to 2.12% in the U.S. Put simply, people are not having babies. This is causing severe economic problems for the country, which doesn’t allow immigrants.
They are especially feeling the pinch in the 15-65 age group. These are the producers, the earners. They are losing the money-makers, while the more dependent elders seem to be on the rise.
According to a ministry of labor and welfare report, Japan expects over a quarter of its citizens to be aged over 65 by 2015.
In an effort to encourage procreation, and ultimately, industry, the students of the Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences at The University of Tsukuba, created a robo-baby last year, called Yotara.
Yotara is very lifelike. He actually has facial features which are projected onto his little warm silicon balloon face.
He has very lifelike baby reactions. He actually giggles and “wakes up” when a rattle is shaken. He sulks and dozes off like a real baby and smiles when his stomach is rubbed. He can also sneeze and have a runny nose, thanks to a heated water pump system.
Project leader Hiroki Kunimura, says,
“Through this experience, it would be great if some people started feeling that they wanted to have their own baby, if they started feeling that working is not everything.”
Japan’s population is expected to shrink by a third within 50 years if the birth rate does not increase. I guess if worse came to worse, they could always repopulate with the baby robots.
c. 2010
These are especially popular now, as Japan is trying to encourage it’s females to have babies. You see, the once booming Japan is suffering dire economic consequences because their population is at an all time low, with a birthrate at 1.37%. Compare that to 2.12% in the U.S. Put simply, people are not having babies. This is causing severe economic problems for the country, which doesn’t allow immigrants.
They are especially feeling the pinch in the 15-65 age group. These are the producers, the earners. They are losing the money-makers, while the more dependent elders seem to be on the rise.
According to a ministry of labor and welfare report, Japan expects over a quarter of its citizens to be aged over 65 by 2015.
In an effort to encourage procreation, and ultimately, industry, the students of the Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences at The University of Tsukuba, created a robo-baby last year, called Yotara.
Yotara is very lifelike. He actually has facial features which are projected onto his little warm silicon balloon face.
He has very lifelike baby reactions. He actually giggles and “wakes up” when a rattle is shaken. He sulks and dozes off like a real baby and smiles when his stomach is rubbed. He can also sneeze and have a runny nose, thanks to a heated water pump system.
Project leader Hiroki Kunimura, says,
“Through this experience, it would be great if some people started feeling that they wanted to have their own baby, if they started feeling that working is not everything.”
Japan’s population is expected to shrink by a third within 50 years if the birth rate does not increase. I guess if worse came to worse, they could always repopulate with the baby robots.
c. 2010
PALIN TV
The girl everyone loves to hate is getting her own TV show. The former Vice Presidential candidate, best-selling author, and Fox News Commentator now has another opportunity to annoy her enemies.
TLC has picked up her eight-episode TV series with the working title, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, after the other networks turned it down. She will reportedly earn over a million dollars per episode. It will be a documentary-style travel show which explores the picturesque state of Alaska. The show will fit both Discovery Communications and Palin like Alaskan beaver mittens.
I can guarantee that despite it’s non-antagonizing nature theme, it will be the most polarizing show on the tube. Fans will eat it up, and haters will scornfully despise it. The “environmental extremists” that oppose her because she’s not a proponent of “man-made climate change” will scorn her further. You can bet it will generate a lot of buzz.
The Huffington Post is already baring its claws. In their coverage of the show, they said:
“It is a strange move for Discovery — the purveyor of such classics as “Planet Earth” and “Life” and the parent of Planet Green and Treehugger — to sign with Palin, whose anti-nature stances include denying climate change, supporting aerial wolf-hunting, and, most famously, “Drill baby, drill!”
Then, on a red hyper-link, you can be sure to…
READ ABOUT PALIN’S MOST EGREGIOUS ANTI-NATURE STANCES
But lest you think there will be any agendas, the show will be free of politics. Just an insider’s look into the state she loves so dearly.
“Discovery Communications is so excited to help Sarah Palin tell the story of Alaska,” said Discovery Communications Chief Operating Officer Peter Ligouri. It is interesting to note that Ligouri used to be the head of Fox Entertainment in the “Family Guy” dispute. He was just the guy that she was crusading against, besides McFarlane, of course.
“Family Guy,” is the Seth MacFarlane series which had Chris date a girl with Down Syndrome. She told him that she is the daughter of a former governor of Alaska. This, of course caused Palin to go on the war path against “Fox Hollywood,” saying the show had slammed her little son Trig, who also has Down Syndrome, and that it was just the latest “kick in the gut” against her, adding on her Facebook page that it “begs the question, ‘When is enough enough?’”
Apparently she’s decided to bury the hatchet. (I have to say, she’s a better woman than I).
While I am very excited about her new show, I hope it doesn’t interfere with her running in the 2012 election. But if anyone can juggle it, Sarah can.
c. 2010
TLC has picked up her eight-episode TV series with the working title, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, after the other networks turned it down. She will reportedly earn over a million dollars per episode. It will be a documentary-style travel show which explores the picturesque state of Alaska. The show will fit both Discovery Communications and Palin like Alaskan beaver mittens.
I can guarantee that despite it’s non-antagonizing nature theme, it will be the most polarizing show on the tube. Fans will eat it up, and haters will scornfully despise it. The “environmental extremists” that oppose her because she’s not a proponent of “man-made climate change” will scorn her further. You can bet it will generate a lot of buzz.
The Huffington Post is already baring its claws. In their coverage of the show, they said:
“It is a strange move for Discovery — the purveyor of such classics as “Planet Earth” and “Life” and the parent of Planet Green and Treehugger — to sign with Palin, whose anti-nature stances include denying climate change, supporting aerial wolf-hunting, and, most famously, “Drill baby, drill!”
Then, on a red hyper-link, you can be sure to…
READ ABOUT PALIN’S MOST EGREGIOUS ANTI-NATURE STANCES
But lest you think there will be any agendas, the show will be free of politics. Just an insider’s look into the state she loves so dearly.
“Discovery Communications is so excited to help Sarah Palin tell the story of Alaska,” said Discovery Communications Chief Operating Officer Peter Ligouri. It is interesting to note that Ligouri used to be the head of Fox Entertainment in the “Family Guy” dispute. He was just the guy that she was crusading against, besides McFarlane, of course.
“Family Guy,” is the Seth MacFarlane series which had Chris date a girl with Down Syndrome. She told him that she is the daughter of a former governor of Alaska. This, of course caused Palin to go on the war path against “Fox Hollywood,” saying the show had slammed her little son Trig, who also has Down Syndrome, and that it was just the latest “kick in the gut” against her, adding on her Facebook page that it “begs the question, ‘When is enough enough?’”
Apparently she’s decided to bury the hatchet. (I have to say, she’s a better woman than I).
While I am very excited about her new show, I hope it doesn’t interfere with her running in the 2012 election. But if anyone can juggle it, Sarah can.
c. 2010
JENNIFER’S REVENGE
Does Jennifer Aniston want to be a cougar?
If she does, she’ll be in good company. Cougars are exceedingly popular in Hollywood, it seems. A cougar is defined as an older woman who dates or marries a younger man. Historically, Tinsel Town has been an environment particularly amenable to cougars, and indeed even today they are stalking and ambushing their prey. (Hey, who isn’t?)
Courtney Cox Arquette, 46 is a cougar of note, both on TV and in real life. However, she married her prey, David Arquette, 39.
Her post-Friends project is Cougar Town, which she not only stars in, but executive produces. The show tells the story about a 40-ish divorcee [Cox], navigating the dating scene. It’s no Friends, but definitely holds its’ own.
She says, “I don’t take offense to the word. David’s much younger than me and he loves older women. I mean, why not date someone younger if you can?” The show definitely adds appeal to the cougars; men want to date them, and women want to be them.
Lisa Kudrow guest-starred on the show, now Cox-Arquette wants her former Friends co-star, Jennifer Aniston to join her ranks.
“She’s younger than me so she can’t play my contemporary even though she did on Friends,” Cox tells ncdailynews, “but I think we can find something great for her to play.”
Aniston has been flirting with cougar-hood at least since Friends, where she once played a cougar. Her most recent beau, John Mayer is several years her junior. While John Mayer’s maturity resembles someone far younger than he, I’m not sure he qualifies. Cougars are generally further apart in age.
She is slated to star in another cougar role, the upcoming Speilberg movie, Pumas.
“It’s sort of a female Wedding Crashers. It’s about these girls who aspire to become cougars. They just paaarty! Young party girls who just find hot young guys to play with and then dump them. Why can’t women do it?”
Indeed.
Sounds like she is well on her way to cougarhood.
c. 2010
If she does, she’ll be in good company. Cougars are exceedingly popular in Hollywood, it seems. A cougar is defined as an older woman who dates or marries a younger man. Historically, Tinsel Town has been an environment particularly amenable to cougars, and indeed even today they are stalking and ambushing their prey. (Hey, who isn’t?)
Courtney Cox Arquette, 46 is a cougar of note, both on TV and in real life. However, she married her prey, David Arquette, 39.
Her post-Friends project is Cougar Town, which she not only stars in, but executive produces. The show tells the story about a 40-ish divorcee [Cox], navigating the dating scene. It’s no Friends, but definitely holds its’ own.
She says, “I don’t take offense to the word. David’s much younger than me and he loves older women. I mean, why not date someone younger if you can?” The show definitely adds appeal to the cougars; men want to date them, and women want to be them.
Lisa Kudrow guest-starred on the show, now Cox-Arquette wants her former Friends co-star, Jennifer Aniston to join her ranks.
“She’s younger than me so she can’t play my contemporary even though she did on Friends,” Cox tells ncdailynews, “but I think we can find something great for her to play.”
Aniston has been flirting with cougar-hood at least since Friends, where she once played a cougar. Her most recent beau, John Mayer is several years her junior. While John Mayer’s maturity resembles someone far younger than he, I’m not sure he qualifies. Cougars are generally further apart in age.
She is slated to star in another cougar role, the upcoming Speilberg movie, Pumas.
“It’s sort of a female Wedding Crashers. It’s about these girls who aspire to become cougars. They just paaarty! Young party girls who just find hot young guys to play with and then dump them. Why can’t women do it?”
Indeed.
Sounds like she is well on her way to cougarhood.
c. 2010
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