Posted Apr 17th 2007 12:41PM by Elizabeth Chan
Filed under: OpEd, Daytime, Music and Variety, Watercooler Talk, Talk Show, Dancing With The Stars
Are you going to sit there and tell me that you've been watching
Dancing with the Stars just for the dancing and expect me to believe it? It seems like the entire country is waiting for Heather Mills' leg to come flying off into the audience. It seems like that day is almost upon us.
If that day ever comes, it won't be an accident, but a calculated, manipulated piece of choreography.
Mills' performance last night serves as a taste of things to come. Mills
danced an almost perfect number and, for some reason, felt the need to stage a mistake and choreograph a fall. Her partner also choreographed a caring response to her fall. I would have an easier time believing this blunder if she looked genuinely mortified.
In other TV celebrity body part news, Regis Philbin is recovering after his bypass. He called into
Live! With Regis and Kelly yesterday and admitted some interesting things about his love life.
Continue reading Heather Mills faked it
Posted Apr 16th 2007 12:42PM by Elizabeth Chan
Filed under: Late Night, OpEd, Saturday Night Live, Watercooler Talk, Talk Show
There is nothing like watching Barbara Walters doing squats to completely destroy my bacon, egg and cheese breakfast this morning. The women of The View have stopped working out their sharp tongues and turned their show into a Jane Fonda workout. Elisabeth is so into it, she even slaps her butt gratuitously.
However, watching Rosie O'Donnell do a set of squats is not the only television moment preventing me from enjoying breakfast this morning. If you watched Saturday Night Live this weekend, you might know what I'm talking about.
Continue reading SNL beats a dead Imus
Posted Apr 13th 2007 1:20PM by Elizabeth Chan
Filed under: News, OpEd, Watercooler Talk, Talk Show
Don Imus'
career on television is done, but television is not done with Don Imus.
Yesterday, the women of TV talk weighed in on the "Imusgate" fiasco.
On the heels of a recent interview with Matt Lauer on
The Today Show, Al Sharpton decided yesterday to make an
encore presentation of his opinions with Meredith Vieira. This visit was more targeted at addressing the racist/chauvinist double standards in the music industry. Hmm, no wonder Lauer didn't score this interview -- it was worthless. I'm scratching my head. Where is the logical nexus between Don Imus and rappers?
In a somewhat predictable move, Oprah Winfrey sat down with the Rutgers woman's basketball team and discussed the situation in grand
Oprah style.
Continue reading Oprah weighs in on Imusgate
Posted Apr 11th 2007 3:04PM by Elizabeth Chan
Filed under: News, OpEd, American Idol, The Daily Show, Watercooler Talk
Don Imus is obviously old school in his thoughts and prejudices. If he were more in tune with popular culture and current social mores, he might have realized that you can only get away with making disparaging remarks about one person's hair. And that is Sanjaya Malakar.
It would have yielded Imus equal amounts of publicity for his show and his name would not be on the tip of Al Sharpton's tongue. He could have also been a foil for the tone-deaf Jennifer Lopez, who couldn't get enough of her Spanish-singing crooner, Sanjaya, on American Idol last night.
Continue reading What if Don Imus commented on Sanjaya's hair instead?
Posted Apr 10th 2007 1:41PM by Elizabeth Chan
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Watercooler Talk, Dancing With The Stars
Does anyone agree that Apolo Ohno was dressed like a salesman
on Dancing With the Stars? It was appropriate attire for him, since he was trying to sell his waltz last night. There was at least one happy customer: Judge Carrie Ann Inaba gushed about
Apolo's transition from sloppy to sophisticated. Am I the only one that didn't buy it? Where is this chemistry everyone was talking about? His partner Julianne is a charismatic dancer, but together, they reminded me more of the captain of the chess team being paired with the homecoming queen for a high school performance.
In a more serious moment, the second season of
Run's House premiered last night ...
Continue reading Apolo Ohno, you are a salesman
Posted Apr 9th 2007 12:21PM by Elizabeth Chan
Filed under: OpEd, Watercooler Talk, The Sopranos
When it comes to the birth of a new KISS licensing opportunity, Gene Simmons is open arms. When it comes to the discussion of a birth of another
Family Jewel, he has a completely different reaction.
Matriarch Shannon Tweed prodded Gene about bringing another bundle of joy into the Simmons' clan. Less than excited, Gene suggested they adopt a child and bet that she'd drop the idea after enduring a year-long process.
Following in the footsteps of Madonna and Angelina Jolie, Shannon brought home an innocent African-American baby. This is where the situation stops being funny. Although there were very
cute moments between the baby and Gene, it's really become unpalatable to watch another celebrity bring home a child like a pet. Even if it was in jest, it just seems in bad taste to make adopting a baby such a cavalier joke.
Last night, we also welcomed back the Sopranos family into our homes ...
(WARNING: Spoilers ahead)Continue reading Family matters for Gene Simmons and the Sopranos
Posted Apr 6th 2007 1:39PM by Elizabeth Chan
Filed under: OpEd, Watercooler Talk, The Office
If you are sitting at work, slowly stand up above your cubicle walls and take a good look at the people around you. Inspect the faces of those who you see day in and out, those of whom you occasionally bump into in the elevators or the coffee pantry.
Can you spot the co-worker who is waiting for the day to save your life with his or her can of pepper spray?
In this TV's Top 5! moment, Dwight was that man last night on The Office. In possibly one of the funniest television story lines, we were able to learn the benefits of what it means to save a fellow co-workers life. Sure he may have semi-maced himself and those around him, but he's the office hero now.
Take some notes people. One day you may need to print out a certificate of bravery for one of your mace wielding co-workers.
Posted Apr 5th 2007 11:41AM by Elizabeth Chan
Filed under: OpEd, American Idol, Lost, Music and Variety, Watercooler Talk, News and Gossip
Someone should have told Michael Buble to
put down the pipe rehearse before he took the
American Idol stage
last night. Did Michael Buble's publicist even give him the memo that he was going to be performing?
Having personally seen Tony Bennett and Michael Buble in concert, I would have confidently told you that Michael Buble would certainly show the contestants and the world how singing standards should be done.
His performance was nothing but a true disappointment... Continue reading Michael Buble you are not an American Idol
Posted Apr 4th 2007 2:20PM by Elizabeth Chan
Filed under: OpEd, American Idol, Watercooler Talk, Talk Show, Contestants
Jordin Sparks and Sanjaya Malakar have a lot in common. Both are seventeen, have great hair and are fighting for the top spot on
American Idol. However, the similarities end there.
Jordin's last performance on American Idol makes it quite clear that this girl can run laps around Sanjaya in the talent department.
But do "Fanjordins" exist? Probably not in the way that "Fanjayas" do. Where exactly are these people? Apparently not in the
Ellen audience, who resoundingly booed Sanjaya after a swift mention by the host herself. However, the widespread sentiment did not stop the one and only Jennifer Lopez in showing support for Sanjaya and
explains why she respects him.
Sure, we may never see the curtains on this Sanjaya craziness, but there was at least one happy ending last night...
Continue reading Jordin sparkles, but J-Lo is a fanjaya
Posted Apr 3rd 2007 2:24PM by Elizabeth Chan
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Late Night, OpEd, Watercooler Talk, Dancing With The Stars
The dance of love is never easy, especially not with a light saber.
Dancing With The Stars never ceases to surprise us with the blank canvas that is a dance floor. How many of us out there would be able to incorporate
Star Wars with a tango? In this clip of last night's show, Joey Fatone seems to seamlessly incorporate
a light saber during his performance.
Speaking of love and other Tangos, hearts were broken on several dating reality shows last night...
Continue reading To Tango with Joey Fatone, New York or a panda?
Posted Apr 2nd 2007 10:42AM by Elizabeth Chan
Filed under: OpEd, The Amazing Race, Watercooler Talk, Celebrities, Awards
Justin Timberlake was the host extraordinaire for this year's
Nickelodeon's Kid's Choice Awards. Many of us have little reason to have watched the actual broadcast, but what good would the ceremonies be
without a massive sliming of the host.
Speaking of slime, on the latest episode of
The Amazing Race, the contestants were forced to eat a 24-inch Polish sausage before they could continue the race. What went in a yummy sausage, came out slime in this
TV's Top 5! moment from last night's show. Some get slimed, others make slime, but Barbara Walters asks the slimy questions...
Continue reading Timberlake gets slimed and so does Giuliani
Posted Mar 30th 2007 3:03PM by Elizabeth Chan
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, CBS, OpEd, Survivor, Watercooler Talk
OK, some shows have false Idols; we call him Sanjaya and admire his ability to have luscious locks or
closely resemble Marvin the Martian who lives with an inexplainable immunity from getting voted off
American Idol island.
On other shows, false idols take a whole other meaning.
On Survivor: Fiji, contestant Yao-Man scored himself the coveted immunity idol which protects him from being voted off the island. He brings to the show a brand new strategy never seen before on the show. Perhaps he is enabled to come up with such a scheme because for the first time ever,
Survivor has given the contestants large buckets of paint?! Continue reading False idols, the Survivor kind
Posted Mar 29th 2007 3:41PM by Elizabeth Chan
Filed under: OpEd, Watercooler Talk, The CW, America's Next Top Model
There is a fine line between completely deluded and a wicked gut instinct.
Many women have problems distinguishing between the two when it comes to analyzing the relationships of themselves and others. Thank god we have the cameras on 24/7 on
America's Next Top Model to further investigate this.
On reality shows there seems to be a bully mentality, where the majority of the cast members focus on one person of
interest to berate and mentally annihilate. On
America's Next Top Model, this person has become Natasha. We have visited this situation before when
she first revealed that she married her husband at 18, nearly 21 years her senior.
I am starting to have more compassion for Natasha and am going to change my tune out of principle. Maybe I'm a different blogger lately.
Continue reading Top Model's marriage under a microscope
Posted Mar 28th 2007 2:22PM by Elizabeth Chan
Filed under: FOX, OpEd, American Idol, Music and Variety, Watercooler Talk, FX, VH1, Dirt, News and Gossip
Sanjaya has turned
American Idol into a hair competition with himself. Many people have used the term mohawk but Sanjaya actually resembled more of a fighting Trojan. If anyone can find a comparable picture to prove this please send my way.
Sanjaya cannot get all the attention for looney television moments, so we will move on to other TV's Top 5! moments.
Last night, Tori "I want to be Jessica Simpson" Spelling talked about how she thought she killed her baby after rough sex with her husband Dean McDermott on
Tori and Dean: Inn Love. The baby stopped kicking after their antics and this worried the inheritance disabled Spelling. Regardless of how worried she truly was, it stop her from entertaining an encore performance. Where do these reality show actresses come up with this stuff?
Jennifer Aniston, you may have lost Brad and Vince, but you can alway be
Dirt-y with Cox...
Continue reading Sanjaya the Trojan wasn't the only looney on TV
Posted Mar 27th 2007 11:26AM by Elizabeth Chan
Filed under: ABC, NBC, Late Night, OpEd, Music and Variety, Watercooler Talk, Talk Show, Dancing With The Stars
The more America watches
Dancing With The Stars the more confirmation there is that athletes encompass infinite amounts of grace. At first glance, Laila Ali has a body meant to beat boxing competitors into a bloody pulp. Last night she also proved that she could knock people out with a mean mambo on last night's episode of
Dancing With The Stars.
She floated effortlessly on the dance floor and made a mambo booty shake that caused an earthquake on the dance floor and took home the high score on last night's
Dancing With the Stars. If you missed it, you can watch her shake it in this clip of TV's Top 5! moment.
However, some women are not so graceful...
Continue reading Laila Ali floats like a butterfly. Meredith Vieira does not.
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