So basically our most beloved feuding characters won’t be in a movie about feuding, the Oscars seem like a great gig…to some, NBC updates its parenting stance from twenty years ago, a few less ladies talk, some rich guy gets a new job, and birds won’t have their way with a Hangover dude.
Today’s Hollywood dish feels lame.
Hey, you know that big kerfuffle happening right now between retailer Abercrombie & Fitch and MTV’s, son-of-Jimmy Durante, Jersey Shore Cash Cow, The Situation? No? Well, where have you been for the last eight hours? Anyway, MTV responds in the way only MTV can — with a high-school middle finger!
And now someone’s dead.
Russell Armstrong, the flinty, irritating husband of Taylor Armstrong–of the perfectly toned arms and mile-wide smile from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills–apparently killed himself last night. He was found hanging in a bedroom of their Mullholland Drive home. By all reports, his life was a mess: his wife had filed for divorce, he was in massive debt, he was being sued to the tune of $1.5 million, he very well could have been just a high class grifter, not the “venture capitalist” he claimed. He might even have been an abuser. (There are reports he shoved Taylor and perhaps abused his first wife.) Not a nice guy, clearly, as anyone who watched the show can attest. He was socially awkward, cold—even downright mean–to his melancholic, grasping, pseudo-glamorous wife, testy and judgmental towards everyone around him. But one quote in a Reuters article really struck me. “This (TV) show has literally pushed us to the limit,” he told People Magazine. Continue reading
Bea Arthur famously appeared in two episodes of All in the Family as Maude Findlay before starring in a spin-off that was developed for her ratings-friendly character. Maude ran for six years on CBS. Flavorwire has a great post today about minor/supporting television characters who deserve their own shows. Some of Flavorwire’s choices are no-brainers. Who wouldn’t love to see Mad Men‘s Carla as the lead character of a show? With retro TV shows becoming a trend (see the upcoming Pan Am and The Playboy Club), a show that explores the 60s from the perspective of a working class black character would be a welcome addition. True Blood’s Godric also seems a natural choice; how could he not? The character has literally millennia of history to explore. Continue reading
More sex on your teevee — well, you asked for it. The return of an SNL icon, or maybe just some guy who freezes under the spell of Kanye West. Johnny Depp won’t be eating beans by a fire, romantic comedies need more ice cream, what you won’t be watching next year, and action stars don’t age… they ripen. Mostly.
You love Hollywood dish more than your shoes.
Hola! Today our news is going to cover boys; gross, nasty and potentially Cootie-infected boys. Sure, some of us clean up well and you girls might even LIKE a few of us but underneath it all, there lies a fart factory with cheeto-dusted fingers who has considered Febreeze a perfectly reasonable alternative to doing laundry. Today we honor those brave guardians of gross, those knights of nasty and those sentinels of sick. There are boys covered in (or becoming) mud. We’ve got boys that manage to turn everything into one huge mess after another. We even have one boy so eager to play a video game that he wanted to be born right on the convention floor. All this and we introduce DC Comics’ newest intern in this week’s NERD. NEWS. ROUNDUP. Continue reading
We’re back with the cast of Jersey Shore! Still in Italy! Still lacking self-awareness! That’s fine. Means more incredulous observations for us!
Let’s watch and learn. Continue reading
It was a night full of wobbles and bobbles, and Katie Holmes’ emaciated arms! Are you excited? This is very nearly it. The end. Is it anybody’s game, or is there a clear frontrunner?
Let’s see what the night brought. Continue reading
Well, what do you know, someone’s found a use for Lifetime after all — you know, for their scripted series department. Also, Tyler Perry wants to ruin television, Bruce Willis gets Joed, and American Idol judge negotiators yell Mission Accomplished.
Hollywood dish is mostly best served cold.
Well, two more kids will have to leave the stage just momentarily, not for forever, just for like ten minutes until the tour starts. But yeah, you know, we’ve gotta see who it’s going to be.
Let’s see who’s leaving the stage but still, uh, living in the house! Continue reading