Thursday - August 06, 2009
Hollywood Loonies
Paula Abdul decided this was the year she wanted an answer — straight up, in the words of one of her biggest pop hits.
As the eighth season of “American Idol” began to draw to a close last spring, Ms. Abdul’s representatives told Fox Broadcasting and two companies that produce the popular series, FremantleMedia and 19 Entertainment, that she wanted a significant raise from the $2 million in salary plus another $1.5million in expenses and other benefits that she was then earning a year as a judge on the show.
What she deserved, her representatives said, was a package that would put her closer to parity, if not on par, with Simon Cowell, who earns an estimated $30 million annually from “American Idol.”
In the end she got an offer of close to $5 million a year, far below what Ryan Seacrest, the show’s host, got last month when he signed a contract with 19 Entertainment for $10 million a year in salary and another $15 million over three years for other production deals and rights to his image.
Feeling unappreciated, Ms. Abdul said on Tuesday that she would rather walk away from the biggest stage on television after eight years. Shortly after telling the “Idol” producers that she could not accept their offer, and with auditions of potential contestants for the ninth season scheduled to begin this weekend, Ms. Abdul told the world via Twitter that she was leaving “American Idol.”
A person close to negotiations tells The Times that the producers had offered Abdul, 47, a 30 percent raise and a total multi-year deal worth more than $10 million.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Abdul asked for about $20 million to continue with the show.
She “felt unappreciated” in recent months, The Times reports. Ryan Seacrest had inked a three-year $45 million deal, and Simon Cowell, who has suggested he may leave at the end of his current deal, is already in talks to sign a deal for a reported $100 million a year.
Holy shiite. Ok, on the one hand I can understand her thinking on this. The host and the other judges earn far more than she does, and there is obviously a huge pile of money to spread around. But on the other hand, $3.5 million a year to sit on your ass for a few hours a week and mouth cotton-fluffball encouraging inanities? I’d do that ... let’s see, call it 10 hours a week max ... give myself a nice fat raise ... I’d do that for $25,000. And so would you (assuming that the stage was near your home), and so would 99.997% of the entire population of the planet. $50/hr to do nothing is damn great money. You give me her job, at her current wages and benefits level, for ONE YEAR and I’d be set for life. FOR LIFE. Ok, let’s make it 2 years, what with Obama’s tax plan and all. But still.
Hollywood is insane. They’re even more insane than the ‘roided up performing monkeys of professional sports.
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Permalink • Thursday - June 25, 2009
Michael Jackson also dead today
About an hour ago, Michael Jackson died. At first the gossip sites said it was cardiac arrest, but now the hospital and his mother have released a statement.
I really liked his early musical career, but his personal life and his plastic surgery really turned me off.
This was a rumor at first, but it has now been confirmed.
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Permalink • Things I Never Knew, Part 6 million and 3
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2009/06/col-ed-mcmahon-dies.html
http://www.militarymuseum.org/McMahon.html
Somehow it seems more impressive that I never knew this until after he was gone.
Semper Fi-yooooooooo.
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Permalink • An end to her suffering
Farrah Fawcett has died. She suffered from cancer for years. She was 62. Sadness.
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Permalink • Friday - June 12, 2009
Missed it, miss him
Yesterday, June 11th, was the 30th anniversary of the death of John Wayne.
Talk about a clear moral vision.
Kim DuToit never put a start date on his Pussification essay, but if he had it would coincide closely with this date. Or perhaps it started a few years before that, when Mr. Wayne and his film genre were losing their popularity.
Mary Kendall, over at Big Hollywood, has more:
“When people saw (Duke) on the screen” in movies like The Longest Day, about the Normandy Invasion, Lyles said, “they always wanted to be on his side because they knew that under (his) leadership… they were going to be on the winning team. He was Americana.” Like Reagan, “he made us all proud to be Americans.”
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Permalink • Wednesday - June 10, 2009
Who said life is fair?
Not much going on that I want to post about today. So this is a steal from the gossip pages, but I added the fashion info.
Actress Heather Graham attends the Dublin premier of her new film The Hangover. Hey, they sent her on a round-the-world publicity junket. I wonder why? 
Now, how’s that for a new take on the classic little black dress? No, she wasn’t attacked by Edward Scissorhands, or a flock of eagles. It was made that way. It’s fashion. Actually, it’s a series of fake “suntan inserts”, probably custom matched to her exact skin tone, so it only looks like she forgot all her undies, again*. A mere $1900 from the new spring collection by Herve Leger. the shoes could be from Cloe, about $500. The clutch? Damned if I know. The result? Priceless.
Ms. Graham is 5’ 8” tall and is 39 1/2 years old. No tattoos, no Botox, no implants, no extensions. And the blond is natural, mostly. Thank you, God.
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Permalink • Monday - March 23, 2009
The American Top Gun fighter pilot academy was inspired by the Royal Navy and trained by Brits
Don’t shoot the messenger folks, I merely report on the news and pass on stuff I think may have interest back home.
Oh how I did not like reading this purely from a standpoint of national pride. With no disrespect to Brits EVER cause I always admired their military and know they are damn good. BUT ... well, you know.
Hey, I never really thought John Wayne won the last war. I knew that was Hollywood. I knew he had help. Robert Mitchum, Errol Flynn, Van Johnson and maybe one or two I’ve forgotten now.
I knew it was the Brit special forces that originally taught our people commando tactics etc. But I really did think, without ever really thinking about it, that our people would have know about or realized all this other stuff since we’d been so much more involved on a world scene. I just assumed .....
Guess I assumed wrong.
Well then .... Once again we must gratefully tip our hats to the only real friends we have on this side of the world, even though from time to time they get pissed off at us. Now if only they can come up with a way to save their country without picking on the Germans again. Or the French.
American Top Gun fighter pilot academy set up by British
The American Top Gun fighter pilot academy was inspired by the Royal Navy elite flying instructors, a new book has revealed.
By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent
Last Updated: 11:18PM GMT 22 Mar 2009
Despite the all-American hero imagery of the film starring Tom Cruise, the US Navy’s expertise was in large part due to their instruction by aviators from the Fleet Air Arm.
When British pilots arrived at Miramar airbase in California in the early 1960s the Americans were losing a large number of dogfights in their multi-million Phantom fighters to the enemy’s relatively “cheap” MiG 21s.
The tuition from the British pilots, all graduates of the intense Air Warfare Instructors school in Lossiemouth, Scotland, led to the Americans dominating the skies, the military historian Rowland White has revealed in Phoenix Squadron.
It was then that the their Naval Warfare Academy became known as Top Gun.
“Through the instructors on exchange at Miramar the AWIs methods made their way into perhaps the most well-known programme in the history of naval aviation: Topgun,” he said.
Foremost among the Royal Navy pilots was Lt Commander Dick Lord’s whose work on the tactics group was the founding on which the “original eight Topgun instructors built their course”.
The British pilot, originally from South Africa, introduced simple things such as writing notes on the knee pad of his flying suit during air combat exercises
The Americans trusted Lord enough to give him access to a secret document that played a key part in his writing the Air Combat Manoeuvring manual for the US pilots.
As shown in the film Top Gun the pilots at Miramar were given a structure on air-to-air combat that finished with a final sortie of two pilot instructors against two students. In the film this was when Tom Cruise lost his observer following a difficult manoeuvre which occasionally happened as pilots flew their aircraft to the limit.
Lord’s expertise was so well regarded that he was asked to give lectures to US fighter pilots all along the West Coast.
While the former Royal Navy officer, who married his British wife at Miramar, said he enjoyed the film he did not recognise the characters until his wife told him that the big-talking naval fighter pilots were most accurately depicted.
Although the British did their best to fit in their humour prevailed. Rather than call signs of Viper and Maverick they came up with Dogbreath, Alien and Cholmondley
White’s book is the first to reveal the British role in Top Gun.“It is remarkable that any history book on Top Gun studiously avoids any British involvement,” Lord, 72, told The Daily Telegraph. “One finds this quite a bit on American history and certainly here they have not given us due justice.”
Lt Cdr Paul Waterhouse, 72, another Fleet Air Arm officer at Miramar with Lord, said the British contribution of a dozen instructors was a substantial help to the Americans struggling for aerial success over Vietnam although it went unnoticed by Downing Street.
“We were helping these guys in the Vietnam war because they were going straight from Miramar to fight the enemy who were flying pretty useful Mig 21s.
“If Harold Wilson knew he would not have been happy.”
He added: “The Americans did not have the experience to use the Phantom properly and you cannot train experience
“I felt a swell of pride when I first saw the Top Gun film because I knew that we were behind it.”
Another British instructor, Cdr Doug Macdonald , 67, said the Americans “were delighted to have experienced people teach them”.
He added: “I think the movie Top Gun is great but it’s thanks to us Brits that they could make the film.”Soon after the Top Gun course began a Phantom flown by one of the first students shot down a MiG-21, the first time a US Navy plane had succeeded in aerial combat in two years.
OUCH! First time in two years?
Hey, isn’t the Phantom an American plane? And if it was, how come our guys had less experience flying it then the Brits?
I think it’s pretty normal for a country to toot it’s own horn and build natl. pride and especially in wartime 40’s. But gee whiz, I think in later years that dream factory in the Hollywood hills could have done better with regard to giving credit where it was damn well due. No?
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Permalink • Thursday - January 15, 2009
Darn
Ricardo Montalban has died. He was 88.
Actor Ricardo Montalban, star of the hit TV series “Fantasy Island,” died Wednesday in Los Angeles, a family spokesman said.
Montalban, 88, was in deteriorating health over the past several days but “died peacefully” at 6:30 a.m. at his home, son-in-law Gilbert Smith said.
He understood “it was his time,” Smith said. The cause of death was not given.
Montalban rose to prominence as one of the most visible Hispanic actors in post-war Hollywood in the 1950s and 1960s. But his star grew as he took on television roles as the mysterious host Mr. Roarke on the hit drama “Fantasy Island” and as Captain Kirk’s archnemesis Khan Noonien Singh in “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.”
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Permalink • Wednesday - January 14, 2009
I never knew they worked that way at all
Sorry Steamy, no “teeth” here
There are speakers, all kinds of speakers, that you can buy for your stereo. There are headphones too, from itty bitty to huge, at every price and quality point you can imagine. There are little ear-bud things you can get. Some are even waterproof. Somewhere there are bone conduction speakers that send the music right through your skull or jawbone. This is all great. You can get waterproof cases for your iPod, MP3 players, CD players, and miniature radios. This is great too.
But I have never seen a waterproof, portable, soft tissue transducer set up before. Very soft tissue. Damn, those Hollywood starlets get all the best new toys to play with. Maybe she’s trying out to be a pair of underwater musical earmuffs for her boyfriend?
PS - Whitney, you’ve got nothing to apologize for. AT ALL !!!
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Permalink • Sunday - December 07, 2008
Bush bombed by Hollywood has been, who became a minor star via the casting couch.
No kidding.
She earned her way to fame the hard way. Well, depending on the firmness of the couch and ....
Collins is a woman who doesn’t recognize men at a Hollywood party unless they take off their pants.
I’m referring to Joan Collins, the author of this article which has me upset. Attacking Bush isn’t enough. Oh no.
She also has to attack his mother. Hey Joan, I think you forgot his dog. Oh I see. You recognize the dog huh? Give you a starring part did he?
George Bush: ‘W’ seems so much smaller in real life
By Joan Collins
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 07/12/2008Wistful and slightly sorrowful - not the way one usually pictures the President of the United States - is how George W Bush appeared in the first of the “exit interviews” he is granting to the networks over the next few weeks. There are only about six weeks left of his tension-filled tenure as America’s 43rd President, and he obviously aims to “set the record straight” about the more serious problems that beset his eight years in office. And so he blamed the previous decade for the horrible economic situation, and defended his decision to go to war with Iraq, regurgitating that tired “axis of evil” line.
His presidency had the most terrible beginning - 9/11 came just a few months after his induction. Who can forget the shots of him reading to schoolchildren in Florida when an aide rushed in and urgently whispered in his ear? Bush carried on calmly reading to the kids while carnage and devastation rained on New York. For many people this crucial moment showed the measure of the man: indecisive and incompetent. And for the next seven-and-a-half years, he did little to change the perception of him as an amiable buffoon who shouldn’t be allowed to direct traffic, much less run a country.
He looked thin-lipped and overly powdered talking to ABC News, obviously attempting to present a better image for posterity than the one already lodged in the minds of the millions who despise him; those who believe it’s his fault - because of Iraq, Afghanistan and Wall Street’s greed - that the US and the world finds itself in such a shocking mess.
Bearing all this in mind, I was pleasantly surprised when we went to see Oliver Stone’s W, in which James Brolin gives a rather sympathetic portrayal of George Bush the younger. Scenes of “Dubya”, as his authoritarian father and controlling mother called him, show him as a young man with a rather serious drinking problem and absolutely no clue as to what to do with his life.
In W, Bush displays great strength when he decides to stand for election as Governor of Texas, mixed with utter disregard for his father’s plans to groom brother Jeb for the presidency. Stone speculates that perhaps his fatal mixture of intensity and idiocy can be traced back to Mother Bush, who famously said the hurricane in New Orleans would “work out very well” for the poor, as they’d all get new houses.
“God wants me to be president,” he says to Mom one morning over breakfast. “You must be joking!” she replies. Brolin brings Dubya brilliantly to life, showing his evolution from a spoiled, petulant drunk to a spoiled, petulant President. However it is a warmer and fuzzier picture of the man than anything he himself can paint.
Perhaps Bush should take his own counsel when asked what place he expects to have in history: “In history? In history we’ll all be dead.”
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Permalink • Saturday - December 06, 2008
I live under a rock I gather
Ok, I knew ABC canceled it’s surreal comedy-detective drama Pushing Daisies. I knew this was it’s 2nd season, and that it had been nominated for 10 or 12 Emmys last season. I know it was nearly a visual overload to watch, as if someone had given Tim Burton nothing but bright colors to paint with and sent him back to the late 50s. And the clothes were even crazier! But the plots were wild,
the characters ever so much fun, and English actress Anna Friel ever so droolable, as she seems somehow to look like Brooke Burke’s normal but still hot sister. Plus the wonderful narrator who always tied up the loose ends after the cases were solved. Plus pies, wonderful pies! And crazy aunties with guns and an eye patch!
But the network either didn’t push the show hardly at all, or stuck it in a timeslot against some big gun on another channel, and Daisies’ ratings tanked. And that’s a damned shame; it was a great show, and it was original. Not your typical cop show/hospital drama/super-babes with screwed up lives bit of TV crap. That’s how it goes sometimes, some shows just don’t click with the big audiences.
But what I didn’t know was that Kristen Chenoweth, the actress who plays Olive, the waitress secretly in love with Ned at the Pie Hole restaurant, can really belt out a tune. Really. Yeah, I live under a rock. She may be small but she’s got a big voice and it’s pretty good. I never watched a single episode of Left West Wing, though I learned tonight that she was in it. I never saw the remake version of Bewitched, I don’t remember her from Fraiser. Never saw her on Broadway since I don’t go. So she’s all new to me. I caught last night’s Pushing Daisies episode tonight on the Tivo, and at the end there she was, belting out the Bangles hit Eternal Flame. With comic interruptions of course. She can sing, she can dance well enough to be on stage professionally, she can act, and she seems like a natural for stand-up comedy. Sounds like a rare thing in Hollywood these days. Maybe if she was 15 years younger and 10” taller she’d be a bigger star. Beats me. I think she’s a blast just the way she is.
50 seconds of ‘net research shows she has a Christmas album that has just been released, and two previous albums. I think I might just have to go log onto Amazon.
Here’s Kristen
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Permalink • Tuesday - September 02, 2008
The Voice is Silenced
In a world where every movie trailer voiceover for the past 30 years has begun “In a world where ...” that voice is now silenced forever.
Sadness. Now we’re down to Gary Owens, Edward Herrmann, and John Corbett. Don Pardo, 90, has pretty much retired at this point. And Owens and Herrmann aren’t exactly spring chickens anymore.
Don LaFontaine, the man behind the chilling voice in various movie trailers and commercials, died Monday, his agent said. He was 68.
LaFontaine’s vocal talents have appeared in over 5,000 movie trailers and nearly 350,000 commercials. He is most famous for the introductory line, “In a world...”
LaFontaine most recently appeared in a Geico Insurance commercial where he was referred to as “that announcer guy.”
He is survived by his wife, singer/actress Nita Whitaker, and three children Christine, Skye and Elyse.
LaFontaine, known as the “King of Voiceovers,” died Monday afternoon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. LaFontaine’s agent, Vanessa Gilbert, tells ET that he passed away following complications from Pneumothorax, the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity, the result of a collapsed lung. The official cause of death has not yet been released.
Over the past 25 years, LaFontaine cemented his position as the “King of Voiceovers.” Aside from being the preeminent voice in the movie trailer industry, Don also worked as the voice of Entertainment Tonight and The Insider, as well as for CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox and UPN, in addition to TNT, TBS and the Cartoon Network. By conservative estimates, he voiced hundreds of thousands of television and radio spots, including commercials for Chevrolet, Pontiac, Ford, Budweiser, McDonalds, Coke, and many other corporate sponsors.
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Permalink • Wednesday - August 27, 2008
A winning formula
And Disney cranks out another one!
Music video from the unbelievably cute Selena Gomez, all of 16 I think maybe. It’s part of the soundtrack to her new, straight to DVD movie, Another Cinderella Story. I guess that explains the maid costume.
Disney has this shizz down to an art at this point. I can almost guarantee this kid will be a multi-millionaire by the time she’s 22. Sucks to be her, don’t it?
Let’s see if the big D is keeping to form here ... really pretty performer? Check. Taps into the Tweener market? Check. Simple lyrics repeated endlessly so that simple minded people can memorize the whole thing in two listenings? Check. Lots of synth and computer assistance on the soundtrack? Check. Rebellious teen theme? Check. Loaded down with implied sexuality, but nothing actually overt? Check and Double Check. Cha-Ching! Platinum sales guaranteed.
UPDATE: This video may have been pulled from YouTube, or it may just be overloading the servers. MTV may have exclusive rights to the thing for now perhaps. So here is an embed that gets the vid from MTV ... minus all of their extra links, previews, and other junk
I’m such an old fart that I never even thought to go out to MTV.com. Duh. Ok, next time I feel the need to post a bit of pop music I’ll remember. Unless I have another Senior Moment.
My God that girl is adorable. 16 didn’t look 1/20th this good when I was there.
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Permalink • Wednesday - July 23, 2008
Aww, that’s sad
Actress Estelle Getty died yesterday, just 3 days shy of her 85th birthday.
Estelle played Sophia Petrillo (Maude’s Dorothy’s feisty mother) on the comedy series The Golden Girls. The Lifetime network, which airs the show all the time, will have a bit of a Golden Girls marathon as a tribute.
Getty, who spent four decades toiling in show business before winning fame and critical recognition as Bea Arthur’s sassy, 80-year-old mother on the hit show, had been suffering from dementia.
“As of 5.35 this morning surrounded by her family in her Hollywood Hills home, Estelle Getty passed away peacefully in her sleep of natural causes,” her longtime manager, Alan Siegel, said in a statement.
She won a breakthrough role in a production of Torch Song Trilogy that brought her to the attention of Hollywood.
She was ultimately cast as the oldest of four female retirees living together on Golden Girls even though she was slightly younger than her screen daughter.
Getty won two Emmys for her role as Sophia Petrillo on the show.
She died in Los Angeles after a battle with advanced dementia.
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