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
Posted by Drew458
on 12/06/2008 at 12:19 AM
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