I understand if "Shit" or Fuck or "Cum-swallowing whore" gets mentioned, because hey such words can be part of your regular daily dialogue, and you can say them out of habit. It happens.



But that particular word, well one usually makes the effort to say it out in public.

You know, like Whopper.

I remember seeing Richard Pryor's first stand-up after he made a trip to Africa. He swore that he would never use that word again and implored others to stop.

Dr. Laura is an ass. This is just an example of how big an ass she actually is.

And, btw, according to Dr. Laura's logic, I should be yukking it up at Italian jokes and allow my husband's German relatives to greet me as "Hi Wop!" Racism is inherently repulsive and disgusting and NOT a laughing matter.

Didn't Joe Scarborough also supposedly kill his secretary or something while he was in office serving Florida in the House of Reps??

"On July 20, 2001, Scarborough's constituent services coordinator, Lori Klausutis, age 28, died after hitting her head on a desk when she fainted while apparently alone in Scarborough's Fort Walton Beach, Florida, office.[20] According to Scarborough, soon after her death, allegations "spread all over the Internet" that he had been involved,[20][21] although there was no evidence of foul play. In 2003, he joked about the incident with Don Imus on Imus' radio program[22]. In 2004, it was the subject of a public spat between Scarborough and filmmaker Michael Moore.[23] and in 2010, mentioning the incident in his Twitter feed saw Markos Moulitsas banned from MSNBC.[24]"

NEW YORK (CBS) Progressive radio personality Stephanie Miller has revealed she is a lesbian.


Miller, 48, publicly came out of the closet on her nationally syndicated show, "The Stephanie Miller Show," on Friday.

An hour before she made the announcement, Miller wrote on her Twitter page, "There may be a lot of crying next hour," and "Stick around for the next hour. Mama's got something to tell you."

Cheyl Wright, who also recently came out in May, was a guest on Miller's show Friday. "You get a toaster oven for recruiting me," joked Miller.


A former stand-up comedienne, Miller has always been vocally pro-gay, both on her show and in public. She grew up with two Republican parents, including her late father, attorney and congressman William Miller, who was Barry Goldwater's running mate in the 1964 presidential election.

Okaaay, but the genisis of these two words is completely different.

Here is Al Pacino on '60 Minutes' (April 18, 2010) which reaired last night as "New"

Does anyone know what the relationship is between Eric Roberts and Julia Roberts? I always understood that they are estranged or at least not very close. Did one help the other get into show business?

Supposedly, Eric got Julia into acting and couldn't handle his little sister's "instant success" after "Pretty Woman," being that he struggled for years and came nowhere close to achieving her success. In short, he resented her.

Then, Eric developed a HUGE cocaine problem, futher distancing the two siblings. Now, Eric's daughter is acting and she's very close to her Aunt Julia, so Eric and Julia have bonded over her in recent years. Things are now much better between the two, but there was a point where they didn't speak for like ten years.

Actually I think Eric is a pretty decent actor. I haven't seen a lot of his films, but he's pretty good. I think the last couple things I've seen him in was "Dark Knight" and he made a tv movie with Anne Heich a few years ago (Lifetime I think). Anyway, There's been other movies but I can't think of them right now.


I think he and Julia resemble each other.

TIS

i almost forgot that eric robets is in 'the expendables'.

Did you see The Expendables Bam???? Was it good?
I read it was the top grossing movie for the weekend.



TIS

Whoa time out, let's remember something guys: he's a really good actor and was a hot dog in the early 1980s from POPE OF GREENWICH VILLAGE to an absolute scumbag in STAR 80 and got an Oscr nomination for the very awesome RUNAWAY TRAIN, which I would really recommend.

Was the Julia why his career went to shit? Perhaps one of the reasons, along with the drugs but but he also pulled unfortunately a Mickey Rourke by at point just quit caring as much about the movies he was picking and worrying more about the quick paycheck. Thus in less of a decade he went from RUNAWAY TRAIN to the lame martial arts movie BEST OF THE BEST.

Notice how director Christopher Nolan in his last few pictures has casted in small parts these burned out, 1980s stars whether it be Eric Roberts and Anthony Michael Hall in THE DARK KNIGHT or Rutger Hauer in BATMAN BEGINS or shit Nolan even dug out Tom Berenger from whatever rock he was sleeping under for INCEPTION.

So for BATMAN 3, I suggest Nolan call up Louis Gossett Jr.

He was outstanding in Pope of Greenwich Village (so was Rourke). But he was also good in one I saw last night with Baldwin the title of which I can't recall.

No doubt, Ronnie. Roeberts was (is?) a damn fine actor. You know my feelings about "The Pope of Greenwich Village." It's one of my five favorite New York City set films of all time. Maybe even top three.

His Oscar nomination for "Runaway Train" was well deserved, and in "Star 80," where he played the creepy/sleazy boyfriend/killer of the Playboy centerfold, he stole the show. It was a forgettable film, but a rock solid preformance by Roberts.

I like Eric. Sometimes more than Julia. I heard in one interview a while back then when their parents divorced he took the dad's side and she took their mom's. And that was a big basis for their enstrangement.

If you're a soap opera buff Eric currently has a small recurring temporary part on Young and the restless.

msnbc.com staff and news service reports updated 8/18/2010 1:06:55 AM ET

Dr. Laura Schlessinger says she's shutting down her 30-year-old syndicated radio program at the end of the year so she can get her "First Amendment rights" back.

Her announcement on "Larry King Live" comes just a week after she repeatedly used the N-word while taking a call on the air from a black woman who wanted to discuss her interracial marriage.

She told King, "My contract is up for my radio show at the end of the year and I've made the decision not to do radio anymore."

"The reason is I want to regain my First Amendment rights," she told King, according to E! Online. "I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that."

I've been watching "Perfect Strangers" on Slashcontrol. That was a hysterically funny show. Although I'm fairly confident that Larry and Balki were porking each other. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

hey, and no i haven't. i tend to stay away from theaters due to lack of money.

Betty White closed out her first season on TV Land's "Hot in Cleveland" on a high note. The comedy posted its largest audience since the show's season premiere -- 3.4 million viewers.

she really makes the show funny.

Has anyone seen the HBO previews for Boardwalk Empire about the origins of Atlatic City with Steve Buscemi? I don't know when it starts, but it looked pretty good.

I read the book, Oli. Good stuff, but I'm not sure when the show debuts. I'd imagine it will be soon because the most current printing of the book (originally published 5 or 10 years ago) says "now a major HBO event," or something to that effect.

September 19th.

http://www.hbo.com/boardwalk-empire
There was also an article in the NYT about it.

HBO plans $10 million ad campaign

America's top-earning talking heads. From Ellen DeGeneres to Rush Limbaugh, the 13 stars on our annual list are collectively paid $958 million a year to gab By Lacey Rose Forbes.com

Whoever says talk is cheap hasn't shared airtime with Oprah Winfrey. Or Glenn Beck, Ellen DeGeneres and Conan O'Brien.

These four, like the other best-paid personalities on our annual list, are paid handsomely to chat. Whether they chose television (David Letterman, No. 9), radio (Rush Limbaugh, No. 5) or both (Ryan Seacrest, No. 7) as their platform, they've made a connection with their audience and have been rewarded accordingly. The 13 bold-faced names on our list of best-paid talking heads collectively banked $958 million between June 2009 and June 2010.

Topping the list is Oprah Winfrey, who earned a cool $315 million during that 12-month period.

http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=586627&GT1=28103

Two out of three is a pretty good average I guess. But that dummy Lamar Odom married the bad looking one...



It is tempting to view “Jersey Shore” or any Kardashian sister as the knell of civilization’s end.

The second season of “Jersey Shore,” which takes place in Miami, is even more popular than the first, and “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” is returning on Sunday for a fifth season, carrying in tow a spinoff about publicists, “The Spin Crowd.”

There is no need to panic.

Reality shows that exalt indolent, loud-mouthed exhibitionists may seem like almost biblical retribution for our materialistic, celebrity-obsessed age. But actually, these kinds of series are an extension of a time-honored form of entertainment, one that reaches back to the era of landed gentry, debutantes and social seasons in places like Newport, R.I., or the French Riviera.

More than a century ago, ordinary people avidly followed the follies of the idle rich in the society pages and passenger lists of liners like the Atlantic or the Mauretania. (The maiden voyage of the Titanic was a style story — until it hit the iceberg.)

There were celebrities back then too, and their claims to fame were not so much nobler than those of Kim Kardashian or even Mike, a k a the Situation, of “Jersey Shore.” Women and men made news by spending money frivolously or having grand weddings with millionaires or titled Europeans; they became infamous in lurid sex scandals and even murder cases, as when Harry K. Thaw killed the architect Stanford White in 1906 out of jealousy over White’s affair with his model-actress wife, Evelyn Nesbit.

News judgment, even then, skewed toward entertainment. The New York Herald was the first American newspaper to use the wireless telegraph in 1899 — inventor Guglielmo Marconi was invited to New York to report not the conclusion of the Dreyfus affair or the start of the second Boer war, but the results of a high-society sailing regatta, America’s Cup.

Celebrities of yore wore more clothes and had better manners, but then, as now, they went to a lot of parties and were often famous for being famous.

Television merely invades the process and broadens the social pool. “Jersey Shore” is often condemned, at least by many New Jersey residents, for hitting a new low by elevating the riffraff of tanning salons and sleazy nightclubs. But it’s important to remember that “Jersey Shore” is on MTV, a youth-oriented cable channel that has a hortative streak: series like “Teen Mom” and “If You Really Knew Me” carry a strong “don’t try this at home” message.

So, in a way, does “Jersey Shore.” The antics of Snooki, Ronnie, Vinny and the other housemates are a reality show version of a children’s poem in Gelett Burgess’s “Goops and How to Be Them,” first published in 1900:

The Goops they lick their fingers

and the Goops they lick their knives

They spill their broth on the tablecloth

Oh, they lead disgusting lives!

Bad behavior serves as a warning but succeeds as entertainment.

When they first appeared, the cast members of “Jersey Shore” were a Bart Simpson-ish tonic after the bland chic and relentless blond perfection of “The Hills.” They are loud, vulgar, salon-tanned and gym-bulked numbskulls who drink, brawl, belch and use foul language. This season the housemates have taken on a semblance of work in a Miami ice cream parlor — but it’s a silly gimmick. Their vocation is vacation.

And they have become so entrenched in the vernacular that even President Obama mentioned Snooki in a recent speech. She has smoothed down her “pouf” this season, but for a lingering moment that retro hairstyle was a cultural artifact like Jacqueline Kennedy’s pillbox hat.

Reality shows are staged, scripted and heavily edited, but for some reason there is still a frisson of authenticity behind the artifice: real people seem to have more staying power than established celebrities who are cast in reality shows.

The amateurs who turn into semi-professional actors on “The Bachelorette” keep finding an audience. Dina Lohan, the mother of Lindsay, and Denise Richards, the ex-wife of Charlie Sheen, bombed on their reality shows, mostly because they turned out to be deadly dull, unwilling or unable to tap into their inner sitcom personas, as Ozzy Osbourne did so successfully in his pioneering reality show, “The Osbournes.”

And so, however improbably, have the Kardashians. The women of the family have molded their exotic beauty and blank personalities to fit into comic soap operas, including the spinoff “Kourtney and Khloé Take Miami.”

They deliver dialogue that is so deliciously inane that no “As the World Turns” writer would dare type it. “We have, like, a great relationship,” Kim tells Jonathan Cheban, a publicist-confidant, explaining why she and the football star Reggie Bush broke up. “We just kind of realized it’s not working.”

In Sunday’s season premiere a newly single Kim won’t let people into her new house — a huge and impersonal faux-Mediterranean villa — for fear of scratches or stains. “I’ve worked so hard for this,” she tells her stepfather, Bruce Jenner.

It’s a laughable statement — she is the high priestess of red carpet parasites — except that Kim did make a go of doing almost nothing. She began as a national joke, mocked for having an odalisque figure but no visible talent, and has transformed herself into an international brand and tabloid fixture. Now she is also an executive producer of “The Spin Crowd.”

And that show, about Hollywood bottom-feeders, makes the “Jersey Shore” crowd seem reserved. Jonathan runs his company, Command PR, based on the “Swimming With Sharks” school of management — bullying a young new associate to have collagen lip injections, haranguing female assistants to look even more slutty — if that’s imaginable.

There’s nothing new about coaxing celebrities to promote products; the actress Lillian Russell endorsed Coca-Cola at the turn of the last century. But Jonathan has to persuade a Hollywood hunk to be a spokesman for a line of self-tanning lotions for men.

And the surrealism of show business is what makes this a marketable reality show.

“That sounds sort of in the makeup-world kind of deal — that’s not really me,” Mario Lopez, a host of “Extra,” tells Jonathan. “So I don’t know if it’s really true or authentic to what I am about.

Sleazy but not Originals: NYT

'Expendables' Wins Box Office, Jennifer Aniston's 'Switch' Is #8
Bringing up the rear among new wide releases at No. 8 was Jennifer Aniston's single-mom comedy "The Switch," which debuted with $8.1 million. The Disney release features Aniston as a woman whose drunken friend (Jason Bateman) switches her sperm specimen at a party to celebrate her artificial insemination.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/22/expendables-wins-box-offi_0_n_690652.html

Judge orders strict outpatient care for Lohan, The Associated Press, August 25, 2010

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- A judge has ordered Lindsay Lohan to undergo a rigorous outpatient rehab program that will require frequent counseling.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elden S. Fox ordered the "Mean Girls" star to undergo psychotherapy and addiction counseling sessions several times a week until November.

Lohan will also be required to undergo frequent drug testing under Fox's modification of Lohan's sentence.

Thalberg is to Francis Ford Coppola

Honorary Oscars to Kevin Borwnlow, Jean-Luc Godard and Eli Wallach.

From AMPAS


The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted last night to present the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to producer-director Francis Ford Coppola and Honorary Awards to historian and preservationist Kevin Brownlow, director Jean-Luc Godard and actor Eli Wallach. All four awards will be presented at the Academy’s 2nd Annual Governors Awards dinner on Saturday, November 13, at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center®.

“Each of these honorees has touched movie audiences worldwide and influenced the motion picture industry through their work,” said Academy President Tom Sherak. “It will be an honor to celebrate their extraordinary achievements and contributions at the Governors Awards.”

Has anyone seen previews of a new tv show called "The Event?" They really don't show much of anything, maybe one quick scene and say then say "This is not The Event." I get the impression it may be a political thriller (which I find appealing). Hmmmmm Anyway, it's got my curiosity but I can't say I know anything about it. I may just tune in though to see what it's about.



TIS

TIS - Its just another uber-hype secretive campaign, and since this is a NBC program, haha it won't be worth it.

Remember HEROES, at one point the the show on network television, and now its on life support.