seth green is really hideous. i've got four kings on and he had a funny line about 1 of the guys dating an elderly woman: 'did you get to drive miss daisy?' but he blew it, just as the audience started to laugh, by doing this weird facial tick, clapping his hands loudly and making a weird, animal like sound. you could just feel the audience recoiling as the laughter stopped.
i'll go with ava and c.i., three kings and a two. all 3 kings are do-able. and then there's seth. not funny, not sexy, turns your stomach.
'the return of dr. carter' a commercial just noted. nbc should be subtitled 'what women don't want.'
and if you thought noah wylie looked bland back when he was a regular on er, be prepared because he now looks bland and haggard.
so what else is going on? i was asked if i had anymore dreams? i wish i did. i don't usually remember them. but joan mellen's a farewell to justice really does leave an impression. i hope people will read it. (sherry, bonnie and betty are already on it.)
my name is earl really does suck. they just did a joke about rudy and lord of the rings which was probably funny when the jamie gertz sitcom, still standing, on cbs did it weeks ago. now they're doing rape jokes. this really is a hideous show. and somebody tell jason lee that his looks sailed out of the harbor sometime ago. he's like the thin ned beatty.
for funny check out wally's site, the daily jot. wally's been on a hot streak all week.
lori asked me what my favorite musical on film was? i don't think i could pick just 1. i didn't care for chicago. i thought catherine zeeta jones and queen latifah were great but felt like i was watching ginger rogers in the lead. (i'm not a ginger rogers fan.) i think renee is funny and charming but felt like she didn't cut it in chicago. and richard gere? don't get me started.
i really loved 8 women but i think lori was asking about american musicals.
cameron diaz could be the lead in a musical. she's got that light spirit and would have been perfect for chicago.
so, point, i have to go back many years. i loved bugsy malone - which stars a very young jodie foster and a very young scott baio. also from the 70s, i love cabaret.
and the 60s have a lot of musicals i love. i love funny girl, of course. and i love the 60s look so i also love a lot of musicals that probably most people don't (thoroughly modern millie is a favorite). when you go further back, there are tons. on the town, singing in the rain, carmen jones, 42nd street, easter parade, an american in paris, cabin in the sky, funny face, the harvey girls, and many more.
and i'm a sucker for the musical we all grew up on in this country, the wizard of oz. when i was a kid, i thought kansas was so boring and couldn't get why dorothy would want to leave the emerald city where everything was so colorful and sparkly. i mean, dorothy didn't even have a good pair of shoes until she left kansas! but now i enjoy the whole movie.
favorite song? i know every 1 says 'somewhere over the rainbow' and it's a great song but i really love 'we're off to see the wizard' best.
i used to sing that and skip around when i was little. and wonder, why doesn't a tornado take me to oz? (something that some of my readers probably wish for.)
it's a powerful movie to this day. and the progressive recently did a cover based on it, parodying the administration. 'don't look behind the curtain.' which is true of every thing the bully boy does. empty words, scare campaigns. we have to be dorothy and not fall for it.
that's probably 1 of the reasons the film continues to hold our attention. a lot of people talk about the desire to get back home but people without that desire admire the film too. i think it's because it works on so many levels. you can laugh, you can sing along, you can be scared (those monkeys always scared me) and there's the whole level of the people realizing their power.
worst musical from that era? pal joey. i love frank sinatra in musicals. my mother used to schedule times for us to watch musicals when they came on. (this is pre-vcr days.) she'd make popcorn balls (not just popcorn because you had to have 'special' when watching a musical - i'm sure my love for them comes from my mother) and rice krispie squares. pal joey was the 1st film i saw rita hayworth in. i still don't get it. she's gorgerous in gilda and other movies. but in pal joey, she looks like susan hayward. i was so disappointed.
i always forget about marilyn monroe's musicals. to me, they are just marilyn monroe movies. but gentlemen prefer blondes is a favorite.
i'm not sure what this entry's about today. my stomach's been killing me all day. cramping. i'm going to go put a heating pad on my stomach and lie down. about twice a year, when i get my period, it's this intense pain. the rest of the time, it's just 'here i am' and no problems. but it's been like this all day and, dope that i am, i kept thinking most of the morning i must have eaten something that disagreed with me. (i'm a few days early this month which is part of what threw me.) i won't bore you by describing my cramps but i think most of my readers will know exactly what i'm talking about.
