Don’t miss Blast’s coverage of Jamie Lynn Spears’ pregnancy shocker.
To me, it’s not so much of a shocker.
To shock me, Hannah Montana would have to get knocked up.
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Don’t miss Blast’s coverage of Jamie Lynn Spears’ pregnancy shocker.
To me, it’s not so much of a shocker.
To shock me, Hannah Montana would have to get knocked up.
Ian Bernaro represents everything in the world that is wrong with “American Idol.”
The show has become nothing more than a soapbox for people who cannot sing and have no talent to speak of who simply want to get a few seconds in front of the television cameras. Fox has succumbed, again, to entertainment on the same level as an ant on the food chain.
Between Barnaro, who has now been given 30 minutes of fame (he pulled the same act on “So You Think you can Dance,” and the crybaby, “my daddy doesn’t love me” girl who came immediately next, this is the most pointless drivel I have ever seen. The show comes off as scripted (if it isn’t already) and if Simon Cowell is serious about the music industry, he will end this trash immediately. Though for X million dollars per year, I can’t necessarily blame him.
Sarah Burgess, the “crybaby,” got a pass to Hollywood and a 10 minute feature on the show for telling the producers that she skipped school and didn’t tell her parents she was trying out for “Idol,” because her father didn’t believe in or support her.
So they cut to a scene where she calls dear old dad to confess the truth that she tried out for the show and made it past the first round. Dad, in an uncharacteristic way if you ask crybaby, was giddy and excited and immediately congratulated his daughter, telling Seacrest that all that mattered was that his daughter was safe.
I hope she wins this competition so I can call her crybaby for her entire career, because the only reason why she was given the chance to appear before Simon and company was due to the entertainment value that her sob story added in the eyes of the Fox producers.
Then came the three time loser, a girl who’s been to Hollywood twice already and failed–but, if nothing else, she’s actually taken the competition serious–and Fox used this as an opportunity to make fun of her and cued soap opera music.
There are people out there with real talent–some of them even appeared on the show–and none of them should be happy about this season of “American Idol.”
Bottom line, the “losers” were funny until they started faking it just to get famous outside of the show. I personally do not want to see it anymore. Show talent, judge talent and put the freaks in the circus where they very obviously want to be.
After 50 years on television, 35 years worth of Showcase Showdowns, one Adam Sandler throwdown and a plethora of cameos and appearances, Bob Barker is set to unplug his signature pencil-shaped microphone and call it quits from “The Price is Right” this summer.
The 6’1″ television legend will turn 83 on Dec. 12 according to a CNN report. Barker’s television career began when he served as emcee for the game show “Truth or Consequences” starting in 1956. He hosted tie 1976 Miss Universe pageant and made appearances on numerous television shows. He made his big screen debut in 1996’s Happy Gilmore where he played himself and beat the hell out of Adam Sandler’s character. Surprisingly, also played his first non-self acting role in 1996 in NBC’s short-lived “Something So Right.”
Bob Barker has earned his golden watch and leisure days. He was a naval fighter pilot in World War II, and worked at a radio station to finance his education after the war. During his game show years, he has given out more than $55 million in cash and prizes to contestants, according to an Internet Movie Database article.
In fact, his name ranks up there with one of the most recognizable in all of show business. Bob Barker is synonymous with daytime television. The show he championed for almost four decades transcends generations. The word “Plinko” elicits sheer excitement at its very mention, let alone its signature harp music that drives an already excited crowd to madness. Sure its virtually impossible to win the top prize in the game, the clink clack noise is all we need.
And how many times growing up did we hear the late Rod Roddy exclaim that a happy player could win “a new car!?”
If Dan Castellaneta were to leave the Simpsons you might see as big of an impact on a television show. When Jerry Orbach was forced to leave Law & Order due to illness after 2004, the show was never the same, but never before and never again will a television show be so changed than “The Price is Right” will be next summer. No one has been the epitome of a piece of entertainment the way Bob Barker has.
That is what you call creating a buzz around your work.
And please, Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered.
The most interesting thing that happened when Bill O’Reilly appeared on the “Late Show with David Letterman” last night could have been when he walked out with a plastic shield. It could have been Letterman’s prediction that he hoped he would have the chance to call the conservative a bonehead. It could been when that prediction came true. It could even have been their predictable debate about the war in Iraq.
But it wasn’t any of that.
This was the most interesting quote of the night:
“This whole thing is a big act,” O’Reilly said.
O’Reilly, responding to a heckler, exclaimed that he and the talk show host were actually good friends and this whole banter or arguing or rivalry, or whatever it is to be called, is fake and merely an act for entertainment purposes.
WOW
The Fox pundit. The arch-enemy of the bleeding heart. The scourge of the Clinton administration is acting?
It is entirely possible that O’Reilly and Letterman are friends. The media makes for strange bedfellows, and much stranger than these two have emerged in the past. It’s also plausible that when the cameras stop rolling and they’ve both made their political points that they are utterly civil and perhaps even cordial to each other. The best debaters in the world make their point when it counts and don’t take it or the responding contentions personally. It’s like a rugby match where you basically kill the other team all game and then go out for beers afterwards. But the killing is real and the debating is real and none of it is (supposed to be) an act.
CNN did report on the exchange.
Otherwise, we did get to see a great exchange between media figures, and the war in Iraq was a hot topic as always. But, now the question sits in the back of our minds now: Did O’Reilly snap and drop the acting card on the audience or was he just pissed