Veteran model makes rookie mistake.

I never cease to be stunned by the fact that someone who should know better makes statements like this and sound like complete jerks.  Take veteran model Lauren Hutton.  Digital Spy reports she has criticised the HBO hit show, and new movie "Sex In The City" for portraying single women as sluts, without having ever seen an episode!

Perhaps if she'd seen it, she wouldn't have made that comment.  Why comment you've never seen?  I will at least try and watch a show if I'm going to comment on it.  I did actually watch SATC and I enjoyed it.  I don't believe for one micro-second that it portrayed single women as sluts, rather that it showed the problems that we all experience when dating, both men and women.

Lauren, I have no doubt that you will never read this blog post, but if you did, I would say this; don't make a mistake like that one again.  Don't comment on something without watching it first.  It sounds unprofessional.

UK Viewpoint on the DNC meeting.

I have written my first Daily Kos diary entry, with the same title as you see here.  You can read the full piece here, but here is the introduction to the diary entry.

For those of you who do not know me from the Viewpoint blog, where I talk about Life, The Universe and other strangeness, I am a UK citizen, an observer of events, looking for truth and sense in a world, both regular and political, that often seems senseless.  Hence my viewpoint being a UK one.

Now, to someone who participates in a one member one vote system like the UK's, I find the whole US system of primaries and caucuses before we even get to the election itself to be far too long, cumbersome and difficult to understand.  But out of all the campaigns I have followed since 1984, this one has gone on far longer than any other, like watching all six Star Wars films in one sitting, or all 3 extended cuts of Lord Of The Rings in one go, with more holes and caveats than a badly-plotted B-movie.

So this weekend's DNC meeting to decide the fate of the delegates of Florida and Michigan, is just another one of those holes that, towards the end of the film, has to be filled.  But at the moment, there seems to be no solution that would satsify all parties.  Nothing unusual there then!  The question though, that will be on the minds of the DNC Rules Committee will be, Is there a solution to this whole issue of Florida and Michigan's Democratic Party primaries, and if not, what can be done to avoid this whole debacle happening again?

Sienna Miller in leather as The Baroness

The Daily Mail has pictures of a dark-haired Sienna Miller, dressed in head to toe leather for her role as The Baroness, in Paramount's GI Joe movie, which is due for release in 2009.

She looks hot in leather and obviously seems to be enjoying herself.  If you don't know, The Baroness is a villainess who works for COBRA, GI Joe's enemies.  Former Doctor Who Christopher Ecclestone is playing Destro, whilst Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Brendan Fraser, Rachel Nichols, Dennis Quaid, Ray Park, Marlon Wayans and Jonathan Pryce also star.

Ordinarily I probably wouldn't have looked at this movie, as I wasn't originally a big fan of the animated series.  After these pictures however, I think I might just take a peek.

Dick Martin 1922-2008

Not many double acts that launch on the comedy circuit actually last.  Some of the most successful have been Eric Morcambe and Ernie Wise, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, and then there was Dan Rowan and Dick Martin.

They'd started in the 1950s as a double act on the circuit, and had managed to last, despite a failed attempt at a Hollywood movie in 1958.  Then NBC tapped the duo to act as hosts for a summer replacement show in 1966, replacing temporarily "The Dean Martin Show", which by the way continued until 1974.  As a result of that summer replacement, came in 1968 what is regarded as a legendary American comedy show.  "Rowan & Martin's Laugh In"

Through 6 seasons, Rowan & Martin, and their ensemble cast, including announcer Gary Owens, and actresses Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin, laughed and smiled there way through many different types of sketches, including The Flying Fickle Finger of Fate Award, The Mod Mod World, The Farkel Family, and Laugh In's Look At The News, which somehow, and don't ask me how, managed to correctly predict that Ronald Reagan would be president in 1988, and that the Berlin Wall would be destroyed in 1989!!!

Laugh In's 6 season run ended in 1973 when the show was axed.  But the show had made a star of Goldie Hawn and when it was revived as a series of specials in 1977, made another star in Robin Williams who went on the next year to star in "Mork And Mindy"  It also paved the way for "Hee Haw", "You Can't Do That On Television" and "Saturday Night Live".

So, to round off the tribute, I'll present, courtesy of YouTube, some highlights from the show.

Say good night, Dick!

Bob Schieffer's Weekly Commentary: Remembering a fighter.

Bob Schieffer remembers a friend and an advocate for cancer awareness, who fought some tough battles as Chief Of Staff for President Jimmy Carter, but his toughest battles were fought outside Washington and were his most personal.

Read it here.

Lindsay Lohan a lesbian?

Once again, I touch back into the territory of celebrity "news" and gossip-mongering to slap it back down all over again.

This time, reports surfacing on Fox News, People.com and E! Online that Lindsay Lohan, part time actress, sometime party girl and full time attention seeker, apparently was inseparable from deejay Samantha Ronson, on a private yacht in Cannes, France.

I've said this before and I'll say it again.  WHO CARES?

The fascination of the celeb-obsessed side of the media with every little detail of a celebrity's life, and especially the likes of Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson and co, is something I can't understand.  This stuff bores the hell out of me, and I'm sure many others too.  We don't need this kind of information.  I'm sure Lindsay Lohan and he so-called "girlfriend" don't want that kind of attention.  They just want to live their lives, so let them.

Keith Olbermann Special Comment: Hillary Clinton, you invoked a political nightmare?

This is the third Special Comment from Keith Olbermann in two weeks.  He rarely does quite so many in that shorter space of time, but whilst the first two railed against President George W Bush, this one railed against Senator Hillary Clinton for invoking the memory of the death of Robert F Kennedy during the 1968 primary election process.

 

 

WIth so much American political history steeped in assassinations and attempted assassinations, even as recently as 1981, I have to agree with Keith, invoking even the word assassination during any election process is practically criminal.

Worst Person In The World: Rear Admiral Mark Buzby

This is another one of those "who?" moments, but the Friday fools gold medal goes to Rear Admiral Mark Buzby.  Who?  He's the Commander of the Joint Task Force at Guantanamo Bay.

Dishonourable mention to CNN's Lou Dobbs, who obviously hasn't learned from the likes of Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Brian Maloney and Michael Savage, that by rejecting Media Matters or going up against them, you are going into a fight against yourself and your own words!  Heck, I don't think there's a conservative around who's learned that yet!

Michael Savage and Brian Maloney try to tag team Media Matters and lose!

Michael Savage is another of these D-list conservative talk show hosts who aspire to the level of a Sean Hannity or a Rush Limbaugh or a Bill O'Reilly.  Unfortunately, the level they aspire to is 4 levels below sanity, which is still at least 3 levels above them!!!

Savage demonstrated that twice this week, in spades!  On May 20th 2008, he basically mocked Ted Kennedy despite claiming he was doing otherwise.

Of course, Media Matters reported this, and then the next day, the Savage decided to fire away at Media Matters.  Too bad he forgot to bring any ammunition!!!

And then, uber-conservative radio commentator, Brian Maloney, on his blog which he calls "The Radio Equalizer", which is about as equalised as a badly tuned radio, accepted the tag from Michael Savage to fire off at Media Matters, only he too had forgotten to load any ammunition.

It doesn't matter how many times these people try and claim that Media Matters is funded directly by George Soros, Bill O'Reilly had already undone them, on his Fox News Channel show, which showed that George Soros does not fund Media Matters directly.  The equivalent would be Bill O'Reilly giving money to an organisation, and then that organisation then decides that with the money they've fundraised, including Bill O'Reilly's, that they would fund the Media Research Center, and then Keith Olbermann coming on his MSNBC show and saying "Bill O'Reilly is directly funding the Media Research Center.  It simply would not be provable, and this George Soros directly funding Media Matters claim isn't provable.

It doesn't matter if you tell a lie once, twice, ten times, a thousand times or a million times, a lie is a lie is a lie!

But back to Michael Savage, whose mocking of Ted Kennedy not only overstepped lines of taste and decency, but pushed him down another 10 levels of sanity in one go.  I would not defend this guy at a sanity board hearing, even if offered $1 million.  He has little sense that now is not the time, if there ever will be another time, to discuss what conservatives feel Ted Kennedy did wrong.  That is like kicking a man when he is down, and caving his chest cavity as a result.

Perhaps Michael Savage should look at filling his cranial cavity with a few essentials.  Like rules of taste and decency.  Like rules on how to behave.  Perhaps he might even spare the time to put a few facts in there instead of the usual Republican spin-doctrination that usually seems to come out of his mouth.  I'll not hold my breath waiting... and as for you, "Maloney Baloney", you need to re-equalise.  Too much treble, not enough bass.  Too often spouting nothing more than right wing talking points.  It's time you got acquainted with some facts.  You know, facts.  Hard, strong, undeniable facts.  Not flimsy, weak, unprovable spin and propaganda.

Worst Person In The World: Oliver North

Oliver North picked up his second gold medal of the week, which must be a record for him, for criticising a translator at Gitmo for saying that detainees had charged that the Koran had been desecrated in prison there.

 

 

Dishonourable mention to Comcast who fired Bill O'Reilly's competitor from his Inside Edition days, for criticising Bill O'Reilly!  Hmm, Comcast getting a little bit FOXed these days???