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How Many Different Ways Are You Gonna Find To Call Me Dumb?

In 2002, the West Wing presciently anticipated a Rick Perry-type candidate in the guise of a Florida governor, played by James Brolin.

 

And the Obama campaign is right — Perry is the guy you want to be running against.

 

Sleep Well, My Little Angels

Local News

A strange thing about all the Anthony Weiner mishigas, is seeing so much of Forest Hills in the news.

Here the press follows Weiner outside of “The Natural”, a big Korean green-grocery. Those with a keen eye might notice it’s in the title sequence of The King of Queens. 

For those with an extraordinarily keen eye, an apartment building in the background is where Peter Parker first climbs a wall in Spider-Man. It was the only scene actually filmed in Forest Hills (Peter Parker’s home).

“Here’s Yours, Jemaine”

One thing I really enjoyed in the 2nd season of Flight of the Conchords, was how Jemaine’s timing was getting down-right awesome.

Here’s a great scene. And yes, that’s Sutton Foster playing Brett’s girlfriend.

Why Else Would A Grown Man Play With Trains?

They could only do it once, and re-used the shot in all the other episodes that featured it.

Though often lumped together with The Munsters, The Addams Family was infinitely funnier and better. While the Munsters were the Jetsons, who were the Flintstones, who were The Honeymooners, the  Addams’ were sui generis. Like the Simpsons, they’re a loving, good-hearted family.

Tits For Brains

So a girl who got a pair of fake tits so people would pay attention to her (and ignore how stupid she is), gets them taken out, because people were only paying attention to her tits? I’m confused!

She described her decision, thus:

“In an effort to reinvent myself, in a cut throat industry that was becoming more and more competitive the deeper I swam, I made the decision to go against the grain and remove my implants.”

Damn, get duPont Columbia Journalism School Award out! Who needs fake tits when you can write prose like that? And now they are out, and she’s surprised no one is paying attention to her and she is unemployed. Sweet, merciful crap.

Sterger said,

“For years, a lot of my critics have attributed any success that I’ve had to a great plastic surgeon, and I never once really argued with them. ... My implants got my foot in the door, but I truly don’t believe that they are the reason I am still around.”

Ms. Sterger, in no way do I countenance, or think you deserved the sexual harassment that I have no doubt you suffered at the hands of Brett Farve. But since you decided a long time ago not to use your brain, it has clearly atrophied. Honestly, I would think about getting your implants put back. Either that, or get a personality less loathsome and vapid than the one you currently have.

 

Walk With Me, Talk With Me

“I was trapped in a world of wet wipes and rectal thermometers. Then the babies came and life changed.”

I’ve been catching up on 30 Rock.  

Will Arnett is always great, and this episode also had Aaron Sorkin and Liz Lemon do a “walk and talk”, à la, The West Wing.

 

“Did we just go in a circle?”

 

Jeopardy!

At the beginning of last month, I took an online test for potential contestants of Jeopardy!, in the New York area. I learned about it about an hour before it started, and signed up as a bit of a lark.

Not surprisingly, it was pretty rapid-fire. The test lasted about 15 minutes, and they don’t tell you your score. They just say you’ll be contacted if you did ‘well enough’. I thought I did OK, not great, and probably not well enough to make the grade. I thought that was that and forgot about it.

Apparently though, I did OK enough, as I’ve been invited to the next round in a couple of weeks. I’m not expecting though, to be co-hosting Today with J. Fred Muggs, anytime soon.

 

History's Mysteries

So the History Channel has decided not to air their own mini-series about the Kennedys. The late Ted Sorenensen, special counsel and adviser to JFK, who reviewed the script, said,

“Every single conversation with the president in the Oval Office or elsewhere in which I, according to the script, participated, never happened.”

Nigel Hamilton, author of the Kennedy bio, Reckless Youth, wrote,

Relentlessly and titillatingly, Kronish’s script flitted from sexual escapade to escapade, trivializing history as it did so — causing me to wonder if it had been commissioned by National Enquirer rather than the History Channel. And later: was it possible that having reduced great historical events to the most juvenile of accretions, the script had left out the Cuban Missile Crisis: possibly the most important example of presidential leadership since World War II?

So HC, I agree with your decision that it was “not a fit for the History brand.”

But I do have a beef with you about your series, Ancient Aliens, which discusses,

“According to ancient alien theorists, extraterrestrials with superior knowledge of science and engineering landed on Earth thousands of years ago, sharing their expertise with early civilizations and forever changing the course of human history. But how did this concept develop, and is there any evidence to support it?”

While flipping channels, I saw the synopsis for the “Angels and Aliens” episode.

Are angels really supernatural beings from heaven, or something more? If so, might angels really be travelers — visiting Earth from distant planets?

That is crazy talk. Why must they be from distant planets? It’s a hell of alot more likey they are from nearby planets like Mars or Venus... possibly the asteroid belt.

I hope the episode, “Aliens and the Third Reich”, adheres to your high standards!

That 70's Show

Today while walking in the West Village, I came across Danny Bonaduce being taped for who-knows-what.

I never watched the Partridge Family when it aired in prime-time, but in the mid-seventies, it was on in re-runs after school. Of course, I had a crush on Susan Dey, but identified with Danny, the wiseacre  character. Here he is, about age ten, battling the Vegas Cosa Nostra, with a constellation of 70’s sit-com actors.

Eat your heart out, Hyman Roth.