So the infamous gardner from Desperate Housewives Jesse Metcalfe was out and about in LA last night. During his stop at hotspot Boulevard 3 he sparked up convo with Hustle and Flow Ho Taryn Manning. Apparently her male "friend", a random British guy and aspiring rapper, wasn't happy and proceeded to kick Jesse's butt! It got caught on tape! What luck?! Word on the street is that Jesse went back in and continued the brawl with the random. We hope you didn't damage that pretty lil face of yours Jesse, it's all you've got going for you! By the way, does anyone know if he's realated to Laurie Metcalfe from Roseanne?
Desperate Housedude gets his arse WHOOPED!
America's best dance crew
Yes, another reality dish. Our favorite purple glasses, red shoe wearing "Dawg" Randy Jackson has brought back street dancing...kind of. Mtv is now running a new show called "Randy Jackson presents America's Best Dance Crew". It is by far the most entertaining show on Mtv since the San Francisco cast of The Real World circa 1996. Crews battle it out to see who has the hottest moves. LOL. Even that sounds funny! But the absolute BEST part of the show are the judges. Randy has kept in line with the success of: the one jerk, one chick and one black guy line up of Idol. He has JC Chasez (the jerk), Lil' Mama (the chick??- rocking multicolored press on nails) and Shane Sparks (the black guy who can speak comfortably in street vernacular). Can we say awkward? These judges are the most unpolished people on television. It is worth watching at least to listen to JC attempt his best Simon impression. Go Team Kapa Modern!
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins!
From time to time we like to let you Factory members in on our favorite new things. We were lucky to have Director, Writer, Producer Pete Chatmon on our radio show last week. During the interview he let us know about his recent music video for the Martin Lawrence film "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins". It debuted last week and for those of you who missed it here it is! It is a great song by Joe, and I for one must say THANK YOU PETE CHATMON - for creating an appropriate video for a feel good song. Mr. Chatmon has a lot of things going on and we will be watching his career. Check out his channel youtube.com/double7film.
Flavor of Love 3 - Damn you VH1!!!
In the words of the "man" himself - "WOWWWW!!!". Shamefully we watched the Flavor of Love 3 casting special. The disclaimer being that there is no intention of watching the actual season. To our shock VH1 has managed to do the impossible: find even more desperate, insane and creative women (young and mature) that want to be involved in a show that requires them to make out with a real life hobbit. There were sexier people in The Lord of the Rings!!! When will Flav realize what is taking place? Ugh! Is there anything folks won't do for a paycheck?!
Hey Paula! Don't Quit Your Day Job!
Yikes - when we heard that Paula Abdul was performing at the Superbowl we were curious. When we heard that Paula would be performing her new single "Get Up and Dance" we were disappointed (no Straight-Up? No Cold Hearted?). When we heard that Paula would be pre-taping the show and lip-syncing the performance we were disgusted.
But nothing could have prepared us for what we saw. It was so fake and boring that we could literally see Simon dying. This woman critiques thousands of performers a year and is supposed to be aiding in the search for a new superstar?? The song sounds like a song Miley Ray Cyrus threw in the trash. Her outfit looks like a rejected costume from her video with the cartoon cat....and she doesn't even dance like she used to?! At least we know what kept Paula away from performing for all these years - she can't.
Really. What was she thinking?? Here it is in its mediocrity...ooops - we meant entirety.
Gone Country?
We reported on our radio show last week that there was a new reality show on CMT called "Gone Country". Artists from different genres of music come on and try to become the next country star and who else to do it but ---- BOBBY BROWN?! We love it! And the first episode - Classic! Who knew Bobby had such a great personality. Nothing could be more opposite from his stint on "Being Bobby Brown". Please stay tuned as he gets into fights, drama and cowboy boots!
C+C Gossip Factory: Black Hollywood
Tonite we are pleased to announce a special edition of C+C Gossip Factory on BlogTalkRadio featuring some of Hollywood's young black stars. Tune into blogtalkradio.com tonight at 7:00 PM.
Pete Chatmon, Writer, Director, Producer. Pete is the CEO of Double 7 Film a full service production company. He received critical acclaim when his thesis project "3D" starring Kerry Washington became a Sundance Film Festival candidate. In early 2007 his first feature film "Premium" had limited theatrical and DVD release, it is currently running on Showtime Networks. He also completed a documentary "761st" about the first African American soldiers in WWII to fight in armored vehicles.
Emayatzy Corinealdi, Actress, Model. Emayatzy is one of Hollywood's up and coming actresses with roles in all media - television, movies, theatre and the world of modeling. She was most recently featured on the dayime drama"The Young and the Restless" as Nurse Susan Mehta. She recently won the coveted title role on 'The N Network's' highly acclaimed pilot - "Katrina". She also was the lead in "Akira's Hip-Hop Shop" opposite "Heroes" star James Kyson Lee. She recenly completed the U.S. touring production of Will Smith's "The Bachelorette Party". She's completed many productions set to be released in 2008, chief among them, "Cordially Invited" starring Freda Payne and MadTV's Debra Wilson and "Wednesday Again".
Stephen Rider, Actor. Stephen is a graduate of UCLA's MFA program. He received outstanding reviews for his stage performance in "Kindred" at the Ivar Theatre in Los Angeles. He can currently be seen in Denzel Washington's "The Great Debaters". Stephen also stars in two additional films "Urban Genesis" and "Curtain Call". These films are being screened at multiple film festivals including The Texas Black Film Festival and The San Diego Black Film Festival.
American Idol Live Blog!
Gotta love Fox - "The Sarah Connor Chonicles is the years Number 1 new show!" It's Janury 2008!!!
AI's back and we get some funny reactions from the losers, Droopy Dog says the judges didn't........think..........he.........had.......enough........energy". I need a Red Bull just watching him.
Christina is up and she's out of this world with her Princess Leia hairstyle and she threatens to have children. Oh - and men apparently love her - she "doesn't know why" and neither do I. Guess there's some lonely, sad, Star Wars geeks who have made her their queen. And then she sings...all I can hear is her sing "and I'm growing tired" and i wish my mom would come in and tell me it's bedtime and time to go to sleep. The judges hate her and she keeps saying " I think you need a goofball". Maybe that's why these freaks go on here - they think it's American Goofball and they should try out..
And we meet Brooke as Chrisitna is STILL lamenting not getting to be the american Goofball (honey you won in my book). Brooke lives in Van Nuys and i wonder if I've seen her arounfd the neighborhood - but i definitely didn't see her at an r-rated movie cause she's never seen one and she doesn't drink or sware or rat her hair. She's married and her husband hasn't seen an R-rated movie either.....blah...blah...can she sing? No! But the judges think so she's going to Hollywood!
Thankfully, she's the last of this sad depressing night. What do you all think - besides the fact that there are over 1 million typos in our posts???
American Idol Live Blog!
And we're back and Paula gets her wish - the Roman Soldier is back and he's smooth now. He wants to sing "Doncha" but Simon has had enough and promptly kicks him out.
Next it looks like we have an actual contender - Chris, good lookin and ready to go. He SINGS! Simon thinks he looks like a "star" and Randy think he can really sing. And Simon starts up some BRO-mance and says "the girls will like you". Only closeted gay men say that...speaking of which, Ryan was all over him. Told ya!
American Idol Live Blog!
And next - Benjamin throws off his cloak and is wearing a roman soldier outfit. And Paula thinks that the only problem with this is he has chest hair and sends him to go get his chest waxed. I take back all the nice things i said about Paula.
"American Idol don't want Shiquita!!"
- A love song for Paula Abdul from Paul (who's 32?)- it's horrible and Simon kicks him out ("If I were Columbo I'd Peter Faulk her"). Here we get our "can you believe this" moment. He pretty much tells Paula he is a stlaker and wants to "stalk her". WEIRD!
Then we have Beth, who thank God doesn't have a gimmick and just sings. Simon dismisses her but Randy and Paula send her to Hollywood.
American Idol Live Blog!
And we're back...
They show the Judges arriving together...right. Since the show is kind of boring, let's talk about them shall we? Randy has these new mutton shops on his face and appears as if he's gaining a bit of that weight back. Paula seems to be surpisingly coherent but anything compared to that disastrous reality show "Hey Paula" is ok. And Simon is just like me - bored and just looking for the next check...
First up..Elise, a very skinny woman who likes to do something she thinks is dancing. Can she sing - no. Can she scream? HELL YES. This tiny skinny girl screams like she is a child sitting in R. Kelly's lap.
Next up a mini-montage of nastiness.
And then we have a bald man who clearly does not meet the age requirements. His name is Milo and he wants to sing a song called "No Sex Allowed". Where to start?? It's a song about a woman wanting sex from Milo which is fiction, obviously. And the lyrics are so stupid that one wonders if the producers went to a freak show and conivnced some poor man that he would be perfect for American Idol just to have him massacred in front of millions of people.
Next we have "Horse girl" who sold her horse to come to the audition. She's a CAGE FIGHTER. I think that's code for she does low-rent porn in Oregon. She sings Amazing Grace and she's not bad. Paula says, and this is where I laugh, "you've got a great tone in your voice" as if she knows anything about singing. Anyway, horse-girl goes to Hollywood. All jokes aside, she's cute and pretty and could be a contender. We'll see...
American Idol Live Blog!
And we're back with a montage of wins and losses and Ryan Seacrest looking gayer than ever.
Next we meet a single female, Angela Martin, the first contestant who looks like she could win! She has a sick child who has all sorts of medical problems. Are we going to get a happy ending finally? I think so...and for the record, her sick daughter is adorable! The whole family is there to support and Angela comes and gives an impressive performance. During Simon's critiques he tells her not to use "wedding singer tricks". He actually gives her some good advice that will probably help her! Wow! That's something new..
I can't help but be underwhelemed. it's 9:10 and I haven't seen something noteworthy. No Hungs, Fantasias or even Jareds! Where's our watercooler moment?
American Idol Live Blog!
And next up...Alexis Cohen! She's definitely got access to glitter and a bedazzler from the looks of her clothes. Interestingly enough, the cameras seemed to have gone to her house and show who she is. Normally this means they'll make it through but she sings and you know...NOPE! She gets up and sings "Don't you want somebody to love" - and Alexis looks like she's on crack. Simon doesn't "think this compeition is right" for her and the judges agree. Randy feels bad for her and leaves her with "PEace, love and chicken grease". Simon likens her to the green goblin from SPiderman and then ALexis goes off and goes insane. All i can say is what ALexis said - "Take it, take it, take it!" she makes certain to give the finger and curse and scream out for a long, long, long time.
Haven't we seen this whole thing before? Tameka from season 1, yes - TA! ME! KA! still told off Simon better than anyone else.
American Idol Live Blog!
Ok - it's 8:40 PM and I feel as if we've had a tiny bit of show...
First up: Mark Hayes, who sings "I'm Dreaming of A White Christmas" - definite idol material, right? NO? Ugh...
OH no here comes Udde? - he made his own MC Hammer dance...should be great..nope not great at all. He has a "mindset" that he's going to come out and win. Note to self: "The Secret" won't help you on American Idol. And he sings "My Way" all on one note. Simon says "Plainly, singing won't be part of your career". Udde doesn't get it and asks to sing again...NEXT!
Next up, the freak show montage set to "I Love Rock and Roll"....cue the shocked judge reactions....the hopelessly horrible singers...costume acts...and if you've ever seen American Idol than you've seen this before. And you know what - it was funny the first 4 seasons but now it's just tired and boring.
More commercials! YAY! Can you believe people are paying upwards of $700k for a 30-sec act? WOW! For this...gotta love America!
American Idol Live Blog!
Ok next commerical break over...
- Sybill gave Jennifer Hudson a boost with a terrible rendition of "Love You I Do"
- Jose sang a spanish "Unbreak My Heart" - ok...he's going to HW.
- TEMPTRESS BROWN: a female linebacker who looks like she more than meets the weight requirement. They did a sad story angle - her mom is very sick (too-much-food-itis). Am i heartless or just used to seeing these sad stroy background pieces on AI? Anyway - she's singin "I'm Not Goin Nowhere??" aka "And I Am Telling You". But then she sang it was so bad! AWWW - now she's crying and I feel bad for her. The judges all give her a hug and walk her out, SIMON'S idea - shock! - and they made her feel good. Forgive me for my cyniscism but is this a reaction to last years criticism that the judges were too mean? Hmmmmm...
By the way...does anyone else REALLY want to see "The Moment of Truth" where they ask embarassing questions to contestants and all they have to do is answer truthfully (they have a lie detector). When they have an obese woman ask a skinny male "Are you disgusted by fat people?" - you can see him SQUIRM! And who can't wait to see what happens when they ask someone "Are you really concerned about the starving children in Africa?"
American Idol Live Blog!
Well we're blogging the AI first episode tonite in Philadephia - so far:
-We saw a guy who lost 204 pounds go through to Hollywood. Losing the weight was a huge feat, but I don't think he's got IT. Nonetheless, e's going to Hollywood where everyone will tell him he needs to lose more weight.
-We saw ALEF? A Borat look-alike who looks like he's just happy to be there and make sexy time with Paula..Not going to H'Wood
- Next was James who looks perfectly nice in a suit, who when sings sounds like a retarded preacher.
So far, kind of the same old same old...bad auditions and thousands of people eager to get on the show.
Golf Channel's Kelly Tilghman Thinks Tiger Woods Should Be 'Lynched'!
New year, new racist remark! Golf Channel anchor Kelly Tilghman has apologized after saying during Friday's telecast of the PGA Tour's opening event that today's young players should "lynch Tiger Woods in a back alley."
The Golf channel is reaching out to Tiger's reps to ask for forgiveness. Here's what we would like his response to be: "Kiss my comblanasian ASS!"
I know, I know - forgive and forget, right? Nope! If the GOLF CHANNEL, which by all accounts should have a shrine to Tiger Woods erected in his honor, has an on-air reporter making statements like that live to millions of...well whoever the hell watches The Golf Channel, then the person making those statements has some REALLY DEEP SEATED prejudices. And I do not think for one second that she would have ever uttered that sentence about a non-black player. People make mistakes but this mistake was more like the tip of the iceberg of what's really in her mind.
Fire her! And perhaps Miss Tilghman can join Dogg the Bounty Hunter, Michael Richards and Don Imus on Lynching With The Stars!
Top 10 Moments on The I Love NY 2 Reunion!
Well, not quite worth all the hype but I Love New York 2: Reunion was not a complete disappointment. Here's our list of the Top 10 Moments from the show:
10. Someone in the audience calls Sister Patterson "Dragula"!
9. We were on the edge of our seat when Sister Patterson went behind a curtain with Wolf to do a...shall we say "equipment inspection". The curtain was even see-through so we possibly might have gotten a silhouette of Wolf's self-proclaimed "hugeness"! But alas, again, Wolf copped out and said he doesn't pull it out unless he's going to use it. Hmmp - guess we'll just have to wait till next year when Wolf is broke and needs money and does a porno!
8. Champion is revealed as Sister Patterson's new lover to which everyone in the audience reaches under their chair for their vomit bags. Champion merely sits there smiling like, "don't worry I'm getting paid for this".
7. Revenge of Mama and Pappa "Entertainer"! We admit we felt bad when New York ejected Frank, "The Entertainer", by calling him and his whole family a bunch of losers. You could see they were visibly upset at being treated so viciously, but then the reunion rolls around and Frank's mom let "Mr. Patterson" have it. Pappa Entertainer even gets in one on NY when after she litterally shows her ass he yells - "Your asss looks just like your face!"
6. Midget Mack comes across as the most decent, clean and normal person on the show
5. After New York goes into one of her tired tirades trying to explain her actions on the show, Buddha quickly jumps up and declares "Ladies and Gentleman, New York!"
4. After being applauded by New York and LaLa for his restraint in not killing Tailor Made when he was spat upon, Mr. Wise quickly erases that honor by bum-rushing the stage and onto Tailor Made for one of the stupidest fights on TV.
Note to producers: If you're doing trash TV, then just do it! There was no reason to cut out the fighting and the aftermath cause you know that's why we watch this show in the first place!
3. The entire 'It' segment! He may be a faker but he's a damn good faker!
2. A day in the life of "The Entertainer" - Poor Frank! 30 years old (if you believe him) and still at home raking leaves and doing chores. Living in the basement of your parents house is not a good way to impress a girl - even New York!
1. Tailor Made and New York prove their romance is completely, totally and undeniably FAKE! The forced kisses, New York's "tearful" declaration about how happy she was he came on to the show, all of it is contrived. Does anyone at all believe that New York would EVER be interested in TM?
Our theory is that this development in NY's love life will give producers enough time to get Flavor of Love 3 out and give NY a rest till the eventual announcement that TM and NY have broken up and then we'll have....I Love New York 3!
What did you all think of the big reunion?
The Golden Globes 2008 - a Hollywood nightmare
We have come to appreciate the Golden Globes as the most exciting award show of the season. The dinner party, the laid-back vibe, the drunken acceptance speeches. What will we do now? As the writer's strike looms on it continues to effect everything we know and love. On Monday the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and NBC were forced to create an "acceptable" show format, or the show would be picketed by the WGA. They are scrapping the traditional celeb filled dinner party! It is reported by the Associated Press that the show set to air this Sunday will take on a "Dateline NBC" format: interviews with the nominees, a news conference announcing the winners and coverage of the after parties. This means no fabulous fashion, no crazy acceptance speeches, no excitement about finding out which celebs are friendly with one another. Just a news conference. The nominated actors confirmed that if the Globes took on it's normal format and the WGA had a picket line they would absolutely not cross it. As boring as this revamped format is I must say, in an industry where every man is out for the dollar it is nice to see a act of solidarity such as this one.
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