SeptemberWith only two months left before his new show premieres, Conan O’Brien took a moment today in his lavish new TBS office to officially announce the name of the new show.
I don’t know much about “market research” or “television things,” but I don’t think any of us saw this coming:
AugustThis is a recap for the sixth episode of Season 4 of Mad Men starring Jon Hamm, Christina Hendricks, John Slattery, January Jones, and a slew of other talented actors, on an episode called “Waldorf Stories.” And here is your For Your Consideration Recap:
This dude that Roger sends into Don’s office for an interview is basically Jon Lovitz in J. Crew critter pants. Could a human being make a worse impression in a job interview? No. Forgetting the fact that he is only an inch taller than SCDP’s brand new (spoiler) CLIO Award, he just doesn’t seem to be a good fit in the world of the dapper advertising scene. Hell, even Miss Blankenship hates the guy.
You’ll notice a running theme in this episode… Don being a supreme Dick to Peggy. First, she’s not invited to the CLIO Awards to celebrate a campaign she helped brainstorm. Then, he orders her to spend the weekend with her new art director, Stan, instructing them to get a room together at the Waldorf-Astoria in order for them to come up with idea for Vick Chemical Corp. This is all well and good, until you realize that Stan…
AugustRemember back in Lionel Richie’s heyday in the early 80s when he was releasing a Top Ten Hit every week and rarely if ever starring in British potato chip commercials where he sings about potato chips then a dude fights him over potato chips? Those were the days. The days of Lionel Richie not singing about potato chips.
These days are not those days anymore:
(via Videogum)
August
I have a theory. It goes thusly: The lead actor in a Woody Allen movie (when Woody Allen himself is not the lead) always does an impression of Woody Allen. Having never been in a Woody Allen film, I do not know if this is how they are directed to act, but I think that since one of the leads is invariably written by Woody in his own image, the actor just thinks he/she has to act like Woody-you know, stutter-y and shoulder hunch-y. Kenneth Branagh in Celebrity, Will Ferrell in Melinda and Melinda, Rebecca Hall and (Scarlett Johansson to an extent) in Vicky Cristina Barcelona. The lone hold out is that no one in Match Point did a Woody Allen impression, which is probably why I actually enjoyed it. That and Matthew Goode is amazingly hot.
NOW. My theory is admittedly flawed because I haven’t seen every Woody Allen film and I’m no Manohla Dargis. Or Sex Man for that matter. But, you know what? I don’t love his films! At all! In large portion because of this theory! And while I’m on this topic, I’d like to say that even though people give Nancy Meyers a lot of flack for only having rich white people in her films, the exact same could be said for Woody Allen. Everyone is white (or Spanish) with amazing apartments/country houses/city mansions. And that’s just the world they exist in. Obviously.
ANYWAY. There is a point to this. And that point is, people love doing Woody Allen impressions. Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan are no exception. They’re in a new show on BBC2 called The Trip directed by Michael Winterbottom, who is one of my favorite directors. Coogan is funny, but Winterbottom always makes Coogan funnier than he’s ever been. See: 24 Hour Party People and Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story. And Brydon’s obviously no slouch. After the jump, a clip from The Trip wherein the two eat food and are funny in an Allen-esque manner.
AugustI understood the Rolling Stone True Blood cover where the stars were naked and bloody, but Rolling Stone’s taking it a little too far with this week’s Mad Men cover:
No naked & bloody Mrs. Blankenship? What a Blanken-gyp.
AugustNo, this clip isn’t from a recently aired reunion special of 90210 wherein the gang gets back together after how ever many years (30 years? Has it been 30 years?). This is an old clip of Ryan Seacrest playing a Newlywed Game type of host on 90210 in the year 2000. The only reason you can tell it’s from the past is because of Tori Spelling’s hair and normal body mass. Other than that, this is irrefutable proof that Seacrest has been being Seacrest since aughty aught.
BOOM! He just sets up the jokes and the actors knock them OUT OF THE PARK! To quote Tenacious D, “That’s f*cking team work.” (That link right there is NSFW)
August
August
For those of you who found this season of The Real Housewives of New Jersey to be less than entertaining, good news: The Reunion Part 1 made up for weeks of zero plot. And not even the whole reunion! Hell, the first THREE MINUTES of the reunion were the best part of the whole show!
And all because of Teresa’s nephew whom she doesn’t acknowledge…
The ladies, if you can call them that, from New Jersey were in fine animal form last night, attacking Danielle from the moment her tan bony ass landed on the Borgata couch next to the President of Shit-Stirring Bravo Andy Cohen. After some pleasantries about Jersey Shore, Teresa immediately sank her fangs into Danielle, accusing her of sleeping with a man in front of her children. And then, this happened:
Danielle: Do you acknowledge your nephew?
Teresa: 
It was glorious.
So who, exactly, is Teresa’s unacknowledged nephew? Well, according to my go-to source for everything, Black Hair Media, her nephew is a child hubby Joe had with his mistress:
Joe Giudice has a girlfriend named Tara G. Danielle found her because she hired a private investigator and had the Manzo’s and the Giudices followed.
Tara G., by the way, is not exactly hiding out. She attends parties and actually displays pictures of her and Joe together. She also has pictures of a baby, whether or not this is Joe’s offspring is unknown. She is the person Ramona Singer, probably high on too many pinot grigios, was tweeting about when she wrote “Tamra” instead of Tara, the night of Joe’s DWI.
Joe had a son during his/theresa’s marriage and the son is referred to publicly as his nephew.
True? Maybe. Maybe it’s true like a home foreclosure. It would at once shock me and not surprise me.
In true BWE.tv fashion, I spoke with my dear Mother Judy Collins in between the commercial breaks, while diligently writing down her thoughts word for word. So here, we present, My Mother’s Recap of the Real Housewives of New Jersey Reunion, Part I…
AugustDisney released a new poster for their upcoming film Secretariat, the “Impossible True Story” of a ragtag racehorse that overcomes all odds to become a winner. This film does not look nor sound familiar in any way:
Waaaaiiittt a minuttttee… this movie sounds like a TOTAL rip-off of that movie from a few years ago, The Aristocats. You’re not getting my $50 a second time, guys who made The Aristocats then mugged me for $40 when I left the theater. Oh man, painful childhood memories! I’ll bet that’s why to this day I can’t go near really wealthy cats.
AugustThe top story on Us Weekly today:
Ouch. I know we’re talking entertainment news here, but there’s seriously not something more worthwhile happening? Like news about ousted Bachelor Pad contestant Krisily? Wait, they nailed that. Carry on.
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