Lindsay Lohan on Saturday Night Live

March 6, 2012 by 2 Comments

Lindsay Lohan hosted Saturday Night Live this past weekend because Lorne Michaels works overtime to make the show relevant to the pop culture discussion, while Lohan needed a forum in which to show insurance companies that she can be relied upon to show up for her gigs and that she hasn’t sputtered out at the age of 25.

My thoughts were mixed as I saw Lohan step forward to make her monologue. Lindsay is such a subject of scrutiny that the liveness of the show felt like it mattered again. There’s Lindsay, it’s actually her!

But what happened to her face?

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Sunday Night Special – Oscar “Coverage”

February 26, 2012 by 3 Comments

Billy Crystal’s filmed opening was fine. The Oscars is an advertisement for Hollywood, and he gave them just that. Then he walked out in his tuxedo and I had a flashback to when I was a boy and first learned about the Oscars. “Those people look old,” I felt. I feel that again, tonight. And then Tom Hanks comes out and starts the broadcast by gesturing to an aged “seat holder” who has worked at the Oscars for 59 years. No amount of Justin Bieber is going to rid this thing of smelling like mothballs. Oh, look, Billy Crystal is doing his aging vaudevillian routine! Maybe if they let Scorsese’s grandchild take the stage?

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Melissa Harris-Perry on The Help

February 26, 2012 by Leave a comment

Okay, so I haven’t actually seen The Help, but that’s not going to hold me back from posting this clip of Melissa Harris-Perry discussing the movie! The reason why I didn’t go to see the film was because I have a slight aversion to that trope of Civil Rights movies bending over backwards to show the deep humanity of white people. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not knocking white people — somebody make sure that we white people get to star in some movies, already! — and we should definitely remember and honor those who help expose racism, but why is empathy for whites such a crucial focus for many Hollywood films about race? Who’s at the center here?

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60 Second Movie Review: The Artist (2011)

January 27, 2012 by 2 Comments

Another one off the list of Top 5 Movies I Wish I Saw in 2011. The Artist came out last year, a French film that made a stir at the Cannes Film Festival, made a lot of top ten lists, and recently won a few awards at the Golden Globes.

It’s skillful, emotional, and original, so I wouldn’t mind seeing it win a few Oscars as well. Academy are you listening?

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The Wit and Wisdom of Sir Michael Caine

January 15, 2012 by 3 Comments

With some celebrity autobiographies, one can get a sense of the person behind the prose, even if the reality is of a star relaying their stories to a scribe who then assembles it all into a coherent narrative. Or not, as sometimes the rambling forces itself through. (I’m thinking of you, Steven Tyler.) But I like that, as even stitched-together stories can reveal a lot, particularly if one examines the stitches.Michael Caine at the European premiere of The ...

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Charles in Charge (of himself)

January 10, 2012 by Leave a comment

Charlie Sheen in March 2009

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Charlie Sheen has told People Magazine…

I’m not crazy any more. That was an episode.

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