Ms. Amused

Corbin Bernsen’s got some mighty goodlooking genes….

He’s one of the families on the final episode of Celebrity Family Feud and holy crap are his sons good looking. I think mostly still jailbait age but the one that looks like Matthew McConhaugey with extra facial hair plays football in college…

Dayymmmn.

“Dwarf comedy stunt shocks airport staff”

I expected it to be about Jackass. Because how many times did they shove Weeman into bags and other assorted containers? Hot dog carts… giant traffic cones… you name it.

The best thing about the Golden Girls for me was always Sophia Petrillo and her mouth.

I’m now bitten with the yen to acquire GG on dvd and have a Sophia marathon/wake. 7 seasons are all on dvd now.

Thank you Estelle! Gone but never forgotten.

Picture it, Sicily 1916. A beautiful young lady walking along the beach….

Two half-watched movies I finished watching this weekend.

I can see why Juno got the Oscar nod. This movie is worth watching for the fun dialogue alone. Cody & Ellen made a great team in crafting and acting the character of Juno. And another rarity, I really liked ALL of the supporting characters (and the cast that acted them). They were all quirky and not without their flaws but were easily real people and believable.

Mad Money is just a fun flick. It’s directed by Callie Khouri who brought us Thelma And Louise. MM isn’t quite like T & L but it’s female centric and fun. Sometimes predictable and outlandish still works to make an enjoyable movie I think my favorite part was Katie grooving 23/7

Bummed about missing out on a chance to finish a 3rd “half-watched”, Disturbia. Need to get my hands on it somehow! I left off where David Morse was in the kitchen with Shia and Carrie-Anne and Shia’s freaking.  I love what I’ve seen so far but had player issues. Shia’s one of the best “kid actors” I’ve seen since Elijah Wood.

Wow… what a mess of a movie.

Trying to watch Southland Tales was like reading Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age for the first time. Confusing as HELL but it started to make sense by the end and upon a re-read or two became one of my favorite books.

However, I don’t know that I have the patience to do the same with this movie. I ended up falling asleep halfway through.

Maybe I’ll give it another go later on… maybe I won’t.

He never gets “too big for his britches”. I love that he’s still a goof ball and very easy to talk to.

Reading this interview with him makes me really want to go see Journey to the Center of the Earth now. Before I was just interested because I like Brendan’s work. The talk about the footballs and treadmill sold me.

This is a great summer… Brendan times 2! and DARK KNIGHT!!!

Just to remind you of the eye candy…

I finished watching Season 3 last night.

I’d gotten interrupted between the episodes where Meredith fell in the water and the following one which was kind of an odd point to have to leave off at. Between that and the spoilers I already knew about the season ending, I wasn’t as enthralled with the remainder of the season as I would have liked.

It also got a little repetitive and it felt like the characters were in holding patterns and not really going anywhere. Just filling air time.

Also I wasn’t fond of the totally obvious “pseudo pilot” where Addison went to LA and we were given a ‘preview’ of what the new show “Private Practices” would be like. As “introductory” episodes go, it sucked. CSI does it better. Tim Daly was the only really interesting character in the LA group though I’ve always liked Addison so I’ll probably give it a watch when it comes to DVD. I’m also wondering if Eric Dane’s character went over with Kate Walsh’s (Addison) to LA. He’s better suited there anyways.

That’s not to say that I didn’t enjoy it at all. I did but I’m looking forward to season 4 where it all hopefully gets straightened out and at least I have no further spoilers for.

One thing that continues to amaze me about this show is its ability to make me cry. For all the outrageousness of the plotlines, when it comes down to the depth of emotions and the human experience, they hit the mark like Andre the Giant hitting the doohickey off the Hi Striker at your local carnival.

Sandra Oh’s final scene of the season was so perfect that I can’t wait to see what happens in S4.

About 2 months to go before I can watch Season 4.  And I’ve added Private Practice on Netflix too. In a bizarre note, Netflix lists S2 and S3 of PP… um. Only one season exists so far right? GA is going into S5 and PP into S2 in the Fall right?

You get: Celebrity Family Feud.

The Feud was one of those things that was often something watched with my family so I’m already predisposed to it. And then when the promos started showing during American Gladiators and I saw Wolf staring down the other family on the Feud, and then later Earl Hickey (Jason Lee) of My Name Is Earl on it too, I knew I had to watch this.

And it’s been a lot of fun so far. But I was biding my time for when the Gladiators and also the Earl cast were on. Much to my surprise, they’re all on the same episode!

What’s different in CFF is there’s 4 “families” that face off in two matches, the winners face off in a final match and then the overall winner does the last part for 200 pts to win the money ($50k for charity of choice). Also what’s different is that there’s only 3 games per match, first two are single points and the 3rd is triple. And if no one gets to 300, then its sudden death.

Anyways, I really loved the first half of tonight’s show, the Gladiators were hysterical and it couldn’t have been better except if they’d brought Crush instead of Venom (or perhaps my other new favorite gladiator besides Jet, Hurricane). Also very glad they brought Laila and not Hulk who I now hate to see at all given the crap way that he and his family have responded to his son’s maiming of his friend. I used to love Hulk Hogan but I’m done with him now. I even wrote to NBC asking them to boot him for future seasons of AG, go with Lou Ferrigno or someone else cool.

And the Earl game was fun, turned out it was all MNIE cast but in character. The Hickey Family vs Camden County (semi regular characters that are the townspeople). It was a little weird because they stayed in character and goofed the answers in ways that the actors would never have.

I’ve always loved watching the Feud because of my grandmothers (one of the rare things that they had in common) and it’s fun to watch it again with the “celebrities”… now I want to see them do it with the cast of NCIS vs CSI or something cool like that! Since I think they’ve already filmd all of this season, perhaps next season? Doubt it’d happen though if for nothing else, it’s an NBC show, why would they promote other network’s shows by using casts from them?

Not sure what else CFF will be worth watching for but I’ve enjoyed the games up til tonight while waiting for AG and MNIE to show so I’ll keep watching.

I just can’t get enough of watching AG! Almost into the semifinals, which means it’ll be over soon