Article Archive for May 2005
It's hard to know where to stand on the issue of 'Starbucks: Good Or Bad'. They're bad, because their aggressive expansion policy is pushing small, locally-run coffee houses. And there's all that whiney blah blah blah fair trade nonsense that Mr Coldplay (CDs) always bangs on about.
It's good because they mostly all have free wireless internet, so hecklerspray can sometimes go there
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Hype, generally, is a good thing. But only for laughing at people who fall for it. Like the people who went to see the Harry Potter (DVDs/books) movies dressed up as wizards. Gibbon-brained fools, the lot of them.
Not hecklerspray, though. We're a hard nut to crack, we see straight through petty marketing ploys. And who can blame us? After the double-whammy of disappointment from Be Here Now (CDs) and Eyes Wide Shut, (DVDs) we've been let down too often to get excited by anything anymore.
And that's why Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith, is so annoying. The hype appears to be working.
Everyone wants to be Frank Sinatra (CDs). Robbie Williams (CDs), the cast of Ocean's Eleven (DVDs), even Westlife (CDs) want to copy Ol' Blue Eyes in some way or another. Beats us why. It's perfectly obvious that Sammy Davis Jnr (CDs) was the coolest member of the Ratpack.
But still, the man could sing like nobody else, even if he did have a tasty little part-time job as a Mafia bagman.
Honestly. Seriously. No need to frown or rub your eyes. No-one's spiked your coffee. You read that headline right, we promise.
Kilmer (DVDs) allegedly called up Albarn (CDs) and told him: "I feel I've got an album in me based on my life, and you're the only man on this planet who can make it happen for me".
Quite what life-story observations are to be made by Kilmer - whom,
according to those he has worked with, is really little more than an ego with a digestive system - remains a mystery as of yet.
God bless you, Britters (CDs /DVDs). Without you, hecklerspray wouldn't be half the site it is today. Along with testosterone-fuelled Bear-man Russell Crowe (DVDs), your constant antics have kept the wheels of our chucklesome celebrity wagon rolling along. And now? Now people are shelling out hard cash to purchase your piss ...
It's day two of the hecklerspray and Betfair.com Eurovision contestant rundown. The competition will be held on May 21st, which leaves you plenty of time to research the entries, and mentally prepare yourself for the barrage of bad nonsense wailed at you by a load of strangers from countries you can't even spell.
Today, we're going to be looking at three countries very close to our hearts. OK, that's a lie. Today we're going to be looking at three countries we couldn't find on a map even if they were covered in pictures of Abi Titmuss.
That's right, Belarus, Belgium and Bosnia & Herzogovina.
Liverpudlian footy bird Coleen McLoughlin has renounced her media-imposed 'chav' title in a Vogue interview, despite evidence to the contrary as seen in the blessed tabloids over the past year or so.
She spends Rooney's money, rows a bit, then spends more of his money. He’s a boy genius with a Gazza-like picnic/sandwich deficit, so we can’t even blame him that much. Beer and football; it’s what he does best and (by and large) he sticks to it.
Coleen on the other hand buys YSL jumpers and matching clutch bags then moans, "What does my head in is when you get a new bag, and then there's a knock-off version down the market the next day."
No idea what we’ll all do when this show is over. No Dragons Den, no Apprentice, at this rate will be forced to give Ray Mears survives in Sidcup or wherever a shot.
Tonight, 9.00 PM on BBC2 is the final, where Sir Alan Sugar will announce his £100,000 Amstrad apprentice in front of a live studio audience (just like on Cheers).
