Article Archive for August 2005
Being famous must be great. You get to pretend to be an expert about anything you like and people listen. Kinda like this job, except we don't have as many adoring fans (potential adoring fans - get in touch, we'd love to hear from you).
Teri Hatcher has only done five things in her entire life - 1) She starred in an embarrassing 'erotic thriller' when she was young and poor, 2) She was Lois Lane, 3) She was the second worst Bond girl ever after Denise Richards, 4) She starred in the well-received drama series Desperate Housewives, and 5) She staggered about like a tranquilised baby deer in an Elton John music video.
And now she's ready to do number six - a self-help book of advice and inspiration aimed at 40 year-old women written by Teri Hatcher will hit the bookstores next spring.
No need to pad this story with half-arsed conjecture. Instead here’s five facts to tell all about the almost-greenlit Daredevil 2:
1. Ben Affleck (DVDs) and Jennifer Garner (DVDs) both featured in the original Daredevil movie in 2003.
2. They got married last month, to each other.
3. They want to work together on a film project soon.
"Ben says it's in the early stages, but he is hopeful," remarked Garner hopefully "It would be fun to work together, not to mention convenient."
It's easy to be the flavour of the month, but it's much harder to be timeless. Look at Tiffany and then look at Madonna. Tiffany has been reduced to hawking her one famous song around slack-jawed nostalgo-fests like Hit Me Baby One More Time, while Madonna is still going strong, making films as bad as ever.
This week's hecklerspray hero is someone who has lasted; someone who, though he was only around for a relatively short time, has seared himself onto the global consciousness. He’s the boss, he’s a pip, he’s the championship. He’s the most tip top, Top Cat.
Have you ever seen a poster for a rubbish movie and wondered where the fawning press quotes came from? "That most certainly wasn't 'A Rip-Roaring Rollercoaster Ride Of Thrills And Spills,'" you inevitably think as the credits go up, "That was a lot of wank".
Who actually watches these dreadful films and thinks that they're masterpieces of modern cinema? Well, in Sony's case it was a critic called Dave Manning. But he doesn't exist - he was a fake critic created by Sony employees.
Soap operas are so much better when they're conducted in real-life. Nobody wants to watch the Prozac-beckoning mundanity of Eastenders when they can read all about the antics of hair-weave heartthrob Jude Law.
This week - Jude dumps Sadie! Next week - Jude gets Sienna! The week after - Jude shags nanny! It's like Days Of Our Lives with even worse actors.
Last week we featured a game all about knee surgery. As well as being highly informative, it also illustrated just how 'street' surgery is with 'the kids' these days.
Don't believe us? Those hip Belle And Sebastian cats seem to think so. They've released a spiffy compilation album of all their classic old Jeepster single tracks, called Push Barman To Open Old Wounds.
And how
...Mondeo man Richard Madeley and his quivering wife Judy Finnigan have been slated by TV regulatory board Ofcom for plugging products on air.
While it has been established that the teatime TV pair accepted no money for such activity - outlawed under motions passed by the European Union, legal fans - the extent of product placement upon their sweaty little sofa has been raising eyebrows to say the least.
Viewers had complained in their droves that a videotape item in July last year that “seemed like an advertisement for Red Bull with celebrity endorsements†and “a sponsored advert for the coffee and Red Bull industryâ€. According to Ofcom. "Undue prominence" was given to the product in question.
But this isn't the first time the housewives' favourites have been caught up to no good...
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Tomorrow, either Derek or Eugene will be evicted from the Big Brother house. Who will go? There's already a clear favourite emerging...
Usually the housemates who face eviction are the ones that go a bit schizo, but it's a bit different this week. Derek and Eugene have remained the most level-headed of the group, while Craig has daily screaming crying angry meltdowns and Kinga rams a wine bottle up her mimsy on the lawn.
The good news is that Craig and Kinga won't be going on Friday, so we have another week of solid gold, 24 carat disturbo-vision. In the meantime, here are the latest Big Brother eviction odds for Derek and Eugene, brought to you with Betfair.com...
