Prince on SNL reminded me why I love him. Not that the songs were so awesome, but he totally has a sense of humor about himself -- first, they did the Prince Show sketch, with Fred Armisen as Prince, and Maya Rudolph as Beyonce, and then as the end of his second song, he gave a fully Mary Catherine Gallagher "superstar!". Hee.
Gabriel: Are you trying to destroy this family? Simon: I didn't realize it would be so easy.
'Safe'
Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Feb 04, 2006 8:08:22 pm PST #4998 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Lee - Feb 04, 2006 8:18:29 pm PST #4999 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I had dinner with many of the Bayareaistas, at Shiok. Good food, and verry good company.
Trudy Booth - Feb 04, 2006 8:18:36 pm PST #5000 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Trudy, your stance on this strikes me as so cynical it's almost wrapping back around to naive. Publicists' jobs are to make their charges desirable to the public. No doubt some of them feed the paparazzi to do so.
Well, as long as we're calling names I'll say you're naive if you refuse to see you're being played. If you enjoy it go ahead. If you think Tom Cruise's "how did you know you'd be here" "your publicist told us" is some rare occurrence in the big fat spin machine good for you.
However the idea that the paparazzi are always invited to fly over and take pictures of celebrities at home or to stake out their supermarket--why the fuck should someone have to send their assistant out to buy Midol? How is that the celebrity's fault?
It's not always, its often. And even when its not an explicit invite people play the game on purpose and the game isn't always fun. Sometimes I'm sure it IS too much pudding but when you buy a bunch of pudding and then eat too much of it you can't blame the pudding. It's not a mystery why Clooney or McAdams don't get this attention right now, they've pushed the pudding bowl away.
Fact is, the paparazzi know there's a market for stalkeresque pictures, whether they're set up or not. They're not patsies in a great puppet show manned by celebrities and publicists. They're agents too.
Uh huh. They're not the patsies in this little game.
beth b - Feb 04, 2006 8:19:08 pm PST #5001 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Chocolate chip cookies?
mmmmm....
....what....I need to say more than that?
beth b - Feb 04, 2006 8:19:52 pm PST #5002 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Shiok.
also ...mmm...
Trudy Booth - Feb 04, 2006 8:20:31 pm PST #5003 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
on SNL why was Prince not ON Prince Show?
Lee - Feb 04, 2006 8:26:17 pm PST #5004 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
also ...mmm...
We are going to have to go back with you and Matt, very soon, beth, especially since they were out of crab.
Burrell - Feb 04, 2006 8:31:34 pm PST #5005 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
no cookies. went with hot chocolate instead.
brenda m - Feb 04, 2006 8:31:50 pm PST #5006 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Yeah, that was why I watched that bit, which I always found totally unfunny. But I don't think I'm surprised he didn't go there.
The State of the Galaxy bit was funny. That guy does good GWB.
beth b - Feb 04, 2006 8:31:59 pm PST #5007 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
especially since they were out of crab.
see, i knew it was good to stay home