Archive for May, 2008

What to TiVo: Sunday

Saturday, May 31st, 2008
  • Fox has repeats of The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Family Guy and American Dad
  • NBC has a repeat of Top 100 Most Outrageous Moments and is new with Dateline
  • CBS is new with Million Dollar Password and has repeats of Cold Case and The Unit
  • ABC has repeats of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Desperate Housewives, and Brothers & Sisters
  • The CW has repeats of Everybody Hates Chris, Aliens in America, The Game and Girlfriends
  • MTV has 2008 MTV Movie Awards
  • VH1 has repeats of The Bachelor
  • Showtime is new with This American Life and The Tudors

What to TiVo: Sunday

Saturday, May 31st, 2008
  • Fox has repeats of The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Family Guy and American Dad
  • NBC has a repeat of Top 100 Most Outrageous Moments and is new with Dateline
  • CBS is new with Million Dollar Password and has repeats of Cold Case and The Unit
  • ABC has repeats of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Desperate Housewives, and Brothers & Sisters
  • The CW has repeats of Everybody Hates Chris, Aliens in America, The Game and Girlfriends
  • MTV has 2008 MTV Movie Awards
  • VH1 has repeats of The Bachelor
  • Showtime is new with This American Life and The Tudors

Canada’s Kim Catrall is all “Sex in the City”

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

        Canada’s Kim Cattrall is all “Sex and the City” baby!! The 51 year old actress who portrays the promiscuous “Samantha Jones” on the hit TV series “Sex in the City” showed up looking stunning in Toronto for the Canadian premiere of the highly-anticipated “Sex and the City : The Movie” on Wednesday evening… […]

Buzz In: What’s Your Favorite Soothing Music?

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Music is a very personal thing. What’s pleasing to the ears of one person can be nails on a chalkboard to another. Even iPod playlists are like snowflakes: no two alike. But I find that people can be most varied when it comes to what they listen to when they need to be soothed.

The very definition of the word “soothe” is “to tranquilize or calm.” Think auditory Xanax. A quick Amazon search of “soothing music” leads to mostly instrumental compilations meant to lull you to sleep. For me, these Enya-eque tunes are more boring than calming.

So, what mellows me? Well, a little Sade goes a long way. Her voice is sensually raspy, and I instantly get transported to whatever perfect-love scenario she’s currently crooning about. The Beatles have a similar calming effect. It probably has something to do with growing up listening to their albums, back when I had no adult responsibilities. I asked Bella this question and she says calms the ol’ nerves with The Sea and Cake.

What about you? What CD or artists do you listen to when you just want to kick back and relax?

Number Crunching: This Week’s TV Ratings

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

  • Clash of the cougars. Both Denise Richards’ and Dina Lohan’s reality shows (It’s Complicated and Living Lohan, respectively) premiered on E! this past Memorial Day. While the channel seems to be pleased with the results (both premiered stronger than the Keeping Up With the Kardashians debut) each drew in around one and a half million. The winner: Richards with 50,000 more viewers.
  • Lost wins Thursday, but still loses a few. The season finale of Lost (which was awesome, by the way) was the number one show on Thursday night with 12.2 million viewers. This was down from last year’s finale by 1.7 million.
  • Fox loses a few after American Idol, too. It’s hard to top the powerhouse that is American Idol, but Fox fared pretty well its first post-AI week. Hell’s Kitchen was number one in its time slot on Tuesday with 9.41 million viewers.
  • So you think you can do better than last week. So You Think You Can Dance garnered more viewers on both Tuesday (9.3 million) and Wednesday( 9.26 million) than it did last week during its premiere, which only drew in 8.6 million. This week’s numbers are on par with last year.

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Rewind: This Week’s Buzz

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

What to TiVo: Saturday

Friday, May 30th, 2008
  • Fox has a new episode and a repeat of Cops and is new with America’s Most Wanted
  • NBC has Stanley Cup Finals: Game 4
  • CBS has a repeat of CSI
  • ABC has The Rookie
  • TLC has Flip That House
  • MTV has repeats of Real World
  • VH1 has repeats of Flavor of Love 3
  • Late-night highlights include Shia LaBeouf on a repeat of Saturday Night Live on NBC and repeats of Mad TV and Talkshow on Fox

First Look: Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Kevin Smith is not exactly known for good, clean fun and the trailer for his next film Zack & Miri Make a Porno is no different. Because of the pornographic, uh, nature of the film, the crass dialogue in this trailer is like a regular Smith script on crack.

I’d like to reenact for you my reactions while watching this:

  1. Ha!
  2. Hahaha!
  3. Oh…ew.
  4. OK, seriously, gross.
  5. OMG! Sick!
  6. No, he did not just say that. Wow, yes, he did.

So, do not watch this at work with the sound turned up and make sure the kids are safely tucked away in another room because while the trailer doesn’t show anything explicit, Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks carry on an extremely graphic conversation. According to the IMDB description, “Lifelong platonic friends Zack (Rogen) and Miri (Banks) look to solve their respective cash flow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, however, the duo begin to sense that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously thought.” Awww. . .?

The film is set to be released on Halloween. To check out the trailer for yourself,

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