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We had a very nice dinner with my family on Saturday night and got to see my cousin Jack and his girlfriend Holly who were visiting from England. They are both working actors who are in NY for a premiere with Madonna. Holly Weston is a lead roll in Madonna’s directorial debut “Filth and Wisdom.” The premiere is in NYC tomorrow.
I remember watching airwolf as a kid in England and thinking that the actor who played Dominic Santini was old back then in the ’80’s. Well, he’s still kicking and has 3 movies set for release in 2009, including one called Death Keeps Coming! An appearance he made on breakfast television made it onto The Soup this weekend.
And speaking of the soup, here is a video (from their blog) of how they would prefer the Olympics to look. I would agree that all of the running, jumping and swimming around is kind of boring.
And instead of Time magazine having something from the Olympics or the attacks in Georgia as their most popular story, it seems their readers were more interested in spray on contraceptives. It never ceases to amaze me that sex will sell above any other news.
Watch this tonight on PBS at 10pm EST “Documenting the Face of America,” a film about Roy Stryker and the F.S.A. photographers that airs tonight at 8 PM on PBS. Time’s “Looking Around” blogger Richard Lacayo is back from vacation and already keeping us in the know! I appreciate his assessment of Annie Liebovitz’s photography “Most of her pictures strike me as ingenious and all too efficient in the way they wrap up a celebrity into some high pitched version of the familiar package that they are. They tell us what we already know and they tell it to a T.”
And then I couldn’t resist posting this video where he tries to work out what art is.
We are huge fans of the show “Intervention,” and this week was one of the best so far. Allison had an addiction to a version of dust-off. She inhaled up to 10 cans of the stuff a day, which besides the impact on her health, must have cost her around $100 a day. The buzz only lasts a few minutes, so she is huffing the stuff throughout the entire interview process. It is potentially fatal every time, so if you’re scanning a lot of negatives and want a quick buzz, get some coffee!
My favorite interventionist is Jeff Van Vondren. He is always calm and able to reason with the addict, eventually allowing them to feel comfortable enough to give in and go to rehab. Amanda prefers Candy Finnigan, I think its because she appears to be completely involved and emotionally committed to each case she handles. (I’m sure this is a deep rooted comment on who we are as individuals?)
