The President And The Nanny
Is there anyone better equipped at capturing the beauty of a young woman drenched in sunlight than Sofia Coppola? In the wake of catching a bit of “The Virgin Suicides” on cable this weekend, I think nyet. And because it had been a few years since my last viewing, your Uncle Grambo only just now realized that A.J. Cook is TOTALLY revealed as one of the doomed Lisbon sisters. Want. To. Touch. The. Heinie!
- Ok, who watched Acceptable TV this weekend like your Uncle Grambo instructed you to? While I’m not sure which of the five shows will be returning this week, I cop to placing my two votes for Joke Chasers and Homeless James Bond. Regarding the former, “Joke Chasers” seems to be the one that the critics dug the mostest (see: Troy Patterson @ Slate, Virginia “Dont Call Me Vagina” Heffernan @ The NYT); tune in on Friday night to see if America agreed!
- “By the end, all one’s left with is unanswered questions. How did I listen to this album 3 times? Why did I listen to this album 3 times? Will I be able to delete this album from the iPod (in my mind)? And of course, who can I talk to about refunding the 3 hours of my life that were wasted listening to this album?” — Damore skewers the new Bad Charlotte record in a review posted today on RecordReviews.org
- While we’re speaking of the old skool, it seems that long-time whatevs (dot org) nemesis SpaceMonkey is back up to his old tricks! Banished from this site eons ago, he has taken his brand of aggressively durst comment-foolery to the Freep.com message boards. And, from the looks of it, his reception there has been equally cold. User 123456 puts it best: “Spacemonkey. Please, stop reading Freep.com. For something that costs you nothing you sure complain A LOT! If you hate it stop reading it. I mean really use your brain.” Poor grammar and punctuation errors aside, I think this qualifies as a ZING!
- Get serious like crazy! Despite the fact that it sports the least sing-a-longable chorus since Liz Phair’s infamous “H.W.C.”, the new Natasha Bedingfield jawn is catchy as all get-out. I wanna have your babies! [via Idolator]
- Dateline Ann Arbor! The Michigan Daily reports that a masturbating trespasser recently invaded the PIKE house. Mind you, said masturbating trespasser was actually a FEMALE masturbating trespasser. How come shit like this never happened at 910 Greenwood? [via JP McKrengels]
- And BOOM goes the dynamite! And by “dynamite”, your Uncle Grambo really means Meredith Viera’s melon. Ouchers McGee!
- And the review is in! Jeffrey Wells (mostly) hearts “Grindhouse” … while he snubs Robert Rodriguez’s “Planet Terror” entry as “tired, gloppy and mostly groan-worthy”, Wells waxes ecstatic as only he can about Quentin Tarantino’s entry, “Death Proof.” Witness the quickness:
“It’s a foxy, half-crazy, smirky B-movie wallow with nary a thought or a theme of any kind, but it’s a complete fuck-all pleasure to just rock and ride along with, and the car-chase finale (the star of which is New Zealand stuntwoman Zoe Bell, who stunt-dubbed for Uma Thurman in ‘Kill Bill’) is the absolute shit.”
Huzzah! When “Grindhouse” opens April 6, I will SO be there.
And, in closing, your Uncle Grambo and The Senator were fortunate enough to attend an event on Friday night honoring President William Jefferson Clinton (or, as his friends call him, Bill). Held at the Hilton New York Grand Ballroom here in Midtown NYC, the first annual Salvation Army Spring Gala raised over $1MM for Emergency Disaster Relief funding. Aside from the evening’s one shining moment (which, obvs, was seeing Bill Clinton live and in the flesh¹), the evening’s best laugh came courtesy of The Senator (natch).
As we were working our way through our first course, we noticed a woman walking into the venue a good 20 minutes late. The slenderish, dark-haired woman was a good 100 feet away from our table when The Senator leaned into me and whispered, “Is that Julia Allison?” I craned my head around to take a closer look and then IMMEDIATELY burst out laughing. Not because it WAS Julia Allison, but because the person in question was none other than Fran Freaking Drescher!!! Up until that point, I had never really noticed that there was a such a strong resemblence between the two, both in their visages and in their figures. After taking a look at photographic evidence presented below, I’m sure you too will find the resemblance to be uncanny!
¹ Your Uncle Grambo managed to grab the first three minutes of President Bill Clinton’s speech on my digital camera. Now it’s on YouTube, be sure to check it out!
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8 Comments so far
1. Sayser wrote on March 27th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Julia Allison also looks a TON like publisher Judith Regan.
2. melina wrote on March 27th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
I LOL’d at Damore’s “Bad Charlotte” review.
3. trvr wrote on March 28th, 2007 at 11:39 am
FRAT BOYS threw out the FRAT COUCHES that the masturbatrix used! she must have been FUGTAGIOUS!
4. B.B. Fett wrote on March 28th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
The Grizz vs. The Donald…best matchup since The Biz vs. The Nuge?
5. Najork wrote on March 28th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Joke Chasers was great, but you’re out of your mind if you think it was better than Homeless James Bond or Mr. Sprinkles. Acceptable.tv is going to turn Justin Roiland into the new John Kricfalusi.
6. JPMcKrengels wrote on March 29th, 2007 at 9:52 am
I hope the show does well. I definitely think it’s a great concept. But, I would mos def tone down the blatant product/brand integration a la Amp’d Mobile shit fest in one of the sketches. That was WORST.
7. Uncle Grambo wrote on March 29th, 2007 at 10:18 am
Are you kidding me? Despite it being one of the more subversive commentaries on corporate sponsorship in the history of broadcast television (opinion of one), it was clearly a win/win for all parties involved! The sponsor gets eyeballs (harder and harder to do in the age of DVRs), the show gets some ad support, and every single viewer out there gets to choose whether or not they’re in on the joke. “The Amp’d Mobile phone is ringing. That’s a high quality phone, John. Owning one makes you happy.” I thought you, of all people, would get this!
8. JPMcKrengels wrote on March 29th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
I get it and I totally see the value from a marketing and from the ad revenue side. But this was SOOO blantant and ugly. It fit well but it could have been way more subtle and not repeated the Amp’d tag every 3 seconds. Not all brand integration is good brand integration. And unless they were going for the Wayne’s World type of blantant “We’re selling out” joke (and I don’t think they were) the Amp’d Mobile integration really sucked from an audience perception. But if that’s what you mean by being in on the joke? Then I think they need to make a better joke. Just sayin’ yo.