OK so I will admit the late 70′s and early 80′s were the party years. Second Story Nightclub on 12th and what was that Walnut Street in Philly, the real second story of that club, well $100 bills were rolled up regularly at that location.
It wasn’t a great glass of scotch back then as it is today but gin and tonic. Club closed at 2AM, home by 3AM and up to work by 9AM. Yes those were the days my friends.
Today it’s milk and chocolate cookies. To bed by 9PM. Yes those were the days.
Illinois Congressman Joe Walsh
But scumbag, deadbeat Dad Illinois Congressman Joe Walsh who doesn’t support his own kids is trending big time on the internet again. This lowlife, well however he got elected to Congress is the question of the day. He must have been high or drunk when he lambasted his own constituents at a bar in his district and looked like the true deadbeat Dad we all see on Judge Judy or Judge Mathis.
This video shows why I could never run for elected office because I know I’m a lowlife, yet not a deadbeat Dad. But let’s be for real Congressman Joe Walsh won’t have a long political career if he doesn’t cut back on the drugs or liquor he was on when he ripped a new one to this person who probably won’t vote for him the next time he’s up for election.
In one dumbest career moves ever, Eddie Murphy has told the Academy Awards television program that he will not host the show. And the Academy has basically told Eddie don’t let the door hit you where the sun don’t shine.
“I appreciate how Eddie feels about losing his creative partner, Brett Ratner, and we all wish him well,” said the Academy in a statement just released. Ratner was caught on tape using a gay slur at the Los Angeles screening of his new produced movie Tower Heist.
“Rehearsal is for fags,” said Ratner at the screening session. The videotape blew up all over the web and Hollywood over the last 24 hours with a call that Brett Ratner be removed as producer of teh 84th Academy Awards set for late February.
“I was truly looking forward to being part of the show,” said Eddie Murphy in his comments on his departure from the show. “I’m sure the new production team and host will do an equally great job.”
Next removal, Joe Paterno. Stay tuned.
Brian Grazer to Produce
84th Academy Awards® with Don Mischer
Beverly Hills, CA – Academy President Tom Sherak announced today that Academy Award®-winner Brian Grazer will join Don Mischer as a producer of the 84th Academy Awards. This will be the first time Grazer has produced the Oscar® telecast.
“Brian Grazer is a renowned filmmaker who over the past 25 years has produced a diverse and extraordinary body of work,” said Sherak. “He will certainly bring his tremendous talent, creativity and relationships to the Oscars®.”
“I am thrilled to welcome Brian Grazer as my partner and that we will be collaborating to produce an outstanding show,” echoed Mischer.
“It’s very gratifying to be part of a show that honors excellence in the medium to which I have devoted so much of my career,” said Grazer. “Don is a legend, and I am excited to work with him.”
Brian Grazer and Brett Ratner
“I too am delighted that Brian will join Don in producing the Academy Awards and I am looking forward to our producers delivering the movie event of the year,” commented Academy CEO Dawn Hudson.
Grazer has earned four Academy Award nominations. He won a Best Picture Oscar in 2001 for “A Beautiful Mind.” In 1984, Grazer was nominated in the writing category for “Splash,” and he received Best Picture nominations in 1995 and 2008 for “Apollo 13″ and “Frost/Nixon,” respectively. His other film credits include “Spies Like Us,” “Kindergarten Cop,” “The Nutty Professor,” “Liar Liar,” “8 Mile” and “Cinderella Man.” His current projects include the about to be released “J. Edgar” and the just released “Tower Heist.”
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2011 will be presented on Sunday, February 26, 2012, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar® presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.
Chelsea’s on the market again! Time to get the Match.com profiles up and running one mo’ time. Let’s see, there was “Fitty” as in 50 Cent, Dave Salmoni from Animal Planet, Ted Harbert who is the CEO of Comcast and now out the door is Andre Balazs whom she started dating in January.
Eeenie meenie miney mo!
Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston, and Chelsea Handler
Chelsea Handler is having fun. Hey she’s 36 years old so why not. She’s no longer dating Andre yet the couple seems to have a bit of class as they are keeping quiet on the reason for the split.
She told Piers Morgan that she had “very strong feelings’ for Balazs back in May. Hmmm….June, July August, September, October, just starting November…OK what did he do?
Anyway Us Weekly says the couple was touchy feely back around Halloween so he must have done something.
Being a kid from Philly doesn’t make me anywhere near a Penn State fan. I went to Temple University and we hated Penn State. Always kicked our asses in football. Every year. Except for the fact that underage kids were abused by those sick, perverted, bottom-feeding Bangkok visiting sex-crazed coaches at Penn State I’m glad this arrogant university that let little boys be abused is under serious fire. I hope they all go to prison, including Joe Paterno.
Amazing what stank makes the TV news isn’t it.
But let’s not forget the great Philly boxer Joe Frazier.
Then all over TV has been the end of the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray. More stank. This scumbag calls himself a doctor? He’s now in prison, living in a cell that’s about the size of a New York city studio apartment on suicide watch.
Good.
But more crap on television. But wait there’s even more.
Herman Cain. Yes Herman Cain. “Fingers” as I like to call Herman Cain. This is another well dressed lowlife like Dr. Conrad Murray all over the news these days who makes we wanna throw up. This guy still thinks that having four women charge him with sexual harassment or assault is not enough content to prove he’s a liar and a sexual predator. Yes I will call him a sexual predator.
More crap on television. More stank.
A trio of stank. Joe Paterno, Dr. Conrad Murray and Herman Cain. Burning up my LG TV and my texting fingers. Sick human beings.
And with all this stank in the news we all forgot but must not forget the great Philly boxer Joe Frazier. Used to drive by Joe Frazier’s Gym in North Philly all the time. Flew first class on a plane with him a couple of years ago. I’ve met a lot of really cool people in first class. None at the level of Joe Frazier.
And I got the upgrade. Nobody working this blog can fly first class.
Most readers of this blog may be too young to remember Joe Frazier. But I and a lot of people grew up watching him fight the fight against some of the greatest boxers of all time including Muhammad Ali.
So while we look at the news, watching the stank, let’s remember that Joe Frazier died Monday at the age of 67.
Details are still coming in about the passing away today of rapper/actor Heavy D who was apparently rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for an unknown medical reason. The 44 year old Heavy D, born as Dwight Arrington Myers was pronounced dead at 1PM at Cedars after being rushed to the facility from his Beverly Hills home and was conscious and talking on arrival.
Police are now at his home investigating as the cause of his death at this point are unknown and no signs of foul play according to those at the scene.
Heavy D was one of most incredible rappers leading the genre back in the 1990′s. His TV credits include Boston Public, The Tracey Morgan Show and Law & Order: SVU.
Well here we go again. Really do these people who use any type of slur in the public view think they can verbalize something so stupid and not have it blow up on the internet? Really?
Brett Ratner, producer of the current big screen movie Tower Heist and a stack of other hit movies along with being the producer of television’s Academy Awards, use the word “fags” during a screening of Tower Heist in Los Angeles.
'Tower Heist' Producer Brett Ratner
During a session he was asked about getting the cast to rehearse their lines and actions during the production of a movie and Ratner responded “Rehearsal is for fags.” He later apologized for his words saying “Everybody who knows me knows that I don’t have a prejudiced bone in my body.”
Further Ratner apologized “for any offense my remarks caused.”
Not good enough. Brett Ratner was fired from his post as producer of the Academy Awards according to the Hollywood Reporter. Which quite frankly is the right thing to do because his comment was unforgivable. And I’m not one who thinks everything the gay and lesbian community is fighting for is something that I would vote for. Not at all.
But to use any type of slur is unacceptable especially in Hollywood where a large majority of gay and lesbian people are employed.
Rick Thomas
November 8, 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Academy Statement Regarding Brett Ratner
Beverly Hills, CA – This morning, Brett Ratner submitted his resignation as a producer of the 84th annual Academy Awards to Academy President Tom Sherak. Ratner then issued an open letter to the entertainment industry in which he explained his decision.
“He did the right thing for the Academy and for himself,” Sherak said. “Words have meaning, and they have consequences. Brett is a good person, but his comments were unacceptable. We all hope this will be an opportunity to raise awareness about the harm that is caused by reckless and insensitive remarks, regardless of the intent.”
Trying to get to the office but my TV is blowing up this morning. We started this wonderful day with the arrest of Penn State Pedophiles who work for the football program that is about to be rocked like no other sports program in America.
Penn State Football Coach Joe Paterno
All over cable news, the press conference detailing the charges the State of Pennsylvania is placing on two people involved in the sports department at Penn State. You can start the clock counting down the end of Joe Paterno’s career as head coach of that football program since some, and unfortunately not most, see him as part of the cover-up by not calling the authorities to report these incidents of child abuse.
Then comes ‘Fingers’ Herman Cain, the touchy candidate for the GOP nomination for President. Seems he likes to not only harass women but apparently likes to assault women as a fourth accuser was all over TV today saying Herman Cain tried to touch her inappropriately when she met him at a hotel.
Yeah, you can star that clock on Herman Cain’s campaign as well.
Then “Breaking News” as the verdict is in for Dr. Conrad Murray and his trial on the death of Michael Jackson. And it’s not even noon here in the west.
Lip syncing on The X Factor? OK wait a minute…isn’t this the FOX Television Network, owned by News Corp, the company that involved in the serious hacking scandal rocking Great Britain, the United States and the world?
Oh, yeah. Lip syncing is mild compared to that hacking thing but dang should we expect better from The X Factor? I think yes but here we have it, a lip syncing controversy on the show that is about real people singing real songs live on national television.
LeRoy Bell on 'The X Factor'
Last Thursday night’s live episode of The X Factor featured 60 year old LeRoy Bell from Tacoma rocking out a song by Usher and David Guetta titled Without You when he definitely went off track with the track of the song showing that he was lip syncing instead of really voicing the words.
A flashback I would say to American Bandstand or since I’m from Philly The Georgie Wood Show on TV when the Delfonics could never lip sync Somebody Loves You but yes I bring you a blast from the past from Channel 48 in that city.
Now the statement to Entertainment Weekly from FOX on this mishap:
“All competitive songs, including survival songs, are performed live to a backing track. Due to the finalists’ extensive preparation for their Wednesday night performances, the opening ensemble number on the results show is prerecorded, the same way as on other shows.”
OOOOOOKAY!
Whatever that means.
American Idol went in to the same muddy waters a couple of years ago yet it found its way past that scandal, if that’s what you really want to call it but The X Factor keeps winning its time slot on Thursday nights so I wouldn’t think this is going to hurt the show’s popularity at all.
And it gave me an opportunity to mention The Georgie Wood Show which I never thought would ever find its way to this blog. The late great deejay of the 60′s and 70′s, “the guy with the goods, Georgie Woods!”
So what city is not under siege. And we’re not talking “under siege” as in a Steven Seagal series of movies we’re talking about how American cities are now becoming part of the political process by really ticking off the people who run Wall Street and what a perfect weekend to start an advertising campaign.
Why?
Well that Bank Transfer Day movement got a lot of people to switch their money from the big company owned properties like Bank of America and Wells Fargo to your local credit union. Or what I did. Move my business account from Wells Fargo to Comerica Bank, a small western region institution.
Well now the Occupy Wall Street movement is taking to television by now running commercials that started this weekend. There’s not a whole heck of a lot of funding for OWS and this commercial campaign but you will see them running on Bloomberg, ESPN, CBS Sports, History Channel and other outlets airing through Monday.
How did they raise the capital to run these commercials? 168 citizens put up a little over $6,000 to produce and purchase the advertising time.
If you’ve been living under a rock over the last month or so, the Occupy Wall Street movement has targeted big U.S. corporations who are not reinvesting in to this country by hiring employees or in the banks case not loaning any money to individuals or small businesses.
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Wednesday at 2PM you can turn on every local TV station and hear nor see anything. Not one station will be on the air on Wednesday November 9th at 2pm. Try to listen to a local radio station…forget about it as well. You will hear nothing but static, a long tone and an FCC notification from every TV and radio station in the United States.
Huh?
Yep. The Federal Communications Commission will be conducting a national test, not just one of those local ones you see or hear, next Wednesday. All taking place at 2PM.
So don’t panic or freak out as the FCC is telling everyone.
Now since KTLA took off the second episode of Maury at 2PM, I probably will miss the Emergency Action System national meltdown but just chill. “This is a test, this is only a test of the Emergency Alert System.
The full announcement from the FCC is below:
At the Federal Communications Commission’s June 9, 2011 Agenda meeting, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau Chief Jamie Barnett, joined by representatives from FEMA and the National Weather Service, announced that the first nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) would take place at 2:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time) on November 9, 2011. The purpose of the test is to assess the reliability and effectiveness of the EAS as a public alert mechanism. EAS Participants currently participate in state-level monthly tests and local-level weekly tests, but no top-down review of the entire system has ever been undertaken. The Commission, along with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, will use the results of this nationwide test to assess the reliability and effectiveness of the EAS as a public alert mechanism, and will work together with EAS stakeholders to make improvements to the system as appropriate.
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