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Last night was an embarrassment for the Boston Celtics.  In more ways than what you watched what probably was the worst performance for this team in history.  The Celtics made the Indiana Pacers look like world champions last night.  The Pacers are a much improved team, no question.  And if last night is an indication of the future of the Pacers franchise life will be good in the state that beget some big names including Pacers boss Larry Bird.

Mike Gorman and Boston Celtic Legend Tommy Heinsohn on Comcast Sportsnet

But last night was a complete disaster for the Celtics.  And watching the broadcast voice by local Boston announcer Mike Gorman and Celtics legend Tommy Heinsohn was one of the most disgusting broadcasts I’ve ever watched and listened to in my life as a true basketball fan.

“Eddie F. Rush…Oh God! Awwww…I had dealings with Eddie F. Rush at Madison Square Garden in the (Robert) Parish years,” complained and looking back to the old days did Tommy Heinsohn after what he though was a bad call.

It wasn’t.

Celtics forward/center Jermaine O’Neal did push Pacers center Roy Hibbert on the play Heinsohn was whining about.

And like your viewing audience wants to go back to the Robert Parish days in the 90′s.  Most are asking who the hell is Robert Parish?

I don’t mind the second chair of a broadcast team being a homer.  That’s a guy that overly supports the team he or she pretty much is employed by to be part of the broadcasts.  But Tommy Heinsohn turned in one of the most despised performances I’ve ever viewed by essentially grilling, toasting and quite frankly wrongly roasting referee Eddie F. Rush during last night’s broadcast.

Danny Granger from the Indiana Pacers - Boston Celtics NBA Game

Yeah, it’s time for the National Basketball Association and the Boston Celtics to retire Tommy Heinsohn to his couch for his ignorant comments during last night’s broadcast.  He was simply and entirely out of line and totally the worst of the worst in sports broadcast history.

I don’t give a damn about him being a Boston Celtic icon.  He sucked last night.  Absolutely sucked.  And what’s even worse for his efforts as a homer is that blaming everything on one coach and delving back in to the past where 90% of the viewing audience could care less is a reason for him to be fired.

Tommy Heinsohn need to be fired.  Immediately for his inappropriate, unprofessional and personally damaging comments made about referee Eddie F. Rush last night.  Not only damaging to Rush’s career but to his safety.  Just for the record, Eddie F. Rush is the only referee in the NBA to officiate the final game of an NBA Finals game for four straight years beginning in 2005.

Which means he’s pretty good Tommy Heinsohn.  And means you have not clue what the hell you’re talking about.

Tommy Heinsohn should know that and his stupid comments for someone at his level of being a great NBA player and coach should be overly sanctioned by the NBA.

Today, Tommy Heinsohn is nothing more than a crabby, old man and should be pulled away from a microphone.  It may sound good to the fans in Boston but it’s a safety issue for a man who is one of the more respected referees in professional sports.

Hey we all hate the refs in any sport, no question.  But the Boston Celtics as a team sucked last night Tommy Heinsohn and for you to be a jerk and blame the fact that your team is old and slow on the refs is an embarrassment and the NBA should send you to your home to watch the games and reminisce about the way things were when you were a coach and player.

You gotta give the lead announcer and play by play guy Mike Gorman some props.  “We don’t wanna go back…no we don’t,” said Gorman in his attempt to stop this moron Tommy Heinsohn from making any more of a fool of himself. Stopped him in his tracks before he even got more crabby, old and stupid.  But for the NBA this is truly unacceptable.  And an negative mark on the league because this is the typical South Boston thug mentality that is not needed in this league.  NBA icon or not, he should be on his couch watching the History Channel.  World War II overviews.  In his underwear.  No where near an NBA broadcast.  Boston can do and be better.

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Allison Samuels over at The Daily Beast hit it long and hard this morning.  Literally out of the ballpark.  Fans down in Anaheim who are so looking to watch the Los Angeles Angels put Albert Pujols up to the plate to launch them outta the stadium won’t delve in to the lives of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith as far as any Albert home run.

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith

The power couple’s marriage seems to be on the decline.  For several reasons.  The big one Ms. Samuels details in her article has to do with the raising of their two kids Jaden and Willow.  One of the two is not jumping for joy over how the two kids have been immersed in the entertainment industry.  Jaden made his bones recently with Jackie Chan in the movie The Karate Kid and Willow been in front of the mike accompanied by musicians to build her singing career.  You might think that with the kind of money this couple drags in they would allow their children to grow up normal.

Jada Pinkett Smith and Marc Anthony in TNT's 'HawthoRNe'

Nope, that did not happen with Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith.  One or the other pushed their kids a lot harder and one or the other is not happy with how their offspring is reacting to the celebrity.  And Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew was not on the schedule for these kids but one of their parents has serious concerns about the future of Jaden and Willow.

Jada Pinkett Smith is reportedly seeing a divorce attorney according to Allison Samuels article which is not a good sign for anyone in this quartet.  So as her article states, the foundation of one of Hollywood’s black “power couples” is at risk because there really are no black “power couples” in Hollywood beyond Will and Jada.  The article notes that Denzel Washington and Samuel L. Jackson keep their wives and children out of the spotlight which seems to work fine for them but Will got in to the game real early so were mistakes made?

Probably so.

Throw in the rumor that Jada Pinkett Smith had a one on one contest with J Lo’s ex Marc Anthony while on production of the recently canceled HawthoRNe  and you have this current mess.  But the Allison Samuels article reveals some items throughout that a lot us watching the outcome of this couple’s union were not aware of until today.

This is an interesting story about black Hollywood, raising kids in Hollywood and the mess that’s been created by Will and Jada’s union that’s up to 13 years with an anchor.

Read more at The Daily Beast link below.

Rick Thomas

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Rob Lowe is 'Drew Peterson' in Lifetime's 'Untouchable'

So if you don’t remember the name Drew Peterson this promotional spot pitching the Lifetime movie sure will remind you.  That Rob Lowe sure does a great impression of the man who probably is one of the sickest minds in the world of local police departments.

The only thing missing from this story is Aruba.

One thing you don’t want to be is the wife of Drew Peterson.  Why?  Well if you try to ask 0ne of his former wives you’ll have to dig about six feet under for one and look at the side of a milk carton to chat with the other.  And those two women are the third and fourth wives.  The first two seemed to get away with their lives but finally after lots of really good detectives gathered enough evidence against Drew Peterson to lock him up two and a half years ago.  He’s awaiting trial for one count of murder wife number three.

Now Lifetime, one of broadcasting’s chick channels featuring female victims is offering up Untouchable with Rob Lowe playing Drew Peterson.  The new movie airs on the network on January 21st.

Untouchable certainly will be a hot piece of content for Lifetime.  Just watch the interview that the Associated Press did with Rob Lowe and some scenes from the movie.  All you can say is wow!

The full interview with Rob Lowe and the AP is at the link below from the Huffington Post.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/05/rob-lowe-drew-peterson_n_1186089.html

Yeah this is not unusual.  Not for Philadelphia.  And not for Philadelphia Flyers fans who go to the NHL teams games now at the Wells Fargo Center and back in the day when they played at the Spectrum in that city.

Philadelphia Flyers fans and New York Rangers fans are like putting Barack Obama in a room with Mitt Romney.  Someone’s gonna get messed up.  Well that’s what happened in the City of Brotherly Love following Monday’s broadcast of the NHL Winter Classic that aired on NBC between the two teams.

First off I’m from Philadelphia.  And sports fans there take their teams seriously.  What else is there to do in Philadelphia in January but get pissed at the Eagles because the suck and watch the Flyers meltdown in the Stanley Cup Playoffs as they’ve done for the past 10 years.  Ask a Philadelphia fan to read a book and they will pull out the sports section of the Philadelphia Daily News.

I can easily say that after living in New York, Boston and now Los Angeles after  growing up in Philadelphia that there are no brain surgeons attending a Flyers game.  And New York Ranger fans know that.  For this fan to make the mistake of going to South Philly to get a cheese steak with a New York Rangers jersey on, well that was just simply stupid.

Stupid.

First off most people in South Philadelphia are inbred.  So that makes them simply stupid like the fan that punched the stupid New York Rangers fan dumb enough to wear a Rangers jersey anywhere near a South Philly cheese steak joint.  And South Philly people are so inbred and stupid that this moron who beat up the sports fan from New York actually put the video up on his Facebook page.

What a dumb ass.  A real dumb ass.

Now the cops are looking for this moron and of course it won’t be long.  And the long arm of the law will be placed upon this Flyers fan loser because people are getting fed up with fans who beat another fan to an unconscious state for a hospital visit.

Living here in Los Angeles, well just Google the Los Angeles Dodgers fan that got beat up by a local thug and you’ll see why folks are just at ends over this stupidity.  Stupidity.  They should all go to jail.  You can hate the opponent but when you assault someone, your dumb ass belongs behind bars.  People were so pissed at the San Francisco Giants fan beating that the cops ended up arresting the wrong guy.  That’s how many cops were put on the case.  They were picking up everybody.

Here’s the video.  Sad, really sad.

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Yeah this woman is a nut!  Not in the same vain as Michelle Bachmann.  That woman is clearly twisted and has become nothing more than another Herman Cain but after her speech following the demise of her miserable campaign for President, Michelle Bachmann is without a doubt in need of a “302″ which is what the cops used to call it back in Philly.  Yeah we need to “302″ him they used to say when a purely, 100% wacko was walking the city streets.

Casey Anthony

Officially a 302 is, and I copy and paste, “An involuntary commitment is an application for emergency evaluation and treatment for persons who are “dangerous” to themselves or others due to a mental illness.”

Yes Michelle Bachmann can use this service.

But now that Casey Anthony has returned via a YouTube video, another crazy woman is on the loose.  And she’s even adopted a dog.  Yes a dog.  OK for all of you dog lovers out there, I have to say this.  Wouldn’t you rather have Casey Anthony adopt a dog rather than a child?

Yes!

No other answer to that question.  There are two things I don’t want to have around Casey Anthony.  The first is my 2 year old nephew.  The second is Maury Povich with Casey sitting next to him, looking at me while screaming “you ARE the father!”

Yes Casey Anthony has returned with a video she recorded back in October.  Rambling on and on about nothing, with a new look other than the women’s prison hair gear she wore during the trial.  She’s kinda blond now which is good because you don’t want this woman being recognized in public.

Bottom line here’s the video.  Her lawyer says it was uploaded illegally.  But we missed you Casey Anthony, we missed you.  I really had no one to revile lately, OK maybe that’s not true, but I had no one at your level to revile.

Welcome home Casey Anthony!

Rick Thomas

It should be called the Has Been Celebrity Apprentice.  Gotta admit I stopped watching this show ever since Donald Trump went on his birther mission against President Obama.  I think Donald Trump is the world’s first proverbial asshole but that only gives him more exposure than I choose to give this carnival barker.

But really The Celebrity Apprentice has its following despite The Donald and the fact that this go round as in last go round is filled with a bunch of has beens and losers.  These people wouldn’t rattle a cage at the zoo if they landed on it after being dropped by and F16 fighter jet.

And NBC wonders why nobody watches their network,

But we will bring you a photo spread despite our feelings for the carnival barker who pretty much will help this current President get re-elected.  So at least enjoy the photos.

'THE CELEBRITY APPRENTICE' - Season 12 - Tia Carrere -- Photo by: Mitchell Haaseth/NBC

'THE CELEBRITY APPRENTICE' - Season 12 - Arsenio Hall

'THE CELEBRITY APPRENTICE' - Season 12 - Cheryl Tiegs

'THE CELEBRITY APPRENTICE' - Season 12 - Aubrey O'Day

'THE CELEBRITY APPRENTICE' - Season 12 - Debbie Gibson

'The Celebrity Apprentice' with Michael Andretti

'THE CELEBRITY APPRENTICE' - Season 12 - Patricia Velasquez

'THE CELEBRITY APPRENTICE' - Season 12 - Dayana Mendoza

'THE CELEBRITY APPRENTICE' - Season 12 - Victoria Gotti

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Ego.  Bad word for people like Martha Stewart or Keith Olbermann.  You know writing this story which includes two people a lot of viewers either really like or really hate is pretty easy.  The first is all over television and media in general.  TV, radio and the web, well Martha Stewart is the queen.  Like Oprah.  But today that star is dimmed a bit by the cancellation of her daytime show on the Hallmark Channel.

Why?

Well you guessed it, limited ratings.  The Martha Steward Show moved from daytime syndication to Hallmark after experiencing similar issues while airing on local television stations.  But as with most moves from local TV, finding footing on a cable network that’s really easy to remember to forget did not help her brand.  Hallmark gave eight hours of programming to Martha Stewart’s production company which included The Martha Steward Show, Emeril’s Table and Mad Hungry with Lucinda Scala Quinn.  But gaining viewer traction was not in the cards dealt to Martha or Hallmark which expected better results and response from all of that programming.

The cable network still plans to do business with Martha Stewart as discussions continue on the renewal status of the last two mentioned shows and potentially other content created by her production company.  They’d better stay in business with Martha Stewart over at Hallmark.  She may not have done well on that cable channel but Oprah’s OWN sure could use a boost and Martha would provide that charge.

Now to Keith Olbermann.  He could be looking for work soon.  I don’t know where except for CNN because he’s got such a whacked out personality.  But he’s apparently pissed off former Vice President Al Gore and others over at Current TV with his refusal to host last night’s Republican primary program in Iowa.  Olbermann was asked to be the face of the network’s primary coverage but could come to an agreement on how he would be integrated in the program.  Meaning that being on the same set with the former Vice President of the United States calls for a more calming approach to his personality which of course Olbermann is never prepared to do.

“I was not given a legitimate opportunity to host under acceptable conditions,” said Olbermann to the Hollywood Reporter.

Yeah he would never fit on the same set with Al Gore.

Cenk Uygar, Jennifer Granholm and Forrmer Vice President Al Gore

Cenk Uygar and former Governor Jennifer Granholm were on the set with the former VP.  Keith Olbermann decided to sit it out.  Not a good career move for the former MSNBC loudmouth who provided Current TV with additional viewers but certainly not enough to even match what he drew in on the NBC owned cable channel.

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Well it’s about time.  Isn’t this what was supposed to happen once Oprah Winfrey began integrating her personal brand in to the network that bears her name?

Yes.  No question.  But one question and concern that will haunt everyone at OWN for the entire time they work for Oprah Winfrey’s Network.  That question…how healthy is Oprah?

Oprah’s Next Chapter launched on OWN with the highest ratings ever on the network that has failed to find its footing.  A slip on the ice for every minute and every hour of programming until this new show.  Speaking with American Idol’s Steven Tyler about his life and loves, over 1.1 million viewers tuned in tot he premiere episode of the show.

Yaaaay for Oprah.

Now don’t get too excited.  Most network’s can get 1.1 million viewers at midnight on a Saturday night rather than in prime-time on a Sunday night on OWN.  But with Rosie O’Donnell’s show a complete and massive bust, getting the numbers that Oprah brought in this past Sunday is a huge success.

Is Oprah healthy?  Why do I ask that question?  Because OWN will need quality programming content beyond just Oprah Winfrey to make themselves a real, true network.  Yes building a network around such an amazing person seemed like a good idea at the time but that went out the window when the network had as many viewers as passengers on a subway car.

That’s not a lot of people.  And that’s a problem.

But now that Oprah is creating content for her network can she carry it all alone?  Maybe but then comes the health of anyone who will build a TV network around that one person.  What happens when they get run over by a truck?

No matter what this is a huge win for OWN.  They needed it.  But Oprah will have to be the “girl in the plastic bubble” because “danger Will Robinson” will be the phrase of the day if OWN can’t hold its own without “all Oprah all the time” as we used to say in the radio business.

Fans just love themselves some Oprah don’ they?

More content to come on OWN in the new year.  Let’s hope OWN can hold its own in the new year.

Rick Thomas

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“I hate America,” says the arsonist who got arrested this morning for starting something like 50 fires over the last week in Hollywood.

Good on two counts.  First it’s nothing personal.  Yeah we all thought this guy was starting fires because he watched an episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians and got upset with the content.  Or was he upset at the winner of the first round of the X Factor on FOX and was showing his support for one of the losing contestants.  Or was he ticked at KTLA’s Henry DiCarlo after his meltdown last week or had any issues just in general with NBC4 here in Los Angeles.  Hey I even have to admit that NBC4′s news content has become a lot easier to take after someone over there finally figured out that this is Los Angeles and putting more Latino faces on the air in DMA that is 60%, well Latino is probably a good idea.

But Hollywood fear not.  “I hate America,” says the perp who got busted this morning at Sunset and Fairfax sitting in a van.  Yeah right near the Rite Aid where I pick up my prescriptions.

Thank God I already have my Viagra handy.  Could have been a problem.

You know the next time a real jerk like crabby, old, has been like Ellen Barkin screws around with a NYPD cop, let’s all think of the great work the LAPD group did here in Los Angeles by working around the clock to get this arson asshole off the streets of the City of Angels.  Or the next time a local news anchor decides to no doubt blow double the legal alcohol limit in most counties if asked yet still seems to aggravate a member of the NYPD, think of the work the great cops did here in Los Angeles to get the previous “person of interest” now the person under arrest for setting 55 fires in the last ten days.

“I hate America,” he apparently says according to ABC News and starting burning up cars and carports all over Hollywood and North Hollywood in protest of his mother being deported so he decided to take it out on all of us gifting the LA popul0us with sleepless nights, not knowing whether we’d be driving to work in the morning or taking the subway.

Yes, we do have a subway here in Los Angeles.  I’ve lived here for almost 7 years and didn’t know Los Angeles had a subway for most of that time.

So now we may be able to sleep.  We can stop blaming Kim Kardashian and family because the German national who has been playing cops versus arson fire setter is under arrest.  No more need to have Ellen Barkin harass cops anymore, anywhere.  No need for TV news anchors to get their drink on and verbally mess with good cops all over America.

You know on a personal note, I don’t like cops.  And to be more personal I know a lot of them in my hometown back in Philly.  Kathy, Charlie, the guys that used to come in my coffee shop to protect me from whom or whatever.  There was Kenny who used to take me to the bank for deposits when I would walk away with 5 figures in cash from a big night at my comedy club.  Um, well Kenny is no longer on the force.  Something about tipping of North Philly drug dealers before the busts went down is an issue on any police force.  Yeah these were my friends and I don’t like cops.  Just being a brother and except for my interaction with the names above, society gives the most uneducated, limited judgment carrying people the highest level of freedom to take the life of someone else and do it legally.  So yeah I don’t like cops.  But I don’t deal with the likes of Ellen Barkin either.  And I gotta give cops their props, after doing what they did to keep my car from going up in flames.

Who you gonna call when you need help, Ghostbusters?

Rick Thomas

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So every once in a while we rely on friends and family to provide RealTVCritics.com with some very funny and outrageous video content so here we go.  For the record the monster smash radio hit Look At Me Now featuring Chris Brown, Busta Rhymes and Lil Wayne has almost 40,000,000 hits on YouTube and that’s just the video with the lyrics of the song.  But there’s this guy who really seems to like breakfast, most certainly pancakes that does the coolest white boy version of Look At Me Now.

This is very funny, very funny!

Chris Brown - American Music Awards - Arrivals - Nokia Theater - Los Angeles, California

Mac Lethal is what he calls himself and you gotta watch this YouTube video content.  It will make you fall on the floor laughing.  He calls his video a Nerdy white kid KILLS Look At Me Now but he seems to be a bit older that a kid.  He’s actually 40 years old.  Yeah he may want to be a kid, come off as a kid, but he really comes off as a guy that really missed his calling.  Not sure his calling of a cool, rapping white boy or a cook at an IHop.

Either way the video is done really well as the former David McCleary Sheldon from Kansas City.  He’s been rapping for over 20 years but has really made his bones by putting together content on the web, more directly what you can find about him on YouTube.

If you like the Chris, Busta, Lil version, you’re gonna love Mac Lethal’s mock of the song.  And you’re gonna love it if you like pancakes.

By the way don’t watch either video with little Johnny or little Susie on your lap.  Rated X for language.