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From Philly to Los Angeles, a TV Weatherman and a TV Car Salesman Unable to Control Their You Know Whats

January 10th, 2012 No comments

We gotta have some fun here.  With a local television station that’s not NBC4 in Los Angeles.

Yes we are about to pick on not necessarily the local Philly station that is FOX 29 but the stooge that has ended his career at that station because of what most men in some sort of celebrity or power can’t do.  Add in one of Los Angeles TV’s most well know auto sales pitchman and you conclude the inability to control their respective pee pees as the topic of this story.

FOX 29 Philadelphia Weatherman John Bolaris

FOX 29 Philadelphia Weatherman John Bolaris

Let’s start with the man who is the dimwit of the day, John Bolaris, the pretty boy weatherman who worked, and the key word is “worked” at FOX 29 in Philadelphia.  John Bolaris got fired by the station after being suspended in late December for his participation in an article for Playboy magazine.

His participation…telling the publication that he was drugged and robbed by two women after he believed he was about to get in his words “laid” by the female duo.  “I’m a guy,” said the 5o year old plus weatherman who clearly is heavily immersed in mid-life crisis.  And he’s saying all of this to Playboy.

Not a good career move.

FOX 29 already had a tense relationship with John Bolaris so this conversation with Playboy certainly didn’t help matters in them making the decision to send him to unemployment.  He was also sent back to his desk after trying to have the station interview former Philadelphia Phillies ballplayer Lenny Dykstra who probably has more indictments for his crooked financial dealings than Bolaris has female phone numbers in his BlackBerry.

The station told him “no” no doubt for many reasons.  First people working at FOX 29 really don’t like John Bolaris.  And certainly see no need to interview a disgraced, financially broken down, has been baseball player who pretty much is nothing more than a scam artist but also happens to be close friends with John Bolaris.

Yeah, that’s a problem.

So these two issues led the station to take John Bolaris’s contract and put it in the fireplace as kindle or line the litter box of any mixed-ghetto cat in North Philadelphia.

The playboy of Philly television, who people in that city and those who work in broadcasting love to hate, is no longer giving the relative humidity to viewers of FOX 29.  “We mutually agreed it was time to part ways,” said a spokesperson for FOX 29.

Now “beam me up Scotty” to Los Angeles.

Cal Worthington has been selling cars in the LA area since Jesus was born.  The guy is 91 years old and just to put his age in perspective his full name is Calvin Coolidge Worthington.  Oh, for readers under like 60 years of age, Calvin Coolidge was one of our Presidents of the United States.

Cal Worthington and Anna Worthington

92 Year Old TV Car Pitchman Cal Worthington and 42 Year Old Wife Anna Worthington

He married a woman that is currently 42 years old.  Now you don’t have to be a mathematician to figure out that Cal Worthington and his wife Anna are separated by 49 years.  Most men like women younger, well as long as they’re legal.  But 49 years?  God can only bless this woman for getting in to bed with a crabby, old, wrinkly man even if she’s after his money.  Which Stevie Wonder can see was her ultimate strategy.  But the April wedding, and that is this past April, is on the rocks.

So is Anna’s Bentley.  And we do mean the car Bentley, not some rich dude’s butler.  Or not some rich dude’s butler at a home like Cal Worthington’s mansion that’s worth a little over $3,000,000.  Anna wants her Bentley back… and the mansion.  He says she can go back to driving the 2004 Chrysler Sebring she owned when they met.

Oh yeah she got tired of getting in to bed with a crabby, old wrinkly man.  Um Bentley…Sebring.  Back to Stevie Wonder.  Now he claims that he had a pre-nuptial agreement drawn up that only gives her $4,000  for six months.

You can bet Gloria Allred didn’t put that piece of paperwork in place.

Anna has hired a big time lawyer to represent her because she does not want to be left “on the street without any means to live.”

Maybe getting a brain with part of that $4,000 a month is a good way to spend her money.

Check out some of Cal’s commercials.  He’s really funny.  But you can bet he’s not doing a lot of laughing now.

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‘The End of White America’ Gets Pat Buchanan Fired From MSNBC

January 9th, 2012 No comments

What the hell took Phil Griffin, the big boss over at MSNBC so long to make this decision?  Guess the end of his career as President of the cable news channel connected to parent NBC played part in his decision to fire political analyst Pat Buchanan after racists writings in his recently released book titled Suicide of a Superpower.

In the book Buchanan has one chapter titled The End of White America which quite frankly is more than enough to get him fired immediately but Phil Griffin waited until Buchanan was through with his tour to inform him of the decision to let him go.

Pat Buchanan (center) on MSNBC's 'Chris Matthews' Show

Pat Buchanan (center) on MSNBC's 'Chris Matthews' Show

This blog learned of Buchanan’s comments from Color of Change which went on a tear toward a new one for MSNBC.  After first made aware of Buchanan’s comments in the book RealYVCritics.com reached out to MSNBC for comment on why MSNBC kept a racist employed on a cable new channel that includes some of the most liberal TV talk and politics personalities in broadcasting.  In addition NBC as a whole has been under pressure from Comcast, it’s new majority owner, to put more people of color on its cable networks, locally owned TV affiliates and the NBC parent company’s programs.  NBC has lacked in the diversity effort that pretty much most major networks have yet in the last year since the Comcast takeover NBC has put a large number of persons of color on their networks.

The End of White America.  Oh yeah he had no choice but to let Pat Buchanan slip away to his personal limited mind.

 

 


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Welcome Back to My TV Screen NBC4 Los Angeles Weather Forecaster Elita Loresca

January 9th, 2012 No comments

I was going to write this story about a week ago but got really busy doing really important work like laying on my couch and grabbing a lot of R&R over the holiday.  Wow was that a blast.

Elita Loresca, NBC4 Los Angeles

Elita Loresca, NBC4 Los Angeles

But it’s been a long time since I spent any space on this blog chatting about my friends over at NBC4 here in Los Angeles.  I still never got over the loss of my Today in LA morning crew of Jennifer Bjorklund and Chris Schauble.  The first moved to reporting on the street at NBC4LA and the latter being banished to street reporting and weekend anchor.   Then to the morning news team over at KTLA.  Both always seemed to present the news with credibility which is all you want from your local news announcers.

KNBC -- Pictured: NBC4 Los Angeles Logo -- NBC PhotoI will say the morning news content has become a whole hell of a lot better lately.  Even with the temporary loss of weather woman Elita Loresca who got married, got pregnant, got bigger and bigger only to have left Today in LA.  The morning content on NBC4 is a lot more easy to watch now.  I still don ‘t get the traffic guy but he worked in Philly and went to Temple University so I will give even him a break as even his on-air presence is so much better than when he started.

But back to Elita Loresca.  She’s back!  Yaaaaaaay!  Her replacement Byron Miranda was a solid replacement and deserves a huge pat on the back for his great work.  But Elita happens to have a style and casual approach that just is so refreshing to see on NBC4 Los Angeles or on any local station.

Sometimes you expect better from a network owned local affiliate in a major market that is Los Angeles.  It just seemed the management went on a test campaign to see what would stick with that show.  And it all seemed so unprofessional.  Really unprofessional.  Too many changes is death according to one blogger that wrote about how losing Matt Lauer would destroy the Today Show on NBC.  Too many changes just took me away from NBC4LA and although I’m a big fan of Elita Loresca and I have tuned in since her return, it’s not the every day routine that I had for several years for this stations morning news program.

But Elita’s back!  Great to see them, um I mean her on NBC4LA!

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Third Time the Charm, Charles Barkley Hosts Highest Rated ‘Saturday Night Live’ in a Year

January 8th, 2012 No comments

OK some will say the NFC Wildcard Playoff game which ran over time on NBC last night but that’s for the haters of Charles Barkley.  No matter whether you think he’s over-rated, Charles Barkley may become one of TV’s most likeable characters that you love to hate but people watch him.  And the fact that NBC had Charles Barkley on every piece of TV content except for the NBC Nightly News you should expect that Saturday Night Live would pull in the best audience ratings in exactly a year.

Um, no it wasn’t musical guest Kelly Clarkson.

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE -- Episode 1609 "Charles Barkley" -- Pictured: (l-r) Bill Hader and Charles Barkley

'SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE' - Bill Hader and Charles Barkley

For Charles Barkley this was his third time hosting Saturday Night Live.  Only Jim Carrey’s stint as host beat out Charles Barkley’s gig and that was in January of last year.  Jim’s musical guest were The Black Keys.  So yes it was Jim Carrey who carried that show.

The NFC Wildcard Playoff game between the New Orleans Saints and the Detroit Lions ran over its scheduled time last night which would surely give SNL a great lead in with the male viewers watching football and tuning in to see what Chuck might say.  You never know what Charles Barkley might say as his week included calling Weight Watchers a scam on a TNT basketball broadcast.  Oh, yeah Charles Barkley is the new spokesperson for Weight Watchers as the weight loss company tries to reach out to men.

Expect Charles Barkley to be asked back to host Saturday Night Live within the new year.

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The ‘HGTV Dream Home 2012′ Worth Entering Twice a Day (Photos)

January 8th, 2012 No comments
Exterior of HGTV Dream Home

Exterior of HGTV Dream Home

Oh this is my house.  I’m gonna win this one.  I am.  I’m going to enter my grandmama, Uncle Kenneth the alcoholic, Uncle George the other alcoholic, cousin Kenny who starts drinking beer at breakfast, Aunt Connie the Jehovah’s Witness and everybody in my family that makes up the rest of my dysfunctional family who wouldn’t remember what day it is but would turn over the deed to this property for an ounce of crack.

Master Porch of HGTV Dream Home

Master Porch of HGTV Dream Home

The HGTV Dream Home 2012 sweepstakes is on!  And it’s the coolest looking home if you look at all of the pictures on the HGTV Dream Home webpages.  Some of the pictures of the home in Park City, Utah show an awesome property and worth every minute of your time to enter the sweepstakes.

Family Room of HGTV Dream Home

Family Room of HGTV Dream Home

Bedroom of HGTV Dream Home

Bedroom of HGTV Dream Home

Today marks 39 days, 22 hours and something, something minutes  before the winner is picked and you’ve got a $2,000,000 home and surrounding land to live in full time or to have as a vacation home.  Bottom line, I’m in.

Entertainment Deck of HGTV Dream Home

Entertainment Deck of HGTV Dream Home

Check out the pictures below and go to the link provided to enter.  What the heck it’s only a few minutes to get a couple of million bucks of A1 property, right’?  Location, location, location.

Rick Thomas

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“I am not Ron Paul, I am RuPaul,” Says Drag Guy RuPaul on Not Being Ron Paul in New Hampshire

January 8th, 2012 No comments

You gotta love politics.  You really do.  Especially when you have a Republican primary about to happen in New Hampshire and the biggest star there today is drag queen and Logo TV host RuPaul.  The world’s most well known drag queen of all drag queens and host of RuPaul’s Drag Race has inserted herself, um I mean himself in the Republican presidential race.  Yeah a drag queen that is clearly a member of the LGBT community which most Republican candidates like Ron Paul would like to see this group all move to somewhere like Grenada.

Oh GLAAD is going to be mad at me.  Again.

'Rupaul's Drag Race' on LOGO

'Rupaul's Drag Race' on LOGO

So today’s Meet The Press was the 3,876th Republican debate and surely as always each candidate made their pitch to New Hampshire primary voters on their issues on gay marriage along with other rights for the LGBT community.  “Let us not forget that this country was founded by a bunch of men wearing wigs,” said Ron Paul…um, rather RuPaul to a group of supporters of the TV cross-dressing host.

You see if I were LOGO I would be running repeats of RuPaul’s Drag Race all day long today.  But no they’ll stop running her or his show in the next half hour as I write this article and air a bunch of episodes of Teen Mom 2.

Who the hell is programming LOGO?

But let’s be real.  Those founding fathers of this country were surely wearing blond wigs which is way out of style today especially for those ladies or whatever are lurking on Santa Monica Boulevard near La Brea about 12:30AM on a Saturday night/Sunday morning.

And I’m sure you’re gonna ask how do I know that.  Someone told me that today….

Anyway today’s episode on LOGO is titled The Snatch Game (Oh my God!!) and I gotta tell you watching now is like watching a behind the scenes look at the Maury Povich show where you have to guess whether someone on stage was born a man or a woman.  I always go like 3 out of 10 for selecting the right sex which is why I don’t go anywhere near Santa Monica Boulevard at 12:30AM.  I’m  constantly wrong which is a blemish on my heterosexuality leaving me in a curled up fetal position on the floor of my apartment with a bottle of cheap scotch from Ralphs.

Anyway check out  Ron Paul’s Drag  or rather RuPaul’s Drag Race or rather RuPaul’s chat up in New Hampshire.

You go girl!!!

Rick Thomas

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These Have to Be The Dumbest College Basketball People on Earth (YouTube Video)

January 7th, 2012 No comments
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OK so you have to watch this video.  You really do.  Now let’s admit that the last few stories on RealTVCritics.com are about sports on television but there’s no way we could pass up on showing  you this video content.

Let’s set the scene.  And this won’t be hard for most except maybe for these hillbillies down in Kentucky.  And since RealTVCritics.com has no readers in Kentucky we can call them hillbillies down in Kentucky.

College basketball.  Any basketball.  Five players against five players.  Nothing new right?  This is the way it’s been since James Naismith created the game called basketball back in 1891.  The home team has five players, the visiting team has five players.  You don’t need to be a brain surgeon to figure this one out.

Again since 1891.

Fast forward to 2012.

Louisiana-Lafayette (YEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAWWWW!!!!) is playing Western Kentucky (YEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAWWWW!!!!) in a game at WK and the Ragin’ Cajuns of Louisiana-Lafayette put six, yes count them six players on the floor for the last 18 seconds and no one on either team nor the referees could see the 6 on 5 contest.  Not only that, the Ragin’ Cajuns scored the winning basket with those six players on five and the Western Kentucky coach got fired when he lost the game.

The announcers didn’t even see the difference until the end when they went to the replay.

These people really must check the education level of the people they send to school down South.  Cause you can get a monkey to count to five.  Or six.  But not these hillbillies.

Western Kentucky has 5 wins versus 11 losses so far this year but clearly the people running the sports program at this school might want to attend a math class at the local kindergarten.  Even they know how to count to six.

 


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‘Round Mound of Rebound’ Charles Barkley Trashes ‘Weight Watchers’ as Scam, He’s Their Spokesperson

January 7th, 2012 No comments

Um yes he is the Weight Watchers spokesperson in those commercials during NBA games.

BREAKING NEWS!!!

Someone working at Weight Watchers or their advertising agency is changing their diaper today if they were the one idiot that thought making former NBA star Charles Barkley their spokesperson for their new target audience of men who want to lose weight.  And a mess load of those commercials are running during NBA broadcasts on TNT where Barkley is employed as a basketball analyst.

Charles Barkley

Charles Barkley

Here comes that open microphone again.  One thing this writer has learned in his career behind a microphone is that you don’t say stupid things behind a microphone.

Why?

Because this writer has said some really dumb things behind an open microphone.  With the same results as Charles Barkley got.  But no way near at the level of the money he makes from Weight Watchers as their new spokesperson for weight loss.

Whatever moron greenlit the hiring of Charles Barkley to rep this brand, well is a moron.  It was genius before Charles Barkley termed Weight Watchers a scam but Stevie Wonder could see that something unusual might happen by hiring the former Round Mound of Rebound as your spokesperson.

Let’s go to the videotape and the career ending comment for the ad person who chose Charles Barkley as a out front dude to lose weight on this Weight Watchers program and sell it on their commercials.  Once again, what a moron.  A real moron.

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Boston Celtics Broadcasts Need to Retire Tired, Old, Biased Team Icon Tommy Heinsohn

January 7th, 2012 No comments

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

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

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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‘The Daily Beast’s Look at Will, Jada’s Maybe Divorce, Black Hollywood, Raising Kids in the Entertainment Biz

January 6th, 2012 No comments

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

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'

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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