Johansson & Reynolds tie the knot.

Apparently Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds have gotten married. I know, I said something about the two of them dating and all that shit like months ago, but I had no idea that they were still going out, nor did I care. I just hope this doesn't push Reynolds to start making serious movies. His comedic genius is in crude, cringe, and Fletch-like humor. While Scarlett Johansson is a Woody Allen-girl, who makes a good movie, then a bad movie, then a good movie, then she makes The Other Boleyn Girl. 

Good Riddance Shea. Good Riddance Mets from the 2008 Playoffs.

Today is a glorious day. Shea Stadium was home to the last Met game ever. Shea Stadium will be torn down in leu of a new Stadium called Citi Field. The second part of this glorious day is not that Bret Favre threw 6 Touchdowns and 1 INT in a blowout of the Arizona Cardinals, but it is that Mets for the 2nd year in a row, miss the playoffs due to their own shoddy play.

The Mets are OUT of the playoffs and the Brew-Crew is in.

I don't know who to route for...oh wait...

GO CUBBIES!!!!!

Paul Newman dead at the age of 83...

Holy shit. I thought Paul Newman would live forever...honestly...and the fact that he's died puts a little damper on my day. Paul Newman made films like The Hustler, The Sting, The Color of Money, Slapshot, Hud, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof....I mean, he made some of the best movies I can possibly think of, and now he's dead at the age of 83 from cancer.

The man's health was in decline, I have to say, because he was cancelling appearances, and now you know why.

"Buffy" wants a new show.

Sarah Michelle Gellar wants to come back to TV and she's getting a chance to do just that with a show called "The Wonderful Maladys" which:

Set in Gotham, "The Wonderful Maladys" ensembler revolves around the dysfunctional lives of three adult siblings who lost their parents at a young age.

The show is going to be on HBO (if it gets picked up and all that. I remember a show called..."Manchild" that didn't get picked up...starring K. Smith) and will be penned by the guy who penned The Life of David Gale and The Interpreter his name? Charles Randolph. Randolph had a failed attempt at a TV back in 2001, which ironically starred original-Buffy Kristy Swanson.

National Treasure 3 going forward?

At yesterday's Disney Party (I call it a party, because I don't know what else to call it) they announced that National Treasure III. Nic Cage is in, as I'm sure the rest of the cast is coming back. 

Tron 2 ...fuck the heck?

Johnny Depp will reprise his role as Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean 4, will star in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland as The Mad-Hatter and also star in Disney's remake of The Lone Ranger as TONTO...Depp was there, and this was all confirmed. 

Do Not Disturb is the first casualty.

Do Not Disturb the really horrible sitcom starring Jerry O'Connell and Niecy Nash ("RENO 911") has been canceled by FOX after just two episodes of abysmal TV. 

Hot Chick O' The Week #17

Late this week, I know, but that's okay. 

This weeks Hot Chick o' The Week is Jennifer Garner. I've always loved Jennifer Garner. Always. I think the fact that she is married to Ben Affleck who in turn is good friends with Kevin Smith, is fucking cool as hell. She's a beautiful, beautiful chick, who just hasn't lost any of her looks after giving birth, and has starred in a hit movie (The Kingdom) and a hit television show ("Alias") Needless to say I think this warrants a Hot Chick o' The Week status. 

HCOTW Theron thinks The Hills is a piece of shit, and so do I!

The Hills is a show on MTV (which stands for Music Television...what the fuck?) and it follows LC (Lauren Conrad) and a band of merry nitwits as they trek across California's beautiful landscape in search of fame and fortune. 

That's actually not a bad premise if it was a scripted show. As it stands, it is not. The show is a piece of shit, that's supposedly reality television. Funny thing though, Charlize Theron, last weeks Hot Chick O' The Week, thinks The Hills is a piece of shit. I do as well. I think the show is very very bad. I think it's a waste of money to keep throwing these douches out there on TV every Monday and expecting fireworks. Heidi Montag got a ...music career...out of it. I ...guess. I don't know if I'd consider this:

And realize that Heidi Montag only gets to make music, because of this dimwit infested show. 

Lawerence and Smith team up for "I am Legend" ...prequel.

It's sad to think of how good the book I Am Legend was - and how good the movie I Am Legend was, but the two things were remotely different in certain aspects. Will Smith playing the lead was kind of weird considering it was a white guy in the book. The book also ended differently than the movie.

I personally loved the book. It's not my favorite book ever (Catcher in the Rye) if you must know, but it was a good book. The movie, now, is being made into a prequel. The script is being penned by DB Weiss. The prequel will:

"chronicle the final days of humanity in New York before a man-made virus caused a plague that left Smith’s character the lone survivor among a mutated mob in the city."

I don't know if I can watch another Will Smith flick like this. The original flick was really, really enjoyable. It was sad, scary, and emotional, but this could just ruin it all.

Clay Aiken comes out of the closet.

Clay Aiken decided that his fans (I say his because I am not one of them) are finally able to accept the fact that he's gay.

Duh.

Clay Aiken is one of those gay people that you know is gay. I've got nothing against gay people, but you don't dress like that guy and say you're straight. And now...he's got a kid.

Fuck the heck!?

What Clay Aiken didn't realize is that in reality, not his little made up fantasy island of gay-puppeteers, people live in the 2008 - we're not stupid.

Tonight's premeire...The Mentalist

I will tell you what, The Mentalist is not the best new show of Fall 08. It's not close, but it's a pretty damn good show headlined by Simon Baker (The Guardian) and Robin Tunney (Prison Break). It's got it's quirk, it has it's shine, and it's also very very funny at times. Simon Baker gets into the role almost immediately (that's what actors do), you feel for the character when you find out what happened and why it happened. You realize why he's helping the police, why he can't sleep, why he deals with things with humor instead of utter seriousness. 

This is like the Real World's version of USA's Psych, but not nearly as hilarious. Simon Baker plays a guy who pays attention. And after tonight people'll be paying attention to this show. 

Unfortunately for The Mentalist ...it goes up against Fringe tonight, but follows Bellasario uber-hit NCIS. 

JD's Smallville Recap

Smallville has been one of my favorite shows since it's inception 7+ years ago. A boy Superman with incredible powers, but with no costume to hide who he is. So he has to hide who he is. It's been a long (sometimes gut wrenching) 7 years. Magic was involved, Indians were involved, the entrance to the Fortress was a cave!? All in all, after 7 years, I still haven't stopped watching. Tom Welling does a fantastic job of playing the Man of Steel, and the additions of Justin Hartley as Green Arrow/Oliver Queen is fantastic. And Tom Witwer is apparently going to be playing Doomsday.

The funniest thing about the show now is the opening credits.

Tom Welling is obviously billed first and in one caption he's sporting a pair of glasses and a suit, because he's going to be working for the Daily Planet. Chloe is second billed, Cassidy Freeman is in the opening credits (she'll be playing the new Lex "Tess Mercer") and Sam Witwer is also in the opening credits. Justin Hartley actually gets added to the credits, but Laura Vanderhoot is gone (she'll probably return).

The episode 8.1 called "Odyssey" is the first episode to feature the new creative team. It hasn't missed a beat. The show still owns a lot of different levels as far as characterization is concerned. It opens with Tess Mercer, she's the new baddie, shes calling the shots, because Lex is missing. They're were the Fortress was. In the middle of the arctic looking for Lex. Who shows up, Green Arrow, Black Canary, and Aqua-dude (trying to find Clark Kent).

To fast forward, Chloe is being held in what's supposed to be DDS, but it turns out Lex is holding her against her will. She's got a new power, her brain is faster "than their fastest supercomputer" which is newly added to her powers of healing (which seem to be absent). Clark, we find out, is working in a Russian camp and getting the shit kicked out of him. Apparently the controlling Clark Kent turns out to be taking away his powers.

The Justice Group of Guys Dressed up in Silly Costumes decide they're still going to look for Clark because: "He wouldn't give up on us." They split up, the people holding Chloe make her without her knowledge find Canary and Aquaman and they get taken into Custody.

Clark is still in his Russian hide-away until Oliver comes to save his ass, but not before making it look good. They tussle before Clark asks: "What took you so long?" On the way back they realize where Chloe is being held and go to rescue her in some warehouse that LutherCorp now owns. Clark demands they split up, they do, Clark runs into Lois who is like "What the Eff, Smallville?" she tells Clark to stay behind her and her gun, and they're on the hunt for Chloe who has been made to find Green Arrow.

[Side story is that Lex developed a serum that makes people do whatever he/LutherCorp wants, based on Chloe's mom's powers...etc.]

Lois gets zapped, Clark knocks someone out. He goes to look for GA who has been taken over mentally by this serum now, and takes two Arrows to the chest. Clark goes down, Chloe tries to save him, but Clark is in flashback mode: seeing Lana, his parents, and his life go whizzing by) the last thing he sees is Martian Manhunter, who grabs him and flies the fuck out of there. He flies very near the sun...

Commercial.

When we come back Clark is sleeping on Barn's couch. Manhunter tosses him a football and Clark crushes it in his hands. He's back, but Manhunter has lost his powers because the sun has the reverse effect on him.

Tess Mercer gets a briefcase, inside said briefcase is a blue crystal shaped like the supes emblem.

Clark meets up with the Justice League Members on the corner of a side street - they're taking off in their own directions to stay safe.

Clark goes to the Daily Planet and is squeaking a chair to annoy Lois. And playing with a name plate. He breaks the news that he's the newest writer for the Daily Planet and walks out with a smile on his face. Lois picks up the name plate it reads "CLARK KENT"



That's my recap. I'm not very good at recaps as you can tell.

Hot Chick O' The Week...#16

Charlize Theron is one of those chicks who sometimes takes the serious role, and sometimes she does like the little flicks that make men want to marry her. Like The Italian Job or Hancock. She did do an episode arc on Arrested Development and she played AEON Flux as well. She's going to reprise her role in The Brazilian Job and she's also playing the character of the wife in The Road.

Needless to say, that she is hotter than hot.

Anders and McClure sign up for "Corn"

David Anders who played Sark on Alias and Takezo Kensai/Adam Monroe on Heroes will join Battlestar Galactica alum Kandyse McClure in Sci-Fi's remake of Children of the Corn. 

David Anders is awesome, and Kandyse McClure is hot. 

Zambrano with a No-No.

Carlos Zambrano for the Chi-Town Cubbies fanned ten and threw a No-Hitter Sunday Night. This was his first start since getting an anti-inflammatory injection in his bum-shoulder.

It's the first no-hitter by a Cub since 1972. Burt Hooton and Milt Pappas both pitched No-No's in 1972. Pappas had a bid at a perfect game too, but Bruce Froemming had it out for him (!!) and called two pitches, that Pappas swears were strikes (of course they were), balls. He's the only pitcher to lose a perfect game on a walk to the 27th Batter. And he's also got this to go on about:

On September 11, 1982, Pappas’s wife, Carole, disappeared after leaving the couple’s home in the Farnham subdivision in the Chicago suburb of Wheaton. A group of four men known as the Ripper Crew were believed to have killed Mrs. Pappas in a satanic ritual. In 1984, Tom Kokoraleis, who was convicted for the murder of Lorraine Borowski led police to a field where Carole Pappas was allegedly buried, but searchers could find no remains. [1]

For five years, no sign was found of her car, clothing, or body. In 1987, almost five years to the day Mrs. Pappas disappeared, workers draining a shallow pond only four blocks from the Pappas home discovered the car Mrs. Pappas had been driving, a white and burgundy 1980 Buick, as well as her body. A DuPage County Coroner's jury ruled the cause of death as drowning. Police theorized Pappas mistook a driveway near the pond for a road leading to her subdivision, vaulting 25-30 feet from the bank into the pond. Pappas, a recovering alcoholic, may have been drinking, however blood alcohol content could not be confirmed.'

Not only would this make the best made-for-tv flick evar but look at the bold:

Police theorized Pappas mistook a driveway near the pond for a road leading to her subdivision, vaulting 25-30 feet from the bank into the pond.

What the hell? How do you mistake your driveway? This is the problem with living in bumblefuck. You make a wrong turn and you end up dead at the bottom of a lake swimming with the fishies.

Will Smith is a Pharaoh....

Whoa...from Hancock to 600 BC. Randall Wallace, the scribe behind Braveheart and Pearl Harbor will pen The Last Pharaoh. It will be:

Wallace is penning The Last Pharaoh, described by Variety as revolving around Taharqa, the pharaoh who will be played by Smith, who battled Assyrian invaders in ancient Egypt. The film will focus on his battles with Assyrian leader Esarhaddon starting in 677 B.C.

Will Smith is going to play a fucking Pharaoh...Jesus Christ. 

No Sackhoff for "Nip/Tuck"; replaced by McGowan.

I like Katee Sackhoff. I really do, she looks hot ..sometimes, but not when she's sucking on the fat end of a cigar. Something about smoking women just doesn't do it for me. Also short-hair on a chick is also a turn off, so pretty much any time on Battlestar Galactica I don't find her that attractive. Now here:

Yes, she's mightily attractive. So much so, that the upcoming news kind of annoys me. Katee Sackhoff, who had a short stint on Bionic Woman, I call it short because the show only lasted 13 episodes, was supposed to star on Nip/Tuck this season as a love interest for Shawn McNamara, but had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts. When Dick Wolf comes calling with a detective show called Lost and Found...you can't say no. 

Therefore she's been replaced with Rose McGowan...who has given me the same hotness problem. She looked really hot on Charmed ...but prior to that, she looked like something out of a horror movie. She was very Goth, she was married to Marilyn Manson...now she's going Red Sonja. I'm not sure what to expect anymore. I think she's hot now, but previously not-so-much. 

Rose McGowan will have a 4-episode stint on Nip/Tuck while Katee Sackhoff (hopefully non-smoking, long haired) will star in the Dick Wolf-produced Lost and Found. 

9/11 ...This is not funny, I apologize.

Firstly, this isn't going to be long, but it's not going to be in the funny variety.



I am a Long Islander. I don't live there anymore, I lived in Nassau County for the majority of my life before moving to Bumfuckville, PA. I lived in New York (Long Island) until 2005, so I was there for the tragic events of September 11th, and I remember it all too clearly.
I was going to school at SUNY Farmingdale and I was in Psychology class when the class let out and everyone went their separate ways. That was the last time I ever went back to SUNY Farmingdale (I have since went to another college), so 9/11 was the straw that broke the camels back - so to speak - and it just piled on top of all the other shit that was going on at that time. Not to trivialize or anything, but 2001 was right after High School. Literally graduated in June and went right to College in September. It might sound normal for most people, but I hated High School. I couldn't wait to get the hell out of school and move on, but I should'nt have jumped into college like that, not me, and that will forever be my mistake.

Like anything else, I hopped into the car (at the time a 88 CSC) and turned on Don & Mike on WNEW. Honestly, having not heard anything, there was news on...No Don & Mike, no nothing. I went home, turned on the TV, and my parents were home and told me about the first tower. Immediately it was like a movie, slow motion, the news was like something out of a disaster flick. Albeit unnerving, but also surreal. I remember watching the news and seeing the plane hit the second tower. It shocked me, it put me in a point where I was scared. As you watched the events unfold, people were leaping out of the building on the top floors and falling to their deaths. It was crazy, absolutely crazy.

This was 7 years ago. Seven years. For the better part of a decade we've been in a war that has no end, because we wanted it, because someone came in and fucked the greatest city up. It's absolutely unbelievable to me that it took a disaster such as 9/11 to bring the world together, and it's sad actually. What's miraculous is that New York City took a fucking beating and it's still standing.

It is, by far, the worst thing that's ever happened in my life time. I hope that it stays that way. I can't imagine something worse than the day 9/11/2001. It literally changed all too much.

Hot Chick O The Week.

Elizabeth Banks has been floating around recently. She's done everything from Seabiscuit to Spider-Man to Scrubs ...she's going to play Laura Bush in Oliver Stone's biopic on our future-former President George Bush called W. What intrigues me about Banks is that she agreed to do Kevin Smith's new flick Zack and Miri Make a Porno which means, it must be good. 

Nichols lands in "Tree Hill", Robinson gets "Lost"

John From Cincinnati's Austin Nichols is set to join One Tree Hill in what's said to be a "heavy recurring role." Nichols will play a indie-movie producer who is interested in turning Lucas' (Chad Michael-Murray) first novel into a movie. And if there's any OTH storyline brewing here, it's that Nichols' character will share a connection with Peyton (Hilarie Burton).

In LOST news, they've tapped New Amsterdam star Zuleikha Robinson to play an apparent pivotal role "Ilana" in the shows fifth season. If you didn't know already, I lovvvvvvvvvvved New Amsterdam and thought it was a fantastic show. 

If you don't believe me read so here. 

The "Watchmen" debacle.

Watchmen is a graphic novel written by Alan Moore and drawn by Dave Gibbons. Moore and Gibbons created arguably the greatest graphic novel of all time when they decided to write a controversial story about anti-heroes, heroes with ridiculous flaws about them. 

The graphic novel has now been turned into a film, a film that looks so good, that it could be the 

Godfather of all superhero films. Every comic-geek's wet dream is comprised of visuals of Silk Spectre II, daughter of Sally Jupiter/Silk Spectre. To be completely honest with you, when I saw the trailer I got goose bumps, I saw in the movie what the film was all about: last ditch efforts to save what you believe in. 

I remember reading Wanted by Mark Millar and J.G. Jones and thinking to myself (this is about the time they announced the film was being written/released) that this flick could kick some serious ass. I mean, a born loser becomes the greatest assassin alive. It was the embodiment of the loser book, you rooted for Wesley even though he was killing people. The graphic novel (that's how I read it) is so good, you read it through without putting it down. The film on the other hand starring James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman and Common is nothing like the graphic novel and it's depressingly bad. The director is actually a good one too, a Russian guy named Timur Bekmambetov who directed a couple of great flicks called Night Watch and Day Watch. I couldn't understand what happened to this flick, the generality of it was deafening, it was just an action movie, there was nothing special about it. The graphic novel got left at the door and the writers just kind of threw a gigantic piece of cinematic regurgitation onto paper. 

I can't imagine this is what's happened to Watchmen though and that's because I trust Zach Snyder with my life. Snyder career in film making started with his Dawn of the Dead remake, which honestly wasn't really that bad. It had it's moments, but it was a zombie movie after all. Now, I don't know who he sold his soul to, to helm Frank Miller's gory Spartan epic 300, but I'm glad he's soulless now. I loved 300, because once again, I had read the graphic novel (it's rather large) and knew the material. Snyder apparently did too, because he hit the nail on the head and delivered one of my favorite movies of 2006. With a backdrop of an eerie song "The End is the Beginning is the End" by The Smashing Pumpkins, the trailer flows with an energy that leaves you wanting to see this movie today, right now, this second. My brother and I went to see The Dark Knight and I marked out when the trailer came on in full movie theater quality. I got goosebumps again and watched as the characters that Alan Moore created were brought to life by Patrick Wilson, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Malin Ackerman among others. 

Then I heard that FOX is suing to keep Watchmen from the fans, because they bought the rights to the book back in the '80's. Now Warner Bros. who owns DC, picked up the rights (they own the majority of them FOX only owns a bit) and they've gotten the movie made. Now they're going to court over the entity that is Watchmen and FOX is trying to keep the movie from hitting the screen in March of '09. I don't know if I can live without seeing a movie that's finished...the apparent Godfather of superhero movies...on the big screen. It'll sadden me quite a bit. 

New "Zack and Miri Make a Porno" poster.

Hot Chick O' The Week!

Shenae Grimes is starring as Annie Wilson on the newly revamped 90210 and to be honest with you, I'm digging this chick. He facial expressions are fantastic...when she looks mildly confused, she literally looks confused. She was born in '89 so she's almost twenty so I don't feel as creepy thinking a girl playing a 16-year old is kind of hot.

She was also on Degrassi: The Next Generation a show, for the life of me, I just cannot get into.

Probably the best promo for an upcoming TV Show Season ever...

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