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My Boobies!
Some people took a moment of silence on this day a year ago, but today let's cheer for little tank tops and halter tops with no bra! woo hoo

Speaking of... Season 4 of Nip/Tuck on FX begins September 5th at 10pm!

The Office Webisode 8

A fine line between mean and demanding

Webisode 8: Your Mean

Emmy recap

This years Emmy's were a bit of a downer... Shows that deserved to win were snubbed by shows/actors that have been cancelled. It used to be that if you died, you won the award, but now, if your show got cancelled, you get an award (GO AWAY WILL & GRACE!). Wasn't that show off the air a long time ago?

To make this list as easy as possible, I have created 2 categories. Agree, Disagree and Toss Up. I have alsoincluded awards that were given out at the Creative Emmy Awards. Comments by moi are in italics.

AGREE:
Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series:
Jeremy Piven - Entourage (HBO)
I hope that Will Arnett from Arrested Development was a close second to Jeremy Piven, and am thankful that Will & Grace did not win.
Outstanding Reality-Competition Program: The Amazing Race (CBS)
While I am slightly obsessed with Project Runway and have always loved Survivor, Amazing Race is the one reality show where things are fast paced and contestants get to see the world, instead of being trapped on an island or stuck in a Parson's Design workroom. While all three shows boast the obligatory gay character, nothing beats a gay couple backpacking around the world trying to win a race. You know that they will get on each other nerves and the one liners they deliver will be awesome.
Outstanding Comedy Series: The Office (NBC)
YES! Great show! Totally deserved this award! This show was almost cancelled by NBC and has gone on to great ratings and now an emmy. Perhaps FOX should take a cue from this show the next time a great show like Arrested Development falls in its lap.
Outstanding Casting For A Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing For A Comedy Series, Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Comedy Series AND Outstanding Directing For A Comedy Series: My Name Is Earl (NBC)
Again, well deserved. PLUS... 2 of the winners had some of the best speeches of the night! Jamie Presley was snubbed for an award for her character Joy, at least her acting and the rest of the cast were able to deliver the writing to allow it win an award.

DISAGREE:
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series:
Julia Louis-Dreyfus - The New Adventures of Old Christine (CBS)
So Julia Louis- Dreyfus doesn't win for Elaine, but for some crappy character Christine? Does anyone even watch this show? I watched the pilot, and that was rough. This one should have gone to Jane Kaczmarek of Malcom in the Middle.
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series: Tony Shalhoub - Monk (USA)
Seriously, this is Tony Shalhoub's third win for this character. This stupid, annoying, not nearly as entertaining as Antonio Scarpacci from Wings beats out Steve Carrell, Kevin James, Larry David and Charlie Sheen? I don't get it at all...
Outstanding Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program:
Barry Manilow - Barry Manilow: Music And Passion (PBS)
"I lost to Barry Manilow ... I lost to the Copacabana," wailed Colbert.
Outstanding Reality Program: Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (ABC)
IF THIS AWARD WAS GIVEN FOR REALITY SHOW WITH THE MOST SHOUTING THROUGH A MEGAPHONE BY A REALLY ANNOYING GUY, then the right show won. This category was slim pickins, but the real winner here should have been Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (Showtime) who at least push the envelope in their show. How many crying designers and wacked out theme rooms can one person watch?
Outstanding Directing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Program:
78th Annual Academy Awards ABC)
Seriously, this wins EVERY year! And how hard is it to direct an awards show. Cut 1, people walking onto stage to present. Cut 2, people announcing the nominees. Cut 3,4,5,6,7 shots of nominees. Cut 8, winner walking to stage. Cut 9, Winner speaks and walks away. And I am pretty sure that the other nominees have much higher ratings then the Academy Awards (American Idol Finale, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, SNL).
Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Special: The XX Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony (NBC)
I can think about 500 things bettern than a 6 hour program of watching athletes in windpant suits, waving flags while walking out to bad Euro music on an equally cheesy Euro set. I guess it's better that this won than the 78th Annual Academy Awards, let's spread the awards around to all the shitty awards shows.

TOSS UPS:
Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Series AND Outstanding Writing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Program: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central)
Two very well deserved awards, but couldn't one of them gone to The Colbert Report? Where is the truthiness in this, I ask you!
Outstanding Drama Series: 24 (FOX)
Ok, I have seen bits and pieces of this show, and I hear nothing but good things. I am definitely glad that The Sopranos did not win, the show has been a let down lately. Mobster comas are not as exciting as possible dead presidents.
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series: Kiefer Sutherland - 24 (FOX)
Same sentiment as above, except... I really wanted Denis Leary to win this award. Rescue me is as innovative a show as 24, with great characters and writing. I also would have liked to see Peter Krause, Nate of Six Feet Under, to win, plus he had the whole cancelled series thing going for him. Six feet under was snubbed by most award shows it was nominated for, and this would have been a nice win for the series. I guess saving the world in 24 hours is more important than being a fireman and running a funeral home.

Overall, the Emmy's were crappy. Crappy people won. Crappy shows won. However, Conan was a good host. Grey's Anatomy was a virtual shut out (only winning some creative Emmy's). Lost was complete out of the competition with no nominations, after they dominated last years Emmy's. The Aaron Spelling tribute was unwatchable, and way to long, but it might have been a record for the most TV celebrities with too much plastic surgery on one stage. Someone call The Guinness Book of World Record, or Ripley's Believe It Or Not (which might be a better fit come to think of it.)

Borat movie trailer

Instead of making box office predicitions this week, since there are too many crappy movies in the theaters intertwined with some decent ones, I decided to try to turn your attention to a movie coming out this fall...
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

You may recognize Borat from HBO's Da Ali G Show, starring Sacha Baron Cohen. A full length feature film of Borat is due out November 3rd, Kazakhstani TV personality Borat is dispatched to the United States to report on the "greatest country in the world." With a documentary crew in tow, Borat becomes more interested in locating and marrying *Pamela Anderson than on his assignment.

Check out the trailer by clicking HERE

*My apologies for having two Pam Anderson references in 1 month. This will never happen again. Promise.

TrashyPantz Box Office Predictions

Since my Miami Vice Opening weekend box office was not that far off, I thought I would give another shot at this weekends movie releases, which presents more of a challenge than usual.

Thrown into the mix is the campy thriller of Snakes On A Plane (SoaP). This movie has been so hyped by an internet fan base, that many of the decisions made in the movie were based on fan message boards, and by the main actor, Samuel L. Jackson. Who else could add this line and make sure it got into the final cut..."I've had it with these mother*$!*! snakes on this mother*$!*! plane!" The movie started out with the title of SoaP and then was changed to Pacific Air 121. The title was quickly changed back to SaoP when Jackson said he wouldn't do it if it was called Pacific air 121.

Along with SoaP, The Duff sisters are in a some crappy movie called Material Girls. Hilary and Haylie Duff play heiress sisters whose family cosmetics company folds after a scandal and leaves them penniless. Boo hoo. Anyway...

Then there is the movie Accepted with actor Justin Long, who plays a guy rejected from every college he applied to, so he and his friends start their own fake university. He is one of those actors who you recognize but can never quite place your finger on what movies he has been in. Allow me to refresh your memory...Dodgeball, Jeepers Creepers (both of them), Waiting.

This weekends Box Office predictions mix the new and the old...

1. Snakes on a Plane, $32 million
2. Material Girls, $22 million
(Teenage girls will go see this movie since Laguna Beach started a new season this week and MTV can't run 5 hours of it back to back yet and because The Real World Key West sucks)
3.Talladega Nights, $15 million
(This is the 3rd weekend the movie is out, but I read an article that Wal-Mart sales are down by their largest percentage ever, and I think it's because rednecks are going to see this movie instead.)

Feel free to post your predictions in the comments section!
Happy movie going to all!

The Office Webisode 7

Some good old-fashioned accusations

Webisode 7: Things Are Getting Tense

The Office Webisode 6

This just in...Angela stinks.

Webisode 6: The Memo

The Office Webisode 5

Secret crush, clouded judgment.

Webisode 5: Someone in the Warehouse

The Office Webisode 4

All's fair in love and theft

Webisode 4: Stanley