Best Week Ever |
- Anne Hathaway Surprises PS-22 Chorus With Adorable Oscar Invite
- Daily Mail Really Good At Comparing Pop Stars To Late Monarchs
- It’s The “We’re Not In Kansas Anymore” Supercut, Toto
- Survivor Airs First Man On Man Love Scene
- Glee‘s Chris Colfer A Lock For Best Supporting Actress
- This Anti-Drinking Poster Looks Like An Awesome Late 80s Movie
- Dog Heads + People Hands = Hilarity & Colmes
- TOP CHEF RECAP: New York’s DINE-est
- Join Us On The 2011 VH1 Best Cruise Ever!
- Pamela Anderson Writes Poetry For Playboy. (Not Slam)
- VIDEO: Model’s Hair Bursts Into Flames At Diddy’s Hot Tub Party
| Anne Hathaway Surprises PS-22 Chorus With Adorable Oscar Invite Posted: 17 Dec 2010 09:23 AM PST Here’s a video of Anne Hathaway showing up at a PS-22 chorus recital (the famed Lisztomania-cover kids) to invite the kids to next year’s Oscars. If I were in a bad mood, I’d make fun of Anne Hathaway for the slam-dunk publicity-op (Sarah Walker reacted to the vid saying “So she’s just hopping on their bandwagon? What a B”), and that wouldn’t be entirely wrong, but I can’t not laugh at little kids freaking the eff out about the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences like it’s the Academy of Bieber Arts and Bieber Sciences. “Think Social Network still has enough momentum to hold off Black Swan’s late push? Guess it depends on their trade campaigns.” – A Little Kid  |
| Daily Mail Really Good At Comparing Pop Stars To Late Monarchs Posted: 17 Dec 2010 09:00 AM PST INT. Offices of The Daily Mail, London Reporter #1: Oy! Lookit Christina Aguilera! She looks right like Queen Victoria, innit! Tea!
This is not an untrue observation. But it begs the question, “Does such a thing need to be observed?” In the spirit of Christmas, I’m going to say, yes. Thank you for bringing this to our attention, Daily Mail.  |
| It’s The “We’re Not In Kansas Anymore” Supercut, Toto Posted: 17 Dec 2010 07:28 AM PST Whenever our VH1 Blog / fourfour colleague Rich Juzwiak releases a new Supercut, it’s basically the internet-video equivalent of a new Apple announcement, with the added bonus of knowing that you’re not gonna see jerks consciously flashing some brand new device the week it comes out in situations where you wouldn’t even use the thing in the first place. (Off topic? Or the most ON TOPIC?) This week: The “Not In Kansas Anymore” Supercut, featuring way more movies and shows than you expected, plus countless sliiight variations on the quote (particularly with the placement of the word ‘Toto’). I personally would’ve included the Avatar trailer like more 15 times: Full list of the movies used can be seen here.  |
| Survivor Airs First Man On Man Love Scene Posted: 16 Dec 2010 04:27 PM PST OK, to be fair, it is a love scene between a father and son. Dan and his son, to be specific. Family members were brought into the Nicaraguan camp to see their loved ones after over a month of no contact whatsoever. And when Dan’s son, which his handsome, handsome son, showed up, it was an Italian PDA extravaganza of the meatiest proportions. Even Jeff Probst look slightly aroused. Am I just overly uptight, or does this seem a little strange to anyone else? I was getting major “Kissing Family” on SNL vibes. I was able to get my Mother on the line for a few minutes, and inevitably Survivor came up. Her thoughts on the kiss: “Yeah, you know what, it’s very sweet actually. It’s very very nice.” And on the reward challenge: “But that Fabio has to be one of the dumbest asses ever. Beyond. BEYOND. When they went on the boat for the reward challenge, the Survivors were sitting around the table and eating and munching and the parents were on the side looking in. What the f*ck was that? I’m telling Daddy, I don’t understand it! They have to watch their loved ones eat? Watermelon, all kinds of sh*t around the table, and the parents were sitting looking on, I’m thinking what the f*ck is this? Really stupid.”  |
| Glee‘s Chris Colfer A Lock For Best Supporting Actress Posted: 16 Dec 2010 02:25 PM PST
Entertainment Tonight got things a little mixed up when it declared Glee‘s Chris Colfer a Golden Globe Best Supporting Actress Nominee. Or did they? (with thanks to Matt Cherrette, who mentions that folks are saying the image may be ‘shopped. The very same folks who HATE HAPPINESS.)  |
| This Anti-Drinking Poster Looks Like An Awesome Late 80s Movie Posted: 16 Dec 2010 03:00 PM PST If you want to stop me from getting drunk, New York City, you really shouldn’t design your anti-drinking subway ads to look like awesome late-80s movies that I’ll instantly want to emulate/Netflix:
I’d totally watch “Two Drinks Ago You Could Still Get Yourself Home.” I’ll bet the early hip-hop soundtrack’s awesome. I assume the entire ad campaign is an homage to this:
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| Dog Heads + People Hands = Hilarity & Colmes Posted: 16 Dec 2010 01:34 PM PST
The Best Friends Animal Society has put together the most mind-bending film since Inception. It’s dog heads with people hands making Christmas cupcakes! But this video was not made for your amusement alone. (And trust us, you will be amused.) It’s asking that you adopt a homeless cat or dog this holiday season. Do it! My apartment is very empty without the cat I am dying to adopt but fear will replace my equal want for a child. I’ve… said to much. In other news, I had operatic streams of laughter while watching this 900 times.  |
| TOP CHEF RECAP: New York’s DINE-est Posted: 16 Dec 2010 03:51 PM PST This is a Recap of Top Chef All-Stars (Season 8), Episode 3, entitled “New York’s Finest”, originally airing December 15th, 2010. Shockingly, they do not have to cook any dishes based on New York Police Precincts – that’ll be next week, in the episode “Seriously Though We Mean Cops”. Quickfire time! First, Padma picks the teams by saying “You walked in here in a random order, and that’s how we’re gonna split these teams up.” What?? Where’s the 4-minute montage of people opening up Russian nesting dolls to find skeleton keys that open cobwebbed treasure chests that contain the names of U.S. Secretaries of Agriculture and the teams are based on which vegetable those secretaries subsidized the most during their tenure? Top Chef, I don’t even know you anymore. The chefs get the chance to rave about their teammates, and Fabio is pumped, even though “Angelo wears his pants a little too tight for me, but he’s a great chef.” A dude from Italy thinks someone else wears his pants too tight? Fabio just won the Calling Kettle Black Relay…
Spike says he’s excited to team with Richard and Tre, adding “Stephen? He’s just Stephen – he’ll be able to open a bottle of wine for us.” Zing! But truezing! Spike really is so much more likable this time around — letting his head-pores breathe has done wonders. And for good measure, Tre says the obligatory “They’re not playing around, you have to bring your A Game.” Just one week, can someone please be like, “The Judges are in fact playing around this week — I can see Tom from here making angels in that ball pit — so I’m gonna give them my B-game and conserve energy.” Onto the Quickfire… This week’s Quickfire Challenge is the Annual Top Chef Mise en Place Relay Swanson Broth, where each team of 4 will simultaneously prep lamb, garlic, and artichokes, then whichever team finishes first will start a 15 minute clock and every team has to produce a dish before that clock is up. Again, pretty interesting twist — the Top Chef focus groups have spoken, and they want more twists, no Whole Foods Shopping montages, and WAY more Rubix Cube looking progress graphics:
Despite his early struggles this season, Fabio slaughters the garlic:
I know I’ve made a lot of Nickelodeon references the last few weeks but seriously, Bravo definitely bought that cup from Double Dare’s Super Sloppy Yard Sale. Two teams finish quickly, leaving the other two with almost no cooking time and forcing them to present their lamb more creatively:
This week’s guest judge is Momofuku restaurateur David Chang, who Casey refers to as “A badass.” Didn’t someone also use the exact term “badass” to describe Chang in the finale last season? It’s like how Joe DiMaggio always had to be introduced as “The Greatest Living Ballplayer,” even though Ted Williams, Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, and Hank Aaron were all living. What a D, huh? Let’s spend the rest of the Recap talking about this. The Red Team Loses!
The Blue Team Wins!
Sure enough, Richard decides to “take the lead” on his team’s dish, and his Crispy Lamb With Artichoke 3 Ways leads them to victory, topping the other teams’ “Prepped Lamb On Big Pile Of Garlic And Artichokes.” Is anyone stopping Blais this season? Cause he is really RICHARDING through these challenges.
For the Elimination Challenge, the 4 teams of chefs (enjoy the nice even 16 while you have it, Top Chef!) will be randomly assigned to four very different upscale New York restaurants, and they’ll have to sample the chef’s food then create their own dish that the chef would be “proud” to put on the menu (or at least proud enough to turn into a Schwan’s frozen dinner, which is basically a Michelin Star). Two chefs will be sent home, because it’s a New Friggin’ Yawk Double Elimination Cold Enough For Ya? They draw knives, and Angelo’s team gets paired with David Chang’s Má Pêche, a Vietnamese/French venture. The Bravo sound guy then cuts off Padma, saying “Hang on a sec, the mics are picking up something weird…ah, it’s the sound of Angelo’s crotch making a cartoony ‘boyoyoyoing!’ noise. Carry on.” Angelo declares, “For me, David Chang’s an idol.” No sh*t – we knew that about you before we knew you. Just, promise not to embarrass us in front of Mr. Chang…
Dammit, Angelo, we can’t take you anywhere Asian! Marcel’s team draws Wylie Dufresne’s WD-50, and Marcel raves, “What a privilege it is to get to dine at Wylie Dufresne’s restaurant.” Not really, Marcel – you can just go there. You can literally walk in there any day during dinnertime and exchange currency for food — it’s not the secret sex party from Eyes Wide Shut. Also, how clearly does Wylie Dufresne want to be a full-time component of Top Chef? Too bad his looks aren’t what we in the biz call “Non-Vagabondy”…
(That photo courtesy Re-Using Joke From Masters Recap No One Read Ltd.) Some chefs get stuck with David Burke’s Townhouse, and Burke keeps presenting them with crazy, ornate plates of inedible decorations with three atoms of crab on top of, like, bedazzled basketball halves. They describe his menu as “playful” and “whimsical,” much in the same way that all super highbrow things are uniquely capable of the lamest possible forms of humor (see: Paul Tompkins’ bit about jazz music.) Wouldn’t it be funny if David Burke was just completely f*cking with everyone and his regular menu is actually like burgers and fries? “The Top Chef people are coming in — let’s glue some macaroni to a snow globe and call it steak!”
The Quickfire-winning Blue Team draws Michael White’s Marea, an upscale Italian place that allows Stephen to show off his vast array of reasons I’d kill myself if I ever had to hang out with him. Tre feels the same way, and when Stephen keeps telling him “try this, try this, I eat here all the time,” Tre basically tells him he sucks. Tre just won Top Thaaaank You. The judges take turns cabbing between restaurants (NEW YORK FRIGGIN’ CITY – The City That Never Sleeps On Cab Using!) and critiquing the dishes with the host chefs. During the Marea visit, Michael White notes “Texture is very important to me, whether it’s in a pasta, uh…in the south of Italy they’re putting breadcrumbs on things.” What a dork. Hearing great chefs talk is like hearing great actors talk – it makes me not want to hear them talk. I’ve been to Italy twice too, but you don’t see me mentioning it in my Top Chef blog posts. EVER. At Má Pêche, David Chang — whose restaurants I really, really love — matches White’s dorkiness when he says to Tom “This is also a crudo you might see at Daniel [Danielle?]…” and Tom adds “Yeah, and a lot of restaurants,” and they both laugh. CLOL! (Chef LOL!) Surprised Bravo didn’t have to bleep that, it was so harsh. In general, the host chefs are mostly positive about everyone’s food, and the dining segments finish with minimal fanfare:
The Top 4: Dale, Angelo, Antonia, Tre Padma announces “The winner of this Challenge will get a six-night trip to New Zealand.” Whoa, where’d that come from? If the chefs had known about that beforehand, they could’ve recorded so many time-filling testimonials about how their kids have been dying to go to New Zealand ever since the first Lord of the Rings. Dale Talde wins the challenge for his Sunny Side Up Egg Dumpling, Braised Pork Belly, Milk Ramen with Bacon, Beef and Pork (whattdya mean “did I obviously just Control-V that from the Bravo website,” I remember everything in this show verbatim.) Dale is praised by Anthony for daring to make eggs for Wylie because he’s such a big eggophile. Dale’s like, “Yeah, I assumed he f*cked eggs.” The Bottom 4: Stephen, Tiffani, Fabio, Dale L Stephen was certainly the favorite to get voted off coming into this episode, and that became even more apparent after Bourdain said his food “tasted like a head shop.” Like nothing Bourdain has ever said, I don’t entirely grasp this critique; some would argue that pot tastes delicious, though if you’re arguing that the food tasted like glass and metal instruments for smoking said pot, then it’d clearly be terrible, but also huh? Whatever, Stephen was walking dead from Day One, and whatever gets him off the show is fine by me. “I’m addicted to fashion!” Well, hopefully you OD on it. Nah, I don’t really mean that, yer a good kid! Just not at the many aspects of the show that you are on. Fabio continues to struggle, and as much as I hate to say it, he probably has no business still being on this show. He’s clearly one of the biggest personalities in the show’s history, and he’s super likable, and I’m sure he does very specific things really well, but he’s clearly not equipped with the broadness of talents that this show demands. He says that him having to cook Asian food is like “telling an Asian grandma to make pasta to please me.” Not really, Fabio, cause you’re a chef on a competition that makes you do a bunch of really hard things. Anyway, everyone likes him, so I’m glad he’s still on, but he has no chance. Dale L’s veal dish was too sweet, and having two Dales is really confusing everyone, so he’s voted off this week. The Bravo website goes insane:
The losers then return to the waiting room and this exchange occurs: Stephen: “I’m gone.” [Pause] Dale L: “Me too.” Everyone: “Awwwwww!” Stephen leaves with one final Stephening, saying “I think the fatal flaw was all those aromatics together came off as, perfumey.” Ugggggh. Bye.
Top Chef All-Stars Episode 3 thoughts? Stuff we missed? Predictions about who’s next to go? Leave ‘em all in the COOKments.  |
| Join Us On The 2011 VH1 Best Cruise Ever! Posted: 16 Dec 2010 11:35 AM PST
Where was I? Ah yes, drinking cruising. I remember that cruise fondly. The bands. The people. Riding on the back of a shark. (A dream I had while on the cruise.) It was truly the best time. Which is why I feel honored and privileged to announce the following: Best Cruise Ever Is Back in 2011! VH1 Best Cruise Ever will set sail from April 28 to May 2, 2011, traveling from Tampa, Florida to Cozumel, Mexico. And the cruise will feature some of your favorite bands… check out this lineup: Train, Lifehouse, Colbie Caillat, The Script. Mat Kearney. Ryan Star, SAFETYSUIT, and many more! Plus, me. (Sorry, I’m really bad at selling myself. Let me try again.) Plus: ME!!! Hosting things in formal dress!! That alone is worth the trip.  Lots of rooms are already sold out! Need yet more reason to come along? Um, how about the fact that The Script is asking to see you there? Imagine being side-by-side with them at the chicken buffet while they delight you with their Irish brogues. (Are you imagining it? I am.)  |
| Pamela Anderson Writes Poetry For Playboy. (Not Slam) Posted: 16 Dec 2010 11:21 AM PST
I saw the film Tiny Furniture last night and I did not like it. However, I thought it had a line that is sort of relevant here. The younger sister, having just won a prestigious prize for poetry fends off praise saying, “”Poetry is a very stupid thing to be good at. Poems are basically like dreams—something that everybody likes to tell other people but nobody actually cares about when it’s not their own. Which is why poetry is a failure of the intellectual community.” It’s pretentious, like the rest of the movie, but I liked that line, even though I don’t agree with it. Unless it’s instances like this, Pamela Anderson’s poem in honor of her 13th cover of Playboy. This is excerpted from the end:
Wow. Can’t wait to read the rest of that. I have to say though, the articles do look super interesting in this issue! And I love the La Dolce Vita reference. I can’t believe she hasn’t done that photo shoot before. But, yeah. Poetry. No.  |
| VIDEO: Model’s Hair Bursts Into Flames At Diddy’s Hot Tub Party Posted: 16 Dec 2010 09:28 AM PST There is no need to add a joke to the title of this post, because come on: It already is the funniest thing you will read all day. A model’s hair. Caught on Fire. While in a tub. At a Diddy-Dirty Money party. And rather than, you know, HELP HER, the host (comedian Kevin Hart) just laughs his ass off and prays to Jesus that this thing was caught on camera. In other words: THIS IS VIRAL GOLD. That poor model. All week she was so excited – finally, her big break, lounging in a tub at a rapper party surrounded by candles and rappers. This would be it!! What she spend 2 years in junior college to do. And she would, oh, damn, it’s so hot in here, wait, my dreams just went up in flames. Thank God she was in a tub to put her hair out. Really, you couldn’t ask to have your hair catch on fire in a more convenient location. (via DListed)  |
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