The Loquacious Limey

Unless you’ve spent the last week in a tree – and to a point, I can’t blame you – you’ve heard of the Scottish singing sensation, Susan Boyle. Plucked from obscurity on ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ on April 15th, her You Tube video is now the most watched music clip in the site’s entire history. But [...]

‘There is a point where feelings go beyond words. I have lost a real friend.My life – and this country – is better for his being in it.’ Robert Redford.

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The Chinese government is taking a lot of flack recently over the Olympic opening ceremony. It was discovered that the young girl who sang at the event, Lin Miaoke, was actually lip-synching to the voice of another girl, Yang Peiyi, who was deemed ‘unsuitable to appear’ by the Communist Party bosses because she has a [...]

When you leap out of bed at the crack of noon on a Monday morning and spend a peaceful few hours composing your blog, beneath a sky so resplendently blue you could almost believe the entire astral canopy is an inverted Wedgwood bowl, life can seem pretty good.
…Then you read TV Guide.
Once a year, [...]

There is only one group for whom I hold and practice greater contempt than the entire negotiating and directorial staff of the AMPTP, and that is people who wear fur. For them is reserved a special blend of revulsion that burns with the passionate intensity of a thousand imploding suns, the merest contemplation of whose [...]

Hard on the Cuban heels of that Sequin-encrusted festival of mind-crushing banality commonly referred to as ‘Dancing with the Stars’ comes news that ‘The Donald’ is at it again. There is to be another ‘Celebrity Apprentice.’
I’ll give you a moment to try and overcome the depression.
So far slated to appear in this televised death-wish are [...]

In a revelation this is sure to leave any sentient being possessed of an IQ above that of a doorknob contemplating a gas oven with more fervor and interest than is usually healthy,.NBC has announced the renewal of its summer ‘reality’ series “America’s Got Talent” and “Last Comic Standing.”
For reasons that utterly escape me, ‘the [...]

Oscar Wilde once said, “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.” And this view is reinforced in a sickening trend that’s developing in the media, of which both those who perpetrate it, and those in the media who enable it should be ashamed: Negative Hype.
Not long ago, performers would [...]

Today, Angelina Jolie’s ‘people’ attempted yet another round of risible damage control after their client was rightly made to look ridiculous when these ‘people’ issued a four-page, single-spaced, boundlessly anal diatribe to the media, imposing a multitude of rules and limitations on what could and could not be done with the results of any interview [...]

From ‘Hollywood Grind’, “American Idol finalists Jordin Sparks and Blake Lewis are attractive, talented and have millions of adoring fans. That’s where their similarities end….”
The mark of true greatness is to be known across the World by one name; Garbo, Brando, Elvis… And the atonal, drool-flecked non-entity who wins this irrelevant freakshow will soon join [...]