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[The Limey] – For reasons that mercifully escape me celebrity gossip has a huge audience, and the most popular flavor of all is a romance. Today, we hear of one that is clearly a ploy – American Idol host, Ryan Seacrest is apparently about to propose. Ryan, 36, has been dating [...] 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 [...] ‘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. ~~~ ARTICLEURL © 2008, Harlequinade, Inc. If you are not reading this via an RSS feed from www.Harlequinade.biz, the site you are on is [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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, [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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