- Could it be? Am I finally tired of Pacman Jones and his never-ending saga of knuckle-headedness? The answer is yes, at least for today. News that Pacman is embarking on a rap career with producer and collaborator Stoagey barely registers on my radar. Pacman may have his own record label, National Street League Records in Nashville, but a lot of athletes, both current and former, have their own labels. Even more of them have tried to have musical careers, so the fact that Pacman is merely the latest to follow this trend merits a light yawn at most.
- Did someone at ABC actually speak up in a planning meeting and say, “Guys, what we really need is for someone to create a bastardized, male version of Sex and the City for our fall schedule, that’s what will really elevate us above the other networks,” or was it just a giant collective brain fart? The show I’m referring to is Big Shots, a new drama featuring retreads (not retards – I don’t think) from other old ABC series like Michael Vartan (Alias) and Dylan McDermott (The Practice) and also-rans like Christopher Titus and Joshua Molina as four privileged, wealthy, white CEO-type dudes who have a sort of boys club where they hang out together and b*tch about the problems in their lives and relationships. Of course, this show can be nothing more than a sanitized version of Carrie Bradshaw and her band of middle-aged shrews because Big Shots is on a major network instead of HBO, where most anything goes. If the idea of this show is appealing to men the same was Sex and the City did to women, I’ll say right now it’s going to fail because this isn’t the type of show that male viewers gravitate toward. If it’s supposed to appeal to women, I think it will fail because I don’t see how the lives of four spoiled, rich, middle-aged white guys (with no big-name, sex-symbol main characters – well, Vartan you could make an argument for – and no great actors among the main characters either) complaining about the women in their lives appeals to women. In short, I think this show is going to fail no matter what. Sorry, ABC, but at least it looks to be better than your sure-to-bomb new comedy-without-the-comedy series Cavemen. The initial pilot for this show had to be entirely re-shot because it was so abysmal that the network demanded a completely new episode. But no matter how many times they re-film it, it’s still going to suck big time, as polishing a turd doesn’t change the fact that it’s still a turd. It’s a show heisting its premise from a series of low-rent, tired, played, lame 30-second car insurance commercials, so what else can it do but suck? Yeah, and it was a great idea to cancel an awesome, exciting show like Traveler, ABC, because clearly you have so many great new shows on the way to replace it.
- If you’re a New York pro sports franchise and you’re not in the process of securing funding for or building a new stadium/arena, it has to be a lonely feeling for you. With the two baseball franchises in town, the Mets and Yankees, both already in the building process for their new stadiums, the two NFL franchises in the area, the Giants and Jets (who actually play and practice in New Jersey despite their monikers) have announced plans to build a $1.3 billion new stadium at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, N.J. The two teams currently share a stadium at the same complex. Each team has secured financing with a major investment bank to finance its half of the stadium cost and the 82,500-seat stadium is slated to open in time for the 2010 season. As for New York’s other pro sports franchises, let me break down your respective situations. To the Rangers and Islanders of the National Hockey League, tough nuts, but no one really cares about hockey in any American city outside of Detroit, so no new arena for either of you. The NHL has a tough enough time getting games on a TV network that more than six people get, so work on that first and get back to me. Hockey is not a major sport in this country, so enjoy your current venues and be thankful that we don’t make you play your games on a frozen pond in someone’s back yard. As for the Knicks, NYC’s flailing, bumbling NBA franchise…..as soon as you stop sucking and get rid of one of the five worst executives in NBA history (Isaiah Thomas), you might have a case for a new arena. But you already play in the world’s most famous arena, Madison Square Garden, so maybe just enjoy that and don’t complain.
- Glad to see that Courtney Love is back in the spotlight, because being there seems to be the entire point of that woman’s life. After latching on to Kurt Cobain’s rising star and pushing him into the kind of famous rock-star lifestyle she so adored, Courtney squeezed as much attention as she could out of her late husband’s death. She gave interviews, released his private journals to the public and all the while sought to further her own career and the career of her band, Hole. Now Ms. Love is on the cover of the upcoming issue of Harper’s Bazaar because she’s lost a lot of weight, whoopee. Love is enthused to be down to 139 pounds and to no longer be a size 8, so that means everyone gets to hear all about it. As happy as I am when any overweight person slims down and does all of our retinas a favor, count me as one of those who don’t care or want to know about these “amazing” lifestyle changes that have helped Courtney shed the lbs.
- Fight this one, Venezuelans, fight it with every ounce of your collective strength. The reigning terror that is President Hugo Chavez is again on the offensive, and if he has his way he will be re-elected……indefinitely (BA-BA-BA-BUUUUM!…P.S. That’s my dramatic music indicating impending terror and doom)! As he opened a lengthy speech to the Venezuelan National Assembly, Chavez called for major changes to the country’s constitution as part of a series of reforms which would allow for his indefinite re-election. According to my boy Hugo, his proposed changes would affect less than 10 percent of the constitution but would bring his nation “new horizons for the new era.” Because Chavez’s political allies control the legislature, the proposed reforms are expected to be approved within a few months. Again I implore the people of Venezuela to fight this, because an oppressive, dictatorial ruler is a friend to no man…..except himself. Already this despotic tool is booting any foreigner who dares criticize his regime out of the country. Why would anyone be so naïve as to believe that he’ll be any kinder or more diplomatic to dissenting voices among his own people? Fight the power, Venezuelans, before it’s too late.
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