Jun 30 2008
The 2 Coreys - Working It Out, Or at Least, Trying To
Even twenty years later, we’re still enamored with them, and curious enough to tune in. The 2 Coreys, Corey Feldman and Corey Haim, were quite the anomaly back then, and while separately they were good young actors, together, they presented something that was exciting. Twenty years and way too many troubles later, with neither at a place in their career similar to their teens, they’re attempting a comeback … together.
Feldman and Haim both reached their peak of stardom in their teens. Feldman had been in acting since he was three, but Haim was late to the party, with his mom signing him up for acting lessons to overcome his shyness. Yet, he was receiving raves for his appearances. No one ever knew which Corey you were talking about, and they soon became synonymous with each other. They started appearing in films together, in the process, creating a tight bond. They started off with Lost Boys, and moved on to License to Drive and Dream a Little Dream.
It started out as grumbling, and soon got too loud to ignore. These boys were great talents, but had worked themselves up quite a drug habit. While it was Haim that was in the news for his drug use more often, Feldman was known to abuse it himself. They continued in some joint ventures here and there, but it would never amount up to the success they once had together. Continue Reading »
Since last summer, Big Brother fans have been having a love affair with Evel Dick. We just can’t get enough. Dick Donato spent the last season entertaining us on the internet show House Calls as a cohost. Those of us with live feeds had been entertained nightly with his Dick at Nite show, or as I liked to call it, All Nite Dick. When everyone else in the house was asleep, he’d sit outside having a smoke, sharing his strategy, as well as hopes and dreams for his daughter Daniele, also in the house.
It almost seems like a changing of the guard.
With Law and Order: Criminal Intent beginning in its eighth season, with new episodes being seen on USA, and later re-run on NBC, Noth left some big shoes (honestly, it’s becoming an illness) to fill. Who better to fill them than Jeff Goldblum? While most famous for his movie career in films such as The Fly, The Big Chill, Jurassic Park, and Independence Day, he’s done his time on TV with guest stints, and most recently a starring role on Raines.
Results night on So You Think You Can Dance was just more of the same this week all around. Familiar costumes, familiar people, familiar styles. Chelsea Traille and Thayne Jasperson were told their costumes last week were like that of a “clown,” and now we see what looks like the same ones on all the dancers tonight in the opening number. 
Nigel had the most obvious message for everyone just before the eliminations. He wants them to see that if they have each been here two or three times, than America is telling them something. If they end up staying, they have to figure out what we want, otherwise they’ll be next to go home. Again, very obvious, and if they aren’t getting it yet, I’m guessing they won’t.
There are two types of people in this world, people that enjoy laughing at others falling, and those who definitely don’t enjoy it. The new game show Wipeout was obvious created with those that enjoy it, and while I’m not normally one of those people, I just couldn’t help but laugh at this.
The host, Jill Wagner, laughs at the contestants, and the two commentators, John Anderson and John Henson, have the best jokes. I’m not sure what was more funny, the contestants falling and wiping out, or the hilarious jokes from these two. There were lots of jokes about the big rubber balls, as well as the contestants, as they would freeze the replay and point out a dancing contestants “jazz hands,” and talked of a 6′9 contestant being 11′3″, 18′13″, and later Sasquatch.
It’s always difficult on The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, once they get to the at-home dates. To meet someone else’s family is such a big thing, and to see what it’s like to be in their environment. This time around, two of the guys raised the stakes to make it just that much bigger and that much more difficult of a decision.
Do you dream of being the next Food Network Star? Or do you just like to watch all the scrumptious food on the show and are the type to have more kitchen mishaps than successes? If you fit the latter category, you’re riding shotgun next to me in the same boat. I bet you even have some great cooking disaster stories.
I have to admit, I’m not exactly sitting here with bated breath. Usually, throughout all of June, I’m sitting here at CBS’ beck and call waiting for every little bone they toss our way, wanting to know what the upcoming season of Big Brother will be like. Yet, with the extra season we had this winter, it kind of tided me over, and until the last few weeks was so un-thrilling, it didn’t exactly leaving me hungry for more.
As I expected, even with the great field of dancers that we have on So You Think You Can Dance, things are getting clearer on who the favorites are and who is just going to keep on appearing in the bottom three, but who it is falling in the bottom three is a little surprising, although I don’t necessarily disagree.
I, for one, will be watching, having caught an earlier episode of In Plain Sight. The lead character, Mary Shannon, tends to have the same deadpan humor as Foley, and a certain forcefulness to her, as would be expected from a U.S. Marshall, so she and Foley together ought to make for quite an interesting mix.
