American Idol - Beatle Mania

First off I have to say:  TWO hours?  Painful!

I am very curious to know why they started with a "theme week":  Songs of The Beatles.  All of the contestants jumped on the magical mystery bus for a trek to Vegas....a.k.a "Sin City".  Where else would American Idol bring a bunch of young people? (minors included)  Was it necessary?  Does Hollywood not have enough airplane hangers available?  Did they really need to have to use the Cirque Du Soleil stage in order to channel their inner Fab 4?

Unfortunately, there were some kids who claimed to have "never heard a Beatles song in their life!" This statement had me yelling at the TV:  "WHAT?! WHAT?! SERIOUSLY?" Apparently, that statement was true.  This was made obvious by the "vocal coach from hell" Peggi Blu.  Wow.  "You are going to die...on stage!".  As harsh as that was, (which it was) I believe the vein popping out of Peggi's head should show these girls that this is a competition you must work hard for. Memorize those words!  You can't just sing....you have to SANG!  It didn't help having Interscope Records', Jimmy Lovine and posse strutting around and making themselves comfortable while the VCFH humiliated her girls. 

I'm going to be nice and say SOME of the duos/trios stood out as being original and in key.  One stand out was Tim Halperin and Julie Zorirlla who did a piano duet of "Something".  I wished they had kept playing instead of standing up to finish their song, but I understand why they did it:  Not only is it a vocal thing, but a visual thing as well.  Another stand-out duo:  Kendra Chantelle and Paul McDonald singing "Blackbird".  Maybe I haven't been giving my 100% attention to the show, but I do not remember either of them!  I think Paul has a unique voice and I'm sure he'll continue on in the competition a way. 

One who annoys me: James Durbin.  We already have Adam Lambert.  I really enjoy "live tweeting" while watching the show.  I find reading tweets during the show to be amusing - and enlightening.  One dude tweeted, "Adam Lambert knows a little about music and James Durbin knows a little about Adam Lambert".  Well said. 

I'm ready to keep an eye on Casey Abrams, the stand-up bass/guitar/music-a-phone thing (was that him?) He is very interesting and very original.  Although it was extremely off-key, I enjoyed his rendition of "Hard Day's Night" However, rumor has it that he had to go to, and may still be in the hospital.  If that's the case, he can't film a pre-recorded show and will most-likely have to bow out.  I sort of doubt it though... TMZ has a habit of blowing things out of proportion.

We mustn't forget our bridezilla, Ashley Sullivan who decided to quickly tie the knot at a cheesy chapel - one that Brittney Spears (whom Ashley admires) wed in.  Sorry Ashley (and boyfriend), I do believe this is one marriage that will end up in a train wreck...or murder.  "You will marry me...or I'll kill you..."  On a different note, I don't think that Dave the Camera Guy woke up that morning saying, "I hope this is the day!!  It could very well me my day...to be a witness!!  Perhaps for a wedding...or a murder...either one...I'm not picky!!"  Needless to say, Ashley got the boot but was completely THRILLED!  Perhaps it was a ploy... some women pretend that they're pregnant...why not claim American Idol? 

One huge thing that people can't stop talking about is JLo's breakdown.  One by one, the contestants did the 5K runway walk of doom to get the "Yea" or "Nay" from the fearsome threesome.  The cuts seemed to be going smoothly; After the looong walk, the contestant sat down, completely out of breath to hear the fateful answer.  Then the judges could take joy in watching the joyful souls take the looong trek back to the holding room to rejoice... or find Ryan Seacrest to wipe your snotty nose on under the pretense of a comforting hug.  (My kids do that) When it was Chris Medina's turn.  The conversation always does that, "So, Chris...how ya doin'? How's your fiancee?  Good." When it was time to give the bad news, JLo got very emo.  Who wouldn't?  If you know that a guy was so sweet to stay with his girl through thick and thin and who has already gone through an emotional roller coaster - do you want to send him off on another run?  I know I'm overstating it, BUT I am an emotional female.  I'd be willing to bet that on tonight's continuation, JLo will pull it together, unless there is another sad story that I'm not remembering.

That's My Fabulous Opinion!

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The Ridiculous Behavior of Dancing With the Stars Fans

First the dude with the gun shooting his television when Bristol advanced on Dancing With the Stars causing a 15-hour standoff with the Po-Po!!  NOW white powder in an envelope?!  Come on people!  Is this competition really THAT important?!  Believe me, I am a HUGE fan of the show!  As a matter-of-fact (as lame as it sounds) it's in my top 5.  I will "SHHHHH!!!" people if they are talking during the critique and the scoring...and yes, even Brook's painful attempt at interviewing.  (Bless her heart) I vote like crazy (phone lines AND abc.com) I "live tweet" for fans to vote for (this season) Brandy & Maks.  I even have a twibbon of them on my Twitter Picture! 


I noticed the "white powder" story when I turned on my computer and saw this headline:  "Was Bristol Palin Targeted in Dancing White Powder Scare?"  All I could do was just shake my head. 



Come on folks...just get over it!  This is just getting pitiful.  What's done is done.  They just happened to put someone in who has a lot of fans.  Chalk it up to a disappointing end to Season 11



My advice to the Producers of DWTS:  Because there are a lot of fans who feel as if they've been cheated - I have heard/read many people declare that they won't be watching anymore.  I suggest that for Season 12 they need a MAJOR cast.  Perhaps an All-Stars?  Bring back Mel B I would love to see Emmet or even Gilles!  Avoid bringing back the obnoxious; (Kate Gosslin). 



Come on Dancing With the Stars - redeem the show.

That's my fabulous opinion

Dancing With The Stars

I just knew what was going to happen Tuesday night.  Believe me, I was hoping for the best, but expecting the worst.  As far as me and the other 8,000 of Brandy & Maks fans go - they should have won!!  Not only because we're die hard fans, but we also know that Brandy was making great strides week after week!!  Only a few short weeks ago I thought that BranDMC were going to go home with the Mirror Ball Trophy, until some of the "better" dancers started dropping off one at a time! 


At the beginning of this season I said: "I appreciate where Bristol and her family are coming from... as far as a change of scenery, but she is opening up she and her family to some serious ridicule!"  Look at the whole "Booing in the ballroom" incident!  So many viewers, (mostly haters of Sarah Palin) swore up and down that the "booing" was at her.  Those of us who are REAL fans of the show knew that the booing was toward the judges and their "8" scores given to Jennifer & Derek.  Like Carrie-Ann, I agreed - 8's are really good scores for the first couple of weeks!   


I'm not sure if this is the Sanjiah effect (American Idol).  There was this whole push to keep the poor guy and his lack of talent in the competition - it seems as if the same thing is happening with Bristol.  SOMEHOW each week she is getting pushed through!  Many people are planning on the Republicans or whatnot - but I'M a Republican and I gave my votes to the BEST dancers!!


If Bristol DOES win this year, I will most-likely be REALLY upset....however, I will continue to watch the show!  Hopefully, Maks will return with another great partner and will finally win!!


That's My Fabulous Opinion

The Fashion Show - ultimate collection

What better way to start a review than with a little TMI!
I had to wake up at the ungodly time of 4:30 this morning.  Hubby needed to get up and out the door, so I did the get-him-up-and-out-the-door thing.  Needless to say, by the time I got the kids to school I was ready to drop. 

So, when I got home, I wrapped up in a blanket (no snuggie for this girl), flipped on the tv and fell asleep to people styling hair with peanut butter, flour, squid, etc. 
When I woke up, I was looking at people introducing themselves and how fabulous they are and what clothes they have designed.  I said to myself, "Uh oh, this is the show I said I really didn't care about watching.... However, the mesmerizing song of the SIREN sucked me in....Teeeeerrrrryyyyy...realllllitttty ssshhhooooowwww! I figured, Okay, what the heck.

I think I can basically sum up this whole show by saying:  SERIOUSLY?

When the designers arrived at the studio, they were asked to choose a "sewing kit" in which had a number.  The designer then paired up with the anorexic-amazon model of the same number.  The designer then had to dress their model in a garment which "best represents them as a designer".    They had a quickie fashion show and at the end, all of the models were split in half striking their best pose when Iman himself....whoops HERself gingerly walked down the runway as if she was going to pull a Naomi Campbell  and wipeout!  Either that or she was concerned about breaking a hip!  (After all - according to her Bio she DID start her career in 1975.) On a side note.... I tried searching youtube for a clip of the infamous NC fall - they had it, but I didn't want to see a whole interview - however, I found something just as (maybe more) funny!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyqyLWeRQeo


I don't know who these guys are, but they're FAH-NEE!!

Okay - back on track: (Iman walking onto the runway...walking slow to protect her geriatric bones...looking cranky)

The designers were "OMG'ing"  like little school girls who were looking at the most popular girl in school hoping to be noticed by her!  Then she spoke:"MINIONS! MAKE ME YOUR MUSE!"

Seriously?

Oooooooooooookay.  "I want you to capture all of my sides...my glamorous side...my fun side.." I burst out laughing at that, just because I thought she was being sarcastic..and I love sarcasm.  The more I watched, the more I realized that she was dead serious!!  Fun side?  Seriously? She barely cracked a smile!!

Just this amount of time into the show I was really missing Heidi Klum and the best prissy man on this planet Tim Gunn. Sorry, but Isaac Mizrahi is a poor man's Tim.


The designers were divided up into two "teams".  They had to come up with some quasi-clever name.  One was "NAMI (oooo. knock my socks off with originality.)  and the second team was something lik Syx...something or other.  There is always a single person who stands out from the crowd by being original, funny, stylish or just a jerk.  Well...this show has the biggest diva of them all!!  Unfortunately, you have to read the subtitles to understand what kind of diva he is!  Yes, I'm talking about Tomato-tomato Calvin Tran.   He wanted to be on his own and he was going to let everyone know it...in subtitles!!  The syx house had some nice pieces, but wasn't fabulous....as lame as a name is, they had their sewing kits ruffled (which by the way, there was an overabundance of!)


At the end tomato-tomato was left standing along side Francine who had kind of a pretty dress, but not pretty enough.  The question the glamazon brought forth: The person with the bad dress...or the person with the bad attitude?  At that time I was jumping up and down on the couch going, "I know!! I know!!!  Ooo!! I know!!! Why send the person home with the tomato-tomato attitude!?  We need drama!!  Well, drama they kept!!!  Seriously?!
Yup, seriously!

So, this is my first and last time watching and writing about this show.  I just had to tell the world what kind of disaster I thought it was!!!!

Jake and Vienna? Broke up?! Say It Ain't So!!

Okay - major sarcasm in the title there.  The whole world knew it was going to happen.  If I remember correctly, I gave it six months. 

I wanted to Tweet my fabulous opinion on the whole thing, but there just isn't enough room. I have some thoughts about Jake's behavior because I've seen this sort of thing before.

I didn't read People Magazine or Star or any of those things.  It was one of those historical moments no one could escape. Kind of like the passing of Michael Jackson.  Epic.  Or actually, it was MADE to be epic.  Everyone knows by know that Jillian & Ed just split. It was just a quick little blip on the media radar.  No major ordeal.   

Obviously, ABC decided to capitalize on this train wreck of a "relationship" by airing this he said - she said blood-bath.  Hecks, if all of the other media outlets had their hands in the slander-pie...

I'm guessing that Chris had Jake come out to briefly express his thoughts because of two things:
1. Vienna had already dominated the media with her overly emotional side of the story.
2. He knew Jake wouldn't get a word in edge-wise!

For the record; I think both of them showed true colors:  They're both completely out of their minds!! Vienna as a needy, attention starved, spoiled, immature child who demands people take "her side" in this whole fight and Jake as an impatient grown-up who demands to be treated like a strong, respectable, intelligent man...with a dash of "Don't you know who I am!?"  Do I believe that the acting/Hollywood bug has bit him? Yup!

I can see how Jake would get more and more frustrated at Vienna's feel-sorry-for-me whining.  It had a Kate Gosslin flavor to it which made her sound extremely annoying.  She claimed that she had no attention during the time he was on Dancing With the Stars.  Well Vienna, THAT is how the show (DWTS) works.  A person has to spend hours on end trying to learn the Cha-Cha-Cha & the Paso Doble.  Families get put on the back-burner. 

Vienna's desire for intimacy is understandable.  The girl is needy.  She wants affection. That's her personality.  Having "relations" (to put it delicately) is one way that makes her feel loved, which is too bad. (Bless her heart)  The whole GPS thing reminded me of my mother-in-law.  She may ask a question, to which she will receive a definite, confident and correct answer, but the answer will be ignored and a second and maybe third source will be checked.  It's an insult to a person's intelligence.  His reaction is one that my husband would have in that situation...he'll snap!

Let me give my fabulous opinion on Jake's "intimacy" issues which is causing him to be an incredible jerk to her: At the start of this whole Bachelor experience, Jake expressed that he was (is) a christian and that he was looking for a good, christian girl.  When it came time to choose his bride, he was thinking more physically than spiritually.  Otherwise, he would have chosen Tenley.  I can see it dawn on him: "Waaaait a second, I claimed to be a christian and here I am, living with a girl and being intimate with her...which is against my beliefs...what kind of christian am I?!" So, what I have seen happen before with this kind of scenario: He's really mad at himself, not only for doing wrong in God's eyes, but having gotten to the point where he was in over his head...he was stuck and extremely disappointed in himself and taking it out on her which is VERY unfair (to her).  He didn't have to be a jerk to her.  However, having an amicable break-up with a person who has emotions all over the place is NOT going to be pretty!! 

So, long opinion short: They are BOTH mental cases .  They BOTH love the media attention and they BOTH need to get their sorry selves out of the spot-light and go hide somewhere away from the media!  Do I think this will happen?! BAH-HAHAHAHAHA!!!

That's my fabulous opinion!!

Dancing With the Stars Line up

Ugh.  Because Kate Gosslin has been named as one of the contestants, it has completely thrown me off as to the other "celebrities".  Even just writing the word "celebrity" makes me want to puke when it comes to her!!  Let me just say a few things about this whole to-do. 
Haven't the Gosslin chidlren already been put through waaay to much public humiliation?!  Kate needs to stop being a self-centered media whore and get those kids out of the limelight into some sort of "normal" family life!  The quicker she's gone, the more I will enjoy the show! Pleeeeease!!  Let her be the first to go!!!"


Here is the line-up...celebs & professional dancers:

 
Evan Lysacek, 24, Olympic gold medalist, pairs with Anna Trebunskaya. (I can see them doing really well in this comp)


Erin Andrews, 31, ESPN reporter, teams up with Maksim Chmerkovskiy. (Hecks ya!!  She better be somewhat decent, I'm tired of seeing my Maks go by the 5th week!!)


Nicole Scherzinger, 31, singer/songwriter, pairs with Derek Hough. (Ummm..isn't she one of the Pussycat Dolls or something?  It will be an advantage for him...in more ways than one)

Aiden Turner, 32, soap star, partners with Edyta Sliwinska. (I don't know him, but from his photo...looks like a major hotty!)

Chad Ochocinco, 32, NFL star, pairs with Cheryl Burke. (Another I know not, but Cheryl does well with NFL stars)

Jake Pavelka, 32, 'The Bachelor', dances with Chelsie Hightower. (How can I miss you when you won't go away?)

Kate Gosselin, 35, reality TV personality, pairs with Tony Dovolani. (Poor Tony!!  Hopefully she'll break something before the show starts)


Shannen Doherty, 37, actress, teams with Mark Ballas. (This looks like an odd pair, but hey...whatever.)


Niecy Nash, 40, actress, pairs with Louis Van Amstel. (I don't know Niecy...soooo good luck)


Pamela Anderson, 42, actress/model, couples with Damian Whitewood. (Who is Damian Whitewood? and HOW is Pam going to be able to keep the 'girls' off Damian for the Viennese Waltz???)

Buzz Aldrin, 80, astronaut, pairs with Ashley Costa (formerly DelGrosso) (Pretty cool...I have really missed Ashley - she's so sweet...anyway, I hope they have medics around...)
 
Where is sweet little Kim Johnson going to be?? I'll miss the bubbly blonde!!  AAAANNNNDDD did they decide who was going to be replacing the ever-so-painful to watch Samantha Harris??
 
That's My Fabulous Opinion!!  What's YOUR'S?

The Bachelor: and the winner is...

Yesh...I was right...AGAIN.  It doesn't take a rocket scientist to follow along and KNOW who the final bachelor/bachelorette will be.  Sometimes, I'm okay with the choice, but this season - notsomuch.  Vienna (bless-her-heart) is NOT "drop dead gorgeous" as Jake exclaimed to his family.  If she's drop dead gorgeous, that leaves the rest of us so-so's to believe that we fell from the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down!!  Again I say, notsomuch!!

Tenley's family visit was perfect.  She was sweet, she had manners, she won over mamma AND daddy.  As far as Jake is concerned - she's perfect, but something is missing.  of course it is!!  I'm guessing she didn't get all freaky with him as Vienna did. 

Vienna's visit showed her lack of class.  She was obnoxious and I really don't care what the family surmised about her by the end of the day - we know that they thought she was an absolute loser.

I'm going to be generous and give this "relationship" a year.

The next Bachelorette was announced and who should it be???  The girl who had to go and save her job.  Alli.  This ought to be interesting.