So yes, because Ariel loves it so, I’ve been watching the opening episodes of “American Idol.” And boy oh boy, fans of “Star Wars” must have been cringing.
First there was a guy who showed up in–swear to God–Princess Leia’s slave outfit. Nowadays Carrie Fisher wouldn’t look good in it, but this guy, easily seventy, eighty pounds overweight and fairly hirstute, was just achingly awful to look upon. Paula Abdul suggested that he get his chest hair removed and, if he did, promised he’d have the chance to audition that his ensemble was precluding. To her subsequent shock, he returned after having his entire torso waxed. Did he then launch into a surprisingly, achingly heartfelt love ballad and turn the tide? Of course not. He started gyrating while singing a Spice Girls number which Simon mercifully cut short after less than two bars. Actually Cowell was probably tempted to hit a couple of bars just to blur the memory.
So who showed up later? A self-proclaimed geek who was wearing her hair in the Princess Leia buns. She didn’t make the cut either, which she promptly blamed on the fact that she was, in fact, a geek, and therefore that was the reason she was turned down. Well, no, the truth was that her voice was marginal at best, and her deportment merely served to be the final straw. But she set herself up to lose so she could blame the world for her own shortcomings. I think we all know plenty of people like this.
Don’t fans have enough of a reputation as fools and freaks without stuff like this contributing to it?
At least the creepy guy who advanced on Abdul while singing a song about stalking her (her body language–arms folded, legs crossed–conveyed just how freaked she was by him, and I can’t blame her) wasn’t wearing a Darth Vader outfit.
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If they REALLY wanted their 15 minutes of fame, then it should be TO THE DEATH.
If they REALLY wanted their 15 minutes of fame, then it should be TO THE DEATH.
There was a “West Wing” Thanksgiving episode in which C.J. is faced with trying to decide which of two turkeys is going to receive clemency by the President, and she implores Barlett to take her off the hook by pardoning both of them. She says, “One gets a full life in a petting zoo. The other gets eaten.” Without blinking, the President responds, “If the Oscars were like that, I’d watch.”
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You may be comforted to know that the “Stalker Guy” is a professional musician and part of a musical comedy duo called “The Hairy Aureolas”.
http://www.offtheedgeproductions.net/hairyaureolas.com/index.HTML
There was a letter in the Herald Sun, the most-read paper in my state, if not Australia, responding to an article which referred to Klingons where it should have said Borg.
The writer wrote as a Klingon, warning that the article risked provoking war between Klingons and the Federation, that the journalist’s mother had a smooth forehead and something about him showing up on Qo’noS to have his tongue cut out with a bat’leth.
I was cringing when I got to work, and promptly had four people point out the article to me…