I don't normally post celebrity stuff, but this development actually affects my enjoyment of one of the only two things worth watching on TV right now. At least one Mad Men cast member, my favorite one, like everyone's favorite one, is apparently a Scientologist or hanging out with Scientologists in a chummy enough way to imply mutual group membership. Elizabeth Moss, "Peggy", seen here at last night's Scientology Party For Scientologists At The Scientology Celebrity Centre Of Scientology:
Say it isn't so, Getty Images and ONTD! I guess Leah Remini's Scientology didn't ruin The King Of Queens for me. I'll just try to think of it that way. Yeah. Why couldn't this have happened to the chick who plays Joan?
How many other major-studio movies have had the guts to stage the battle of ideas between good and evil in such a stark fashion? None that I can recall. But mostly, The Devil's Advocate is The Al Pacino Show, a camp romp through his full range of gesticulation and verbal gymnastics.
Scott Tobias puts probably more thought into analyzing this movie than the writers put into writing it, but it's time for The Devil's Advocate to officially take its rightful place next to Showgirls in the vaunted realm of ingenious bad movies. There are two clips in the essay that illustrate without spoiling, but if you want to relive the ludicrously over the top final scene, it's here.
Everyone is all sarcastic about Sarah Jessica Parker's rumored new role as a single Manhattanite in The Ivy Chronicles being a "radical departure" from Carrie on Sex And The City, but what were we expecting? It's not like the woman has a lot of range. Sure, she can dance, but other than that she basically plays herself. What else is she going to--OH MY GOD, NEVERMIND, THE DANCE OFF FROM GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN IS ON YOUTUBE:
I'm a little late to this, but TV Crunch made a list of the 25 Worst Sitcoms Ever, and Small Wonder is #1!? No. Small Wonder, while not a good show, has the distinction for a large demographic of people (say age 27 - 35) of being the first old TV show they looked up on excite or hotwire or whatever when they first got the internet. In fact, for a large part of the early '90s I thought Small Wonder was a recurring dream I had as a kid. Small Wonder is an icon among sitcoms. And where the fuck is Two And A Half Men on a list that includes Cavemen just because it was based on Geico commercials? Cavemen, while weird and illogical, was a million times better than Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer's disgusting festival of cliches. Just ask Vulture. (Via Die Actor Die, who jokingly suggests M.A.S.H as a worst sitcom candidate.)
And say what you will about Family Matters, but no sitcom has a funnier Wikipedia page. Did you know FM was really a science fiction show? Let's just stop for a moment and clear our heads by learning how to Do The Urkel:
Wait, before anyone gets mad, that is not a rhetorical question. Having seen only one episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and going "sure, yeah, okay, they talk fast, it's cute" in college, I'm completely mystified by all the people who still bring up Buffy in conversation all the time. And there are a lot of people. Smart people with lives. Many of my friends, in fact. Usually when the subject of Buffy comes up, I nod politely and try to change the subject lest I get reveal my ignorance of the show to what everyone has to admit are its totally insanely rabid fans. I understand both the real cultural (feminism, nerd liberation) and the pop cultural (genre-creating) significance of the show, but could a person just watching Buffy for the first time now actually enjoy it, or did you have to kind of be there? And which episode most perfectly represents the purported best-everness of the show? And really, what could possibly, possibly justify entire academic conferences about Buffy? For real, I'm curious, don't slay me.
Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains, the 1981 cult girlie punk film starring Diane Lane and Laura Dern as early riot grrrls urging their fellow women to "don't put out!" will finally get a non-theatrical release on DVD in September, just in time for all those hipster Halloween costumes to finally make sense:
Lane, rocking a skunk coif, belts A Waste of Time as female fans chant "We don't put out!" Stains inspired rockers from L7 and Bikini Kill to Courtney Love as it found an afterlife on bootlegs, cable and the art-house film circuit.
There are a few clips from The Fabulous Stains on YouTube, of course.
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