June 2006 Archives
Jun17

Save Screech

Posted at 6:29 PM • View Comments

I’ll admit to watching Saved by the Bell. Briefly. But not the New Class or the College Years or any of the really odd TV movies where I think Zach married Kelly. Or maybe he married Jesse. Or did A.C marry Jesse?

Goodness, I remember just a little too much about a show which included a nerd named Screech and his crush Lisa Turtle. (There must not be enough going on in my life for me to remember this information so well.)

Well, it seems like Dustin Diamond who played Screech… (yes folks, he is still around after that 98 Degrees video cameo.) is going to lose his house in Wisconsin (huh?!) if he doesn’t sell 30,000 shirts (no, not 300 shirts.. 30,000) in a month.

Selling 1,000 shirts a day seems a little impossible for someone who hasn’t done a television show (non reality show related) in at least 10 years.. Now if Angelina Jolie or George Clooney decided to sell a shirt online for charity, I don’t think they would have a problem selling 30,000 shirts in a month.

Sorry Dustin. It’s probably time to call your family and tell them you will soon be moving back in. After all… if they did take all but 25% of your $2 million series earnings, it’s probably not that bad of a couch you will be crashing on.

Jun16

Britney Spears

Posted at 10:04 PM • View Comments

I think it’s time for me to break my silence about Britney Spears. I’m getting too many emails.

I don’t care if she has a manny. Or that he is a Naval academy grad. And I could care less whether or not she wears an itsy bitsy teeny weeny bikini while 6 months pregnant (She’s definitely braver than I was when I was pregnant with my second child! More power to her.)

This is what I honestly don’t understand… Why did her publicist book her for the exclusive interview with Matt Lauer so she could defend herself and then not help her with her hair, makeup and wardrobe? Can someone tell me the reasoning behind that? So many questions — Why would her publicist let her go on television in a very unflattering maternity top, way too much makeup and a hair style which just confuses me. And why when she has way too many mood swinging pregnancy hormones?!?

I have gotten so many emails about that interview and while I wondered why anyone cared about my opinion… oh yeah, that’s right now I remember… I decided to just post my thoughts instead of writing everyone and responding to the good, the bad, and the oh so ugly.

Here are my thoughts in a nutshell about the Britney Spears incedents over the past few months and the interview -

When she initially was photographed driving with her son on her lap, I was contacted by a major newspaper to comment and I said I wouldn’t because as a celebrity having to deal with paparazzi hounding her, I figured she did it because she felt she was in danger and had to get away quickly. (And I know I personally would do anything to get my children out of harms way if I felt they were in danger.) Then that reporter let me in on a little secret … Britney had confessed earlier that day to just driving without putting her son in his rear facing car seat because she was “country”. Um ok. So much for me sticking up for her. lol

And then there was the high chair incident, and the walking in Manhattan and tripping as she held a glass of water/soda/tea incident. She is always in the media recently and it seems to always be something negative.

Then moms across the country started to come of out of the woodwork to defend Britney’s parenting skills.. her mothering abilities and bloggers have started to apologize for the mean things they said.

And I sit here admitting that the only parts of last night’s interview I saw were the clips I was shown while at the studio this morning. But believe me.. they were enough for me to be sure to not let either of my children attend a playdate hosted by Britney Spears until her life has the turn around she needs (and will eventually get.)

Jun15

Luke Has Money

Posted at 6:05 AM • View Comments

We get it. Luke has money. Scott Patterson, the actor who plays Luke Danes on Gilmore Girls has money. And he’s not modest. “Lucy Liu and Clooney live down the street,” Patterson told the Daily News.” Of course, I’d like to believe down the street really means another town a few minutes away in a gated community far from the actor formerly thought of as humble. (Yeah, yeah I know the rumors about his on-set behavior, I just chose to ignore them.)

Would someone please explain the point of the (New York) Daily News piece on Scott Patterson? He has money but won’t say how much. He once lost $5,000 in one night gambling in the Bahamas. During the dot com bust, he lost $25,000 in one day on tech stock eToys. He has a financial planner in case the Gilmore Girls checks stop coming in, so he doesn’t have to go back to living in the 1966 Pontiac Tempest that he bought for $400.

But since the CW has only renewed Gilmore Girls for only one more season (idiots!!) what ever will Scott do? Well he’s now looking to buy distressed commercial and residential property.

So Luke has money. And after Gilmore Girls goes down the drain (and then off air) in the last season because creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and her hubby Daniel Palladino left, he plans to sell his house and he should be set for life.

Phew. I was really worried. I want my minute back. And I’m sure, now you do too!

Jun14

A Subway Story

Posted at 11:44 PM • View Comments

I know I’m not supposed to but for the first time ever I gave money to someone asking for it on the train today. And it’s making me really uncomfortable. I don’t regret it. I just can’t explain why I feel so uneasy about it.

I was on my way to the office and the woman walked in the subway car with her daughter and said she was stranded from North Carolina and needed help. She didn’t ask for money actually. She asked for food or anything we could spare. And then she asked in Spanish.

I saw her daughter. About the same age as Luke and I immediately went into my bag to give her money. The woman sitting next to me gave the mom a yogurt from her bag and the mom gave it to her daughter and told her she couldn’t eat it until she got her a spoon. (I actually started looking in my bag like it was Let’s Make a Deal and I could possibly.. wishful thinking.. have a spoon to give them.)

I’m not pregnant. Not sure why that mother and child really got to me but it has. I think all little girls and boys should feel like the prince and princess they are. Not have to worry about food or shelter. I just thought to myself.. what if I was in that situation and needed help, I’d really want someone to help me. I’d really want someone to believe me… to believe whatever they gave me really was for food or shelter.

Of course, I bring that up because everyone I talked to told me their theory of how there is a racket in Manhattan where they go around asking for money (besides the basketball team uniform fundraisers) and they take kids with them that aren’t their own and get money to use for drugs. And I was called naive.

I just prefer to believe this time I really was helping someone in need and not financing some horrible habit.

(P.S.: Yes, I’ve given money to street performers and have donated money to charity but I just never gave to anyone asking for it on the subway. And Yes, I take the subway also. Sometimes cabs aren’t the way to go.)

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