I thought it was just me. But, the truth is, E! is just so annoyingly addictive. Everybody just have to watch it. Including people who usually don’t watch TV. And I’m not just talking about my female friends here. They thrive on it, of course. But I mean adult men like me. And I didn’t realize the full extent of its influence on the modern man until a recently chance meeting with Caon, a former member of the now defunct (but maybe in line for a short comeback) metal-ly band DTR but now a happily married man who is still very much a clown and can’t get enough of fart jokes. I don’t know how the conversation turned out the way it did but suddenly he was suddenly enthusing about tanning sprays. The likes of Beyonce and Mariah are very fond of. He said something about catching 25 Celebrity Style Tips or something something on E! and boy did I not see that coming. I just gave him a perplexed look. Like a guy gives another guy when the first guy confessed about something that he shouldn’t have been doing in the first place. Like naming his favorite character from Disney’s Hannah Montana. Of course, it was all bullshit because I myself saw that show. It was not that I wanted to but I was hooked! Those E! shows grip your attention like a vice.
I don’t know how they do it but every time I stumbled upon E! News, the next 25 minutes of my life can be safely considered gone. I just can’t turn my head away. And it doesn’t help The Daily 10 comes right after. So that’s 50 minutes of my life, basically down the drain.
And Aritha wondered how her husband is familiar with the terms VPL and LBD (which translates to Visible Panty Lines and Little Black Dress to you un-hip people!) while she probably thinks they are abbreviations for newly discovered STDs. Newsflash Sweet Beetle, he and I are suffering from the same thing. And I don’t need to tell you how damn contagious it is.
However, despite my own disapproving taste of E! and especially Kimora Lee Simmons (who I think is no more fab than Leina Hangat on her worse days), I do find an interesting programme on the entertainment channel’s listing. And that’s the True Hollywood Stories (THS) series. So far, the worst I saw was Liz Hurley’s. I mean, I could not think of a reason why the people at E! went through all the trouble of making one based on her life anyway. The chunk of the show documented how she met Hugh Grant, how when they were together and how they broke up in the end. And now she spends her time wearing saris and practicing Hindi. It should be called TBS if you ask me.
But the one they did on Michael J Fox was certainly worth a watch. I never knew he had a tough time doing Back To The Future, because, it was revealed that while he was doing the movie at night, he was playing Alex P Keaton on Family Ties during the day. He was lucky to get any sleep at all during that period. And to pull it off on both fronts successfully was a testament to the man himself. And the revelation of his true motivation behind his work on Spin City and the aspect that he didn’t tell anyone, even the show’s crew, about his struggle with Parkinson’s until the show was well into running and his co-stars began to get disgruntled as his perceived lack of commitment while in truth some of the days, he just could not pull it together. And he had no choice but the let the cat out of the bag in the end. It was heartwarming. It made me all fuzzy inside.
On a lesser note, the most recent show I saw was of Christie Brinkley. She’s really not that famous on this part of the world but since she’s a former model who once made the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuits hers for three consecutive issues, I thought, this should at least be better than the one on Liz Hurley’s.
Truth be told, her life was not that spectacular. Aside from the fact that she was THE face of the 90’s and went through four marriages. But, most interesting point to note is, and this is what I want to share here, her second marriage was to Billy Joel. And, out of this marriage, they had a daughter named Alexa Ray. And she, is the stuff Hollywood dreams about.
Aged 23 this year, Aleaxa Ray Joel is blessed with her mother’s looks and her father’s talents. And something tells me we might be hearing a lot more of her in the coming future. She has already done a couple of shows in the US including a spot on Jimmy Kimmel. Although she has yet to refine her onstage persona, she’s quite the decent singer. And most importantly she writes her own songs. Like Alicia Keys and India Arie. If you’re intrigued enough, you can check out Alexa’s MySpace page yourself because, honestly, I think I have put too much video on my blog lately to offer a quick sample.
On it you can watch all her performance clips and hear her songs in which I particularly recommend you listen to Now It’s Gone which is about her step father’s (her mother’s fourth husband in this case) illicit affair with an 18 year old chick and, yeah, I know (18 hombre! Damn!)
She has an EP but according to her it’s sold out so fat chance of getting it here, even if it weren’t sold out. But in this digital age, as if that would stop you from finding other means to it (like me). Sorry, Alexa, but you do need to educate your distributors about markets outside the US (particularly SEA).
So, remember this name, Alexa Ray Joel and where you hear it first. As for E!, well, who are we mere mortals?
I don’t know how they do it but every time I stumbled upon E! News, the next 25 minutes of my life can be safely considered gone. I just can’t turn my head away. And it doesn’t help The Daily 10 comes right after. So that’s 50 minutes of my life, basically down the drain.
And Aritha wondered how her husband is familiar with the terms VPL and LBD (which translates to Visible Panty Lines and Little Black Dress to you un-hip people!) while she probably thinks they are abbreviations for newly discovered STDs. Newsflash Sweet Beetle, he and I are suffering from the same thing. And I don’t need to tell you how damn contagious it is.
However, despite my own disapproving taste of E! and especially Kimora Lee Simmons (who I think is no more fab than Leina Hangat on her worse days), I do find an interesting programme on the entertainment channel’s listing. And that’s the True Hollywood Stories (THS) series. So far, the worst I saw was Liz Hurley’s. I mean, I could not think of a reason why the people at E! went through all the trouble of making one based on her life anyway. The chunk of the show documented how she met Hugh Grant, how when they were together and how they broke up in the end. And now she spends her time wearing saris and practicing Hindi. It should be called TBS if you ask me.
But the one they did on Michael J Fox was certainly worth a watch. I never knew he had a tough time doing Back To The Future, because, it was revealed that while he was doing the movie at night, he was playing Alex P Keaton on Family Ties during the day. He was lucky to get any sleep at all during that period. And to pull it off on both fronts successfully was a testament to the man himself. And the revelation of his true motivation behind his work on Spin City and the aspect that he didn’t tell anyone, even the show’s crew, about his struggle with Parkinson’s until the show was well into running and his co-stars began to get disgruntled as his perceived lack of commitment while in truth some of the days, he just could not pull it together. And he had no choice but the let the cat out of the bag in the end. It was heartwarming. It made me all fuzzy inside.
On a lesser note, the most recent show I saw was of Christie Brinkley. She’s really not that famous on this part of the world but since she’s a former model who once made the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuits hers for three consecutive issues, I thought, this should at least be better than the one on Liz Hurley’s.
Truth be told, her life was not that spectacular. Aside from the fact that she was THE face of the 90’s and went through four marriages. But, most interesting point to note is, and this is what I want to share here, her second marriage was to Billy Joel. And, out of this marriage, they had a daughter named Alexa Ray. And she, is the stuff Hollywood dreams about.
Aged 23 this year, Aleaxa Ray Joel is blessed with her mother’s looks and her father’s talents. And something tells me we might be hearing a lot more of her in the coming future. She has already done a couple of shows in the US including a spot on Jimmy Kimmel. Although she has yet to refine her onstage persona, she’s quite the decent singer. And most importantly she writes her own songs. Like Alicia Keys and India Arie. If you’re intrigued enough, you can check out Alexa’s MySpace page yourself because, honestly, I think I have put too much video on my blog lately to offer a quick sample.
On it you can watch all her performance clips and hear her songs in which I particularly recommend you listen to Now It’s Gone which is about her step father’s (her mother’s fourth husband in this case) illicit affair with an 18 year old chick and, yeah, I know (18 hombre! Damn!)
She has an EP but according to her it’s sold out so fat chance of getting it here, even if it weren’t sold out. But in this digital age, as if that would stop you from finding other means to it (like me). Sorry, Alexa, but you do need to educate your distributors about markets outside the US (particularly SEA).
So, remember this name, Alexa Ray Joel and where you hear it first. As for E!, well, who are we mere mortals?
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