American Idol/Dancing With Stars...WE HAVE WINNERS! TV-Bachelorette Begins Love Quest; Thoughts-Bill Clinton's Wandering Hands...with PIC!

Heh. Bill Clinton caught with his hand where they shouldn't oughta be. The story here…AND the incriminating pic.

Cat Stevens…remember him? Listen to his new beautiful song. Such talent from he who is now considered a terrorist against our country.

Waterboarding, torture and why Obama will never win this battle.
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Melissa Rycroft got rejected soundly by last year's Bachelor Jason Mesnick. But it's Jillian who moved on to The Bachelorette to find her soulmate from a pool of 30 at the start.

Did Jillian have some surgery since last season's The Bachelor?
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Many argue that the Frenchman was the best dancer of the lot but the young Olympic Gold Medalist won the 2009 Dancing With the Stars crown.

A summary of the 2009 season and an excellent idea for the new season that came from my own fine mind.

All with pics and video you'll find nowhere else on the Internet.
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It's murmurered and screamed across the fruited plains that Adam Lambert was denied his Idol crown by the zealous Christians who did not like his sexuality.

Here we have the REAL reason Kris Allen won and while it is about marriage, it's not about Steve marrying Joe.

All with pics and video you'll find nowhere else on the Internet.
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Pic of the Day







Cat Stevens

I am not at all sure what’s up with former famous American singer once known as Cat Stevens. Stevens sang such hit songs as “Moon Shadow” and was a force to be reckoned with.

Now, as I understand it, Stevens is a Muslim known as Yusuf and is not allowed entry into America for his terrorist background.



Husband heard Yusuf on the Jay Leno show one evening and thought the song below was beautiful. He emailed the Youtube link to me and I too was struck by how pretty the song was.

Of course songs and music are a personal and wildly variable preference but take a moment and listen to the song as sung by Cat Stevens and ask yourself why such a talented fellow threw his life down the flusher to be banned in his own country and denied the fame his talent deserves.



Heh. Bill Clinton’s Wandering Hands



This picture’s been all the rage on the Internet this past week. Of course the pic could have been taken in that quick instant when ole Bill’s hand slid slightly down Fran Drescher’s back to be removed just as soon as the shutter clicked.

Heh.

Torture

Okay, so everyone who really believes that Mohammad is sitting home one weekday, sipping some strong coffee, smoking an unfiltered ciggie and telling his wife what must be done lest she suffer another beating to be hidden by the burqua, reads about Guantanamo Bay, sees that one of the terrorists prisoners has been denied a prayer rug, and suddenly leaps to his feet with a swear word and vow to right now join the Jihad to rescue his terrorist friends from the torture…everyone who believes this bit of fiction, please raise your hand.

For I have a real nice bridge for sale, cheap.

Yet we hear this nonsense from the liberals in our midst and it’s time folks, it’s time we all find that common sense for which Americans are so well known.

It’s called the old repeat something over and over until it becomes the truth.

I don’t blame Nancy Pelosi for refusing to answer any more questions about her lying self and her lies about the CIA. Every damn Democrat knew that waterboarding was done on a couple of high-value detainees and it was done to get at terror plots then afoot and were thwarted.

Further, Americans aren’t sitting home lamenting our use of waterboarding no more than Mohammad is ready to join the Jihad because of same. Note too that the Democrats voted AGAINST funding the Obama plan to close Gitmo and bring all the fine terrorists into this country because, go with me here, let one terrorist be moved into anybody’s district and watch that congress critter get voted out toot de sweet.

Americans really don’t want terrorists living amongst them, silly people.

We understand that Obama had to pay back his Muslim campaign contributors but hey, Barack…it’s not a winner.

Mohammad ain’t gonna join the Jihad because of waterboarding, Americans aren’t gonna be happy about terrorists in their midst, Nancy Pelosi will keep on lying as the media won’t bother her and let the American public realize that this administration really wants to lock up members of the previous administration for keeping this country safe for ten years and boom, instant no more Obama or Democrats for that matter.

Well that outcome would suit me but the Democrats aren’t going to let this happen.

Heh.

Ending With a Smile



 


Another Surprise of a Winner!



It’s small consolation that there were plenty who agreed with my assessment that Adam Lambert would win the 2009 American Idol title handily. To include both Randy and Simon, judges of the contest, who also declared that the likely winner would be Adam.

As for me, I regularly complained about Kris’ performances, often lamenting that he was more the beloved of the pre-pubescent crowd than a singer of wild talent any more than, say, Anoop Desai.

Which, yon reader might argue, shows you what I know.



I urge yon discerning reader to not leave me empty and forfeit! If nothing else, stay tuned to this Blog that a reader will know that whoever I should nominate as the obvious winner will quite probably NOT be the winner and in its own way, that’s a form prescience, is it not?

I was wrong about Dancing With the Stars but with American Idol, I really disliked the winner and so asserted right along.

I have a question for yon reader.

WHERE THE HELL WAS KRIS ALLEN’S WIFE?

Hmmmmm?



Did anybody even know that the guy had a wife? Hell, I didn’t know this until another Blog reader informed me and it seems there’s a reason that a singer so beloved by the 12-14 year-old’s seemed to deliberately have any evidence of a wife kept from public view. Because the precious 12-14 year old crowd wouldn’t take kindly to any sort of wife object as I see it.

Don’t tell me that such as husbands and wives are carefully kept from the public. Chris Daughtry had a wife and she was not kept hidden. Sure the spouses are kept in the background; this is a fact of life for celebrities who might have fans with secret dreams of marrying their beloved star. Lil Rounds’ husband and kids were often featured in the audience of the 2009 American Idol audience. It was always Kris’ parents cheering him on in the AI theaters.

In the case of Kris Allen, his wife wasn’t even shown in any scene, not even during the show featuring the vaunted homecoming.

At any rate, the final performance night came and each final contender was charged with singing three songs. One was chosen by the American Idol producer, Simon Fuller. Another song was chosen by the contender himself from the pool of songs sung by each during the season. Finally, in an intriguing twist, each finalist sang a song co-written by judge Kara DioGuardi. It was interesting having each finalist sing the same song with the ability this brings for the viewer to compare the styles with this sort of competitive device.

Adam sang the song he performed during his birthweek, “Very Mad World”. He sported a very long, gothic type of coat with smokey visual effects. Randy gave him an A+.

Simon Fuller chose a bluesy Sam Cook tune, “It’s Been a Long Time Coming”, for Adam and surprisingly Adam sang it very well.

The song co-written by Kara, “There Are No Boundaries” was a ballad type of song, a genre way out of Adam’s league. I thought Adam sounded way better than Kris singing this tune although this song was right up Kris’ alley.

Kris chose the song “Ain’t No Sunshine” from his season’ repetoire and he played the piano. Simon Fuller had Kris sing “What’s Going On”, which Kris sang while playing the guitar. My husband said Kris sang that tune just awful and I thought so too. Simon Cowell said it sounded like three friends playing in the bedroom. Heh.

So there you have it. It’s not that Kris Allen isn’t a good singer. By the time this reality show gets down to the top five all of them are great singers.

I think that Adam Lambert had way more talent and that certain shining star quality that Kris did not possess.

But the teenyboppers have voted and I’m quite sure that Adam Lambert will go on to big things as well. It will be interesting to see which of these two turns out to be the bigger star.

My moneys on Adam Lambert.

Adam Lambert-SECOND PLACE 2009
Alexis Grace-sent home 3/18/09
Allison Iraheta-sent home 4/29/09
Anoop Desai-sent home 4/22/09
Danny Gokey-sent home 5/12/09
Jasmine Murray-sent home 3/11/09
Jorge Nunez-sent home 3/11/09
Kris Allen-WINNER 2009!
Lil Rounds-sent home 4/22/09
Matt Giraud-voted off 4/15/09-saved by judges-sent home again 5/5/09
Megan Joy-sent home 4/1/09
Michael Sarver-sent home 3/28/09
Scott MacIntyre-sent home 4/8/09

Below, a remix of the three songs by Adam and Kris performed on the final performance night, with mine own wise commentary spliced within.


Surprising Outcome on Dancing With the Stars 2009




Shawn Johnson is cuter than a field mouse. She does not dance better than Gilles Marini and it’s open to debate if she even dances better than the Bachelor Star Melissa Rycroft.

Yet she won the 2009 dance competition on ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” 2009 and it certainly wasn’t because the judges helped her along.

Indeed right along the judges consistently award Gilles top scores for his dance performances and he did, indeed, deserve them. In Dancing with the Stars the judges scores are factored with the audience call-in vote to determine the winner. This is unlike American Idol, for example, where the judges have no impact on the vote, indeed do not even award points.

The point being that Shawn Johnson evidently captured America’s heart because by my own tracking, Shawn received a full twenty points less than Gilles Marini, French heartthrob and star of “Sex in the City”.

Melissa Rycroft was my favorite to win the thing although honesty causes me to admit that my prejudice stems mostly because of the many entrees I made on my Bachelor Blog about Melissa, most entrees decrying the deceit the creators of The Bachelor were trying to pull over on us. The major deceit being the obviously scripted ended that had Bachelor Jason Mesnick choosing Melissa to throw her over in the ending show. Next thing us gullible fools know Melissa on Dancing With the Stars and hey, we weren’t all born yesterday. Melissa needed a bigger dramatic part in the Bachelor 2009 story line than just being one of 25 possible contenders for Jason’s heart. So boom, write it in that Jason chooses Melissa than have him throw her over for the next female in line.

Hey, it worked great! We had a Dancing With the Stars Contender who could step in and fill the void for two scheduled celebrity dancers who had to pull out at the last minute due to injuries. And the contender had a compelling dramatic background that was big enough to have her considered as a “star”. Sort of.

The best dancer in 2009 was Gilles Marini or so most honest folk would tell you. Shawn Johnson did deserve a solid second place, even over Melissa.

As for Melissa…hey, she did terrific considering her rocky start. The poor girl only had a couple of hours to rehearse for the first performance and she did great. Then she got injured with a punctured lung or something of the sort. This really hurt her overall score total.

So Kudos to Melissa Rycroft and cute Shawn. Gilles Marini will likely get more movie offers coming his way as a result of his exposure on Dancing With the Stars. Shawn Johnson might get an MC gig and Melissa probably has some kind of bright future coming her way.

On 5/18/09, the night of 2009 Dancing With the Stars’ Final performances, the final three all did a Paso Doble. The performance began with the stars each doing a bit of Paso Doble with an ending that featured all three.

I decided, after much rumination, that I do not like the Paso Doble dance.

First, who the hell ever heard of this dance? I’ve heard of a waltz so even adding a Viennese distinction doesn’t elude me. Same with the Tango and the Argentine type.

When was the last time you were at a wedding and Uncle Sam got up and urged all attendees to “let’s all get on the dance floor and do the Paso Doble”?

Not that many of us Tango or waltz at weddings in our lives but it’s not beyond the pale. But a Paso Doble?



I understand that it’s a dance meant to imitate a bull fight.

I think it’s a dumb dance, not pretty like a waltz, not sexy like a Tango, not a toe-tapper like the Cha-Cha.

Shawn got 28 points, Melissa 29 points, and Gilles 30 points for their performance of the Paso Doble.

After the Paso Doble, each couple performed a Freestyle. This was terrific to watch, frankly, and I wish the producers would figure out a way to incorporate maybe one more Freestyle dance.

Shawn and Mark began their Freestyle dressed in weird costumes. After a bit, the costumes came off and the duo performed a dance that had them awarded 30 perfect points for the performance.

In a pre-performance vignette, Apollo Ono visited Shawn. Apollo was the winner of 2007’s “Dancing With the Stars” competition. He is also a gold-medal Olympic athlete and he shares that distinction with Shawn.



Melissa and Tony performed a sort of break-dance kind of dance for their Freestyle. The judges didn’t like it so much but I thought they displayed some great footwork. Melissa got 27 points for her Freestyle performance.

Gilles and Cheryl danced to the only song I liked for this final night. As always, Gilles was romantic and sexy. The judges said they wanted more. Gilles got 28 points for his Freestyle performance.

So another year wraps up on ABC’s Dancing With the Star and I leave with this novel idea.

How about having a show, maybe a series of shows, that has the past winners competing against each other? For example we’d have Apollo Ono, Joey Fatone, Kelly Monoco, Shawn Johnson…like that, all in competition to become, I dunno…maybe the Gold medallist of Dancing With the Stars? I guess they’d have to have the former winner agree to it but I think a few might return.

ABC has my permission to use my idea with no remuneration due me except maybe a mention of my Blog. Insert wink here.

-Ty Murray-Jewel’s husband, rodeo star-sent home 5/12/09
-Holly Madison-on “Girls Next Door”-sent home 3.31.09
-Belinda Carlisle-lead singer Go-Go's-sent home-sent home 3/17/09
-David Alan Grier-Actor-sent home 4/7/09
-Shawn Johnson-17 years old...olympic gold medal winner-WINNER!! 2009
-Lil Kim-rapper, singer and actress-sent home 5/5/09
-Gilles Marini-Actor-came in second for 2009
-Steve-o-MTV Star-sent home 3/21/09
-Melissa Rycroft-Bachelor star-came in third for 2009
-Denise Richards-Actress-married to a Sheen-sent home-3/24/09
-Lawrence Taylor-NY Giants football Hall of Famer-sent home 4/14/09
-Chuck Wicks-singer and songwriter-sent home 4/28/09
-Steve Wozniak-Apple computer wiz-sent home 3/31/09

Below, a short remix featuring the group Paso Doble and bits of the Freestyle performances. With mine own commentary, as always, spliced in.



The Bachelorette Jillian Begins Her Quest for Love

Ah but ABC’s rather ridiculous series, The Bachelor, begins in the form of The Bachelorette, with the star being Jillian, a reject by Jason Mesnick from last season’s The Bachelor.

Though I term the show ridiculous, I do like to watch it because if ever a reality show was a lesson in effective scripting, it is the Bachelor. Personally I think the would-be Bachelor/..ette probably chooses a contender that they’d like to get to know better fairly early on. Note I don’t assert that the would-be Bachelor/…ette chooses a contender that they’d like to MARRY early on because I don’t think that’s how it all comes down.

The show does, due to the drama and attempts to pull in an audience, have its would-be Bachelor/…ette assert early, often and loudly, that he or she is definitely looking for a spouse. Which is probably true, in a manner, in that most single folk are looking for a spouse as most of us do, boom, get married at some point in our life.

I also suppose that there’s probably some hope that a future spouse will arise from the mob of 25-30 who begin a Bachelor/…ette series. But let’s be honest here. Our nightclub, singles clubs, online hookup experiences don’t have us choosing someone to marry as we peruse the offerings. Initially we look for someone we might enjoy spending some time with and maybe someone we could have a future with, ideally all in the same person.

The Bachelor series have only had one wedding and that was from way long ago. What happened to the Navy doctor fellow? How about the English guy who chose the dingbat hot blonde? There’s been others and yet, only a Tristan wedding out of yay many. Remember the once ubiquitous Deanna and her goofy snowboarder.

Not that there’s anything wrong with this. If the Bachelor…ette in contention for the title spends time away from the camera with his or her chosen and it doesn’t work out, I suspect there’s nothing in the contract that says they HAVE to get married. All that talk about marriage as each season begins is just to get the audience hyped.

Below I found a couple of pictures of Jillian from last year’s The Bachelor just for giggles and grins.





Below, the pic of Jillian on the season’s premiere show.



First thing, I think Jillian had her upper lip Botoxed. I obviously have no proof of this but that lip looked thicker and it seemed that Jill acted like, well someone who had their upper lip Botoxed.

Beyond that, Jillian looked lovely and she sure had a bevy of fellows interested in her.

Normally the season starts out with a stable of 25 for the Bachelor…ette contender. According to show host Gregory Harrison, the applicants for contenders for the hand of Jillian were so many that an additional five more, up to 30 now, were added to the lineup.

Having these additional contenders would make the season last longer as I see it. Of course if things start to get boring or viewership straggles, more than one can be eliminated to get the time under control.

Adding these extra contenders makes me thing the Bachelor producers consider that this show has been very successful and might be more successful in the future.

So we’ve got breakdance instructors, pilots, a British guy, a winemaker and a contractor who works with his mother.

We’ll meet more of the contenders for Jillian’s hand on this Blog in the future but for now we introduce Jillian and promise to keep up on her progress at finding a “husband”…wink, wink.
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