Hollywood Gossip and Political Hoopla

In a move that I can only assume is meant to make my live blogging coverage on January 13th of the Golden Globes that much more excruciating, the WGA has denied requests to allow writers to script any sort of prepared material for the Globes as well as the Oscars on February 24th. Jon Stewart may have to ad lib his way through the Oscars this time around. This means that the Globes are going to suck far more than they already do. In addition, no clips are allowed to be shown at the Oscars. Yeah. No clips of the movies that are nominated.

We’ll still be covering the Globes, because we’ve got nothing better to do. But something entertaining better happen. I demand at least one chuckle during this show. As for the WGA, between this and forcing Prison Break to go off the air, I’m officially on neither the writers or the studios side. You all annoy me, and I hope all your picket signs blow away in the wind.

This writers / studios war is leading to some side battles in Hollywood, including one that Fox wants to get involved in with Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. Fox is running out of Family Guy episodes, and rather than cut their losses with MacFarlane in the picket lines, they’re opting to move ahead with three episodes of the show that haven’t even passed the finalization process. MacFarlane, who actual voices three major characters, isn’t happy and you can bet your ass legions of faithful Family Guy fans aren’t going to be thrilled either if Fox starts screwing around with their show by feeding them incomplete episodes. To make things even more interesting, MacFarlane has been in the middle of renegotiations for a new long term contract with Fox for awhile now.

Dumb, dumb move. Family Guy has one of those rapid fan bases that’s liable to pull a show boycott or something if Fox actually goes ahead with this plan. They’d probably be happier with reruns for awhile.

E! - Fox Plans Foolish Move

Curb Your Enthusiasm star Jeff Garlin showed up last week at a WGA rally in LA with a gift for striking writers. Personally, I think they’ve been getting too much as it is what with all the food and cake and generally catering they’re receiving. They’re living better now than they were before the strike. Garlin had something else in mind though. He gave them porn DVDs.

It doesn’t say anything about him providing something to you know, watch them on. Wouldn’t magazines make more sense since they can read those in line as they’re eating their chocolate torte?

NY Post - Are Porn Writers Striking?

I always end up defending Ellen DeGeneres in this blog for some reason, despite the fact that I hated her old sitcom and I hate her talk show. She should be low on my pecking order of people I defend, or at least in the middle somewhere because she’s never done anything to make me particularly care about her. I guess I could argue that she pisses me off for making me feel sympathetic towards her and thus whenever I have a chance I need to toss some sort of vile her way in retribution. I’ll start now. Ellen DeGeneres has ugly hair.

Now that that’s out of my system I can move on. I get why the writers involved in the current strike are pitching a fit because she’s still producing episodes. I understand that it breaks the show of solidarity everyone’s trying to show for the writers struggle. With that said, there’s a good number of staffers working on the Ellen DeGeneres show that could lose their jobs if she stops production, and in case no one has noticed Christmas is coming up. If you looked around hard enough last week you probably heard about either the Tonight Show or the Late Show having to cut a good portion of their staff in two weeks if the strike doesn’t end. I can give Ellen a pass for this because regardless of what her real motivation is people who aren’t making millions a year, the lowly peons stuck in the middle of all of this, are going to stay employed.

It’s not like there’s not enough support for the writers as it is. It’s not like people haven’t noticed, and it’s not like ones that haven’t noticed yet won’t in the coming weeks as they find their favorite shows off the air and a shitty American Idol clone or some other d-level reality show stuck in it’s place.

I have a nasty headache and I can barely see out of my left eye for some reason. I probably have some horrible brain injury … no, no I rubbed the sleep out of my eye, I’m ok now.

I heard somewhere this morning as I was falling crawling out of bed that bloggers are now starting to strike to show solidarity to the Hollywood writers. Why, I don’t know, and I have yet to see one of those blogs. I’m not sure I get the connection between someone blogging on their computer and someone in Hollywood writing sitcoms. I guess because we write words we’re all the same. Doesn’t that give school students an excuse to strike then? You want me to write a report on mitochondria? F*** you Mrs Wipple, I’m on strike. How about the secretaries? Where will it all end?

Fear not, because I promise all of you U Suxxors will not be striking anytime soon. Not while I’m earning just enough money a day for a cup of noodles. A man’s gotta eat. Besides, while I’m quite annoyed that every episode of Prison Break seems to end with everyone back at square one lately, last night was the final show until January 17 or some date around there. Screw the writers, even though their reasons are valid. You don’t show me a preview where Bellick’s in a fight to the death and then tell me I have to wait until January 17th to find out what’s going on. I’m pretty much forced to turn to the internet for entertainment now due to this picketing bullshit because as much as I like Kitchen Nightmares and Family Guy, they’re not going to completely fill the void. I’m a human, I need entertainment. Hell, this is the part where bloggers should step up and help fill that void. Give people something to do, something to read. Reading’s FUNdamental right? I know that, and I’m not even one of those blogs that’ll tell you how to make tons of cash with a blog even though the only blog they’re running is one that tells you how to make tons of cash with a blog. Seriously, how many of those do we need at this point guys? Can’t we write about baseball card collections or something? Or tiddlywinks? There’s a project, someone do a tiddlywinks blog. I’ve always wanted to know what tiddlywinks actually are. Help me learn.

I’ve already started seeking new avenues of entertainment. As you can see I’ve started exploring more of my creative side, meaning I actually got around to doing a new header and even a side scroll bar. In time I’ll create some more and put them on a random loop or something to add some variety. This place needed some color. I’ll let you figure out who everyone is, though I will tell you that everyone that appears on the headers or sidebars is a celebrity or some person that has been discussed on this blog at one point or another. Good luck, you’ll need it.