1932-2011

Elizabeth Taylor was a Hollywood icon whether it was for contribution on screen or off. She was the first actress to earn a million dollars for a film and paved the way for actors making millions per film now. As well she started the paparazzi/tabloid craze with her frequent marriages. She won two academy awards for Best Actress and nominated a total five times. She was the definition of the word “movie star”. It’s a shame she wasn’t able to do much acting in her later years. If you have not for some weird reason never seen any of her films, you must at least check out one of her most notable and famous role in “Cleopatra”.

Elzibeth Taylor these days was compared to Angelia Jolie of now because of her affair with Eddie Fisher. People.com just ran this story with a quote from Fisher’s then wife Debbie Reynolds. I love that she had nothing but great things to say, regardless of what happened back then.

“It was a long productive career, and she was the most glamorous and sexual star of our generation,” Reynolds, 78, said in a statement. “No one else could equal Elizabeth’s beauty and sexuality. Women liked her and men adored her, and her love for her children is enduring. She was a symbol of stardom. Her legacy will last.” People.com

Rest In Peace

The Tourist being nominated as many times as it was was the big clue that HFPA was just looking for higher ratings vs. quality show. And by inviting Ricky Gervais back was an even more obvious ploy it was and was always about ratings. The Golden Globes needed the higher viewing turn out after declining ratings as the years have gone on.  And they finally got it but at what expense?

Acting wise, which is suppose to be the real reason people watch this thing, in the major categories I was satisfied with the winners: Annette Beinning, Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, Colin Firth, Paul Giamatti, Melissa Leo. As much as I love Johnny Depp and Jake Glynhaal their nominations were a big wtf. ‘The Kids Are Alright’ winning for best Comedy great, but The Social Network for Drama? Eh. Yeah everyone saw it, it was a good movie, ok whatever.  I just can’t take a movie about Facebook seriously enough to be winning big awards like this especially over other films like Inception and The King’s Speech. And it won other categories like Screen Play and Director?!?!?

As for the TV awards, eh didn’t really care, honestly there is no real good tv on nowadays. Did I mention I am not a Gleek.

Now for Gervais. Some media sites are applauding him for sticking to self rightous Hollywood but come on he did cross a line a few times Sunday even if it is in front of the vainest of people. Now yes he did have some funny lines (Charlie Sheen, Sex and City, Hugh Hefner, Downey Jr.’s porn flicks) making fun of Jewish people, joking about the head of HPFA,Downey Jr.’s rehab stint(s) or the line at the end “Thank you God for making me a Atheist” were either too much or played out jokes. I literally cringed at his closing line. It was like he was trying way too hard, which I believe he admitted too. What is even funnier is reading Gervais trying to save his ass from the firing line the past two days. Yeah he can make these jokes but he is apart of the same business as he is joking about so you can only go so far as to biting the hand that feeds you.

But Gervais wasn’t even the kicker of the night, there were two awkard moments that stand out to me. Robert Dinero’s acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille award and Robert Downey Jr.’s Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical presentation. Both were awkward, and probably so awkward it made them funny.First De Niro’s speech had some funny moments but it did get awkward when he talked about people getting deported which included members of the HFPA, waiters in the room and Javier Bardem. Check out Matt Damon’s face when he says it and how he was smiling but not wanting to laugh and looking at the audience to see there reaction.

I don’t think he was being and out right racist or even is a racist himself( his wife just happens to be black) just a poor taste in joke writing on his part.

Then Iron Man Mr. Robert Downey Jr. chose to be sexual with his presentation and the uproar was that he was inappropriate insinuating that actresses only make it by sleeping their way to the top. Some people liked it, some people didnt. I have seen paragraph rants about how he lacks respect for women or ‘his poor wife’.  Downey Jr. has always had an eclectic sense of humor and with his wife being a major Hollywood producer who left being co-president of Silver Pictures to produce with her husband (you should familiar yourself with her if you don’t know her because she’s awesome) it’s a stretch to say he lacks respect for women,plus he worships his wife. It was just an awkward joke that only he could pull off.  What made entire thing funny in the end and Downey Jr.’s saving face for himself is acknowledging that his wife was in the audience.  But what really has creeped me out is the fans photoshopping the hell out of his “moment” with Emma Stone which I assume it’s done by the youngish fans who tuned in to watch Justin Bieber and don’t know any better. Yes girls he looks young enough for Ms. Stone but he’s been acting before she was born.

He did zing Gervais at the beginning though.

I think this was the oddest Golden Globes I have seen in while.  Bravo HFPA. Job well done.

Despite this, the good that comes out of it is that original author Ann M, Martin wrote a prequel “The Summer Before” to the start of the BSC something exciting for us readers that are now adults. It will be nice to revisit the series even if it will be written for the very younger age group. The release and prequel are set for a April 2010 release.

Source: NY Times

Since they are revamping everything, I may now keep my collection.  And here I was trying to figure out how to unload them.

DJ AM with Jay-z and Beyonce October 2008 at PowerHouse

zdnet.com‘s Google Fail Whale

So what was the cause of this lasp? Google blames it on a traffic jam due to a error in their system.

Imagine if you were trying to fly from New York to San Francisco, but your plane was routed through an airport in Asia. And a bunch of other planes were sent that way too, so your flight was backed up and your journey took much longer than expected. That’s basically what happened to some of our users today for about an hour, starting at 7:48 am Pacific time.

An error in one of our systems caused us to direct some of our web traffic through Asia, which created a traffic jam. As a result, about 14% of our users experienced slow services or even interruptions. We’ve been working hard to make our services ultrafast and “always on,” so it’s especially embarrassing when a glitch like this one happens. We’re very sorry that it happened, and you can be sure that we’ll be working even harder to make sure that a similar problem won’t happen again. All planes are back on schedule now.

Google Blog

I’m sure today was a good day over at Yahoo!

-You can see some pictures of Disneyland getting prepared for the Pirates of the Caribbean premiere.

-Jennifer Garner is producing a show for mothers.

- You can watch a preview of The Simpson’s 400th Episode/Season Finale here.