Showing posts with label Lifetime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lifetime. Show all posts

Monday, April 7, 2008

Breaking News: Project Runway "Aufs" Bravo

The popular reality show is strutting over to Lifetime of all places!

You can read all the details right here.

Apparently The Weinstein Brothers, (Project Runway's current production house), owe Bravo on more season of the show. Those meeting are going to be tense.

Bravo and NBC are trying to block the deal but it looks like the Weinstein deal actually has legs.

This is ridiculous news. More when I hear more.

Friday, February 22, 2008

The Party Never Stops...Even When You Want It To


Thanks to two afternoon meetings I decided to start work a bit late and instead stayed at my apartment and enjoyed the spoils of Lifetime.

After some Golden Girls, a nap and some breakfast, I watched what will forever be (in my mind anyway) a cinematic epic, The Party Never Stops. It's a Lifetime movie about a girl named Jesse who leaves her single mother and little sister at home while she goes off to college. She's a shy runner who likes to keep her head in the books. Too bad her roommate Shanna is a bad influence. They drink, they wake up tired, they hook up with random dudes, she drives drunk, a video goes all over the internet of her flashing people at Spring Break,etc. Essentially the typical college experience you'd read about in Nagging Mom magazine. I don't want to ruin the movie for you but let's just say trouble ensues when Mom does some internet searches and learns about the dangers of binge drinking.

My favorite moments were the slow-motion montages of the partying. The flashing lights and thumping music really showed how dangerous drinking is in the most subtle way possible. I'd love to see the creative mastermind behind that!

Oh and the quotes! I started writing them down they were making me laugh so hard. Here are a few of my favorites.

  • Jesse writing in her journal, "I can't believe I got so wasted on our date that I slept with him. Who does that?"
  • Jesse writing in her journal again, "I slept with someone I didn't even know. Which is sick. "
  • Shanna: "Toto we are not in Kansas anymore." Jess "You're funny when you catch a buzz."
No Jess, no she isn't.

For the first hour of the movie, the humor came from me thinking The Party Never Stops was really old. It looked dated, the language was over-the-top, the acting was piss poor, the school, everything. Then I discovered it came out in 2007. I had a whole new perspective on the comedy from that point on.

I know I probably shouldn't be laughing, as the subject matter really is serious. But honestly, I don't see how anyone in their right mind could watch that movie without chuckling to the point of excess. It's like eating one Lays chip. Impossible.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Golden Girls Scandal!


I watched three episodes of Golden Girls today on a fluke. I don't usually tune in to Lifetime, but something, I don't even remember what, lured me to it. Golden Girls was on before I went to work and a double header came on once I got home. Hot.

I forgot just how wonderfully funny that show was! Blanche was a hussy, Rose was a little slow but good intentioned, Dorothy was old school. My favorite find? Sofia.

We can talk about how funny she is later, but what I think is crazy is how old she is, and by old I mean young.

Estelle Getty was born on July 25, 1923, which makes her 84 years-old. She looked 84 on Golden Girls, so this is not too shocking. More shocking? Bea Arthur, who played Sofia's daughter Dorothy was born on May 13...1922.

WHAAAAA? Yes, Bea Arthur is over a year older than Estelle Getty. This boggles my mind. Thinking about this is like looking at an M.C. Escher painting. I need to lie down.