Check out some of the videos for the Celebrity Apprentice 2010. It’s back! Some pretty interesting videos and crazy personalities.

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This March, 14 celebrities are banking on one role. The Celebrity Apprentice returns Sunday, March 14th 9/8c.

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One of my favorite reality TV shows hasn’t been on for quite a while, but I just saw the news that Last Comic Standing will be back on NBC this Spring 2010. That’s great to hear since I really enjoy this show. They’ve had a few down moments, but for the most part it’s just the very best of the comedic acts and that’s great.

Here’s a snippet of the news from TV Guide:
New host Craig Robinson (The Office) will usher in Last Comic Standing’s seventh season on June 7 at 8/7c. The show will move to its regular time slot at 9/8c the following Monday, June 14.

I’m not sure how much the host really matters. So, they can keep switching for all I care. Just make sure they give us plenty of comedy and we’ll be all good. Since it’s on network television, it’s clean comedy too. It’s like the only place you can find clean comedy. Maybe that’s why I like it so much.

ABDC 2010 is officially HERE!! Yes, the wait is over. Sure, the judges panel is missing Shane Sparks, but at least we still have great music and great dancing. So, as usual, here’s the list of music from the first episode of ABDC 2010:
Ghost Crew danced to “Android Porn” by Kraddy
Jungle Boogie danced to “Bounce” by Busta Rhymes
Royal Flush danced to “Wasted” by Gucci Mane
Swagger Crew danced to “Ice Cream Paint Job” by Dorrough
X-Treme Motion danced to “She Ain’t” by LeToya Luckett

The bottom three were chosen by the judges and danced in a battle for 30 seconds each to a mastermix of “Outta Control” by Pitbull (feat. Baby Bash).

Throughout the season, you’ll be able to download the latest ABDC 2010 music here.

This is Los Angeles and….THIS is American Idol!

The guest host is Avril Levigne who, we are told,  is young enough to be a contestant herself.  As the episode unfolds, we see this for ourselves.  She is wearing a silly hoody with some kind of devil ears on top and she wears the hood throughout the audition day.

The first contestant is Neil Goldstein and he states his IQ is 168 (like we care).  I don’t know about you, but without knowing my own IQ, I’m smart enough to know that this is the first delusional of the night and he is going to stink to high heavens.  His hair is long, then it’s short, then it’s long, then it’s short.  What, did he get an awful haircut while waiting on line to audition or is he like one of those dolls where you push a button on his back and his hair grows?  Anyhow, he is very taken with himself and his singing comes from his heart, to the point where he draws a picture of a heart with lipstick on the mirror in the men’s room and puts his face in the middle of it.  Need I say more?  He IS going to stink. Big Time.  And he does.  He gets all sweaty and grosses out the women judges, talks to them ending each sentence with some glicky sound from his mouth and then starts to “sing” a song that goes “Remember all the things that I told you” and then he completely forgets the next line.  Simon said “Ironic”.  Of course he gets the boot, he insists he is NOT leaving, and of course it is all Simon’s fault because hours ago Simon came out of a room and the door hit Neil in the back so he blew the audition….whatever.

Jim Ranger is a worship pastor with a family and even though he sings great, young little devil hoody Avril votes “No” because she questions whether or not he can be a pop star with a wife and 3 kids.   He gets the gold ticket despite the guest judge’s better judgement.

Jayson Wilson, Jesse Change and Martin Perez….all No’s.

Next up is Damian Lefavor, marshal artist, doing his thing on the roof of the hotel.  If he sings anything like he kung fu’s, he’s done for.  And he is.  He can’t remember the name of one of the two Righteous Brothers songs that he’s going to sing and the judges give him both names and he picks one.  In his own words, “I choked badly.”  Off he goes into the sunset.

Mary Power comes in dressed over the top trying to look punky.  Avril chewing gum in her devil hoody loves the look, the older judges don’t.  Mary sings Love is a Battlefield and WOW, great voice.  Four yeses.

The next delusional up is A.J. Mendoza who claims he made a demo and shopped it to Adam Lambert who told him he was great.  Makes you wonder which one of them was lieing.  He does some crazy movement with his mouth as he sings and Simon compared him to someone at the dentist with novocaine and dental stuff in their mouth. 

We’re done for the day and I’m so done with Avril.  Bring on Katy Perry.

Austin Fullmer goes all spastic with Mick Jagger facial expressions.  He is one disturbed young man.  One of his friends later tells him “Don’t be surprised if Katy calls you later.”  More delusions.

Then 14 cry babies.  Then Andrew Garcia.  His father cries at the kitchen table through the interview, they were involved with gangs, Andrew is a fine young man. Gosh I hope he can really sing for his father’s sake!  Yey, he doesn’t stink.  In fact, he’s GREAT.  Simon calls him a “genuinely genuine good good singer.”  Four yeses.

Tasha Layton, the personal assistant by day and pastor by night, is really good.  Four yeses.

Now for the delusional of all delusionals:  Jason Greene, “I Touch Myself”. All I can say is one word….Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.  My 12 year old son said “Save me Mom, take the mad man away!”  LOL   Jason starts posing all over the place with himself and I’m thinking “Oh, Man, get a room….by yourself!”  Katy feels dirty and he is sent packing.  He gives Ryan his phone number and Ryan tells him “Believe as much as you may want of what you read but..” and then gives Jason’s number to the huge bouncer.

There’s a car commercial staring that guy who won last year.

OK, so now I totally love Katy.  For reasons that we’ll never know because they’ve been edited out of the show, but Katy is now feuding with Kara and putting her down big time.  Kara tries to mock her by singing “I kissed a dolphin and I liked it” and Katy goes “I want to throw her coke in her face”.  Go Katy, so do I.

Last audition of the show is Chris Golightly (I wonder if he’s a relative of Johnny Comelately?).  Poor Chris grew up in 25 different foster homes and it’s heartbreaking, so I’m hoping he can really sing.  He sings Stand By Me and it’s beautiful.  Kara makes some remark about what a tough life Chris has had and Katy goes “This is not a lifetime movie sweetheart.”   I’m telling you, I love Katy!!  Four yeses.  Chris goes to Hollywood.

Well, see you tomorrow for the Denver auditions.

One advantage of having a blog is that you get cool stuff to talk about on your blog. One of those things is the Glee DVD that was recently released. If you’ve seen all the Glee episodes, then you want to get the Glee, Vol. One: Road to Sectionals since it has a TON of extras on the DVD. It’s basically a DVD full of extra information and background story about Glee.

Here’s a short description of the various extras (thanks to TV Overmind):

Welcome to McKinley – a video featuring Principal Figgins (who is grossly under-utilized in the show and is hilarious) meant to introduce incoming students to the school. It’s cheesy – and Figgins is totally in on the joke – and pretty funny.

Glee Music Video – features the song Somebody to Love

Full Length Audition Pieces – remember when Rachel sang RESPECT and Rachel sang On My Own in the pilot episode to audition for Glee? This is the full length videos for both of those songs

Fox Movie Channel Presents Casting Session – showrunners, crew members and cast members discuss the origins of the show, as well as the casting process for the series and the individual characters

Deconstructing Glee with Ryan Murphy – the show’s creator discusses the themes behind the show, as well as casting the series

Dance Boot Camp – the show’s choreographer and the case members talks about teaching the cast choreography for the musical numbers and we see back-stage footage from the practices

Meet Jane Lynch – one of the funniest actresses on the show talks about her character

5 Things You Didn’t Know About …. – these were previously available on Fox, but included on the DVD are little videos with things you didn’t previously know about some of the cast members, including Jayma, Cory, Amber and Chris

Video Diaries – most of the cast members share video diaries they shot during various promotional appearances for the show

If that list of extras doesn’t interest you, then you are definitely not a Glee fan. I just love how creative they’ve gotten with the extras. Plus, as a TV addict I love to see the behind the scenes stuff for a show. The Glee DVD definitely hasn’t disappointed.

As if there is some kind of force keeping poor Angela Martin from ever competing on American Idol, her mother has disappeared!

If you recall, the first time she made it to Hollywood, her father died.  The second time, she was forced to leave to answer a legal summons for parking tickets.  Now this year, just when you’d think NOTHING can stop her, and she is in the last year that she is eligible to participate (age 28), her mother vanished the day after Christmas.  According to the article I read, she never arrived at her other daughter’s house and her car was found on New Year’s Eve in a different neighborhood.

Here is a link to the story.

This poor poor girl!!  I’m sure that by now they are already in Hollywood for Hollywood week.  Just how much more is going to happen to keep Angela from a career that she so richly deserves?  I hope and pray that her mother is found alive and not a victim of foul play.   I would also hope that the producers give her special dispensation should she need it and allow her some extra time once this situation is “resolved” one way or another to allow her some time off while not kicking her out of the competition.

Well, there goes an hour of my life I can never get back.  With only 13 golden tickets being handed out over the 2 days of auditions, you would think they would show all of them instead of a few of them and, yes, back to the old formula, they showed mostly the awful auditions.  I know, I know, some may think well, what choice did they have with so many thousands of awful auditions? but one of the choices would be to show all 13 of the good ones as well.

They opened the show with many contestant hopefuls dropping the F Bomb and giving the Double Finger, the gratuitous Frank Sinatra “Chicago” song playing in the background and the equally gratuitous Obama shot.   I’m already ready to turn the show off.

Kara tries not to show how jealous she really is by overdoing it on how much she “loves” Shania.  Shania tells us how she peed herself once during an audition and I think I could have gone my entire life without ever having known that.  I wonder if she knows Fergie?

Despite that,  Shania Twain is both lovely and intelligent at the task at hand as guest judge.  I really enjoyed her tonight.

Broken Home Girl is up first (Kaitlin Epperly).  I couldn’t help but root for her to be really good, good enough to win, so that when she does, her dad can kick himself in the butt the same way the father of Fantasia’s little girl must have when he watched her win $1,000,000.  hee hee hee, I’m sooooo bad.   Kaitlin is not only pretty, but she’s talented and gets 4 yeses and is “going to HOLLYWOOOOOOOOD” as they all say.

Amy Lang….what can I say about Amy?  Her talent appears to be some awful thing she does with her boobs.  She starts her audition with a fake dead faint then starts singing then does the boob flex and proves in the end that she’s just a boob.  Out she goes.

16 year old Charity Vance sings Summertime and is REALLY good.  HOLLYWOOOOOOOD here she comes.

Then we have the crazy accordion lady, the bride, the screaming Asian guy and the girl in the pretty yellow dress and pink shoes whom Simon told was “A complete and utter waste of time.”  And I’m thinking “Oh, Man, I promised Janet that they weren’t doing this stuff this year and convinced her to watch the audition shows again.  She’s going to kill me tomorrow!!”

Then there’s Angela Martin.  Remember her from Season 7 (her dad died while she was at the Hollywood rounds), she has a beautiful daughter with a disability, Season 8 (she had to leave Hollywood to answer a summons for not paying her parking tickets) and now Season 9…..Just Fine!!  She’s through.  Here’s hoping the third time’s a charm for her.  I hope she makes it through.  She’s sweet, pretty and talented and enough is enough already.  She’s due for her big break.

Back to the bad stuff.  “Curly” Newborn left Moe and Larry outside and “sang” in such a high voice that the dogs in my neighborhood were all barking.  In fact, Simon asked him if all sorts of animals gather around his house when he’s singing at home.  Inbred yellow toothed Brian Krauss is up next.  You just know he’s going to act like an idiot and he doesn’t disappoint.  After a lame attempt at phony respect (“Mr. Cowell, Mr. Jackson, Miss Twain” and I can’t spell Kara’s last name…), he sings Tiptoe Through The Tulips and is even worse than Tiny Tim if you can imagine that.  (Oh, Janet, forgive me please.)

Harold Davis says he’s tired of microwave dinners and wants steak and he holds a note for like…..forever…and that’s not a good thing.  He has a not so great voice with way too much vibrato, gets 4 No’s and cries his eyes out.  Seriously, he broke down crying.  I hope his friends aren’t watching.

John Park…FINALLY one of the 13.  He sings beautifully at the “bottom end, has nice lips and a beautiful voice”, all this according to Shania who loved him so.  4 yeses.

Paige Deschausse has asthma and almost died.  While that was a sad yet happy ending story, I’m getting tired of people using, as another blogger named Jacob put it, “the victim card.”  She sings Long Time Coming by Sam Cooke.  She sang it while holding her red asthma inhaler.  Makes me wonder how that’s going to work if she wins and plays Madison Square Garden.  Anyhow, Simon bites his nails over the ensuing debate to put her through.  He was really funny.  Her voice wasn’t strong enough, but she’s through and I predict she won’t make it past Hollywood boot camp.

Justin Ray, very bad wig or else even worse real hair, makes it through as does Keith Sample and Marcus Jones. 

Here’s hoping that Wednesday night’s show will have some more of the talent, at least in equal proportion to the bad ones.

Ok, I don’t usually blog about the Bachelor (well I’ve done a little in the past), but there’s just too much to say after tonight’s show. I was going to send a few tweets, but that just wouldn’t do it justice. I also think that my opinions will likely differ from many other people. So, here we go.

Vienna – I can see why all the girls hate her, but I don’t. I’m with Jake. She’s just totally misunderstood. The girls were ripping her when she was going to say sorry to Elizabeth for cutting in. Sure, I’m sure she’s said some things that could hurt, but I think it was usually unintentional. Maybe I’m biased because Vienna is like myself. We live in the moment and often don’t realize the impact that living that way has on people around us. Now, I would never become as Catty (how do you spell that?) as Vienna sometimes gets, but the girls in the house are crazy. Vienna’s good in my book.

Ali – I really adored Ali after the first date. She has a fantastic look and has that twinkle in the eye which I honestly don’t see in any of the other girls. I don’t know how to explain it. She was just made for TV I think. She has a way that just draws you to her when she’s on screen. However, she really rubbed me wrong when she went after Vienna like that and even to Jake. I actually hate when any of the girls talk to the Bachelor about the other girls. It’s just lame. Sometimes maybe it’s cutting and we don’t see Jake asking them about a girl. However, Ali has done it over and over again with Vienna. I think they were right when they say she’s jealous. Jake will have a rough time with that if he picks her. Too bad since she’s got such a great look. He’ll keep her around for a while though. So, no worries for our entertainment value.

Elizabeth – This girl was a tease. Let’s be honest here. If she didn’t want him to kiss him, then she shouldn’t have tempted him. That’s the epitome of a tease. Jake did right in sending her home. No guy likes to be teased. Plus, in the interview we saw her true side come out. She’s an arrogant girl. Glad she was sent home. Nice read by Jake.

Gia – She’s the absolute dark horse. Don’t be surprised at all if she’s in it near the end. Although, she won’t actually win. Otherwise, the show would have likely given her more air time I think.

Best Cry Moment on Bachelor – Yes, I’m a man and I’m willing to admit that I cry watching TV and movies. I’m ok with it. However, everyone reading this should have cried as well. I don’t really cry watching the Bachelor. However, there’s one moment on many of the Bachelors that I can’t help it. No, it’s not a wheepy bawling sort of cry. I just can’t hold the emotions back when one of the people’s kids comes running out to surprise them. It’s my favorite moment on any Bachelor. There’s just something extremely beautiful about those moments. In fact, it might be the most factual emotion that’s portrayed on any part of the Bachelor.

Remind me not to watch the Bachelor next season;-)

As everyone by now knows, General Larry Platt stole the show at the Atlanta auditions of American Idol with his  “Pants On The Ground” performance.   But what you might not know is that General Platt is not just some old lovable kook with a catchy song.   In fact, he in the 1960’s when he was a teenager, he was a crusader in the civil rights movement in Georgia.  And, he was a student of Martin Luther King.

General Platt was honored in Atlanta with Larry Platt Day in September of 2001 for his “priceless and immeasurable contributions to society….and…his great energy & commitment to equality and the protection of the innocent…”

Check it out:  http://www.puretvnet.com/2010/01/13/pants-on-the-ground-video-on-american-idol/  There’s also a link within that story to a picture of him as a teenage civil rights crusader.

So, let’s hope we see this piece of gold known as General Larry Platt on the finale show in May.  He deserves to have a little fun and I, for one, admire him and his Pants on the Ground song.  He’s not an old codger or a baffoon…. he’s just trying to get his message out in a way where people will hear it.   I’m not saying he’s right or he’s wrong.  I mean, when I was in my teens, it was white lipstick, hip hugger bell bottoms and halter tops.  I’m sure my grandfather would have written “Pants Below Your Belly Button” if he had the General’s personality and talent, but hey, each generation is entitled to their own breakout style.  But the other generations are also entitled to their opinion of it.  It’s what makes the world go round.

Ryan lets us know that many of the past Idol finalists  (as well as his formerly cute chubby little self) are from Atlanta.  He calls it “Hotlanta.”  Mary J. Blige is the guest judge and for some reason, the judge with the new face lift doesn’t feel like getting out of the car.  The auditions are being held on the 27th floor and the elevator ride for the contestants to audition is just like what they do during “The Chair” segment in Hollywood and no less annoying. 

First up is Dewone Robinson.  I find that the more they brag about themselves, the worse we ALL know they are going to be.  Dewone is no exception to this rule.  He sings an original composition called “Lady, we’re not together anymore.”  Just 2 notes and you know why.  It is sung in two completely opposite registers and Simon asks him if it was supposed to be a duet because he seems to be singing both parts.  Dewone blames Simon for his awful voice saying he threw him off when he asked him too many questions (such as ”What are you going to sing for us today”).  It was everyone’s fault but his own and he is sent packing.

Next up is Keia Johnson with really cute blond curly hair and neon yellow pants.  She is a former beauty pagent contestant who won Miss Congeniality.  Simon makes some remark about how it’s better to be chosen the beauty instead of the “nice personality”  but Simon can never see the inner beauty of anybody up front, and then has to eat crow later.  Of course,  she sang beautifully and she’s through to Hollywood.

I loved Jermaine Sellers right off the bat.  He takes care of his mother and is a singer in his church.  (Take notes, gals, any guy who takes care of his mother will treat his wife with dignity and love.)  He sang Joan Osborne’s  “One of Us.”  Man, I forgot how much I loved that song.   During a commercial I downloaded Joan’s version from iTunes .  He sings it GREAT with his own spin to it, Mary J loves it and he gets the golden ticket.

Vanessa Wolfe is very poor, from Tennessee and likes to dive off bridges.  She will do great during Country Week, but she has to live long enough to get there.  I have a feeling Hollywood week will eat this poor darlin’ alive.  (BTW, anyone know what “Cow Tipping” is?)

They humiliated the toothless guy who almost died 3 times.  The BFF “Ditsy Chicks” cried a lot cuz one made it and the other didn’t.  Holly, the human guitar, is the new Kelly Pickler.  She must never have watched the previous 8 seasons or she would have known how much Simon hates when people dress stupidly for auditions.  But WOW what a voice!!  She knocked me off my chair.  Golden ticket.

I’m only going to mention 3 more that cannot be overlooked.  Skii Bo Ski, the king of rhetoric, can sing but I’d never vote for him because I do NOT want to listen to his drivel all the way to May.  Angry Lamar screamed his song, promised to take constructive criticism, got angry when Mary told him to exhalt himself, wouldn’t stop screaming-I mean “singing”, and cursed his way all the way out down the elevator and into the street.

Closing the show was 62 year old General Larry Pratt singing “Pants on the Ground, Lookin’ Like A Fool.”  Everyone loved him, so did I.  Anyone else out there love him too?  The song was great.

All in all, it was a good show, Mary J. was a great judge, and check in with me next week for the Chicago auditions.