With his company Worldwide Pants striking a private deal with the Writer’s Guild, David Letterman was so flush with writer’s last night many of them weren’t even his! The heavy hitters from the Top Ten List they didn’t write included Sleepless in Seattle writer/directer Nora Ephron and Gilda Radner’s writing partner on SNL, Alan Zweibel.
That Robin Williams is as funny as you’ve seen him in years in just a bonus.
All you need to know about Diablo Cody is she stopped using her real name Brook Busey not when she was a stripper but when she started blogging. Which really tells you where bloggers rank in the hierarchy of human discourse.
Anyway, here’s the trailer for Cody’s first produced screenplay, Juno. Other projects she has in the works include writing a Showtime series for Steven Spielberg, a college comedy for Universal called Girly Style, and if none of those happen to pan out… apparently more stripping.
I get on David Letterman’s case a lot because he’s been recycling the same jokes for twenty year, because he’s often hostile to pretty women, and probably half a dozen other reason; but give credit where credit is do, he just did something very stand up.
He’s assured Worldwide Pants employees that they’ll receive their pay check through the end of the year, regardless of if the shows they work on actually air. That means while during the Writer’s Strike, everyone else writers or otherwise has been left high and dry, employees of The Late Show with David Letterman and the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson will continue to have a cushion through the holiday season.
In contrast, Ellen Degeneres returned to taping her show without her writers after one day, which is one day less than she took off when she was upset about a dog.
Great Ellen, you’re even making David Letterman come off like a nice guy.
There’s something unseemly and disturbing about this old Late Show clip, and not just how unfunny Letterman’s jokes are.
I have no problem with Demi Moore playing a stripper, but she was getting a then record $12.5 million to appear in Striptease, and someone waving around her boob job instead of a person like Meryl Streep being rewarded as Hollywood’s top actress had a really disturbing subtext.
What glass ceiling? There’s no limit to how much a woman can make as long as she’s willing to take off her clothes.
12 years later, Meryl Streep is carrying such mainstream commercial movies as “The Devil Wears Prada” and the upcoming musical “Mamma Mia!” while Demi Moore is complaining she can’t gets jobs anymore because Hollywood is prejudiced against aging actresses.
Demi… the problem isn’t that you’re too old. The problem is you’re too old after years of marketing looking young as your only discernible skill.
Like all the other late night talk shows; The Late Show with David Letterman went dark Monday, thanks to the first writer’s strike since 1988. Unlike, shows like The Daily Show and the Colbert Report, I have no idea why.
Isn’t Letterman’s whole act telling the same stale jokes over and over? He really needs “writers” for sketches like these? Are you kidding me?
It’s your Bosom Buddie Tom Hanks! Only, unless you’re an oil executive, he’s not trying to lure your kids into anything obscene… just for them to realize how cool it is to drive an electric car. And once he fails at that, he’s just trying to convince them the electric car is a dorky, but economically feasible alternative to burning the midnight oil.
And here’s Tom Hanks, further talking up his electric car on Letterman. But don’t forget to check out his official MySpace page. We learn that Chiam Potok is one of his favorite authors!
(BTW, if you know you Chiam Potok AND Joe Dimaggio are… you’re WAY too old to be on MySpace.)
While it’s kind of hard to remember now; before David Letterman had bypass surgery in the year 2000, he was kind of a dick - owning a reputation for picking unprovoked with guests… often the female ones.
(Notable examples: Madonna, Oprah, Richard Simmons…)
Well here’s a clip that proves that it’s not Letterman’s personality that’s changed, so much as people’s perception of him. Watch as he tries piercing through Paris Hilton’s dumb blond routine trying to cajole anything other than a PR sound bite out of her about her stay in jail.
I just caught the pictures of 7 time Olympic medalist Amanda Beard naked and I don’t know… I just don’t think professional athletes should pose naked. It’s not like I’m morally opposed to nudity or anything; it’s just… well think about this. Amanda Beard has basically the perfect body; natural good looks sculpted through a brutal five hours a day training regiment. Looking toned, healthy, and only 25; this is pretty much as good as it gets.
And they still airbrush her!
If even Amanda Beard meet their lofty standard of beauty maybe Playboy needs to cut out the middleman; getting rid of the women just to focus on the silicone. The future of Playboy will be a 120-year-old Hef being wheeled around on a deliberator; flanked by his two twin 19-year-old android girlfriends Barbie and Tammie. Programmed with that elusive robot-next door quality; Barbie and Tammie will be blonde, sunny, and smiling; at least in the models that come with mouths; the perfect fusion of gloss and cold steel.
(Because deep down apparently what all guys really want is to fuck 3CPO.)
Anyway, here’s an interview with her on David Letterman about the Amanda Beard naked Playboy photos and if you want to actually see the naked pictures; they’re here.
Photo via NME
Stereogum leads to an article in US magazine reporting the possibility of Courtney Love to join the judges of American Idol. Apparently, the controversial rocker was approached by one of the Idol producers, who invited her to join the judges. Courtney herself tipped US magazine, thereby raising two suspicions: the first, that the show producers are planning to get rid of Paula Abdul. The second - that Courtney is taking a piss at everyone. It’s hard to tell what’s on Love’s mind, but if you ask me, she could be a perfect judge for the Idols, one that might introduce a rock agenda to the show and maybe convince America and Simon Cowell, that singing really loud with all those rolling pitch changes doesn’t mean you’re a good singer. Then again, wouldn’t that be selling out? What would Kurt say had he been alive?
As for Courtney’s musical career, a visit to her pink website tells the story of a new solo album in the works. It isn’t clear yet what label will Love release this one though, since Virgin Records chose not to renew Love’s recording contract.
Here’s a Youtube video of Love’s famous Letterman appearance. A true classic: