Saturday Fluffernutter:
All the fluffy news about those nutty celebrities
The Golden Globes were held last weekend in Hollywood and Comedian Ricky Gervais hosted most of the show. After his opening monologue, however, he disappeared for over an hour. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, who’s awards the Golden Globes are, were apparently unhappy with some of his jokes. 
Hollywood can be cutting and cruel to those they disagree with, but taking a ribbing themselves is over the top. Gervais was, to the whiny, self centred Hollywoodistas, over the top.
Gervais himself says he won’t be back, saying twice (he hosted the show last year, as well) is enough. Which is Cockney for, “my act has worn thin.”
Sigh – enjoy next years Golden Globes, to be hosted by… Mary Hart?
I’m trying to decide what Robert Downey Jr. would say if Sarah Palin was as easily offended as this group of egoists.
Not Mary Hart, you say? OK, how about Regis Philbin.
The debonair heartthrob to Grandmas from Des Moines to Debuke, Philbin told the live audience of his show, Live with Regis and Kelly, that he was retiring at the end of the summer.
Philbin, who is 79, told the audience, “I’m almost 80, let me retire for F&$k Sake.” Or something.
The question is, would the ever likeable, and polite Philbin put down his Mah-Jong tiles to host the Golden Globes next year?
Golden Globe big winners: Anne Hathaway and Olivia Wilde had the nicest dresses of the evening.
Also:
- The Social Network: best Drama
- The Kids are Alright: best Comedy
- Natalie Portman: best actress
- Colin Firth: best actor
The sequel to Batman Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, is in pre-production and they have stepped up big. Anne Hathaway has been slotted in to adorn the skin tight cat suit, performing the role of Cat Woman. Um… meow?
Christian Bale will reprise his Batman role, returning for part II of the “overrated movie of the decade series.”
Congratulations to Owen Wilson and his girlfriend Jade Duell (there’s a sexy name) who had a boy last week. The name: Robert Ford.
One question. Is it that coward Robert Ford? Or that Big Fat Sweaty Mayor Robert Ford?
Don Kirshner (1934 – 2011): 70’s music fans like myself recall Don Kirshner as the guy from “Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert,” the only opportunity rock fans had to see their favourite bands on TV.
To earlier fans, he was a music industry insider, who found artists to sing songs of songwriters like Neil Sedaka or Howard Greenfield. In 1966 he was hired to find music for a new TV show, The Monkees. He later left that show to work on The Archies, saying of the animated band: “I want a band that won’t talk back.”
He began his live TV show career working on ABC’s in concert in 1972. A year later he began Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert which featured almost every significant band of the 1970’s. The Rolling Stones appeared on the 1973 premier.
Kirshner died this week at the age of 76.
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