Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Rasslers pickin' on righties?

2013-02-25 Thread M-D November
Thanks but no thanks. Tea Party propaganda ranks above porn on my list of things I'd be embarrassed to have my fiancee see in my browser history. On Friday, February 22, 2013 12:11:57 AM UTC-5, PGage wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:02 PM, M-D November > > wrote: > >> Also...there's a Tea P

Re: [TV orNotTV] Best Oscar Moment

2013-02-25 Thread Brad Beam
- Original Message - From: Dave Sikula The thing I'm loving most is the reaction to the boobs song, which totally misses its irony. "How would men like it if they sang a song about men's asses?" Well, if Hollywood was as obsessed about men's asses as it is about women's breasts, you'd

[TV orNotTV] Steven Weber has to learn Texan

2013-02-25 Thread Bob in Jersey
He'll be playing the Governor in a later episode of *Dallas*. A linked story has another TV legend also joining for multiple segments... TVLine -- BOB -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You recei

[TV orNotTV] Re: ABC scoops itself on DWTS contestant

2013-02-25 Thread Bob in Jersey
And in an unrelated post at TMZ, Maks is quitting... -- BOB -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To

[TV orNotTV] Jacko's boy Prince to guest star...

2013-02-25 Thread Bob in Jersey
...as an injured friend of a regular on *90210*'s season finale. I've already seen him do a nice job reporting for *ET. *THR * *-- BOB* * -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this

Re: [TV orNotTV] Onion apologizes for foul tweet

2013-02-25 Thread Joe Hass
And it is worth noting that they handled that apology exactly the way you'd want an apology to be handled. On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Bob in Jersey wrote: > Whoever handles the Twittering for the news-satire site used a four-letter > word to describe the child actress whose name is worth a

[TV orNotTV] Onion apologizes for foul tweet

2013-02-25 Thread Bob in Jersey
Whoever handles the Twittering for the news-satire site used a four-letter word to describe the child actress whose name is worth an ungodly score in Scrabble... I'd like to know his name, like a costar of two HBO series... TheWrap

[TV orNotTV] ABC scoops itself on DWTS contestant

2013-02-25 Thread Bob in Jersey
The latest ex-football player to join the competition appeared during a break in the Oscarcast despite network plans that we wouldn't see him till GMA the following morning... tho really, he was asked about it by Kimmel weeks before... THR

Re: [TV orNotTV] Best Oscar Moment

2013-02-25 Thread Kevin M.
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Darren Glass wrote: >> Jeebus, people. It's a fecking teevee show with millionaires giving prizes >> to other millionaires. It won't cause or cure > cancer. Get over it. > > Again, I didn't watch last night so I don't have an opinion about the show > either way, bu

[TV orNotTV] NYT Political Reporter Moving to ABC

2013-02-25 Thread Mark Jeffries
Jeff Zeleny leaving the Times for ABC to become chief Washington correspondent: http://www.thewrap.com/tv/column-post/jeff-zeleny-exits-new-york-times-abc-news-79106 -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV

Re: [TV orNotTV] Best Oscar Moment

2013-02-25 Thread PGage
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Darren Glass wrote: > > Jeebus, people. It's a fecking teevee show with millionaires giving > prizes to other millionaires. It won't cause or cure > cancer. Get over it. > > Again, I didn't watch last night so I don't have an opinion about the show > either way, b

Re: [TV orNotTV] Best Oscar Moment

2013-02-25 Thread PGage
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Dave Sikula wrote: > I've been amazed how Facebook utterly erupted as though MacFarlane had > stomped baby animals on live TV. > > He told some stupid jokes and some good ones. If you didn't like it, tune > out or FF. If you don't like him, don't watch his shows.

Re: [TV orNotTV] Best Oscar Moment

2013-02-25 Thread Darren Glass
> Jeebus, people. It's a fecking teevee show with millionaires giving prizes to other millionaires. It won't cause or cure > cancer. Get over it. Again, I didn't watch last night so I don't have an opinion about the show either way, but I have to say that this attitude seems awfully strange to esp

Re: [TV orNotTV] Best Oscar Moment

2013-02-25 Thread Dave Sikula
I've been amazed how Facebook utterly erupted as though MacFarlane had stomped baby animals on live TV. He told some stupid jokes and some good ones. If you didn't like it, tune out or FF. If you don't like him, don't watch his shows. (I don't, and last night didn't change my mind,) This remin

Re: [TV orNotTV] Best Oscar Moment

2013-02-25 Thread PGage
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Tom Wolper wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Gmail wrote: > >> I'm out of the country so did not get to watch the show, but I did follow >> along on both the NY Times and NPR liveblogs, both of which were -- to put >> it mildly -- underwhelmed with MacFa

Re: [TV orNotTV] Best Oscar Moment

2013-02-25 Thread Jon Delfin
The 17-minute Seth Seth Seth opening was a bad omen. The show did recover somewhat, but it took awhile. On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:02 PM, wrote: > Maybe my memory is faulty, but I don't recall that being the case with > Crystal last year...or Jon Stewart. Or Baldwin/Martin. > > I think it is cert

Re: [TV orNotTV] Best Oscar Moment

2013-02-25 Thread dglass
Maybe my memory is faulty, but I don't recall that being the case with Crystal last year...or Jon Stewart. Or Baldwin/Martin. I think it is certainly the case that hosts can never live up to whatever the platonic ideal is, but MacFarlane and Franco certainly got particularly bad reviews. dg

[TV orNotTV] Re: Best Oscar Moment

2013-02-25 Thread donz5
I thought the Bond tribute would have made a hell of a lot more sense if all of its Bonds had made a stage appearance. Maybe it was attempted and Connery said no way, and so the idea was scratched, but without it, it seemed pointless. On Feb 25, 12:09 pm, Tom Wolper wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013

Re: [TV orNotTV] Best Oscar Moment

2013-02-25 Thread Tom Wolper
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Gmail wrote: > I'm out of the country so did not get to watch the show, but I did follow > along on both the NY Times and NPR liveblogs, both of which were -- to put > it mildly -- underwhelmed with MacFarlane. When they started fondly > reminiscing about James

Re: [TV orNotTV] Best Oscar Moment

2013-02-25 Thread Gmail
I'm out of the country so did not get to watch the show, but I did follow along on both the NY Times and NPR liveblogs, both of which were -- to put it mildly -- underwhelmed with MacFarlane. When they started fondly reminiscing about James Franco about ten minutes in, I knew things were bad.

Re: [TV orNotTV] Best Oscar Moment

2013-02-25 Thread David Bruggeman
Maybe this could be chalked up to it being The Golden Globes, but I don't see Ricky Gervais's work on that ceremony to be that much better than what Levine is describing. David > > From: PGage >To: tvornottv@googlegroups.com >Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 1

Re: [TV orNotTV] Cable news and the Saturday racing crash

2013-02-25 Thread Tom Wolper
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:30 AM, Kevin M. wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 8:39 PM, PGage wrote: > > > > I guess I still don't see why these are political issues. All I heard > > throughout the race today was how NASCAR is going to learn from this > > incident and make changes to increase safety

Re: [TV orNotTV] Best Oscar Moment

2013-02-25 Thread PGage
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 9:19 PM, PGage wrote: > I am not sure what the consensus will be on McFarlane (SNIP) > If Ken Levine is any harbinger, not good ( http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2013/02/my-2013-oscar-review.html): "The Oscars broke new wind last night. For the first time ever they were h

Re: [TV orNotTV] Cable news and the Saturday racing crash

2013-02-25 Thread Kevin M.
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 8:39 PM, PGage wrote: > I guess I still don't see why these are political issues. All I heard > throughout the race today was how NASCAR is going to learn from this > incident and make changes to increase safety. Safest thing would be for all NASCAR fans to watch from th