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From "Need Help? Call a Celebrity!"
"30 rock only got 8.1million viewers last week. It was beat by… wait for it…Dancing with the Stars AND American’s Top Model" - Emma, Washington D.C.
"What’s the difference between 30 Rock and Studio 60? Who cares? Everyone is watching Grey’s Anatomy, anyway. Mmm… McDreamy…" - Molly, Washington D.C.
I think that my sisters are confused. Last weeks article was about Alec’s inflated sense of importance and not about whether or not his new show sucks (it apparently does according to Emma and Molly). I am not what you would call a TV connoisseur, I pretty much only watch sports on TV (GO TIGERS!), though I do have a growing addiction to TV seasons on DVD, what I am currently trying to get caught up on; Farscape (complete series), Lost (season 2), Battlestar Galactica(season 1, thanks Ken); Deadwood (seasons 2 and 3).
From "I want a New Drug"
"I think you should start smoking weed because, absent a combined 33 point explosion by Jamal Lewis and the B-more D, I kicked your ass this week." - Chad, Chicago
Yes Chad you did. Though if you have checked my reason smack talk you would see that I bemoaning how badly The Cahill US Marshalls absolutely suck. I do want to point out that you people in the City of Big Shoulders should not get too confident in your Bears. If they were down by 20 to a team that was remotely competent and not the Arizona Cardinals they would have been humiliated. Rex had better get his head straight because the schedule doesn’t get any easier.
From "It’s not my fault, I’d better go to rehab."
"Don’t you know that I cannot go one day without knowing the latest celebrity gossip. I love watching all the tabloid shows at the end of the day so I don’t miss a thing." - Mark, Washington D.C
Mark, lucky for you and all of us we live in an age where we can find out everything we want to know about celebrities. I still can not understand the fixation with other people like this. Though I wonder if celebrities go home and turn on special channels that show everyday people doing normal things. Tonite on Access Wilmington, Duke Cahill Takes out the garbage and finally unpacks his last boxes! Mark and Emma eat at another recommendation from D.C. cheap eats, but not where you would think!
From "The Guardian"
"This movie needs some Muppets! They make any piece of crap story a bit more palatable, and they can really spruce up the big song and tap dance number when they run into those Navy boys." - Greg, Rockville, MD.
According to several sources, my BFF Ashton Kutcher might actually be a Muppet. I mean, you have never seen him and a Muppet in the same place at the same time. The only problem with adding Muppets to the runaway Best Picture Oscar of the Year Movie The Guardian is that you have never seen Muppets fighting in a bar, and the only way that people can bond in movies like this is if they get in a bar fight.
From "No, I will not Comment on them."
"Oh really Duke - lighten up most of the world really does not care about any of this…now, what is the royal family of England up to? THAT is interesting!" - Judith, Wilmington, DE.
Judith, if most of the world did not care, then why are there no fewer than 300 "celebrity gossip" shows. You can not turn on the TV without running into some show chronicling the hi-jinx of Hollywood. CNN.com actually had a story in its "Top Stories of the day" section about how the "feud" between Nicole Ritchie and Paris Hilton is over. How is that news? I mean seriously did anyone care? Obviously because CNN also had a story on its TV station about it as well. This was a 10-minute piece that listed every detail of their friendship to fallout to friendship again. OH FOR GOD’S SAKE MAKE IT STOP!!!
From "Rats, Cockroaches and Tom Cruise"
"Mom says you are going to be a target of Scientology if you don’t watch your back. But I say, Fight on, my Brother! Fight the good fight and make it STOP.
And I still say that Suri Cruise is Asian." Molly, Washington D.C.
Thanks for the support sis. I actually heard today that the so-called Suri has gone back into hiding and not been seen since the photos were published in whatever magazine. I think that the scientology muckety-mucks (actual title of their "priests") realized that they gave them an Asian baby by mistake. Therefor, the next time "Suri" is seen she will remarkably look like a blonde Norwegian baby, then it will be a black baby from Malawi, then a Hispanic child, and will keep changing until they find the one that "tests" the best with the populace. Then they will claim that that has been their "baby" all along and that the photos were changed by people trying to discredit the miracle of Katie’s pregnancy. Mark my words, at some point scientology is going to claim that Suri is LL Bean reborn.
From "I’m ok…you ok?"
"If people insist that we label it something, we can still call it whatever we want. I will call you Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and you can call me Wifflespank. Will that make everyone happy? :)" - Lauren, Wilmington, DE
QUACK!
October 19th, 2006 at 8:41 am
Duke, in case you don’t watch it (wait, I’m SURE you don’t watch it), you need to see this past Tuesday’s episdoe of Boston Legal. Basically, James Spader helps defend a lawyer who fired an associate in his new firm for being a Scientologist. The cross examination of the Scientologist was priceless, going over all of their ridiculous beliefs. Check out ABC.com or iTunes…you really NEED to see it.
October 19th, 2006 at 9:32 am
I’ve been trying to convince him to watch Boston Legal and Studio 60 for a couple weeks now. Both shows have bashed Scientology this season. It’s great!
October 19th, 2006 at 9:36 am
…but according to Emma and Molly, Studio 60 is not good, or is it that 30rock is not good.
October 19th, 2006 at 10:10 am
This is your best column ever!
October 19th, 2006 at 10:22 am
30 Rock is not good. Studio 60 kicks ass! Even though it sucks, we have to watch 30 Rock because it stars our hero Keith Powell. If the show takes off, maybe he’ll forget about his crappy little theatre company in Wilmington.
October 19th, 2006 at 11:36 am
I disagree….30 Rock is freaking hilarious. I also watch Studio 60, so really I’m like Neville Chamberlain here, trying to appease everyone. But if Studio 60 had more of 30 Rock’s funniness (Tina Fey is a comedic genius), it would be a more solid show.
Spader on Scientology was unbelievable. Truly must see TV, Duke.
October 19th, 2006 at 12:21 pm
OMG! You can answer comments in the comments… never knew that… except yea, I did and have been…
October 19th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
30 Rock? Studio 60? Are these shows on before 10 pm? If not I am usually in bed. Heck I couldn’t stay up to watch Southpark last night.
October 19th, 2006 at 6:59 pm
I have both of those numerical shows on my ipod but I haven’t seen them - so I will comment later but I agree with Em - funniest column yet Dukie! and pretty well written which always makes me happy!
October 19th, 2006 at 8:03 pm
I will just continue to agree about the Suri Cruise scandal. She doesn’t exist! She’s the product of alien sex!!!
October 20th, 2006 at 7:42 am
If studio-60 is sooooooo good, why has it been put on hiatus?
October 20th, 2006 at 7:43 am
The only sex that is “alien” to Maverick is sex with a woman. “Tom Cruise won’t come out of the closet!” - Stan Marsh “South Park”.