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Listen: Elton John and Matthew Morrison Team Up for 'Rocket Man' Mashup {PopEater}
May 12th 2011 4:21AM I have nothing against Matthew Morrison who is an excellent actor and a great looking charming dude. But Elton John is an astonishing singer, a pop genius, and major musician and in this duet he makes Morrison look like a karaoke wannabe, which is kind of what Morrison is. Morrison is proving to be what he plays on TV: a guy who has rock n roll dreams but isn't really good enough to make it. I think we in our culture, so to speak, too often blur the edge between playing something on TV and actually being it. Morrison has gotten carried away with this confusion. He thinks he is a singing star but actually he's a really good actor who plays a singer, not a singer.
Tom Hardy Is Moviefone's Breakout Star of 2010 {Moviefone Blog}
Dec 11th 2010 9:25AM just saw inception on video last night. he was a standout in a great cast. and incredibly sexy and charismatic. excellent choice for a breakout star.
Jesse James Claims He Was Abused By His Father {PopEater}
May 26th 2010 11:57AM I have a lot of empathy for victims of child abuse and other psychological traumas. However, I feel that sometimes celebrities use childhood trauma, real or exaggerated, as an excuse or as spin control. Here's the thing. There's abuse and then there is moral responsibility. The real heroes are those who, in spite of childhood trauma, refrain from hurting others as an adult. To use childhood trauma as an easy out for celebrity bad boy or bad girl behavior is an insult to all of the damaged and traumatized people who are going through their daily lives bravely doing their best to be kind and good to their loved ones in spite of what happened, who are seeking help before they hurt or hit or cheat. The other cheap part of this to me is these folks are crying and asking forgiveness of interviewers and talk show hosts and the public, when what they should really be doing is making amends privately to the loved ones they have hurt and seeking counseling if that is in order. But you know, I think a cheatin' man is just a cheatin' man. One is not enough. He will never change.
Tareq and Michaele Salahi, White House Party Crashers, Want Apology, Launch PR Blitz {Politics Daily}
May 19th 2010 11:30PM These two have the perfect combination of sleaze and wealth and aggressive ambition to make them perfect for the real housewives series...their behavior is pure tabloid, just like the series. So, a perfect match.
Volcanic Ash Crisis Deepens in Europe {Politics Daily}
Apr 19th 2010 4:04AM dear delia,
I'm a big fan of your intelligent, literate prose and first-rate reporting. Don't spoil it with ignorance: Iceland is famous for its volcanoes. If you make a cute joke about Iceland being "icy" you undermine your integrity as a journalist. Don't do it. Your readers depend on you to be accurate and truthful.
Is 'Avatar' Racist? {Moviefone Blog}
Jan 17th 2010 12:44AM I think the whole racist angle is a bunch of baloney. I think there are people who just tend to view everything from one narrow resentful perspective. And if you want, you can find anything anywhere, just as a literature major can interpret the same novel from a feminist, deconstructionist, socialist, gay, dead white male, people of color, aesthetic, grammarian perspective, depending on what he or she wants to find. I just think it's boring as hell, narcissistic and paranoid to live that way. I think it would be equally valid to interpret Avatar as showing what jerks the white guys are...they are not heroes at all. In fact, the so called white savior cannot do anything to help the blue people until he becomes one of them...the pure whities are trash through and through, exemplified by one of the most racist stereotypes ever on film (the big marine hater guy). If this film isn't about the white man's self hatred I don't know what is.
Songwriter Rich Fagan Rebounds After Tragic Downfall {The Boot}
Jan 15th 2010 1:53AM Will someone please take this disgusting story about this abhorrent man, this hideous drunk and murderer, off of AOL, so we can go back to reading true stories of triumph and recovery, and sorrow, from Haiti. Just lose this loser. It is terrible for AOL to spotlight this type of story, especially with what is going on in the world right now.
Songwriter Rich Fagan Rebounds After Tragic Downfall {The Boot}
Jan 14th 2010 9:56PM I don't find this story in the least bit touching. There is nothing moving about the despicable and vicious behavior of alcoholics. The man should be in jail for life. That's the problem with alcoholics. They are always being forgiven by the codependents who refuse to recognize what sick monstrous bastards they are. I was in love with an abusive alcoholic and he came after me with a knife several times, swerved off the road while driving me in a car many times, slammed a door on my foot, pulled my hair. And his verbal abuse almost killed me. And now he's with some other codependent woman he found at an AA meeting. When is he going to start his murderous deconstruction of her ego and wellbeing? Alcoholics need to take responsibility for every evil deed, and not be forgiven.
Airport Security: Is Israel the Answer? {Politics Daily}
Jan 9th 2010 12:46PM Dear Delia, Thank you for the very intelligent article, and for bringing up the Israelis as a model for dealing with terrorism. It has been noted previously that we should use the Israelis as a model, but for some reason the good ole USA is uncomfortable with their approach. What really frustrates me about all of this is that I have a growing sense that our country's national character, if it can be said that a country has a character, is simply incapable of grasping what is involved in fighting terrorism. For one thing, I don't care if I'm politically correct, you have to do profiling and, yes, the way the Israelis do it, eye-to-eye scanning for psychological signs, but also you must consider race because there are large portions of the populations of certain countries that are quite simply at war with us. IF you ignore that then you are sacrificing security in the name of knee-jerk political correctness. I have traveled in parts of the world (Asia and South America, for instance) during times where there was tremendous hostility toward the United:States in the countries I visited. I was constantly being profiled and I accepted it as the price of traveling outside of my own country to places that let's say just didn't love Americans. Why is it that we are so afraid to face facts? And speaking of races, why when a Nigerian father went to the CIA to report, basically, that his son was a terrorist with malign intentions, was this young man not put immediately on the top level watch list and denied flying rights? My feeling is, better to have thousands on the no fly list and then work through the list and give them permission to fly after they have cleared the list, not just toss the names into a low-risk bin before you have checked them out. I guess what I am saying is fighting terrorism has to result in a loss of the highest level of civil rights and equality to all persons on the globe, it absolutely must result in that. We can't fight terrorism with Barney songs. And if certain religious and ethnic groups rooted in very specific parts of the world are at war with us, and their modus operandi is to sneak onto planes with explosives, why shouldn't we profile those people at airports? Anyway, I love the Woman Up blog and hope you will continue to write about these issues, especially to look deeply and honestly at the whole profiling thing.
Why We'll Leave 'American Idol' for 'X-Factor' If Simon Cowell Jumps Ship {Inside TV Blog}
Jan 4th 2010 7:41AM If Simon leaves, and with Paula gone, the show will lose its essential chemistry. I wish they had not been so quick to mess with the judges and add all these new people. The old cliche about things not being broke is a cliche because it's true. They should have left the trio of Paula, Randy and Simon just the way they were. As for my personal viewing loyalty, for what it's worth, I will definitely switch to X Factor if Simon goes, especially if Paula joins the Brits at the table. Hope he takes Seacrest, too.
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