Remembering the Good Doctor

Today would have been DeForest Kelley's 92nd birthday. He passed away in 1999 and is remembered most for his iconic character, Dr. "Bones" McCoy, on Star Trek.

Dee, to his friends and Trekkies everywhere, was of course awesome on Star Trek playing foil to Spock, but he was well known in Hollywood before that role.

His filmography is intense. He has over 129 acting credits, the vast majority coming from the 1950's and '60's when he was the bad guy in Western movies. He acted with Burt Lancaster, Anthony Quinn and Henry Fonda among a few. He was also in television acting for a young Gene Roddenberry who then cast the veteran actor as the lovable snarky doctor in Star Trek.

He was also a poet, publishing 2 books.

His cameo in the pilot ep of Star Trek: The Next Generation as a grizzled very old Dr. McCoy who comments to Data about the Enterprise, "Treat her like a lady and she'll always get you home", still brings a tear to our eye.

R.I.P! We still miss you and the thought of Mint Juleps.

Dee's IMDB.com page

Lady and the Tramp Coming to Theaters

Disney is re-releasing the classic animated film Lady and the Tramp on February 2nd for a VERY limited time in theaters.

Just two days later the DVD/BluRay will be released for the first time.

Remember this? The Italian stereotype is off the chart. Jeez! But still, so cute!
What a beautiful night...

Happy 65th to The Thin White Duke

David Bowie turns 65 today! He is beyond legendary and one of our favorite artists of ALL TIME.

No one is cooler than Bowie. NO ONE.

One of the best movie theme songs ever:



David's Wiki article

R.I.P - Cheetah

Cheetah, "Boy", Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O' Sullivan (1930's)

Cheetah, Johnny Weissmuller's co-star in the 1930's Tarzan films, passed away at age 80 on Christmas Eve.

He had been living at a sanctuary since before we were born!

"Cheetah came to the sanctuary from Weissmuller's estate sometime around 1960."

Wow! Good job to the people at the sanctuary! It's obvious that they must've taken good care of him all these years.

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SURVIVOR: Sophie Takes All

The Final Three: Albert, Coach and Sophie

Season 23 ends with Sophie Clarke winning the $1 million bucks in a very close final vote tally. It was actually the closest vote in years, being split between Coach Wade and Sophie.

Alas! Our beloved Coach makes it to the final three and then loses by just a few votes. Poor Ozzy, who did everything possible, came in at number 4 behind Albert.

Coach gave a lovely speech about being The Phoenix rising from the fire right before the final Tribal. He has now gone from being The Dragonslayer to being The Phoenix. He's one of a kind. And he's OUR Winner.

Ozzy. Ozzy. Ozzy. This kid didn't win the $1 Mill in any of the three times he played, but he is definitely a winner. He also gave a speech at the Reunion show about finding God in nature. It was awesome.

Ozzy wasn't the best Survivor Contestant but he is the best Survivor ever. He is the only one of the hundreds of Survivors that could ACTUALLY BE A SURVIVOR. If left to perish on a deserted island, people would be shocked to see him 20 years later, healthy as a horse with a home made beach house.

At the reunion, Coach tried to keep it together but you can tell he thought he was going to win.

Evil Russell Hantz showed up and talked shit about this nephew on live TV. He wasn't proud of Brandon's behavior and style of play and was supremely pissed that Brandon apologized to everyone for being a Hantz. It was crazy and sad and yes, we still love the character of Russell. It's beyond good TV.

Ozzy rules the jungles

It was a great season.

Coming in February, Survivor: One World.


Season 23 Survivor Eps at CBS.com

SURVIVOR: "This Game's Not Made For Me, Bro"

Brandon "It's God's Will" Hantz

Lat night's ep was the last regular episode of the season. And what a great season it's been.

Sunday's night's finale is set up to be one of the best ever.

Against unbelievable odds, Coach's alliance has made it INTACT from day one to the very end. It was an amazing run. Now, the fireworks really begin as the last of the 4 alliance mates will implode, which we predict will be spectacularly.

First up was the Redemption Island duel with Edna vs. Ozzy. You would think that Ozzy would wipe the floor with her but a crazy thing happened. Once again, Survivor NEVER FAILS TO DISAPPOINT. While Ozzy was getting through the first half of the challenge with ease, Edna struggled. Then the tribe, which is all 6 of the Te Tuna alliance, started yelling at her what to do. It worked and Edna caught up so fast to Ozzy that she had the final puzzle half way finished. Jeff kept saying, "Ozzy's on his own" and rubbing it in his face. It was pretty cool to see the people that voted her out last week trying to help her. I think it eased the pain when she lost.

Also, one last word on Edna. She's the only Survivor in recent history that had no trouble throwing her buff into the fire. Most people try to hold onto it as a memento or at least feel bad destroying it at the end. Not Edna, "this thing stinks, I can't wait to burn it," she said. Jeff laughed, everyone applauded her and a good time was had by all.

Well not really. Ozzy waved to everyone and then was back to Redemption to wait for one more person to get voted off and come and challenge him. That person is...

Drums please...Brandon Hantz.

What a putz! Brandon made a classic Survivor Move of Stupidity.

At the Immunity challenge, Brandon pretty much kicked ass and won. Coach was kind of close but not quick enough. And we got to see Coach looked very pissed. He was still very zen-like but in a angry zen way. He looked like one of the Angry Birds.

Everyone was resigned to voting out Albert, who's been getting on their nerves. However, Albert went to Brandon and played the Blood Brother card. Albeit he pleaded his case very poorly as far was we were concerned, but Brandon got all fraternal and changed his mind. He then went to Coach and told him that he's going to sacrifice his Immunity and give it to Albert.

Coach then prayed for a name. And he was given one. You see God is a big Survivor fan and we're pretty sure that the producers are recruiting straight from the Bible Belt because the last few seasons have given us some pretty heavy Jesus freaks and Brandon is NUMERO UNO.

At Tribal Council, Brandon didn't even wait for Jeff to start or even say hello. He announced immediately that he was giving his Immunity necklace to Albert. Brandon has no filter of any kind and then started spouting all of his God talk. Now, were not against God in any way shape or form and it IS nice to see people on TV praise Him or whatever, but not like this. When people - Brandon - start saying that "God told me this or that" or "It's God's will that I win or don't win" they sound fucking crazy and it's annoying and you just then look at them with pity instead of respect. And that's what happened to Brandon. He knew he was digging his own grave and got to the point where he actually said "if Coach votes me out it's God's will."

BINGO! Coach got his "out" with Brandon and was able to vote him off without violating any "Honor and Integrity Rules". So Bye- bye Brandon.

What were Coach's parting words of wisdom? "It’s God’s will. Go win redemption.”

We don't even know what to say about that. Our jaw hit the floor in shock because Coach sounded like a religious cult leader who just administered a bucket of kool-aid and then we collapsed in laughter.

He's off to challenge Ozzy for the final Redemption Duel. Winner gets put back into the game and the final 5 go on to cut each others throats.

That was when Brandon made the most succinct statement of the season to Ozzy - "This game's not made for me, Bro."

Look for a CRAZY showdown on Sunday night as 3 people are voted out and three vie for a win.

What does Jeff think?

"But right now my vote would go to Coach if he makes it."

Yes!

EW's recap

EW.com's 3 Q's with Jeff Probst

SNL - Best Friends Skit

The Andy Samberg SNL Digital Short skits are always hit or miss. However, when they hit they are almost certainly pretty damn funny.

This weekend was one.

The reason we are even posting this skit (and why we even care) is captured in two words: VAL KILMER. How they got him to do a skit and where they even found him remains a mystery.

Enjoy the creepy, scary and funny, Val Kilmer.

Steve Rogers, American Airlines

Alec Baldwin killed it on SNL this weekend. Here he is pretending to be an American Airlines pilot, Steve Rogers.

SURVIVOR: Another Hantz!

First and foremost, we congratulate Jeff Probst! Noticeably absent from the usual Wednesday night Survivor TweetFest and buff giveaway, we learned today that he's on his honeymoon having gotten hitched on Monday.

Ok. So what happened on Survivor last night? None of this recap is in any order...

It was family reunion night so we were treated to ANOTHER HANTZ. That's right, Brandon's dad, who is THAT Hantz's brother, made an appearance. Now we know it's not just Russell and Brandon who are crazy, it really is the entire family.

Shawn Hantz, who moved and spoke just like his evil brother, Russell (who we still LOVE by the way) said this of his son "I don’t know how he hasn’t gotten voted off yet."

Hmmm, neither do we, so I guess not all Hantz's are crazy after ....wait...then he confronted Coach and tried to make him take his son to the final three.

Coach, in his camera interview, laughed it off. All Hantz's are bullies, so why should this one be any different?

Cochran ALMOST won at Redemption. It would have been the greatest upset of all time. He gave a heartfelt, tear stained speech to Probst at the end detailing why he loves the game so much and how happy it made him to be there.

"This has been by far, the most incredible moment of my life," he said. Goodbye Cochran. You did it! You outlasted far longer than you probably should have and you were great. Good job! You earned your one-name name.

Ozzy won and then got to spend time on Redemption with the three Survivors he picked to visit with their relatives. Why all six people had to stay with Ozzy is a mystery. The poor guy didn't get to see a loved one video or an actual loved one. He got dicked. Except for when Coach came by...

Coach wants to take Ozzy to the final three so it can be "two noble warriors facing off" or something. We don't know. Or care. We just totally adore Coach Dragonslayer Zen Master Wade. By the way, we got to see his brother, a normal looking dude, named Pete. Just Pete. Not another epithet in sight! Guess Coach took them all.

Best moment of the night? When Rick got to touch his wife, he grabbed her ass and goosed her on national tv. Isn't Love grand?

There are only 2 more episodes left! The normal Wednesday night and then the 2 hour Sunday night finale. Already! We've really enjoyed the last few years of Survivor. It's just so awesome.

WE WANT COACH TO WIN. WE WANT COACH TO WIN. WE WANT COACH TO WIN.

With only 6 players left, who do you want to win?

Coach, Albert, Sophie, Brandon, Ozzy, or Rick?

The guy on the left is called Pete, the guy on the
right is a Dragonslayer who wears knee highs

Jeff and new wife, Lisa

Survior Fandom.com

EW.com's 3 Q's with Jeff Probst

R.I.P. Harry Morgan

Our beloved Colonel Potter has finally crossed over at age 96 after a long and rewarding life.

Harry Morgan was a veteran character actor and will always be remembered for his role as Colonel Sherman Potter on the best TV show ever, MASH.

When asked if working with the cast of MASH had made him a better actor he replied: "I don't know about that, but it's made me a better human being."

Go and rent "Inherit the Wind", one of best movies ever and you'll catch Harry Morgan, who looked old even then, working with the industries best, Spencer Tracy, Fredric March and a young Dick York. You can't miss Harry, he's the Judge!

Of course, to some he'll be remembered from Dragnet or maybe one of the 700 movies or tv shows he was in.

He'll be missed (even though everyone thought he died 20 years ago)




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Oscar Push for Andy Serkis

Andy Serkis is Caesar, the ape

Fox Studio head, Jim Rothman, has been praising Andy Serkis's work in Rise of the Apes and is pushing for a Oscar Nomination for Best Supporting Actor!

"I think we may be at the place where we will see a first-ever in Hollywood this year, which is to see Andy Serkis get nominated for a best supporting actor for Planet of the Apes, even though his face never actually appears," he told The Hollywood Reporter..."But his performance appears, so we are going to push that hard."

Further discussing Serkis' work Rothman said: "The emotionality - what you see and what you feel - he did it. I saw him. I watched him. Then they digitally overlaid - you can think of it as a costume - the skin and the hair of an ape. But I tell you the thing that people felt – and a lot of people where moved when they saw the movie - is because of his performance."

Andy is one of the nicest guys in the biz. We were lucky enough to meet him and his Oscar for Best Visual Effects at the TOR.N "Two Towers, One Party" in Hollywood 2003. To say it was an amazing experience is a total understatement.

Never before has an acting award been given to an actor not seen in the movie. Although "Ceasar, the ape" is on film, it's not Andy per se.

Odds are it's not going to happen, but with all the CGI going on anymore, it just may be a possibility.

Hollywood Reporter News Article

Ab Fab 2011

Absolutely Fabulous is celebrating it's 20th!

Eddie and Pats are returning for a new season that includes a three-part Christmas special. Yay!

Everyone is commenting on how great the cast looks. Jane Horrocks (Bubble) is 47, Julia Sawalha (Saffy) is 43, Jennifer Saunders (Edina) is 53, June Whitfield (mom) is 86, and Joanna Lumley (Patsy) is 65.

Amazing!

Jennifer Saunders, who plays the super-cool yet hot-mess Edina, and is the creator/writer for the show, is in remission from her breast cancer ordeal from the last couple of years and seems ready to bring Ab Fab back to prime time and possibly to A MOVIE THEATER NEAR YOU.

'We thought it would be hilarious if [Edina and Patsy] went to a party on an oligarch’s yacht, got drunk, fell asleep and woke up in the middle of the ocean,' she said.

Well, considering Eddie and Patsy get drunk and wake up everywhere else, why not?

Here's a sneak peek at the Christmas special airing soon on BBC1.



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J.R. Martinez Wins Coveted Mirrorball

JR Martinez and Karina Smirnoff win season 13

Jose Rene Martinez is an amazing example of how ordinary people can overcome difficult and painful obstacles and accomplish extraordinary things.

JR's journey has been incredible. Born in Louisiana in 1983, he enlisted in the army in 2002. He was deployed to Iraq in 2003 and was there only 2 months when the Humvee he was driving hit a landmine.

JR was burned over 40% of his body. He was airlifted to Germany and spent almost 3 years in hospital recovering. To date he has undergone 33 surgeries and skin grafts.

This is where the story gets really inspirational. JR was asked to speak to a newly burned patient and try and comfort him. Not only did it work but JR discovered he has a way with people.

He became a motivational speaker and has been honored nationally for his work, on multiple occasions by various veterans groups and more.

He's a fixture on General Hospital, a groundbreaking role for daytime television.

As far as Dancing With the Stars goes, we liked Ricki Lake but are sick of Derek Hough winning and although we like Cheryl Burke, there's no way we wanted Rob Shallnotbenamed to win. So this was perfect.

It's thrilling to have a guy like JR, who breaks the mold in every way, win this year. He's already accomplished amazing things and we can't wait to see what he does in the future.

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They Who Must Not be Named Must Be Taken Off the Air

We aren't putting their name on our blog. Ever. We love Omni too much to do that to ourselves.

However,CLICK HERE, to sign the petition to get them off the fucking television for once and for all.

ARE YOU LISTENING SEACREST?

Top Rammstein Videos

Rammstein is (from left to right):
Ollie Reidel, Paul Landers, "Flake" Lorenz, Til Lindemann, Richard Kruspe
and never last or least the drummer, Christoph Schneider

RAMMSTEIN, Germany's best band ever, released its new song Mein Land on Friday. We have of course listened to it 700 times in the last 3 days and WE LOVE IT.

The video is amazingly hilarious with the boys doing a 60's Beach Boys-esque homage ala Beach Blanket Bingo. Which makes us love them even more.

Here's Mein Land and a few other of their great videos plus a bonus fan made vid for Ich Will:

Mein Land




Sonne




Du Reichst so Gut




Du Hast




Mein Teil




Weisses Fleisch - Live au Berlin





Ich Will - Winnie the Pooh version!





Now we are free to "enjoy" our Monday morning at work..

NEW RAMMSTEIN!

Check out the video for "Mein Land" HERE!

Rammstein Beach Party video is HILARIOUS!

Jeff Probst Getting a Talk Show

Jeff's 3 or 4th Emmy

Survivor host and Emmy Award Winner Jeff Probst is all set to launch his new talk show...next year.

"I’m fascinated with people,” (said) Probst. “And I love adventure. I can’t wait to bring these two worlds together in daytime, and the added bonus is I get to continue with Survivor in primetime.”

EW.com Article

SURVIVOR: OutWit, OutPlay and Cut Someone's Throat

Te Tuna Tribe

The Merged Tribe has a new name. Te Tuna. That's pretty much all we have to say about that, other than, my cat thinks it's f'ing cool.

Last night's ep was one of the double elimination ones. Those are the best because as soon as the show starts there's an Immunity challenge and at the 20 minute mark you're already at Tribal Council. Then, when the show comes back at 8:30 there's ANOTHER Immunity/Reward challenge and then ANOTHER Tribal. It was just continuous awesomeness last night.

Cochran caught a bunch of shit from his former tribe because of his vote at last Tribal. He handled it okay and Coach's tribe tried to make him feel better.

So off to Tribal where Jim tried like hell to turn the tide against Cochran, painting him as the self-centered dishonorable player and the obvious choice to vote off. His argument went something like, "we have to make a stand on honor and integrity versus disloyalty."

Coach called him on it and said he rather vote for a person that could stand up for themselves.

Ozzy ended up getting voted out after Jim, the medical marijuana guy, won immunity. He said some snarky things on the way out. Whatever.

The best was yet to come.

One of the funniest things on Survivor is how people react to seeing food after being deprived for so long. At the second Immunity Challenge, Jeff explained the challenge (another balancing act which favors the women) and then unveiled a table full of food.

His choice to the Survivors was to either play for Immunity or fore go the challenge and eat some food while the challenge was in play.

Now, several times in Survivor history, we've seen Survivors not play in order to eat, taking the chance that they won't need Immunity at Tribal.

But we've never seen this.

The ENTIRE 7 person alliance, in other words, all of Coach's tribe plus one turn-coat Cochran, elected to sit and eat while only 3 people - the remainder of Ozzy's tribe - had to play it out for Immunity.

It was classic Survivor and proves, once again, that there is ALWAYS something NEW with this game and as many times as you think you've seen 'em all, NO YOU HAVEN'T.

The entire unprecedented voting bloc just sat there stuffing their faces while Jeff laughed at them and with them. You should have seen Coach's iced coffee mustache. Hilarious!

The poor remaining Savaii members tried their hardest. Dawn is one hell of a player. She even told everyone she'd stay longer in the challenge to give them all time to eat more. Aww! She's very impressive but failed this time to Whitney, leaving Jim as the obvious choice to vote out.

In fact, when Jim fell off the beam (see what we did there?), Brandon literally got up and cheered. How's that for in your face? It angered Jim who got all snippy with Jeff. Of course, Jeff laughed it off. He's been called worse by bitter starving Survivors.

And so Jim got sent packing to Redemption where he will duel with Ozzy and Keith. Only one winner gets to go back to the tribe. The other two go home. We'd never bet against Ozzy. Especially now that he has an axe to grind on Cochran's head.

Ozzy cries to Coach about how badly fucked over he is...
We just want Coach to take off his whole shirt

EW's 4Q's with Jeff Probst

CBS.com Survivor Site

Follow Jeff on Twitter during the show @JeffProbst. You can win stuff and some of the posts are hilarious!

SURVIVOR: The Dragonslayer Sees All

Coach "Dragonslayer" Wade
a.k.a the best dressed Survivor contestant in history

Last week Survivor contestant Ozzy went full-on balls out. He had his tribe vote him off so he could win at Redemption Island and give his tribe the numbers going into the merge. It was up in the air as to how brilliant or truly stupid this was. Would the tribes even merge? Could he survive at Redemption Island?

Last night we learned that his historic move WORKED! Ozzy won at Redemption, sending home 6-time winner Christine. The Tribes MERGED and all seemed to working for Ozzy.

Except for one little thing...Cochran. Yes, the Survivor fanatic who became a bullied contestant played a HUGE part in what went down last night.

So, Ozzy's plan is not only in full effect, it IS WORKING LIKE A DREAM. Even Jeff was shocked. But you should have seen Jeff try to keep a straight face as Ozzy lied about what happened at Tribal - the entire tribe was acting as if Cochran was ostracized so that he could infiltrate Upolu, Coach's tribe, and act as a spy.

In reality, Cochran, to his credit, actually did try to play along...but he hadn't yet dealt with Coach Dragonslayer, who apparently was NOT born yesterday.

2 seconds into giving Coach the prepared made up spiel, Coach called him out!

Coach spelled out the Savaii plan literally WORD FOR WORD. Cochran was stunned and couldn't recover enough to act. So he spilled the beans. Coach gave him an ego boosting pep talk and told him to pick a side.

Yes, it was a priceless Survivor moment. We are unabashed Coach fans, so while Ozzy is a kick-ass player, Coach is just an awesome guy and we just love him to no end.

At this point the tribes are evenly numbered 6 to 6. For someone to be voted out, somebody would have to switch sides. Coach was playing Cochran the way Savaii wanted Cochran to play Coach and it was hilarious.

Tribal came down to an even vote as Cochran did not jump tribes...until round 2 of the vote, in which he did in fact switch.

With Ozzy losing a tribe member it looks as if Coach will be able to pick them off one by one.

In short, Ozzy's historic kick-ass Survivor plan was foiled by Coach Dragonslayer! Honestly, we couldn't be happier about it.

Redemption moment of the night: Brandon Hantz literally took Cochran under his wing immediately after Tribal, telling the kid to stick close by him. Cochran's tribe is out for his blood - he sold them out after all - but Coach's tribe has been nicer to him in the 5 minutes they knew him then all 18 days he was with Ozzy's tribe. Karma is a Bitch, yo!

Oh and this guy, Rick, received a ton of votes last night but just one short of Keith who had to pack it up.

Rick has been here the WHOLE time
apparently wearing some kind of
Cowboy Cloak of Invisibility

Revenge of the Nerd -
Cochran plays The Game and screws over Ozzy.
SCORE for the devoted fan turned contestant!

Survivor Site at CBS.com

Ew.com's 3 Q's for Jeff Probst

Sam Jackson is the Highest Grossing Actor of All Time

Academy Award winning actor Samuel L. Jackson is THE MAN.
He is, of course, awesome in whatever he is in.

His movies have raked in over 7 BILLION dollars.

What movies has he been in, you ask?
Here are some little ones you may have heard of. There are dozens more and that's not even counting his Broadway and TV stuff.

Goodfellas
Patriot Games
True Romance
Jurassic Park
Pulp Fiction
The Long Kiss Goodnight - one of our FAVES
Jackie Brown
Star Wars 2 and 3
Kill Bill v2.
Iron Man
Inglourious Basterds
1408
Unthinkable - <- Best of his career!
Captain America
Thor
(Motherfucking) Snakes on a (motherfucking) Plane
and The Avengers (coming soon)

Here are a few greatest hits and they mostly all contain "Motherfucker"




And thanks to the Internet we now have the Pulp Fiction short version with ALL the motherfuckers!




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