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- Video: An In-Depth Analysis Of Courtney Stodden’s Pro Mermaid Sex Commercial
- Parenting Lessons From Teen Mom 2: These Girls Are Their Own Worst Enemies
- 8 Personal Ads We ‘Found’ On Craigslist This Morning
- Glee Report Card: Ricky Martin Is Livin’ La Glee-Da Loca
- How Many Songs Will Mandy Moore Get To Sing In Her New ABC Show?
- Melanie Brown Continues To Hint At A Spice Girls Reunion
- Kris Humphries Has Kardashian Secrets To Spill
- Daniel Radcliffe Continues To Boggle Minds With His ‘Bad Boy’ Ways
- College Kids Can Now Get Plan B From A Vending Machine
- Valuable Life Advice From The Real Housewives Of Orange Country
| Video: An In-Depth Analysis Of Courtney Stodden’s Pro Mermaid Sex Commercial Posted: 08 Feb 2012 11:07 AM PST
While at first glance the new Courtney Stodden commercial may look like a shameless publicity stunt for FreeCreditReport.com, it’s actually offering us a complex message about the way we look at our dwindling domestic fishing industry, our neverending need to catch on to the next biggest thing and most interestingly, our views on mermaid-human sex. While most commercials wouldn’t dare to dip their toe in these controversial waters, FreeCreditReport.com and Courtney Stodden are diving right in. Let’s start with the two lone fisherman in the beginning. We can’t even hear what they’re saying because the seagulls are screeching so loudly. Upon first watching this commercial, I assumed the director was simply setting the scene. But upon multiple repeat viewings, I can now say with confidence that the meaning behind the seagulls drowning out the conversations is anything but a simple scene setting. It’s clearly laying out the fact that our domestic fishing industry’s slowly dying right in front our eyes while our congress squabbles and sqawks about other issues that they deem more important. Moving on. The starring fisherman (let’s call him Dave to make things easy) manages to finally catch a fish only to find out that it’s not good enough for his fishing colleague (let’s go with Scott). After all this is America where bigger is always better and no matter how many fish you catch, there’s always something bigger that that you missed. In a startling display of conformity Dave throws a much larger hook in the water in hopes of getting that elusive bigger catch. Finally we arrive at the climax of the commercial where Dave actually manages to catch something bigger — only to realize that a bigger catch leads to bigger problems. It’s a mermaid and although he’s now considered a more successful fisherman, he’s faced with morality issues he’s never even contemplated before. Such as ”how long can a mermaid survive on land?” and ”is that mermaid old enough to have sex?” and the most complicated question of all, ”Am I ready to have sex with a mermaid?” And there you go. A simple commercial analyzed and explained for you. It all makes a lot more sense now, doesn’t it?
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| Parenting Lessons From Teen Mom 2: These Girls Are Their Own Worst Enemies Posted: 08 Feb 2012 10:33 AM PST Wow. After a season of villifying the babydaddies, Teen Mom 2 has suddenly swung around and highlighted everything that Jenelle, Chelsea, Kailyn, and Leah are doing wrong. While not all of them made bad decisions in this episode, the events depicted still showed very clearly what obstacles the girls have brought on themselves since they first got pregnant at 16. We’ve got one more super-sized episode next week, so I’m curious to see if the season will end on a downer or a more optimistic note.
KAILYN DO: Be open to compromise Jo has really turned things around in just a few episodes: He and Kailyn decide which weekdays he’s going to come over to her place to spend time with Isaac, and he even tells her that he’s willing to drop the child support appeal. Now that he must feel empowered by being in Isaac’s life more, the kid is less of an obligation and more of a joy. As he says, “He makes my day.” DON’T: Disregard your partner’s instincts That said, Kailyn’s real parenting partner is boyfriend Jordan, so she should listen when he says he has misgivings about Jo suddenly being in their lives a lot more often. But Kailyn isn’t willing to take him seriously… probably because she’s having feelings for Jo again. It is mature of them to talk about it: Kailyn asks, ”Do you trust me to be here by myself with Jo and Isaac?” But since Jordan’s answer is no, that’s worth more discussion. DON’T: Flirt in front of your kid What seems to be a good rule of thumb is to keep things as stable as possible for your kids. That means Kailyn and Jo awkwardly flirting in front of little Isaac is a bad idea. If nothing else, it’ll confuse the hell out of him to see his separated parents being all lovey-dovey. But can we pause and laugh at how Kailyn asks, apropos of nothing, “How’s your love life?” It’s a quote from The Room to the word, which makes me want to make image macros with Room quotes now. DON’T: Have your ex stay over Come on, Kailyn! This is bad judgment on so many levels. Related posts: Post from: Crushable |
| 8 Personal Ads We ‘Found’ On Craigslist This Morning Posted: 08 Feb 2012 10:39 AM PST
Just because they’re rich and famous, doesn’t mean that it’s completely out of the realm of possibility that a celebrity would post an ad on Craigslist looking for love, or even, a NSA situation. So if a select handful of celebrities did post an ad, what might that ad say? We have some thoughts on the matter. Don’t agree? Then how would your fantasy ad for your favorite celebrity read?
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| Glee Report Card: Ricky Martin Is Livin’ La Glee-Da Loca Posted: 08 Feb 2012 09:54 AM PST
Last night’s Glee was disturbingly meta: Just as Will Schuester finds his glee club reinvigorated by Spanish teacher David, I have to break it to Matthew Morrison that I want to see him replaced with Ricky Martin immediately. Rather than be a cheesy, useless guest star, Ricky — as toothy, sexy David — was a much-needed shot of energy to this flagging show. In terms of the episode’s songs, there weren’t any automatic classics, but there also weren’t as many duds as in past weeks. A cool twist is that each song is bilingual, whether a mash-up or if you put LMFAO through Google Translate. “La Cucaracha” This shouldn’t even count as a song, since it started off the episode — so, it was before Will’s assignment to the kids — and featured Will’s paranoid inner monologue. Everything about it was just ghastly. And even though that’s what the writers intended, I’m still giving it a bad grade. Grade: C- “Sexy and I Know It” I was a little unnerved by all the odd dancing, but it’s obvious that David on-screen and Ricky off-screen inspired the kids to play around with new moves. He’s obviously in his element here—really, it is so good to see Ricky Martin singing and dancing again! He’s a great mix of playful and, as you’ll see later, soulful. Grade: A- “Don’t Wanna Lose You” Amber Riley sang beautifully here, but I’m already exhausted by the Sam/Mercedes/Shane love triangle. Poor Shane seems like just a plot device here, as an obstacle put in place to make things more frustrating for Sam and Mercedes; so far we haven’t gotten any reason to actually care about how he feels about Mercedes. Plus, it’s not like he was around for her big number; what kind of boyfriend is that? But kudos to Amber for tackling the highest percentage of Spanish per tonight’s songs without mangling the language at all. Grade: B Related posts: Post from: Crushable |
| How Many Songs Will Mandy Moore Get To Sing In Her New ABC Show? Posted: 08 Feb 2012 09:47 AM PST
Well pull my baby doll dress and platform flip flops out of the closet, because the ’90s are officially back this week! Not only did Monica and Brandy reunite for a “The Boy is Mine” follow-up, but ’90s pop star Mandy Moore has a comedy pilot that just got picked up by ABC. The show’s going to follow a newlywed couple as they open a hip restaurant in a small town. Now I know, Mandy Moore’s been around since the ’90s. In fact she’s apparently even been guest starring on Grey’s Anatomy. But I think we can all agree that she was very much a late ’90s pop star. She emerged at the same time as Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and the forever pregnant Jessica Simpson and I’ll always group her that way in my head. Basically anyone who’s music I played at my Bat Mitzvah makes my late ’90s pop star list. So yes to everyone reading this who attended my Bat Mitzvah, Eiffel 65 is ALSO on this list. Since the ’90s however, Mandy Moore has broken into acting and starred in a few decent-to-watch-on-a-Sunday-afternoon films. The only remarkable thing about each movie was that she sang in almost every single one. (Maybe not every single one, a hasty IMDB search shows about 4. But still, that’s kind of a lot considering she’s only been in 14 major movies.) Which leads me to the conclusion that part of her contract must include that the producers try their hardest to find a way to squeeze in a song of hers. Sometimes, like in Tangled, the singing makes sense as part of the plot. Other times, such as in Princess Diaries, it comes out of nowhere and makes absolutely no sense. Does anyone else remember being totally thrown off when she started singing “Stupid Cupid” on the beach in that movie? Anyway, I can only assume that since she has a lead role in this new show, she’ll be offered the opportunity to sing. So what you think? Will she sing the theme song? Or will it be more Glee-like (Or I guess Smash is the new hit reference) where she’ll burst into song spontaneously? Let me know in the comments what you think she’ll sing AND if you’re as excited about this ’90s comeback as I am. Post from: Crushable |
| Melanie Brown Continues To Hint At A Spice Girls Reunion Posted: 08 Feb 2012 09:20 AM PST
That’s all she would say on the subject, and there’s been no corroboration from the other Spice Girls. Interestingly, most of them are working on clothing lines: Emma Bunton with children’s clothes, Victoria Beckham having stars like Michelle Williams wear her designs, and Geri Halliwell resurrecting her famous Union Jack dress. (Melanie Chisholm is working on her solo career.) Geri did speak about her career goals recently, but when she mentioned the same Diamond Jubilee, there was nothing charged behind her words: Talking about the iconic Union Jack design, she said, “We have the Olympics [coming up], we have the Diamond Jubilee; we have a lot to feel good about.” When asked about the Spice Girls musical, she said, “The storyline is brilliant, of course fantastic music. Hopefully it will make everyone smile and relive the past.” She predicts it’ll come out at the end of 2012 or beginning of 2013. If anything, the only hints from Geri were about her own solo album. So, it could be that Mel B is just trying to get attention by stirring up rumors of a Spice Girls reunion. But let’s put on our optimistic hats and assume that there is some grand performance in the works. If that’s the case, then I agree with E! Online that she’s probably talking about rehearsals; after all, next month is already March, and it’s reasonable that something celebrating the Queen of England would require three months of rehearsal. Plus, there are two parts to her tweet that have me thinking this could be legit: For one, she says “missed them all soooo much” about the girls. Now, it’s not surprising that the ladies stay in touch over Twitter and in-person; you can find a smattering of photos online of them out and about getting dinner and such. But the tweet seems to refer to something more than just seeing the girls, i.e., actually working together again. Furthermore, Mel ends the tweet with “girlpower all the way!”—why invoke the group’s catchphrase/mantra if you’re just talking about the good old days? Related posts: Post from: Crushable |
| Kris Humphries Has Kardashian Secrets To Spill Posted: 08 Feb 2012 09:00 AM PST
It’s official. The Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries divorce headlines have lasted longer than their marriage! In today’s Krisardashian news, Kim wants her divorce heard by a private mediator so nothing leaks out to the public. Kris Humphries, on the other hand, is trying to get his pre-nup and its accompanying confidentiality clause thrown out by a judge. This can only mean one thing. Kris has confidential gossip about Kim that he wants to share with the public. Considering that he was “blindsided” by the divorce, we’d love to know what juicy information he wants to release. The entire family lives their lives in front of the camera and on the television screen and it’s hard to imagine there’s something we don’t know. Sure it’s all scripted and fake, but we know that already. Unless, of course, Kris knows more than we do about just how scripted the Kardashian’s lives really are. Did he know about the whole “let’s get married to get divorced for publicity plan?” before he got married? That would be scandalous, magazine-cover worthy and absolutley devastating to Kim’s career. But if he admitted something along those lines, then this statement about his marriage to Kim would be completely invalid: ”To me it was real. I would never go through something or do something that wasn’t real or I didn’t believe in, so I can really only speak for myself in terms of that.” And he’s made a lot of statements along those lines in the past few months. So what’s the deal and what’s the juicy gossip? What is Kim, “I live my life in front of the cameras” so determined to hide? I’m dying to know. Do you have any guesses? Leave them below in the comments and let me know what you think Kim is hiding.
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| Daniel Radcliffe Continues To Boggle Minds With His ‘Bad Boy’ Ways Posted: 08 Feb 2012 08:32 AM PST
Radcliffe has been making the rounds and saying things that prove he isn’t 100% Harry Potter after all. In fact, he’s just as messed up and complicated as the rest of us. Because it clearly wasn’t enough to admit to being drunk on the set of Harry Potter and his preference in pubic hair on potential lovers, Radcliffe has now come clean and said that he has given the ol’ in-out to Harry Potter groupies. This may not be the 1970′s anymore and he may not be the lead singer of Led Zeppelin, but considering the fanaticism behind the Harry Potter franchise, there’s a good chance that Radcliffe has gotten more than his fair share of, how do I say this politely, poontang. Let’s take a look back at some of our favorite Daniel Radcliffe quotes from the past few months that prove that perhaps he’s trying to show the world that he is indeed a ‘bad boy.’ Related posts: Post from: Crushable |
| College Kids Can Now Get Plan B From A Vending Machine Posted: 08 Feb 2012 07:38 AM PST Post from: Crushable |
| Valuable Life Advice From The Real Housewives Of Orange Country Posted: 08 Feb 2012 11:12 AM PST
Despite being a Bravo fanatic, I’d never watched a single episode of Real Housewives of Orange Country until last night. And let me just say it’s a wonderful, heartwarming show that reminds me of a modern day version of The Waltons. Slash, all the Real Housewives of Orange County look exactly the same. Trying to recap a show where everyone has the same haircut, hair color and general disdain for each other is very difficult. So rather than trying to tell you what Gretchen said to Vicki about Tamra‘s relationship with Heather, I thought I would focus on the more important things. Like the extremely valuable advice I learned from last night’s episode. [Photos courtesy of Starcasm and Bravo]
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Let’s just say, hypothetically, I was checking out the personal ads on Craigslist this morning, you know, for a friend. Because my friend is too shy to look for love on her own, and I stumbled across all these ads that looked awfully familiar. This ad sounds like this celebrity and this one sounds like that celebrity — or am I crazy? I am crazy, but let’s pretend I’m not.
There’s a marked difference between Melanie Brown‘s behavior last week and now: A little over a week ago, she cautiously dropped the hint that she and the rest of the Spice Girls might be reuniting at Queen Elizabeth‘s Diamond Jubilee in early June. “Ooh, did I just say that?” she laughed on the Australian talk show Sunrise 
With every child star, there comes a time when they want to shake their former good-kid image and show that yes, they do have some badass ways. Look at Lindsay Lohan, for example, she’s really proven that ‘good’ child stars can grow into, well, utter disasters. Now it’s Daniel Radcliffe’s turn.
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