| Is Bette Midler Right To Criticize The Britney Spears' Vagina Episode? | | Posted Tuesday, January 09, 2007 1:19:43 PM by Blog57 Team | | Songstress Bette Midler, who ever so coincidentlly has an album out entitled "Cool Yule", expressed her dismay at Britney Spears' and other female celebrity revelers' behavior of late. "Ive been on the other side to these wild and wooly sluts that we are seeing around our lives these days," Midler was quoted as saying on show "Extra." What Milder presumably had in mind were the antics of Spears and her partying cohort Paris Hilton, and particularly the incidents in which Britney displayed her private parts, ie vagina, for the whole world to watch. Perhaps Bette does not think Britney is providing a good example for the epitome of the all-American mom. "Girls get a life, get a grip. I mean someone should sit those ladies down," Midler added.... | |
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| | | Croaker Stewart, crooner Manilow differ in approach to rock's classics | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 3:03:03 PM by Blog57 Team | | In the flush of youth, Rod Stewart and Barry Manilow would have laughed to think their careers would ever be linked. Back then -- the early 1970s -- Stewart was a rock kingpin strutting his rooster haircut in the Faces and scoring solo hits including "Maggie May." Manilow, though a year younger than Stewart, was acting like rock never happened, arranging Andrews Sisters songs for Bette Midler and stepping toward easy-listening superstardom. .... | |
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| | | Columbia Records Releases 'Cool Yule,' Bette Midler's First-Ever Holiday Album | | Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 11:01:53 PM by Blog57 Team | | Columbia Records has released Cool Yule, Bette Midler's first-ever collection of seasonal songs, available now. Cool Yule, Midler's first new album since 2005's Top 10-charting "Bette Midler Sings The Peggy Lee Songbook," draws its name and upbeat spirit from the 1950s hipster holiday song, penned by Steve Allen, revamped by Midler for her holiday collection. Produced by Robbie Buchanan -- whose long-time association with Bette began with playing keyboards in "The Rose" band -- and executive produced by Jay Landers (Barbra Streisand, Julio Iglesias, numerous Disney soundtracks), "Cool Yule" is a swinging celebration of that merriest of seasons, with song selections covering the many moods of Christmas ranging from beloved carols ("O Come, O Come, Emmanuel") to classic pop ("Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas," "White Christmas," and an infectious medley of "Winter Wonderland/Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" sung with Columbia labelmate Johnny Mathis).... | |
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| | | Howard Gensler | Album deal for Philly's own Bianca Ryan | | Posted Thursday, September 28, 2006 3:07:04 AM by Blog57 Team | | "AMERICA'S Got Talent" winner Bianca Ryan, the 12-year-old Philadelphian with the big, big voice - has signed an album deal with the Simon Cowell imprint (fittingly named SYCO) at Columbia Records. "Bianca Ryan is potentially one of the best singers I have ever heard in my life," Cowell said recently. Bianca's debut, due Nov. 14, will include her million-dollar-winning cover of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" from "Dreamgirls." Other songs will be "Pray for a Better Day," by David Foster and Kara DioGuardi; "I Wish That," written by hit-maker Diane Warren, and "Why Can't It Be Christmas Everyday?" by Walter Afanasieff and Jay Landers. Popular covers will include Bette Midler's "The Rose," the Debby Boone chestnut "You Light Up My Life," and R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly." Tattle doesn't think young girls should sing R.... | |
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| | | JonBenet is still dead, and I still don't care | | Posted Friday, September 01, 2006 1:16:58 AM by Blog57 Team | | Geez, it sure is nice to be in a country so free from terror, war and $3 a gallon gas that our media can afford to focus hour after hour of its news coverage on the important things like JonBenet Ramsey and the doofus who claims he killed her even though he didn't. Really, what could be more important than that? Of course the pain suffered in this tragedy is a TV ratings gain. What a blessing for the cable news bozos, that just when the American public finally tired of being force-fed every other white girl in distress, the dead for a decade JonBenet comes back to join us, and is kind enough to bring an alleged child porn connoisseur with her. If you can stomach to think about it, this all started with O.J. Because ever since the completion of his trial there has been a vacuum that must be filled.... | |
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| | | Rental guide | | Posted Sunday, August 27, 2006 7:07:03 PM by Blog57 Team | | The new year gets off to a bad start for a boat load of passengers on a doomed luxury liner, but at least the pain's over quicker for them than for the castaways stuck watching this bilge-filled remake of 1972's "The Poseidon Adventure." Director Wolfgang Petersen emphasizes repetitive action and special effects over character, making it hard to care much for the little knot of survivors struggling upward deck by deck after a 150-foot wave overturns their vessel. Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss and Josh Lucas lead the cast. The movie comes as a bare-bones single DVD or in a two-disc set with featurettes on the upside-down set design and the rigors of shooting an ocean flick in a studio soundstage, plus a History Channel documentary on giant rogue waves."Silent Hill"Rated: RAnother dumb horror movie that debuted as the No.... | |
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| | | Commentary: Why Bother? | | Posted Thursday, August 10, 2006 5:23:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | I once saw a hilarious video skit on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show starring Bette Midler. In it, Midler played a world weary woman joyfully recounting her life's hopes and dreams, only to slump at the end of each tale in deflated resignation murmuring, "Why Bother?" A lot of people these days in their most productive years are snorting "Why bother?" to anything they feel has no relevance to them. Me? The older I get, the more I appreciate the chance to champion something larger than me. A 'liberal do gooder'? Nah. I'm just onto something I've always known but not always lived: we're born, we grow up, become adults, we get old and we die. Pass it on! If we'd acknowledge our own mortality, we'd more likely try to make a difference, however small. Like my lonely still-working elderly neighbor.... | |
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| | | CITY PICKS | | Posted Saturday, August 05, 2006 3:02:04 PM by Blog57 Team | | FESTIVAL — Get a tropical contact high CariFest Fri. Aug. 4 6 p.m. Free admission, $40/team entry fee City Gym 65 Hagood Ave. Sat. Aug. 5 7 p.m.-12 a.m $12/advance, $15/door Gaillard Auditorium 77 Calhoun St. 557-6258 If there's any group of people who know how to stay both cool and entertained during the sweltering summer months, it's our mad-partyin', hurricane-targeted neighbors in the Caribbean. In that spirit, LSB Caribbean Roots and Healthy Lifestyle Network present a weekend full of the sounds, sights, games, and tastes of the islands, starting on Friday night with a Jamaican Style Dominoes Tournament and Lyme, where DJ Ricky Lee will spin records over the clatter of dominoes being slammed onto the tables. Saturday night's reggae/soca/steelpan dance party at the Gaillard celebrates the steel drum — the only acoustic musical instrument invented in the 20th century — and features steel drum troupe Steel Band, here from Trinidad and Tobago, in addition to local group Gemini 1820 and the turntabling of Yonni and DJ Swisha.... | |
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| | | TV Barn's TV Picks for July 19 | | Posted Wednesday, July 19, 2006 9:02:09 PM by Blog57 Team | | TV Barn's TV Picks for July 18 | Grinder Girl and Hula Hoop Girl, now part of "The Late Show With David Letterman's" Will It Float?, were originally part of which recurring bit? Audience Show & Tell Is This Anything? Know Your Current Events Psychic Sandwich Stupid Pet... Jul 18 12:08 PM News and docu Emmy nominees | PBS has 33 entries on this year's News and Documentary Emmy Awards, nominees for which were announced today. NBC's coverage of Hurricane Katrina was... Jul 18 11:43 AM Rachael puts another pot on | Nobody worth his salt at the TV critics' tour went away from a weekend session with Rachael Ray with an empty stomach or a blank notebook. Ray, the homey cook and Food Network personality, author of 14 cookbooks and now... Jul 18 11:28 AM Why is it called "Life on Mars"?? | Aaron Barnhart checked in on my KMOX show this afternoon from the TV Critics Association Press Tour in Pasadena, where he talked about Katie Couric's focus groups, the return of South Park's Scientology episode, Spike Lee's Katrina documentary, and a...... | |
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| | | Outspoken Bernhard in town to take a bow | | Posted Saturday, July 15, 2006 11:01:42 AM by Blog57 Team | | There is absolutely no truth to the rumor that Sandra Bernhard is the love child of Mick Jagger and Fran Lebowitz, though, like them, she is an electric performer and provocative social satirist possessed of a formidable kisser. Because Bernhard makes us laugh and because she makes us think - more often simultaneously than serially - she will be rewarded with artistic-achievement honors tomorrow at the Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Prior to the 7:30 p.m. screening of her short Twenty Dollar Drinks and the feature What's Up Scarlet?, The Outspoken Miss B, 51, will receive her laurels at the Wilma. In 1983, I met Bernhard on the set of Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy, where she played the celebrity-obsessed Masha, kidnapper of late-night host Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis).... | |
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