Oh Hell No!

Dancing with the Stars had its first travesty of the season last night as one of the favorites to win it, Sabrina from the Cheetah Girls, got ousted. Despite being clearly superior to contestants such as Marie Osmond and Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, she was doomed by the judges scoring (which is inconsistent and has no correlation whatsoever) and viewers probably thinking she was safe. Sad, but this happens every year. Luckily Scary Spice and Kelly were safe or there would have been some furniture moving up in here.

More on Blackout

I did indeed go into my local Target store and purchase the new Britney Spears CD Blackout this morning. It wasn't even in the new release section with the rest of the CDs; it was buried on the bottom row about two shelves away. I did not make eye contact with the checkout girl. She must have been wondering what the hell was going on. I almost offered an explanation like "It's for my little sister" but I declined.

As I stated earlier, it's a decent CD if you are a fan of her earlier work. I listened to some of it again and it's growing on me. Something really weird happened when I got to the last song however-- it was actually good. I thought maybe I was going flaky but I found out that it was written by Pharrell and the Neptunes so that explains it. As for the packaging, the cover is just some thrown together crap with a stupid picture of Britney in a hat. There are better pictures inside including the "controversial" picture of her sitting in a priest's lap. She's just trying to hard at this point. There is not a lyric to be seen. Also no thank yous. But who would she thank at this point? Coors? Also included is a sample of her perfume, Believe. I have yet to open it but I'm sure it reeks of whiskey and Fritos.

Sure she is a bonafide hot ass mess now, but sometimes I like to think about the glory days. Below I have posted a clip of perhaps her career pinacle. This would have been 80 times better if she hadn't actually decided to sing during it.



And while I'm posting clips, I also ran across this little gem below. Back from the days when they used to have a fun, thriving musical genre called "hip hop". Back when I wouldn't have dreamed of walking into a store and actually purchasing a CD by someone like Britney Spears.

Gratuitous Photo of the Week

Day-um! Halle Berry on the red carpet last week.

The Big Day

Britney Spears' new CD Blackout hits finer retailers today. I listened to it earlier this morning on MTV's The Leak, and it's not as bad as I figured. Granted, I only listened to about 20 seconds of each song (I don't have all day), but I think I had a good grasp of where the songs were going. I'd say there are about four good songs. Basically, if you liked her previous CDs, you'll like this one. It will be interesting to see how it does on the charts, especially after her spectacular, groundbreaking publicity campaign, which consisted of a shitty performance at the MTV Awards and bad parenting. I'm guessing the thing will go gold.

It was reported that Britney was seen this weekend partying with Dallas Cowboys QB Tony Romo, including giving him a lap dance (honest to God, is there a bigger tramp in all of the entertainment business? Could you have even imagined this during the "Hit Me Baby One More Time" days?). Tony, the Cowboys are 6-1; you can do better than that! You could probably get one of these movie star broads or even one of those yamps from Heroes. Britney is no longer on the A-list-- she should be rolling around with someone on the Dolphins or the Rams, not a 6 and 1 team! And speaking of which, please let her start dating someone from the 49ers the week before the Rams play them; let us have at least one win.

Keeping Up With The Kardashians

Episode three of the Keeping Up With The Kardashians-- can they keep the streak alive? The plot of this episode centered around the owner of Girls Gone Wild calling from jail to ask if the three oldest Kardashian girls could participate in an ad campaign for his new swimwear line. As a rule, nothing good can come from dealing with the guy from Girls Gone Wild. They agreed to the shoot but decided not to tell Bruce Jenner because he might object. He apparently was still pissed about the infamous sex tape. So the broads and their mother jetted off to the shoot, leaving Bruce with the two youngest girls. At some point the brother showed up and spilled the beans about the shoot, saying it was for Girls Gone Wild. So Plastic Man went off to the shoot, leaving the son with the two kids. In the first really contrived part of the series, Bruce showed up and interrupted the shoot, saying he was upset that he wasn't told. But they went on with the shoot. You could tell this part was all a set-up. The show started resembling Hogan Knows Best. Eventually the wife offered to help him take a shower. I think I'm going to be sick. Anyway, they all got home (with the son wearing the same clothes he was wearing "a few days ago"-- revealing that this bullshit was all probably taped in the same day) and all was right with the world. A step down from last week, but the previews for next week look promising.

A Dark Week In Wrestling

Not a good week for wrestling ladies on Hollywood Nation's 2007 Hottest Women in the World list. WWE released Kristal Marshall (below) and TNA Wrestling no longer has Leticia Cline (below Kristal) listed on its roster.


According to sources, WWE grew frustrated with Kristal because she didn't follow instructions. Well, what do you expect? She's young and good looking; of course she's going to be sassy and get out of pocket-- that's only natural. WWE officials should have just used a stronger pimp hand and everything would have resolved itself in no time. She will be greatly missed on WWE programming but we will always have the great memories of classic moments like the fake wedding, the summer bikini contest, that time she interviewed that guy, and well, whatever else she did.

Hopefully she can ger her job back on Deal or No Deal or maybe even on The Price Is Right, where Bob Barker will no longer be around to make creepy advances. Or judging by the picture below, a career in the car washing industry looks promising.

Leticia's release from TNA is a bit surprising also since they had seemingly just started an angle where she was fighting with the backstage interviewer that had replaced her. She had been spending time working on other projects such as Maxim's Hometown Hotties contest and recently appeared on the cover of one of Playboy's newsstand specials (below), which I only bought strictly to complete my collection of wrestling periodicals.

The staff of Hollywood Nation wishes both ladies the best in their future endeavours. In protest of their releases, I did not watch either TNA Impact or WWE Smackdown last week. Now granted, I was already asleep when both shows aired, but I meant well.

My New Favorite Show

Move over Flavor of Love and Ultimate Fighter-- there's a new show in town. I've only seen two episodes but I am already crowning E!'s Keeping Up With the Kardashians as my favorite show. In fact, they need to make an entire Kardashians Network. The show centers around Kim Kardashian and her 8 or 9 sisters (all of their names start with a "K"), her mother (who is also her manager) and her step-father, former Olympian and bad plastic surgery pioneer Bruce Jenner. I still don't know what Kim does for a living; maybe they will reveal that in the season finale.

The first episode centered around Kim's visit to the Tyra Banks Show. She was worried about being asked about her celebrity sex tape. She was uncomfortable about it and really didn't want to discuss it. Well, what the hell else could they talk about? Unless the show is about big asses, there isn't really much left to discuss. Of course, Tyra brought it up and she was pissed. Kim also bought a stripper pole for her mother, which the youngest daughter wasted no time hoping on and getting her freak on. The torch has been passed.

In episode two, the wife decided to get a baby sitter to look after the kids so that Bruce could have some free time. The baby sitter turned out to be a young skeezer who walked around in a bikini all day, prompting the most smartass of the daughters to call the mother and tell her to get home because there was a whore watching her children. Kim also almost fired her Mom from being her manager because the mother didn't devote enough time to her. Girl, I have a full-time job, run an internationally read blog, and support two wrestling companies and I could still manage her career. The highlight of the show was one of the sisters calling Kim "a big booty ho". I love this show.

Highlights from Last Weekend

As you might surmise from previous posts, I went to a wrestling convention over the weekend, which was held in San Francisco. I was expecting such a fiasco of epic proportions that I barely even told anyone that I was going; and as far as organization, scheduling, stiffing talent on payment, etc. it lived down to the expectations. However, I got to meet most of the people that I came for so I actually had an enjoyable time. Below are some other highlights:

- I arrived at the Airport Sheraton in S.F. on Friday morning (very nice hotel by the way). I was a little early to check in so I called my sister to pass the time and to let her know that I had made it in. While we were chatting, she said "what's that?". I had to embarrassingly answer "oh, that's some guy doing a Hulk Hogan imitation", which was so loud and obnoxiously that it could clearly be heard in Chicago. Little did I know that this clown would go on to do the same "well ya know something, brother" imitation several times throughout the weekend.

- As I was in line checking in, I thought the young lady in front of me looked really familiar. Turns out that it was the actress who played "Penny/Hope" (Rena Riffel) from one of my all-time favorite movies, Showgirls. To normal people, this would be equal to being in line with Julia Roberts or Gwenyth Paltrow. This was beyond great. I got up the nerve to make small talk and brought up the commentary from the 10th anniversary edition of the movie (which I have on my shortlist of the funniest things in the last 20 years), which she said that she didn't mind since the commentator didn't really say anything bad about her. Apparently Elizabeth Berkley didn't care for it. I still can't believe that conversation even happened.

- While sitting in the hotel lobby on Friday afternoon, a vagrant stumbled in and the way he was trembling, I honestly thought that he had Parkinson's disease or something. He made his was way over to my direction, put his luggage down right next to me and left for about 20 minutes. The smell reminded me of my class field trip to the Budwiser brewery. It was indeed the Sandman.

- More hotel lobby hijinx: when the actor who played Apollo Creed's manager in the Rocky movies walked into the lobby, someone exclaimed "It's supposed to be an exhibition!", which was one of his lines from Rocky IV. I was almost on the floor. Also, there was a bowl of apples on the check-in desk. Ernest "The Cat" Miller took one and Rick Steiner remarked, almost puzzled (in a way that only Rick Steiner could say it) "I didn't know that black guys ate apples". You had to be there. I laughed about that for almost three days.

- The three scariest people at the convention? Easily, Scott Steiner, Brad Imes from Ultimate Fighter/UFC and Tonya Harding. Imes merely walked by and I almost pissed myself. You haven't lived until you've seen Tonya Harding walking through a lobby with a six-pack of beer.

- A wedding reception was also being held at the the hotel where the wrestlers and fans were staying. I think it was a Samoan family. They party like black folks-- you know they are in the building. A bunch of kids crowded Goldberg and he signed for all of them and took pictures. That lobby was just a freak show all weekend.

- I missed Don Frye getting knocked out-- twice, apparently.

Goldberg and his peeps.

- A Q & A session was held with Eric Bischoff, the former head of WCW and the man who once said that he would drive my favorite wrestler Ric Flair into bankruptcy. He called on me and I said "WCW put on a lot of entertaining PPV shows, particularly from 1995-1998, however (dramatic pause then laughter) what was the thought process behind NWO Souled Out (one of the worst shows of all-time). What made you think people would want to see that?" I got some applause and even he cracked up. He did the fake cough and said "cough-screw you-cough". He explained that it was his fault and they were just trying to do something different since there were so many PPVs. Basically, he got served.

- I also got to meet two of the Baywatch babes, Traci Bingham and Brande Roderick (both below). Traci was cool. I think she may have had some additional implants the size of basketballs since she was last on TV. I asked Brande about the Surreal Life and the episode that they built around the fact that she allegedly couldn't find a date, one of the most ridiculous ideas in reality TV history. She said that her current husband contacted her after seeing the show and that's how they initially met. I thought "hell, I could have done that." Indeed, I could not have. He must have been good looking and had a real job.

I can't believe she didn't ask for the digits.

I'm just glad that she finally found a date.

Yes, Even More Pix from This Weekend

We came here to kick ass and chew some bubble gum... and we're all out of bubble gum: Me and the legendary "Rowdy" Roddy Piper

Now that's what I'm talking about: Me and Dawn Marie

The Doctor of Style, Slick

Four Horsemen Forever: me and Ric Flair's former manager Baby Doll

Me and former AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkle

Mo' Pictures

Me and DDP share a good laugh at Jay-Z's expense

Me and the future Mrs. Hollywood, Gail Kim

Al Snow and Maven

The Head Cheerleader, Francine and myself

Mighty Molly!

More Pictures from the Wrestling Convention

Me and frequent tag team partner Ultimo Dragon

Sunny days once again: Me and Tammy Sytch

Three-fourths of me and Eric Bischoff's heads

Hey, didn't you guys used to be Demolition?

Hot indeed. Traci Brooks

Pictures from My Weekend at the Wrestling Convention

One ticket to LarryLand, please: Me and Larry Zbyszko

It's the champ! Gail Kim

Goldberg! Goldberg!

Me and April Hunter (with Tonya Harding in the background waiting to crack us in the knees)

Brande Roderick of Baywatch/The Surreal Life

I Missed It

I fell asleep Sunday night after the Bound For Glory wrestling show, thus missing the debut of Kim Kardashian's reality show on the E! Network. Hopefully I will catch one of the repeats. However, just in time for Christmas, Vivid Video has announced that they have another celebrity sex tape of her that they might be releasing soon. Damn, this girl gets arizzound. If you think this might be a gratuitous post just to put up a picture of that giant badonka, well, you might very well be correct.

Bound For Glory Results

Last night was Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's alleged biggest show of the year, Bound For Glory, live from Atlanta, Ga. It was a good show overall with a couple of standouts. In the main event, Sting beat Kurt Angle for the World Title in a very good match. At one point, I thought Kurt Angle had killed Sting after Angle did a 450 splash and appeared to land knees first on Sting. Brutal. Other notes:

- The Ultimate X match opened the show and it was good. LAX beat XXX. Too many damn "X"s. In the end, I was just happy that nobody died.

- My favorite match of the night was Samoa Joe vs. Christian Cage. The crowd was really into it. Joe handed Cage his first submission loss since he came to TNA. Jay Lethal beat Christopher Daniels in another really good match.

- Props to Gail Kim (above), the first TNA Knockouts Women's Champion. She won the 10 woman battle royal to win the match, where everyone put in a good effort. The storyline continues to be that everyone is scared of the 300 pound Awesome Kong. She DESTROYED poor little Christy Hemme. I just hope she wasn't hurt legit. The debuting Shelly Martinez looked phenominal. About three ladies ganged up on Kong to throw her out, who in the process had a wardrobe malfunction and lost her top for about one second. My life flashed before my eyes. Why couldn't this have happened to any of the other contestants?

- The other matches were good, including The Steiners beating Team 3-D in a tables match, Abyss winning the Monsters Ball, and AJ Styles and Tomko beating Team Pacman (with a new member) for the tag belts. Hopefully this was the last of Pacman Jones.

- Good show from TNA. See what happens when they let the wrestling take center stage?

CD Review: Brave by Jennifer Lopez

I can only blame myself. I should have known better but there it sat on sale for ten bucks at Target and I couldn't resist. I listened to it at work, which may be the last time it actually sees the inside of my CD player again. Charitably, there are two good songs and Ludacris carries one of them. She might have made this album just to fulfill a requirement on her record contract. I would have been better off getting an 80's compilation CD. Nice pictures though!



Score: One star out of five

"Gimme More" Music Video

It's Britney, bitch.

On the heels of her VMA disaster and court drama, Britney's latest music video (for the song "Gimme More") came out this week. I finally saw it this morning. As of this writing, I haven't eaten and I'm crabby so my view might be a little slanted. The plot of the video is that Britney goes into a low rent strip club, looks at the girl on stage and it's-- Elizabeth Berkley from Showgirls! No, actually it's Britney onstage. See it's a double role! Clever. And apparently this is a club where the girls dance to dumb Britney Spears songs and don't take their clothes off. I don't know how this club is turning a profit. And really, that's the whole video. At the end, Customer Britney giggles. This ain't exactly "November Rain". But I do recommend seeing it at least once.

Rock Of Love Reunion

There's nothing like a good reality show reunion; a chance for the network to eek out one more bit of humiliation from the participants. Sunday's Rock of Love reunion on VH-1 was no exception. It was hosted by Ricki Rachtman of Headbanger's Ball fame. I automatically had flashbacks of Cinderella and Ratt videos. Throughout the show he had a lock on Bret Michaels' jock like a pit bull. Anyway, they paraded the young skizanks out one by one and they explained their actions from the season. Nothing really earthshattering. The funniest moment was when the lead heel, Lacey, defended herself and said that at least she never turned up on a porn site, then they immediately cut to Brandi M., who in fact, did turn up on a porn site. Classic. If any of these girls is going to get a spin-off series, it will probably be Lacey. Although she was the most hated, she was also the most compelling. Who wouldn't want to see her try to persue a music career with that wretched voice? It's guaranteed comedy gold.

Dallas revealed that she doesn't date black men. In the words of the great N.W.A., that's one less bitch I gotta worry about. Poor Rodeo pathetically came out and virtually begged for a second chance from Bret. I like how he made up that story about sending her home so she could be with her little boy. In actuality, you know he just didn't want her to cut his ass from A to Z with the razor that she probably has taped under her shoe. I loved one of my co-worker's theory that Heather's lame "Bret Sucks" tattoo was actually real but when the crowd turned on her she quickly said "it's fake, it's fake!" Regardless, she still has a tattoo that says "Bret" on her neck. Then in typical VH-1 fashion, they brought out Jes at the end for about three minutes to gloss over the fact that her and Bret aren't together (so there can be a second season). It's just like after every season of Flavor of Love where the "winner" says "uh, it didn't work out but we'll always be homies!" or some nonsense like that. Anwyay, why would they keep them apart for six months? Jes bascially pawned Bret off to Heather, as if she woke up and realized "I don't want to settle down with this old ass man with obvious hair issues! Yuck! I'm 23 and still need to get my freak on!" Great ending. Can't wait for the next season.

Gratuitous Photo of the Week

Janet Jackson looking great last week on the red carpet for the new movie Why Did I Get Married?, which comes out on Friday. I hope her acting has gotten better since Poetic Justice, where she played the role of a young black female and it just wasn't convincing to me. I will probably skip this film and opt for the episode of Good Times where she almost got hit with that iron. Still terrifying to this day. A freaking detachable iron cord!

Dancing With The Stars Results

Finally, Wayne Newton got sent home. It was between him and Floyd Mayweather Jr., who was about twenty times better than Wayne. As usual, the scoring is totally screwed on this show. How did Wayne barely move and get all sixes from the judges but Floyd did rather well and only got sevens? The scoring is so inconsistent every year. Wayne actually did not move for about 3/4ths of the dance. Would someone on the show please acknowledge this?

Also, it's Scary Spice's world and we just live in it.

Still #1

The Rock's movie the Game Plan is still going strong in its second week as the number one movie in the country. This week it fended off the challenge of a movie ironically titled The Heartbreak Kid. Due to scheduling conflicts, I still haven't gotten around to seeing it but I do plan to have everything clear by the time this rolls around to cable. Strangely enough, still no mention on WWE TV. That's odd.....

Samoa Joe Meet and Greet

Pictures from the Samoa Joe Meet and Greet at Slam Zone in Mid Rivers Mall (St. Peters, MO) on Saturday:


New WWE signee Matt Sydal

New Champion Crowned

At tonight's WWE No Mercy PPV in Chicago, as the show opened Mr. McMahon awarded the Raw World Title to Hazelwood's own Randy Orton. Within 20 minutes he lost it to "The Son-In-Law" Triple H. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! (And to top it off, he later squashed top challenger Umaga in a short match). Oh yes, it's a whole new era in WWE!

UPDATE: After a third World title match on the show, Orton beat Triple H to regain the title that he had lost about two hours before. Exhausting.

Say It Ain't So

It has been reported in various outlets that current Total Nonstop Action Wresting World Champion Kurt Angle, was arrested last Friday in Pittsburgh for a DUI. Allegedly after he almost hit a woman with his car as he was leaving a bar, she took down his license plate number and he was tracked down. Even sadder, according to one report, this all went down in the afternoon. The staff of Hollywood Nation has its best people on the case to see if there have been any violations of the TNA Wellness policy due to the incident.

In more pleasant TNA news, last night was their first regular two-hour show. While I have seen other negative reviews of the show, I actually enjoyed it myself. Although there is still too much going on and an emphasis needs to be made to make matches have more meaning and consequence, I liked that the matches were longer and that more people got to be involved. I liked the plot where Kurt Angle calmly stalked Sting's son at a high school football game, but then again, I also enjoy reruns of Three's Company also. Other notes: Raven is back... In a perfect world, Kaz and The Motor City Machine Guns would be top guys in about three months, but that won't happen... Traci Brooks has a sick mom--awwww... Isn't Pac-Man Jones' NFL suspension over yet?... More Gail Kim? Yes, please... I still would like to see a complete overhaul of the creative team, but until then this was, hmmm, not bad. And I guess that's all you can hope for at this time.