Disturbing

Desperate to replace Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus on the gossip sites, photos have surfaced of Hulk Hogan rubbing suntan lotion on his own daughter's behind (click here). CREEPY! Even Jessica Simpson's dad was probably thinking "Aw, hell naw!"

American Idol

Kind of a lackluster night on Idol. It was the songs of Neil Diamond and none of these fools even tried "Love On the Rocks"-- even I can sing that song well! Once again Dreadlocks just phoned it in and showed no emotion. He should have been cut five weeks ago. Brooke was bland. David Archelleta? I would rather hear Adam Archuleta of the Chicago Bears. David Cook was okay. For the second week in a row, I thought Syesha did the best. We'll see if the votes beat that out (they won't). I should have quit watching last week.

Of course, the highlight of the night was Paula reviewing one of the guy's second songs when he had only done one song at that point. Time for some rehab, baby girl. It's for your own good.

The Reviews Are In.....

It was a pretty big New Release Tuesday with new CDs by my favorite group The Roots, the icon Madonna, Lil' Mama, and Robyn. I got a chance to listen to "Rising Down" by The Roots and "Hard Candy" by Madonna. My thoughts:


I listened to this at work so of course I was a little distracted by the responsibilites of carrying the entire organization plus girls constantly making up excuses just to come over and talk to me. Lots of guests appearances and quality "grown man" hip-hop. I plan to listen again today in between American Idol discussion and donuts.


I also managed to listened to this CD while at work yesterday. Once again, I have to give Madonna props for wearing a wrestling title belt on the cover. Nice pictures in the booklet by the way. Fifty is the new thirty. Which means that I'm about 15. I think "Hard Candy" is a code for something else, but I can't quite figure it out. Anyway, the songs are a departure from the electronica of her last couple of CDs and are more pop/dance. Good stuff. Timbaland and The Neptunes are producers. Thus far, I think the best songs are "Beat Goes On" (with Kanye West) and "Spanish Lesson". I didn't see a deluxe version available; after all, what are us old folks going to do with Ipod skins and ringtones? Regardless, both CDs get the Hollywood Nation Seal of Approval. Enjoy!

Flavor of Love

We are in the home stretch. This week, it was meet the parents week. Why would they agree to be humiliated on this show? This led to Flav bringing his own mother on the show. They look so much alike that it's almost comical. You could put a viking helmet on her head and you couldn't tell the difference. In the end, it was Thing 2 that got sent home. She asked "why?". It was your grill, baby. Next week: Paris!

Miss Rap Supreme continued to roll along. How can a show that has appearances by Too $hort and Ghostface Killer not be great? In the end, Lioness got cut (again). Maybe this time it will stick.

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Keeping Up With The Kardashians

This week, the three older sisters got into a fight over something having to do with a car. I couldn't tell you what they were arguing about because they kept showing Kim FROM BEHIND(!). This is how you garner ratings. If I have not mentioned this before, that is quite a wagon. Anyway, they started insulting each other, leading Kim to call her sisters "ugly bitches". She ended up punching one of them. Then they went on vacation to make up. To be continued next week. I love this show.

And for you big booty aficionados, I read a report on the internet that Jennifer Lopez will soon be getting a reality show on the TLC network. This makes sense to revive her career since her movie and singing careers have seemingly dried up. I hope she has good writers that will make her look fun and sympathetic because this could go really badly. Ideally, the E! Network could get the rights to the show from TLC, run it right before The Kardashians and bill it as Big Ass Sunday night with J-Lo and Kim Kardashian back to back (pun intended). See, this is the kind of stuff that would routinely happen if I ran a network.

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WWE Backlash Results

Results from last night's WWE Backlash pay-per-view show:

- Matt Hardy beat MVP for the U.S. Title
- Kane beat Chavo Guerrero to retain the ECW Title
- The Big Show beat The So-So Khali
- Shawn Michales beat Batista via the Superkick
- A bunch of broads beat a bunch of other broads
- Undertaker beat Edge, who was subsequently stretchered out
- Triple H over Hazelwood's own Randy Orton, John Cena, and JBL to become the new World Champion. This is what we've all been waiting for.

More Pictures from The Draft Day Party

Some of the members of your new 2008 Rams Cheerleading Squad:

Michaela

Kate

Megan

Jackie

Angelica and Tiffany

Pictures from the Rams Draft Party

Pictures from yesterday's Rams Draft Day Party at the Edward Jones Dome:

On the field festivities

The Rams Cheerleaders taking pictures with fans

Cheerleader Lauren and a very bloated Stephen Jackson imitator

Safety O.J. Atogwe

WR Dane Looker

Flavor of Love

It was another fun week on Flavor of Love. This time the girls appeared on a radio show and the viewers and host got to pick who they liked the best. Flav went on a solo date with Black (who also appeared during the show in a swimsuit-- HELLO! HI-YO). In the end, it was time for Tree's tall ass to go home. Rumors are swirling that Flavor's son will take his place in the next season of Flavor of Love. Aw man, homie, I don't know about all that.

Meanwhile on Miss Rap Supreme, Khia got the boot at the start of the episode because that wack freestyle that she kicked last week was actually recorded previously on a CD. Sucks to be her-- and sucks to be whoever bought that CD. Anyway, the second episode of this show was even better than the first and I think we have a keeper. Of course, if Ego Trip is involved, you know it's gonna be good. I think next season they should have all one hit wonders and rappers that faded from the scene in the house. Or just bring Khia back.

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Idol Results

So on the one week that I found Carly actually bearable, she gets sent packing. Oh well. I'm sure she will have a successful recording career and her husband will go on to have a successful career as a carnival geek. As it was, we were about one minute away from my annual "I Am Never Watching This Show Again/I'm Tired of All The Black People Being Cut Too Early" tirade. I guess I better reserve that for next week. I can't believe the girl who couldn't remember her words and the guy who didn't seem like he could be bothered with Andrew Lloyd Weber songs actually advanced. This show is toooooo tired.

Breakup?

According to several reports around the internet, Star Jones and her questionable man are headed towards a divorce. Who saw this coming? Except everyone. Damn, only two more months and I would have won the office pool.

Special Programming Note

Since they didn't really bother to hype it very much, I thought I would go ahead and plug the big rematch tonight. It's The Champ, Samoa Joe against the man who could very well be the best wrestler in the world, Kurt Angle. Tonight at 8PM CT, only on Spike TV!

(Photo from tnawrestling.com)

New VH-1 Show

From ew.com:

"I Love Money, VH1's spinoff of the successful Flavor Flav reality show Flavor of Love, will premiere July 13 with a casting special airing July 6. The show features past Flavor of Love, Rock of Love, and I Love New York contestants squaring off in a series of competitions in pursuit of cash prizes. MTV veejay Alani ''La La'' Vasquez will host."

HELLS YES!

American Idol

Andrew Lloyd Weber week wasn't as bad as I thought. A couple of the contestants actually pulled it off pretty well. I thought the standout of the night was Syesha. I was also going to give props to Carly-- then they showed her husband in the audience and I just couldn't do it. You just can't trust someone who has tattoos covering their face. Suppose Carly wins the competition? This guy might get onstage and try to kidnap Paula or something. And annoying as she is, we just can't have that. But Carly will likely stay this week. It will probably be Brooke or Dreadlocks going home.

The Kang

Congratulations to longtime Hollywood Nation favorite Steven/William Regal, who was crowned WWE's King of the Ring last night after a tournament on Monday Night Raw. I see an upper mid-card comedy push in somebody's future!

Meanwhile it was a dark night for American politics as The President appeared on Deal or No Deal and all three presidential candidates appeared on WWE Raw. On what other show could you see a Barack Obama speech followed immediately by a Leprachaun getting beating up by a fake commissioner? To make matters worse, later in the night they had a "match" between Obama and Hillary impersonators. It was the kind of embarrassing spectacle that made me want to go crawl in a hole and pray, pray, pray that no one from work would see this and start asking questions at the water cooler.

Rock of Love Reunion

Was it just me or did the Rock of Love Reunion show have the feeling of one of those infomercials that they used to show in the 80's? I felt that at any minute some guy in a sweater was going to come out and try to sell me a blender for three montly payments of fifty bucks. The show just seemed really phony, especially the "fight" between Daisy and Heather. I've seen better women's brawls on Monday night wrestling. At the end it was revealed that Bret and Ambre are dating and are going to try to have a relationship. Yeah, right. There's too much money on the line for this guy to find a woman! If he finds love, the money train stops. Well, unless they take the route of showing their courtship, wedding, pregnancy, eventual divorce, and Bret back in the dating arena for Rock of Love 3. I think I just gave VH-1 three years of programming.

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Earthquake!

We had a bit of an earthquake here in the St. Louis area this morning. Just wanted to let everyone know that everything is fine here at the Hollywood Nation offices and there was no action figure damage. Thanks for your concern!

Idol Results

It was poor little Kristy Lee Cook's turn to leave this week. Oh well, she was about due. I kind of felt bad for her. But I'm sure she will go on to have a successful career in country AND get her horse back. But at least she's out of my hair for now. Meanwhile on the flip side, Mariah looked phenominal last night. I believe Johnny Gill said it best when he said "My, my, my, you shole look good tonight". Next up: Andrew Lloyd Webber Week. Oh hells no.

ECW Diva Dance-Off

Despite Mike Adamle's debut on commentary, there actually was something fun on last night's ECW show: the Diva Dance-Off. Sure Layla was the obvious winner, but they are trying to get Kelly Kelly over as the lead babyface Diva. I'm kind of partial to Maryse. Tazz was hilarious, especially at the end. Who could have seen this coming back in his "One Man Crime Spree" days?

American Idol

It was Obscure Mariah Carey Songs Week and Mimi made an appearance as guest mentor, just in time to promote the new CD (see below). She showed up crazy as hell, bringing her dog along. At least he was there at the start but was never seen again. Perhaps he didn't care for the contestants either. Anyway, out of all the songs that they could have chosen, they found some Mariah songs that even I wasn't familar with. What about "Honey"? How about "Heartbreaker"? What happened to "Me and Mariah Go Back Like Babies and Pacifiers"? None of the big hits and it was a pretty bland night. It will be close, but I expect Brooke to be sent home tonight. She should have gone to her sister's wedding instead of sticking around for this failure. Tonight: more Mimi!

New Mariah: Out Today

Mariah Carey's new CD, E=MC2, was released today. I picked up my copy this morning at Target (which had a pathetic selection of wrestling dolls, by the way). I had a choice between the regular version for ten bucks and a "deluxe" version for fourteen. I picked the regular version, because what am I going to do with an Ipod skin (which was included with the deluxe version)? I'm a grown-ass man with a record collection; I won't miss it. That's four dollars that can be spent on a pizza upgrade. So I stood in line with a bunch of old ladies who were in a hurry to get back home to see The View and headed to work. I managed to listen to the disc a couple of times during the day, in between carrying the company on my broad shoulders.

The verdict: It's a good disc. About what you would expect if you heard her last offering-- a few ballads, a couple of uptempo songs, some guest rapper appearances and some vocal gymnastics. On the first listen, I heard about five songs that I liked, which for me is tremendous. So E=MC2 gets the official Hollywood Nation Stamp of Approval. So go on and pick it up; after all, it would make Mimi really happy!

Flavor of Love

Flavor of Love continues to roll along. This was one of the best episodes ever. The first half was a Newlywed Game parody that saw the ex-boyfriends of the girls try to match answers. Best of all, it was hosted by Arsenio Hall. He was even funnier than back in the days when he would ride Eddie Murphy's jock. Some of the guys seemed to want to sabotoge the girls. Thing 2's man was about twenty years older than her. Just bizarre. Flav selected Tree to go on a solo date, because he thought she was the most honest in the game. She wore a total stripper outfit to the date. Meanwhile, they also had a party with the exs and the girls. There was lots of yelling and arguing. In the end, Flav got rid of Protype and Thing 2. I was delighted. This season started off slow but it has really picked up.

After that, I watched a bit of the new VH-1 show called Miss Rap Supreme, where a bunch of women compete to become a rap star. It's hosted by Yo-Yo and M.C. Serch, two of my favorites from the early 90's. From the bit that I saw of the show, it was phenominal. Lots of cursing, bad rapping and drama. I hope to catch the show in it's entirety later.


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Rock of Love 2 Finale

It looked like an easy choice to me, but Bret Michaels chose Ambre the TV host (above) over Daisy the stripping train wreck on the season finale of Rock of Love 2. Why didn't he pick Daisy? Was it her immaturity? Her shady past? The crazy way her face contorted whenever she said the name "Bret"? We may truly never know, although we could find out next week during the big reunion show. From the previews, it looked like someone got their ass whipped right on the set. Now that's class. Actually, I give both ladies props for not running for the hills after Bret emerged in that shiny suit, looking like the Silver Surfer.

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A Night At The Mouse Races

Pictures from Saturday night at The Mouse Races at Busch Stadium to benefit the Erin Eickmeier Foundation:

International heartthrob, Joe Eickmeier.

KSDK's Heidi Glaus, Show Me St. Louis host Wendy Erikson, and another unidentified hottie.

The Emmy Award winning Rich Witzofsky with TNA Wrestling Superstar Misty The Rat.

TNA Lockdown Results

Results from tonight's TNA Lockdown show, which was a good show with an excellent main event (all matches took place in a cage):

- Jay Lethal won the X-Division Escape match over Sonjay Dutt, Shark Boy, Consequences Creed, Curry Man, and Johnny Devine. Sonjay didn't turn on Lethal yet, but its coming. Good opener.

- Roxxi Laveaux pinned Angelina Love in the Queen of the Cage Match to win the right to be steamrolled by Awesome Kong on an upcoming edition of Impact.

- B.G. James beat Kip James in the first match of their soon-to-be epic feud.

- Kaz and Eric Young beat five other teams in a Handcuff Match (don't ask). Pointless. It all led up to "Super Eric" doing a run-in and winning the match.

- Gail Kim and ODB beat Cheerleader Raisha and Awesome Kong when ODB pinned Saaed.

- Booker T and Sharmell beat Robert Roode and Ms. Banks, in what looked like the end of the Booker/Roode feud. Roode started yelling at Ms. Banks after the match. The cycle repeats.

- Team Cage (Christian, Sting, Kevin Nash, Rhino and Matt Morgan) beat Team Tomko (Tomko, Team 3-D, AJ Styles and James Storm) when Rhino pinned Storm. Good match with tons of action. Nice spot with AJ and Christian going through a table on top of the cage.

- In the main event, Samoa Joe beat Kurt Angle to become the new World Champion. It was conducted as kind of an MMA/UFC style match with lots of mat work and submission holds. Really good match. Samoa Joe hit the muscle buster to win it in the end. Good show!

Jay Mohr On The Jim Rome Show

Last Friday, Jay Mohr was the guest host on the Jim Rome Show again for the second time this year and he killed for about three hours. This made my weekend. He's coming to The Pageant in St. Louis on June 28th. Check him out.

(Photo from jaymohr.com)

Already Cancelled!

CBS wasted no time in giving the ax to the new show Secret Talents of the Stars, which has already been cancelled after only one airing due to piss poor ratings. Now we will never know how well Ric Flair would have done as a salsa dancer! (Unless Dancing with the Stars finally gets wise and makes my dream come true). Joe Frazier: R&B singer-- what might have been.......

Idol Shocker!

Michael Johns got cut? Really? He was the worst? I might really stop watching this time!

Oh My Damn!

Here is the June cover of King Magazine with actress Stacey Dash. One question? When did she get that booty? If I may quote Grady from Sanford and Son "Good googily goo". I'm going to have to go back and watch "Mo' Money" and "Clueless" again. By the way, she is allegdley 42 years old. Unreal.

Idol Gives Back

"Idol Gives Back" was a good show for a great cause. A lot of big-time celebs showed up and they even let the WWE Superstars participate. There was lots of Hannah Montana for the kiddies. The highlight of course was Mariah coming out at the end to sing "Fly Like A Bird" (above). It looks like she lost a lot of weight too. She is wearing those jeans. Anyway, donations can be made at americanidol.com.

American Idol/Beauty and The Geek

It was Inspirational Songs Week on Idol (gearing up for the big "Idol Gives Back" special tonight) and I could barely stand it. Plenty of bad song choices and borderline performances. On top of that, Paula was in mid-season annoying form and were it not for the fact that she had the boobs out last night, I might have tuned out sooner. As it was, I did manage to avoid half of the show and turn to Beauty and The Geek, starring former TNA Wrestling interviewer Leticia Cline (below).

Leticia and her geek (which could be the caption to the photo above) had to participate in a challenge where they performed a scene from a soap opera script. Since she was the only Beauty that didn't push away from her Geek, she won and advanced for another week. See, she likes nerds. Now if she has a thing for fat guys too, then we're in the house. Anyway, with no strong favorite to choose from on Idol, I may be choosing this as an alternative in weeks to come.

Flavor of Love

Flavor of Love has really picked up since he brought on four new girls to compete with the original busted ones. This week they had three mock weddings and a mock funeral (bringing back memories of the "911 Is A Joke" video). In the end, he got rid of the increasingly annoying (and drunk) Hotlanta, as well as Luscious D of the new girls. I'm still anxiously awaiting the booting of Thing 1 and 2. Perhaps next week.

FOL's white counterpart, Rock of Love, was pretty good this week also. It was exposed that my favorite, Ambre, was lying about her age. I could have told him that! She said that she was 31 and her father outed her as being 37, which means that she is probably 45. Now it has come down to Ambre and the bizarre looking Daisy in the season finale. This one looks cut and dried to me.

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Keeping Up With The Kardashians

In this week's contrived madness, since all of the girls except Khloe had a boyfriend, they decided to fix her up on a computer dating system. It was getting on Khloe's nerves (and mine too) but she went along with it. In the end, she told them she was going out on a date with one of the people, but she actually just went out with some friends. I think I saw this on the Brady Bunch once. In the subplot, one of the little girls was supposed to do some chores around the house but instead she hired a Mexican go for five dollars to do it. I can't even believe they really showed this.

Kim did indeed appear at WrestleMania last week. She was fantastically awful, but I think we all knew that going in. I hope she gets invited back for future appearances.

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Married?

Congratulations to Jay-Z and Beyonce, who allegedly got married on Friday in New York City (unless this was a prank-- in which case, I take back my congratulations). Here's hoping they both signed a pre-nup.

American Idol Results

For me, Dolly Parton Week was about as successful as the two Beatles Weeks. At least she was nice and helpful to the contestants though (although her performance on Wednesday was questionable). David Archeletta, Carly and Dreadlock Guy are becoming increasingly annoying with each passing week. In the end, it was Ramiele who was sent home this week, after about three lackluster performances in a row. I think song choices did her in. Somehow Kristy Lee Cook advanced for another week. She is slowly becoming this year's Sanjaya. I expect a fauxhawk at any moment. Oh, and nice desperation cry for sympathy with that "Kristy's seat" sign. Will anyone even be sent home next week with the Idol Gives Back special?

Dancing With The Stars

DWTS was decent this week, the highlights being Adam Corolla's comedy and Edyta's outfit. Sadly, it was Steve Guttenberg's week to go. I hated to see him leave because he just seemed so happy to be there. Somebody please come up with a script for Police Academy 8 so this man can have some work. Of course, the best part of this week's show was an appeance from international superstar Kylie Minogue (below). How great is she?

Ric Flair Retirement Ceremony

The Ric Flair retirement weekend concluded last night in grand fashion. At the end of the show, Flair came out to a great ovation and told us all not to be sad, because he wasn't; he had the greatest career in the history of professional wrestling. Then they brought out some of Flair's greatest partners, opponents, and superstars of today including Harley Race, Greg Valentine, Ricky Steamboat, Chris Jericho, Batista, John Cena, Dean Malenko, Triple H, Shawn Michaels, and best of all the greatest group in the history of wrestling: The Four Horsemen (Barry Windham, Tully Blanchard, Arn Anderson and J.J. Dillon). Jim Ross said that it was the first time that they had been together in the ring since 1988. It really took me back. It was amazing. Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer called it "the most wonderful segment on a wrestling show that I have ever seen". I couldn't agree more.