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Here is Chris Brown's comeback performance from Sunday's BET Awards. I was a little suprised that they gave him the featured spot on the show, but I have to admit he did well. Hope he doesn't squander this second chance:

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Week Three of the WWE NXT angle and while it is losing a bit of steam, all is not lost. I'm still mildly interested, although not like a couple of weeks ago. The beatdown of Vince was good although it kind of turned them face (which is probably why they still haven't touched Michael Cole) they might still get something out of this. Meanwhile, Smackdown is damn near unsufferable... Check out the cover of the upcoming Rolling Stone magazine with Lady Gaga on the cover above). I'm all for it. Although it's gonna be strange walking into Walgreens and seeing all that ass right across from the Snicker bars... I caught Warren the Ape on MTV again this week and it's downright hilarious. There is a guest appearance from Greg The Bunny on this week's episode which you don't want to miss. Be sure to catch it on one of the 1,038 replays on MTV this week.

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This segment was ridiculous beyond belief but I laughed so hard at it. I don't know how anyone in the segment kept a straight face. My favorite line (from Real Flair): "You don't even know what sixty minutes is!" (around the 8:00 mark):





Also, hilarious was this late night ad that I just saw on TV. The funniest part was that it aired on TV One. Kinda like that time I saw a male enhancement ad on BET. Somebody better fire their marketing director:

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Decent follow-up to last week's NXT angle on WWE Raw (despite the Bryan Danielson debacle over the weekend). I liked the mid-show brawl and the attack on Bret at the end. I didn't really care for the rest of the show. It's funny that they NXT guys are carrying the show. Who would have thought? I'm still looking forward to the next episode in a 90's-esque kind of way. Next thing you know I'll be watching some Melrose Place and listening to Puff Daddy records... I caught the series premiere of Warren the Ape on MTV and loved it. It's a spin-off of the old Fox series Greg The Bunny. Paired with The Hard Times of R.J. Berger and MTV is on a roll. I just hope I don't accidentally turn and catch a glimpse of The Hills one of these days.

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WWE didn't really follow up on the NXT angle on Syfy last night (and according to the Smackdown spoilers, it wasn't followed up there either), but it's just as well, because they shouldn't burn out the angle early. I have to say this is the first time in years that I can't wait until Raw on Monday... Congratulations to Isaac Bruce, who retired from the NFL today as a St. Louis Ram. He was the heart and soul of the Rams glory period and scored the winning touchdown during the Rams Super Bowl victory in 2000. He will have his number 80 retired this coming season. If Orlando Pace retires this year, that will be a hell of a Hall of Fame class with Bruce, Pace and Kurt Warner.

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Finally we are down to the final two in this wretched season of American Idol. Casey put in the same dull, soulless performance that he had all season (and why not? It was good enough to get him to the final three). Crystal was good. Lee was alright (the second song was really good-- the first performance of his all season that I liked) but it seemed the judges were trying to push him hard so we would have a competition next week. Can't wait... The funniest story I heard all day involved Eliza Dushku, the girlfriend of former NBA player Rick Fox. Fox was in the audience of Dancing with the Stars on Monday seated next to The Bachelor. The Bachelor's finance was looking a little to hard at Fox, at least to Eliza. So she tweeted: "I will cut you. Keep yo eyes on yo own meat." WTF! Has this girl been watching to much Maury? "Meat"? Plus when did Rick Fox start messing with the WWs? So funny on so many levels.

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The final three of American Idol is the saddest in the show's history. It's so bad, that next week's Dancing with the Stars results show is starting to look very enticing. Now that's bad. Casey-- CASEY-- is in the top three! At this point, I hope he wins so they can put the show out of its misery... The people who declared they would never watch Impact again are looking like geniuses. What a wretched show this week. I love the roster, but with this "creative" team I see no hope. Why would anyone be inspired to buy that pay-per-view show on Sunday after seeing this show? Never has a more talented roster been squandered more. Congratulations Vince Russo; one more accolade to add to his list of staggering incompetent achievements. The dog from Family Guy could write a better show than this-- and he's not even real!

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Big Mike survived another week on American Idol. This guy may have set the record for being in the bottom two. Little Aaron got voted off this week and will likely have been forgotten by airtime on Tuesday. The only two good things about last night's show were Lady Gaga's performance and the Lane Bryant ad that had been been banned by other networks:



Seems like a lot of my favorite women in the entertainment world are now single: Halle Berry, Kim Kardashian, Sandra Bullock, Stacey Dash, and Kristal Marshall (and hopefully the broad from the forementioned Lane Bryant ad). It's a buyer's market! I need to get me a ticket to Hollywood to cash in on this... I just found out about a site called listentoamovie.com. You can plug in headphones and listen to movies while you go about your workday. There's even a "stealth" setting that changes the box to look like a spreadsheet. I'm going to listen to Goodfellas at work today. "Do I amuse you"?

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Finally Tim Urban was sent packing from American Idol. He should have left seven weeks ago and the show is only six weeks old. He won't be missed. And over on Dancing with the Stars, Kate Gosselin was booted. I will miss her because I found her awful dancing a highlight of the show. Such a bittersweet week... Survivor continues to be incredible. Old girl pulled out TWO immunity idols. I swear, this show has some great writers. And I was so happy that J.T. got voted out since giving away the immunity idol was his idea in the first place. At the end he said "never trust a woman". No, never trust your own feeble brain, you idiot. Great strategy; see you at the reunion show.

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For anyone out there who watches Survivor, can you believe the boneheaded move last night? Why would you give an immunity idol to anyone on the other team? They should have the next season of Survivor as Heroes vs. Villians vs. Dummies. I can't wait to see J.T. and Colby voted out... In anticipation of this weekend's TNA Lockdown pay-per-view, enjoy this interview with Velvet Sky of The Beautiful People:

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It was another average week on American Idol. I thought Adam Lambert did a really good job trying to get something out of the hapless contestants. In the end, it was Andrew and Katie who went home, which was long overdue in both cases. Things are finally going my way; with this luck I should buy some lottery tickets and run out to Vegas and roll the felt... The best thing about this week's Monday Night "Wars" was the new TNA show Reaction that came on before Impact. It's amazing that TNA's best work always comes when the so-called writers aren't involved. Does anyone in charge of that company see a pattern?

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Celebrity Apprentice continues to be an enjoyable show, with another fun episode tonight. Unfortunately it was model Selita Ebanks (above) who had to go this week (just one week after leading her team to victory). Oh well, at least the wrestlers are still there... Speaking of which, there are now SIX hours of Monday night wrestling between Ring of Honor on HD Net, WWE Raw on USA, TNA Impact on Spike, plus TNA now has a preview show at 6PM CST as a prelude to Impact's new time slot of 7PM to 9PM CST. I saw the first five minutes and it did a better job of promoting the product than any recent Impact segment ever did. Probably a good sign that the "writing" team has nothing to do with this new show. The spoilers didn't look promising but there will be a "Leather and Lace" match between Angelina Love and Velvet Sky. Not sure what a Leather and Lace match is but something tells me I won't be missing it... Shout out to my boy Common who had a role in this weekend's top movie Date Night. As a fan who's been down since the days of "Breaker 1/9", I'm loving this.

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Not much to say about Wednesday's American Idol. The show continues its demise with this awful season. It's a complete joke now with one of its best singers finishing last (although the judges used the save to keep him). Vocal talent isn't even a factor anymore. They might as well just have the contestants come out and juggle apples. This show is useless... In brighter news, The fools that run TNA Impact actually made some good decisions yesterday. They signed one of my favorite people in the wrestling business, Christy Hemme (above) to a two-year extension and moved their Monday timeslot to 7PM to 9PM (CST). In addition they brought back the Thursday replay in their old time slot of 8 to 10. Next thing you know, they'll be bringing in a new writing staff... It was reported on perezhilton.com that Kanye West will be returning to his New York hip-hop roots on his next album and has enlisted the help of producers such as No I.D., the RZA, and Pete Rock. Now that's what I'm talking about.

(Photo from tnawrestling.com)

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Lennon/McCartney Night on American Idol was about what I expected. Honestly, I was asleep for a great portion of the second hour. The personality profiles did flesh out these people a tad but it got old quick. Katie said she would go to the prom with whoever gave her the most votes; with her low finishes, five votes would probably get you that date. I have no idea why the judges praised her performance. I felt like I was watching another program. Mike was okay, Crystal was good, and Tim made me want to go hide. Same old story. Reportedly, Adam Lambert will be the guest mentor next week. That could be fun... Ratings are in and Impact lost handily yet again (no suprise) but it did a little better and Raw dropped a bit from last week. Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter compared Impact to a high school boy who tries to get attention by eating worms. That was spot-on. I didn't see it, but I can't believe these idiots allowed one of their wrestlers to take a chairshot to the head in this day and age. Get a clue... I missed Dancing with the Stars, but caught the highlights. Kate Gosselin somehow escaped again. She was so bad, it was hilarious. I hope she stays for weeks. Glad to see Pam, 85, and Niecy advanced. I felt bad for Buzz Aldrin, but it was time for him to go.

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This week it was Didi's time to leave the show after an underwhelming performance on Wednesday. Somehow Tim managed to hang on despite the massacre of Anita Baker's "Sweet Love". I can only imagine what he's going to do with the Lennon/McCartney songbook this week (which if I recall correctly, led to disasterous results the last time they trotted these songs out). Oh well, it will be fun coming up with new insults... Monday will be loaded up again with the NCAA title game, five hours of wrestling, Dancing with the Stars AND two hours of 24 (why on this night?). Can't they save some of this stuff for Friday and Saturday when nothing is on?

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Have you checked out the video for Erykah Badu's "Window Seat"? The song is the bomb, but the video just came out and it's a real piece of work. It's tough to come up with an innovative music video these days but this is certainly unique. It's all done in one take on a public street in Dallas. But the big story: who knew she was carrying all that junk in the trunk all these years? As J. Anthony Brown said on the Tom Joyner Morning Show, not only could you put a drink on th at, you could put a whole bowl of spaghetti:



And speaking of ass, glad to see Brooke Adams (formerly of WWE/ECW) return to wrestling on Impact on Monday in the role of Eric Bischoff's secretary. At least this should make his eight segments each show more bearable.


Not that anyone saw her debut, as Impact did a dismal 0.6 in the ratings on Monday. That's about roughly half of what they had been doing before the Hogan/Bischoff era. Time to move back to Thursday and GET NEW WRITERS... I enjoyed this week's Dancing with the Stars, but hated to see Brenda of 90210 get the boot. That's just bad karma coming back on her. Should have been Buzz Aldrin or that bitchy reality mom. Maybe next week... American Idol was predictably wretched. The middle of the show was like a Murder's Row of bad singers. That summer tour is gonna be the joke of the summer.

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Dancing with the Stars was back last night and enjoyed it. Along with it was the return of the suspect judging (did they go to the same school of judging as the American Idol judges?). I have to stick with Chad Ochocinco and Niecy Nash. I missed Pam Anderson's show closing performance as I was watching the major plot twist on 24. Through the magic of You Tube however, it is posted below:



They should certainly send Buzz Alrdin or Kate Plus Eight home next week... The Monday Night Wars were okay last night. WWE Raw was about what I expected with a logical, strong last sell for WrestleMania. Impact was okay, highlighted by a fun tag team match with RVD & Jeff Hardy over Beer Money, plus Bubba the Love Sponge possibly being really hit in the face by Mick Foley.

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I am so glad that I didn't get last night's Total Nonstop Action pay-per-view show. The main event was between Fake Flair and Fake Hogan. It ended with some nonsense about wrestlers falling into a hole in the ring. Even the results are painful to watch. At least it makes for fun audio shows from the Torch and the Observer. I included the clip of Lacey Von Erich below. It has nothing to do with anything, but at least it's fun to look at:




On the other hand, it was another good week of Celebrity Apprentice. I hate to see anyone leave (except the Trump family). One of my favorites, Sinbad, was booted this week. Sweet little Maria of WWE fame was the project manager of the ladies this week and they won. I think she's going to hang on for awhile... Looking forward to a packed Monday of Dancing with the Stars, 24, Unsung (Rose Royce!), and five hours of wrestling... And finally, I saw the skank that Jesse James was rolling around with-- man, are you insane? Did you see this Michelle McGee? I'd almost rather lay down with Willie McGee!

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The results are in... and it was Lacey Brown who was sent home on American Idol:



It should have been Tim Urban but at least my favorite Paige Miles was spared (and we were spared a group number this week). We will miss Lacey's bright HD hair. Other notes from the show: Why do the contestants have to sing at the end to try to earn The Save, meanwhile the judges are over there huddling and not even listening! It makes no sense. That Kei$ha performance was a hot mess. And I still don't know who that was that performed in the middle of the show... Looks like TNA Impact got kicked in the teeth yet again in the ratings on Monday by WWE Raw. And it's only going to get worse next week, then after that they have a taped show going against the Raw after WrestleMania. As it is, they're being whipped by the WWE NXT rookie show. Take your ass back to Thursday, Impact. It will just be easier on everyone.

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I thought the season premiere of The Celebrity Apprentice was really fun last night. There are three people with a wrestling connection (Goldberg, Maria and Cindy Lauper), so I hope they all do well. Sinbad was hilarious, so I hope he stays too. Donald Trump was off the charts obnoxious (even saying at one point something along the lines of "the women are beautiful-- many of you") and it seems to be rubbing off on his son this season. Joan Rivers in HD is quite the experience. The broad can barely open her eyes now. Anyway, it's a great cast and hated to see anyone go. Alas, poor Carol Leifer was shown the door, but at least she got ten grand for her charity on the way out. It's gonna be a good season... By the way, I was pleased with most of the eliminations on American Idol last Thursday (except for Todrick). Glad that we won't have to suffer through Alex Lambert's mullet anymore. I'm looking forward to Rolling Stone Week coming up... Alright gotta go get some rest for Monday Night War, Week 2.