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.