Annalynne McCord

Beverly Hills is sweltering in a heat wave and things are steaming up. Revelations stir up trouble as the teens of West Beverly come clean to each other. Adrianna reveals her secret to Naomi and Navid, who handle the news very much in their own way.

Dixon reveals the depths of his feelings to Silver and their relationship takes a surprising turn. Meanwhile, Tabitha and Deb are at each other’s throats and Deb thinks about moving out. Tabitha surprises her grandchildren with an unexpected gift. Annie and Ethan get the keys to Tabitha’s Palm Springs retreat and are a bit overwhelmed by so much freedom.

Pretty good episode, the heat wave was a good excuse for a lot of skimpy outfits.
What’s up with Navid and those silly t-shirts? He looks like an idiot.  

Rachel Griffiths at the Golden Globes

Rachel Griffiths raised many an eyebrow with her choice of dress for the Golden Globes, a dress that might best be described as a golden sack, an unflattering, wrinkly toga or maybe simply best be forgotten. Of course it’s not fun having people dissing your dress, but there was a good reason for a baggy outfit: Rachel is expecting her third baby!

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“[I] was, like, hiding under that gold dress. I kinda wasn’t ready to announce it then, but it provoked so many questions I was like, ‘Alright, okay, let’s just not pretend anymore.’ And now I can’t suck it in anymore — it’s out.”

The pregnancy wont be written into the series as Griffiths planned her baby so as to give birth in the season hiatus. That’s some great planning!

Rachel Griffiths

It’s crunchtime for Sara and her start up Greenatopia. After they screw up a tech presentation they have to ace the launch party. Rebecca and Justin are having relationship troubles and Kyle tries to make a pass at Rebecca.

Another Walker family gathering, but not as much drama as usual, which was kinda refreshing. Sara gets it on with one of her partners, Nora is heavily in lust with her architect. I like that Nora, though in her sixties, is dating and having a busy love life. This architect guy is a dish! 

Kevin and Robert go shooting with important people who can help Robert get into office. Looks like Robert is running for governor, I wonder what Kitty will have to say about that….

Cute quote:

Nora: I wish you’d kissed me thirty years ago.
Ian: How about now?

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Desperation knows no borders is the tagline for this film about two average women who turn to people trafficking to support their families.

The film showed up on quite a few Best Movie of the Year lists and won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2008. Director and writer Courtney Hunt wanted to make this movie about the the universal love of parents for their children and the lengths they will go to to protect and care for these kids.

White trailer mom Jay teams up with a Mohawk girl, Lila, who lives in a reservation on the border between the U.S. and Canada. Jay is broke after her man ran off with their life savings, Lila is trying to get her baby back from her mother in law. They need money for their families and the frozen river seems the ideal way to do it: they start smuggling illegal Chinese and Pakistani immigrants from Canada into the States. At first, the money’s good and all goes well, but then their luck starts to run out.

What a great film!!! Not one false note, no melodrama, no hammy, melodramatic effects. This is a gritty, interesting and moving tale about people down on their luck, struggling to get a new deal. There’s a bit of a Thelma and Louise-moment, but even then events don’t spiral out of the realm of reality.  Loved it!

Director/writer and probably caterer and allround dogsbody Hunt must be feeling pretty good about herself right now. Her directorial debut, which she also wrote and produced, got no fewer than TWO Academy Award nominations!

Little known actress Melissa Leo, who plays Jay, was nominated for best actress and Hunt received an original screenplay nomination. How cool is that?

“It is such a great thing, that you can walk around with your story, get your little money together and make a film and then end up there being counted along with all the big shots,” Hunt said in an interview with IHT. “I can’t think of any other industry, or any other country, where that seems possible.”

Hunt’s nominations seem indicative of a shift in the Academy: no longer is the Oscar ceremonie a competition between blockbusters, but more and more small, independent films are making it into the finals. It’s going to be an exciting year!

Lily & Marshall

Loved it! Best ep of the season so far!!!
Lily and Marshall have a ritual where whenever they come back from a trip they bring a six pack of beer and the other one picks them up. This time, they’ve decided their relationship is ‘mature’ and they shouldn’t have those silly rituals any more. But then they change their minds and have to jump through a lot of hoops to get it done after all.

Marshall and Lily are an inspiration to us all! Yes, keep all your traditions, however silly or insignificant!

Sophia Bush aka Brooke Davis

Nobody got kidnapped or stabbed or shot this episode, which gave the story a bit of a breather. Nathan’s team is on a losing streak and he’s spending a lot of time on the bench. Brooke and Julian run into relationship issues. Grandpa Dan’s looking for a new heart, which should scare anyone with a pulse!

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Clooney & Margolis

I’m a HUGE ER fan and I must say I will be very sad once the credits roll on the very ast ep.
I really like that they’re brining back Golden Oldies, like Anthony Edwards (nicest guy on the planet, Mike Green) and now the rumor mill is grinding out that George Clooney aka everyone’s favorite pediatrician Doug Ross might be back for a final stint in the ER! Clooney quit in 2000 and last year denied rumors of him getting back to County General, but you never know…..

And does that mean Julianna Margolis, aka Nurse Hathaway, the girl he tortured over many a season, but in the end had twins with, will be back on the floor as well? Those kids must be so pretty….

ER had a closed set for a couple of days and extended it’s season with three eps, maybe to lure Clooney back into scubs. It would be kinda cool.

Other people I’d like to see scrub in: Peter Benton!!! And Rocket Romano!  Though how they’d do that after he got hit by a bloody chopper…

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Sienna Miller: too young?

Few Hollywood ladies have ever been kicked off a set for being too young, but Sienna Miller had just that happen to her on the set of the umptieth Robin Hood retelling Nottingham. Of course it could also be because she can’t act herself out of a paper bag, but so far the word is: too young to play Russell Crowe’s love interest. 

I’m glad there’s some attention being paid to waaaay too young girls playing opposite waaaaay too old geezers. There’s so many girls playing opposite guys who could easily have been their grandads and a lot of ‘older’ actresses (and we’re talking early forties!) can’t get any roles. 

That’s why I made a top 6 of the worst couple mismatches ever:

Number 1:

Firewall: Virginia Madsen vs Harrisson Ford
This movie was CRAP too begin with, but without any explanation, Virginia Madsen was a 42 year old knock out and Ford was a 66 year old, old timer, very unconvincingly fighting terrorists or whatever the hell they were in the crappy plot trying to steal a big chunk of change from a bank by kidnapping the security director’s ridiculously young family. 

Number 2: Entrapment. 

Sean Connery, born way back in 1930, gets Catherine Zeta Jones, born in Swansea in 1969, yes, that’s a whopping FORTY years later, to fall for him. Now I know that Sean’s cute an’ all, but puhlease! That’s just icky! Then again CZJ does like her men on the mature side, as she married Michael Douglas, who was born in 1944. 

3) A view to a kill

And while we’re on the subject of James Bond, Roger Moore, born in 1927 (!) (yes, Connery’s replacement was actually older! And had to wear a girdle in later films!) in his final Bond flic, got it on with Tanya Roberts (1955). When they kissed his neck looked like a turtle’s. Cradle snatcher. However, his other costar, Grace Jones, in real life has a husband who’s 28 years her junior.

4) 6 days, 7 nights
 Harrison Ford. Again. This time vs Anne Heche. Now this is one of the most unsympathetic films ever made and luckily won’t go down in history at all, but still: Ford is 27 years older than annoying -I’m gay, no, I’m not-Heche. 

5) In the line of fire
Great film, but the casting could have been done slightly more realistically! Clint Eastwood got it on with Renee Russo, 24 years his junior. Now Clint is a goodlooking hunk of a man, but it felt just a little off. If it had been the other way around, cougar lady getting it on with a guy 24 years her junior that would’ve been the main subject of the film. Now it’s presented as a completely natural love sideline. Aren’t there any eligible gals his own age??  

6) Autumn in New York

Sucked. Badly.
But the worst part was that Richard Tiffany Gere (I can never take Gere seriously ever since I found out his middle name is Tiffany. Poor bastard) vs Winona Horowitz, aka Winona -no really I paid for that lipstick-Ryder. Now, both these actors have had their fair share of ridicule: him for preferring gerbils to actual girls and her for shoplifting her way out of a career.   Yes, it was about an elderly playboy finally finding true love with a way too young dying girl, but still. It’s just creepy.

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Laura Prepon

That 70’s show’s Laura Prepon has signed on for at least five eps of HIMYM. Apparently, she and Ted used to have a thing in high school and through college. It means, she could be the mom. Then again, probably not. The problem with The Mom showing up is that it would spell The End.

Still, I like this girl. Loved her on That 70’s show, not that much on Borefest October Road. In my mind she’s still a redhead though, as a blond I’m not so sure. 

And Ted’s kids are not blond at all.

House & Cuddy

House strikes a bet to be nice with Wilson and this costs him a lot more effort than he thought. An overweight teenage girl is brought in with all kinds of weird symptoms and the team suspects she’s an alcoholic. Cuddy gets very much involved with the girl. 

Must be the Christmas spirit, because as House goes, this was a very happy, cheerful episode. Well, apart from the girl who would die, though even she got her baby back….
There were a lot of funny moments, like the woman with her inhaler and the ‘virgin birth’. And Cuddy finally got herself a baby! Good for her! Maybe that’s why she might be quitting, if I heard the rumor mill correctly and Cameron will be taking her place?  I like Cuddy, I hope stuff works out for her. 
The whole Foreman/13 story line: I don’t know. I like Foreman, I don’t think much of 13, I kinda wish she would, well, die.

Well, who knows? Experimental drugs can be a bit of a health hazard, right? And then Foreman can spend the rest of his life being miserable because he killed his True Love… I like it! 

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