The Weekly Review: September 16 – 22

Great Art (and Hot Blondes)

 

Muslim1

 

 

***** 

 

Angie1

 

Survivor is back, and it’s not hard to figure out which castaway is the favorite with CBS cameramen.  Hint:  It’s not the black dude.

 

Angie2

 

 

*****

 

Critics Agree!

 

“It’s a stupid film on YouTube.” — noted author Salman Rushdie

“Fourteen minutes of your life you will never get back.” — some other guy

 

I had to see what all the fuss was about, so I checked out the trailer for Young Muhammad in Love, or whatever it’s called, and, well … I’ll have to say, this is wonderful stuff.  Here are my Oscar predictions for this charming little indie:

 

Best Supporting Actress:  Irma Glutz 

Muslim2

 

 

Best Supporting Actor:  Clem Kardashian

Muslim3

 

 

Achievement in Special Effects

Muslim4

 

 

Best Sex Scene (ok, ok, not an Oscar category, but should be)

Muslim5

Muslim6

 

 

*****

 

Sometimes I daydream about moving to Alaska.  I think it might be a nice place to live.  But then I see news items from Alaska like this:

 

Alaska

 

*****

 

Piers Morgan took to Twitter to vent about Kelsey Grammer, who stomped off the set of Piers’s CNN program:

“Kelsey Grammer was supposed to be on my show now but ran out of the building.  Strange,” tweeted Piers.  He followed up with this:  “So, Kelsey Grammer saw a photo of his ex wife Camille in the open to our show and legged it  …. a shockingly unprofessional thing to do.”

Hard to understand what Kelsey found so offensive, so we tracked down the picture that opened Piers’ show, from Camille’s Oscar-nominated turn in The Naked Detective:

 

Camille

 

*****

 

Not that long ago, the world stood still when a certain author published certain books.  This week, that author is publishing her latest book.  What’s that, you say?  Nope, I wasn’t aware of it, either.

 

 

Rowling2

 

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