RuPaul's Drag Race

A new reality show that takes all other reality shows under the tires, it is a combo of "America's Next Top Model" and "Project Runway." Here is the premise:

Join RuPaul, the world's most famous drag queen, as the host, mentor and judge for "RuPaul's Drag Race," Logo's new reality series which will be the ultimate in drag queen competitions. The top 9 drag queens in the U.S. will vie for drag stardom as RuPaul, in full glamazon drag, will reign supreme in all judging and eliminations, while the debonair Mr. RuPaul will help guide the contestants as they prepare for each challenge. Contestants include the nation's hottest most glamorous drag queens, including one voted in by you online!

Each week, joining RuPaul on the judges panel, are fashion journalist and best-selling author Merle Ginsberg and Project Runway breakout star and designer Santino Rice, plus a bevy of celebrity guest judges including: Bob Mackie (Designer), Michelle Williams (Destiny's Child), Lucy Lawless (actress), Maria Conchita Alonso (actress/singer), Robin Antin (creator of The Pussycat Dolls), Debra Wilson (Mad TV), Jenny Shimizu (model/actress), Tori Spelling (actress), Dean McDermott (actor), Howard Bragman (Author of "Where's My Fifteen Minutes?") and Frank Gatson (choreographer).

Each cast member must embody the charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent that made RuPaul an international drag superstar. The judges will determine the bottom two contestants of the week. Those contestants then compete in a show-stopping battle-royal "lip-synch for your life" performance that will determine if they will "shante" and stay and who will "sashay" away until one is crowned America's next Drag Queen Superstar!

It airs on Logo but VH1 showed an episode today, it has been praised by Entertainment Weekly. RuPaul, who was hilarious in Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild, does her best Tim Gunn in men's clothes and also her best Tyra Banks superbitch. Amazingly enough, when the gang starts, they aren't bitching to each other, they are actually quite tame. And like with any drag queen, they all look completely different in their regular man form than their drag form. Of course, there is the stand-out hotness, the Asian one, the bitch, the Latina bad accent macho-looking one, the bad accent one, the involved-in-herself one, the old wise one and the nerd. Rebecca Glasscock's regular man form is super hot. I think this is the only project RuPaul has enjoyed, because this is what he knows and he reveals in it and he can bring it to the world.

Some of the show is definitely uber-into gay and drag culture, so for the layperson, I dunno if they will feel included. In order to be more relatable, the audience sees the gang in their man forms. These bitches are so much more talented than the Project Runway bitches in forming an outfit on the fly. Now, people can say that the show is ridiculous and dumb, but this is bringing real reality to people: Drag Queens, they are out there and you got to see them. I think they are often shoved away, even in gay culture and they need to be expose for the brave ones they are. I am so proud that big stars like Lucy Lawless, Dean McDermott and Tori Spelling are on this show.

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Dike joke in SNL

The opening sketch featured Jason Sudeikis as Rod Blagojevich being interview by Abbie Elliott (Daughter of Chris Elliott!) as Rachel Maddow and now that Jason is playing more jackasses, he says, "I feel like a dutch boy with his finger in a dike." And he made two nods towards Rachel and saying that she would know he was talking about. Crude but funny.

Titanic vs. Revolunitary Road

Kate Winselt and Leonardo DiCaprio were romantic leads in Titanic (1997) and now reunited 11 years later in Revolutionary Road (2008). In Titanic, they played strangers who met each other in the course of let's say a weekend and fell in love and one died and supposedly, it was the woman's love of her life. While in Revolutionary Road, they play a married couple who stay together for many many years and the relationship doesn't last and ends from what I hear horribly. I understand Revolutionary Road is based on a novel, but I am talking about the movie and the fact that these two actors are playing a romantic couple once again. These two actors Kate Winselt and Leonardo DiCaprio never worked before Titanic together and never have since again until Revolutionary Road.

It is sending a message, probably subliminal and of course--I know--not a clear obvious message or there would be more buya (noise) about it; that in one movie two strangers that barely know each other have the love 'of a lifetime' and in the other movie, they are married for years and it ends badly, falling out of love. Funny enough, in both stories, one half of the pair dies. The message is one of my complaints about Romeo and Juilet! So, a one-night stand can be the best while a long-lasting relationship is bad. Now what sort of message is that sending to the mass public? Not only movie-going audiences but people who just hear about it, which is the majority of the case. Which may not be intentional but it is something worth looking at in the sense of how our society portrays love and how love is interpreted in cinema.

TR2N

Tron (1982) is one of my favorite movies, I was born when it came out but I always saw it on reruns on syndicated channels on saturdays. I was thrilled when it would come on, I was probably six when I could remember it. There was always a rumored that there would be a sequel, some fans don't believe there should be a sequel, that the new technically would outshadow the original or the story would fall flat. I suspected Disney would make a remake, I would accept a remake in a few years. About story---critics say the story fall flat. Anyhoo, Disney surprised fans in July at ComicCon with a sneakpeak trailer to Tron 2. The animation is amazing! From that little clip, I feel the animation is not too over-the-top but enough of a homage to the original that it works. Let's hope the rest of the movie is the same.

Little Miss Sunshine Cuts

I love Little Miss Sunshine, and yesterday they had the world permiere on the USA network and they are repeating it. When I first heard of the movie, I thought it would be a boring maudlin indie or even worse, a 'zany' family going nowhere but it is an instant classic. It does have a lot of cursing and I am glad it was tastefully blanked, not replaced with ridiciolous words. When movies go on cable, they trim for time, this movie got lots of cuts. For example, when Frank finds his ex in the gas station was completely cut. Probably because it didn't have a lot to do with the central plot and also because of the porn magazines. But! The Porn magazines are shown later but blurred. Funny enough, the grandfather snorting drugs is still left in! With no PATERNAL WARNING before neither! So you parents who think this movie is family safe, the movie was originally rated R. Also cut, for those interested, is when the family enters the motel and little things lke that. I have seen the movie now 5 times and until the fifth time I realized Dwayne wasn't the father's kid.

Care Bears: Adventures in Care-A-Lot Colors

For those who don't follow Care Bears, they recently re-designed them (once again) in 2007 and with a new TV series called Care Bears: Adventures in Care-A-Lot. I love the Care Bears and always been fascinated by the colors. I am not so crazy about the new bears they have added because it is like redundancy. There is Friend Bear, Best Friend Bear and Amigo Bear! Anyhoo, I have noticed with new bears, they can't decide on the color!

Best Friend Bear looks Magenta on her beanie toy tag but on the show she is like an Orchid-color.

Amigo Bear is like a dark orange on his tag and toy but on the show, he is more like a light peach/orange. I know the tag is a bit dark because of the photo but I've seen it, his fur is darker in tone.

Now Bears we have grown to love:

True Heart Bear, not an original bear but was part of the 80's brood, she was their mentor, but in this she is a regular bear. She was an egg color and now she is light pink, though on the show she much lighter.

Love-A-Lot Bear is the biggest variant of color from the merchandise to show. She has always been a darker pink than Cheer Bear or a light red--however you look at it, since Pink is considered a light red. But on the toy tag, she certainly is lighter than on the show. She is considered a red/pink.

Bedtime Bear as I remember him as a baby blue color and is so on the toy and tag but I dunno if it is the caption above but it looks like he is an aqua.

Wish Bear has remained the same color (bright Torqouise-ish green) since the 80's but I am not sure if it is the pictures above because I have not seen her tag in person but she look more green-ish than aqua on the tag.

I love different shades of pink and purple! This is not fair to color blind people, but just take my word for it.

Above from left to right: Harmony Bear, Best Friend Bear, Harmony Bear, and Surprise Bear.
Okay, Harmony is Lavender, Best Friend is orchid (light magenta-violet?), Harmony is purple (or violet?), and Surprise Bear is a deep dark purple. Or I can just be wrong for the name of the colors but I love the shades!

If anything, they kept the colors they established with the re-vamp in the 2000's, Champ Bear was orange-y back in the 80's, now he is blue. But I don't even know how to describe his color. A turquoise-y deep blue? A dark sea blue? He is a different shade than Bedtime, Grumpy and Tugs Bear.