Kathy Griffin on Jay Leno last night

Kathy Griffin has said in the past that when she has gone to the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, that dear Mr. Leno has been less than hospitalible. Once he called her ugly, well in relation, not out right say it. She was banned from the show, so I surprised she was invited again. It looked like Jay Leno was trying to be civil and she still acted a bit prickly, she was careful. She often used words or phrases like "You know how I am..." or "You know me." I think she tried setting him up a bit but covertly but he really was civil. He didn't instegate. It went super well. Kathy seemed a bit nervous and wasn't really funny like usual, she mostly badmouthed her mother, in a sort of unfunny way. And you can tell what an insenstive homophobe Leno is, when he lavishes in Kathy's stories about Lance Bass 'banging' women. He asked if he would do it again (if Lance would bang women again), the typical straight man way---'oh, you can fix it.' She answered in a very comedic way that if he went back to 'Nsync.

Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2 Episode 11 Review

"Self Made Man"
Lots of people have given up on this show, especially FOX, who will be moving the show to Friday. I haven't. It is a fantastic show. Many Terminator fans still won't go near the show, but many newcomers have. This episode was more about Cameron and John, split up in their own stories. John has a lady love and trying to keep his secret but she wants to know more about him and she makes him jealous at a party. Cameron has been established as not sleeping so she does other things. She has her secrets. She has a buddy in the library and he is handicapped and she is on a mission. She plays investigator about a man and a murder in the 20's. I usually don't like period episodes, especially about the speakeasy or film noir-references because most of them fall flat. This one's plot was pretty simple, but a Terminator-related twist and also the usually Cameron-is-not human stuff. But pretty compelling. Cameron is starting to feel. She does feel and she did have a friend. She asks the man in the wheelchair, if he ever thought about suicide.

He is insulted, of course. But in real life, I had a friend who lived his whole life in a wheelchair and did commit suicide. He hated how people looked at him. I have had other friends in wheelchairs that haven't felt the same, it's just like 'regular' people of course, but I am saying just like people are people, there are people in wheel chairs that have had thought of suicide just like average people has. It was a good ep, lots of building blocks and understanding. Not very Arc-y but does play in the mythology. Too bad no one else noticed. Missing out.

Yo Quiero Mi Principe

Two weeks ago was my four-year-old niece's birthday party and she loves the Disney Princesses. We got her Ariel, big Belle and the non-princess big Tinker Bell. She looked at all her dolls and then she asked, "Donde esta mi principe?" We laughed but I gave this great thought. She had many Princesses (Jasmine, Cinderella, Baby Ariel, etc.), but she had no prince. She didn't have no Barbie nor Ken. My eldest niece, her cousin, hates Barbies and is happy she doesn't have any Barbies. But when I wished to get the little niece "A" a Prince doll for Christmas, my eldest niece "M" suggested buying Ken's prince. I went to Toys R Us and they only had the new Diamond-no-se-que (Diamond-I-don't-know-what) and he didn't look much like a prince. And they had Sleeping Beauty with Prince Phillip for $22 in a pack. Even as much as I love them, no way I was going to pay that much. I found the Princesses in 'wedding dresses' but no groom. What kind of wedding is that? Are they promoting same-sex weddings? If so, awesome but I doubt it.

So I decided to go to the Disney Store. I was sure I would find it. There was the tall wall of the Princesses: Belle, Ariel, Cinderella, Snow White, Jasmine, and Mulan. And down there, a few of the Beast. It shows off that you can change the Beast into the prince. As much as I love the Beast, "A" loves the Little Mermaid and has the doll in that size. In the back of the packaging of the Beast, there is the other Princes: Prince Charming, Phillip, Aladdin, Eric, and the Beast. I went to the sales lady and said, "Yo amo la Bestia, pero no tenien los otro princepes?" She told to look back there, I told her I did, she asked if I searched, I told her I glanced at it. We went to the second wall of dolls and searched, I just moved a bit of figures and she finally accepted there wasn't any. She then went to the back to check. I told her I would prefer Eric, but she said she would get what she could.

I went back to the first big wall of dolls, search and search and nothing. It is obvious where that the kids give up searching, the dolls above were all perfectly stacked. There was only the beast. I fear that my niece "A" will loose the beast head. So the lady came back with a couple of Prince Charmings and Prince Eric. I was so thrilled, I tried taking Eric from her but she needed help to carry them. So I helped put them on the shelf. She felt bad for poor Beast. Having less Prince merchandise in Princesses is common with any gender-based merchandise, there are few male CabbagePatch Kids, there are few female Power Rangers or even female figures in any male-based toyline. Because with the theory or proof that they don't sell well. The Princes were pretty good deal too, originally they were $12.50, they are now $8.

Belle, Snoopy's sister

Lots of people remember Flashbeagle from the 80's, I think the Peanuts specials' heyday were in the 80's. I used to love watching those specials and movies. But I had a stuff toy above of a Snoopy character and always thought it was his girlfriend. This was a common misconception. Belle only made a few appearances in the Peanuts comic strip, but is well-remembered because of the Belle stuffed animal toys sold in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Many people who were not regular readers of the comic strip mistakenly thought that she was Snoopy's girlfriend, rather than his sister. Belle also appeared briefly in the opening sequence of "The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show." While she was mentioned in the lyrics to the opening theme song, Belle never appeared in the actual cartoon series. One of Snoopy's most seen sibling was Spike, who had a special called "It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown," which many criticized but I liked it as a kid.

Scrubs premieres January 6!

It has been announced that Scrubs' new season will premiere January 6th, 2009 on ABC.

Joanna Cassidy is AWESOME

Joanna Cassidy, age 63, still looks fabulous and has played 3 of my favorite roles ever. She is still magnetic and powerful as ever. Recently she has guested on "Ghost Whisperer" and the first season of "Heroes" as Victoria Pratt. She is just a great actress and hopes keeps getting meaty roles.

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I found it weird that she was not on "Desperate Housewives" yet and lo and behold, she is on it now! She plays the mother was Andrew's fiance and a thorn in Bree's side. I guess they were waiting for the right role.

First time I saw her, she played Dolores in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, she gave the movie heart and gravitas. She also got the material, so she was funny without trying.

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She played Rose Lindsey in Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter, which was a somber bland movie, trying to propel Christina Applegate's "Married with Children" career. Rose played her oblivious boss who believed in her.

And her most famous role ever in Blade Runner as Zhora. A year ago for the 25th anniversary, she got in the costume (which still fit after all that time!--which she loved) to re-shoot the sequence in which Zhora fell through the glass in order to fix a continuity error with the stuntwoman's helmet hair. (She wore a helmet under the wig)