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SHOW REVIEW The incredibly acerbic superstar Chef has turned the heat up this season, watching this program is like reliving your worst day at the most horrible job ever. I've actually worked in environments like this, as an artist, so it's cathartic in a way to observe from afar Ramsay's screaming and yelling fits tempered with his patented faux outrage.
You simply won't believe what some of these so-called professional chefs offer up when asked to prepare their signature dishes. One disastrous combination plate sends Chef Ramsay barfing into a trash can - and wait until you see another contestant's Cornish Hen stuffed in a pumpkin. Hell's Kitchen is gotcha TV at its best, it works so well because of Ramsay's saucy expletives, his horribly degrading putdowns. Like all 'reality' shows there's a healthy measure of artificial drama to compliment the extra crispy editing but, with some interesting characters to work with, Hell's Kitchen should dish out plenty of entertaining moments this season. Hell's Kitchen is an actual working restaurant, at least while the program is in production, wouldn't it be great to eat there sometime if only for the theater? Not that the patrons on show one got much food, most of it ended up in the trash or on the wall. It's interesting to note how much more patient and respectful Chef Ramsay is on the British version of Kitchen Nightmares, another program he's successfully transplanted on Fox. The gloves are off on Hell's Kitchen; he refers to one contestant as a "toilet brush," another is called a "donkey," while everyone is deemed, "useless f*cking pieces of sh*t." With this series and the even better Kitchen Nightmares, Chef Ramsay has positioned himself as one of America's most incandescent personalities with two of the best 'reality' shows on TV today. Hell's Kitchen returns April 1st at 9:00pm ET / CT on FOX. Wednesday,
March 12, 2008 - 12:55pm
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March 10, 2008 - 11:29am
SUNDAY
YOU TUBING On October 14, 1982 Johnny discussed his drunk driving arrest the weekend before. Was there any situation he couldn't handle with style and good humor?
Johnny was so good with plain regular folks, this is one of my favorite Tonight show segments, Myrtle Young and her potato chip collection.
An absolutely hilarious Smothers Brothers appearance in a 1992 show. The Smothers actually hosted the Tonight show in 1975.
May 13th 1994 Johnny Carson made a surprise appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman. It was Johnny Carson's last appearance on television.
Sunday,
March 9, 2008 - 10:09am
TV
SHOW REVIEW Mostly a pastiche of cheap shots and bad jokes, L'il Bush seems a perfect metaphor when you consider the childishness that prevails in our nation's capital but the laughs here are few and far between. I think the glow is off this rose, it's awfully hard to parody what is already so outrageously pathetic. Let's face it, Bush and his cronies just ain't funny anymore. If they ever were. Saturday,
March 8, 2008 - 7:07am
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March 6, 2008 - 9:07am
NEW
TO DVD This should be popular, you have no idea how many people have been requesting The Goldbergs on DVD and Timeless does a great job of providing the best possible quality for the lowest price. Unless he died recently, Cherney Berg, who co-wrote the show with his mother Gertrude Berg, is still around and has a large number of earlier episodes, as does the UCLA TV archives, if I'm not mistaken. Film Collector Jeff Valencia mentioned this to me a decade ago, here's what he said about the history of the shows - "Talk about lost shows, get this - when Guild Films in NY went bankrupt the negatives to the Goldberg shows (along with others like The Joe Palooka Story) were placed in a bank vault. Time passed and now all the 35mm negatives are lost. The only copies of the last season are with UCLA. Cherney Berg had a complete set in 16mm and I had about 18 shows in 16mm. The first 6 years of the show were live and the network contract stipulated that they destroy the kinescope recordings after 90 days. So there are only a handful of live Goldbergs." The Goldbergs is only $7.98 and will be released April 15th and can be pre-ordered here. Thursday,
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Hell's
Kitchen fires up for a fourth season and, after a clever opening
twist, serves up a mess of ruthless, feckless food divas to vie for the
opportunity to become executive chef at Chef Ramsay's new upscale restaurant
in Los Angeles.
If
you haven't seen Hell's Kitchen, it's an elimination contest;
for episode one it's the mostly misogynous males vs the contentious females
and both teams take a humiliating verbal beating while Chef Ramsay flings
dishes into the air and viciously lashes out at everyone in sight. Why
anyone would actually want to subject themselves to this kind of behavior
is beyond me but I love watching the chaos that ensues.
Dawn
Wells plead guilty to possession of marijuana after being arrested in
October. A surprise birthday party for Dawn Wells, the actress who played
Mary Ann on "Gilligan's Island," ended with a nearly three-hour
tour of the Teton County sheriff's office and jail when the 69-year-old
was caught with marijuana in her vehicle while driving home. 
Poor
NBC. Stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to promoting
Conan O'Brien in 2009 to host the already number one rated late night
program, the Tonight show with Jay Leno. Kind of makes their
painful negotiations with Johnny Carson every few years seem like a happy
memory. In that spirit, lets look at a few of Carson's best moments thanks
to the Tube...
Li'l
Bush, Comedy Central's animated look at Washington insiders, returns
on Thursday, March 13th at 10:00pm.
