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Well, surprise surprise. The New Yorker doesn't like "The Hills" because it's stupid. Can't you even find a straw man to defend the show before demolishing it? I guess that would be an indication that the subject is worth your time.
The photo-agency caption for this picture is "Audrina Patridge to Make Paw Prints As A Las Vegas Pussycat Doll."
I'm kind of confused by what Audrina is doing with the Dolls, since she's from "The Hills" and not part of the Pussycat Dolls or their various TV shows like "Girlicious."
And I'm still wondering why there's a Vegas nightclub called Pure. I mean, shouldn't they have called it "Filthy?"
Finally, her collarbones are freaking me out.
Somebody give this girl a sandwich!
Do we really need another season of "The Hills?" Why bother? Maybe if I were the BBC's reporter investigating the effects of smoking pot I'd watch it. Seriously, the only reason to ever watch that show is if you're too stoned to reach the remote and change the channel.
Help me out here, blog readers. Do you watch that show? While sober? Because far as I'm concerned, "May cause enjoyment of shows like 'The Hills'" needs to be be added to this comic video about the side-effects of weed:
The levels of falseness in "The Hills" keep getting more and more complicated. I expect a media studies professor from UCLA to come up with an explanation for how people who you'd call "totally fake" if you met them in regular life got a "reality" show, and then developed secondary false personas for the cameras, piling pretense upon pretense until the entire thing might as well be scripted.
Anyway, the fake wedding between two of those fake people has been canceled: Heidi and Spencer are going to remain single. I think this is for real, though.
Meanwhile, Lauren Conrad explained the staged quality of the show: If the cameras aren't running for important moments, or if the mics cut out, or if something doesn't seem quite right, they'll do multiple takes of any given moment in her life. So, of course it seems staged. But it happened more or less that way the first time. Honest!
"The Hills," the MTV docu-soap "reality" show that follows Lauren Conrad, Heidi Montag and their friends through the travails of being rich, cute, and televised, is drifting further and further from reality. Just Jared says that Star says that some photographers said that they saw Lauren "LC" Conrad and Heidi Montag being friendly in secret. They've been fighting viciously on the show. What's up? Are they making up? Was this whole fight thing just a fake-out?
It doesn't matter, really, except that the show's going scripted. "The Hills" is hardly any more true to life than the goings-on at "Dante's Cove," the gay supernatural romance soap opera.
Yes, there's a gay supernatural romance soap opera. I had no idea either, but apparently it's in its third season. Wikipedia says it's had "mixed critical reviews" which I think means that some people (you know who you are!) were thrilled to have softcore twinks on TV, and everyone else was appalled by the whole concept.
Here's a clip, which you might not want to watch at work... ONTD has a bunch of stills as well.
Everything about the WGA strike is over here.
USAT just noticed the homosexual gentlemen on "Desperate Housewives." They're not quite on-stereotype as the usual TV gays, and they have the same issues as everyone else on Wisteria Lane. That is, they're crazy. I think that's a good thing.
ONTD posted the latest "music" video from "Top Model" Cycle 4 contestant Lisa D'Amato. It's just as bad as the last one.
TV Guide has an interview with Jared Padaleki from "Supernatural."
The South Carolina Democratic Party has rejected Stephen Colbert's petition to get onto the presidential ballot, because he's a joke candidate, and they just won't have it. What has this world come to when I'm getting my political news from Star Magazine?
"The Hills" is the fakest of all the so-called "Reality" shows out there. We know that. But E! says they're having a casting call for guests at the wedding. That's a little much, even for them. Isn't it?
"Ugly Betty" star America Ferrera has some issues related to being abandoned by her father as a child, says Celebrity Wonder. I bet she blamed herself for it. Poor thing.
The reality of "The Hills" is getting less real by the minute. Reality TV World suggests that recently-enaged lovers Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag are planning a brilliant publicity stunt: a dramatic break-up and romantic reunion (in Cabo, of course). This bodes well for Spencer's future political career: he really understands how important it is to get a good photo op.
It also suggests that MTV has completely given up on finding something interesting in the actual lives of its reality stars, and is moving back toward scripted entertainment.
Naturally, MTV denies everything.
You'd think people would be able to figure out some basic things for themselves. They don't. Let me give you some examples.
Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag are considering a run for public office. This is obviously a terrible idea, but they talk about it like it's a foregone conclusion. The only skills the "Hills" stars bring to politics are their immunity to insult and lack of shame. Seriously, would you vote for a guy who looks that smug?
The "American Idol" tour isn't selling many tickets. Maybe it's because they've jacked up the price, and maybe it's because the performances are terrible. Probably both.
On "Top Chef," Howie was a jerk who didn't do a very good job and creeped out audiences by constantly sweating into his food. The disgusting mushroom dish and sudden no-I-in-team change of heart didn't make him any less likely to get sent home, so he decided to volunteer to leave just before judges kicked him off. Maybe he thought it would make him look good. It made him look like a chump.
Got any more obvious stuff celebs ought to have picked up on by now? Drop me a line.
"The Hills" reality star Lauren Conrad may be jumping the gun by starting her own label before she graduates from the Fashion Institute, but you can't fault her for trying. Her new line will be sold online at ShopLaurenConrad.com, and if successful will branch into regular retail stores.
FabSugar seems to like the idea, especially after seeing her wear a dress she designed to the Teen Choice awards. At least she's got some experience in the field, unlike Lily Allen and other celebs with clothing labels.
I'm skeptical. There are plenty of great designers with more experience who probably design better clothing, and her fame on MTV is no guarantee that people will want to wear her product.
"The Hills" stars sure have a lot of fans, but that doesn't mean they deserve it. All the tabs are filled with detail about how horrible they are. For example, according to US, Spencer Pratt's #1 fan is... Spencer! He's collected all his clippings and photos and put them up on the wall at his mom's house. Ick. Pratt's girlfriend's arch-enemy Lauren Conrad doesn't have such a good relationship with her fanbase, though: she was visibly grossed out when someone from the teeming masses touched her this weekend. Double ick.
Why can't these new Hollywood kids be like the genteel, glamorous types of yesteryear? How come we don't see more people like Mike Silverman, the 87-year-old Polaroid House fixture who gets along just fine with everyone. At least some of the younger set is doing it the right way: Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens are doing some great fan-service by filming dance instructions for their biggest "High School Musical" routines.
There's a bizarre correction in Radar this week about "The Hills": Heidi and Spencer said they weren't engaged, and that they weren't getting engaged, especially not on "Lauren's show." Then, of course, the show aired, and they most certainly are engaged, and very much so on "Lauren's show." If it were a fictional drama, it would make sense to deny things or refuse to comment on things, but it makes no sense to lie about it, especially in the context of a show that purports to show something resembling reality.
Then again, what's real anyway? What kind of reality would involve daddy sitting next to the tub while his daughter takes a bubble bath wearing a bathing suit and shaves her entire body, including her arms?
