Seriously? OMG! WTF?

I woke up to this New York Post piece this morning. If you don’t want to read it, I can sum up for you: I’m ungrateful to be snarkily ripping on Jeopardy! in this blog entry of last week. How dare I? They made me!

I’ve met Michael Starr a couple times, and he always seemed like a nice enough guy. Which leaves me wondering: does he know how asinine this non-story is? Despite working for the Post, I’m sure his reading comprehension is just fine. He knows there’s no way I was genuinely calling for angry bees and ventriloquist’s dummies to be added to the Jeopardy! format. It’s a humor piece, and one which gets its laughs from the outrageous non sequiturs it proposes, not the ripeness of its target for criticism. For the record: I’ve loved Jeopardy! since I was a kid, as anyone who talks to me for about five minutes knows. Making goofy jokes about TV shows isn’t “bashing.” I believe it’s the whole reason Al Gore invented the Internet.

I am grateful to Michael for the extra web traffic, but not for the humor-impaired sock puppet users who showed up on the message board this morning to either defend Jeopardy! or make trouble, I can’t tell which. In any case, they’ve (he’s?) violated several of our posting guidelines, and the threads will be removed shortly. I welcome reasoned disagreement on a blog entry’s strengths and flaws, but this wasn’t it.

Ken Jennings 

It reads like a plot in one of Aaron Spelling’s legendary soap operas: Widow Candy, Daughter Tori and the $500 million Spelling TV fortune at stake. As the tabloid-soaked story makes the latest cover of Us Weekly, the magazine’s Katrina Szish told us the feud could turn into a dynasty duel. "Extra" has obtained a copy of Spelling’s will, and the secret inside could spell trouble for Tori. "Tori and her mom, Candy, have been estranged and feuding for years," Szish said. "Candy is executor of the will, and therefore she is in charge of divvying up the $500 million fortune." Us Weekly reports that Tori is set to inherit $200,000, plus $600,000 in investments, that is unless Tori’s mother wants to give her more. "Tori, Aaron’s only daughter is getting less than a million dollars," Szish said. "And Candy’s manicurist will get $25,000, and their home decorator will get $50,000." So why the bad blood between mother and daughter? Tori admitted their relationship has always been difficult, and things didn’t get any better after Tori spoofed Candy on her VH-1 show "So noTORIous." "Many people speculate that this is the way for Tori’s mom to get back at Tori for years of feuding," Szish revealed. Neither Tori nor Candy Spelling are commenting today on this real-life Spelling drama.

Extra 

Do you think Randy is happy about this? 

Tomorrow, Katharine McPhee will be in New York for a press conference built around what a press release calls a "Big Sexy announcement." I doubt that means she’s telling the world she’s marrying her boyfriend or anything; Big Sexy makes hairspray, mousse, shampoo, etc., so I’d say it’s a safe assumption we’re talking sponsorship deal. Other questions may be asked, of course, relating to voice problems, tour absences, new record, personal life, etc., so stay tuned. 

USA Today’s Idol Chatter 

She is doing everything but the tour and we should still love her big fat bulimic a$$? What and ever! 

On July 17, Carmen Electra and Dave Navarro announced that after less than three years of marriage they were calling it quits. Now, Access Hollywood hears that just days after their announced separation, Electra’s Mercedes Benz and Navarro’s Hummer were broken into near their Beverly Hills home. Electra’s rep confirmed the break-in and said, "nothing was stolen" from their cars. A source close to the situation added that the paparazzi are suspected of breaking into the luxury cars in search of personal information on the separated stars.

Access Hollywood 

That is some major FUS for the paparazzi to do that. 

Emily VanCamp, the beloved Amy Abbott on the late "Everwood," has signed on for a female lead in an upcoming thriller from Paramount’s boutique shingle Vantage. Chris Pine ("Just My Luck") is already on board the untitled, which focuses on four friends in the fleeing from a deadly virus. Close quarters cause tensions to arise, leading to new dangers. According to The Hollywood Reporter, VanCamp will play Kate, a "goody-two-shoes whose family dies from the disease."

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