Simon Cowell is still recovering from breaking his back about a week and a half ago, so America’s Got Talent has to find someone to fill in for him. Last week, Kelly Clarkson sat his seat next to Heidi Klum, Sofia Vergara, Howie Mandel. However, it was for one week only. That is because Mandel said in an interview with Extra that this week she starts working on the second season of her talk show.
Who is going to put their butt in Cowell’s chair this week? That seat filler job goes to Kenan Thompson. The Saturday Night Live star said, “Literally can not wait!!!! @AGT @nbc.”
I literally cannot wait to see him be a judge on the talent show tomorrow and Wednesday night at 8p. He has been a warm and compassionate judge on Bring the Funny and The Masked Singer, and I am sure he will be the same on AGT. Maybe he can stick around until SNL needs him. Heck, they can leave him here in LA and have him play Joe Biden to Maya Randolph’s Kamala Harris. She said she really doesn’t want to travel during the coronavirus pandemic.
Back when I was in high school, our English teacher gave us a poem to read. We all thought it was about a man’s final moments on his death bed. Turns out, it was actually about him losing his virginity. Art’s interpretation is in the eye of the beholder.
Why am I telling you this? Back in 1986, a movie called Pretty In Pink came out. The film was inspired by the 1981 song of the same name. However, Richard Butler, the lead singer of The Psychedelic Furs, says that John Hughes mistook the meaning of the song.
In the coming of age of flick, it about Molly Ringwald being pretty in a pink dress. Butler told Sky News that it is not the pink he was talking about in the song.
“John Hughes – God rest his soul – kind of got the wrong end of the stick with that song.
“He made it to be literally about a girl that was wearing a pink dress and it wasn’t about that at all. It was about a rather unfortunate girl. Me saying pretty in pink meant somebody who is naked. It was a metaphor.”
Is Butler seeing red because the iconic filmmaker got it wrong? He told the interviewer, “…given that, the movie did us a lot of good. It was a double-edged sword because it increased our audience but a lot of people that were the darker set of our fans thought: ‘It’s a brat pack movie scene now and we are not really into that.'”
You can’t win them all.
If you think about it, Hughes’ mistake turned out to be a good thing for them. Who knows if they would still be touring (when bands can tour) today if it was not that misunderstanding of a birthday suit for a pink dress? Their original fans would have left them anyways, but that movie will be a coming of age movie for many decades to come. Therefore, that tune is giving them new fans all the time.
Now that you know the real meaning behind the song, listen to it again. You will hear how different it is than you remembered. It is like the red light in your head went on. Mind blown.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, The CW’s fall lineup is going to look a lot different than it normally would. Gone are our favortie shows, and we will say hello to acquired shows from other sources like CBS All Access’ Tell Me a Story and DC Universe’s Swamp Thing.
However, there is one show we know, and it is coming to an end. Starting on October 8th, they will begin airing the final seven episodes of Supernatural. Does it really have to end?
I guess it does because today Jensen Ackles announced what he will be doing next. He is reuniting with original Supernatural EP Eric Kripke, and he is joining the cast of The Boys on Amazon Prime as Soldier Boy. His character is described as, “the original Superhero. After Soldier Boy fought in World War II, he became the first super celebrity, and a mainstay of American culture for decades.” Season two of the anti-Superhero show debuts on September 4th. You can watch the first season now.
Gareth Moulton might perform (I Just) Died in Your Arms with Cutting Crew, but he doesn’t want his fans to sing that to their loved ones. As in getting COVID-19 because they saw him perform live.
Therefore, yesterday he played a show in Wootton Village Hall to an audience who was “painstakingly distanced.” Now that we know it can be done, as he says, “THERE IS HOPE! 👍❤️”
Plus, the best part is that the soldold crowd got a really intimate show. Much more intimate than if they were all on top of each other like the concerts he used to play all the way back on March 8th.
Would you go to a live music show like that? I totally would Wang Chang to that.
