Agreed.  He also never went around selling interviews to entertainment shows during that period and you KNOW they all wanted to talk to him.

I agree.  Fantastic article, Emily.

The flashbacks aren't about how she was nerdy in high school; they're about how her BFF in high school was model-pretty and then became a model.  As pretty as Jess is she'll never have men become stuttering fools in her presence the way that Cici does.  And even in high school boys liked her—she just always thought…

He's growing on me, too.  Carson being a charisma black hole balances out the judges, not unlike when he hosted TRL.

I'm struggling not to hate myself for knowing this, but RHoOC still has one original housewife: Vicki, who has always been central to the show.

Erotica in general was seriously underrated, because of the whole Sex book controversy I think.  Though iirc the Bad Girl video got quite a lot of attention at the time.

I'm with Jay on their having lots of pre-air numbers of subscribers either flocking or fleeing—as did Starz, presumably, for Boss. And I would bet that bringing in new subscribers is a front-loaded sort of thing. So they do have some solid numbers to look at, between the premiere ratings and the new subs.

Oi, Maine's actually quite a poor state. Not our fault rich people like to summer there.

That's actually pretty old, if you mean the one that's airing on the Cooking Channel.  She did that after she wrote her first cookbook, when she was still mostly acting.

I'm not sure why we have to choose one or the other.

It is absolutely worth tracking down.  I actually like the official version better, even though I got my hands on the Brion one first, before the official release, because it's more musically different.  You can see why she stepped away from Brion doing the entire album because the songs sound a little same-y.

Wow, worse than NY? I guess it depends if you think actively bad is better than boring.  I'm just finding this season to be boring and not able to keep my attention, and I neither have anyone to root for or to root against.  The NY season was actively horrible, like a car wreck I couldn't look away from, and that…

He looks a lot like Chaz Bono to me, have to say.  I'm not really sure what that means.

Not really weird, but the recent request that got the white Dutch folks so angry came from Dutch folks of African and Indonesian ancestry (of which there are many—I've never felt so inconspicuous, as a mixed person, than I did in Amsterdam), not Americans.

Some people will make fun of a superfan of anything, but honestly, those people need to take a step back if they think of Tom Petty as vanilla.  Unless they think everything mainstream is vanilla?

Well, Journey hits those cheesy-80s-rock, ironic-except-not singalong at karaoke buttons, which Tom Petty doesn't because Tom Petty never gets that operatic. But if you go back to the year he played the Super Bowl you'll probably find a lot of people talking about loving Tom Petty.  So the comparison isn't really apt?…

Same here.  It's the first time I remember hearing it, even though it couldn't have actually been the first time I heard it.  Perhaps the first time I really paid attention to it.

I'm also posting on what, page 14 or something? to contribute to the 10,000 comments goal.  But this episode definitely made me happy in my happy place and while I remain cautiously optimistic, I'm all right.  We've left the show in a good place, and it isn't over.

Man, that decision to cut Cheryl looks worse and worse every day, doesn't it?  Never mind Steve who as they say isn't a tower of strength; he's just a tower. It's like Simon, in doing whatever it takes to get some blockbuster show on in the US, has lost what it was that made him good at creating a show in the first…

She absolutely, 100%, did NOT get the Pussycat Dolls together.  They existed before she showed up as this campy, bringing-back-burlesque thing started by Robin Antin that people like Carmen Electra were in for brief periods.  Then Antin decided she wanted to move from dance troupe to pop group, and brought in Nicole.