Comedy Clip

Okay, so I'm in the process of moving home at the moment so Lash is being slightly neglected right now...

So to apologise to anyone that might possibly be reading this I've posted the only thing that made me laugh on this day of stress for me.

Enjoy, and we'll resume posting shortly...

My New Favourite Show

The Office: An American Workplace is my new favourite TV show and the second season comes to UK screens this Sunday at 10:40pm on ITV2...

You have to watch it; it's less cringe-making than the brilliant British series but with more out-loud belly laughs.

Steve Carell brilliantly plays the Ricky Gervais character; Michael Scott, and kills every episode.

His character is more sympathetic than the Brit original, and the Tim and Dawn relationship is beautifully echoed by standout supporting characters Jim and Pam.

Watch a clip below...

Megan Mullally Is Will Ferrell's Hero

Megan Mullally (Will & Grace's comedy squeaky voiced sidekick Karen) branched out with her very own talk show this week in the States.

And what better way to kick it off than with Will Ferrell?

The highlight was when he serenaded Mullally with 'Wind Beneath My Wings'...

Watch and enjoy.

Eeeeek!

Madonna's latest haircut is not working for her... to say the least.

It looks like a really really poorly cut wig... I mean; I can cut hair better than that...

So 'donna, give me a call and I'll see what I can do for you for half the price you paid for that monstrosity...

Lovelight: The Full Video

Robbie Williams: Lovelight

Were you shocked / amused / elated / disappointed by Robbie Williams' latest single Rudebox?

Well, you can decide if this change in direction is good, bad or still ugly (although I quite enjoyed it live on Friday at Milton Keynes) by surfing on over to Robbiewilliams.com today and checking out his video for new single Lovelight.

I've no idea what time it will be uploaded but keep checking back, I'll put up my thoughts when I see it...

Edit:

Okay, so I'm not an inner sanctum subscriber, so I only got 30 seconds worth of the video... not exactly enough to fully form an opinion. But here are my thoughts:

He sounds like he used to when he sang the high bits in Take That... silky smooth voice stylings, and there's definitely a Scissor Sisters vibe.

It's a cover of a song by Lewis Taylor and this version's smoothly produced by Mark Ronson...

First thoughts: I like it.

It's better than Rudebox.

It's very different to Rudebox. It seems like this album is going to be a menagerie of different electro-based sounds...

The video is dark-lit, and jumps from shot to shot... actually that's probably just my windows media player. Stupid thing. Anyway, I like it... But then I liked Rudebox when I first heard it too.

Lovelight is released on October 13th.

Click HERE to download Lewis Taylor's original version of the song.

5ive'll Make You Get Down... (To Oxford Circus)

I turned on my computer this morning (post Totally Boyband) thinking no pop news could excite the embers of my post-Take That reunion boyband joy pit. (or something)

Oh, how wrong I was.

I glided over to PopJustice this morning and there was this press release:

On 27 September, we will be announcing some major FIVE news.

FIVE will be holding a press conference at MTV in London at midday (12pm/Noon) so get yourselves down there to give us some support to and hear the news first hand!

ALL FANS ARE WELCOME! MTV London UK House 180 Oxford Street London (from the Oxford Circus tube & go east/right. It's on the north side of the Oxford St, just past Great Titchfield St)

Thank god they reiterated the time in three different ways; just in case midday doesn't cover it, 12pm and noon add some helpful pointers to fans / music industry types.

Seeing as this was announced yesterday I think you can understand why you should never miss a day of PJ news.

If they're reforming /starring in a mock-documentary it's going to be like the year 2000 never happened and we're back in the nineties. Which was a great decade! Hurrah.

Although it would mean Busted never happened, which I have a slight problem with.

But with Matt Willis bringing out 'Don't Let It Go To Waste' or 'Get Out The Car' (or whatever it's called...) soon and being nominated for a kids Mercury Music Prize I think it's safe to say he won't be forgotten...

I hope.

Anyway, 5ive/FIVE/5 are possibly back, at least in press conference form. Although didn't the shaved headed one leave and was replaced for a short while by a cardboard cutout?

Should be interesting...

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Open Letter: Kate Bosworth

Dear Kate Bosworth...

You are gorgeous. Look at that smile, teeth, the glossy hair, clear skin etc...

But, please please eat something substantial. Not only is your whole body now concave, your ribs are so visible it hurts to look at them.

Nicole Richie doesn't need any more competition.

Thanks,

xx

Top Of The Class...

So, I've just seen High School Musical. The Disney movie that's been getting mucho love from everyone tween the world over.

Now, I may be 22... but I am a huge fan of kitsch and anything that involves random outbreaks of singing... safe to say that this was something I was looking forward to.

And I was not disappointed.

A song in which a guy confesses to his love of baking should be standard for all future films.

Even if the leading man of this one appears to be the awkward, camp son of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition's Ty Pennington. He's definitely not a jock, no matter how much basketball he plays.

And no nerdy girls at my school ever looked like Gabriella, that's for sure.

The bitchy blonde duo battling our all-singing all-dancing protagonists are a tweenage Jack and Karen from Will & Grace, albeit with more youthful ambition.

Needless to say everything is tied up at the end in a ridiculously neat bow, ignoring any character traits built up over the rest of the film...

But leave your cynicism at the door and check out the guy in the viking hat in the karaoke scene getting down to the funky music. The extras in that scene are comedy GOLD.

Oh yeah, and get ready for High School Musical 2 coming soon...

Fatone's Media Takeover Begins...

Ex-*Nsync member Joey Fatone was the Genius and Gary Barlow of the band.

Not in the way that Barlow wrote all the songs and earned all the money from the boyband... but definitely in the rounded, teddy-bear figure he owned.

Never has there been a more appropriate and descriptive surname...

"Which one's Joey?"
"Oh, he's the Fat-one..."

Hoho.

Anyway, following a stonking, world-changing run in the musical Rent, Fatone is about to unleash his genius on the radio.

He'll be joined for the shows by the member of *NSync that no-one remembers; Chris Kirkpatrick... (No? Me neither...)

So tune into the morning show in Orlando starting Monday 18th September, while the regular DJs are on a cruise. Fools; they won't have jobs to come back to...

You can listen and/or watch live online at WXXL, which is XL 106.7 in Orlando and the central Florida area.

I know I'll be listening...
if I remember...
and can work out the time difference...
or something.

Tonguetastic!

What an interesting picture of American actress Jessica Biel... (formerly of TV's 7th Heaven and vampire action flick Blade 3)

Is it acually a tongue?

Or a staircase for her food to march up into her mouth?

Curious.

My, Hasn't She Grown

Remember the littlest girl on The Cosby Show?

Rudy, played by Keisha Knight Pulliam...
Good lord, she's grown up.
Source.

Least Shocking Split Ever

Whitney Houston has filed for legal separation from Bobby Brown.

Shock. Horror. Etc.

Don't Mind Doing It For The Kids...

October 16-20th is National Music Week and, as part of this, a 'Mercury Music Prize' for kids has been announced.

More than 1700 schools in the UK are taking part, and a winner will be announced on October 31st.

Pupils will be given a token which they can exchange for a download or CD by one of the artists on the My Music prize shortlist.

The shortlist is made up of a selection of artists from many musical genres...

• MATT WILLIS (formerly of Busted)
• Seth Lakeman
• Betty Curse
• Lil Chris
• Keisha White
• Soweto Kinch
• Trinity Stone
• Natasha Marsh
• Mr Skillz
• All Angels

Why was Matt Willis not involved in my school curriculum? I would have definitely got an A in music if he had...

I'm guessing Myleene Klass is presenting it or something. I like her dress...

Madrid Bans Too-Skinny Models

Madrid's fashion week has turned away underweight models after protests that young girls and women were trying to copy their rail-thin looks and developing eating disorders.

Organizers say they want to project an image of beauty and health, rather than a waif-like, or heroin chic look.

Madrid's regional government, which sponsors the show and imposed restrictions, said it did not blame designers and models for anorexia. It said the fashion industry had a responsibility to portray healthy body images.

"Fashion is a mirror and many teenagers imitate what they see on the catwalk," said regional official Concha Guerra.

The Madrid show is using the body mass index or BMI -- based on weight and height -- to measure models. It has turned away 30 percent of women who took part in the previous event. Medics will be on hand at the September 18-22 show to check models.

Under the Madrid ruling, models must have a BMI rating of around 18. That would disqualify top Spanish model Esther Canadas, and supermodels like Kate Moss, based on unofficial records of their height and weight.

London Fashion Week said in a statement it would not put restrictions on what type of models its designers use. Source.

I welcome any campaign to get medically healthy sized girls into adverts and fashion, but I can't see it is going to spread throughout the fashion world.

Fashion is about aspiration, selling something practically inaccessible so that the consumer wants to buy into that lifestyle.

Good publicity for Madrid Fashion Week though...

Eddie Izzard Joins 24 Cast

Hilarious comedian / actor Eddie Izzard will join Kiefer Sutherland and the rest of the cast of 24 for its sixth series.

His role is said to be that of a villianous accomplice...

I look forward to it, he does villianous oh so well!

Observations On Penelope

Apparently if Christina Ricci and Reese Witherspoon were to have a lovechild, they'd have me. (Hopefully without Ricci's ginormous forehead...)

Here they are publicising Witherspoon's latest producing venture Penelope, about a girl with a pig's nose.

Penelope is my Mum's name. Coincidence?

Yes.

Shameless star James McAvoy's in it too... he's quite yummy.

That is all.

Multitasker At Work

She's on the phone, publicising her latest film The Last Kiss, matching her lollipop to her nail colour and breathing all at once.

Is there anything Rachel Bilson can't do???

She's Just One Of Us

Check it out, it seems I was wrong.

Beyonce needs no exorcism... she's just one of us. See - she's riding the subway on her way to a CD signing in New York City.

Look - she's having so much fun!



Brilliant.

Order is restored to the world.

Ellen: Oscar Host

I love Ellen DeGeneres! She's like a female Eddie Izzard...

When I was over in America for a few weeks last year I got slightly addicted to her television show, which is aired daily in the States.

Aside from the really random and regular dancing, it's incredibly funny and I wish a UK channel would pick it up immediately and show it. I mean, they've done it for the hideous Tyra Banks show, why not Ellen?

And now she is to follow in the footsteps of last year's brilliant presenter, Jon Stewart and host The Oscars in February 2007.

Hurrah!

Someone Exorcise This Woman

Okay, I have ultimate respect for Beyonce Knowles, don't get me wrong, I actually wrote part of my dissertation on her representation of American women in popular music. I think that everything she's achieved is amazing, and she's a wonderful singer and actress ( probably) etc etc...

I'm sure psychologists would agree that this probably comes from a place of jealousy. But every third picture I see of this stunningly beautiful woman, she looks like she needs to be exorcised of any demons inside of her.

The picture above is from a morning show on American TV: Good Morning America. Frankly, if I woke up to that on my tellybox, I'd be petrified, and I'm sure I would have a terrible, paranoia-filled day.

As I'm sure you've realised from my previous posts on the matter, her slightly strange behaviour is seriously starting to scare me.

So I'm going to keep a watch on her slightly strange movements and promotional pictures apparently proving a lobotomy (she's dead behind her eyes on her album cover)...
It's almost like a 'Save Beyonce' campaign, really... it's not a bad thing, honest. It comes from a good place in my heart... ish.

I'll also be looking out for any other stars going the same way... so if you think it's catching let me know on our myspace or leave a comment.

Together we can save these people...

Thoughts Whilst Watching The Robbie...

... documentary and live Close Encounters show from Leeds this evening on Sky One.

• Paddy McGuinness is funny, and I hope he wasn't too disappointed that Gary Barlow wasn't there. His Bez-style dancing was gold!
• I never thought I'd see Declan Donnelly poking Robbie's package.
• Rudebox sounds much better live, whilst women simulate sex with one another in adidas tracksuits around a totally unaware Robbie.
• He's found his funk - there was a lot of Bass in the show...
  
• Re: His falling over - possibly the coolest falling over I've ever seen. I mean; he fell into a pose! Why does that never happen to me when I fall over?
• Peter Schmeichel is a damn good keyboard player. Seriously.
• I want an adidas hoodie... damn the marketing has worked.
  
• Wow... there's a hell of a lot of people there.
• The first few songs, he seemed absolutely terrified. Only when Jonathan Wilkes came on and they did their set together did he seem to settle happily into the show.
• Robbie + Jonny = Music's Ant & Dec.
• I'm glad he's finally starting to get over the 'I hate Take That' thing, singing Back For Good beautifully.
• What a freaking amazing showman he is, can't wait to see him live on Friday in Milton Keynes... bring it on!
  

Beyonce Went Bananas - Now She Wears Bananas

So, it's safe to say Beyonce has pretty much lost it now.

She's gone mad... everytime we see her she's looking angry and her limbs are flailing and... gah.

Well now she's taken to adorning her outfits with pieces of fruit.

Brilliant. Not another sign of madness at all...

Stevens Snags Stephen!

Former S-Clubber Rachel Stevens has followed in the footsteps of Sarah Harding of Girls Aloud (and many more) by spending some quality time with Stephen Dorff...

Lucky girl ...

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Paris Hilton Arrested...

Oh dear, first she's not let into LA clubs, now she's been arrested.

It's not Paris Hilton's week really is it?

LOS ANGELES - Paris Hilton was arrested early Thursday for investigation of driving under the influence, police said.

Hilton was arrested shortly before 12:30 a.m. after being pulled over in Hollywood, said police Officer I. Isabella, who declined to give his first name.

“The officers observed that Hilton exhibited the symptoms of intoxication. A field sobriety test was conducted at scene, and the officers determined she was driving under the influence,” Isabella said, reading from a police statement. He said officers stopped Hilton because she was “driving erratically.”

Hilton, 25, was booked on suspicion of misdemeanor DUI and released on her own recognizance, he said.

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All Saints Are Back!

Ch-Check it out! All Saints are back in the hizzouse and this time around they've ditched the combats for some skinny jeans... so 2006...

If for some reason you don't remember them l-r Melanie Blatt, Shaznay Lewis, Nicole and Natalie Appleton. Let's hope the tunes are as good as they were back then!

Rejoice in the church of All Saints! Yeah!

I Think You'd Better Lee-ve Right Now...

Shock news from the MTV Totally Boyband camp :

Ex-Steps member Lee Latchford-Evans has been booted out of the ULTIMATE BOYBAND (excluding Take That & Busted) before the first episode has even aired...

It appears Latchford-Evans was NOT pulling his weight. Did he not realise what an important and world-changing thing this is?

And so currently the band, now apparently called Upper Street look like this;

(L-R: Dane Bowers (Another Level), Bradley McIntosh (S Club 7), Danny Wood (New Kids On The Block) Jimmy Constable (911) )

Totally Boyband starts on MTV on Sept 17th. Wow.

Suri = Emo

Not content with being the most-talked-about baby ever, Suri Cruise has jumped on the Emo bandwagon with her first haircut.

She fits in nicely between Bright Eyes and Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz... she hasn't caught up with Jared Leto yet though, but just give her time....

She's just too cool...

What next, her own MySpace??

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Pacey 4 Helen of Troy

I'm sorry, where on earth have I been???

There was me thinking Katie Holmes had done pretty well and traded up after the end of her and Chris Klein's relationship.

But it turns out fellow Dawson's Creek alum Joshua Jackson has also done pretty damn well for himself, dating Helen of Troy herself Diane Kruger.

Nice work Joshua... and what with Michelle Williams snagging Aussie hunk Heath Ledger, methinks they've all done pretty damn well for themselves...

Who would have thought it?

Gwen's A Doll

Have you been missing Gwen Stefani since she's been doing her parental duties with hubby Gavin Rossdale and hanging out with Heidi Klum and Seal???


Me too.


Well fear no more because now you can have your own personal Gwen to carry around and talk to about Japanese pop-culture, red lippy and ridiculously high heels.

Just don't expect her to talk back...

Fresh Prince's Geoffrey Moves To The East End

Some random casting news for you:

According to The Sun The Fresh Prince of Bel Air's Joseph Marcell (who played butler Geoffrey) iis to join the cast of Eastenders as Patrick Trueman’s former bandmate and rival Aubrey.

From Will Smith to Well'Ard... poor guy.

Suri Cruise Revealed

Awwww... what a beautiful baby.

This is the child that the world of blogs didn't think existed. Tom Cruise and Kat(i)e Holmes' apparent spawn.

And what a lot of hair this baby has...

I'm just going to sit here and awww for a little while.

Awww...


Source: Vanity Fair

My, Haven't They Grown (ish)

Random post of the day: Remember Hanson??? (probably not hard seeing as they came back recently...)

Check out the annoying littlest one, Zack in his wedding pictures!

And the middle one too; Taylor, who sang lead vocals... oh yeah, did I forget to mention he has THREE kids now!!!!

Oh, how old I do feel? ... and these aren't recent photos.


Just a random Hanson-related post. Why not? Eh?

Lets Hope He's About To Call His Stylist

So the fourth season of The OC's coming up, so lets make it a fourth OC-related post.

It seems that the purveyor of geek-chic Adam Brody lost the chic whilst out and about last week.

Seriously, what's with that hat???

Mischa 4 Cisco

My third OC-related post of the day is really just to say;
What happened?

Mischa Barton may have had little acting talent in The OC, but she always had style, and she was dating hot guys.

Now lets flip over to her real life where she dates Cisco Adler... (the guy mid-burp with the trucker hat) and dresses like an old lady (albeit in skinny jeans) complete with poor posture...

Bring back Marissa...

Ha. Ha. Haaaaaa....

So recently Paris Hilton was out partying and sashayed past poor old Tara Reid, who was trying desperately to get in to some hip LA night spot and laughed cruelly at her old friend...

It seems what goes around comes around...

Check out this picture of a distraught Paris having been turned away from Bungalow 8... is it wrong that her tears do not affect me at all?

Probably not.

Bilson Not In The Buff...

Many males I know were thrilled about the rumours Rachel Bilson was to strip off in her upcoming role in The Last Kiss...

Well, sorry to disappoint... there will be nudity. But it appears it won't be Rachel...

Actress Rachel Bilson refused to strip off for raunchy scenes in new movie The Last Kiss, forcing studio bosses to call in a body double.The 24-year-old star of hit TV show The OC baulked at the steamy scenes with Scrubs star Zach Braff, and even though she was keen to impress in her big-screen debut, she stood her ground.

She says, "It's not normal to make out with a guy in front of the camera. you can't think about it too much or you might get too nervous and Lord knows what would happen. I said no. I feel really strong about that." Source

Ah well, the fantasy's always there boys...

First Look: The OC Season 4

So here's the first cast promo pic of the fourth season of The OC...

All the regulars are there; Adam Brody, Rachel Bilson, Peter Gallagher, Ben McKenzie etc... and Caitlin Cooper looks set to hang around, as does the WONDERFUL Taylor Townsend. She was by far my favourite addition to the cast last season.

So I'm happy, as long as Anna comes back for a few eps too that is.

In other OC news, R'n'B star Chris Brown has apparently joined the cast as a 'band geek...' interesting. Ish. Ah well, can't be worse than Johnny the uncharismatic surf dude/ waste of space... can't wait 'til it airs in the new year here in the UK!

PJ Makes Sense Of Banksy's 'Art'

Okay, so the news that artist Banksy replaced a few Paris Hilton CDs with his own artwork asking why she is famous, why she's here and why, why, why was met with vague glee over the weekend.

To be honest, in my opinion her material is on a par with anything Jessica Simpson has ever done, and far better than anything Hilary Duff has attempted. I don't like Paris, and she shouldn't be a role model for anyone with more than two brain cells, but she's no more offensive than any of the many manufactured popstars out there...

ANYWAY, the point of this post was to inform you of PopJustice's new post which makes sense of it all...

Banksy stamped words over the images of P-Hilton saying 'Every CD you buy puts me even further out of your league...' and other such 'arty' comments on celeb culture, and so PJ has created their own and placed them on other CD covers of the past...



See the rest of their post HERE

K-Fed... Acts?

In keeping with our regular K-Fed news updates, the latest broadcast from his Popozao-ing world is that he will guest in HBO hit (although having seen it, not actually all that good apart from THE PIVS) Entourage.

He's gonna be in three episodes playing himself.

I don't think he's gonna get the joke.

Also, his aspiring career as the new Vanilla Ice storms forward with another guest spot on CSI.

His World domination will soon be complete.

God help us all... please.

REVIEW: A Scanner Darkly

For a film that looked, seemed and felt like such a promising premise, I cannot imagine a bigger disappointment than this passing through my radar this year.

With Richard Linklater (Before Sunrise/Sunset, Waking Life) in the chair and a cherry-picked cast of ex-troublemakers whose lives pre-empted the imitations of art that could be read into this, I expected much. Sure, Keanu Reeves can't really do emotion, but he doesn't have to. They're gonna animate his face for him taking out the painstaking task of deciding how his character is feeling at any given moment. Then surround him with excellent bit part players in Robert Downey Jr. and Winona Ryder. A recipe for an above average indie-flick, no?

NO. While the animatic rendering of the characters is impressive in terms of effort and dedication to a vision, its only really necessary in a handful of scenes where such visual invention is needed. Much of the film from then on is filled with lumpen exposition and pretentious, sub-Generation X pondering/theorising. The whole film has delusions of importance as a social comment on the effect of the drugs trade. The basic conspiracy theorising of Phillip K. Dick (upon whose short story this is based) is never either explained, validated or even explored to any real degree, getting lost in the milieu of visual experimentation and the elevation of style over substance.

It certainly is a stylish film and Rory Cochrane's excellent performance as a crazed junkie is outstandingly observed. But too much is left unsaid, undone and undercooked. The potential side-stories regarding the brutal sociopathy of Downey Jr.'s character are only touched upon briefly and the 'twist' is so deeply obvious you come close to reaching into the screen and banging Keanu's expressionless head against a wall for not realising it. The final epilogue at the film's absolute close again allow forum for Dick's unsubstantiated claims of governmental control over drugs and attempts to eek sympathy from us for his list of drug-destroyed friends. Its a fairly ridiculous attempt at pathos after a film of cold disconnection, an exercise in art and style.

Akin to other Linklater works, debate will likely rage over his talent once more. Fans will tell you it is a coruscating attack on rampant drug trade growth and that the animatics are a visionary, inventive way to set a mood within the story. Me, I'll tell you this is pretentious, half-cocked narrative filmmaking and an exercise in style over substance. What a disappointment.

TRAILER: The Last King Of Scotland

As a show of good ol' British solidarity, we thought we should show some support for the upcoming leading man debut of Shameless star James McAvoy (a Lash favourite).

All fairness though, this looks a cracking little film, telling the story of a young Scottish doctor living under the Amin-regime of Uganda in the 1970s. There isn't too much Oscar buzz circling right now, but this really does look to have that sort of quality level.

Good luck our kid!!

Pete's Getting Cocky...

Okay, so there's been much talk about the genital size of Big Brother winner Pete...

Do you really want to know the truth? Really?

Click HERE to see everything courtesy of HolyMoly and OhNoTheyDidn't...

K-Fed... The Joke's Gone Too Far Now...

Worst Video... EVER

This is all a joke, right? Like a parody of white rappers or something?
What do you mean it's actually his official video for Lose Control?

Ohhhhh dear.

OKGo @ The MTV VMAs

Best Performance... EVER.