Dancing with the Stars, Warren Sapp with Kym Johnson
Cheers to Warren Sapp for throwing his weight around on Dancing with the Stars. Athletes have often excelled in the ballroom competition, but it's usually petite types like Apolo Anton Ohno, Helio Castroneves or Kristi Yamaguchi. Even Sapp's fellow gridiron vets Emmitt Smith and Jerry Rice were slender by NFL standards. At 300-plus pounds, the ex-defensive lineman should clomp around like Penn Jillette, but he's surprisingly light on his feet (and hugely charming); his Viennese waltz was downright dainty. Plus, it takes a real man to wear a pink shirt with such aplomb: Do you want to tell Sapp he looks silly?
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Neal McDonough, Desperate Housewives
Cheers to Neal McDonough for upping the creep factor on Desperate Housewives. The combustible Boomtown alum brings his icy blue stare and vaguely menacing air to the role of Dave Williams (a fake name if ever I've heard one), Edie's motivational-speaker/parolee husband. Who is this guy, and why is he so desperate to live on Wisteria Lane? Now that Gary Cole's gone, McDonough perfectly fills Housewives' dangerous-stranger void.
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Cloris Leachman with Corky Ballas by Kelsey McNeal/ABC
Posted by Brenkis...
Jeers to Dancing with the Stars! I love this show, but I feel like with Cloris Leachman, it has "jumped the shark"! Sure, she's funny and entertaining. But to have her stay on the show only because of that - because she sure can't compete with the others in the long run - isn't fair to the people who at least are trying to dance and getting voted off before her.
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Cheers to Julia Louis-Drefyus for proving she's not a sore loser. The New Adventures of Old Christine star, who lost the best comedy actress Emmy to Tina Fey, participated in an hysterical bit on Late Night with Conan O'Brien in which she broke into the 30 Rocker's dressing room and stole the statuette. Fey suddenly showed up and told Louis-Dreyfus to keep the award, but demanded Conan return what he'd swiped: a pair of Tina's panties. As Elaine Benes might've said: Get out! Watch it here!
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Paris Hilton's My New BFF courtesy MTV
Jeers to the most pathetic group of wannabes in reality-TV history: the contestants on Paris Hilton's My New BFF. These suckups, whose ridiculous names I won't bother to learn (as I'm sure Paris won't), say it's "an honor" to meet Paris, "I'm so excited, I may wet my pants," and "I think I should be Paris' new BFF because we have similar bone structure." In turn, Paris abuses them, sending off four to the aiport blindfolded with the text message, "Talk to you never" and ripping another's clothes as "a little too slutty." Isn't that like the Pope saying you're "a little too Catholic"?
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Donal Logue as Sarah Shahi by Chris Haston/NBC
Jeers to Life for casting Donal Logue as Sarah Shahi's new love interest. In what universe are we supposed to believe the greasy-haired, sweat-stained Jimmy the Cab Driver from MTV and Tony Soprano's peyote-fantasy stripper would hook up? It was unlikely enough when Logue wooed sexy Sofia Vergara on The Knights of Prosperity. At least it was unrequited - and a comedy. But why would the captivating Det. Reese fall for the cloddish, much-married Capt. Tidwell? To invoke another Logue comedy, the cop drama's writers should be Grounded for Life.
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Joel Murray and John Slattery courtesy AMC
Cheers to Joel Murray for an episode-stealing turn on Mad Men. The Dharma & Greg alum brought a Willy Lomanesque pathos to the role of ad man Freddy Rumsen, who peed away his career by wetting his pants in an alcoholic stupor before an important meeting with a client.
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Supernatural courtesy Michael Muller/The CW
Posted by "danielalpert"...
Cheers to Supernatural's season premiere! I didn't think I could be surprised anymore, but they did it again. I knew they would bring Dean back from Hell, but the way they did it was brilliant. The story was well-told, the actors did an amazing job, the new characters are great and I love the direction this show is going. Supernatural really shook me all night long!
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Alex Witt courtesy MSNBC
Jeers to MSNBC for taking time out of its 24-hour news cycle to provide a blatant plug for sister network NBC's crappy Knight Rider remake. We're in the midst of an economic crisis - not to mention a presidential election - yet "The Place for Politics" stops the proverbial presses so that anchor Alex Witt can grill star Justin Bruening about whether he had to take driving lessons before getting behind KITT's wheel. Makes you wonder who's really in the driver's seat at MSNBC. Is that you, Ben Silverman?
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Michaela McManus in Law & Order: SVU by Will Hart/NBC Photo
Jeers to Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for casting another ridiculously glamorous actress as an assistant district attorney: Michaela McManus. Judging from her debut episode as hard-charging D.C. transplant Kim Grayleck, the One Tree Hill hottie may give Elisabeth Rohm a run for her money as the L&O franchise's stiffest ADA ever. And instead of 25-year-old Scarlett Johansson lookalikes like McManus, doesn't the New York City DA's office ever hire anybody who looks like, say, Sara Gilbert (who was great in a guest role as a rape victim who put her son in foster care)? Where do they find these ADAs - at the Wilhelmina School of Law?
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