Edshugeo The GodMoor

Soul Train Awards Beats Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.

The Tiger Woods Saga.

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Why is Billy Crystal turning into Jackie Mason? It felt weird enough seeing Tom Hanks on Letterman last week. It almost feels like a whole world that I know is dying before my eyes. Of course, part of it is that I haven't seen Crystal in anything since... I don't know, Saturday Night Live? And Hanks in Saving Private Ryan Charlie Wilson's War, which wasn't too long ago, though I still can't help but think of him as the guy from Bachelor Party, or Splash. Letterman has done a crap load of aging, but since he's been on nearly every night since the eighties, it's a gradual change that occurs like that of some one you've known and grown up with. Not the type of thing that puts you face to face with your own mortality. Then again, contrasted with Leno, he really has gotten really fucking old. He had some heart problems a while back that may've been a contributing factor.



Couldn't find the clip of Billy Crystal playing Prince on SNL singing "I Am Also The World", so the above will have to do.



And then there's Prince from the same tonight show appearance as Crystal. He's not aging the way anyone would expect. "He's had work done" doesn't cut it, either. We've seen muthafukkas who've had work done and that is not a "work done" look. Prince is fifty, which is only about six years older than I am. He'll probably outlast me, and I can live with that.

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I do not know, but I do find it difficult to watch him in almost anything. I did see Transformers. Wasn't bad. Wasn't great. I remember finding him just a wee bit annoying, but the movie had other problems. I watched about fifteen minutes of Eagle-Eye before I had to turn that shit off. I remember he was somewhat annoying and that it seemed awfully early for anyone to be remaking Enemy Of The State. That's it. Didn't see him in anything else that I can recall*. Lebeouf was in an Indiana Jones movie, and I decided to pass on it. Didn't even want to download it for free.

He's not the worst actor in the world. He might even be pretty good. Hard to judge from the material he's given, but... It feels like there's something insidious,... conspiratorial, about his presence in Hollywood. I know it makes no sense, but that's how I feel.

I've felt this before. Back in the eighties (I think), about a kid named Patrick Dempsey. He's okay now (liked him in Enchanted), but back then I was a bit suspicious.

I bring it up 'cuz Oliver Stone's decided to do a sequel to Wall Street (maybe a year or so too late) with Shia LeBeouf in the cast and it's funny reading the comments.

*Quick check of IMDB sez that I also saw him in:

Surfs Up - which was fuckin' great, and I thought he was fuckin' great. Didn't know it was him until the closing credits. Up until that point I kept wondering how they got Bruce Willis to sound so young. Saw this only a couple of months ago (if that long) on Netflix/XBox 360.

Constantine - Liked the movie. Don't remember seeing him in it.

I, Robot - Ditto.

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle - Hated it (first one was good, though). Don't remember seeing him in it. As with I, Robot and and Constantine, I saw this before I knew who the fuck he was.

This may indicate that I'm responding less to the actor himself than to the presentation of a media figure?

Hrrm.

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Madonna's ex set to get $75 million in settlement

Now I can stop feelin' sorry for Guy Ritchie and hope he starts making good movies again. If all he can do is British gangsters, that's fine by me. Though I have a feeling there are have some issues he might want to get off his chest. That could be fun, too, if he was able to pull it off, and I have my doubts.

Didn't see RockNRolla, yet.

Is he gonna pretend to be interested in their adopted (you know it wasn't his idea to adopt) Malawi child so people don't assume he's racist?

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