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Nick Cannon: I Scared People, I Scared Myself

Nick Cannon has given an on-camera interview about WTF IS WRONG WITH HIM??! which should stop the media’s hand-wringing of the past few weeks. Following his wife’s downplaying of the ‘minor’ kidney failure and the discovery of blood clots in his lungs, the general consensus was ‘there’s more to this story than he’s admitting… it’s worse than he’s saying.’ Except it’s exactly as bad as he’s saying because he’s being honest about his health and putting his family first in a new interview with Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts.

‘I scared a lot of people. I scared myself,’ Cannon said. Asked ‘WUT?’ he explained his ailment: ‘The technical term is lupus nephritis. It’s a rare form of lupus that’s just attacking my kidneys. They thought it was just kidney disease and then they were trying to figure out why my immune system was attacking my kidneys and that was sort of the root of it all. My kidneys were in tip-top shape but I started to feel pain again. And because of my schedule and everything, I had a few blood clots in my lungs which then affected my heart as well. A lot of people have passed away from that, and the doctor said, luckily I was in such great shape and taking care of myself, because a lot of people have been taken down by it.’ Cannon has since quit his radio show: ‘I have been ordered to sleep at least six hours a night. They say rest is probably the best medicine. I’m dealing with it. I’m not used to the medicines, but I feel like I’m starting to figure out a lot of holistic ways, meditation and stuff to get through it … the diet is the worst part. I can’t have any fast food anymore… no Happy Meals, nothing.’

Ratings Success For Lindsay Lohan On SNL

I guess enough people tuned in expecting a train wreck that Lindsay Lohan’s hosting gig on Saturday Night Live was a ratings success. The show received mixed but mostly negative reviews. Mostly about the poor delivery as she read from cue cards. And she was slammed on Twitter by other celebrities who declared: ‘She’s done.’ However, just like the Playboy issue selling because people wanted to zoom for possible track marks, this weekend’s SNL did well. It was the number one show for the time slot Saturday on any network and the second most-watched episode of SNL this season. 10 photos of Lohan in red pants heading to the SNL studios, then in black and white at the after-party.

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Watch Lindsay Lohan On Saturday Night Live

Lindsay Lohan hosted Saturday Night Live March 3, 2012 the clips for which are below along with the bumper photos. I watched the monologue and the Scared Straight clip, and I was all ‘MEH.’ I found the monologue… easy, lazy and repetitive. And I was too bored to watch the Scared Straight skit all the way through. I know Lohan had her lawyer vet the jokes and that’s why the episode’s so tepid, but it was just so uneven and perfunctory. Watch below and judge for yourself, but I found it hit-and-miss with a side of a$$ kissing and coke bloat.

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Zac Efron Doesn’t Want To Talk About It

Zac Efron appeared on The Today Show where Matt Lauer asked about dropping a condom on the red carpet which I ignored because the first few stories I ever wrote about Efron were about his mother throwing condoms his way when he was underage banging Vanessa Hudgens and his pontificating in Details September 2010 about ‘bathing in p**sy.’ But this is funny, since Lauer won’t let it go live on air. Asked ‘take me through what happened,’ Efron replied: ‘I don’t want to take you through it.’ Lauer persisted and Efron conceded a little: ‘I never really had a pocket-checking policy when I was going on the red carpet before, but now we’ve fully instated one.’ Lauer spelled it out: ‘You dropped a… a condom on the red carpet.’ To which Efron snapped derisively: ‘That was really hard for you to say! That’s a great message to add to the many messages in the film.’

Jennifer Aniston Doesn’t Need A Damn Baby

Jennifer Aniston gave an interview the weekend Wanderlust tanked during which she bemoaned the media scrutiny about her womb. It appears to be a passive-aggressively worded rebuke of tabloids lying about her being pregnant (IRL preggo, Internet preggo, Food/ Gas Baby preggo). She’s not pregnant, she posed topless in Uncle Terry’s basement to prove she’s not pregnant. And it’s ‘very narrow minded’ to assume she needs a baby to be happy (TAKE THAT, GOOP!): ‘That doesn’t measure the level of my happiness or my success in my life, in my achievements, in any of that… [I don't give] a crap what other people think… [I'm happier] than I’ve ever been…  I feel great. I feel like I’m 30. I honestly didn’t start to feel my best until was in my 30s. Physically, I started eating better and taking better care of my body, in terms of being physical and exercise. I think it’s important every year to celebrate your birthday and be excited about it!’

Watch Lindsay Lohan’s Today Show Interview

Lindsay Lohan’s Today Show interview with Matt Lauer is below in full for those with the time to watch 10 minutes of the crack shuffle. Actually, it’s more like 10 minutes, spread over two videos, of promotional shill to assuage the fears of an industry that looks at Lohan and sees coke-bloat and a bad weave, not the promising actress than used to be. Part one of the interview is looking backward at the decisions that landed her here. She acknowledges being ‘lonely’ and surrounding herself with enablers and turning a blind eye to wrongdoing on their part. Part two looks forward, pending her legal situation, and asks where Lohan will be in five-years to which she replies she hopes to have won an Oscar.

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