On Television

I’m sure most of us are aware of the ABC show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. In February of this year, the show traveled to Boynton Beach Florida to fix-up a Little League field that was destroyed by Hurricane Wilma. Here is the background story from PalmBeachPost.com

Apart from this little piece of news, nothing much to report... I'm still computerless and hence am frequenting this cybercafe; I saw the first episode of Boston Legal today and quite liked it; I saw the final episodes ever of the longrunning Charmed and Will & Grace ... ummm.... what else? Terry and I are thinking of auditioning for more theatre stuff here in KL, so that should be exciting if and when it happens. And I've got this idea (read: goal) of staging an original musical dealing with life, friendships, relationships, drugs and death (no, it's not Rent) potentially entitled The Edge - which is, ironically enough, the name of the media corporation in question in my paragraph above... funny, that. We'll see if we stick to that name for the musical. If and when. I'll go with 'when'. When. *big smile*

This morning I am surfing on MSN’s homepage, and I come across this article. Talk about a scandalous show. Now for those of you who are enjoy Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie and feel like subjecting yourself to this type of humor, go here and see for yourself.

Paris was on Letterman last night and I had no idea how much he liked her. I thought he would have been so whatever about her but he was totally into her. It’s like she puts some spell on men all over the world. She has this charm that makes men swoon. Paris was there to promote Simple Life and talk about her album. Dave asked her to sing but she denied him. She said she would have to come back for that appearance. Not to start any more rumors, but I have been hearing Ms Paris might be pulling a Milli Vanilli on us with this album of hers. Time will tell….

Or, imagine you download a show, and the first fourteen minutes deal with housekeeping and inside jokes from the previous episodes. You normally talk about real estate, but you wanted to start by talking about a great episode of “Lost” that you saw on TV, or American Idol.

Was feeling really inert tonite - watching random stuff on TV - Da Chang Jin, Grey’s Anatomy, Scrubs, Fraiser, a Taiwanese variety show gueststarring Tanya Chua and some detective show on Ch 5. A very “blain dead” night.

I'm sitting on my bed watching the West Wing on DVD - yet another series that I never got into at the time, but it's actually pretty good. I also want to start Desperate Housewives at the beginning - I've only ever seen the odd ten minutes here and there and as I didn't know who anyone was I didn't really enjoy it. Everyone raves about it though so I'll give it a go!

Ms. Rai’s agents have successfully marketed her as ‘The Most Beautiful Woman in the World’ which has surely created a buzz around her. Ash’s splash, driven by hard-nosed marketing shoved her onto shows such as 60 Minutes, David Letterman and The Oprah Winfrey Show. It is precisely here that I choose to take particular umbrage as an Indian woman. Hollywood-headed Ash, who considers herself, an ambassador of Indian women was quizzed by Oprah on some ‘real’ issues and she came across as a giggly, simpering star doing no justice whatsoever to the image of the modern Indian woman. Perhaps she should stick to gifting saris to the Americans. Moreover how she should ever handle the prying paparazzi in Hollywood seems quite a mystery judging by her ‘media hounded, much beleaguered’ Greta Garboish laments.

The Amazing Race - One of only two reality shows I’ll watch. I love the premise of the show and this season it really got back to where it belonged. Count me in for more seasons.