11 Temmuz 2012 Çarşamba
10 Temmuz 2012 Salı
9 Temmuz 2012 Pazartesi
Kate Winslet and Jennifer Lopez Nominated for Hollywood Stars
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Kate Winslet and Jennifer Lopez are among nominees announced Tuesday to get their star on Hollywood's storied Walk of Fame next year. Jennifer Aniston and Scarlett Johansson can also get their names on the Hollywood Boulevard sidewalk in 2012, while actors Richard Burton and Malcolm McDowell, along with soul legend Barry White, will get posthumous stars. The nominees were chosen from hundreds of applicants considered at a June 17 meeting of the committee, whose decision was ratified by the Chamber's board of directors. While the nominations are for 2012, those chosen have up to five years to schedule ceremonies to unveil their stars, after which their selection will expire.
Kate Winslet and Jennifer Lopez are among nominees announced Tuesday to get their star on Hollywood's storied Walk of Fame next year. Jennifer Aniston and Scarlett Johansson can also get their names on the Hollywood Boulevard sidewalk in 2012, while actors Richard Burton and Malcolm McDowell, along with soul legend Barry White, will get posthumous stars. The nominees were chosen from hundreds of applicants considered at a June 17 meeting of the committee, whose decision was ratified by the Chamber's board of directors. While the nominations are for 2012, those chosen have up to five years to schedule ceremonies to unveil their stars, after which their selection will expire.
Meet Ashlee Simpson's New Boyfriend
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Four months after filing for divorce from Pete Wentz, Ashlee Simpson stepped out with Boardwalk Empire actor Vincent Piazza for a romantic stroll June 15. "They were laughing and chatting," a witness tells Us Weekly. "She'd stop to kiss him; she couldn't take her eyes off him." The next day, he even took Simpson, 26, to the airport for her flight back to L.A. (He's currently shooting in NYC.) A source says the two were set up by a friend, adding that the singer who was spotted on a friendly outing with Wentz and son Bronx, 2, in L.A. June 10 is taking the long-distance love slowly.
Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone Dating
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Andrew Garfield, 27, is dating Emma Stone, 22. He became close to his costar on the set of The Amazing Spider-Man in which they both star and they have since been "hooking up". Garfield broke up with Shannon Woodward after filming on The Amazing Spider-Man took up so much of his time. Stone recently parted ways with Kieran Culkin, 28, her beau since last fall. "They haven't gone public, but he's told his friends," the insider says.
Justin Bieber Gets Tackled at Macy's
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Justin Bieber received a hard knock Thursday when an unidentified man tackled him at an appearance at Macy's Herald Square in New York City. He was at the superstore to debut his new perfume, Someday, and went outside to greet fans who hadn't made it into the unveiling. ABC News reported that one man jumped the barricade when he saw the singer, knocking him to the ground. Bieber wasn't hurt, though ABC said that he seemed "shaken" before he went right back to work and greeted more fans inside.
Heidi Klum Poses Nude for Lifetime's Project Runway
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Heidi Klum stripped down to promote the ninth season of Project Runway. In this ad for the Lifetime reality show, she wears nothing but a teeny pink tie that's been cut in half, with Tim Gunn's awesome catchphrase Make it work emblazoned on her arm. "This is definitely sexier than past campaigns we've done for Project Runway," Klum said in a statement. "I guess you could say 'Hans and Franz' are celebrating Season 9!"
Heidi Klum stripped down to promote the ninth season of Project Runway. In this ad for the Lifetime reality show, she wears nothing but a teeny pink tie that's been cut in half, with Tim Gunn's awesome catchphrase Make it work emblazoned on her arm. "This is definitely sexier than past campaigns we've done for Project Runway," Klum said in a statement. "I guess you could say 'Hans and Franz' are celebrating Season 9!"
8 Temmuz 2012 Pazar
Reggie Bush Dating Kim Kardashian Look-A-Like
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Reggie Bush is currently dating a Kardashian impersonator - the same look-a-like who channeled the raven-haired beauty in an Old Navy commercial spot earlier this year. The stunner on Bush's arm is Melissa Molinaro, an actress trying to make it in the business with a little help from her Kardashian-like looks. Molinaro's highest publicity gig so far was the Old Navy commercial spot that had many doing a double take, wondering if the Kardashian clan's queen bee was the newest face of the affordable brand.
Reggie Bush is currently dating a Kardashian impersonator - the same look-a-like who channeled the raven-haired beauty in an Old Navy commercial spot earlier this year. The stunner on Bush's arm is Melissa Molinaro, an actress trying to make it in the business with a little help from her Kardashian-like looks. Molinaro's highest publicity gig so far was the Old Navy commercial spot that had many doing a double take, wondering if the Kardashian clan's queen bee was the newest face of the affordable brand.
Justin Bieber Gets Tackled at Macy's
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Justin Bieber received a hard knock Thursday when an unidentified man tackled him at an appearance at Macy's Herald Square in New York City. He was at the superstore to debut his new perfume, Someday, and went outside to greet fans who hadn't made it into the unveiling. ABC News reported that one man jumped the barricade when he saw the singer, knocking him to the ground. Bieber wasn't hurt, though ABC said that he seemed "shaken" before he went right back to work and greeted more fans inside.
Heidi Klum Poses Nude for Lifetime's Project Runway
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Heidi Klum stripped down to promote the ninth season of Project Runway. In this ad for the Lifetime reality show, she wears nothing but a teeny pink tie that's been cut in half, with Tim Gunn's awesome catchphrase Make it work emblazoned on her arm. "This is definitely sexier than past campaigns we've done for Project Runway," Klum said in a statement. "I guess you could say 'Hans and Franz' are celebrating Season 9!"
Heidi Klum stripped down to promote the ninth season of Project Runway. In this ad for the Lifetime reality show, she wears nothing but a teeny pink tie that's been cut in half, with Tim Gunn's awesome catchphrase Make it work emblazoned on her arm. "This is definitely sexier than past campaigns we've done for Project Runway," Klum said in a statement. "I guess you could say 'Hans and Franz' are celebrating Season 9!"
Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig Get Married!
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Rachel Weisz, 41, and Daniel Craig, 43, got married Friday in upstate New York. The couple costar in the upcoming horror film Dream House, which will hit theaters in September 2011. After nine years together, Weisz split with Darren Aronofsky in November 2010. The former couple share a five-year-old son, Henry. Just one month after their breakup, Weisz and Craig were spotted packing on the PDA during a romantic holiday weekend in the Englsh countryside town of Somerset. Craig was married to actress Fiona Loudon from 1992 to 1994. The former spouses have one daughter together, Ella, 19. Craig and longtime girlfriend Satsuki Mitchell split in early 2010.
Oprah Winfrey Receives Honorary Doctorate
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Oprah Winfrey, 57, accepted an honorary degree from the University of the Free State in South Africa on Friday. She came to the school where five years ago, four white students made a video humiliating black housekeeping staff. In the clip, the housekeepers were shown eating a stew the students had mimed spiking with urine. When Winfrey received her honorary education doctorate Friday, she called the five cleaners to the stage and pronounced them heroes. Winfrey is a frequent visitor of South Africa; in 2007 she opened the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in Henley on Kilp, south of Johannesburg.
Oprah Winfrey, 57, accepted an honorary degree from the University of the Free State in South Africa on Friday. She came to the school where five years ago, four white students made a video humiliating black housekeeping staff. In the clip, the housekeepers were shown eating a stew the students had mimed spiking with urine. When Winfrey received her honorary education doctorate Friday, she called the five cleaners to the stage and pronounced them heroes. Winfrey is a frequent visitor of South Africa; in 2007 she opened the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in Henley on Kilp, south of Johannesburg.
7 Temmuz 2012 Cumartesi
Padma's Gotta Gun: The Top Chef Texas recap
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They’ve gone through over two months of grueling competition, they’ve cooked their asses off, prepared everything from pork ribs to foie gras, and, one by one, they’ve defeated their culinary foes. So what’s the best way to choose our Top Chef finalists? Cross country skiing and target shooting, of course!Shoot me now. (But not literally.)
Look, I’m not the first to say that this season of Top Chef has kind of lost its way. But here’s some unsolicited advice to Padma and friends going forward: Less forced product placement, less gimmicks, less challenges that have more to do with physical prowess than culinary skills, and get back to basics. There’s no shame in recycling some of the old Quickfires (I, for one, miss the blindfolded taste test), especially when the ones you come up with involve moving gondolas and blocks of ice.
So yeah, we’re in British Columbia now, for reasons not quite made clear. Some time has passed, all the contestants have grown their hair—as they do. Paul has packed on a few pounds, but still looks cute. And with his bratty school boy haircut, he looks a bit like the Asian Chuck Bass.(However, the less said about his neon orange pants and matching suspenders, the better.)
They all greet each other warmly, but Sarah and Lindsay are cool to Bev.
“Paul, Sarah, and I have a bond,” explains Lindsay. “We’ve been through this since day one. It’s a little weird seeing Beverly show up.”
Yes, because she missed two whole episodes.
As the cheftestants drive to their challenge destination, Paul asks Bev about Last Chance Kitchen. “Oh, it was pretty awesome!” gushes Bev, so glad that someone finally bothered to ask. “I. . .”“Look at that tree!” blurts out Sarah, in what is quite possibly the least artful sabotage of a conversation I’ve ever seen. Beverly rolls her eyes and simmers quietly, Beverly-style.
(By the way, did anyone catch Bev get the honey badger treatment on Watch What Happens Live last night? So good.) (And snazzy jacket there, Bev.)
They go to the top of a mountain, where Padma and Tom are about to be blown out of the frame, like this guy from the Weather Channel.
So apparently, this was the same mountain where the Winter Games took place and we’ve got a completely reasonable Olympic theme to tonight’s show. Because the Winter Games are coming . . . in February 2014.
“Welcome to the Culinary Games!” says Padma, living out her Suzy Chapstick fantasy.
There will be three events. Each event offers a prize of $10,000 and a trip to the finale.
For the first event, the cheftestants have to prepare a dish on a moving gondola.
Here are a few things that might stand in the way of them making an ideal dish:It’s cold as shit.Paul gets motion sickness.Food defrosts slower in the cold.Water boils faster at high altitudes.The gondola is moving.“It’s very nauseous in here”-Sarah.
But besides that, it’s all about the food.
Guest judge is noted foodie and Olympic snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler. (I wonder if her fans are called Beleilers, Justin Bieber style. . .)In the end, miraculously, the judges like all four dishes, but they are partial to Beverly’s clever salmon tartare and Lindsay’s salmon and chorizo. And Lindsay wins! She’s our first finalist.
After, Sarah assesses Beverly with a series of baffling animal metaphors: “She is that silent horse. She likes to be meek and timid and then she likes to attack like a tiger.”(Why does everyone feel compelled to compare Bev to a woodland creature? Discuss among yourselves.)
Round two, where food is packed into enormous ice blocks. So they have to get to their food, thaw it, and then prepare it. They are given ice picks, and all start hacking away like Jason in Friday the Thirteenth, if Jason had a culinary degree and an impudent way with a buerre blanc.The ice picking—and all the Olympic-style competition for that matter—brings out the crazed, Honey Badger side of Beverly. She looks positively demented. But of course, she’s not that strong. And neither is Sarah, who’s clearly not the jock of the bunch. They start whacking at their ice blocks with frying pans. It’s not a pretty sight. (It's like the Pine Barrens episode of The Sopranos, for those who get the reference.)Paul releases his ingredients first. And even he knows how idiotic and irrelevant to cooking this exercise is. So he helps Sarah and Bev break their ice blocks, too. (Love. Him.)
In the end, it all works out for the best. Paul wins this round with his King crab and mango chivalry (I mean, uh, chutney).
So, as it must be, I suppose, it’s down to Sarah vs. Beverly.
They meet Padma at the top of another mountain. “Oh my God, she has a gun,” Sarah says when she sees Padma. (I had a nightmare like this once—except it was both Heidi Klum and Padma with guns and for some reason I was dressed in bearskins).
“This is your last shot to move into the final three,” says Padma. (Anyone who reads my The Bachelor recaps knows that my intolerance for bad puns is at Defcon 1 at this point. So Padma is treading on thin ice.) (Ohmygod, it’s contagious.)
This final challenge is the culinary biathlon where you have to cross country ski and then shoot for your ingredients. (I’m pretty sure Chef Ripert also had to do this before he opened Le Bernardin.)
Bev has never cross country skied or used a gun in her life. Sarah, however, used to shoot tin cans in the woods with her pappy. (Is that a real thing? My hand to God, I thought it was just something fake rednecks did in movies.) #EastCoastgirl
Advantage Sarah?
You might think so, but then you’d be underestimating the Honey Badger. Beverly gets on those skis, and with a Bev look of Bev determination that only Bev can muster, Bevs her way around the course. There’s a moment where Sarah wipes out on Beverly’s skis—and of course, Sarah seethes at Beverly, as though she did it on purpose. (Beverly can barely ski in a straight line, but she has the diabolical know-how to use her skis as a weapon? I think not.)Eventually, they both make it to the end of course and start shooting for their ingredients. Bev proves to be a halfway decent shot, at least as good as Sarah.They both get the ingredients they want, so we are finally done with this nonsense.
The judges like Beverly’s arctic char with celery root, beets, and black truffles and are impressed that she got out of her Asian comfort zone to produce something earthy and rootsy.Quibble: Her fish is slightly overcooked and the whole dish was not quite seasoned enough.
They also like Sarah’s rabbit with black cherries and hazelnuts. It’s a very flavorful and well thought out dish.Quibble: Rabbit a little tough.
“You made two very good dishes,” says Tom. “You’re not making it easy on us. So thank you.”
Padma breaks the news: “Beverly, please pack your knives and go.”
What follows is a show of hypocrisy that “is very nauseous,” as Sarah might say.
All of a sudden, everyone is hugging Beverly and loving her spunk and telling her how awesome she is. It’s a freakin’ lovefest.“You kicked ass,” says Paul.“You kicked hardcore ass,” says Lindsay. “I’m so glad we got to cook together. You’re amazing,” says Sarah, hugging Bev. (Aaaaand I just threw up a little in my mouth.)
And then Bev pulls out her trusty ice pick and stabs them all repeatedly in the eye.
The End
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They’ve gone through over two months of grueling competition, they’ve cooked their asses off, prepared everything from pork ribs to foie gras, and, one by one, they’ve defeated their culinary foes. So what’s the best way to choose our Top Chef finalists? Cross country skiing and target shooting, of course!Shoot me now. (But not literally.)
Look, I’m not the first to say that this season of Top Chef has kind of lost its way. But here’s some unsolicited advice to Padma and friends going forward: Less forced product placement, less gimmicks, less challenges that have more to do with physical prowess than culinary skills, and get back to basics. There’s no shame in recycling some of the old Quickfires (I, for one, miss the blindfolded taste test), especially when the ones you come up with involve moving gondolas and blocks of ice.
So yeah, we’re in British Columbia now, for reasons not quite made clear. Some time has passed, all the contestants have grown their hair—as they do. Paul has packed on a few pounds, but still looks cute. And with his bratty school boy haircut, he looks a bit like the Asian Chuck Bass.(However, the less said about his neon orange pants and matching suspenders, the better.)
They all greet each other warmly, but Sarah and Lindsay are cool to Bev.
“Paul, Sarah, and I have a bond,” explains Lindsay. “We’ve been through this since day one. It’s a little weird seeing Beverly show up.”
Yes, because she missed two whole episodes.
As the cheftestants drive to their challenge destination, Paul asks Bev about Last Chance Kitchen. “Oh, it was pretty awesome!” gushes Bev, so glad that someone finally bothered to ask. “I. . .”“Look at that tree!” blurts out Sarah, in what is quite possibly the least artful sabotage of a conversation I’ve ever seen. Beverly rolls her eyes and simmers quietly, Beverly-style.
(By the way, did anyone catch Bev get the honey badger treatment on Watch What Happens Live last night? So good.) (And snazzy jacket there, Bev.)
They go to the top of a mountain, where Padma and Tom are about to be blown out of the frame, like this guy from the Weather Channel.
So apparently, this was the same mountain where the Winter Games took place and we’ve got a completely reasonable Olympic theme to tonight’s show. Because the Winter Games are coming . . . in February 2014.
“Welcome to the Culinary Games!” says Padma, living out her Suzy Chapstick fantasy.
There will be three events. Each event offers a prize of $10,000 and a trip to the finale.
For the first event, the cheftestants have to prepare a dish on a moving gondola.
Here are a few things that might stand in the way of them making an ideal dish:It’s cold as shit.Paul gets motion sickness.Food defrosts slower in the cold.Water boils faster at high altitudes.The gondola is moving.“It’s very nauseous in here”-Sarah.
But besides that, it’s all about the food.
Guest judge is noted foodie and Olympic snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler. (I wonder if her fans are called Beleilers, Justin Bieber style. . .)In the end, miraculously, the judges like all four dishes, but they are partial to Beverly’s clever salmon tartare and Lindsay’s salmon and chorizo. And Lindsay wins! She’s our first finalist.
After, Sarah assesses Beverly with a series of baffling animal metaphors: “She is that silent horse. She likes to be meek and timid and then she likes to attack like a tiger.”(Why does everyone feel compelled to compare Bev to a woodland creature? Discuss among yourselves.)
Round two, where food is packed into enormous ice blocks. So they have to get to their food, thaw it, and then prepare it. They are given ice picks, and all start hacking away like Jason in Friday the Thirteenth, if Jason had a culinary degree and an impudent way with a buerre blanc.The ice picking—and all the Olympic-style competition for that matter—brings out the crazed, Honey Badger side of Beverly. She looks positively demented. But of course, she’s not that strong. And neither is Sarah, who’s clearly not the jock of the bunch. They start whacking at their ice blocks with frying pans. It’s not a pretty sight. (It's like the Pine Barrens episode of The Sopranos, for those who get the reference.)Paul releases his ingredients first. And even he knows how idiotic and irrelevant to cooking this exercise is. So he helps Sarah and Bev break their ice blocks, too. (Love. Him.)
In the end, it all works out for the best. Paul wins this round with his King crab and mango chivalry (I mean, uh, chutney).
So, as it must be, I suppose, it’s down to Sarah vs. Beverly.
They meet Padma at the top of another mountain. “Oh my God, she has a gun,” Sarah says when she sees Padma. (I had a nightmare like this once—except it was both Heidi Klum and Padma with guns and for some reason I was dressed in bearskins).
“This is your last shot to move into the final three,” says Padma. (Anyone who reads my The Bachelor recaps knows that my intolerance for bad puns is at Defcon 1 at this point. So Padma is treading on thin ice.) (Ohmygod, it’s contagious.)
This final challenge is the culinary biathlon where you have to cross country ski and then shoot for your ingredients. (I’m pretty sure Chef Ripert also had to do this before he opened Le Bernardin.)
Bev has never cross country skied or used a gun in her life. Sarah, however, used to shoot tin cans in the woods with her pappy. (Is that a real thing? My hand to God, I thought it was just something fake rednecks did in movies.) #EastCoastgirl
Advantage Sarah?
You might think so, but then you’d be underestimating the Honey Badger. Beverly gets on those skis, and with a Bev look of Bev determination that only Bev can muster, Bevs her way around the course. There’s a moment where Sarah wipes out on Beverly’s skis—and of course, Sarah seethes at Beverly, as though she did it on purpose. (Beverly can barely ski in a straight line, but she has the diabolical know-how to use her skis as a weapon? I think not.)Eventually, they both make it to the end of course and start shooting for their ingredients. Bev proves to be a halfway decent shot, at least as good as Sarah.They both get the ingredients they want, so we are finally done with this nonsense.
The judges like Beverly’s arctic char with celery root, beets, and black truffles and are impressed that she got out of her Asian comfort zone to produce something earthy and rootsy.Quibble: Her fish is slightly overcooked and the whole dish was not quite seasoned enough.
They also like Sarah’s rabbit with black cherries and hazelnuts. It’s a very flavorful and well thought out dish.Quibble: Rabbit a little tough.
“You made two very good dishes,” says Tom. “You’re not making it easy on us. So thank you.”
Padma breaks the news: “Beverly, please pack your knives and go.”
What follows is a show of hypocrisy that “is very nauseous,” as Sarah might say.
All of a sudden, everyone is hugging Beverly and loving her spunk and telling her how awesome she is. It’s a freakin’ lovefest.“You kicked ass,” says Paul.“You kicked hardcore ass,” says Lindsay. “I’m so glad we got to cook together. You’re amazing,” says Sarah, hugging Bev. (Aaaaand I just threw up a little in my mouth.)
And then Bev pulls out her trusty ice pick and stabs them all repeatedly in the eye.
The End
Dude, that's cold! The Top Chef Texas recap
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I’m not saying that the final 3 are a little dull, I’m just saying that they showed them playing a word association game in the car ride to Vancouver. (And did anyone catch the rules to this game? Steven Seagal leads to Sammy Hagar which leads to Q-Tip which leads to Barbara Bush? Was it the “washed up celebrities of the 80s” name game? Or perhaps just the “blurt out any celebrity’s name you can think of” game?)
Anyway, they go to a kitchen in Chinatown and there are three master chefs—Takashi Yagihashi, Floyd Cardoz, and my girl Anita Lo (love her for reasons I can’t quite put my finger on—she has what can best be described as an endearing logyness.)
Sarah is tearing up because apparently whenever she is encountered with master chefs, she gets weepy (also, she and Takashi are bowling buddies, or somethin).
Paul is feeling what I like to call the “Reverse Lin”—namely, there’s an extra expectation that he'll do well in this challenge because he’s Asian.
They’ll be making a tag-team dish in 40 minutes, with no communication between partners.
They draw knives:
Anita is teamed with LindsayPaul is teamed with TakashiSarah is teamed with Floyd
And away they go.I actually love a challenge like this, precisely because of the lack of communication. The masters simply have to prep and leave some clues and hope for best. (Now if I was playing, my “clue” would be a napkin with the words “I’m making scallops 3 ways” written on it, but that’s just me.)
In the end, Sarah and Floyd achieve a perfect mind meld on their seared cod with coconut curry and win.
“I’ve won $30,000 in Canada alone,” says Sarah. “I won nothing in Texas.”
In sports we call this “peaking at the right time.” (Worked out pretty well for a little team I like to call the New York Football Giants!)
Padma now lays out the rules for the Elimination challenge: They will be serving at a Fire and Ice cocktail party, where they have to make one dish and one cocktail.
“Your dish must contain both a hot and cold element,” Padma says.
“That is so wide open to interpretation,” Lindsay reports. (Actually, Lindz, “a hot and a cold element” seems pretty narrowly open to interpretation to me.)
At Whole Foods, Paul orders 1,000 grams of King Crab and I’m thinking, get a hold of yourself man, you’re going to need some sort of giant truck to carry that much—but then I remember that 1,000 grams = about 2 pounds. #Metricsarehard
Paul and Sarah both have very high concepts, involving melting mousse and snow foam but Lindsay thinks they’re being too “gimmicky.” Hmmmm.
Meanwhile, she’s making halibut, because one of the burning questions of this season is: Can Lindsay make halibut or what? (Sadly, that’s not an exaggeration. That actually is one of the burning questions this season. Especially now that Malibu Chris and his magically shape-shifting sexuality is gone.)
Tom comes into the kitchen to check on their progress and proceeds to really mess with Paul’s head.
“What happened in the last Quickfire?” he asks. “Did the pressure get to you? Don’t you know that you’re Asian!” (Okay, he didn’t really ask that last part.)
But Paul, in classic Paul fashion, keeps his cool: “These two ladies are bad ass,” he says.
“So they just made better dishes than you?” Tom asks. (Dude, lay off.)
“Yeah,” says Paul. He is unflappable Tom. Stop trying to flap him.
It’s service time.“I wish I had another hour,” sighs Paul. But when the curtain rises, the curtain rises.
As the judges wait for their food, they bemoan the fact that someone is going to have to go home.
“There’s no Last Last Chance Kitchen,” says Tom.“Bev’s coming back!” cracks Padma.“She’s actually under the table right now,” says Emeril. Hey, an actual joke. By Emeril Lagasse. On purpose. Welcome to Season 9, Emeril!
Paul’s up first with his king crab with sunchoke chips and lobster broth, plus the “Pan Am” cocktail (kaffir lime, Thai chilies, rum—followed by a quickie in the airport bathroom).
Everyone likes the dish a lot, but they wish Paul’s Pan Am had more kick. (Ironic, since they were blasting his Quickfire dish for being too hot. Dude can’t win.)
Tom becomes enraged by Paul’s arugula, which he has basically used as a garnish. Tom is apparently a member of the lesser known PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Arugula.) He is not a happy camper.
Next up, Sarah’s five greens-filled pasta with garlic and chili spiced sformato (mousse) and “Agrumi” cocktail (gin, kumquat and mango).The pasta is delicioso, but the mousse got overly frozen on her fancy freezing plate and isn’t quite creating the melting sauce effect she was hoping for.Still, high marks for degree of difficulty and flavor.
Suddenly, Lindsay begins to second guess her second guessing. Maybe she should add a more gimmicky element to her dish. So, at the last minute, she adds a spoonful of tomato ice to her halibut with fiery celery root salad and roasted tomato with an ‘Encendido” (vodka, tomato, and horseradish).And it’s a good thing, too.
“I’ve never eaten a piece of ice so well seasoned,” says Gail, of Lindsay’s ice spoon.
Also, for the record, the halibut is perfectly cooked. Can we all just finally move on with our lives?!?
Then the judges deliberate.It gets a little contentious, especially this exchange about Lindsay, between Gail and Tom.“I didn’t think she made any mistakes,” says Gail. “The drink was a mistake,” says Tom.“But it definitely went with the food,” says Gail.(Okay, so not exactly contentious, but that qualifies as high drama on this particular episode.)
The cheftestants are called back in. “Sarah,” says Padma, pausing for effect and making a sad face. “You are moving on to the finale!” (Oh, the patented Padma fakeout. When. Will. I. Learn?)
Once Sarah retrieves her heart from her mouth, she’s able to celebrate in the holding room.
Sort of strange order for the show, huh?Arugula abuse notwithstanding, Paul was pretty much a foregone conclusion, so the suspense between Lindsay and Paul isn’t that extreme. (I guess they thought the original Sarah fakeout was more compelling than a Sarah v. Lindsay final two.)
Anyway, yeah, Lindsay is going home.A shame because her womance with Sarah was a lovely thing to behold.
But it seems fitting that in a season more defined by its constantly self-mythologizing homebase state than anything else, we’d have two Texans as the final two.
Saddle up. Giddy-up. Hook em horns. Etc. etc. etc. . .
I’m not saying that the final 3 are a little dull, I’m just saying that they showed them playing a word association game in the car ride to Vancouver. (And did anyone catch the rules to this game? Steven Seagal leads to Sammy Hagar which leads to Q-Tip which leads to Barbara Bush? Was it the “washed up celebrities of the 80s” name game? Or perhaps just the “blurt out any celebrity’s name you can think of” game?)
Anyway, they go to a kitchen in Chinatown and there are three master chefs—Takashi Yagihashi, Floyd Cardoz, and my girl Anita Lo (love her for reasons I can’t quite put my finger on—she has what can best be described as an endearing logyness.)
Sarah is tearing up because apparently whenever she is encountered with master chefs, she gets weepy (also, she and Takashi are bowling buddies, or somethin).
Paul is feeling what I like to call the “Reverse Lin”—namely, there’s an extra expectation that he'll do well in this challenge because he’s Asian.
They’ll be making a tag-team dish in 40 minutes, with no communication between partners.
They draw knives:
Anita is teamed with LindsayPaul is teamed with TakashiSarah is teamed with Floyd
And away they go.I actually love a challenge like this, precisely because of the lack of communication. The masters simply have to prep and leave some clues and hope for best. (Now if I was playing, my “clue” would be a napkin with the words “I’m making scallops 3 ways” written on it, but that’s just me.)
In the end, Sarah and Floyd achieve a perfect mind meld on their seared cod with coconut curry and win.
“I’ve won $30,000 in Canada alone,” says Sarah. “I won nothing in Texas.”
In sports we call this “peaking at the right time.” (Worked out pretty well for a little team I like to call the New York Football Giants!)
Padma now lays out the rules for the Elimination challenge: They will be serving at a Fire and Ice cocktail party, where they have to make one dish and one cocktail.
“Your dish must contain both a hot and cold element,” Padma says.
“That is so wide open to interpretation,” Lindsay reports. (Actually, Lindz, “a hot and a cold element” seems pretty narrowly open to interpretation to me.)
At Whole Foods, Paul orders 1,000 grams of King Crab and I’m thinking, get a hold of yourself man, you’re going to need some sort of giant truck to carry that much—but then I remember that 1,000 grams = about 2 pounds. #Metricsarehard
Paul and Sarah both have very high concepts, involving melting mousse and snow foam but Lindsay thinks they’re being too “gimmicky.” Hmmmm.
Meanwhile, she’s making halibut, because one of the burning questions of this season is: Can Lindsay make halibut or what? (Sadly, that’s not an exaggeration. That actually is one of the burning questions this season. Especially now that Malibu Chris and his magically shape-shifting sexuality is gone.)
Tom comes into the kitchen to check on their progress and proceeds to really mess with Paul’s head.
“What happened in the last Quickfire?” he asks. “Did the pressure get to you? Don’t you know that you’re Asian!” (Okay, he didn’t really ask that last part.)
But Paul, in classic Paul fashion, keeps his cool: “These two ladies are bad ass,” he says.
“So they just made better dishes than you?” Tom asks. (Dude, lay off.)
“Yeah,” says Paul. He is unflappable Tom. Stop trying to flap him.
It’s service time.“I wish I had another hour,” sighs Paul. But when the curtain rises, the curtain rises.
As the judges wait for their food, they bemoan the fact that someone is going to have to go home.
“There’s no Last Last Chance Kitchen,” says Tom.“Bev’s coming back!” cracks Padma.“She’s actually under the table right now,” says Emeril. Hey, an actual joke. By Emeril Lagasse. On purpose. Welcome to Season 9, Emeril!
Paul’s up first with his king crab with sunchoke chips and lobster broth, plus the “Pan Am” cocktail (kaffir lime, Thai chilies, rum—followed by a quickie in the airport bathroom).
Everyone likes the dish a lot, but they wish Paul’s Pan Am had more kick. (Ironic, since they were blasting his Quickfire dish for being too hot. Dude can’t win.)
Tom becomes enraged by Paul’s arugula, which he has basically used as a garnish. Tom is apparently a member of the lesser known PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Arugula.) He is not a happy camper.
Next up, Sarah’s five greens-filled pasta with garlic and chili spiced sformato (mousse) and “Agrumi” cocktail (gin, kumquat and mango).The pasta is delicioso, but the mousse got overly frozen on her fancy freezing plate and isn’t quite creating the melting sauce effect she was hoping for.Still, high marks for degree of difficulty and flavor.
Suddenly, Lindsay begins to second guess her second guessing. Maybe she should add a more gimmicky element to her dish. So, at the last minute, she adds a spoonful of tomato ice to her halibut with fiery celery root salad and roasted tomato with an ‘Encendido” (vodka, tomato, and horseradish).And it’s a good thing, too.
“I’ve never eaten a piece of ice so well seasoned,” says Gail, of Lindsay’s ice spoon.
Also, for the record, the halibut is perfectly cooked. Can we all just finally move on with our lives?!?
Then the judges deliberate.It gets a little contentious, especially this exchange about Lindsay, between Gail and Tom.“I didn’t think she made any mistakes,” says Gail. “The drink was a mistake,” says Tom.“But it definitely went with the food,” says Gail.(Okay, so not exactly contentious, but that qualifies as high drama on this particular episode.)
The cheftestants are called back in. “Sarah,” says Padma, pausing for effect and making a sad face. “You are moving on to the finale!” (Oh, the patented Padma fakeout. When. Will. I. Learn?)
Once Sarah retrieves her heart from her mouth, she’s able to celebrate in the holding room.
Sort of strange order for the show, huh?Arugula abuse notwithstanding, Paul was pretty much a foregone conclusion, so the suspense between Lindsay and Paul isn’t that extreme. (I guess they thought the original Sarah fakeout was more compelling than a Sarah v. Lindsay final two.)
Anyway, yeah, Lindsay is going home.A shame because her womance with Sarah was a lovely thing to behold.
But it seems fitting that in a season more defined by its constantly self-mythologizing homebase state than anything else, we’d have two Texans as the final two.
Saddle up. Giddy-up. Hook em horns. Etc. etc. etc. . .
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Can we all just call this episode what it was? The slow andinevitable death march to Chris’s demise.
I mean, last week, we actually thought she might pick John(sorry, I mean “Wolf”)—a man who hadapproximately 10 lines of dialogue the entire season—over Chris.
Somehow, Chris squeaked out a rose, but it was obviously touch and go.Even Chris’s family seemed to know he was he about to bekicked in the kielbasa. “Let him down gently,” they all seemed to be telling Emily.“We know he’s kinda sweaty and creepy and desperate but, by God, he’s also ourson.”
Speaking of which, what was Creepy Chris’s Creepiest Momentof the Show ™ for you?Was it when Emily snuck up behind him in town square and hedidn’t so much as FLINCH? (Replicant?)
Or was it when he said, “You make me feel crazy good”—as his eyes nervouslydarted about, apparently searching for a weapon?
I will say this: “On a scale from 1 to Polish, we’re Polish”was wygranie! (That’s “winning” inPolish.)
So now we’ve got these three guys left and I JUST CAN’TCHOOSE!Has the Bachelorette ever done some sort of polygamy theme?A happy ending where you get a ring, you get a ring, you ALL get a ring!!!
At one point, I speculated that the hunky banana Sean wasthe man for Emily. It seemed a no brainer. But I must say, I’m beginning to have my doubts—partlybecause her hometown visit to him was sobizarre. I mean, I don’t know about you, but when I have a guest, Ilike to make them as UNCOMFORTABLE as humanly possible. Break out the whoopeecushions, the fake poo, and the dog vomit—it's time to freak out the house guest!
First, there was Sean’s little “I live at home” prank, which,I suppose was meant to show Emily his light-hearted, fun-loving side, butactually seemed kind of aggressive. Like, “You may hold all the cards on theshow, but not at MY house you don’t!”And the disturbing thing is, the entire Sean family was inon it.They went so far as to decorate a whole room, like one of those horrible Febrezecommercials where they blindfold people and take them to rat-infestedhellholes.
Then later, in case you missed it, Sean’s dad acted outthis elaborate charade of taking a foil-covered, steamed armadillo out of theoven. “This is Sean’s favorite dish,” dad said.Emily, with that pageant-ready smile of hers, managed tosqueak out a chipper “Well, if it’s Sean’s favorite, then I guess I’ll try it!”And then the whole Sean family collapsed into a fit ofmalicious giggles. Fucked. Up.
The other thing about Sean? (Other than the fact that if he were a Native American, his tribe name would be “He Who Runs Down Street Yelling Bachelorette’s Name”): Emily keeps talking about how perfect he is, but I don’t actually believe it.She’s been crushing on Jef since day 1.And she and Arie have off-the-charts chemistry.But with Sean it’s like, “Wow. Sean is totally perfect. . .zzzzzzz”I’m just not sure it’s really there.
Okay, next wehave Jef (yes, I realize I’m going out of order. . . this is MY order ofelimination at this point.)
Just as I suspected, Jef’s whole hipster thing is a charade.He’s really a good ol’ boy who shoots guns (albeit “in skinny jeans” as Emilynoted) and rides ATVs.
As for his parents, they are still MIA. In fact, did anyone else notice that when Jef said, “Myparents are in South Carolina DOING CHARITY WORK” it was totally overdubbed inpost production, possibly by a member of the crew who does a mean Jefimpression? OMG, what do you think he actually said: “My parents are in SouthCarolina overseeing the ritualistic slaughter of goats?”(I’m more and more convinced that Jef is a member of a cult,especially when his niece and nephew were climbing all over Emily’s lap, seemingly desperate: “Get me out of this place, PLEASE!” I thought I saw oneof the little tykes mouth.)
And then, sigh, Jef read Emily the sweetest love letter. Itactually made me cry. But at the same time, have you noticed that Jef can’tseem to profess his love while making eye contact? It’s either through amarionette or with his face buried in a letter.Man up, Bob’s Big Boy.
Finally, Arie—my new frontrunner. I agree with Emily that Arie looked “stupid hot” in hisleather race car jacket.And she always acts so excited to see him and can’t seem tokeep her hands off him.
I loved when Arie’s mom took Emily aside and told her shehad seen “a few” episodes of Emily’s season of The Bachelor (translation: DVRedthat shit and watched every episode twice.) Then she said, in her brokenEnglish, “Normally, when you are the one who be proposed to, you’re not beingthe Bachelorette.”Ha. Laughing forever over that.
So there ya have it folks. Sean, Jef, or Arie.Three men: Three guaranteed fantasy suites (use protection, kids!) . . .and thenwhat?
I'm totally unspoiled myself. So only ABC executives, Chris Harrison, Emily, her future “fiancée” and you—yeah,you, spoiler whore!—know for sure.
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Can we all just call this episode what it was? The slow andinevitable death march to Chris’s demise.
I mean, last week, we actually thought she might pick John(sorry, I mean “Wolf”)—a man who hadapproximately 10 lines of dialogue the entire season—over Chris.
Somehow, Chris squeaked out a rose, but it was obviously touch and go.Even Chris’s family seemed to know he was he about to bekicked in the kielbasa. “Let him down gently,” they all seemed to be telling Emily.“We know he’s kinda sweaty and creepy and desperate but, by God, he’s also ourson.”
Speaking of which, what was Creepy Chris’s Creepiest Momentof the Show ™ for you?Was it when Emily snuck up behind him in town square and hedidn’t so much as FLINCH? (Replicant?)
Or was it when he said, “You make me feel crazy good”—as his eyes nervouslydarted about, apparently searching for a weapon?
I will say this: “On a scale from 1 to Polish, we’re Polish”was wygranie! (That’s “winning” inPolish.)
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| Lech Walesa WISHES he was this Polish |
So now we’ve got these three guys left and I JUST CAN’TCHOOSE!Has the Bachelorette ever done some sort of polygamy theme?A happy ending where you get a ring, you get a ring, you ALL get a ring!!!
At one point, I speculated that the hunky banana Sean wasthe man for Emily. It seemed a no brainer. But I must say, I’m beginning to have my doubts—partlybecause her hometown visit to him was sobizarre. I mean, I don’t know about you, but when I have a guest, Ilike to make them as UNCOMFORTABLE as humanly possible. Break out the whoopeecushions, the fake poo, and the dog vomit—it's time to freak out the house guest!
First, there was Sean’s little “I live at home” prank, which,I suppose was meant to show Emily his light-hearted, fun-loving side, butactually seemed kind of aggressive. Like, “You may hold all the cards on theshow, but not at MY house you don’t!”And the disturbing thing is, the entire Sean family was inon it.They went so far as to decorate a whole room, like one of those horrible Febrezecommercials where they blindfold people and take them to rat-infestedhellholes.
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Then later, in case you missed it, Sean’s dad acted outthis elaborate charade of taking a foil-covered, steamed armadillo out of theoven. “This is Sean’s favorite dish,” dad said.Emily, with that pageant-ready smile of hers, managed tosqueak out a chipper “Well, if it’s Sean’s favorite, then I guess I’ll try it!”And then the whole Sean family collapsed into a fit ofmalicious giggles. Fucked. Up.
The other thing about Sean? (Other than the fact that if he were a Native American, his tribe name would be “He Who Runs Down Street Yelling Bachelorette’s Name”): Emily keeps talking about how perfect he is, but I don’t actually believe it.She’s been crushing on Jef since day 1.And she and Arie have off-the-charts chemistry.But with Sean it’s like, “Wow. Sean is totally perfect. . .zzzzzzz”I’m just not sure it’s really there.
Okay, next wehave Jef (yes, I realize I’m going out of order. . . this is MY order ofelimination at this point.)
Just as I suspected, Jef’s whole hipster thing is a charade.He’s really a good ol’ boy who shoots guns (albeit “in skinny jeans” as Emilynoted) and rides ATVs.
As for his parents, they are still MIA. In fact, did anyone else notice that when Jef said, “Myparents are in South Carolina DOING CHARITY WORK” it was totally overdubbed inpost production, possibly by a member of the crew who does a mean Jefimpression? OMG, what do you think he actually said: “My parents are in SouthCarolina overseeing the ritualistic slaughter of goats?”(I’m more and more convinced that Jef is a member of a cult,especially when his niece and nephew were climbing all over Emily’s lap, seemingly desperate: “Get me out of this place, PLEASE!” I thought I saw oneof the little tykes mouth.)
And then, sigh, Jef read Emily the sweetest love letter. Itactually made me cry. But at the same time, have you noticed that Jef can’tseem to profess his love while making eye contact? It’s either through amarionette or with his face buried in a letter.Man up, Bob’s Big Boy.
Finally, Arie—my new frontrunner. I agree with Emily that Arie looked “stupid hot” in hisleather race car jacket.And she always acts so excited to see him and can’t seem tokeep her hands off him.
I loved when Arie’s mom took Emily aside and told her shehad seen “a few” episodes of Emily’s season of The Bachelor (translation: DVRedthat shit and watched every episode twice.) Then she said, in her brokenEnglish, “Normally, when you are the one who be proposed to, you’re not beingthe Bachelorette.”Ha. Laughing forever over that.
So there ya have it folks. Sean, Jef, or Arie.Three men: Three guaranteed fantasy suites (use protection, kids!) . . .and thenwhat?
I'm totally unspoiled myself. So only ABC executives, Chris Harrison, Emily, her future “fiancée” and you—yeah,you, spoiler whore!—know for sure.
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17 contestants took on the challenge of using a fellow competitor's suitcased clothing. I was surprised by the one that lost. There were 3 others that looked dreadfully uninspired to me. Maybe things look differently in person or was it the "please give me another chance" pleas? Dunno.
Tomorrow I will pick up my supplies at St. Vinny's and give a try.
Oh and I loved the Austin/Sorrino show. It has a lot of heart ... and quirkiness!
Tomorrow I will pick up my supplies at St. Vinny's and give a try.
Oh and I loved the Austin/Sorrino show. It has a lot of heart ... and quirkiness!
Off to St Vinny's------>
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St Vinny's is located in a nearby whistlestop with a population of 300 or so residents. I wasn't sure exactly what I would find. Here's a pic of my booty: (hey its up there...oh well)I found faux fur in a champagne color, lots of silk scarves, a silver guitar, embossed red leaves, a bundle of workables.I did buy 2 dolls, a Barbie and a Ken, because finding my huge box of vintage Barbies would be a Herculean task. (They are somewhere in a bevy of 40 or so moving boxes I have yet to put away.)Now I'm ready.
St Vinny's is located in a nearby whistlestop with a population of 300 or so residents. I wasn't sure exactly what I would find. Here's a pic of my booty: (hey its up there...oh well)I found faux fur in a champagne color, lots of silk scarves, a silver guitar, embossed red leaves, a bundle of workables.I did buy 2 dolls, a Barbie and a Ken, because finding my huge box of vintage Barbies would be a Herculean task. (They are somewhere in a bevy of 40 or so moving boxes I have yet to put away.)Now I'm ready.
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MasterChef 2012-Bull Testicles? Really?
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One thing we can always count on with Gordon Ramsay, no matter the Ramsay show but especially on MasterChef are long drawn out breaths, scratching of the neck nape, expulsion of all gathered air in the lungs, very pregnant pauses, premature finger-pointing and the best of all, Ramsay's rather silly way of trying to make it look like a contender is going home when he's staying, or visa-versa for that matter.
Ramsay will point to a contender and do all the Ramsay drama, holding breath, expelling breath, scratching head nape. "John, I hate to have to tell you …" long pause "but you will not be …" scratch of the neck nape … "going …." another long pause, breath winds up his face…."home. Get back to your station, you're staying."
This drama and how it's somewhat deceiving, causes the other contender on the line to be heart-broken as the way Ramsay was going with this thing was that the guy he was speaking to was going home.
This is also meant to keep us viewers out here across the fruited plains all nervous and riveted to our TV's. There is almost a commercial inserted in these drama announcements and at times it gets to look a bit silly.
All of these competitive reality shows do this. Ryan Seacrest has a reputation that precedes him with his drawn out announcements that ends with NO announcement save an upcoming commercial break.
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But Gordon Ramsay, man he's got it knocked. He does the same sort of thing on Hell's Kitchen so he's well-practiced at it.
As for the MasterChef series itself, well it's going along. I rather like cooking competitive reality shows and Ramsay, along with his mainstay, Fox, always brings out MasterChef AND Hell's Kitchen right as the Next Food Network Star starts to heat up.It's the all-American way, nothing wrong with it.MasterChef contenders are cooks are way more amateur than Food Network Star contenders and I suppose there's the allure.
Except on a recent episode the contenders had to make a dish using mystery box ingredients that included bull testicles, tongue, tripe and the like.Somebody tell Ramsay that us amateur chefs out here in la-la land don't usually make meals using a bull's balls as the main meat, is he nuts?
Other challenges on MasterChef included cooking for a bevy of marines at Camp Pendleton, and a mystery box that had T-bone steak as an ingredient, praise the Lord. Early on, of course, there was a challenge to prepare a perfect risotto and if there's nothing Ramsay is fanatic about it's risotto.
Somebody tell Gordon that us average American type cooks aren't all that nuts about serving risotto either, at least not how Ramsay uses this dish in every one of his shows as if risotto were some sort of all-American hot dog or something.
I'm looking for cute Felix, a female contender, to remain a top placed contender in the 2012 competition. Keep an eye out for Monti, a female who always seems to be in trouble. I don't think Monti will win but I do think she will be a focal point of many episodes.
Soon there will be an even dozen MasterChef contenders left and we'll be watching. Check in this Blog and see what we've got to say.
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Gordon Ramsay's MasterChef Begins on Fox for 2012 Just In Time to Compete With the Next Food Network Star
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One thing we can always count on with Gordon Ramsay, no matter the Ramsay show but especially on MasterChef are long drawn out breaths, scratching of the neck nape, expulsion of all gathered air in the lungs, very pregnant pauses, premature finger-pointing and the best of all, Ramsay's rather silly way of trying to make it look like a contender is going home when he's staying, or visa-versa for that matter.Ramsay will point to a contender and do all the Ramsay drama, holding breath, expelling breath, scratching head nape. "John, I hate to have to tell you …" long pause "but you will not be …" scratch of the neck nape … "going …." another long pause, breath winds up his face…."home. Get back to your station, you're staying."
This drama and how it's somewhat deceiving, causes the other contender on the line to be heart-broken as the way Ramsay was going with this thing was that the guy he was speaking to was going home.
This is also meant to keep us viewers out here across the fruited plains all nervous and riveted to our TV's. There is almost a commercial inserted in these drama announcements and at times it gets to look a bit silly.
All of these competitive reality shows do this. Ryan Seacrest has a reputation that precedes him with his drawn out announcements that ends with NO announcement save an upcoming commercial break.
But Gordon Ramsay, man he's got it knocked. He does the same sort of thing on Hell's Kitchen so he's well-practiced at it.
As for the MasterChef series itself, well it's going along. I rather like cooking competitive reality shows and Ramsay, along with his mainstay, Fox, always brings out MasterChef AND Hell's Kitchen right as the Next Food Network Star starts to heat up.It's the all-American way, nothing wrong with it.MasterChef contenders are cooks are way more amateur than Food Network Star contenders and I suppose there's the allure.
Except on a recent episode the contenders had to make a dish using mystery box ingredients that included bull testicles, tongue, tripe and the like.Somebody tell Ramsay that us amateur chefs out here in la-la land don't usually make meals using a bull's balls as the main meat, is he nuts?
Other challenges on MasterChef included cooking for a bevy of marines at Camp Pendleton, and a mystery box that had T-bone steak as an ingredient, praise the Lord. Early on, of course, there was a challenge to prepare a perfect risotto and if there's nothing Ramsay is fanatic about it's risotto.
Somebody tell Gordon that us average American type cooks aren't all that nuts about serving risotto either, at least not how Ramsay uses this dish in every one of his shows as if risotto were some sort of all-American hot dog or something.
I'm looking for cute Felix, a female contender, to remain a top placed contender in the 2012 competition. Keep an eye out for Monti, a female who always seems to be in trouble. I don't think Monti will win but I do think she will be a focal point of many episodes.
Soon there will be an even dozen MasterChef contenders left and we'll be watching. Check in this Blog and see what we've got to say.
Below all posts on this Blog on this subject.
Gordon Ramsay's MasterChef Begins on Fox for 2012 Just In Time to Compete With the Next Food Network Star
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Bachelorette Emily 2012-Let the Home Town Dates Begin
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SPOILER ALERT for the episode aired 7/2/12
I can't remember a time when I've heard more gobbly-gook and double-speak than on the home town dates aired on The Bachelorette on 7/2/12.
Except, perhaps, on the episode of The Bachelorette before that.
This show requires that the participants speak in general terms, that words be cloaked to somehow work around what's actually happening here.
Because we've got a beautiful woman meeting the parents and family of four guys. Their whole "relationship" was part of a popular television series. Every mother, father, sister and brother of those four guys know that no matter how much their beloved speaks well of Emily, knows that there's three other guys out there saying the same thing.
It was Sean's mother who broached the subject of Emily's prior relationship with Brad and good on her. If it was my son this would be the very first subject I'd bring up.
The parents of the other contenders might have brought up the subject as well but it was only this scene that was televised, I hasten to add.
"Well, you know," Emily began, "Brad and I, we weren't in the same place," Emily went on. At which Sean's mother murmured, as she murmured constantly during Emily's "explanation" of her and Brad's short and rocky relationship. No matter what silly terminology Emily used, Sean's mother would murmur to the effect "of course, of course" and I wanted to slap her.
If that were my son I'd be speaking plain and stern to this young woman.
"I have no problem with this rather unique way to find a mate," I'd say. "Nowadays there's all kinds of novel ways to meet people, online dating, speed dating….that sort of thing. But you done went an entire season and declared your love and devotion to a guy who from the very start was suspect as being a flake."
I wouldn't even let Emily get an "I know" in cause I'd not be done.
"So I question how you could love my son, if it comes to that, when you'd so publicly declared a love, to the point of being engaged, for another fellow on television and that ended badly. How on earth am I supposed to trust that you won't hurt my son with such a shallow tendency? Brad Womack, man, any girl with half a brain would have avoided him like the dickens."
I realize my scripted rant above wouldn't make good TV but it's how I feel about the rather vapid Emily and her questionable choices. I believe Emily's out for the media exposure and my son, were he one of the final four home town contenders, would just be a pawn.
Which I think those four fellow are but that's just me.
I have no reason to wish an unhappy ending on Emily and I do not. But come on, Brad Womack?
At any rate, let's have a look at these final three guys.
We begin with my prediction on who is going to win Emily's hand . I believe it will be Sean.Sean played a silly but cute little joke with Emily on the home town date show and he fooled me. He acted as if he were making a painful confession then declared that he was still living "here", said "here" being the very beautiful home of his parents.Of course a grown man close to 30 should not still be living at his parents and when I was a young, single, pretty lass I'd throw such a guy overboard toot d sweet.Sean also took Emily up to see what was allegedly his bedroom, which was a mess, filled with trash and crumbs. At this point I kind of figured it was a joke and hey, it was cute.
Jef is the fellow with the gorgeous hair. Jef is a Mormon and wow, he's got a huge family. Jef's parents were not on the hometown show as they were supposedly out on some "missionary" work.A man who springs from religious stock, Emily could do worse. In Emily's case, I think she'll consider it a strike against Jef.
As for Arie, he's my second choice for Emily.Emily rode in a race car with Arie, a bit of drama scripted for the show, I'm sure. Recall that Emily's former fiance, father of her daughter Ricki, was a Nascar race car driver. Arie's choice as a contender was perfect for the drama and sobs it would bring back.Arie is Dutch, and his mother spoke Dutch in front of Emily, responded to by both Arie and his father. Speaking a foreign language over the head of an invited guest is considered bad manners. Though I'm not at all sure this scene wasn't scripted as it sure seemed to be.
Finally, there's Emily. Lookit, Emily is quite attractive, no denying. And honestly she seems nice enough and between Emily and Brad Womack I'd readily say that Womack was the problem. This guy was a bad egg as far back as his first appearance on The Bachelor when he rather haughtily declared no lovelorn contenders were worthy of his fine self.But those fellows need to ponder that
Emily is used to the finer things in life, she's all about Emily (and her daughter), she's not for your average coal miner. I think Sean will fill the bill but he needs to carefully guard his heart and ponder all the caveats of a life with the very beautiful, pampered Emily.
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SPOILER ALERT for the episode aired 7/2/12
I can't remember a time when I've heard more gobbly-gook and double-speak than on the home town dates aired on The Bachelorette on 7/2/12.
Except, perhaps, on the episode of The Bachelorette before that.
This show requires that the participants speak in general terms, that words be cloaked to somehow work around what's actually happening here.
Because we've got a beautiful woman meeting the parents and family of four guys. Their whole "relationship" was part of a popular television series. Every mother, father, sister and brother of those four guys know that no matter how much their beloved speaks well of Emily, knows that there's three other guys out there saying the same thing.
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It was Sean's mother who broached the subject of Emily's prior relationship with Brad and good on her. If it was my son this would be the very first subject I'd bring up.
The parents of the other contenders might have brought up the subject as well but it was only this scene that was televised, I hasten to add.
"Well, you know," Emily began, "Brad and I, we weren't in the same place," Emily went on. At which Sean's mother murmured, as she murmured constantly during Emily's "explanation" of her and Brad's short and rocky relationship. No matter what silly terminology Emily used, Sean's mother would murmur to the effect "of course, of course" and I wanted to slap her.
If that were my son I'd be speaking plain and stern to this young woman.
"I have no problem with this rather unique way to find a mate," I'd say. "Nowadays there's all kinds of novel ways to meet people, online dating, speed dating….that sort of thing. But you done went an entire season and declared your love and devotion to a guy who from the very start was suspect as being a flake."
I wouldn't even let Emily get an "I know" in cause I'd not be done.
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| Chris Gone After Home Town Rose Ceremony |
"So I question how you could love my son, if it comes to that, when you'd so publicly declared a love, to the point of being engaged, for another fellow on television and that ended badly. How on earth am I supposed to trust that you won't hurt my son with such a shallow tendency? Brad Womack, man, any girl with half a brain would have avoided him like the dickens."
I realize my scripted rant above wouldn't make good TV but it's how I feel about the rather vapid Emily and her questionable choices. I believe Emily's out for the media exposure and my son, were he one of the final four home town contenders, would just be a pawn.
Which I think those four fellow are but that's just me.
I have no reason to wish an unhappy ending on Emily and I do not. But come on, Brad Womack?
At any rate, let's have a look at these final three guys.
We begin with my prediction on who is going to win Emily's hand . I believe it will be Sean.Sean played a silly but cute little joke with Emily on the home town date show and he fooled me. He acted as if he were making a painful confession then declared that he was still living "here", said "here" being the very beautiful home of his parents.Of course a grown man close to 30 should not still be living at his parents and when I was a young, single, pretty lass I'd throw such a guy overboard toot d sweet.Sean also took Emily up to see what was allegedly his bedroom, which was a mess, filled with trash and crumbs. At this point I kind of figured it was a joke and hey, it was cute.
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| Jef of the beautiful hair |
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| Arie |
Finally, there's Emily. Lookit, Emily is quite attractive, no denying. And honestly she seems nice enough and between Emily and Brad Womack I'd readily say that Womack was the problem. This guy was a bad egg as far back as his first appearance on The Bachelor when he rather haughtily declared no lovelorn contenders were worthy of his fine self.But those fellows need to ponder that
Emily is used to the finer things in life, she's all about Emily (and her daughter), she's not for your average coal miner. I think Sean will fill the bill but he needs to carefully guard his heart and ponder all the caveats of a life with the very beautiful, pampered Emily.
Below, all posts on this Blog on this subject
The Bachelorette 2012-Emily Dumps Brad, Seeks New PartnerBachelorette 2012 Emily Maynard Used to the Finer Things In Life
The Bachelorette 2012-Four Left. Winner Obvious, One's a Wild Man
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Design Star 2012-Interior Decorating by Talent in This Most Under-Rated of Competitive Reality Shows
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I am very much enjoying this year's episodes of HGTV's Design Star.
. Actually I enjoy this series very much every year it airs and I do follow up on the winners. A recent winner was Meg and I watch her winning show "Great Rooms" often. The winners of Design Star are more often than not successful in their new series though some have not been seen for a while.
I think this is a very under-rated show in terms of its subject, the application of the challenges to the subject and the judging.
Like other competitive reality shows, there is a panel of judges but often a guest, generally a "star" of the network, is brought in.
Designing a room is not the sort of thing that can have a "little" challenge and a "big" challenge like, say, the Next Food Network Star.
Since we are dealing with the artistic class there is, as is often the case, drama, tears, angst.
As of this writing there are six Design Stars left. Advertising advises that an upcoming episode will have TWO contenders going home. Competitive reality shows do this, usually the sorts of shows that aren't as popular with the American public.
I've enjoyed the decorating challenges and I admire the skill of the decorators.
The Kardashian challenge had the decorating contenders decorating the new Kardashian offices, including the kitchen, reception area.
I'm a bit astounded by how much advertising is done surreptitiously on this show. On the Kardashian show we had Lumber Liquidators, Kohler and Cabinets-to-Go in various decorating schemes. Nothing wrong with a little all-American hyping of your product but I'm jus' sayin'.
Another episode had the contenders decorating an inside area that flowed into an outside area. There were handsome wooden zig-zag fences, tree stump table tops and an oddly place children's play area next to the trashcans. This was done by Rachel, a contender I'd just praised and she did, indeed, land in the bottom two of this challenge.
Yet another decorating challenge had the contenders creating a hip and happening lounge to honor Hollywood. The contenders were given their decorating era by drawing of a random card at the beginning of the episode. The results were amazing though some, as is always the case, were not ...well not so much.
I still think Rachel is now most likely to win this thing. Rachel's won two challenges though she's recently landed in the bottom. Winners of these things do go to the bottom at least once during the series just to, I dunno, keep the viewers guessing.
Hilari's a possibility. She's won one challenge but also landed in the bottom two on one challenge. More important, I like Hilari, I think she's sweet and has a real sense of decorating style for one so young.
Below all posts on this Blog on this subject:
12 Interior Designers Begin the Competition for HGTV's Design Star 2012
Design Star airs on Tuesday nights, HGTV at 9pm
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| I'm so glad Design Star is on tonight |
I am very much enjoying this year's episodes of HGTV's Design Star.
. Actually I enjoy this series very much every year it airs and I do follow up on the winners. A recent winner was Meg and I watch her winning show "Great Rooms" often. The winners of Design Star are more often than not successful in their new series though some have not been seen for a while.
I think this is a very under-rated show in terms of its subject, the application of the challenges to the subject and the judging.
Like other competitive reality shows, there is a panel of judges but often a guest, generally a "star" of the network, is brought in.
Designing a room is not the sort of thing that can have a "little" challenge and a "big" challenge like, say, the Next Food Network Star.
Since we are dealing with the artistic class there is, as is often the case, drama, tears, angst.
As of this writing there are six Design Stars left. Advertising advises that an upcoming episode will have TWO contenders going home. Competitive reality shows do this, usually the sorts of shows that aren't as popular with the American public.
I've enjoyed the decorating challenges and I admire the skill of the decorators.
The Kardashian challenge had the decorating contenders decorating the new Kardashian offices, including the kitchen, reception area.
Another episode had the contenders decorating an inside area that flowed into an outside area. There were handsome wooden zig-zag fences, tree stump table tops and an oddly place children's play area next to the trashcans. This was done by Rachel, a contender I'd just praised and she did, indeed, land in the bottom two of this challenge.
Yet another decorating challenge had the contenders creating a hip and happening lounge to honor Hollywood. The contenders were given their decorating era by drawing of a random card at the beginning of the episode. The results were amazing though some, as is always the case, were not ...well not so much.
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| Brittany's Hollywood Regency room |
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| Hilari's post 80'a Hollywood room |
Hilari's a possibility. She's won one challenge but also landed in the bottom two on one challenge. More important, I like Hilari, I think she's sweet and has a real sense of decorating style for one so young. Below all posts on this Blog on this subject:
12 Interior Designers Begin the Competition for HGTV's Design Star 2012
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America's Got Talent 2012 Finally Gets Down to Business
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I've hereby decided that "America's Got Talent" is my favorite competitive reality show of them all.
This includes American Idol, X Factor and The Voice.
Of course my delight at the show is its amazing diversity of talent and I'll say it, the amazing talents of Americans across the fruited plains. Sometimes I scratch my head and ponder who would think up such a thing?
Like the guy who plays music on the appliances.
You read that right, music on appliances, to include a vacuum cleaner the night I chanced to watch.
Who on earth came up with a notion to try and play music on a vacuum cleaner, and eventually excelling at it to a point of musical delight?
Now the guy who played music on his vacuum cleaner was just eliminated because come on, as intriguing as this "talent" is, it's not something most folks would pay to sit and hear. It surely is not a million dollar act.
Howard Stern summed it up by suggesting that this is an act that would play well in a Home Depot, for example, but it's not a very good stage act.
Still and so you gotta smile. At some point in this fellow's life he actually decided to play a blender, a handsaw, a vacuum cleaner. I will always consider this a major part of America's charm. We have a plethora of folks with entirely too much time on their hands.
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This past week four of what they call the "quarter-finalists" were voted on. The ones voted on by America and if part of the bottom three, by the judges, are quite good.
One act is a David Garibaldi and the CMYK or some such. This fellow does an amazing act. There's music, dancing and...PAINTING!
He completes an entire picture by the end of his act and it is always a surprise. Garibaldi will have the same problem so many of these specialty acts have, which is, can he keep his show fresh enough, with enough new surprises and material, to win this thing?
Edon is a young fellow who plays the piano quite well. The Scott Brothers are a unique and funny comedy team.
Maurice and Shanice are a father-daughter team who have caught the attention of America this past week. Below a short snippet of their singing act.
Shanice is a very good singer and so is her dad. But truth is that their novelty is their father-daughter status and this is not a small thing. But there are really only so many appropriate songs for a father and daughter to sing together.
The challenge for these two will be to choose the right song, this is sooooo soooo important, and move America to emote over the beauty of the father/daughter team.
America's Got Talent will be featuring 12 of these quarter-finalists over the next few weeks as they have 48 quarter-finalists. We'll be watching. Drop back in and find out how we size up the competition.
Below all posts on this Blog on this subject:
America's Got Talent 2012 Begins-Howard Stern An Interesting Addition. Gossip, Thoughts, Snark
America's Got Talent 2012, from Tampa to Austin, Weirdness Prevails; Acts to Watch
America's Got Talent Airs on NBC, Monday nights, at 8pm. Show times change so check listings.
Click here to go to this Blog's main menu and see what other TV series we're covering.
I've hereby decided that "America's Got Talent" is my favorite competitive reality show of them all.
This includes American Idol, X Factor and The Voice.
Of course my delight at the show is its amazing diversity of talent and I'll say it, the amazing talents of Americans across the fruited plains. Sometimes I scratch my head and ponder who would think up such a thing?
Like the guy who plays music on the appliances.
You read that right, music on appliances, to include a vacuum cleaner the night I chanced to watch.
Who on earth came up with a notion to try and play music on a vacuum cleaner, and eventually excelling at it to a point of musical delight?
Now the guy who played music on his vacuum cleaner was just eliminated because come on, as intriguing as this "talent" is, it's not something most folks would pay to sit and hear. It surely is not a million dollar act.
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| That's the wand of a vacuum cleaner in his mouth |
Howard Stern summed it up by suggesting that this is an act that would play well in a Home Depot, for example, but it's not a very good stage act.
Still and so you gotta smile. At some point in this fellow's life he actually decided to play a blender, a handsaw, a vacuum cleaner. I will always consider this a major part of America's charm. We have a plethora of folks with entirely too much time on their hands.
This past week four of what they call the "quarter-finalists" were voted on. The ones voted on by America and if part of the bottom three, by the judges, are quite good.
One act is a David Garibaldi and the CMYK or some such. This fellow does an amazing act. There's music, dancing and...PAINTING!
Edon is a young fellow who plays the piano quite well. The Scott Brothers are a unique and funny comedy team.
Maurice and Shanice are a father-daughter team who have caught the attention of America this past week. Below a short snippet of their singing act.
Shanice is a very good singer and so is her dad. But truth is that their novelty is their father-daughter status and this is not a small thing. But there are really only so many appropriate songs for a father and daughter to sing together.
The challenge for these two will be to choose the right song, this is sooooo soooo important, and move America to emote over the beauty of the father/daughter team.
America's Got Talent will be featuring 12 of these quarter-finalists over the next few weeks as they have 48 quarter-finalists. We'll be watching. Drop back in and find out how we size up the competition.
Below all posts on this Blog on this subject:
America's Got Talent 2012 Begins-Howard Stern An Interesting Addition. Gossip, Thoughts, Snark
America's Got Talent 2012, from Tampa to Austin, Weirdness Prevails; Acts to Watch
America's Got Talent Airs on NBC, Monday nights, at 8pm. Show times change so check listings.
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