The Barbara Walters Special - Blow by Blow
Published March 01, 2004
The Barbara Walters special is always an interesting event before the Oscars. Which celebs will Barbara reduce to tears? How smug will all the celebrities come off? Will the celebrities be impressed with themselves as Barbara throws up alley-oop after alley-oop in an attempt to make these people seem fascinating, normal and worthy of our adoration? Will we be able to make out that pre-historic grill that Barbara calls a face, through that hazy, white camera filter?
There's only one way to find out. Sit through the whole blasted event. I hope you enjoy my summaries.
Matt Leblanc - How did this goofball get on this show? Were the other Friends just too busy? What is the over/under for how many weeks the Joey spin-off lasts? How about the over/under until Matt Leblanc begs one of his more popular cast-mates from Friends to come in and save his show?
7:05 - I know you shouldn't confuse an actor with his character, but I can't imagine that Matt Leblanc is the sharpest knife in the drawer.
7:07 - So this is the portion when they over-hype friends as if it is the greatest show ever to be put on television. A very good show? Maybe. As good as Seinfeld? Not a chance.
7:08 - Matt Leblanc chomping on a ketchup-sprayed hotdog is something I didn't need to recall ever. By the way, they are paying this guy $1,000,000 per episode?
7:11 - Barbara makes her first bid to make someone cry bringing up Matt Leblanc's parents. Divorce. Father left mother. Strained relations between Matt and his father. You going to squirt? Huh? Gonna cry? Come on man. Do it. Damn.
7:12 - This just in, Lisa Kudrow started to cry first when the cast was getting together before their last show. That makes a lot of sense because Kudrow has about ZERO prospects for a career after friends. She will be forever typecast as Phoebe.
7:15 - The Friends formed a union of sorts for negotiating their Friends contracts. This is the fundamental problem with unions if you think about it. You can't tell me Joey and Phoebe deserved full wages. Would that show have suffered with other people as the "goofy" characters in that show?
Craig Lyndall rants, raves and writes other stuff at FilteringCraig.com and at The Cleveland Sports Curse
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Other than Jennifer Aniston in The Good Girl, they really haven't had careers outside of Friends. Courtney Cox in Ace Ventura, I guess. Seriously though. What else?
Yeah and the Shrek interview was a very whorish maneuver. Mike Meyers was kind of funny, but it was such a cheesy thing to do.
I caught just enough of 'Bibbitty,' to just about chuck my cookies. Did some channel hopping, but came back to that disaster often enough to be sure it was a disaster. The 'interview' with Shrek was pure dreck. I would not be complaining much if there had been a couple minutes of face time for the character in the overall Crystal interview. But, no-o-o-o, Shrek gets an entire segment that is nothing but a commercial for the upcoming movie. Brought to you by the 'news' division of a big three network. People don't see through manipulation like this?
Not to mention that "bibbity" that old hag couldn't pull off anything this "fun" if her life was dependent on it.
Why Tom? He is not competent to educate America on mental health issues
tom is a loose gun and Kaynw (?) is not America.
I am commenting on the latest special about heaven. Barbara Walters seems to be quite ignorant of the fact that Jesus Christ himself said he was the only way to God. So if she has questions about it, she needs to talk to Christ about it, not attack those who believe in him by calling them judgmental. If she feels she has the authority to say that Jesus is lying or did not say those words, then she needs to demonstrate her authority to declare that, otherwise her remarks are nothing but slander. Next time, I'd suggest she become better prepared when interviewing people about their religions before she accuses them of things about which she knows nothing.
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Babs interviews Shrek; more shameless 'news as marketing' from the Queen Pimp. She should have pulled up her skirt, spread her legs, and let Shrek do the wild thing. That would have been about as dignified.
re: Friends cast - hope they invested wisely; their 15 minutes are just about up.
Thank gawd.