Silly me, I thought 'SLAVE LEIA' was a charidy.

Surely you mean, why the hell not?!

Look, I'm all for women dressing up, and all for Star Wars references, but it'd be nice if it'd made some kind of sense...

Your priorities are waaaaay out of whack!

Not the first time that's been said to me.

Let me put this another way, if they were dressed as autobots, how would you feel then?

Genius.

I'd still want to know why.

It's my OCD tendencies, enjoyment comes secondary to understanding, sadly.

It's because it's a Star Wars Special of the Show. They have Darth Vader as the banker. Isn't that reason enough? And how does Deal or No Deal work in America? We don't have 26 scantily clad models, or voting to pick the next one. Do we? Maybe I should watch it more often.

We get Noel.

And a bunch of elderly and unemployable fuckers pretending that they have a strategy for picking a set of random numbers.

(I am of course, generalizing. But you get the idea.)

Not meaning to be shallow, but I would probably watch it more if it did. I find the huggy-feely "Good luck mate!" format of the UK show to be off-putting.

In fact the whole of Season 3 is themed, each episode is apparently themed around the contestant. Lucky Star Wars fans I say...

Wiki info

That's Noel's style though, innit. Not my cup of tea admittedly, but people seem to like it.

I watched it the other day, and the contestant walked up to the front,m and it was the first time he'dwalked in public since he'd been paralysed. It made me want to puke. /bastard

And that's the reason why. Ratings man, ratings. But to be honest how a bunch of women in bra tops is really a pull is lost on me.

That's part of it's problem nowadays. Ever fucker that goes on it has to have some kind of sob story which doubles as not only their reason for going on the show, but also their reason for bottling it at an early stage.

Kinda like the X-Factor.

Says the girl who lists an interest in pin-up art in her bio!

Most of the pin-ups that I'm interested in are fully clothed. It's the sex in a dress that intrigues me.

Monica?

I hope that's not a *shudder*Friends*shudder* reference because if it is I'm going to have to slit my wrists now.

No, it's nothing that bad, merely a 'Lewinsky' reference. You know, 'sex in a dress'?

New issue of Empire features proper '3D' front cover.

It really is, too - I've seen it. Chunky.

I touched it. It wasn't as impressive as I would have hoped. I toyed with buying it but figured touching the world's first (and probably last) 3D magazine cover was good enough.

Oh, that's okay then. Although that was more sex on a dress.

You know, I did almost exactly the same thing. I didn't buy it, but I think it was more out of avoidance of embarrassment at the checkout, at buying what looked more like a novelty/kids magazine, complete with FREE HULK!

I bought it last night and got to flirt with the pretty girl who sold it to me as the cover gave us something to talk about.

Is that a lump in your magazine or are you just pleased to see me?

Hehe, not quite.

In other news:

'Blindness' to open Cannes

Should probably get around to reading the book; that's one hell of a cast.

I have it.

I still subscribe to Empire, though I'm not sure why.

Come to think of it, why the hell haven't I cancelled the New Internationalist either? Hippy nonsense.

I haven't even opened the envelope of the last two. You say 'globalisation' I say 'Zzzzz'.

Has anyone tried peeling off the 3D cover to see what's underneath? I haven't plucked up the courage to do so, but the original artwork in the Contents page is so much better than the end result.

I was able to sneak a peek by lifting up the bottom without actually removing it. It's basically the same.

What?



They're remaking 'Bewitched' with the star of 'Two Pints' and the writer of 'My Hero'?



Crumbs.

That's a bit...odd. I wonder why Bewitched?

Sounds intersting though. I'm sure de la Tour will be good and I quite fancy Sheridan Smith so enough to get me watching.

A Brit version of a US sitcom is a bit of a rarity (I can only think of one or two).

I can think of two off the top of my head: Brighton Belles and Days Like These.

Was that The 70's Show one?
That was awful.

But it was about the Seventies! They were funny weren't they! [/Herring]

Yes, yes it was. Sadly, I never saw it, I'd love to see how bad it truly was. Youtube doesn't seem to have any clips, either.

It was bizarre, as the episode I saw was pretty much word for word the same script as it's American counterparts. But where the latter raised the occasional smile ,or dare I say it giggle, the British version was one the unfunniest things I've ever seen.

The original's ace, I'm an unashamed fan. I guess it's just simply the fact that even though the US and UK are culturally similar in some respects, in many we're far, far apart.

It just didn't work.

I felt because it was exactly the same scripts (with a few cultural alterations) delivered by a less talented cast, on cheaper looking sets.

It was an oddity.

Like an am-dram village hall version of the original.

The 'Bewitched' pilot sounds like it's been substancially updated and modified. It's still peculiar though.

'Bewitched' with Sheridan Smith? 'Double D-Witched' more like.

Did anyone else see this on Britain's Got Talent a few weeks ago? Give it a minute for it to get going. Me likey.

This is more interesting because of the speed with which the media seemed to jump on it, but there's recently been rumours reported that production on 'The Lovely Bones' was halted as Peter Jackson and the head of the film's art department argued over the version of heaven to be featured in the film. Apparently this has all been overblown, but it seems that some media outlets do seem to want to portray the film as a troubled production, what with the Ryan Gosling leaving the film days before filming started and (as reported above) Susan Sarandon's choice comments about her role.

Still, it's been delayed until Fall next year, which is either a good thing (if you want a film to win an Oscar, release it after September) or a bad thing (oh, it's been delayed, must have problems) depending on who's reporting it.

Piers Morgan = whitest man on Earth.

The Holden were reet - that were bloody brilliant.

I saw it, any entertainment value was utterly ruined by Ant's faux ignorance.

His "who is this guy?" face, was the most annoying thing I'd ever seen- until he did his "ahhhhh, that's what's going on" face.

Ach, don't let it rankle so.

I'm easily annoyed.

I love Isabella Rossellini, and this is something special.