Monday, Monday Why Must It Be Monday?

Ugh. Mondays are never fun and today seems to be just dragging. Too much fun over the weekend I guess. Couple that with a slow gossip day and I just don't have that much to write about. But there have been some developments since Friday, so I guess I should just get to it.

First off, it looks like we may be coming to the end of an era. Both Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper have confirmed that they will be leaving At The Movies With Ebert & Roeper. Here are the deets:
The two Chicago-based film reviewers won't be returning next season, reports the Associated Press. Roeper said it was because he couldn't come to an agreement on a contract extension with Disney-ABC, and Ebert, whose announcement followed that of his colleague's, said in an e-mail that Disney-ABC Domestic Television had decided to take the program "in a new direction" and he won't be associated with it.Roeper, who joined Roger Ebert on At the Movies after original co-host Gene Siskel died in 1999, says he'll be co-hosting another, still-untitled movie review show that "honors the standards established by Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert more than 30 years ago." Roeper's final appearance on At the Movies will air the weekend of Aug. 16. Ebert, who has been fighting cancer, has not been on the show for the past two years. (Source People Online)
Of course Siskel and Ebert began the whole thumbs up thumbs down thing years ago and Ebert and Roeper are quoted all of the time when it comes to their movie reviews. You know a movie has some clout behind it when the promos quote one of them giving it two thumbs up. Whether I agreed with their reviews or not (most of the time not) they are still an institution in the entertainment industry and I, for one, will miss them. I think Disney-ABC Domestic Television is making a big mistake in letting these two go. But they seem to feel that a change will do the show some good. That remains to be seen. All I know is that Ebert and Roeper will be missed.

On to more legal matters, Amy Winehouse's husband, Blake Fielder-Civil has finally been sentenced in the charges of perverting justice and assaulting a pub owner.
A London judge today sentenced the Grammy winner's husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, to 27 months behind bars as punishment for his guilty plea for assaulting a pub owner and then attempting to cover it up. Winehouse was not present in Snaresbrook Crown Court to hear her other half's fate. Fielder-Civil has already logged roughly nine months, or the better part of the first year of marriage, at Pentonville Prison. Accounting for the time served, he may only have 18 months left as an inmate. (Source EOnline)
Many news sources are speculating that Blake will be out of prison in time for Christmas. Either way, we're in for at least a few more months of listening to Amy Winehouse talk about her "Blake incarcerated" and see her wearing that little heart in her ginormous beehive that says Blake on it. Oh joy. Not that she'll be much better when he gets out of prison. Then we'll have to see the nasty pictures of them all bruised and bloody after getting into a drug fueled brawl. So exciting. Can't wait. It'll be like a Christmas present to the world.

And finally (I told you it was a slow day and I'm sleepy) it seems that the fallout from the whole Janet Jackson-Superbowl-Nipple heard round the world debacle may finally be drawing to a close. It seems that the courts have finally gotten around to throwing out the fines the FCC invoked on CBS.

The long-running legal saga involving the escape of Janet Jackson's right breast during the halftime show of the 2004 Super Bowl has apparently come to an end as a federal appeals court today tossed out the $550,000 indecency fine against CBS Corp. In its ruling, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the Federal Communications Commission "acted arbitrarily and capriciously" when it issued the pricey penalty against the network for the boob slippage. (Source EOnline)

At this point, I really don't care if the courts upheld the fine or not, I'm just tired of hearing about it. Seriously, this was over four years ago and yet, every month or so, someone has to bring it up again. I'm over it. I don't care anymore. I wasn't scarred by the whole thing, I'm sure most children weren't either. Even if they were, they are now four years older and wanting to look at a woman's breast anyway. Plus, as my husband points out, you couldn't really see anything anyway. At least until the media blew up the freeze frame of the 10 seconds you could actually see her boob and plastered it all over the place(kind of like I just did). I just hope that this is the final nail in the coffin that was nipplegate. Its time to let the healing begin.

Oy, so it was another busy weekend. We were at another Mondavi concert on Saturday night. This time it was Tiempo Libre, in conjunction with Festival del Sole. It was pretty fun. Unfortunately, I seem to have misplaced my camera, so we didn't take any pictures. Which is too bad because those guys were quite the performers. And most of them were not wearing underwear. Trust me, you would tell. We spent most of yesterday recovering from Saturday night, which included going out to breakfast and then buying an amazing amount of junk food to consume throughout the day while watching movies. So while yesterday was pretty chill, I could still use another day of weekend. But its not to be. Oh well, more tomorrow.

Later!