Its Friday, Waste Time By Watching Stuff!

So its a pretty slow gossip day. I suppose I could talk about the whole Spederline custody settlement thing, but what's the point when they're just going to end up back in court in a couple months to change it again? I do truly believe that the boys are better off with K-Fed for now (I never thought I'd say that, but its true). If Britney continues to improve the way she has, the I can totally see the judge awarding her with more custody. But for now, I think the agreement they reached will work just fine.

Other than that, Salma Hayek broke off her engagement to her billionaire babydaddy. Not much to say there either. Bummer for the kid, but not terribly unexpected considering the discrepancy in hotness between them. She got a cute kid who's going to have one heck of a trust fund out of the deal. I think she's set.

So that's pretty much what's going on in the gossip world. Now why don't you waste some time by watching the final installment of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog? Its pretty awesome! Check it out at drhorrible.com.

Emmy Fever

The nominations for the 60th annual Prime time Emmy Awards were announced today and there were some surprises, though many of the usual suspects were there as well. Here's a partial list:

Outstanding Drama Series

• Boston Legal
• Damages
• Dexter
• House
• Lost
• Mad Men

Outstanding Comedy Series

• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Entourage
• The Office
• 30 Rock
• Two and a Half Men

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series

• James Spader, Boston Legal
• Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
• Michael C. Hall, Dexter
• Hugh Laurie, House
• Gabriel Byrne, In Treatment
• Jon Hamm, Mad Men

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

• Sally Field, Brothers & Sisters
• Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer
• Glenn Close, Damages
• Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Holly Hunter, Saving Grace

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series

• Tony Shalhoub, Monk
• Steve Carell, The Office
• Lee Pace, Pushing Daisies
• Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
• Charlie Sheen, Two And A Half Men

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series

• Julia Louis-Dreyfus, The New Adventures of Old Christine
• Christina Applegate, Samantha Who?
• Tina Fey, 30 Rock
• America Ferrera, Ugly Betty
• Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds

  Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

• William Shatner, Boston Legal
• Ted Danson, Damages
• Zeljko Ivanek, Damages
• Michael Emerson, Lost
• John Slattery, Mad Men

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

• Candice Bergen, Boston Legal
• Rachel Griffiths, Brothers & Sisters
• Chandra Wilson, Grey’s Anatomy
• Sandra Oh, Grey’s Anatomy
• Dianne Wiest, In Treatment

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

• Jeremy Piven, Entourage
• Kevin Dillon, Entourage
• Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother
• Rainn Wilson, The Office
• Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

• Kristin Chenoweth, Pushing Daisies
• Jean Smart, Samantha Who?
• Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live
• Holland Taylor, Two and a Half Men
• Vanessa Williams, Ugly Betty

  Outstanding Reality Program

• Antiques Roadshow
• Dirty Jobs
• Extreme Makeover Home Edition
• Intervention
• Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List

Outstanding Reality-Competition Program

• The Amazing Race
• American Idol
• Dancing With the Stars
• Project Runway
• Top Chef

Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program

• Ryan Seacrest, American Idol
• Tom Bergeron, Dancing With the Stars
• Howie Mandel, Deal Or No Deal
• Heidi Klum, Project Runway
• Jeff Probst, Survivor

  Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series

• The Colbert Report
• The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
• Late Show With David Letterman
• Real Time With Bill Maher
• Saturday Night Live.

(Source EOnline)
You can find a full list of the nominees here. None of this was terribly surprising to me. I haven't really gotten in to Mad Men, but it set a record for the most nominations for a cable network. I've heard its a great show, so I may have to rent the first season and check it out. I was super excited that 30 Rock came in with a record setting 17 nominations, the most a comedy series has ever gotten. Despite having most of the cast on the Emmy shortlist, Desperate Housewives came away with zero nominations. Which is really too bad since what I've seen of this past season is the best the show has been since it started. I think the writer's strike really messed things up for some shows. Heroes, for instance, got zero nominations as well probably due to a rocky start of a season that was abruptly cut off because of the strike. One thing that did surprise, not to mention delight me, were the nominees in the Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics, a category I've never paid attention to before. Check it out:

Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics

• Disney Phineas and Ferb, Song: “I Ain’t Got No Rhythm”
• Flight of the Conchords, Song: “The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room)”
• Flight of the Conchords, Song: “Inner City Pressure”
• Jimmy Kimmel Live, Song: “I’m F***ing Matt Damon”
• MADtv, Song: “Sad Fitty Cent”

(Source Eonline)
I have already expressed my love for the Sarah Silverman viral video "I'm F***ing Matt Damon" so I won't repeat myself. However, I have yet to express my love for The Flight of the Conchords. This show is absolutely brilliant and hysterical. If you haven't seen it yet, hurry and rent season one before season two starts! And "The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room)" was actually the first song I ever heard from them. My friend Megan (who used to be our news director here at the station before she moved on to bigger and better things) made me watch about twelve You Tube videos of these guys and "The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room) was the first one I saw. I think its one of their best too, but that's just my opinion. "Inner City Pressure" is pretty awesome too, especially with the accompanying video! I don't know what Disney Phineas and the Ferb is and I must have missed the episode of MADtv that the nominated song is from. But even if I had seen the other two nominees, I would still be rooting for the Conchords!
Or Sarah Silverman. Because, lets face it, she's had a rough week. Here's the story on her:
For Sarah Silverman, this has been a week of good news and bad news. First, the bad: On Monday, it was reported, she and boyfriend of five years, Jimmy Kimmel broke up. Now, the good: On Thursday Silverman, 37, was one of those lucky enough to be nominated for an Emmy. But, now for the weird news: the TV Academy nod is linked to what she did on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live!, an over-the-top music video in which she and the Sexiest Man Alive flaunted their (fictitious and funny) affair to Kimmel, all set to music in a ditty titled, "I'm F------ Matt Damon". The Emmy nominating committee clearly liked what it heard. Silverman is up for the gold in the category of outstanding original music and lyrics, along with her fellow writer-composers on the ditty Tony Barbieri, Wayne McClammy, Sal Iacono, and Dan Warner. (Source People Online)
If it wasn't for my love of Flight of the Conchords, I would be cheering Sarah Silverman on more. Maybe she'll win the other award she's nominated for. The Emmy's will be handed out on September 21. May the best people win. And by best, I mean the people I want to win. (I'm rooting for you Alec Baldwin!)
Later!

Better Question: Who Didn't Get Arrested Today?

Its been a day of arrests and its only 11 am here in California! Actually, one of these arrests happened last week and is only being reported today, but it still feels like a rash of bad behavior amoungst the Hollywood types. We'll start with the most recent. Andy Dick is no stranger to a jail cell, but this latest arrest is just a little creepier than his normal fare. Here are the details:
Andy Dick was busted in Murietta, Calif., early this morning on felony charges of sexual battery, possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana and public intoxication after allegedly groping and exposing a 17-year-old restaurant patron. The arresting officer, Lt. Dennis Vrooman, told E! News he picked up the actor at 1:13 a.m. this morning outside the Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant and bar after receiving a complaint about a man urinating outside and generally causing a disturbance. Per the police report, the 42-year-old actor approached two girls outside the restaurant before grabbing and pulling down the tank top and bra of the unidentified 17-year-old. Several of Dick's friends attempted to remove him from the location, but cops stopped the group's truck several minutes later at a nearby Sam's Club. "The girls were uncomfortable with what he had done," Vrooman said. "They signed private person arrest forms requesting that he be arrested. It was not mutual." As if the situation wasn't bad enough for Dick, officers found marijuana and Xanax in his pants pockets, Vrooman said. Dick was booked at the Southwest Detention Center and has since been transported to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, where he is being held on $5,000 bail. (Source EOnline)
Yeah, while I enjoy Andy Dick in scripted stuff, like News Radio, as a person I find him rather repugnant and I've never really enjoyed his comedy. This latest arrest is only one in a string of increasingly bad behavior that leads me to believe that the man thinks he can do anything and get away with it. Why would he think he can just pull down someone's tank top on the street? Seriously! Who does that? I have to admit, though, that his mugshot is pretty hilarious.

This second arrest actually happened last week and bums me out way more than the Andy Dick thing. It seems that the lead singer for the band Barenaked Ladies was busted for cocaine and marijuana possession last week. Here are the details on that arrest:

Barenaked Ladies' singer and guitarist Steven Page was arrested Friday in upstate New York and charged with possession of cocaine, a police spokesman confirmed. According to the Manilus Police Department, the 38-year-old musician and two women were holed up in an apartment in Fayetteville, just outside of Syracuse, at approximately 2 a.m. Friday, when a patrol unit arrived on scene to inspect a nearby car with its driver's side door left open. While investigating the "suspicious vehicle," officers noticed Page and 25-year-old companion Stephanie Ford seated in an apartment kitchen with "an unknown white capsule in front of them." After confronting the pair, police performed a field test and determined the substance was cocaine. The two were taken into custody and booked on felony criminal possession of a controlled substance. Ford was also charged with marijuana posession. The third woman who resided in the apartment, 27-year-old Christine Benedicto, was not present at the time of the others' arrest. She was booked a few hours later on a misdemeanor pot-posession count. (Source EOnline)

All three were released on bail and, according to the band's website, Steven has entered a Not Guilty plea and is planning on fighting the charges. I hope this was all a big misunderstanding because I've always been a big BNR fan. Ever since Rock Spectacle really. And I just started listening to Snacktime, the children's album they recently released, and I've found it to be pretty fun. Granted, I don't have any kids, but our 10 week old kitten seems to like it. Anyway, I realize its a bit naive to be disillusioned by a musician being busted on drug charges, but those guys always seemed more down to earth and unaffected by the music scene. Who knows what's really going on there.

Anyway, I'm trying out something new with this blog, which is basically posting whenever I find something worth writing about, but making them shorter posts over all. Hopefully this will motivate me to write every day instead of once or twice a week. We'll see if it works.
Later!

Feist on Sesame Street?

Those of you that listen to The Vine on a regular basis have probably heard the artist Feist on our station a lot. Of course, she's also been featured in an IPod commercial and on numerous other radio stations and music channels, so you don't have to be a Vine listener to know who she is. Anyway, I'm getting off point. Feist is the newest artist to lend their song to Sesame Street as an educational tool. Here's a video of Feist's 1234 done up all Sesame Street. I thought it was kind of cute!

Bittersweet Events

What started out as an uplifting post today has kind of turned into a downer! When I came to work this morning, I was all excited about writing about the Branglina twins and speculating about how much PEOPLE Magazine would pay Brad and Angie for the first pictures of the two, undoubtedly gorgeous, babies. But when I returned from lunch, I was greeted with some sad news. I think I'll just start with the sad and move on to the happy, in hopes that I will cheer up by the time this post is completely written.
So the saddest news so far today has to be the Sarah Silverman-Jimmy Kimmel split. The couple, who have been dating for five years, were never afraid to share too much about their relationship with the world. I fear we'll never see another viral video about fornicating with Matt Damon from this pair again. That alone is enough to break my heart. But what makes it worse is the fact that I really liked them as a couple and thought that they were perfect together. Here's the official story:

The next time Sarah Silverman makes a video about which celebrity she's f--king, Jimmy Kimmel may not find it quite so funny. The late-night talk-show host and the bawdy object of his affection have separated after five funnybone-tickling, viral video-goofing years, E! News has confirmed. "Jimmy and Sarah are no longer dating...and will have no further comment," Lewis Kay and Amy Zvi, the respective reps for Kimmel and Silverman, said in a joint statement today. (Source E Online)

I'm serious, this news totally depressed me! Both Sarah and Jimmy are really funny people and I thought they really complimented each other's personalities. Sigh. Well, lets remember the good times.

And Jimmy's rebuttal:

Ah, the good old days back in the winter of 2008. Will things ever be the same?
Moving on to less depressing news. Well, less depressing if your not Josh Brolin or anyone attached to the filming of W. It seems the cast and crew of W, the Oliver Stone movie about President George W. Bush that's currently filming in Louisiana, went out to party on Friday night and got themselves into a spot of trouble. Here's the low down:
Josh Brolin, Jeffrey Wright and five others were arrested early Saturday morning in Shreveport, La., in connection with a bar fight. Brolin and Wright – who are reportedly in town shooting Oliver Stone's President George W. Bush film, W – were arrested at the Stray Cat bar after a call was made regarding a rowdy patron, Shreveport police Sgt. Willie Lewis told the Associated Press. Brolin was booked and posted $334 cash bond, according to the Times of Shreveport. Brolin's rep could not be reached for comment. (Source PEOPLE Magazine)
While this isn't really a big deal, I found this story interesting for a couple of reasons. One, it takes place in Shreveport, where I spent quite a bit of time in my college years. Mainly in the airport and on the casino boats (which are pretty overrated in my opinion), but I still spent a bit of time there and tend to single out any story that takes place there. The other thing I found funny about this story (aside from Brolin's mugshot, which is pretty hilarious all on its own) was the fact that he only had to pay $334 to get out of jail. This makes me think that the police weren't terribly interested in arresting him in the first place and if he had just kept his mouth shut he would never have been subjected to the ridicule his mugshot has been given by the bloggerazzi. Maybe he'll think twice before doing that again.
And finally, the big news of the weekend, which we will be hearing about constantly for the next three months to a year, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are the proud parents of twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline. Here are just some of the details:
Brad Pitt was at Angelina Jolie's side as she gave birth to a son and daughter Saturday at the Fondation Lenval hospital in Nice, France, PEOPLE has confirmed. "The babies are doing well. The operation went just perfectly," Dr. Michel Sussmann told PEOPLE Sunday. "Angelina is in very good spirits. Brad Pitt was at her side. He was there and all was well." Sussmann confirmed the Nice-Matin newspaper report that Jolie gave birth to a boy, Knox Leon, and a girl, Vivienne Marcheline, by Cesarean section on Saturday night. Knox weighed 5.03 lbs, and Vivienne 5 lbs. (Source PEOPLE Magazine).


So I was a week off on my Brangelina twin prediction and the media was three days off on theirs (there were numerous reports circulating that Angelina wasn't supposed to give birth until this Tuesday so that her doctor could celebrate Bastille Day. Guess she was done cooking sooner than everyone thought.) Since the birth of the golden children on Saturday night, there have been at least three press conferences and numerous web stories about this, that and the other. I've seen at least three different stories on the meaning of the twins' names (I never realized that all of the Jolie-Pitt male children's names end in X, but its true. Maddox, Pax and now Knox, I wonder what that's all about) and what effect these names will have on naming trends in the next few years. And, of course, everyone is speculating how much the first baby pictures will go for. Many are projecting between $10 and $20 million, which Brangelina will donate to charity. How surreal it would be to grow up knowing that your baby pictures could have bought a third world country. Something tells me the Jolie Pitt children's lives will never be as "normal" as their parents insist they are. Seriously, $20 million for a baby picture! Which will probably be taken by Annie Leibovitz and will probably end up costing PEOPLE or OK or whoever forks the money over another $2 million just to get them produced and to keep them from leaking on to the Internet before the magazine hits the news stands. Craziness I tell you, just pure craziness.

Well another Monday is almost over and we're off and running again into the week. Its been a crazy week or so for me. Aside from work and our adorable kitten (who is not as angelic as her name implies), my husband also had his wisdom teeth taken out last week. So its been Nurse Tracy at your service since last Thursday. Though, I must say that he is a pretty good patient. He doesn't complain much and was already back at work by Friday. And he humored me and let me be the over protective wife for a while. He's had a pretty fast recovery and was able to make it to the Dave Koz and David Benoit concert at Robert Mondavi Winery this past Saturday where we were broadcasting live. It was a pretty good time, if only for the amusing commentary we kept going throughout the concert. If you haven't checked out the Summer Festival at Robert Mondavi Winery, I highly suggest you do. I'll be at all the rest of the concerts this season (there are three left) and the line up is only getting better! You can get all the info at robermondaviwinery.com. Here's a few pictures from the evening. The guy with the puffy cheeks is my husband (isn't he cute!).




That's pretty much it for me today. There are still at least two more celebrities that are due to pop any day now, so I should have lots to write about this week.
Later!

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Happy 4th of July!!!

Its a busy week here at Wine Country Broadcasting and this is the first time I've had a chance to post anything all week long. And, unfortunately, I'm going to have to make it a short one. But there are a few things I wanted to go ahead an write about before they become old news.
First of all, and most importantly, I wanted to get my prediction in for the birth of the Bragelina twins. While I realize that Angelina's doctor has told the world that she checked into the hospital for a few weeks of rest and probably won't deliver for at least two weeks, I'm calling bullsh*t on that and predicting that those twins will be born sometime during the long weekend (though probably not on the 4th because that would be a bit too patriotic for the worldly Jolie-Pitt clan). What evidence do I have to back me up on this? Aside from the fact that the woman checked herself into the hospital, I also remember them pulling the same tactics when Shiloh was born in 2006. Remember that? Angelina gave a fake due date and waited until the majority of the media was on vacation for Memorial Day, then went ahead and had her C-section. That way, everyone came back to work on Tuesday and Shiloh was already three days old and her baby pictures were sold to People magazine for trillions of dollars. So there you have it, the Brangelina twins will be born before everyone gets back to work on Monday, mark my words. If I'm wrong, then I'm wrong, but I'm feeling pretty strongly on this one. I'll keep you posted on any twin developments next week.

Moving on to things that have actually happened. Well, they've happened according to the media. I know its not good to speculate about the state of celebrity marriages and I rarely listen to the "this person is filing for divorce, no they've reconciled, no wait, now they're separated" gossip that is always in the tabloids, but this whole Madonna/Guy Ritchie/Alex Rodriguez thing has just been too funny. A day after Maddy's publicist finally went ahead and denied everything while Maddy and Guy had a very public dinner date, work comes that A-Rod's wife has run off with Lenny Kravitz of all people! Here's the story:
In the wake of reports that he's in a relationship with Madonna, several media outlets reported that his wife has left him for Lenny Kravitz. In response to reports that Cynthia Rodriguez, 34, ran off to Paris with him, Kravitz issued a statement first posted on perezhilton.com Thursday: "There is absolutely no affair between Cynthia Rodriguez and myself. This is unequivocally 100 percent not true." Kravitz, who is currently on tour in Europe, said that Cynthia is there with him as a friend. "Cynthia is a friend and is here with the godfather of her baby, who is also Alex's trainer, his wife and their baby girl," Kravitz said in the statement. "She came here to escape from everything happening in New York City. I opened my home to her as a friend and I find it extremely hurtful that I am now being referred to as an adulterer." (Source People Online)
I'm not sure why I find all of this so amusing, I mean, we're talking about a marriage here. But I do. Maybe because its all speculation to begin with. There are only a few people who really know the truth of what's going on in this situation. But where there is smoke, often times there is also fire. We'll find out soon enough what's really going on. In the meantime, don't be surprised if you hear stories of A-Rod having an affair with Will Smith and being seen with Elizabeth Taylor in a compromising position.

And finally, a little 4th of July cheer for you all, courtesy of The Muppets and the Best Week Ever blog (which I totally love!). Your welcome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDA9NbP

Sorry, I haven't quite figured out that whole embedding video thing. Anyway, I need to get back to doing my thing here at the station. Its going to be a busy weekend for me. I'll be broadcasting live from downtown Napa tomorrow from 1-3 pm at the July 4th Festival and then on Saturday I'll be broadcasting live from 5-6pm at the Robert Mondavi Winery in Rutherford to kick off the first of the summer festival concerts. This week The Preservation Hall Jazz Band are going to be performing. They're lots of fun to watch and there's going to be fireworks and everything! In between all of that fun I will probably be playing with the other distraction in my life, our new kitten Halo.

She's eight weeks old and freaking adorable.

So that's what I've got planned.
Have a good Fourth everyone!
Later!