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Aw, Heck, Just Some Random Thoughts....
As previously shared in my Today's News blog, but now aggregated here for your pondering pleasure:
February 9, 2007
• OK, Jim Carrey's upcoming feature, The Number 23, has a rather unsettling PR campaign: I'm getting daily e-mails about (what I presume are) current real-life crimes/tragedies that somehow involve the number 23.
• Is gossip columnist Cindy Adams almost impossible to read sometimes, or what? Fabricated example: "Mel Gibson. Braveheart. You know the drill. Yada-yada-yada. Lindsay. But that's old news if you-know-who is to be believed." Um, wha?!
• I'm thinking/fearing we're gonna be stuck with this Sienna Miller for a bit, yes?
• How awesome is that new "Cancel or Allow" TV spot in Apple's "PC Guy" campaign?!
February 2, 2007
• This whole Tyra Banks/"I'm not fat!" thing has to be one of the biggest non-stories to get such massive media play. Personally (and "until now," one of you will snark), I have steered clear of breathing a word about it, because it's merely a case of taking a tabloid story that otherwise would have come and gone, and milking it for a sweeps stunt.
• Isn't it completely coincidental how Parade Magazine's "Personality Parade" column always seems to find real, actual readers inquiring about celebrities who happen to be currently promoting something? I mean, what are the odds?
• I love Diane Keaton, and Stephen Collins sure does give a swell interview, but is Because I Said So really the title of a feature film? Is It Could Happen to You ready to share its Worst Title Ever crown?
January 26, 2007
• Is anyone else thoroughly enjoying Doonesbury's stabs at Donald Trump? Sure, the Rosie feud angle is a bit dusty (blame the newspapers' lead time), but the Tab A/Slot B-esque combover styling is a pissah!
• The new Ad Age skewers some TV ad's "resurrection" of Orville Redenbacher. I haven't seen it, have you? As horrific/unsettling/shoddily executed as it sounds?
• Any other newsstand groupies unsettled by the similarity between the new covers of Maxim (NSFW if your boss isn't cool) and Discover ?
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Feb 13, 2007 11:29 AM
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A tidbit of advice: "Some Random Thoughts" columns end up sounding a lot like that column Larry King used to write in USA Today. They make the writer sound kind of dippy and self-centered.
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Feb 13, 2007 7:37 PM
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Hey, I've completely noticed that about the Personality Parade column. But, they've been getting behind lately. In this week's issue (Feb 11), there was a letter asking how Barbaro was doing, and they gave the update that he had gotten an infection, but was still doing okay -- and nothing about the horse being euthanized. Also, I seem to remember that sometime in the past few weeks, they have answered a question about a celebrity and mentioned that they are dating someone who that person is no longer with. It might even have been about Anne Heche and her husband.
I know that Parade itself ran a feature on Drew Barrymore about two weeks after she and Fabrizio broke up, in with the article mentioned how happy they were together, and had no update to note that they were in fact no longer together.
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Feb 14, 2007 8:12 AM
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The cancel or allow spot is hilarious!!
And yet, somehow scary too. Makes me think twice about upgrading.
And for the record, some of us love your random thoughts piece! 
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Feb 14, 2007 1:33 PM
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I'm another fan of the cancel or allow ad, and the MAC commercials in general.
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Feb 14, 2007 6:13 PM
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I so do not want to be likened to Larry King.... 
[Adjusting suspenders]
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Feb 15, 2007 12:15 PM
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Don't worry, most of us do not find any resemblance in your work and that of Mr. King's. And as for being self-centered, some of your colleagues at tvguide.com (well one in particular) are the absolute definition of self-centered. I think most people know who i'm talking about.
Back to your thoughts. I have seen the Orville Redenbacher ad and the first time I did I stood, mouth agape, staring at the TV for like 30 seconds after the ad had ended. It is so absolutely horrible, it can't be put into words. check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LRpUBUQ3sE
I love all the MAC ads and this one has to be the best so far. I have been sick of Sienna Miller for 2 years now - she's been on about as many US weekly covers as Jessica Simpson and I still don't know what she's famous for. "Because I Said So" sounds like a working title of a film that the studio forgot to change.
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Feb 15, 2007 2:05 PM
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