Queen Elizabeth was serenaded by pop legends at the concert for her Diamond Jubilee (which marks her 60th year as leader of the monarchy). Not one to draw attention to herself, she led a thousand ship fleet up the River Thames one day before being serenaded by the likes of Paul McCartney, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Will.i.am and Kylie Minogue. Elton John played three songs, and McCartney ripped through a set that included Live and Let Die and some Beatles standards. The Queen almost joined the most pit for a rousing rendition of the Andrew Lloyd Webber song 'Sing,' which was written specifically for this occasion. It's only the second diamond jubilee in the monarchy and we look forward to Prince Charles', and assuming he takes the reigns maybe next year when Elizabeth turns 90, it will be in the year 2072 when he's 123 years old (the British age well).
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Political satirist Bill Maher has revealed that he is a minority owner of the New York Mets. On the heels of building a new ballpark, a beautiful billion dollar stadium (which made Shea Stadium look even worse than it was) the team was tied up in the whole Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme. A couple big deals with crooked people didn't go through, fortunately for the Mets, and the owners were selling limited partner shares for $20 million a piece. Maher caught win of this in December, and revealed on Sunday that he has been a minority partner for months. Maher grew up in New Jersey said he has been a life long Mets fan and is excited to find "something I can be a-political about." He doesn't plan on interfering with the team operation too much saying he's "just a fan" and is a good luck charm. "I think my role is to bring luck to the team, like I did this weekend. I mean, let's be honest: They did not have a no-hitter for 50 years, I buy in and I come to town and there's a no-hitter. Draw your own conclusions."
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Madonna, who has a career filled with head-up-ass moves has stirred up controversy in France while perfuming the song "Nobody Knows Me" in front of a giant screen where Marine La Pen, the head of France's extreme right wing political party the National Front, with a swastika on her head. The National From has been accused of racism but insist the aren't a Nazi party and "object to being depicted as such." Mrs Le Pen found the comparison less than flattering and has threatened legal action against the Material Girl if she continues the performance in France. Madonna has a show in Paris in July and you'll be sure sure Le Pen will be centre stage, getting covered in perspiration and saliva, to make sure another Nazi comparison isn't forthcoming.
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So, because I so watched this (I didn't), the MTV movie awards aired last night. "Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1" won best movie (obv). Ya, and the vampire guy and girl or whatever won a bunch of other crap they don't deserve. Anyways, Johnny Depp stole the show. He was awarded a MTV Generation award for being "a gutsy actor, a gutsy musician, a gutsy artist with passion." Black Keys vocalist-guitarist Dan Auerbach said Depp is "legitimately great on guitar." The usual crap won stuff, but spare yourself the pain and just watch Johnny play guitar on the Black Keys track "Gold On the Ceiling." Take a look at the video, or at least until MTV takes it down:
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Can't-Stand-Ya! Seinfeld's George Costanza, a Mr Jason Alexander has put his foot in his mouth much like his television counterpart. While on the Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, Jason referred to cricket as a gay sport and that the cricket style of pitching is "queer." George… err Jason immediately recognized his error by taking to his Twitter account and issuing a lengthy statement that included him saying he "should know better." Jason stated that when Craig brought up the mention of cricket, he broke out into an old routine he had on cricket that may not conform to today's standards of decency. He said apologized profusely and closed the mini-novel (like his "pamphlet" book from season 7 of Curb Your Enthusiasm) by stating "In comedy timing is everything. And when a group of people are still fighting so hard for understanding, acceptance, dignity and essential rights - the time for some kinds of laughs has not yet come." Sounds like someone's sticking it to T-Bone (or other Seinfeld related jokes)
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Mere days after announcing his departure from SNL, Andy Samberg has confirmed that he will be starring in the BBC production "Cuckoo" where he plays a slacker who is petrified of his intimidating father-in-law after marrying a British girl. No other cast has been announced nor has a premiere date been set. You can check out Andy Samberg co-starring with Adam Sandler in the comedy "That's My Boy" opening on June 15. Apparently, Andy is a product of an inappropriate teacher/student relationship with Adam Sandler playing his father. I'll see it and all but 2006 me is REALLY stoked.
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Speaking of movies, it is summer time so it's time to roll out the popcorn movies. No shortages of superhero flicks this summer with the Avengers still cleaning up at the box office, then you have the reboot of the Spiderman franchise and the third and final film of the Chris Nolan Batman trilogy. Pretty much obvious must sees. Coming out in August is a great looking little movie where two politicians fight tooth and nail dirty politics to win a congressional seat called "The Campaign". Best part: The two politicians are played by Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis, not to mention the movie is directed by Meet the Parents, Austin Powers and the underrated Mystery Alaska (what can I say, great hockey movie) director Jay Roach. The will be another Bourne movie being released later in the year as well, this time CIA assassin Aaron Cross is the focus of the story, played by Hurt Locker and National Lampoon's Senoir Trip alum Jeremy Renner since Matt Damon didn't want to do another one.. at least not yet. As for movies to avoid, I'll just say most, but I can't believe the premise for "Ted." It stars Mark Wahlberg, and a animated foul mouthed teddy bear. This is the brainchild of Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane in his feature length directing debut. Mila Kunis starts as the love interest, no doubt a favour to McFarlane. I usually trust Seth McFarlane's judgement and style of comedy, but there's no way way I can feel even a little stoked on this. |
| Galifianakis & Ferrell in "The Campaign" |
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| Doughty after scoring in game 2 |
Los Angeles Kings fan rejoice. Barring a horrendous breakdown, the Kings will be this years Stanley Cup champions. The Kings just beat the New Jersey Devils 4-0 to take a 3-0 strangle hold on the best of seven series. New Jersey have played ok, but not great, especially in game 2, which is the closed they've come to winning a game this series. The most troubling aspect has been the Devils' lack of scoring, having hit the back of the net just two times in the series. Jonathon Quick hasn't had to be razor sharp because of the lack of New Jersey's quality scoring chances, but when called upon he has stood tall like he has all playoffs, and all season really. As for the Calder Cup Finals, the Toronto Marlies find themselves down 2-0 in their series again the Norfolk Admirals. For the first time in the playoffs, goaltending was an issue in game two, with Ben Scrivens allowing two questionable third period goals to put the Admirals up 4-1 before Toronto adding on a late goal to make the score a more respectable looking 4-2. Game 3 is set to be played in Toronto on Thursday night. Let's go Marlies!
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| Jay Rosehill mucking it up in Norfolk |
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