Archive for February 22nd, 2012

The worst Oscar opening number ever?

- February 22nd, 2012

Maybe, just MAYBE last year’s Oscar telecast wasn’t quite as awful as we thought.

We all remember how James Franco’s drag bit tanked and that Anne Hathaway’s perkiness was worthy of a thousand tranquilizers – but did either of them sing a duet of Proud Mary with Snow White?

No?

Then it could’ve been worse.

Much, much worse.

Here’s the proof.

This is a video clip of the 1989 Academy Award’s opening number. While the whole musical production is a tremendously cheesy disaster – it’s the mind-numbingly awful Disney sing-a-long between Rob Lowe and Snow White that pushes it over the top.

Just a warning: the routine was choreographed by Allan Carr, the man who brought you such hits as Grease 2 and The Village People’s Can’t Stop the Music.

Awful is relative, my friends.

 

Colbert to release kids’ book

- February 22nd, 2012

Can Stephen Colbert’s deadpan wit translate to the under 10 crowd? Apparently so.

Grand Central Publishing has announced that it will publish Colbert’s first kids’ book “I Am a Pole (And So Can You!)” on May 8.

The book came about following a two-part “Colbert Report” segment last month in which he interviewed legendary children’s author Maurice Sendak (“Where the Wild Things Are”).

In a release, Colbert said, “It’s been a lifelong dream of mine to write a children’s book. I hope the minutes you and your loved ones spend reading it are as fulfilling as the minutes I spent writing it.”

Not satisfied to conquer the world of children’s lit, Colbert will also release a book for adults – “America Again: Re-Becoming the Greatness We Never Weren’t” – in October.