Bobby!!!
I have to confess I can’t stop thinking about the new reality TV show “Being Bobby Brown” on Bravo.
First of all, if you don’t know what it is — basically it’s cameras following around Whitney Houston in her daily displays of madness & confusion. I don’t care if the show is supposed to be about Bobby, you know damn well it’s about Whitney.
It’s difficult to watch 2 mins. of the show without thinking “this is ridiculous, why I am I watching this?”. It really is crazy. But there is always this day-after effect that I get. I start hearing Whitney in my head yelling “Bobby! Bobby!”. She does it all the time. She stumbles around, strung out on drugs, and is always searching for Bobby…who is usually drunk in some corner, mumbling to the camera about how much he loves his wife and kids.
My favorite example is when they were in London shopping, and she was just walking around in the mall saying “Bobby! Bobby?” and she’d just ask random people “Have you seen my husband?”.
Then there are the random references to “The Bodyguard”, which came out 13 years ago! Whitney will sing part of “I’m Every Woman” or Bobby will say that Whitney looks like she did in the movie. C’mon…it’s been 13 years! I guess her fans aren’t the only ones who think Whitney was better in the 90′s.
And the final thing I love is when Whitney will stop what she’s been doing, and say “Whew.” Like she’s exhausted from walking up some steps, and she just has to say “Whew” in that singing voice…like it’s part of a song, and she’ll tilt her head and say it. And she also throws in this crazy fake laugh sometimes. It’s very thick, I don’t know where it comes from, but it doesn’t even sound like her.
So I hate this show, but have to confess I love some of the crazy things that stick with me afterward.
“Bobby!! Bobby… Where is my husband?…crazy laugh…Whew….”
the d-lister
Last night I watched Kathy Griffin’s new TV show on Bravo, Kathy Griffin: Life on the D-List. It was hilarious! I love Kathy Griffin, and I’m glad she’s got her own TV show. I also saw her new stand-up special, Kathy Griffin is Not Nicole Kidman, and it was equally funny… especially her material on Clay Aiken (“Gayken” as she calls him). I used to live in Raleigh, where Clay is from.
If you haven’t seen Kathy’s new show or stand-up special, I highly recommend them both. Find out more info at: http://www.bravotv.com/Kathy_Griffin/
Melissa Etheridge is “back”!
I just read a quick article on Yahoo! about Melissa Etheridge, with an update on her recovery from cancer.
“I would say I’m 97 percent back now,” Etheridge told AP Radio in an interview. “It is very hard. … Chemotherapy is so hard on a person. And I would say I’m fully recovered, yeah.”
I was just listening to Melissa’s “Lucky” CD this morning. It’s such a great CD. Due to her cancer, I know she wasn’t able to promote this album nearly as much as it deserved. But it is a phenominal CD filled with compelling and insightful songs.
Good for you, Melissa. I’m so glad you’ve made it.
