Archive through February 11, 2003
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Archive through February 11, 2003
Curtisahahahaha | Monday, February 10, 2003 - 11:36 am     I miss Anna freakin' Nicole! |
Seamonkey | Monday, February 10, 2003 - 11:57 am     Wah?? Os ot f-ing Monday?? zzzzzfzzzzzzz |
Pamy | Monday, February 10, 2003 - 12:38 pm     Pretty f-ing good Conejo!! So nice of you to f-ing ask!! Curtis..just heard her new show starts in March, great f-ing news, huh?!!! LOL Sea, you made my f-ing day!! |
Rslover | Monday, February 10, 2003 - 12:45 pm     I can't stand them. I curse (sometimes) and their excessive cursing annoys me! |
Pamy | Monday, February 10, 2003 - 01:57 pm     Rslover..better not come in this thread then cuz we get really f-ing randy in here! |
Halfunit | Monday, February 10, 2003 - 03:59 pm     Randy? What the f kind of word is that? I've got a good f-ing one for you. I had to go back to the f-ing workplace today after being off for 3 bloody months. That really f-ing sucks! |
Fanny | Monday, February 10, 2003 - 04:04 pm     There's not another thread where I can express myself appropriately concerning Half's post... What the F kind of a job do you have where you can take off for 3 f-ing months? I want your f-ing job. F. |
Pamy | Monday, February 10, 2003 - 04:09 pm     LOL!!! Randy is an english(british?) term for something that is vulgar or f-ing nasty. I agree I want Half's f-ing job too!!!! OOOOhhhh this f-ing thread makes my Monday's so much easier to bear!!!! |
Car54 | Monday, February 10, 2003 - 04:27 pm     Osbourne alert.... West Coasters...try to catch Access Hollywood....Sharon is on (she has a very interesting new hair color) and she is f-ing outspoken on the Michael Jackson interview. She basically said she knows lots of people who have been through much more who have their lives together and if he was one of her kids she would smack him... It kind of took me by surprise...so someone watch and get the exact soundbite..it was great. |
Nathalia | Monday, February 10, 2003 - 04:38 pm     I've seen their interview over and over on various tv programs and the best thing about it is I can f-ing understand Ozzy!!! |
Halfunit | Monday, February 10, 2003 - 04:52 pm     <½ steps in for a moment to explain that she's been off for medical leave for a cyst that exploded in my f-ing eye. Ok, so maybe I milked it for a week or two, but I'll say this: it f-ing hurt like a s.o.b. !!> |
Seamonkey | Monday, February 10, 2003 - 05:06 pm     Thanks, Car.. I'll try to concentrate and see Sharon with her interesting hair colour.. it could be a wig, since she was in chemo thru January, but will be f-ing interesting. I've learned to listen to the words that come thru the stuttering and have come to be able to understnad Ozzy pretty f-ing well.. I love his expresseion when he's listening to someone. Half, that sounds f-ing painful! I think you should take three more f-ing months off.. tell em I f-ing said so.. As for other people with the Osbournes.. the older gent with the white beard is Sharon's dad. Of course they have Lisa the nanny (who is married to a musician, btw, and is from Australia) and a cook, and the trainer guy and the guy who goes places with Ozzy. The kids friends, besides Sara, I know among the friends are Mandy Moore and totally blanking here, the young man who was in LOTR.. and Jack's had members of the band he signed and f-ing Dill. Dill claims that when he was there for a month, Ozzy would keep introducing himself and asking who Dill was.. I suspect that is slightly exaggerated. Dill says Sharon was wonderful, treated him like her own kid. |
Car54 | Monday, February 10, 2003 - 05:09 pm     ow! Seamonkey, I think it was her real f-ing hair. It is just darker and shorter and has kind of orange stripes now. On the show it is more burgundy and longer. |
Pamy | Monday, February 10, 2003 - 05:41 pm     Thanks for the heads up Car!! What time is Access hwood on in CA??? Half...that sounds really f-ing painful, I am glad your better! |
Squaredsc | Monday, February 10, 2003 - 06:11 pm     sea, i can f-ing understand ozzie too. in fact i have f-ing understood him from the beginning, don't know why. he f-ing rocks. 1/2 i hope you are f-ing ok now? you poor thing, take another f-ing month like sea says. there are too f-ing many people in ozzy's house, i wonder how much f-ing loot they get paid. |
Seamonkey | Monday, February 10, 2003 - 06:33 pm     Car. that sounds like her own hair, growing out and with not permanent color.. but have to see for myself Pamy Channel 4/NBC at 7:30 but Extra starts at f-ing 7pm.. |
Halfunit | Monday, February 10, 2003 - 06:38 pm     I am much f-ing better now, thanks for your words, you f-ers. I wish I could take more f-ing time off. I hate that f-ing place. F F F F F F F F F !!!!!!! Oh yeah, I f-ing love Ozzy. |
Pamy | Monday, February 10, 2003 - 06:52 pm     Thanks Sea, this thread has so much f-ing love in it!!! It always gives me the warm f-ing fuzzies! |
Seamonkey | Monday, February 10, 2003 - 10:49 pm     I did see Sharon and her hair.. just looked shorter and darker I guess.. and on the f-ing show before that Aimee and Kelly were at the P. Diddy fashion show..Aimee says she was there to see the male models |
Marameko | Tuesday, February 11, 2003 - 07:36 am     This site is so f-ing funny |
Grooch | Tuesday, February 11, 2003 - 09:54 am     Osbourne tackles teen angst The album has a pop-punk flavour by Leigh Mytton BBC News Online Kelly Osbourne found fame on the reality TV show about her rock star father Ozzy and his family. Now she has released her debut album. Kelly Osbourne could be called an accidental pop star. It was her sister who persuaded her to cover Madonna's Papa Don't Preach to fill a gap in The Osbourne Family Album, released on the back of the hit reality TV show. Now the 18-year-old has got an album of her own. The album has no Black Sabbath overtones You have got to admire Kelly. In a world of Britney look and soundalikes, her eccentric fashion sense and devil-may-care attitude offer a refreshing change. But can she sing? Well, yes, as good as the next girl. In fact, she sounds a little like Kim Wilde. But Shut Up is not necessarily about pitch-perfect singing. It is about a state of mind. Kelly is venting her frustrations about boys, authority and feeling misunderstood. It is a pleasant enough 12-song pop-punk journey and a stiletto-wielding Kelly looks pretty feisty on the album cover, too. Opener Disconnected (with vitriolic lyrics and churning guitars) is a stand-out track. "Hope you're drowning in a pool/You've fallen in/'Cos you can't swim," snarls Kelly, striking a chord with every adolescent who has ever been dumped on. Anyone expecting any traces of Kelly's dad, ex-Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy, will be disappointed. Come Dig Me Out and Right Here are reminiscent of The Go-Gos and Kelly comes over all Suzi Quatro in Coolhead. Osbourne shows her softer side Title track Shut Up vies for the dubious honour of being the worst on the album, surpassed only by power ballad (thankfully the only one) More Than Life Itself. The songs are competent, but samey. You might find yourself drifting off about five tracks in, only to be woken up by Everything's Alright, which starts off sounding like Van Morrison before evolving into a fabulous angst-ridden rant. "Need to relax/Get my head straight/Put my face on/Shove my hair up," she thunders. The album is very well produced. It leaves you wondering what Kelly sounds like live. But there is no denying the girl's spunk and this album will be beloved by moody teenagers and Osbournes fans everywhere. And despite her four-letter outbursts and short fuse, Kelly has got her soft side, and the power ballad is not the only evidence of that on the album. She even manages a mention of her pets (New Baby and Pippy included) on the album sleeve. Maybe she is more of the girl-next-door than she likes to think. Shut Up is out now on Epic. |
Grooch | Tuesday, February 11, 2003 - 09:57 am     Daddy's little girl Profile: Kelly Osbourne IT was really only a matter of time before there was a musical spin-off from runaway reality TV hit The Osbournes. But even the most sympathetic Black Sabbath fan would admit that Ozzy -- poor, addled, slurring Ozzy -- is a bit past it these days. His last single Dreamer was a ballad, for crying out loud. So it's fallen to his 18-year-old daughter Kelly to continue the family trade. On telly, she's hard to dislike -- a caustic, foul-mouthed drama queen with obvious brains behind that weird posho drawl. And unlike most small-screen stars who pick up the mic, she hasn't wheeled out the usual 'actually, I've always wanted to be a singer' line (known in the trade as 'the McCutcheon gambit'). 'I've been around this shit my whole life and I know it's not as sweet as everyone thinks it is,' she said last week. 'I just found out that I could do it when they asked me if I wanted to make an album.' But while her attitude might be pleasingly punk rock, her music is anything but. Her debut single was a nasty, opportunistic cover of Papa Don't Preach -- do you see the double meaning? -- and while she lists her influences as Blondie, Siouxsie Sioux and Madonna, there's little evidence of that on her debut album Shut Up, released tomorrow. Kelly's media savvy enough to know that people will be lining up to take pot-shots at her current career change, but says she doesn't care what anyone thinks. But is that just a pre-emptive defence mechanism, hiding insecurities typical of all teenagers? Way more revealing than the power-poppy album is Kelly's surprisingly proactive approach to promoting it. For all her snotty claims -- that she forgets the words to songs when performing live, that she originally wanted to call the record Buy Me -- she's been powering through a gruelling European promotional campaign for the past three weeks with little in the way of complaint, taking in multiple TV appearances and a live gig in Amsterdam. At an in-store signing session in London last week, Osbourne seemed genuinely thrilled to meet her fans. Perhaps for the first time in her life she has an identifiable purpose, albeit it playing the pretty tiresome role of modern pop star. What did she do before the world was granted access into her home? She was just 16 when The Osbournes first began filming, but she'd already left school by then. Her younger brother Jack holds down a part-time job as a talent scout for Epic Records but we've never discovered what Kelly's ambitions were -- or indeed are (although she has expressed an interest in fashion design). So despite being rich enough to become a lady of leisure, Kelly seems to have an old-school (and distinctly uncool) work ethic, probably the result of being raised by unreconstructed working class hero Ozzy. Behind the spoiled-brat pout is a capable, intelligent and driven young woman. Let's just hope that she finds a more suitable outlet for her myriad strengths, and soon. One listen to mewling ballad More Than Life Itself and you'll understand the need for urgency. |
Grooch | Tuesday, February 11, 2003 - 10:00 am     OMG! Tonight is the final show. MTV's pet show being neglected February 11, 2003 BY PHIL ROSENTHAL TELEVISION CRITIC Ed Helms of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" spoke for a lot of us in critiquing Pepsi Twist's much-hyped Super Bowl commercial, the one in which Ozzy Osbourne finds out his kids are really Donny and Marie Osmond and his wife is Florence Henderson of "The Brady Bunch." "Irresistible!" he said. "Who among us wouldn't rush out and buy a Pepsi if they knew it would make the Osbournes disappear?" Actually, the Osbournes are going away on their own without us having to buy any Pepsi Twist, a vile brew that tastes like carbonated dishwater infused with Lemon Joy. It seems like only a moment ago that Ozzy, Sharon, Kelly and Jack Osbourne were everywhere you turned, and the whole world was eager to gawk. Now, with the family's second season "The Osbournes" set to conclude at 9:30 tonight on MTV, most of the world has better things to do. This family has become the train wreck you never hear about, the one rubberneckers can somehow ignore. Maybe you can discount the ratings for the Osbournes-hosted "American Music Awards," which lacked the editing that makes Ozzy and company's vulgar behavior sometimes seem amusing. That show hemmorrhaged viewers, going from 16 million viewers last year to 12 million this time. But MTV's ratings for "The Osbournes" bottomed out three weeks ago, hitting a season-low 3.5 million viewers, a serious slide from the peak of 7.7 million viewers who were watching last April or even the 6.6 million who tuned in to see the second season's opener last November. Last week's episode attracted 4.6 million viewers, which is slightly above the 4.4 million average for this season to date. Today, MTV will start running "Osbournes" programming at 4:30 p.m. as a run-up to the season finale. MTV says it's cool with all of this, noting that "The Osbournes" is doing only marginally worse this season among the viewers age 12 to 34 that the network cares about. But what can it say? Sure, the lost viewers are only the difference between being a cultural touchstone and a successful cable show. But there are still another 10 episodes being shot (for a third season set to debut later this year) that MTV paid the Osbournes big money to secure, and it will take every bit of heat the network can muster to get this baby back to a simmer, let alone anything approaching the boil of last spring. Then there's the DVD set of the first season of "The Osbournes," which the family was shilling over the weekend in New York. It's coming out next month, only about nine months too late to catch the crest of their popularity. Heaven knows there already are enough unsold "Osbournes" tchotchkes, T-shirts and other effluvia out there. So what derailed the crazy train? Overexposure is surely part of the equation, but not necessarily in the way one might think. After all, "Friends" has been overexposed for years and it only has seemed to help that show. Even people who never saw "the Osbournes" felt they had seen it, and its fan base became way too familiar with the Osbournes' tendencies, so the show no longer could surprise us the way a scripted series would. And the big revelations in their life were in the papers and on TV long before they were seen on the series. What a shock it would have been to learn Sharon Osbourne had cancer if we didn't know it months in advance? (And it's worth noting that, because she is the key player in this family drama, Sharon's lack of energy due to illness took far more air out of the series than it initially appeared.) Overexposure hurt "The Osbournes" not only with viewers but in Ozzy's household, too. The show began as a bizarre family living a happy-go-lucky life. It was a show centered on a well-known person and his unknown wife, kids and pets. The success of that first season meant that the second season suddenly was about four famous people, at least two of whom--young Jack and Kelly--were way too self-conscious about their fame to be relatable. Their unlikely relatability was what made this weird clan so improbably popular in the first place and--poof--it was gone. Even so, a show such as "Survivor" can lose millions of viewers and still be a huge draw, a top 10 show. "The Osbournes" enjoyed no such margin of error. Even at its peak--while talked about by everyone (including me) and on the cover of everything--it was seen by almost 20 million fewer viewers than watch "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" or "Friends." So disappearing is easy. Hype aside, they were barely here to start with. |
Grooch | Tuesday, February 11, 2003 - 10:05 am     Size-wise Kelly just won't Shut Up February 04 2003 at 08:32AM By Deborah Ross Off to a London hotel to meet Kelly Osbourne, who is promoting her first album, How I Love to Crochet On Summer Evenings After I Have Straightened the Antimacassars. Smashing video. Only teasing. It's called Shut Up. So Kelly, I ask, you've not been persuaded to aim for the in-vogue teen anorexic look yet? Not been persuaded to live on Evian and the occasional radish? Peeled, obviously, as most of the calories are in the skin. "No way," she says. "Get lost." ''I think you've neglected to notice that I'm fat' Speak your mind, I say. She adds that she was once asked to wear a skimpy top for a teen magazine shoot: "And I was like: 'I think you've neglected to notice that I'm fat. I'm not wearing that.'" There is much to worship about Kelly O. Can you cook, Kelly? "I make really good guacamole. Mum can't cook. She bought, like, these turkey meatballs with garlic butter in the middle and she left them in the oven too long and they split open and the butter caught fire. We had to call the fire brigade." This is one of the things I love about the Osbournes. They only need a turkey meatball to create a full-blown crisis. Kelly is wearing a Laura Ashley pinafore and pearls. Only teasing - she is wearing a pinstripe skirt with zips all over it and a pair of high-heeled, glossy red peep-toe shoes. 'Worst thing a nanny ever did was lock us in a wardrobe while she had a party in the house' She is, actually, extremely cute, with her thick, dark bonnet of gothic hair, the sweet pot belly every teenage girl should, by law, have, wonderful skin - "I get it from my mum." - and amazingly good legs. I compliment her on her legs. She won't have it: "I hate my legs. I've got cuts everywhere. From falling over. And see this white scar? I got shot." By whom? "Jack." Doh! Like I needed to ask. She says Jack, her younger brother, is actually less crazed than he used to be. "Therapy has helped. He's less violent and more motivated to do stuff." Are you in therapy, Kelly? "God, no. I can give myself better advice." I bet she can. And does. She appears not only to know herself absolutely, but also absolutely to like herself as she is. If she is fast becoming an anti-Britney, anti-Christina teen icon - "They can both kiss my fat ass," she once famously said - it can only be good news, frankly. I wonder about her vulnerability. You can't be 18 and invulnerable, can you? I think I glimpse it just once, when she talks about her boyfriend "Bert" who is, apparently, lead singer with a band called The Used. "I never realised how dramatic relationships are," she says. Kelly, you've been shot in the leg by your own brother. "Yeah, but... it's like you are both wondering what the other is thinking, and you don't ask. So many little games..." Suddenly, she looks like the child she still is. I don't think Kelly is expert at playing "little games". When I ask her why she thinks The Osbournes has been such a hit, she says: "I think it's because we don't sugar-coat anything. We are honest. That's refreshing to people because they are so sick of people being fake." She has a point. Ozzy, Sharon, Kelly, Jack. Spoiled, bonkers, sulky, fractious, utterly weird and all knocking about in a huge house full of dogs pooing everywhere. But if they are dysfunctional - and who isn't? - at least they are openly dysfunctional. Then there is Kelly's relationship with her older sister, Aimee, who refused to be filmed for The Osbournes and is the "real singer" in the family: "She's a . She doesn't ever want to talk to me or hang out with me, so I've given up on it." Kelly's album is surprisingly decent. It legitimately rocks. "If I farted on a CD and handed it to mum as my latest, she'd love it. Dad would tell the truth, though." Ah, lovely, befuddled Ozzy. When did you realise he had drug problems? "I always knew. Sometimes it upset me, but I realise he has an addiction - it doesn't mean he doesn't love us." With Ozzy touring and Sharon managing, I imagine she had lots of nannies. "The worst nannies. There was one nanny... I didn't want to eat vegetables, so she got me in a headlock and shoved them in my mouth. "But the worst thing a nanny ever did was lock us in a wardrobe while she had a party in the house. She left. Our housekeeper found us in the morning. My mum called the police." Alas, Kelly and school never quite gelled. She went to a girls' school where: "The other girls were all 'my horse, my horse'. I didn't have a horse. I had a quad bike." She and Aimee were ultimately suspended. One of them swore during a school trip, and neither would say who it was: "The headmistress knew it was Aimee, so suspended her; and me for not telling. My mother called her and said: 'You're suspending my daughters because one swore and the other wouldn't tell on her own sister? What sort of morals do you have?' My mum made the head cry." Neat. Kelly dropped out in 10th grade, and I can't see her ever sitting down to that peeled radish. Thank God. |
Jed245 | Tuesday, February 11, 2003 - 10:06 am     So ozzy is not gonna have his own show anymore? You mean his cozy lil family unit won't be on t.v. anymore? Well this is truly a day to remember if tonight is the last show. Man to think no more ozzy on his own show :o( all I can say is............... WWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! hehe Sorry if you were a fan of the show. :o) Jed. |
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