September 2011
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Tattle: Hef's ex: My mamms are worth a mil →
From the Daily News, September 30, 2011.
This column directly relates to this tweet about how I pick what leads the column. For those keeping score at home, this was a rare success in terms of getting questionable words through the copy editors who should regard my Tattle columns with a healthy level of disgust.
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Behrs serves up laughs as one of '2 Broke Girls' →
From the Daily News, September 26, 2011.
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What I should have done when faced with massive...
Scene: Walking home from the gym on 9th right above South. Car filled with twentysomething white boys pulls up next to me. Kid in the back sticks his out the window
Kid: Hey, can you tell us how to get to Irish Pub … with your top off!
What I should have done: Explained that his seemingly harmless prank was a form of sexual assault that only served to make me feel like an inferior class...
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Tattle: Cheap shots at Sarah bring out the worst... →
From the Daily News, September 24, 2011.
My last Saturday Tattle. Aw, I’m gonna miss it.
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Do I like this song because it’s called “Molly vs. the World” and Molly is my name. Yes, yes I do. But I also like the line “Molly will destroy your planet.”
Thanks AV Club Philly!
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Why I didn't like "Moneyball" even though everyone...
Late in “Moneyball“‘s game, Brad Pitt, as A’s GM Bully Beane says something like, “It’s hard not to be romantic about baseball.” In fact, he says it twice. I whole-heartedly agree. It’s America’s game, steeped in history and celebrity. It’s why I love baseball movies and hate the designated hitter.
And it’s exactly why I...
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“Ms. Meriwether has learned, though, that penis jokes do have a limit. In an...”
– Bill Carter wrote a very smart piece about the word of the season — that would be ‘vagina’ — in this season’s crop of women-led shows. I think the above quote, from “New Girl” showrunner Liz Meriwether, summarizes why I don’t like this new trend, as I...
The Ballad of McCullar Me Bad and Molls to the...
This whole California trip started after a particularly epic text message convo about “Dr. Who,” which is a ridiculous excuse to travel a couple thousand miles across the country. But Emily and I also once left a party to come up with a concept for an hour-long CW drama about dogs that both solved crimes and navigated the trials and tribulations of their respective love lives. All live...
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“WOW!!!! TV Guide is NOT including me on the cover with my cast...”
– Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson on her Facebook page after being excluded from most of the promotional material from her new show “Person of Interest.”
She removed the comments but I gotta hand it to the woman, that’s ballsy. And because it’s Hollywood, this has to be...
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Here's where I talk about TV for a long time: "How...
The new TV season officially started yesterday, meaning my life has gotten exponentially better. Kicked it off last night with a shitty episode of “How I Met Your Mother” (“The Best Man”), a promising episode of “2 Broke Girls” and a considerably better episode of “HIMYM” (“The Naked Truth”).
What’s interesting about both shows is...
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Here's where I talk about TV some more: "The...
There was nothing I wanted to add about episode five of “The Hour” so think of this as more of an addendum to this post about a show that none of the five (that’s generous) people who read this Tumblr have presumably watched.
Thinking more about class represented in British and American culture isn’t so much that Americans don’t discuss class so much as American...
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True Confessions
I have all of “The Larry Sanders Show” on my DVR because they play the reruns on IFC late at night. The entire series is also on Netflix so I could conceivably watch all of it in sequence without worrying about the commercials.
I keep the DVR-d version because of the late night infomercials.
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Tattle: Pix that would make her mom Scarlett →
From the Daily News, Sept. 15, 2011.
This is currently the third most read article on Philly.com, behind a story about a dominatrix (and former Penn Ph.D) whose boyfriends keep dying and one about the Phillies, making my thoughts on ScarJo’s ta-tas the most read thing I will ever write in my life.
But the item about the “Real Housewife” running away with Neal Motherfucking...
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Tattle: Gosselin threatens to return plus 8 →
From the Daily News, Sept. 13, 2011
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Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibits work of 10... →
From the Daily News, Sept. 12, 2011
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Here's where I'm gonna talk about TV for a long...
”The Hour,” a six-episode BBC series about a television news show set in 1956, has garnered many a-comparison to the much beloved “Mad Men” because it’s set during a comparable era, is cinematically shot and uses the time period as a motivating force for one of the plotlines (in this case, it’s the Suez Crisis).
There are some definite similarities,...
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Tattle: This big Jackson tribute could be the king... →
From the Daily News, Sept. 10, 2011.
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Tattle: Fox gives Jay-Z a bad rap over NoLibs... →
From the Daily News, Sept. 9, 2011
Came into the office to find a message waiting for me hating on my treatment of Jay-Z, essentially telling me I’m not racist enough especially because, and this is my fave: ”Weren’t you one of the girls beaten up in the flash mob? And you still have nice thing to say about black people after that? After what they did to you?” Yep, believe...
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His 'Pain' a Big Gain →
From the Daily News, Sept. 9, 2011.
This about Kevin Hart, who grew up in North Philly and is releasing his first stand-up special, “Laugh at my Pain,” to theaters.
Journalism note: This was one of those rare interviews that I thought went terribly after it was done, but found it wasn’t so horrible after listening to the tape. This is rare. Very rare. Also: I really like...
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“We wouldn’t be shooting it down. We’d be ramming the aircraft,” Penney recalls...”
– F-16 pilot was ready to give her life on Sept. 11
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I follow the Fresh Air Tumblr because it’s nice and I like Fresh Air. They recently wondered why a 2005 interview with the RZA was blowing up traffic-wise.
Clearly the only sensible answer is that hearing Terry Gross say Old Dirty Bastard is fantastic.
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Tattle: Randy of Mayberry →
From the Daily News, Sept., 8, 2011
Bold Names: Kate Gosselin, John Mayberry Jr.
I’m doing Tattle — the celeb gossip column — while the normal guy is at TIFF. Muhahahahahahahaha.
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WatchSeeing Wild Flag October 19 at new spot Union Transfer. Oh, yeeeeeeeeaaaaah.
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There's some really dark humor on "iCarly"
Carly: Steven told me I’m one of a kind! Sam: Yes, and my dad once told my mom he was coming back. [Everyone is silent for a few seconds] Sam: So, moving on….
This is an exchange from the Nickelodeon TV movie “iParty with Victorious” that I landed on after I finished watching the season finale of “Friday Night Lights” but was too distracted by my bucketful of...
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Tattle: 'Method of transportation' puts rapper... →
From the Daily News, September 3, 2011.
Did you know that former Sixers owner Pat Croce loves pirates!?
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My Favorite Movies of 2011 So Far
1. “Attack the Block”
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3. “Attack the Block”
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5. “Attack the Block”
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“It’s clear that Habitat for Humanity does very good and important work, not only...”
– This is a quote from the Philly real estate blog Naked Philly. But…
And isn’t there always a but?
As outlined by another Philly blogger, Amy Z. Quinn/Citizen Mom, Naked Philly is quasi-secretly operated by OCF Realty, a real estate company/developer that focuses on different...
philadelphia will do: John Bolaris vs. Fake John... →
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A tale of two meteorologists, one real and one fake.
In Thursday’s Daily News, Dan Gross wrote about how Fox 29 weatherman John Bolaris warned Howard Stern and his wife Beth to postpone their vacation to Vermont because of Hurricane Irene. (This is interesting gossip for a town with no…
Seriously. Go and read this. So good. Also, “idiot it was tweets, that you moron would...
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Stories on the Live Arts Fest/Philly Fringe
Our best bets for the Live Arts Festival
At the Fringe Festival in Philadelphia, there are edgy venues that grip an audience
From the Daily News, Sept. 2, 2011
For the record, I’m going to “Lady M.,” “Twelfth Night” and “The Devil and Mr. Punch.”
“A typical Molly blog post is aggressively quirky and a bit manic in its desire...”
– Oh holy god. This is horrifying. The New York Observer wrote this piece (given to me by DMac) about ‘the Molly,’ which has somehow become an internet-ism for an overly cute, overly overshare-y blogger who essentially got into the biz of writing because they wanted to talk about... 