From Glenn Reynolds:
DUMBEST. TV SHOW. EVER. Last night I caught a few minutes of “The Celebrity Paranormal Project” on VH1. Celebrities festooned with Ghostbusters-type gear, wandering around allegedly haunted places. Picabo Street as a medium. Jeez.
However, I can report that Mariel Hemingway remains very hot. She deserves better. But then, so do we. . . .
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety; other women cloy
The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry
Where most she satisfies; for vilest things
Become themselves in her, that the holy priests
Bless her when she is riggish.
A&C, II.ii.
From the episode description, a strong argument against capital punishment:
Mariel Hemingway, Joe Piscopo, gold-medalist Picabo Street, The Real World’s Tonya Cooley, and Baywatch’s Michael Bergin head to America’s deep south to investigate the haunting of a maximum-security prison (nicknamed The Walls) where the ghost of its cold-blooded warden is said to still walk the halls. In search of his ghost, the team retraces the warden’s ritualized path through the prison yard and alongside the endless rows of cells in Block C. Finally, it’s in the same execution chamber, where the warden put over one hundred men to death, that the team finally makes contact.
“For Chairman Me, Mariel XOXOX”
UPDATE: I emailed VH1 to ask whether it’s true they’re going to film an episode in a haunted abortion clinic; so far, no word.
I confess: sometimes even I have misgivings about the free enterprise system.
Yeah, ahem, I don’t even get TV.
But did you notice that the path was ritualized?
Holy Shit! Joe Piscopo is still alive? Is he just as stupid as ever? Seems to me that’s a strong argument in favor of capital punishment.
So there really is a “D List” for celebs…
Did they make any predictions on the election? I would guess they could be as accurate as the polls are.
Actually, you examine a set of squirrel entrails and get a more accurate prediction on this election.
I actually saw an episode of that show that included Gary Busey and Donna D’Errico. As dumb as the show is (it’s really just MTV’s “Fear” populated by has-been “stars”), I’ll say this:
If you MUST broadcast a show that involves celebrities “investigating” paranormal activities, then Gary Busey is a no-brainer. He should be in every episode. He wasn’t frightened at all by the producer-concocted loud noises and eerie happenings. To the contrary, he reveled in the experience, sitting in the darkened hallway of an old sanitarium, insisting he felt every bit of the spiritual energy permeating his aura, but that it made him feel alive, Alive, ALIVE!
Gary Busey is the most unintentionally funny human being alive. (Aside from John Kerry, perhaps.)
InstaCloset.
Tonya Harding wasn’t available?
from Life of Brian:
“He has a wife, you know.”
Right this way for the mental floss, to clear away this drecky placque between the brain cells.
I did time in a haunted southern prison once…
Once.
D list celebrities? I’m thinking more like Q list…
– Ummmmmm … Mariel doing the high jump… those were the days…..
Maybe they should hold a seance and try to make contact with their careers.
I haven’t seen Mariel. I assume she looks better than Margot.
Uh, yea. <shudder> Like a sheet of cellophane before you crinkle it up to throw it away.
Does that make you Marielistas?
mojo–
If it did, would that also make us “Celebrealistas”?
I admire Glenn’s (implied) belief that a show titled “The Celebrity Paranormal Project†would somehow not rank as one of our civilization’s darkest hours. Such naivety is refreshing in these jaded times.
What else do you suppose we could get Glenn to watch?
Celebrity Pudding Wrestling
Celbrity Brain Surgery
Celebrity UN Security Council
Oh, I know! I know!
Celebrity Law School
Off-topic, but I’ve just discovered it: My keyboard’s W key has gone all wonky, with intermittent outages. Could this be an omen for the election??
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Hmmm. Seems OK now. Stay tuned.
Depending on who’s in it, celebrity pudding wrestling could be pretty cool
I’m not familiar with any celebrity pudding. Niche genre?
Celebrity Brain Surgery might explain monkeyboy…
Depending on who’s in it, celebrity pudding wrestling could be pretty cool
Bill Cosby would have to MC.
Come to think of it, I once watched a Celebrity Cutting Horse Competition on TV. All I remember is that Marilyn Quayle was one of the celebrities.
That might explain pudding, too . . .
Hasty pudding….
– How about – Celebrity bowling for simians
You’ll find it between any celebrity’s ears.
Like dwarf bowling, only bigger?
I dunno about pudding. I’m sure pudding has been around since, oh, the 1940s at least—Jack Benny used to sell it. Also, pudding is its own justification.
– Yeh McGehee….they use mini-me for the head pin…..