Beverly Hills 9021-Oh No

The CW is re-making Beverly Hills 90210. Although the original show is secretly a guilty pleasure of mine, I believe this re-make is a tragic idea. Solely because this proves to us viewers that the television industry has completely run out of ideas. It's already happened with movies. There is such an unbelievable amount of re-make movies that I could just kill myself.

I would be interested to know if the CW is just borrowing the name and zip code from the old soap opera, or if they will actually name the characters Dylan, Donna, Kelly, Brenda, Brendan, etc. I have my hopes set on the plot lines not paying drastic homage to the original 90210. That could be potentially corny.

Ahhem, Ahhem...Reality Stars Are'nt Real Stars...Ahhem...

I'm going to touch base upon a subject that is sore to some. Reality TV. Lets face it, I will never consider any of Laguna Beach, The Hills, Tila Tequila or Brooke Knows Best to be a real show. I feel that reality TV is just a way for us to invade other people's privacy because we don't have anything dramatic going on in our own lives.

Our generation has taken reality TV to a whole new scary level. To prove this, I will point out that Lauren Conrad was on an issue of Seventeen magazine.

What's so great about Lauren? Seventeen always tries to find inspiring, talented girls to put on their cover. But, Lauren? She is a spoiled, bratty rich girl who has no talent. When your on a reality show you aren't acting (at least your not supposed to be.) So she can't act, she doesn't have some kind of ridiculous album out, so she can't sing. I'm assuming she doesn't dance. so, unless she is a closeted bowing pin juggler, Jack The Ripper deserves to be on the cover of a magazine more than this reality star.

To try to quote Rachel Quaintance on 'I Love The New Millennium'.....

"Every episode of Laguna Beach was like:

.omg, do you think Stephen is gonna be there?

.I don't know

.ughh, if he is that would be, like, so drama

.yeah

.ughh. Hey Stephen

.Hey

.ughh. This is so drama."

Freaks & Geeks

For those out there who are lucky enough to have seen the one-year-long show, Freaks and Geeks, I have a question for you. Who was your FAVORITE character. It may seem like a simple question, but lets give this some thought shall we? First we have Lindsay the well-mannered, wonderfully naive, want-to-be-freak who stutters when she's nervous or unsure. Then there's Sam the short, geeky, race car fanatic dying to win over Cindy Sanders. Nick- stoner, romantic, absolutely hilarious. Kim Kelly- snobby, rude, bitchy, wasn't hugged enough as a child. The cast list goes on and on.

Perhaps it's not the characters, but how the actors are so compatible. Recently, there have been an overwhelming amount of new movies with two or more of the fictional Lincoln High School graduates. Knocked Up, Pineapple Express, Superbad, Forgetting Sarah Marshal, and hopefully more will be coming soon.

Back with Biscotti

Hello. As lovely as Italy was, I am so glad to be home and be able to sit in my air conditioned attic, eat chocolate pudding and have a Gilmore Girl marathon with myself/my cousin. When Lorelei and Rory arrive home from Europe, they carry around a white bag of biscotti. When something fun happened, they would ask each other, "Biscotti moment?," reach in the bag and have a snack. Now having journeyed to the land of biscotti, I ask myself: how could I not have had biscotti moments there? Well, I did. And for your fun, I documented them to compare to the Gilmore's'.














Arielle's Biscotti Moment
Above, would be me at a vineyard eating my
lunch (biscotti), with a dog that desperately
needs a bath.











Gilmore Girl Biscotti Moment
Above, would be Lorelei and Rory watching
a ballroom dancing competition on tape.
The bag of biscotti between them.

Ciao for Now

All right, so until July 20, I'm going to be in Italy. Perhaps when in the Vatican I will have the conveniently opportune moment to touch the Pope's car as Lorelei Gilmore legendarily did. It certainly will make for a nice anecdote! Speaking of Gilmore Girls, my cousin and I have been ploughing through season 4 for the past couple days. She was not much of a fan at all...but season 4 has turned her into one. If anyone is looking to find a new anti-drug while I'm gone, Gilmore Girls would be an easy way to go. My suggestion is (unless you really get seriously hooked) leave the seasons 6 and 7 alone. The new writer for the later years was not quite as witty and hilarious. I'm off to go watch the last 9 episodes. Ciao bella!

I'll Be There For You

There is so much singing on Friends (mainly by phoebe), I was given a suggestion by a friend to put together a small tribute-type thing. here it is. Im sure you'll love every minute of it.

1) Chandler and Phoebe singing together=very cute.



2)Phoebe singing "Hey Mickey" to block out the smoke detector.



3) Little Black Curly Hair



4) Holiday Song



5) Smelly Cat!



6) The Truth About Grandmas



7) Bisexuals/In the Jungle



8) Space Oddity

It's Not What It Seems

The shows like One Tree Hill and The O.C. are entertaining for sure. But once in a while you have to ask yourself, why is lucas scott playing ball at the river court rather in a calculus class at Tree Hill high? Why is Seth Cohen playing Halo instead of learning how to conjugate spanish verbs? The answer is yet to be found.

The characters in Friends spend their days drinking coffee, hanging out, and (50% of them) shoe shopping. Shouldn't Ross be discovering dinosaur species, Joey acting, Monica cooking, Chandler doing whatever he does, and Phoeboe messaging strangers?-Which, by the way, couldnt possibly pay enough for her to live the life she does. Rachel is at work so little that I dont even know what she does. something at Bloomingdales/ Ralph Lauren, of course. But what?

In Will & Grace, Will is supposed to be a fairly successful lawyer. But the funny thing is, he rarley works. When he does, he seems to only have one client at a time. For example, Harlin Polk, the southern-talking, loud, bazillionare. Or, Stuart Lamarack, another bazillionare who became Jack's "long term" boyfriend. At the time will was handling these clients, he wasn't working for anyone else. If we took this further, we could say that will didnt have any other clients that we were aware of. Very unrealistic.

Television can be decieving. It more likley is than isn't. There always is a desire we have when watching a juicy episode of Gossip Girl, that life might actually be that way. That perhaps we can go have breakfast at Lukes Diner before school and not be terribly late. I would like a little less false hope from the television producers and a little more realism. Now, I'm definatley not talking about reality TV (because the last thing we need is more of that.) But come on, Lucas should put the basketball down and take out a peice of paper and pencil and do what a normal person does on a weekday.