Flipping Out, Season 2

Tonight is the season finale of Flipping Out (Season 2), Bravo’s hilarious hit reality TV show. Flipping Out follows the life of real estate investor Jeff Lewis and his band of co-workers including: Ryan (business partner), Jenni (executive assistant), Chris (house manager), and Zoila (the maid). Sounds dramatic? It is. Jeff Lewis seems to live in a world of total chaos and dysfunction, but within his dysfunction he has created a family-type business environment which lives and dies for real estate. “I sell a complete package…a life style that’s in harmony with and exemplified by the exterior and interior living space.” Jeff explains. “I’m obsessive about the way I live and work, so when it comes to renovating, I believe in finding the true integrity of a house, then breathing life back into it in a way that connects with a certain type of buyer.”

The first season of Flipping Out introduced the world to Jeff Lewis. Most known for his obsessive compulsion and erratic behavior, Jeff is surprisingly humorous and easy to relate to. Within nine years, he has flipped approximately 45 houses in the Los Angeles area. His homes are known for their beauty and meticulous nature (as well as their hefty price tag).

The second season of flipping out delves deeper into the lives of Lewis and his crew. This season a lot of issues surfaced dealing with trust, self-respect, work-ethic and the ability to know when to call it quits. Jeff Lewis opens up not only to show his neurotic side, but his humane side as well. His hidden love for the people and pets in his life is slowly revealed to those who are willing to read between the lines. “He’s crazy,” Jenni, his executive assistant says, “but a lot of geniuses are crazy.”

Life on the Fab Lane

When I’m not doing anything else and I don’t feel like sleeping yet I tune in to the late shows and sometimes catch Life on the Fab Lane. This is a reality show on Kimora Lee Simmons’ life. She is a model, head of Baby Phat clothing line, and a mom of two girls.

I enjoy watching this show because it makes me feel like I’m part of a glamorous group. I really feel like I’m on the show because I know what’s going on behind the counters of the famous Baby Phat.

I like the episode where Kimora was asking Mattel to make a “Kimora Barbie”, and how they really made it into her own image. But, sometimes I feel that she’s too spoiled rotten. (and so are her kids.) But hey, they could afford it, so who cares right?

The Avatar Series Ends

I finally watched the season finale of Avatar: The Last Airbender. It is the ending for Book 3. I was amazed with the way the final battle was fought and it seemed very realistic. Considering it was a cartoon series, the characters were very real and conveyed the emotions needed for every scene.

I have watched the series from the beginning and each episode made me look forward to the next one. I have learned to love its characters especially Aang and Prince Zuko. They came from different nations but in the end, they fought together to bring peace to the whole world.

It is nice for the story to have a happy ending. While the road they traveled was filled with challenges and hardships, they conquered it in the end and eventually put an end to the reign of the Fire Nation.

There have been plans to make a movie adapted from the series and I am so excited to watch it too but it will not be shown until 2010. Well, it is a long wait indeed. Maybe I will just while away time watching the whole cartoon series again. It’s definitely worth watching over and over again.

Party Planner with David Tutera

We need to be practical in everything nowadays. Every week, there’s a price increase in fuel. Prices of food, fresh products or even canned and preserved goods, have been increasing as well. As consumers, we can’t do anything but go with the flow, and stretch our budget as much as we can.

As parents, we want the best for our little ones. Of course, who doesn’t want to celebrate the first birthday of their kids? But then, we also have to consider the cost of holding birthday parties at restaurants nowadays. So, we have no choice but to hold it in our own homes.

But who says our parties have to be boring ones since it’s going to be held only in the house? Watch Party Planner with David Tutera and you’ll find tons of party ideas suitable for your limited budget. You can even substitute the materials that they’re using on the show for cheaper ones that are available to you.

It’s fun watching this show, and it’s worth watching as well! With the Do-It-Yourself party supplies, your child can even help you prepare for his/her very own party!

Miami Ink

While my mom finds this particular TLC show quite gruesome, I find Miami ink a very engrossing show. I am not the rock-star type of gal. I don’t even have a tattoo.(and I don’t plan on having one)

What makes this show interesting is the stories behind the tattoos that people are getting. I like the episode where this guy got a tattoo which says “He ain’t heavy he’s my brother”. The guy (I forgot the name) has a brother who is psychologically impaired, but he still loves his sibling as he is. He says that he got the tattoo to show his brother that he doesn’t consider him as a burden, and is not, and will never be, ashamed of his brother. Heck, that episode got me all teary-eyed!

Aside from that, I also love looking at the finished tattoos. Although I could never have enough guts to have one, I will always enjoy looking at other people’s tattoos. The crew of Miami Ink are really talented. This show is worth watching!

Beverly Hills 90210 2.0

I was one of the fanatics of Beverly Hills 90210. I loved Brandon and I liked her twin sister, Brenda, played by Shannen Doherty. Her relationship with Luke Perry a.k.a. Dylan McKay was really swoon-worthy and I was rooting for them.

I have watched all episodes religiously but I think when Doherty left the show I lost interest and didn’t watch it weekly like I did in the past. She was my favorite character but at that time there were rumors that she was a prima donna during taping that’s why she left the show.

This year, rumors surfaced that a spinoff of the series will air this fall of 2008. It will be tentatively called 90210 and Jennie Garth will return for the show as will Tori Spelling. They were cast members of the original series. I’m curious as to how they will approach the storyline or if there will be similarities from the original concept but I am excited just the same. I just hope they can bring back Brenda for the show.

One Tree Hill

Season 5 of One Tree Hill just ended last May and yet I am so looking forward to the next season which is set to open on September.

The season finale was such a cliffhanger that I have been searching for spoilers and even reading forums where avid fans discuss who they think Luke proposed to on the last episode. The scene where Luke calls someone and asks to get married in Las Vegas elicited oohs and aahs from fans everywhere. The million dollar question now is, who did he propose to? From the scene, it seems Peyton, Brooke and Lindsay all got calls and it ended there. These girls have had history with Luke so it really is exciting to find out who he will marry in the end and, if the girl will actually accept his proposal.

I so love the season finale and I love, love Bethany Galeotti’s song in the end entitled Feel This. I find her so talented and she has come a long way from the movie Bring It On Again where she played Marnie Potts, co-captain of the varsity cheerleading team. She’s one of the reasons why I watch One Tree Hill and she’s a really versatile actress and talented singer.

My favorite couple in the show is Nathan and Haley, played by James Lafferty and Bethany Galeotti respectively. I have watched since the first season and wow, they have grown and evolved into this mature couple who have gone through a lot and yet still standing strong and always together in raising their adorable son, Jamie.

I can’t wait for the next season to start and definitely I’ll be watching it so that I can finally know who Lucas will marry at the start of the episode.

The 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ellen DeGeneres has no plans to stop with her fourth consecutive Daytime Emmy for talk show host.

DeGeneres picked up the honor Friday night during the 35th annual Daytime Emmy ceremony at Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre. Rookie “Rachael Ray” cooked up a surprising win in the talk show category, beating veteran talk show winners “The View” and “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”

Would DeGeneres consider pulling an Oprah Winfrey and refrain from submitting herself for future honors?

“I’m not going to take my name out,” DeGeneres deadpanned backstage. “Oprah has made so many bad choices. Look at her career.”

“General Hospital,” which celebrated its 45th anniversary this year, was honored with a record-breaking 10th drama Daytime Emmy. Anthony Geary, who plays Luke Spencer on the ABC show, took the lead actor honor, while Jeanne Cooper of CBS’ “The Young and the Restless” won lead actress.

As host, DeGeneres again bested Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa from “Live with Regis and Kelly” — as well as Barbara Walters, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd from “The View,” the 11th consecutive loss for the “View” ladies as hosts.

Other acting honors went to supporting actress Gina Tognoni of CBS’ “Guiding Light”; supporting actor Kristoff St. John of “The Young and the Restless”; younger actor Tom Pelphrey of “Guiding Light”; and younger actress Jennifer Landon of CBS’ “As the World Turns.”

“I only made up my mind to come on Monday,” said Cooper, who’s been nominated for a lead actress trophy eight times but never won. “I’m glad I did.”

Philbin, who’s only won as talk show host once in the 20 years he’s hosted “Live,” took home one trophy, at least: the Lifetime Achievement Award. Jimmy Kimmel presented the award to the 76-year-old, whose career can be traced back to his days as an NBC page in the 1950s.

Kimmel joked that Philbin had logged 30 billion hours on TV as a host of talk, variety and game shows — and as the host of “Live” with his granddaughter Kelly.

“What a night,” Philbin said during his acceptance speech. “Tyra Banks told me to kiss her big beautiful, and I found out that I’m older than the ‘Guiding Light.’”

Banks picked up the first ever Daytime Emmy for informative talk show. Banks, “Dr. Phil” and PBS’ “A Place of Our Own/Los Ninos en su Casa” — a daily show about child care that has English and Spanish versions — didn’t have to spar with DeGeneres, “The View” or Ray for talk show this year thanks to the new category split.

“I want to thank Oprah Winfrey for her inspiration,” Banks said. “She is the queen and will always be the queen.”

Also new this year was the legal/courtroom program Daytime Emmy, which was awarded to “Cristina’s Court.” Formerly, “Judge Judy” competed in a special class category against shows like “Trading Spaces” and “A Baby’s Story.” This year, the veteran TV judge was joined by “Cristina’s Court,” “Judge Hatchett Show,” “The People’s Court” and “Judge David Young.”

The behind-the-scenes teams of ABC’s “One Life to Life” won both directing and writing team awards.

ABC shook up this year’s ceremony by adding a new interactive element and a Golden Globes-style seating arrangement at Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre. The live broadcast was co-hosted by Sherri Shepherd from “The View” and Cameron Mathison from “All My Children.”

Instead of sitting in the Kodak’s stuffy theater seats, nominees gathered around their own banquet tables and were allowed to feast on food and sip booze from an open bar. Digital video cameras were placed at the tables, with footage uploaded to SoapNet.com throughout the broadcast.

“There was a few people enjoying the free booze,” co-host Mathison said in the press room.

After plummeting to an all-time low of 6.1 million viewers in 2006, last year’s Daytime Emmy Awards were watched by 8.3 million people, the ceremony’s best ratings since 2004, according to Nielsen Media Research. That scaled-down, two-hour Daytime Emmys aired on CBS after a rebroadcast of Bob Barker’s final “Price Is Right” episode and featured the game show host receiving his 19th Daytime Emmy.

The article above was originally posted here.

The Last Airbender

I so love Aang. If you are unfamiliar with the character, he’s the last Avatar from the Nickelodeon cartoon series, The Last Airbender. I used to just catch snippets when it is shown in Nick but when I got the chance to watch all of the episodes online, I got hooked.

As I was browsing upcoming movies, I read that M. Night Shyamalan will be directing a movie version of the series. I was ecstatic! It is a planned trilogy patterned on the series. It’s interesting of course that this is a live movie and not 3D. I can’t wait to see how they bring all of the characters to life. I just hope that the director will be able to inject humor as well because that’s how it’s done in the cartoons.

The movie is scheduled for July 2, 2010. It’s a long, long way to go and yet I am bursting with excitement. This is one movie that I surely won’t miss. But for now, I will have to content myself in watching the cartoon series.

Sex in the City: (the movie) (2008:R)

Sex and the City (the Movie) (2008: R)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1000774/
Director:Michael Patrick King. Sarah Jessica Parker … Carrie Bradshaw; Kim Cattrall … Samantha Jones; Kristin Davis … Charlotte York; Cynthia Nixon … Miranda Hobbes; Chris Noth … Mr. Big; Candice Bergen … Enid Frick; Jennifer Hudson … Louise, and many more.
Alright, one of my favorite HBO tv-series, and I was collecting the series, but at some point, don’t remember why, I stopped buying seasons after Season 3 … perhaps the shennanigans of the four girlfriends in the search of love was becoming too predictable. Perhaps I got distracted by Lost, Charmed, Angel, Buffy, Roswell, Veronica Mars, Smallville, and Heroes and just didn’t have funds to buy the dvd sets of anything new. I will have to resume my collection, because this movie just emphasized that I really do love and adore “Sex in the City” and how relevant their stories are with my life’s adventures with dating, love, and romance. Here we visit back to New York, where single women move to NYC for career and the search for love. We find Carrie still dating Mr. Big and deciding to move in with him, stumble upon a “lets get married” situation that goes awry but later leads to a happy ending after much distraught. Samantha had moved off to LA to live with an actor and start settling down and reducing her sexisodes as she starts to focus on being a housewife of sorts. Charlotte becomes pregnant and is living a very happy love life, and Miranda finds infidelity in her relationship which destroys something good that she just didn’t see. Many of the situations in the plot were of course similar to things I’ve gone through in life and had me thinking about love and relationships. It was action and drama packed - and while kinda weird to see one of your favorite tv shows get turned into a theatrical 2 hour + movie, it worked and I was very pleased. Rating 4 1/2 stars out of 5. viewed 6/12/08.

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