Sunday Funnies

Sunday again! I say let’s mark this Day of Rest by making fun of famous people.First, check out the mullet on the husband of the year here. Mellie we hardly knew ye!Now, here’s the President of Russia with an obscure sidekick as the two get ready to stand in for TweedleDum and TweedleDee in a remake of that famous final croquet game at Alice’s place over there in Wonderland.And finally a big “hello” to Jerry Brown now putting his signature crotchety spin on his race for the California Governor’s mansion. He was once good-enough looking to date Linda Ronstadt as I recall but now he looks a lot like Peter Boyle God rest his soul…And speaking of Peter here HE his is along with Michael Keaton and Christopher Lloyd in the trailer for that that awesome 1989 film “The Dream Team.” Give yourself a little gift: watch all two minutes of it and ask yourself if you wouldn’t have loved to him as governor of just about any state you care to name.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFeyf3NwHPc]

Paging Mel's Handlers!

The ant-Semitic remarks Mel Gibson made while resisting arrest for drunk driving in 2006 hurt him and I admit I wasn't thinking of them when I posted about his new movie yesterday. As a Jew, journalist Sam Ruben felt targeted by him with his "You got a dog in this fight?” remark. For sure he's testy these days: he got really sore at entertainment reporter and critic Dean Richards who was interviewing him via satellite feed. You can tell by his  body language, and the way he handles his coffee cup. You can tell by the way he calls the reporter an asshole when he knows very well the man can still hear him. All I can say is I hope he doesn’t carry a gun these days. In his new life. With that young model. As the father of seven or maybe eight. As a devout Christian/Charismatic-Catholic man.... His PR people must be tearing their hair out.  Hmmmm. Maybe next time he should try saying 'asshole' in Aramaic.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TJ3Ss4Q8BY&feature=related]

Tough to Get Your Tongue Around

One of my kids gave me the Flip mini for Christmas and on hearing me enthuse about it a few weeks later cautioned me not to be 'one of those sad people making videos of themselves and posting them on YouTube'.Silly boy. I’m one of those ridiculously merry people making videos of themselves and posting them on YouTube.And here today, a video report card for Mel Gibson on how he did with that tricky old Boston accent in his new revenge film Edge of Darkness. His poster boy looks are gone now – with the deep naso-labial folds he now has he looks a little like the old guy in Disney-Pixar’s Up, with enough cross-hatching under his eyes to make a chain-link fence of - and don’t get me started on what’s going on inside the man’s head these days - but by Gosh he nailed the accent. Check out these sample phrases and see if you don’t agree:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAuZBSVbMao]