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Treating herself to a little personal pampering, Hilary Duff was spotted reading a script while getting her toenails done at the Venus Nails salon in Toluca Lake on Friday (November 21).
Touching up on her look, the former “Lizzie McGuire” starlet was back at it again yesterday, trying to hide her disheveled hairdo as she ventured into the Jose Neira Salon near her house.
Adults don't have Sesame Street, they just have Suze Orman and James Cramer and other financial wizards to turn to for life advice. We're forced to look in other places for common-sense tips during tough economic times, like magazines, prositutes, and of course sitcoms. The most recent episode of The Office presented an instructive example: Dunder Mifflin salesman Jim Halpert bought a house for his new bride-to-be Pam Beasley. Did he make the right call in investing in the Scranton real estate market, and what did he probably pay to make his parents' former residence stay in the Halpert family? Plus, deleted scenes from this week's episode.
Fresh off the disappointment of not being able to learn Flash, let alone PHP or Drupal, Scranton's Pam Beasley passively aggressively expressed her general displeasure with life by writing a mean note from "Disappointed" to whoever left a disgusting mess in the microwave. We feel for you, Pam.
Jim couldn't sense Pam's unhappiness. He was more worried about how she'd react to the awesome big decision he made without ever telling his partner. Males not named Tony Soprano would risk having their balls severed for the gesture, but in this moving clip Jenna Fischer was totally walled off, implying either a subtle shout-out to Monica Bellucci's famous scene in Irreversible, or that she just can't act:
We talked to a trusted real estate advisor about Jam's new property. He priced the house at around $125,000, while noting it could go for less given the market. Although an earlier scene revealed that the house wasn't in the nicest of neighborhoods, the block looked like it had been kept up. "The exterior is pleasant enough," said our expert. He also noted the tiny windows in the bedroom, the remnants of a particular home-building trend that now looks severely outdated. It's not the most beautiful house in the free world, but that's not the point. "Land is never a bad investment," noted our expert as he described the good sense Jim Halpert had in living many years without anything in the way of expenses or dependents other than dinners with Rashida Jones at TGIFriday's.
And hey, Jim's right, the garage gets a lot of light and will make a great studio. Really, Pam should have been jumping for joy. The only thing most people can be sure of getting this Christmas season is the stomach flu.
In the first of two deleted scenes, Pam tells the truth:
In the second, Michael tries to finger other members of the office for his malfeasance:
Every morning when he wakes up and stares out of the window of his ritzy New York apartment, Eliot Spitzer sighs and tells himself, not today. The former governor is still atoning for wearing socks during his affair with prostitute Ashley Dupre, but he has so much to say about what's happening in our country right now. Since we broke the news that Dupre's interview with Diane Sawyer would air this Friday, Spitzer evidently decided to poke his head out of his apartment. In his sermon from hell in this morning's Washington Post, he provides a naughty prescription for restoring America:
If he had just waited a year or so, Spitzer could have gotten a lower price on his fun jaunts with paid women. As his one-time paramour Dupre chose ABC for her "consulting" fee and first televised interview since the scandal, Spitzer has followed up a bland interview with Time Out New York with an editorial in today's Post.
In the essay, Spitzer renews his call for a unified regulatory agency instead of an expanding bureaucracy. The piece is mostly an analysis of the ongoing situation in the financial sector, although it does give a shout-out to his former lifestyle:
Although mistakes I made in my private life now prevent me from participating in these issues as I have in the past, I very much hope and expect that President Obama and his new administration will have the strength and wisdom to do again what FDR did.
You just know Spitzer will be back. If it takes forever, he'll wait forever. And as alert reader Chileno notes, between "capital infusions," "explosion of leverage", "ability to probe", "invisible hand" and all that "self-regulation," Spitzer will be plenty busy with his favorite subject when he does.
How to Ground the Street [WaPo]
If you've ever seen the full extended versions of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, you know how much you missed out in the theaters. It's like that every week now with The Office, whose expanded cast and tendency for short scenes sometimes makes you feel like you're reading a condensed Reader's Digest story. Show creator Greg Daniels helps the situation by posting two of the week's deleted scenes online each week. The cutting room floor material is almost more fun than the actual show, and that's the case in two delightful clips that somehow didn't end up in this week's ep.
When it comes to the audience for The Office, an hour did initially feel too long. But the show's ensemble cast has gone much further than the BBC series in developing storylines and conflicts. Twenty-two minutes is just not enough time to follow the show's umpteen characters properly. More Stanley is just never a bad thing. Since consumers are getting used to dictating the amount of time they spend interacting with a given piece of content, it almost makes sense to offer the long version for those who prefer a more full-featured Office, and show a clipped, digestible edition for those who don't want the extra few scenes. Until that kind of choice is possible, or the show's spin-off kills our desire for more Office, we'll have to deal with the abbreviated version.
Still, it's hard to imagine that these scenes should have fallen on the cutting room floor.When you hit on a duo as perfect as Oscar and Andy, it's time to milk that straight-gay friendship for all the comedy it deserves. Here's Andy playing wingman on the flight to Winnipeg:
Usually I have a hard time watching Michael Scott flail around. It's a neat twist on the British series that Scott is actually a capable salesman, and watching him be a fool, and then confident savant sets up an incredible phone conversation with his boss, David Wallace near the end of the episode. In this clip Michael gets money to spent in the metropolis of Winnipeg.
Now we just need to find out exactly influenced Pam to give up graphic design, because it sure wasn't that she "missed Scranton."
The grass is always greener when it comes to The Office. When the show began running bloated hour-long episodes, viewers complained that the show became too drawn-out and dull. Back to its usual half-hour form, the show just doesn't deliver enough insane Dwight to satisfy our considerable need in that department. With The Office rounding into form after moving some characters off the show, these deleted scenes capture the small moments of Dunder Mifflin that warm our hearts.
Now well off the rails of the two-season BBC series that inspired King of the Hill creator Greg Daniels' American version, The Office's new season has started to build momentum. Early storylines that didn't quite lead to yuks (Pam meets Jim's crazay brothers! Jan didn't want Michael to give her child! Michael's slightly inappropriate office romance!) have been cast aside in favor of the show's bread and butter rivalries: Dwight vs. Jim, Dwight vs. Phyllis, Dwight vs. Andy, Dwight on top of Angela. There seems to be but one common denominator here, and he is hilarious:
That's an insta-classic if there ever was one.
Also helping the return to form was the tremendous bluetooth phone link, New York to Scranton, between Jim and Pam through the show's episode. Jam aren't terribly funny together, and they weren't apart — so why not go with something in between? The contrivance of Jim listening in while Pam had a heart to heart with a fellow student was almost too much to bear. We want more, and the show offers up these two deleted scenes.
The Office still offers plenty of laughs, but a certain reckless need to humiliate the characters has been missing from the show lately. This week that will change when the show's Halloween episode will feature a Dark turn from office perv Creed. The full episode preview, along with the latest information on Angela and Andy's nuptials, comes after the jump.
The show hasn't abandoned the pure torture of its characters entirely: it was depressing and sort of appropriate that we found out Pam's ex-fiance Roy now works at the Vitamin Store — but come on, you should see his employee discount. And yes, the developing chemistry between Michael Scott and his HR rep makes a place deep inside of us cry out in pain.
But it's time the show's writers got back to doing what it is they do best: really screwing with these people until the viewer can no longer comfortably watch what occurs. The coming blessing of Angela and Andy's wedding website should hopefully signal a return to that form:
A Thanksgiving Day wedding date does have a certain charm. Here's the full teaser for NBC's Halloween Thursday:
She’s the world’s most loveable secretary on the legendary show “The Office.” And Jenna Fischer was spotted taking a break yesterday on the show’s Los Angeles set.
The “Walk Hard” hottie grabbed some lunch at her trailer in the parking lot of LA Valley College, sporting a brown t-shirt with green cargo-style pants and brown leather sandals.
Tennis star Venus Williams is back from the Beijing Games, after her and little sis Serena beat Spain's Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual for the doubles gold medal.
Tennis, anyone?
Heading to the Republican convention? You could do worse than follow the advice proffered in today's Times "36 Hours in" column on the Twin Cities, penned by Minneapolitan David Carr. It's full of good advice for restaurants, culture, and entertainment. And bars. There are really just a couple of our favorite places that he missed: you can get a good (for the midwest) pizza and a cheap pitcher of Summit at Pizza Luce on Lyndale Ave. If the lot's full, there's usually street parking readily available a block away on 32nd and Garfield. Just make sure to lock up! [NYT]
Ugh. Audrina Patridge, the chirping wallflower from The Hills, has a blerg. But! Gabe at Videogum rips on it and it is funny. Balance restored!
It’s that time of year again- time to gear up for the Primetime Emmy Awards. And with this year’s list of nominees, it’s sure to be an amazing night.
Loved by critics and audiences alike, NBC’s “30 Rock” has a strong showing this year with a total of 17 nominations, including Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Lead Actor (Alec Baldwin) and Outstanding Lead Actress (Tina Fey).
Those rumors that Amy Poehler might be starring in the upcoming spin-off of The Office are flaring up again. I think it's good news for the Boston College alum (woot!), as she's kind of ceded her comfy position as top fiddle on Saturday Night Live to other funny lady Kristen Wiig. Update: Not a spin-off, but a Greg Daniels series nonetheless.
NBC posted Dwight Schrute's org chart from last week's episode of The Office (the one used to explain why Michael wasn't in charge of Stanley). My favorite bit is the fists of black power on all the African-Americans. [NBC.com PDF]
Male fans of the hit television series “The Office” are rejoicing throughout the world. Jenna Fischer (Pam) has announced she and her husband, James Gunn, have chosen to separate. Gunn is most famous for writing Dawn of the Dead and directing Slither.
The couple had been together for over six years, but decided to call it quits for reasons that are yet to be disclosed. Both have large fan bases, and do not want to upset the balance of nature. Earlier today, the stars posted the same message on their MySpace profiles.