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Comment Box: The Next Rosie & Topher vs. Tobey, a Primer
On Friday, I asked readers to compile a wish list of possible replacements for Rosie O'Donnell when she leaves ABC talkfest "The View" in June. Suggestions ranged from the sublime (Wanda Sykes) to the sedate (Soledad O'Brien). Surprisingly, "Designing Women" Delta Burke, Annie Potts, Jean Smart and Dixie Carter were all nominated, as was designing dude Meshach Taylor. (Who knew?) Below a list of your best suggestions:
1. Roseanne Barr
2. Michelle Malkin, but only if she wears her cheerleading outfit for every show.
3. Danny DeVito! Just get him drunk every once in a while to keep the ratings up.
4. Gilbert Gottfried, brilliant. Unfortunately, he will never get the gig.
5. Sandra Bernhard -- because I REALLY want that smarmy blond idiot (Editor's note: we assume the poster is referring to this smarmy blond idiot) to explode.
6. Max Headroom
7. A large brown bag with two eye-holes and call her/him the Unknown Viewee.
8. Space Ghost is the obvious choice. He would really bring in the "wake-n-bake" demographic.
9. I vote to replace Rosie (and the entire program) with the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Here's an interesting tidbit you may enjoy since you have a fascination with Jon Voight. Back in 1986, his brother Barry was my Groundwater professor at Penn State. Who knew there were only three degrees of separation between me and Angelina Jolie. -- Submitted during last week's Celebritology Live discussion
Thank you for sharing, though I should probably start out by disabusing you of this notion that I am fascinated with Jon Voight. In fact, I don't give the man much thought at all until he enters my orbit from time to time in the odd Angelina Jolie story. If I were indeed obsessed with him, I would have done my best to track him down while he was in town recently filming "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" (which I think should be renamed "National Treasure: No. 2" because I like the inherent potty humor. So sue me.)
Since you bring it up, though, I did Google the other Mr. Voight and discovered that he is indeed an esteemed volcanologist and geologist at Penn State, credited with "work on seismic hazard evaluation for nuclear power plants in the eastern USA, mine subsidence, and ruptured pipelines leading to environmental damage." His bio does not indicate, however, whether or not he was called upon to consult for brother Jon's 2003 movie, "Holes," which involved mass quantities of dirt.
Tobey and Topher (or is it Topher and Tobey? Tophey?). (AP Photos)
Don't you think it's odd that Topher Grace is in Spider-Man 3? How are we supposed to tell him and Tobey apart? -- Submitted during last week's Celebritology Live discussion
Agreed, the two actors do share a certain clean-cut geekiness that could potentially render them interchangeable to the uninitiated. Luckily, additional confusion was avoided when neither Jake Gyllenhaal nor Elijah Wood were cast opposite Maguire in the latest "Spider-Man" outing.
In a quick scan of the two actor's resumes, it's interesting to note that Maguire -- who is a scant three years older than Grace -- has been working much longer. In fact, his first credit is a 1979 episode of "General Hospital" when he was only four years old, while that slacker Grace didn't land a role until he was 20, on Fox's "That '70s Show." Perhaps one way to keep the two straight in your mind is to think of Maguire as the one who is adept at slapping cameras out of the hands of overzealous paparazzi and Grace as the one who may or may not have gotten some from Ivanka Trump.
Bonus: If you enjoyed the above link to video of Tobey Maguire knocking a camera out of the hands of a photographer, then you'll love this video of Bjork assaulting a reporter at a Bangkok airport.
Have Celebritological questions? E-mail them to celebritology@washingtonpost.com or submit them for discussion in Thursday's live chat.
By Liz |
April 30, 2007; 10:43 AM ET
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Posted by: wmx | April 30, 2007 12:28 PM
that video of bjork is hilarious. any clue about what set her off? did the woman say something, push a microphone in front of bjork or whatever she was pushing on the luggage cart? the line, "bjork has apologized for the attack," was a bit unsatisfying. (the tagline "bjerserk" on the screen behind the anchor is priceless)
Posted by: methinks | April 30, 2007 12:38 PM
Oh I love that bjork video. From what I've read, I think Bjork was very tired and overwhelmed and didn't want all the people swarming her and taking pictures of her kid, and she just snapped.
And speaking of Bjork.... new CD out on next Tuesday (woo hoo) and she looked like a Strawberry Shortcake character for her first song at Coachella over the weekend.
Posted by: Rob | April 30, 2007 12:42 PM
The great thing about that Bjork vid is it seems so anti-Bjork. It just seems like someone flips the psycho-switch & she goes freakin' nuts on the woman.
I heard somewhere that the reporter didn't press charges either. Good for the reporter for taking the high road but come on, it's not like she was doing a big paparazzi scene on her like she was Lohan or Paris. I'd have had to get some $$$ out of it.
Posted by: Sick @ home | April 30, 2007 1:03 PM
just wondering, sick@work...did that bjork video make you feel just the teensiest bit better? just like chicken soup for the soul...
Posted by: methinks | April 30, 2007 1:41 PM
It's oh so quiet shhhh shhhh, it's oh so still shhh shhh, your pushing your trolley and so peaceful until. Dah dah dah dah. Bjork whups some butt.
That's little bit scary.
Posted by: petal | April 30, 2007 2:14 PM
crap I meant: you're pushing your trolley
Posted by: petal | April 30, 2007 2:15 PM
Rosie's not a hatemonger? News to me.
Posted by: 23112 | April 30, 2007 4:10 PM
Hey, how about Katie Couric for the View?
Posted by: Brian | May 1, 2007 8:02 AM
What about Streisand? My are Space Monkey's suggestions always being snubbed? No one snubs the Space Monk. Sniff.
Posted by: Space Monkey | May 1, 2007 9:25 AM
I saw Jon Voigt while he was in town! I can show you the pictures with my cell phone camera. My boyfriend and I wandered down to his alma mater when he heard some of the campus was shut down for filming one blistery saturday. We show up, crew is idly standing around and it feels like not much is going to happen soon and all of sudden there's Jon Voigt! I didn't talk to him, since I couldn't immediately reference any of his other movies besides Anaconda and the obvious Seinfeld reference so rather than suffer from foot-in-mouth syndrome, I chose to gape from a few feet away. We were too cold to see if any other celebrities would show up, but then I'm not a Nick Cage fan so was ambivalent. I was more curious about Alice Kim and Kal-el.
Posted by: DJ | May 1, 2007 10:06 AM
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If they choose Michelle Malkin or Ann Coulter (as I've heard rumored), I will actively boycott every sponsor of "The View". Rosie is kind of an idiot, but she wasn't the uber-hate monger that either of those two are.
Otherwise, I just don't care!!