A lot of gums were flapping over the alleged lip-synching performance of Bryan Adams and Nelly Furtado at the opening ceremonies of the Vancouver Olympics. Really? Lip-synching at a major sporting event? How about the fact that Bry and Nelly were the most awkward pairing since Bob Dylan and Cyndi Lauper.
Memo to Rod Black: take a page from the Tom Selleck experience, once you go with the cheesy moustache you must stay with the cheesy moustache.
Ever heard of Cahuenga Peak? Well, that’s the home of the famous Hollywood sign. Apparently the land is for sale to the tune of $11.7 million. Developers want to build a bunch of luxury homes that would ultimately block views of the iconic sign. A bunch of celebs including Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Virginia Madsen, John Slattery and Tippi Hedren have tossed in their tiaras to support the 'Save the Peak' campaign and so far raised about half of the money needed to purchase the land. Not a bad investment really considering that once the polar ice caps melt it’ll be beachfront property.
Memo to figure skating choreographers: I’m fairly certain there has been other music composed since “Send in The Clowns” and “Theme From Love Story.”
Former Québec premier Lucien Bouchard poked his head back into the limelight this week to take shots at his old party. Included in his remarks was a criticism of Réné Lévesque’s participation in talks that would lead to the creation of the Canadian constitution. Bouchard thought Lévesque was in a weak political position at the time and as a result Quebeckers “were brutally forced to accept a charter of rights and we’ve had to live with it since then.” I wonder if anyone in Iran would like to have a charter of rights and freedoms brutally forced on them?
The Vancouver games, the only place where you could find yourself doing shots with Shaun White, Alex Ovechkin and Donald Sutherland in the same bar. Global competition rocks.
Today, Tiger speaks for the first time since his little black book became a bestseller. I don't have anything to add other than to employ the time-honoured ‘golf is like life’ metaphor: he thought he had it made after a variety of spectacular strokes, then one errant drive and it all fell apart.
I said it before, I’ll say it again, K.D. Lang is a national treasure.
Go Canada.
As long as we're not doing body shots with Sutherland.
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