The AGK Collection
When not having Disney vacations with their children, the tennis power couple of Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf are busy designing for their Kreiss furniture line.
(coffee table)
(dining table)
(bed)
The majority of the new collection was in black and white because these are Graf’s favorite color combinations. She said, “They are not only visually different but also of distinctly different materials.” Exactly what can be said of the contrast in the iconic couple’s personalities. So distinctly different, yet perfect together.
Grand Slam Couple
The husband-and-wife team of Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf stepped out for the 13th Grand Slam for Children, last Saturday, October 11.
The annual event, a project of The Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation, featured a host of talents, including this year’s performers Natasha Bedingfield, Sheryl Crow, The Killers, Lifehouse, Ray Romano, Rod Stewart, and David Spade. Charice Pempengco was among the list of performers that night (lucky girl). Other A-list celebrities, including Mariah Carey as a surprise guest, were also in attendance.
It’s a musical extravaganza with the aim of raising money to support the education of underserved children in the Agassis’ hometown of las vegas nv.
Liz Lemon Rocked the Emmys
I mean her creator and alter ego, Tina Fey.
AP photo
The funny lady won big at the Emmys, although her show, 30 Rock, is still one of the most underappreciated shows on TV today (despite winning the Best Comedy category for 2 years in a row). If I hadn’t been living and breathing the Internet, I probably wouldn’t even know about it. As it is, it’s one of my most favorite shows these days - each episode lasts just about the right time to keep me amused and laughing (about 20 minutes without commercial break); it’s just my kind of comedy. To be honest, if not for this show, I wouldn’t be able to specify what my kind of comedy is (although I enjoyed F.R.I.E.N.D.S. a lot).
The third season is set to premier on October 30. For now, enjoy these clips from the previous season.
Episode Cooter (clip: Jenna pulls out all the stops to get Kenneth to Beijing).
Episode: Succession (Liz goes Corporate!)
SNL Parody: Tina Fey As Sarah Palin
The two “politicians” addressed the issue of sexism in the campaign.
Dana Scully: An Appreciation
Scully is my favorite TV heroine. She may very well be the only one. I admire her intensity, her sense of rigidity that is not quite unflexible but is rooted in something more than fleeting emotions and shallow aspirations. As they say, she’s a buzzkill - she is rarely amused, but when she is, finally, sparks fly.
I can attempt to write everything that I appreciated about this character Chris Carter created and Gillian Anderson so masterfully portrayed, despite the fact that her real-life persona will probably giggle over Scully’s repressed personality, but someone else have already done that for me.
Here’s a thoughtful article published on Salon, detailing why Dana Scully, THE “smart-girl icon who was (and would still be, alas) a rare television bird: professional, independent, unsentimental,” became both the cerebral center and the heart of an otherwise formulaic science fiction narrative.
The Truth Isn’t Always Pretty
“The truth is out there - it will come to you as it has come to me.”
Those are FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder’s last words to the global conspirators and their pawns.
When the actor who played him, David Duchovny, showed up at the premiers (Los Angeles and London) of the latest X-Files movie, fans didn’t fail to notice how scruffy and sullen he looked:
It turned out that he was having bigger problems than looking ruffled. He reportedly issued a statement through his lawyers that he voluntarily entered a rehab center for his sex addiction, a long-rumored-about condition he repeatedly denied in the past few years.
Duchovny’s hit TV show Californication, where he plays an oversexed and self-destructive, but brilliant, writer, will premier its second season soon.
Paris Hilton for President?
Forget politics. You’ll probably see this one in thousands of other blogs anyway. It’s just, like, totally, funny not to share.
Looking Good, Fed
He may be dropping to no. 2 in the world ranking in a weeks’ time; he may be losing confidence and tournaments lately, but you can’t say Roger Federer doesn’t have style!
Here’s TheFed carrying the Swiss flag at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Bejing Olympics. I got the photo from tennisforum.com and the highlighted part is obviously a mistake.
He looks good in red, no? I can imagine him driving a red Ferrari F430. I bet this guy doesn’t need car insurance, no matter how many millions his car(s) costs. With his tour schedule, I wonder if he even drives at all. Tennis stars have such a globe-trotting lifestyle.