Roseanne’s Laurie Metcalf (Jackie) created one of the all-time funniest characters ever. Heck, the whole cast did! Roseanne, John Goodman, Sara Gilbert, Alicia Goranson, Michael Fishman, Johnny Galecki – sheer brilliance.
I could watch the Conners all day and night, only quitting long enough to re-fill my Diet Dr. Pepper.
If you missed them the first time around and have never had the pleasure of enjoying their hilarious company, do your funny bone a huge favor and catch them in reruns or, better yet, buy the seasons on dvd. Or, you could do what I do – catch them on TV AND collect the seasons.
Too cute. Mattel knows that there are plenty of us adults who gleefully collect Barbie dolls. They’ve always given us a wonderful selection of Dolls of the World, I Love Lucy dolls (LOVE them!), and other beauties we simply must have, whatever the cost.
They’re at it again.
According to the NY Times:
Mattel plans to come out with versions of Barbie and Ken as the colorful characters from the popular series Mad Men.
The dolls are part of a premium-price collectors’ series for adults that Mattel calls the Barbie Fashion Model Collection. Although there have been Barbies and Kens based on other TV series, among them “I Love Lucy” and “The X-Files,” the dolls will be the first licensed line for that collection, Mattel says, with a suggested retail price of $74.95 each. Mattel is licensing rights to the characters from Lionsgate, the studio that produces “Mad Men” for the AMC cable channel. There will be 7,000 to 10,000 copies of each doll, to be sold in specialty stores and on two Web sites, amctv.com and barbiecollector.com. The characters to become dolls are Don Draper, the show’s leading man; his wife, Betty; his colleague at the Sterling Cooper agency, Roger Sterling; and Joan Holloway, the agency’s office manager who was Roger’s mistress.
There’s nothing wrong with having strong political opinions. There’s nothing wrong with supporting a certain politician. But when you come across as a ranting mad woman and hurl venom on people who don’t deserve it, it’s time to take a long vacation.
Here’s what Roseanne Barr said on her blog:
“Jon Voight is a frightened little girl in a pink ballet tutu… your evil spawn Angelina Jolie and her vacuous hubby Brad Pitt make about forty million dollars a year in violent psychopathic movies and give away three of it to starving children trying to look as if they give a crap about humanity as they spit out more dunces that will consume more than their fair share and wreck the earth even more. (Just sayin’).
“Also Miss Jolie says she likes McCain too and hasn’t decided who to endorse….huh? Aren’t you supposed to be somewhat enlightened, or do you not know that the African daughter you hold in every picture had parents who suffered and died because of the republican party’s worldwide economic assault on Africa over the last few decades since Reagan? Whaaaa…??????!!!! (For that matter, the thai and vietnamese sons you are photo’d with weekly too!!!? Who’s [sic] pictures you sell to raise money to help the poor? … We want to save not lose our souls thank you. Now go back to making your movies about women who love to handle big guns that shoot hundreds of people to death. Ps….it might be good for your Asian and African children’s self-esteem to know you support a brown man for the leader of the free world.)”
Evil Spawn? Vacuous? …support a “brown man?” (I think the man that’ll probably be our next President deserves more respect than to be treated like a crayon – it’s like preschool, “I want the blue crayon…now the brown one…”)
I’d always been a fan of Roseanne Barr’s – I applauded her strength as a person. Strength to overcome adversities in her life and to, essentially, be the last one standing. She made me laugh so much my sides ached. I’m always a fan of people who do that. But none of this is funny. It’s actually kind of nasty.
But in all fairness, a lot of people are really passionate about the election this year – especially about the war. Passion’s a good thing – it just gets out of hand sometimes.
I’m completely shocked, and disappointed, that she’d go off on innocent people like this. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt do more charitiable work than any celebrity you can think of. They care about the world and, more importantly, the people in it.
I think Roseanne got bent out of shape because when asked who she supported in the election, Angelina (intelligently) said she hadn’t decided yet – that she was waiting to hear their opinions on different issues that were dear to her.
That’s just what an intelligent person sounds like. They’re fond of thinking!
I really hope that she’ll look at the words she wrote and realize that she went way, way, way too far. Hopefully she’ll even have enough character to say she’s sorry. That’d be cool. I think that underneath the anger and passion, she’s a cool lady – so I’m certain an apology is forthcoming.
