Im halfway through the second season of True Blood and have really been enjoying it. Apart from the beautiful back drop of the deep south and the non stop (and seemingly limited to Bon Temps) action there is some sweet eye candy too!
Alexander Skarsgard aka Eric Northman is drop dead …excuse the pun.. gorgeous and dare i say he may have been stealing the limelight from Sooki’s vampire boyfriend Bill Compton? He just looks like the part.
Come on Bill, grab the Olay, youve got competition!
Like many thousands of other people, fans or not, I viewed the Michael Jackson Memorial on television the other day. It was very touching to see the emotion in many of the people who paid their respects. However, and I can quite honestly understand if you think I am out of line for saying this, but I did not appreciate the mememe speech by Brooke Shields. Of course, yes, It isn’t up to me and I don’t know her and neither did I know MJ but there was quite obviously a streak of the theatrical in there. Yes, yes I know she and Michael were great friends and who am I to decide or comment on how she felt or feels etc.
What I sincerely found quite alarming was the somewhat Oscar beckoning performance of Brooke Shields as she talked about her relationship with Michael and what it was and how it wasn’t this or that and how she knew his favourite song. Throwing the wobbly chin and catching her breath as she seemed to struggle through her speech I couldn’t help but remember she was an actress and that I was watching a performance, not a eulogy. I almost felt uncomfortable knowing the family was sitting watching and listening just feet away from her. I cant decide whether its the British Stiff upper lip thing or just my dislike for Hollywood which made me squirm. Is it wrong of me to feel that way? Surely I’m not the only one to think something was a little practised about it, and I don’t mean the words…
The memorial in itself was grand and very lavish and I uderstand that Michael himself had said he would like it to be the greatest show on earth, it truly was a large event befitting a man of his calibre and entertainment status. There were a few moments when I almost forgot I was watching a memorial and not a party political broadcast, very weird, very weird indeed! That’s just my opinion of course.
Other than that I thought it was beautiful.
May you rest in peace Michael.
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