Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Quote of the Day (Chelsea Handler, on “Jersey Shore”)


“The charming, sophisticated cast of ‘Jersey Shore’ is here. Don’t applaud. They’re the reason MTV doesn’t play your videos.”—Chelsea Handler, host of the 2010 Music Video Awards, September 12, 2010, quoted in “Lady Gaga Wins Big in MTV VMAs,” “Ozarks First,” September 14, 2010

Earlier this year, a friend (and he knows who he is!) objected to a post of mine about Jersey Shore. No, he didn’t complain about what I wrote, but about the image accompanying the post.

If I absolutely had to include a picture of a cast member, he said, why did it have to be “The Situation”? Why couldn’t it be of a woman on the show?

His wish is my command. After casting your eyes at this image, don’t you see how Jersey Shore’s Snookie (whom Cathy Horyn of The New York Times, in a most interesting comparison a few weeks ago, likened to the youthful Elizabeth Taylor) brings to mind an additional word besides “charming” and “sophisticated”: statuesque?

Yeah, yeah, that’s the ticket!

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