Michael Jackson movie

So, apparently there is a movie coming out called "Michael Jackson: This Is It." The studio is going to have a few advance showing with three thousand tickets and those three thousand tickets were sold in two hours to people that had lined up three days in advance. Over the past few months people are wondering if the media is focusing to much on Michael Jackson, on saturday there was some datline documentary on NBC about him and I think I remember there like a zillion other tv documentaries, I think the world and media is more focused on his death than it ever was on the virginia tech shooting victims. I don't think it's a fault of our day and age that there is some heavy coverage, I think the first day or two after he died it was almost all that CNN talked about and I think that's fine. I still seems like all the grocery store magazines have some well done tribute to him and they all look like they're the official one. I think that my biggest problem with media coverage is that when his family finally got around to burying him all these helicopters with reporters were trying to get coverage of it and his brother said it ruined the service for Michael's family and close friends, when the media invades your personal lives like that it has defiantly gone to far.

Associated Press. Jackson sneak peek screenings sell out in 2 hours. Sep. 2009. Sep. 2009.

American idol

A few weeks ago american idol announced that it was hiring a new judge to replace Paula Abdul named Ellen Degeneres. I saw a poll saying that about 58% think that this will make the show better and only about 28% think it will make the show worse. I think one of the reasons people think she will be a good judge is that she's nothing like Paula, I agree that this is a good thing because if they had tried to find a new Paula archetype that would've been kind of lame in my opinion.

I don't really have a problem with Ellen but I really don't think they should even have four judges. What I thought was really disappointing about last season was that during the top 5 the contestants only did one song instead of two songs like in previous years and in the top 3 the contestants only did two songs instead of three. I really think hiring Kara as a fourth judge was a mistake, not because there's anything wrong with Kara, but because people don't watch American Idol for it's excellent judging abilities, but because people like music, sure you want some judging but ultimately more performances is better than a fourth opinion.

The poll also said that women were more favourable about Degeneres than men, it makes me wonder if there is some subconscious sexism like there may be some subconscious racism with people that are critical of Obama.

This is unrelated but if you type Obama in the text-field it's underlined in red, I think it happens on facebook too, I guess the internet is racist, then again "facebook" is underlined in red on blogspot and facebook text fields as well.

Tina fey emmy

I was just looking at the media news and it said that Tina Fey won an guest actress emmy for her role a Sarah Palin. It was kinda freaky because just a few minutes ago I was thinking it would be interesting if she won the emmy so I must be psychic.
Her skits were pretty funny, infact they were so funny that I thought SNL must be a show worth watching from begining to end, but then a few weeks later I started watching an episode and it was pretty dumb.
I think she deserved the SNL guest actress emmy but her show 30 Rock was also nominated for 22 emmys and it will probably win a lost of them. I've seen a few episodes of 30 Rock and it's not that funny and I don't see why criticly succesfull. 30 Rock is an NBC show about an SNL sort of tv show on NBC, my theory is that one of the reasons it's so critically succesfull and why it gets so many nominations is that the people who write reviews and what shows get emmy work in a simaller workforce to that of the show so they can relate to it and see the humor, infact the article I just read said she defended her other wins so maybe some people agree with me. I think another reason it gets so many emmy nominations is that a lot of these nomination (about 5 I think) are for guest actor/actress, the show gets all of these famous actor and comedians to guest star and because they're good actors they get nominated, but like I said earlier, these famous actors can really relate to the plot of the show so they like to guest star on it.