The Week In Geek: Naughty Glee, Bilbo Gets Cast, Social Network Fallout

Conservative Parents Group Slams Glee for Their GQ Cover

I can’t believe I’m typing this…but I kinda agree with the ultra conservative Parents Television Council that the new photo spread of some of the cast of Glee is kind of tacky and wrong.  Although not for the reasons they think…let me just get that out of the way right now.  I find their statements –  “It is disturbing that GQ, which is explicitly written for adult men, is sexualizing the actresses who play high school-aged characters on ‘Glee’ in this way. It borders on pedophilia.”  – to be stupid. All the actors in the photo are well into their 20’s…Cory Monteith who plays Finn is nearly 30 for fuck’s sake.  So stop throwing the pedo word around. No, that isn’t what bugs me.

What bugs me is that the whole photo spread kind of goes against the whole message of the show, which is how the underdog gets to be a star too. It is just three of the most traditionally “hot” members of the cast, dressed like standard porn fantasies. Cory Monteith (Finn) is dressed normally of course (I know this is GQ and their readership is mostly straight males, and a little male flesh is threatening to them, but still…it would only be fair. *sigh*)  But that isn’t even really my issue. My issue is no Mercedes, no Tina. Just the ones you’d expect. If this was an individual photo shoot each of the actors did for the magazine I would have no problem, but again….they are together representing the show here…and the “hot thin white people win again!” is not what Glee is supposed to be about.  Because that is what real high school is already about, and Glee should be our escape from that.

 The Hobbit Curse Has Been Lifted!

 The Hobbit has to be the most cursed movie in the history of movies (except maybe Poltergeist; seriously Google that shit. It’s freaky) First it was delayed and delayed and delayed by MGM’s financial issues until director Guillermo del Toro had to back out. THEN there was a fire at Weta studios destroying a lot of stuff that was to be used in the film. Then even more shit: the Actors Union of New Zealand threatened to boycott the movie, forcing the production to leave the country. Producer (and now director again) Peter Jackson couldn’t win. I expected him to get fat again at any moment.

 And then suddenly this week…the curse was seemingly lifted. MGM got their financial shit together and green lit the movie for a February 2011 start date. And then the Unions called off their strike on the movie, meaning New Zealand would remain Middle Earth after all. Not only that, but much of the cast has been announced, including the perfect casting of Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins, as well as various small time actors in the parts of the Dwarves. Also expected to return of course are Andy Serkis as Gollum and Ian McKellen as Gandalf the Grey. I’ll still only really believe it when it starts shooting though. Because someone out there just seems to have it in for this movie.

 No Hangover In The Future For Mel Gibson. And By That, I Only Mean the Movie.

So you heard about that supposed cameo for Mel Gibson in the Hangover 2? He was all set to play an“angry tattoo artist” , and Warners was hoping to give Mel some career redemption via a funny cameo, kinda like Tom Cruise’s Les Grossman character in Tropic Thunder.

 Only star Zach Galifianakis wouldn’t have it (Like I need another reason to love you Zach) Tom Cruise jumped on a couch and was part of a cult that made him think and do silly things…but didn’t really deserve the backlash he got, hence earning the career redemption that Tropic Thunder provided. Robert Downey Jr. was an addict, but never an insufferable jerk (unless it was your house he woke up naked in I suppose) He deserved his Iron Man. But Mel Gibson is an anti-semitic asshole and woman hater, who has had PLENTY of chances to change and make amends, and never did. We don’t hate you because you’re a drunk Mel, we hate you because you’re a dick. Unlike addiction, being a dick is not a disease, its just a personality trait. Glad Mr. Galifianakis understands this.

 Mark Zuckerberg Finally Comments on the Social Network

 Well, at least he isn’t pulling the whole “I haven’t seen it” bullshit so many celebs do when a movie is made about their lives. Because you know they ALL watch them. Except maybe Tina Turner…she might not want to re-witness her beatings and rapes. Anyway, sorry about the tangent….  here is what the 26 year old billionaire had to say:

“You know, so there’s all this stuff that they got wrong, and a bunch of random details that they got right. The thing that I think is actually most thematically interesting that they got wrong is — the whole framing of the movie, kind of the way that it starts is, I’m with this girl who doesn’t exist in real life, who dumps me, which has happened to me in real life, a lot — and basically to frame it as if the whole reason for making Facebook and building something was because I wanted to get girls or wanted to get into some sort of social institution. And the reality for people who know me is that I’ve actually been dating the same girl since before I started Facebook, so obviously that’s not a part of it.”

 Yeah Mark, except you HAVEN’T been dating the same girl since before Facebook. It is a matter of public record that you didn’t start dating her until after she became a Facebook employee in 2005. Also, while the girl in the movie is made up (there is no Erica Albright)   there was a girl named Jessica Alona, whom the producers changed to Erica Albright to spare this Jessica chick embarrassment, but almost everything else in that blog you wrote the night you invented Facemash.com was verbatim from your real blog dude. Including ” Jessica Alona Is a Bitch” All they did was changed the name to Erica. Also, I hate you because you’re so rich. 

Cheers!