Whatever Happened to...

Ben Stiller and Tom Cruise?

I missed the MTV VMA Awards. For the 5000th year in a row! How will I ever stay current? FourFour's recap caught me up. The show looks worse than I remember it being! MTV - always current! One piece did catch my eye - the fact that Tom Cruise came out as Les Grossman from Tropic Thunder and danced with J.Lo. WTF! The character wasn't even funny in the movie he was being paid to be funny in!

Today I find this item - that Ben Stiller is developing a movie solely for Tom's Les Grossman character. As if that link isn't warning enough...this movie is going to be horrible! I know this is a boring/standard complaint but why does Hollywood keep making terrible movies??? Tom Cruise has pretty much annoyed me ever since I was old enough to realize he's bonkers (aka age 5). Aside from Cocktail I really can't stand him/his body of work.

But Ben? I had a little more respect for him. How can you hate a guy who marries Melody from Hey Dude? Exactly you can't. Now I can. Ben Stiller isn't funny anymore. I saw him on Extras and heard rumors of his crazy outbursts, but I took awhile to believe it. Now I think he's just out of touch with what is funny and it's believable that he rages about that. It's a sad day when the once "funny" and "hot" guys of my childhood are revealed to be out of touch dads with anger issues.

This is for REAL!/Kanye

MTV's True Life aired today while I was at the gym. Don't forget that last part. Anyway, the show followed two couples who decided to elope and not tell anyone in their family. One couple met each other three weeks before getting engaged. Yikes. Now, they claimed they would not tell their families about the nuptials because they wanted to save money. At least that was their primary reason. But they also wanted to avoid hearing everyone tell them it was a bad idea. No kidding.

Two months prior the woman had broken up with her boyfriend of three years. Whoa! I guess he got tired of caring for her five-year-old daughter. What!? Not his kid? And the guy was recently divorced. OMG! Actual near quote from the dude (I was working out so I couldn't write it down): "I've never done anything crazy in my life. So this is good for me." A keg party is crazy. That doesn't make it something you should do for the rest of your life. A reason the woman gave to a marriage counselor for their plans: "We have really good conversations." Yeah, so do my neighbor and I. At least MTV made sure to show the pastor saying, "God wants you to have a good sex life."

Also, I'm watching Kanye West on VH1 Storytellers. These are some things he said. Again, I was only kind of listening so I didn't get the exact words, just the paraphrase: "My greatest pain is that I can never see me perform. You will have a pleasure I can never have." Also: "I am a vessel for God. He wants me to say more and more and more." Then: "OJ (Simpson): Amazing." Not sure about his reasoning there. At least he got this right: "We have a black and white president."