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South Park creators making a Mormon musical
Some things you just can't make up. South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are working with Avenue Q songwriter Robert Lopez to create a new off-Broadway musical. The subject matter is "under wraps", which means everybody knows what it is. In this case, it's about the Mormons and likely about the founding of the faith. South Park has already dealt with this topic with a small-scale musical of its own.When this is finally released, tickets are going to be practically impossible to get. Trey Parker and Matt Stone and a religion-skewering musical are a winning combination. They even already have a song from the Mormon South Park episode called "Dum Dum Dum Dum Dum" (at least that's what I call it). It wouldn't be surprising if that catchy tune made it into this musical.
Do you plan on seeing this team's Mormon musical? Let us know in the comments.
Ken Jennings knows more than you do
Jeopardy! champ Ken Jennings now has a blog on his site, "Confessions of a Trivial Mind." And it's pretty damn entertaining. I was expecting some dry commentary and historical facts, but there's a lot of pop culture stuff on there too, and he updates it frequently. He has a message board too, which seems to be pretty active.Jennings has a new book coming out, Brainiac, and is a regular columnist for mental_floss magazine.
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HBO orders up season two of Big Love
According to The Hollywood
Reporter, HBO likes Big Love enough to bring it back for a second season. The series is about a polygamist
family consisting of a husband, three wives, and seven children (and at least one wife wants another child).The viewership for Big Love hasn't been impressive, with about 50% of Sopranos' viewers not sticking around for the show. It has been averaging about 4 million viewers each Sunday night. Those numbers are comparable to HBO's Deadwood.
Season two of Big Love begins filming in August.
Big Love: Viagra Blue
It only makes sense that the theme song for a series about a dysfunctional family is
"God Only Knows," recorded by another dysfunctional family, The Beach Boys. (If you want details, read
Heroes and Villains: The True Story of the Beach Boys.) Watching this latest episode with that song playing in
my head definitely made it an interesting experience.
You certainly get the impression that a man with three wives may have a fantasy life in one respect, but for those moments of pleasure, he certainly has to deal with more tension in his house (or in Bill's case, three houses) than any other married man or woman would need to deal with. However, I don't feel any kind of sympathy for Bill's plight--he put himself in this position. No one said polygamy was going to be easy!
Let's review what was on Bill's plate this week. His youngest wife Margene, who is a bit loud
in intimate situations, is begging Bill for a car so she can run errands. Barb and Nicki also continue to compete for
Bill's attention, and he pops Viagra like Tic-Tacs to keep pace. (Is it too much to ask for less shots of Bill Paxton's
bare behind?)
Big bucks for Big Love wallpaper
Are you kidding me? Cingular is charging customers $1.99 for
Big Love wallpaper
for cell phones. You know what I'm talking about, right? Teeny, tiny, little cell phone wallpaper pictures. For $1.99.
For Big Love? It's a brand new show, on late at night, on premium cable. If HBO wants to promote Big
Love, it should be giving away those wallpaper photos for free. Puh-lease.Cingular also has Muppets wallpaper. Ok, I might consider paying for that one. If I didn't already know how to make my own.
Why can't polygamy be funny?
I can't say I'm surprised about this news. HBO is launching a new
original series after The Sopranos on March 12 called Big Love. It stars Bill Paxton as a wealthy
businessman from Salt Lake City who just happens to be a polygamist. He tries to balance the needs of his three wives,
played by Chloe Sevigny, Jeanne Tripplehorn, and Ginnifer Goodwin (hey, that's some good casting!), by popping a little
Viagra every now and then. HBO expects the funny to erupt as Paxton tries to juggle his three families, while keeping
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