Angela

Madonna has nothing left to prove but what makes her look insecure and desperate is that she, in my opinion, appears desperate to stay relevant - not only to us who grew up with her but to kids today. Despite criticisms, a bad live voice and bad choices, she will go down as one of the most original, innovative and biggest stars in the industry. She's had amazing longevity. She can chill. She's proven her sh!t. I'm not gonna hate on her for it though, out of her generation of singing superstars she remains one of the more well-adjusted. There's nothing wrong with never ending ambition either.<iframe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=994T2-3hnk8

I think this was their idea of a fun and less serious episode. I don't know if I liked or disliked how almost everybody's path led them to the same destiny or destination they have in reality.

Andy to Brandi and Camille: You both have really famous ex-husbands.

Brandi: She definitely does. Me? Not really.

Me: Bwahaha.

Andy needs to stop teasing her, and sign her full-time already.

Link to a Brandi and Lisa joint interview, http://stoopidhousewives.com/2012/01/26/lisa-vanderpump-and-brandi-glanville-brandi-and-lisa-talk-about-upcoming-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills-reunion-show-video/

In a new interview with LynnNChicago, 38-year-old Brandi Glanville revealed some juicy secrets about The Real Housewives of Beverly Hillsreunion — including allegations that the other ladies met beforehand and planned to attack Lisa Vanderpump during the show!

Brandi told the website that all of the Housewives, minus Camille Grammer, Kim Richards, and herself (which leaves Kyle Richards, Taylor Armstrong, and Adrienne Maloof), gathered early and decided to gang up on Lisa during filming.

“It was like Survivor; they meet up to go after one or the other, and so you’ll hear me say, ‘I’m sorry I couldn’t make the meeting.’ They planned it all beforehand,” Brandi said. ”They all decided to have a go at Lisa, and it’s all silly, petty stuff!” Adrienne does tell Lisa her “Maloof Hoof” comments were hurtful in one of the promos. In another, Kyle tells Lisa that it’s difficult to be her friend because she calculates every move like a chess game.

As for Brandi, she was told to wait backstage for hours, and by the time she was finally invited into the fold, Lisa was already in tears, the reality star claims.

While the network has been accused of manufacturing moments, Brandi doesn’t think the tirade against Lisa was Bravo’s idea at all. “No one at Bravo ever told me what to say; there was plenty of drama. There was no need for Bravo to create any,” she told the website.

Following the publication of Brandi’s interview, Kyle Richards took to Twitter to defend herself, and slam Brand in the process: “I heard [what Brandi said]. Sad she would say that. But doesn't surprise me,” Kyletweeted.

“I said I was asked to meet the day before,” Brandi reiterated on Twitter, followed by: “Let me know ur thoughts after u see the reunion shows.”

Despite the drama between Brandi and the Housewives — she says the only one she sees anymore is Lisa — the leggy beauty would consider another season… if she gets a status upgrade. “I would come back but not as a ‘friend’ of the Housewives, it needs to be a full time kind of thing.” At this point, it sounds like Lisa might need an ally!

Why does Taylor think that revealing that Brandi sliced Eddie's tires would somehow make the peeps see her for who she really is? That's what scorned women (and sometimes men) do. And like Brandi said, she told him she cut the tires before letting him ride on it. Loved Brandi owning it. This weeks reunion was blah with the "lets bash Lisa and kiss Taylor's ass" theme, looks like thing will improve for Part 2.

Preview for RHOBH Reunion Part 2...

Taylor blabbering about Brandi saying "I'll kill you" twice at the infamous party.

Brandi: Is that book about your husband out yet? It hasn't even been a hot minute.

Me: Score, Brandi! Score! lol

This may have been the best episode of RHoAtl this season. The women are together except for Kim. Nene seemed more mature that usual. Sherre and Nene were being civil. Sherer and Marlo's crazy fight, and I do mean crazy.

It's totally not fair to compare Jamie and JR. Jamie's mother didn't run off to another country to cope with a pregnancy her husband wasn't all that supportive of and then give up his sister and pretend to be dead for four years. The father-figure in Jamie's life also didn't conspire with Jamie's own brother and wife to conceal the news that his son was really alive either. Dixie, Tad, and Jamie all massively screwed with JR's life, but they don't get any blame for it. Yes, JR was always destructive, and yes, he probably would have found any myriad of reasons to end up the way he did, but his mother, his stepfather and his stepbrother all hurt him tremendously.

ICAM.

Everybody has to own the person they become but the people around us do contribute in part to who we each become. JR had a lot of big contributors. JR had a really f'ed up bunch around him from the start. Custody battles when he was a kid, Tad's death, Dixie's three deaths, parents cheating left and right, expectations he would never be able to live up to from his father, Dixe's betrayal (the Kate "death"), Tad and Jamie's betrayals (the baby) and later Babe's.

"Kendall and I already did it."

"You think you can shock me..."

Fabulous, lol.

I think the scenes right after that the kiss are also on YT. Kendall finally comes clean with Erica about the planned surrogacy, and Erica tries to talk her out of it, saying that it would be really hard to go through the whole pregnancy and then give birth and have to give the baby up - how will Kendall not fall in love with that sweet, innocent little baby? Kendall looks Erica right in the face and says something like, "well, you didn't fall in love with me, mother."

That was an awesome scene, very rich. From Erica's description to Kendall face while she's describing it, to Kendall's brutally honest observation (which she didn't say to hurt her), to Erica looking like she'd been punched in the gut.

It's near the end of this clip:

Yeah, that was still Jonathan Bennett. He was fine, for me. It was Andrew Ridings that really sucked.

I don't know about Nene's interesting factor as her contribution to this season isn't really enticing me to watch. It does entice me to roll my eyes and go meh, on the other hand. I totally think it was Kim and Nene's relationship together that made the show in past seasons, the show has become really bland without it.

How the mighty have fallen. It makes me wonder about how New Jersey is going to play. Prior to the Beverly Hills surge, it was New Jersey and Atlanta bringing the high entertainment factor.

Atlanta IS pretty boring this season, topped off with Queen NeNe refusing to talk to anybody and acting like her crap don't stink. I still like Nene and all the girls on the series, but whatever.

They need to get back to the confrontations because this whole separating castmembers is doing this show no favors.

Agreed. Get a new cast if these guys don't want to hang around with each other.

RHoBH has rocked the he-doublehockeysticks over the other RHo and probably topped even New Jersey for me.

This is the Soap Opera Update article...

Rudolf analyzing Anton and Anton/Kendall in Soap Opera Magazine:

And that whole tiger/cat figurine was stupid as well lol

Indeed. This storyline was just garbage. Cat/tiger could have, no SHOULD HAVE, gotten a credit in the opening, lol.

I think I have the Soap Opera Update article to go along with that commercial uploaded somewhere. Lemme go check.

What did you think of Hayley/Alec?

I didn't like any of her pairings after Brian. I didn't like Hayley/Charlie, Hayley/Alec or even Hayley/Mateo. I didn't like her with Charlie and Alec for similiar reasons, there wasn't enough chemistry to make up for the very visible age difference. Charlie was too fluffy. Alec was too creepy.

I like Brooke and Edmund too, in these clips. It's a shame they made Brooke so weak after this.

Do you think the whole Brooke/Tad/Dixie thing was worth it?

I loved Tad and Dixie prior to 1996. Brooke/Tad weren't worth ending Brooke/Edmund. They were a smart and sexy couple. I was 12-13 and I could appreciate them. Although Tad and Dixie were the primary factor in ending Brian/Hayley and Brooke/Edmund - for some reason I always blamed the Santos children more. Tad and Dixie dug the graves of these pairings, but Maria and Mateo put the dirt and cement over the coffins.

That's definitely Angelique (looking without volume) but I have no memory of her as anything other than a blond for some reason. I think that's partially my age at the time (school and I didn't get my first VCR until 1993), the years that have gone by and the fact that I was probably not very interested in the character.

If I remember correctly Carter became a very, very scary mofo but he's another one of those characters I only remember so much of which is not much.

Sigh, I loved Brooke and Edmund together.

A romantic relationship? No, not IMO. I don't think they ever thought lets really try to do that. They really did bring Kendall in as a mid-range teenager and SMG did look her age for the first half of that run.

Angelique was definitely a blond (at least at some point) unless my memory has gone bad with age - which it probably has.

Thanks. It all sounds so sad - the relationship being damaged, even though Erica did try. I never knew she tried as much as she did. That adds more layers.

There was a period where Kendall was living with Erica and Bianca. Erica tried, they all tried for a bit. But between Bianca's rebellion, Kendall's ability to overhear conversations that were negative through her snoopy nature and then her general impulsiveness in reactions, and Erica haven't not really dealth with the rape it was always set to get ugly fast.

Kendall would be in listening range whenever Erica would say something to Dimitri like "everytime I look at her I can only see her father." It became almost joke worthy how often this scenario would happen. Erica wouldn't know this of course unless Kendall would confront her. There were also smaller perceived slips. This is why Kendall developed a sort of crash on Dimitri. He'd notice those things too and encourage Erica to try harder. He was initially very in tune with Kendall's feelings, more so than Erica was.

I wish they'd kept them in a somewhat damaged but somewhat loving relationship, instead of having Kendall become Erica's enemy.

Me too, but I'm also fine with what they did although I was annoyed by the story during the last year with Gellar in the role. I think the extreme rift was becaue of the relationship between Lucci and Gellar. That enabled the show to give the actresses far less scenes together.

Just went back in my photobucket account after months. The critical response to the age issue back in 1993...

The twist about Eric was unnecessary IMHO. It was bad enough that he forgot the party, didn't invite any famous guests and wasn't there to prevent her from being raped. But then again, this was the same guy who cheated on his wife and fathered a child with his mistress, who abandoned his family, who neglected his children, who faked his death to avoid trial for embezzlement, who later mooched off of Erica and then sold the Enchantment stock she gifted him to one of her arch rivals before abandoning her again and walking out on his grandchild. Is it really so hard to believe that he would have traded Erica to Richard Fields to get him in a movie?

IMO, yes. It was a very, very tacky add on. The story was richer on the level that Eric was a really neglectful and careless father but not a monster. I would have loved for the show to bring Eric back in to interact with these women even to the end and for them to re-write that stupid re-write about the sex-trade sale.

Gellar, Minshew - the character was too young with each but it worked for me. I never lose the thought that Erica was 14, but I like that I feel there was always at least an 18 year age difference between them because of the age of actresses they were using for Kendall. I was more bothered by McTavish suddenly trying to sell me the character was 24 after getting so many complaints about how Kendall should be older than Lawson's Charlie. She shouldn't have folded to pressure especially when Gellar never looked more than 20 for her entire run and therefore never came off anywhere near older than Charlie anyways. Sometimes the story outweighs the logic in a good way. They definitely initially brought Kendall in as a 16-17 year old. They wanted to play the dynamic of challenging Erica to raise Kendall a little bit, they wanted Erica to hold responsibility in forming "the child" a little bit which I thought was a very rich idea especially in the long-term for Kendall. It's so much better than say Ethan and Zach. Ethan was at least 23-24 and looked it. He was also a good-natured and formed adult who they reverted into a 16 year old.

That video is why I had always liked Kendall even with SMG. Erica was just over the top cruel in the way she talked to her. She compared her to her evil father around five times in ONE episode.

You're right. I think it's some type of easily accepted cliche that any adopted child must be bitter and damaged.

I don't think that this is what AMC was doing here. Between Tad and Sam and Kendall, they've shown the many sides of adoption. A lot of kids are happy, a lot of kids carry an intense feeling of rejection no matter how great they were treated.

On a philosopical note, I think how your biological mother is during the pregnancy affects the unborn childs psyche. I can just look at my sisters kids and see there's truth to that. She was in emotional turmoil and violent during her first pregnancy and completely laid back during the other two. For completely understandable reasons, Erica was completely disconnected and unhappy during her pregnancy with Kendall. Rejection since the womb. On the more crafting notes, Kendall learned she was adopted when she was a teenager and Bill and Alice wouldn't admit it for anything. For Kendall that came off like it was something they really wanted to hide because something was wrong with her and her being adopted. It built on the feeling of not fitting in. Of course, it was probably that the parents thought of her as their own and just didn't want anything to come between that. Then Kendall met Erica and she was looking to finally fill that void she'd probably been born with but it really, really didn't work out.

I thought the entire Erica and Kendall story was very well crafted from beginning to end but if you just looked at it in the surface you missed a lot and just saw two royal bitches being selfish. I absolutely loved how long they allowed the often misguided anger to go on between them because you don't see that on soaps. It may have been misguided but it was coming from scars. It was coming from an understandable place.

Too late now, but perhaps AMC could have found an interesting character and B-plot in one of Kendall's adoptive cousins who she grew up close to who decided to move to PV to be with her BFF cousin who was now entrenched in her life as THE Erica Kane's daughter... I'm reminded of Anna Nicole's toothless cousin who'd show up at Anna's door unannounced and Anna would turn her way because she was s beyond *that*, and the cousin just wanted to know the Vicki she grew up with.

That would have been interesting story to do. I had always felt it was long past due to bring back something from her past, be it her other mother or something like this - a cousin.

The fact that Nene ran from this fight, ultimately, in tears actually makes me think the promoter wasn't lying. I think the promoter probably provoked that line of talk though.

Nene never runs from a fight like that when she's sure she's in the right.

I didn't dislike anybody in last nights RHOBH. Kim & Kyle got to me despite the fact that I disliked them most of this season. I for some reason feel Kim did the right thing about the boyfriend situation despite her fruitcake quotient. The keeping it under wraps element, not so much the moving. She seemed very adult during most of the epi. I wonder if Adrianne's husband is correct about why Kim looks sedated and is slurring words. Props to him for being brave enough to confront her about her odd behavior unlike most of the women in that group. I'm not sure I believe there's no alcohol in the mix.

I usually hate everything to do with psychics but Kyle's psychic had a feel-good vibe.

Next weeks episode looks like it's going to be good.

RHOATL. My mouth is always dropped open when I watch that edition of the RH family. Kandi and her sex-toy obsession is a bit much. Phaedra and her calling to funeral directing is crazy but so damn funny. "I can't wait to get my first body."

PS, Storage Wars?! FANTASTIC! I am addicted. I just met Brandi a few weeks ago! LOL

It's really a fun show. Fun cast of characters and definitely an interesting profession (hobby).