Mon, March 13, 2006
Dead to Me: Miss Alli—12:10 PM
The Amazing Race continues, having been restored to its former, unruined state. Lacking my McRace peeps to enjoy it with, I'm reading the TWoP recaps. Today, Miss Alli has earned my undying respect and become dead to me, all in one sentence:
BJ and Tyler [...] clearly have a serious case of Robin Williams Disease, in which it is impossible not to be "on" for even one moment while a camera is running,
Undying respect!
... and while that's charming for an hour-long standup special or a movie in which you play a professional nurturer
She's dead to me!
... it is something I find impossibly tiresome in a race team.
(On this I happen to disagree also. I'm loving BJ and Tyler, affected as they are. But it's included here just for the sake of completing her sentence.)
Update: A few pages later:
I'm not sure that Failure To Launch is really what I'm looking for in a date movie. I could list the reasons, but that would add a page and a half to the recap. Suffice it to say that they start with my inability to identify with Sarah Jessica Parker, ever, to the point where usually, I want whatever character she's playing to wind up unhappy.
Much vigorous head-nodding. Okay, she's no longer dead to me. But seriously, Patch Adams? Charming? Scenes of adorable Monica Potter eye candy interrupted by atrocious yukking, yes. Charming, no.
