Best, worst and most: 2005 in review
ENTERTAINMENT...Best dressed celebrity: Kate Moss
Worst dressed: Jennifer Lopez
Best fashion accessory: Bangles
Worst new clothesline: J. Lo’s fur couture
Most exposed: Paris Hilton
Most derisive: Tara Reid
Best public melt down: Tom Cruise
Worst cad: Brad Pitt
Worst kept secret: Star Jones’ stomach stapled weight loss
Best use of celebrity money: Oprah Winfrey’s $100,000 reward for the capture of child molesters
Most unexpected Hollywood divorce: Mike Myers and Robin Ruzan
Most idiotic stand-by-your-man incident: Lil’ Kim, sentenced to one year in prison for perjury and obstruction of justice in shooting incident
Most pitiful skank stunt: Britney Spears marrying Kevin Federline, and being impregnated by said trash
Worst asshole stunt: After attacking Brooke Shields, Tom Cruise to Matt Lauer, “Matt, Matt, Matt, you don’t even—you’re glib... I don’t talk about things that I don’t understand. I’ll say, you know what? I’m not so sure about that.”
MOVIES...
Best chick flick: In Her Shoes
Best title: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Most surprising: Serenity
Worst film: War of the Worlds
Best duo: Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson in Wedding Crashers
Best trailer for a horrible film: Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Best action scene: King Kong and the Tyrannosaurus rexes
Most romantic scene: Angelina Jolie asking Brad Pitt “Who’s your daddy now?” after living-room foreplay/battle in Mr. and Mrs. Smith
TELEVISION...
Most important guest: Oprah on the The Late Show with David Letterman
Best actor: William Petersen of CSI (Grissom is the man! Die, Horatio Caine, die!)
Best comeback: Patrick Dempsey
Best new show: Grey’s Anatomy
Worst new show: Martha Stewart’s The Apprentice
Most underrated: Arrested Development
Best drama: House
Best teaser plot: Lost
Most pitiful show: Joey
Most missed show: Sex and the City
Most embarrassing incident: Ashlee Simpson lip-synching on Saturday Night Live
BOOKS...
Best historical: 1776 by David McCullough
Best autobiography: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Best non-fiction: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Most inspirational non-fiction: No Excuses: The True Story of a Congenital Amputee Who Became a Champion in Wrestling and in Life by Kyle ManardMost bullshit bestseller: Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You to Know About by Kevin Trudeau
Most anticipated day: July 16th, release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Most disappointing: New Bridget Jones columns
Most appalling: RWA awards ceremony fiasco
Most undeserved hype: A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon
NEWS...
Best keep secret revealed: Mark Felt as “Deep Throat”
Best media break out star: Cooper Anderson
Best flirting while on air: Cooper Anderson and Ryan Seacrest on CNN’s 360°
Worst villain: Scam artists who created fake Katrina charity sites for personal profit
Worst jackass comment: Pres. Bush’s “Brownie, you’re doing a heckuva job.”
Worst out-of-your-depth case: Michael Jackson and another child molestation trial
Most unexpected death: Peter Jennings of ABC News
Most ballsy act by a politician: Cong. John Murtha calling for withdrawal of U.S. troops in Iraq
Most laughable act by a politician: Pres. Bush’s China door incident
Most abysmal incompetent: Michael Brown, former head of FEMA
Most deserved indictment: Cong. Tom DeLay
Most deserved thank you: Volunteers who opened their homes to Katrina victims
Most deserved hype: Passing of Pope John Paul II
Most undeserved hype: Terry Schavio’s case
Most deserved acknowledgment: Bono, Person of the Year, Time magazine
Labels: bibliophile’s affair, bitch at the movies, celebs crap, mctv, me and miss jones
Best President in 100 years: George W. Bush
Worst Public Murder: Terry Schavio
12/31/2005 06:41:00 PM
Terry Schavio was dead long before she died. The autopsy proved that. This was a private family matter that was exploited by politicians and the media.
Regarding Bush, you are certainly entitled to your opinion. Isn't free speech a beautiful thing?
12/31/2005 08:19:00 PM
Worst President in a century: GW all the way!
1/01/2006 11:23:00 AM
Thank you for awarding Bush, The most laughable act by a politician...for his China door incident. None of my friends saw it on the news, and I saw it twice and damn-near peed my pants!!!! Oh my gawd, it was hilarious. What a moron. I was up late posting on my blog ecomountain.blogspot.com and viewed a few blogs, and yours is quite enjoyable!!! Fantastic writing!
Thanks.
L
1/09/2006 07:03:00 AM
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