Starting Five
1. ESPN’s Marc Jones uses the term “New Jersey Nets” twice in the opening segment (and Jeff Van Gundy said, “Brooks Lopez”), but after last night’s 100-97 Knicks-Nets thriller, he will probably have no trouble distinigushing Brooklyn from the Garden State. Carmelo Anthony scores 45 as the ManhattaKnicks improve to 16-5.
2. Amanda Seyfried on Letterman. Dave: “Have you been drinking tonight?” Amanda: “Uh, yeah, I’m pretty drunk.” Dave: “How many drinks have you had?” Amanda: “To be honest with you, Dave, I’ve had about three. You know, big fan of whiskey, Russell Crowe gave me Middleton’s for my birthday. Then your lovely colleagues gave me a shot of Jameson’s for some liquid courage…”
Happy hour inside the Ed Sullivan Theater
You know who Seyfried is? She’s a blonde version of, at least when visiting Dave, Aubrey Plaza. And Dave sopped it up with bread. Seyfried earned the coveted hand kiss at the conclusion of the interview.
3. They’re not even hot in Cleveland. The Loss Angeles Lakers fall to the 4-17 Cavaliers, a franchise whose nickname perfectly describes their attitude toward defense. Just ask T.J. Simers. Anyway, “coast” has long been associated with the Lakers, but as a modifier, not a verb. This isn’t all going to change when Steve Nash returns, by the way.
4. A day late news: Jeremy Lin went off for 38? Really? Also, Jon Stewart discusses the Bob Costas-firearms debate in a segment titled “Any Given Gun Day.” That was good enough for us to be included in the SF. Also, Josh Eells spends a day with Tom Hanks in Trolling Stone and devotes a paragraph to our bizarre obsession with America’s Treasure’s curious habit of urinating in his films. Eells notes four of them (A League of Their Own, The Green Mile, Apollo 13 and Forrest Gump) but omits Hanks’ urination scene in Cast Away.
5. North Korea test-launches a long-range missile and a gunman wipes out two lives not far from the Taco Time at the Clackamas Town Center.
Reserves
Mick Jagger does the Top Ten List (“Things I, Mick Jagger, Have Learned in 50 Years of Rock n’ Roll”) and delivers one of the better aphorisms in rock history: “You start out playing rock n’ roll so you can have sex and drugs, but you end up doing drugs so you can still play rock n’ roll and have sex.”
Quips like Jagger
Jagger, by the way, will appear with his little band, The Rolling Stones, tonight at Madison Square Garden along with The Who, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Bon Jovi and Eddie Vedder for the 12.12.12. benefit show. We’re trying to imagine the meeting that was called to decide who must be the opening act. “Do you know who I am?” “Do you know WHO I am?” “Do you know THE WHO I am?”