Starting Five
Yep, he made the right choice.
1. Kerr-fuffle
With their 122-108 win at Portland, the Golden State Warriors move to 58-13 –the NBA’s best record–and wrap up their first Pacific Division title since 1976. How long ago was the spring of 1976?
—Rocky had yet to be released.
–Saturday Night Live was finishing up its inaugural season.
–The No. 1 song on the charts was December 1963 (Oh, What a Night) by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.
–Only one year had passed since the Warriors’ last NBA title.
–Only three years had passed since the Knicks’ last NBA title.
–Only 1,943 years had passed since the crucifixion of Jesus –there’s still even money on whether Jesus will return before the Knicks do.
2. The James Gang
It was refreshing to see a late-night TV host make his debut and just be earnest and gracious. Whatever future James Corden has at The Late, Late Show, no one can accuse him of acting too cool for school.
3. Saul Together Now*
Two-plying his trade…
You have to hand it to Better Call Saul: the show is so good that it can tackle nursing home fraud, RICO, babysitting, paper shredding (I felt like I was watching Argo again) and WestLaw pass codes all in one episode and that episode is still damn well worth watching.
Two scenes here were emblematic of our hero: receiving a phone call from opposing counsel while dumpster diving for evidence, and writing a letter of demand using toilet paper while seated on a toilet. Perfect.
*Yes, I will pun this title until long after you’ve grown tired of me doing so.
4. Oops, They Did It Again
“Let’s Do Some Damage” is also the mantra of Congress
Should there be term limits on Sports Illustrated spring baseball cover subjects? For the second year in a row Bryce Harper graces the cover of SI before Opening Day. Our friends over at The Big Lead noticed that this year Harper, the Kate Upton of the MLB Preview issue, looks particularly “jacked.”
To be fair, this should be the season that the Nats win a series in October.
5. If This Shell’s a Rockin…
Has this happened to you before? You’re on a deserted island with your girl, the mood is right, and then a British TV presenter barges in. Tortoise Interruptus.
Music 101
I’m Gonna Make You Love Me
Originally released as a single in 1966 and performed by Dee Dee Warwick, it rose to No. 2 three years later when released as a joint single by Diana Ross & the Supremes AND The Temptations. Here’s Ross, the original Beyonce, performing it with Stevie Wonder in 1969. Think they’re fond of one another?
Remote Patrol
Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown: Sicily
9 p.m. CNN
After filming this scene, Bourdain asked the owner of this trattoria for his daughter’s hand in marriage.
Does anyone have a better job than Bourdain? Travel all over the world, sample the most interesting cuisine, and you don’t even have to perform a Bar Rescue (or a Bar Refaeli Rescue, although who’d mind that?). Tonight he travels to Sicily, the little ball that Italy’s boot kicks. This episode, originally airing in 2013, went hilariously badly. It’s like a comedy film about a show such as this going off the rails.
Harper had the ’13 and ’15 previews, but Tanaka got last year’s. In D.C. parlance, that’s a Grover Cleveland …
‘FLASH’ update – Cisco lives! At least for now in this alternate timeline. Who will YOUR friend/Dr Wells/Reverse Flash kill next? Will it be Cisco again? Or Joe?
And I get a kick that ‘the brothers’ from Prison Break have reunited as another set of brothers here, albeit dastardly-somewhat comic criminal brothers.
Speaking of crime, have you watched the new TV drama ‘American Crime’? It’s manipulative but addictive. What is your opinion? And I have to give it to Felicity Huffman – woman does not seem to have an ounce of vanity.
Here is a gem to reinforce your comment on Ted Cruz yesterday. “What a pandering no-nothing” works as a caption for the clip below, but I would go with the obvious unasked follow-up question – “What crime did Rock Music commit after 9-11, besides throwing together a 35 million dollar fund raiser for affected families the following month?” And by country music does Cruz mean he now listens to one over played Alan Jackson song? Again I blame America; we produced Cruz and his ilk.
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/ted-cruz-my-music-tastes-changed-on-911/