Pajiba Love 07/07/09

America's Pajiba's Sweetheart Coming to DVD!

By Stacey Nosek | Posted Under Pajiba Love | Comments (74)

Awesome news for anyone who was a teenager in the mid to late 90’s: “Daria” is finally coming to DVD! Am I the only one who kind of had a crush on Trent? He was hot for a cartoon character, is all I’m saying. (TV Shows On DVD)

Rumer Willis has been cast to play a lesbian teen on the new “90210.” And maybe it’s just me, but that sounds sort of, you know, insulting to lesbians. (Webster’s)

Here are ten lessons we’ve learned from failed threequels. (Film School Rejects)

Hey Julianne Moore! Paper called and it wants it’s … Something back. I don’t know, that was just poorly executed. (Superior Gossip)

Here are the eight weirdest Johnny Depp roles. Really? Weirdest? Isn’t that kind of like an oxymoron? (Screen Junkies)

What a shocker, Katherine Heigl is every bit the delight to be married to as you could possibly imagine. (Celebitchy)

I never thought I’d say this, but the new burgers at McDonalds look sort of, well, good? Of course, since they all weigh in at almost 800 calories I’ll probably never ever actually eat one. (Impulsive Buy)

Here are 10 reasons why Marilyn Manson is such a catch. No, just … No. That’s not even funny to joke about. (Frothy Girlz)

Jesus Christ, Cameron Diaz is scaring me. But at the same time I don’t think I’d entirely mind having her beat the shit out of me. Is that wrong? (Jezebel)

Here are the “The 10 Awesomest Things Leonard Nimoy Has Done That Have Nothing to Do with Spock.” I had no idea Nimoy was that awesome. (Topless Robot)

Gross. Michael Jackson may have been looking into cloning himself. And it sounds just crazy enough that it might have been true. (Yeeeah!)

Here are some great housewarming gifts for the dedicated gamer. I totally want that Nintendo quilt. No joke. (mental floss)

Just because they’re awesome, I wanted to share these pants that Rusty made out of fabric printed with shirtless cowboys. She should go into business. (Rusty’s Ventures)

Today I have the first episode of a totally cute web series called “Fisherman’s Wharf” which was a student project of a reader named Stacey. And you know, us Staceys have got to stick together, right? Anyway, enjoy!

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I KNOW you didn't just rag on someone not having a tan!

Posted by: Jay at July 7, 2009 1:10 PM

Oh and THAT WAS A KICKASS "IN SEARCH OF..."!

Posted by: Jay at July 7, 2009 1:12 PM

Woohoo for "Daria" finally being released! Best.news.ever.

Posted by: tbean at July 7, 2009 1:15 PM

I guess I have kind of a Betty/Veronica thing with Daria and Jane, though I get the feeling Jane would be nicer actually and Daria would still tell me to fuck off.

Posted by: Jay at July 7, 2009 1:18 PM

Julianne Moore is so white she sparkles in sunlight.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at July 7, 2009 1:20 PM

Don't be fatuous, Tracer.

Posted by: branded at July 7, 2009 1:25 PM

I love the pale ladies.

Dark hair, dark eyes, and pale skin = BOING for me.

Pale skin and red hair is a close second.

Posted by: Snath at July 7, 2009 1:30 PM

Hey now! Let's not be mocking those of us pale enough to reflect the sun's rays!

Posted by: tamatha at July 7, 2009 1:30 PM

I can forgive Stacey for mocking the melanin challenged, because she linked to my pajama pants and she's met me in person so she knows I'm whiter than rice.

Also, WOOOO! DARIA! I was probably too young to be watching Daria when I was, but I adored it with all my tiny, future misanthropic heart.

Posted by: Genny (actually Rusty now) at July 7, 2009 1:35 PM

I never watched Daria, I saw maybe 15 minutes and was bored. Don't hate me, I'm pale too!

Posted by: Julie at July 7, 2009 1:47 PM

Some of us are just that white, and telling us to tan is not helpful. If we actively tried to tan, not only would it not work, we'd just get skin cancer and die.

Embrace the pale if ya got it. If your skin is naturally dark or darkish, a) you're lucky and b) that's also very beautiful. But please don't tell the rest of us that there's something wrong with us because of something we can't change!

/rant

P.S. Leonard Nimoy is awesome.

Posted by: MM at July 7, 2009 1:49 PM

First off, YAY DARIA!

Second off, holy shit, I may be super pale and all, but WOW Julianne Morre could really use a tan.

Third off, those pajama pants are fucking rad as hell, Genny!

Posted by: Jeremy Feist at July 7, 2009 1:49 PM

a) you're lucky

I'll have none of that self-loathing, MM.

Posted by: Jay at July 7, 2009 1:50 PM

Hey MM-you're whiter than an albino polar bear and I DON'T LIKE IT!!

:throws Lindsay Lohan's self tanner at you:

Posted by: Julie at July 7, 2009 1:52 PM

ZOMG is that Victoria B.C.? I thought I recognized the house of parliament...

Posted by: TryScience at July 7, 2009 1:58 PM

I won't pretend there isn't a little self-loathing, but it's mostly reflexive from society's overall attitude towards paleness. When I really think about it, I don't mind the pale; it can be beautiful.

Lucky = being able to go out into the sun without bursting into flames.

Posted by: MM at July 7, 2009 1:59 PM

JM's skin is flawless. It is much harder to pull that off that it is to bake yourself to saddle leather.
As a redhead who wears 85 sunscreen every day and still has a pretty dark tan, I am quite impressed.

Posted by: Lindsey at July 7, 2009 2:00 PM

They better be releasing the UNedited (read:unraped)original, as first aired, version of Daria.
The abominable, hacked to pieces version they aired on Nogin was a DIS.GRACE. Which I find laughable on account of the fact they also air Degrassi Next Generation which is just one more date-fuck scene away from late night Cinemax.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at July 7, 2009 2:04 PM

Great, now I have even MORE of an inappropriate crush on Nimoy.

Posted by: That Girl at July 7, 2009 2:08 PM

I think pale skin is gorgeous on people who are supposed to be pale skinned. I've never been a fan of tans, fake or real. I personally avoid the sun at all costs, which is tough because I live in Florida. On the other hand, someone I've known for a while thought I was 35. I'll be 50 on Friday.

Frankly, with all these celebs dying right now at the age of 50, I'm feeling a bit mortal.

Posted by: BWeaves at July 7, 2009 2:08 PM

Wait, Leonard Nimoy directed 3 Men And A Baby? Really? I had no idea.

And Stacey, you're not the only one who had a crush on Trent. He was hot.

Posted by: Jeni at July 7, 2009 2:11 PM

I dated a vegan coke addict that would tape Degrassi, every episode, marathons etc. and sit down and watch them on an endless cycle while she ate some vegan cereal and bumped cocaine. She would do this for hours/days at a time. It was one of the worst things I've ever experienced. She looked like Tiny eating his breakfast in House of a Thousand Corpses.

Posted by: dmo at July 7, 2009 2:30 PM

When I saw the Daria picture I remembered my weird pre-teen crush on Trent. I'm glad I wasn't the only one.

Posted by: the buttonator at July 7, 2009 2:31 PM

I knew a guy who was EXACTLY like Trent, only blonde. I didn't have the crush, but the resemblance was uncanny.

And...is it just me or does he look like an animated Jakob Dylan?

*points and laughs at you pale faces*

I AM A CHILD OF THE SUUUUN.

Posted by: figgy at July 7, 2009 2:33 PM

Holy shit! Daria on DVD? Been waiting for aaaaaages for that to come out! Finally some good news to lift my spirits and make it through the rest of this MJ Memorial coverage.

And yes, Trent was supercute for a cartoon character.

Posted by: Teresa at July 7, 2009 2:34 PM

And oh gawd, Marilyn Manson is as handsome as Paris Hilton is too pretty to give a blowjob.

Nemoy also voiced a Treehouse of Horrors episode, reading a version of "The Raven". It was so hot.

Posted by: figgy at July 7, 2009 2:35 PM

I always thought Trent was supposed to be an animated Jakob Dylan.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at July 7, 2009 2:41 PM

That was James Earl Jones, figgy. But I can certainly imagine Nemoy doing some creepy readings. Perhaps The House of Usher?

Posted by: Jim Doggie at July 7, 2009 2:41 PM

No, no, it was Nemoy. He was sitting behind a big desk at the beginning and reading the story. And then, I can't remember what happened but he got sick of the thing and left, and was replaced by the squeaky-voiced teen at the end.

Posted by: figgy at July 7, 2009 2:48 PM

Was anyone else excited that THE STATE is finally coming out on DVD on the 14th?!?! I used to love that show when I was younger.

Posted by: adam at July 7, 2009 2:52 PM

I'm kind of a whitey-white-white myself, but next to Julianne Moore, wow. She's actually almost WHITE, like the crayon. I didn't think people could get that pale.

However, and this needs to be said, because she's not trying to tan and all that stupid junk, she will continue to look great well into her sunset years, when people who forced their not-so-tan skin to be tan will look like old shoe leather.

My mother in law routinely gets mistaken for being far beyond her 60 years, she looks more like 80. She tanned year-round for 30 years and that's the result. Now she's trying Botox and face lifts and she's just getting creepy looking.

I'll keep my 85,000 SPF, shades and big hat, thanks.

Posted by: Snuggiepants the Deathbringer at July 7, 2009 2:55 PM

You're right, figgy, that was Nemoy.

Posted by: Snath at July 7, 2009 2:57 PM

Oh, also, I found Trent hot as a teenager, but now in my early 20's I'm pretty sure that he's the 28 year old still living in his parents basement insisting that his band is totally just about to "make it" despite the fact that they don't play gigs anymore they just get together to smoke weed and play covers after their jobs at Pizza Hut, or some such.

I could be wrong, but that's the impression I got looking back on the show. Super hot to a 16 year old, but the 22 year old is kinda like "Yeah, not a lot of long term prospects there."

Posted by: Genny (actually Rusty now) at July 7, 2009 3:01 PM

OFF TOPIC: Anyone watching the Michael Jackson concert? As a citizen of California I would just like to say: you're welcome America. We didn't need that tax money anyway.

Posted by: Heathen at July 7, 2009 3:08 PM

She's actually almost WHITE, like the crayon.

Well, part of that's also the camera and lighting. You can barely tell she has freckles on her shoulders, but in living color they'd pop more.

Posted by: Jay at July 7, 2009 3:19 PM

Genny, you took the words right outta my head.

As another member of the Holy Crap, You're White Club, I am too scared of getting the cancer to leave the house without 75 SPF slathered all over me. I do have a shit ton of freckles though, so from a distance I look like a normal person. I also have these things that I call anti-freckles. Just like freckles, only they are white. They even show up under a black light. Anyone else have these?

Posted by: Blonde Savant at July 7, 2009 3:27 PM

Love Daria! Me and my friends all had a crush on Trent.

Once I fell asleep while watching Daria, and because I could hear the cartoon in my sleep, I became Daria in my dream. And everything was a cartoon! It was one of the most amazing sleep experiences ever.

Posted by: lucy at July 7, 2009 3:42 PM

Blonde Savant, I have white spots on my face, and red spots and brown spots. Photolite lasers are my friend. And microdermabrasion.

Posted by: BWeaves at July 7, 2009 3:44 PM

i am pale and wear and all-natural (non-chemical) sun-block.
it has zinc in it and makes my skin appear whiter... a lot whiter.

sorry to break the illusion, but i'm pretty sure that's what julianne has on her skin. good for her. skin cancer (high UV exposure) and blood cancer (toxic chemicals) are bad. tanning beds (UV exposure) and tanning creams/sprays (toxic chemicals) are also bad.

screw the vanity insanity.

Posted by: celery at July 7, 2009 3:44 PM

Celery, try the sunscreens with transparent zinc. You don't look white, but under flash photography, you look VERY shiny. Ask me how I know? Thank goodness my sister runs a digital photo business and can remove the shine from the photo.

Posted by: BWeaves at July 7, 2009 3:47 PM

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes!!!
I feel like I'm in heat I'm so excited, Daria on DVD, I can die happy! Yes! Yes! This like, totally makes my entire week, hands down.
Can I get a "Finally!"?

Posted by: Kamikaze Feminist at July 7, 2009 3:59 PM

yeah, the one i use (and others i've tried) is somewhat transparent. but it's SPF 60, so that much zinc and titanium goes on white for the first little while and then just goes shiny.

thanks.

Posted by: celery at July 7, 2009 4:05 PM

Yeah, Tryscience--dat iz the Victoria. We were lucky that day: it wasn't pouring rain.

(And to either Dustin or Stace--it's actually, "Freshman's Wharf", not "Fisherman's". Puns. Gotta love 'em.)

Posted by: Sapphiar at July 7, 2009 4:13 PM

I use the non chemical sunscreen also celery, only I have skin that tans easily and it makes me look like a freak with a white mask. People laugh, but I don't care.

Posted by: Cindy at July 7, 2009 4:15 PM

I also have these things that I call anti-freckles. Just like freckles, only they are white. They even show up under a black light. Anyone else have these?

Posted by: Blonde Savant at July 7, 2009 3:27 PM

I used to have them. I don't see any at the moment. My sister, who's a natural red head and much more freckled than I am, definitely had them. She also calls them anti-freckles. Didn't know about the black light trick, though. That's pretty cool.

Posted by: tamatha at July 7, 2009 4:53 PM

Damn, the wall behind Julianne is less white than she is in that picture.

THat said, I still want to make hot dirty not-quite-"love" to her, and create a army of ashen gray babies.

BEWARE THE COMING OF THE GRAY ONES!!!!!

Posted by: Vermillion at July 7, 2009 5:11 PM

I love those pants Rusty! I must have some.

Posted by: MissNev at July 7, 2009 5:25 PM

I believe that part of the new staff training at the camp I teach music/drama at was "Do not stare directly at Robert if he is outside. You will be blinded by the spectacular, paper-white skin." I don't really tan: I burn, peel, and regenerate pastiness at an alarming rate.

As for Daria - dear God, let it be the real episodes and not "The N" edited versions that take out all the fun stuff, like the elimination of all Sick Sad World segments.

Posted by: Robert at July 7, 2009 5:42 PM

Leonard Nimoy did the episode where Mulder and Scully showed up - The Springfield Files; Homer mistook Burns for an alien. James Earl Jones did read The Raven, and it was the last part of the first Treehouse of Horror episode. *notch*

Posted by: Goldie at July 7, 2009 5:43 PM

tamatha I didn't know about the blacklight thing either until I would up at a club in college that was having an 80s night. Then my friends were freaked out by my glowing speckle-y arms.

Posted by: Blonde Savant at July 7, 2009 5:45 PM

Wow, I didn't know about anti-freckles. I need to ask my very blond, extremely freckled daughter about this.

She jokes that if her five million face freckles would join up, she'd suddenly be brown. Pretty true, too. I love how she owns them, though. Thinks they're awesome. Won't even wear makeup because it covers them. Says she wouldn't be her without all her freckles. She'll be 15 soon, I hope this attitude lasts.

Posted by: Snuggiepants the Deathbringer at July 7, 2009 5:59 PM

OMG, whoever is going around spreading LIES about James Earl Jones not having read The Raven on the Treehouse of Horror better turn in their Pajiba cards before we go and take them VIA. FORCE.

It will be a needless bloodbath.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at July 7, 2009 6:31 PM

Thank you, MissNev! I actually have more of that fabric, so for a reasonable fee I could be persuaded to make some similar pants for other people ; )

Posted by: Genny (actually Rusty now) at July 7, 2009 6:50 PM

Oh, and, *ahem*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror

James Earl Jones did read The Raven on the first Treehouse of Horror.

Indeed, Goldie is right; the episode that Nimoy narrated is "The Springfield Files", though he also did voice himself in "Marge Versus the Monorail".

Y'all can go about your business now.

Posted by: Genny (actually Rusty now) at July 7, 2009 6:53 PM

What sort of degenerate goes around confusing Nimoy (that sellout douche I will NEVER forgive him)

with James Earl Jones?

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at July 7, 2009 7:30 PM

THANK YOU, MTV!

Posted by: gp at July 7, 2009 7:46 PM

SICK SAD WORLD on DVD at last. Hooray!

I was too old for Daria, but I watched it anyway; she's one of the only characters I ever saw on TV who reminded me of me-in-high-school, actually...

Posted by: Edith at July 7, 2009 8:09 PM

MTV must have been feeling generous and relevant recently as they also put 6 episodes of "The Maxx" online within the last month:

http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/the_maxx/series.jhtml

Posted by: branded at July 7, 2009 8:20 PM

I LOVE DARIA!!! I have never been so excited in all my life AND Trent was the total hotness and the only one who truly understood Daria, alas she felt too dorky to be around him. How cute is that shit!?

Anyway, sorry I just geeked all over the place there!

Posted by: oh dude no at July 7, 2009 8:27 PM

Nimoy was in Them, first (1954) of the giant critter flics (giant ants). Awesome flic with James Arnes (Gunsmoke), Fess Parker (Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone) James Whitmore, and more. Flic is still a hoot.

Posted by: Leges at July 7, 2009 8:46 PM

Oooh, I just watched the video clips of Baffled! and the Magnavox ad at the Leonard Nimoy link. So so awesome....

Posted by: Edith at July 7, 2009 8:54 PM

But Nimoy WAS in that episode, DAMMIT.

Or it was just that they drew him and said it was him but voiced by JEJ. But the squeaky-voiced teen DEFINITELY said "I am Leonard Nimoy."

Posted by: figgy at July 7, 2009 9:19 PM

AHA!

SEE?!

http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/leonard-nimoy-simpsons.jpg

So, you know, I wasn't completely off-base. Hmmph.

Posted by: figgy at July 7, 2009 9:20 PM

Unless that happened on the X-Files episode. Then I am insane and ashamed.

Posted by: figgy at July 7, 2009 9:22 PM

I'm gonna go sit in the corner now.

Posted by: figgy at July 7, 2009 9:23 PM

Trey was a boring loser. I thought so when I was an impressionable teenager, and I still think so now.

Those shirtless penis pants are great. Oh yes, penis pants. There's totally a penis in that second picture.

Posted by: SaBrina at July 7, 2009 9:51 PM

When are we ever going to transcend this impossible, narrow-minded, limited standard of beauty that shuns the physical features of white women? Where's the affirmation they need?

Sing it the dozens, cart support by the wheelbarrow. Loose the surly bonds of cultural degradation, and proclaim: I'm white and I'm wonderful.

Brahmin? No, ma'am. Untouchable? So fuckable!

How are you going to tell me that the bio-pic on Ira Glass has Westley Snipes in the eponymous role? They couldn't find a single white dude?

They've got Grace Jones playing Ava Gardner,

Whoopi Goldberg as Natalie Wood,

Angelina Jolie played by James Haven?

Lena Horne as, um...glurg, hmm. It's cool, my mother is fully black and the same colour as Ms. Horne. It's a Negro Rainbow!

Quincy Jones as Quincy Jones.

I hear that they're going to re-animate the corpse of Cleavon Little so that they can make him into a sentient avatar for the role of Walt Disney.

Javier Bardem IS Chef Boyardee!

Eddie Murphy as The Bleached Asshole Who Sometimes Talks.

Black Bonet as White Bonet

Christopher Darden as David Duke (SLAM TACT!)

Maggie Cheung as Jim Gaffigan? EXPLAIN! This is not the time to do or die. This is the time to question, 'why?'

Uncle Remus as Strom Thurmond.

Seal as Heidi Klum.

Jamie Foxx as--no, it was an accident. I was aiming for Michael Vick, and mostly Jamie Foxx, too. When will the black-on-black gun violence subside? How many more Source Awards can we sustain?

Morgan Freeman as--Morgan Freeman ON Miley Cyrus (thank-you, try the veal!)

Curse you, James Earl Jones. Now you're taking C-3PO, the Ewoks AND Bea Arthur? For shame. I think I need to pray and consult some prog rock.

And you know what Hounsou? Just because you're a mirror image of Kate Gosselin, you seem to think that you can withold water, and steal Kanye West's intership? Not good for the sisterhood.

Earth, Wind and Fire, meet The Jumping Jews of Jerusalem.

Black Frasier? White Fraiser.

Before passing away, Nell Carter was going to do Sex and the City. Lady had hustle--and not even the downtown Vancouver kind.

Jet Li as Robert E. LEE!

The cast of The Wire as the cast of The Hills.

Trent Lott Millionaire? Oh, that's just too much.

Cornell West as the guy who doesn't get killed in the first ten minutes.

The Jolson Conundrum.

Yes I do know what The Rock is cooking. I know what you are, I've seen what you do. So they can't even play their own criminals anymore? Fine. Usually, they don't have minorities playing criminals. It'll be a stretch, but you might learn something about life. And a good 'Robble' to you, sir.

Yao Ming is so wonderful as Peter Dinklage, it's hard know what we did before.

Who will play Ryan Reynolds? Perhaps--oh wait. Sit on a knife, no one gives a flying trib. Man up and face the rain!

Angela Davis? Woody Allen.

Tyler Perry is like Dave Foley in that they might have been prettier if they had been born girls. Unlike Dave Foley, Perry is wack-ass swamp donkey.

I wouldn't have guessed, but Forest Whittaker does an OUTSTANDING Gwyneth Paltrow. I asked him what his inspiration was, and damned if it wasn't Janice from The Muppet Show. Yeh. Bliss.

Halle Berry? Mariah Carey. Wait, what?

The Black Death meets the Cameron Crowe ouvre. And don't think that you'll get some sort of 'Get Out of Death Free' card, a la Moses and the Gang. I locked the clinic doors, the blood couldn't be screened. Season and cook that ram up until it's nice and tender. Make the last meal a good one. Which is to say:

Fried watermelon and catfish collards as Whole Foods.

Coolio? Fabio.

Michael Jac--oof. Whackidy, Schmatidy-DOO!

Then electric slide yourself from this mortal coil.

Kool Moe Dee as This Mortal Coil

Before we know it, we'll have to steel our loins to make it through The Birth of a Miscegenation! Obama's going to have the White House redone in a shade of purple we like to call 'Grape Drink'.

Nothing but Rocket Fuel Malt Liquor on tap ('Day-ummm!)

The Maury Povich Screening Room will replace the Oval Office.

And that's where my brain has been

Posted by: Jo 'Mama' Besser at July 7, 2009 9:54 PM

YAYYY for Daria!! I only watched it in reruns on The-N but it was such a good show. Really addictive. I'm definitely gonna be getting this on dvd!!

Posted by: grace b at July 7, 2009 10:04 PM

i still have the maxx on vhs! and the head saves the world.

crap, now i want to go watch but i don't want the tape to get warped. damn you, inferior technology of the past.

Posted by: gp at July 7, 2009 11:06 PM

You aren't truly white until you've been told by a genuine redhead "Hey! You are paler than me!". I hate you all.

DARIA! I watched it all the time. I'll so buy it as soon as it comes out.

Posted by: Melody at July 8, 2009 12:09 AM

And that's where my brain has been

And while it was nice for it to visit, it probably shouldn't stay there for too long.

Posted by: Vermillion at July 8, 2009 1:05 AM

Besser, I am so beyond confused.

Posted by: figgy at July 8, 2009 1:42 AM

I haz another Leonard Nimoy awesome:

He played the baddie in a 1971 Western called 'Catlow'. In which he appeared nude. In a bath and then in a fight scene. So if you've ever wanted to see Spock naked, here's your chance (after about 2.00):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aps2UHPy2ck

It's not graphic, but I'll take my naked Nimoy any way I can get it! He was pretty hot at 40. Plus, he had a beard so he looked rather like alternate/Spock in 'Mirror, Mirror', which, hawt.

Of course, your definition of 'awesome' may vary....

Posted by: Tarn at July 8, 2009 10:22 AM

Jo Mamma, this

I wouldn't have guessed, but Forest Whittaker does an OUTSTANDING Gwyneth Paltrow. I asked him what his inspiration was, and damned if it wasn't Janice from The Muppet Show. Yeh. Bliss.

is great!

All this time I wondered who Paltrow reminded me of... And yep. She is so Janice.

Posted by: Tarn at July 8, 2009 10:30 AM

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