I’ve held off on posting about the new season of 24 for the most part simply because the last few seasons have slipped in quality with the death knell of last season, which struck me as a shameful parody of the show. It has reached a point, I believe, where they either have to call it quits or radically reinvent the show. It sounds as if the new season will be neither of those two things.
The producers had a chance to do so last season, where instead of a season where Jack Bauer skips around town doing the same old thing, battling the same old plot twists, they should have made the entire season about Jack Bauer breaking out of a Chinese prison and attempting to get back home to America. It would have been the perfect ending to the show. Jack on the run, out numbered and facing the heat in Southeast Asia.
Anyway, this time Jack Bauer plays the White savior for the fictional dark continental country of Sengala. Can’t say this trailer makes me want to see the new season, but I know I’ll watch.
The actor portrayed fictional President David Palmer on FOX’s 24, and he thinks that role helped pave the way for current Democratic Presidential hopeful, Barack Obama.
Said Haysbert, to whomever would listen, “If anything, my portrayal of David Palmer, I think, may have helped open the eyes of the American people. And I mean the American people from across the board — from the poorest to the richest, every color and creed, every religious base — to prove the possibility there could be an African-American president, a female president, any type of president that puts the people first.” Meanwhile, Keifer Sutherland scoffed, and was forced to remind the actor that 24 is a television show by torturing him with a ball-peen hammer.
By James Furbush | November 29th, 2007 | 6:05 am PST
The man can save anyone from anything, so it should come as no surprise that Jack Bauer is now trying to save the environment. Actually, that would be 46 year-old producer Howard Gordon, who has been biten by the green bug.
How bad was 24: Day 6? Wow, it was atrociously bad that’s how much. I’m guessing, and this is unscientific conjecturing on my part, that if you were to poll 1,000 fans of the show probably 9,985 would say Day Six blew. Just got on it’s knees in a Minnesota Airport bathroom and did the dirty.
There’s even websites popping up over the shows suckitude. And we couldn’t agree more. There’s nothing worse than watching one of your friends go from being a really cool unknown to hanging out with the football team to eventually doing coke and getting plastic surgery.
More than anything it was like the writers didn’t even try to come up with anything topical, politically relevant (or if they did it was abadoned really quickly) or new. Ever plot contrivance felt like it was cribbed from a previous season and as the day wore on it was clear that one of the most beloved shows on television had lost its way.
In January, Jack Bauer will return. The cast has been completely overhauled and the producers have shifted the action from L.A. to Washington D.C. CTU is gone, so maybe things will be better. We don’t know. We just know they have to do something to shake things up.
Bauer vs. Almeida … let the torturing commence. 24 returns in January 2008.
So apparantly, besides getting into trouble with DUI’s and drugs isn’t the only skill set Lindsay Lohan possesses. Apparantly she can also raise the fictitious dead. While perusing for a list of credits for Mark Protosevich, I came across this little tidbit on IMDB:
Both Lindsay Lohan’s parents are responsible for her bad behavior, according to the actress’s long-term bodyguard Tony Almeida. Almeida, who worked for Lohan for three years until 2005, claims Dina Lohan and Michael Lohan failed to provide the 21-year-old with any structure - and kept her working to pay for their lifestyle.
He tells In Touch magazine, “From a young age, she dealt with her father’s physical, emotional and drug abuses as well as her mother’s drinking.” Almeida also claims he had to pull Michael off his daughter - then 16 - after he stopped the car he was driving “and dragged her out of the car, pushed her up against the hood, screamed at her and called her a slut.”
He adds that Dina frequently “let her do whatever she wanted, just to keep her happy and working . . . (At her 16th birthday party) Lindsay drank whatever she wanted - I saw her drinking beer and mixed drinks with my own eyes (without Dina’s intervention).” He says, “Lindsay was the family cash cow - and she (Dina) resented it. They counted on her to pay their bills…I saw Lindsay exhausted, begging her mother for some time off.”
In the interview, Almeida goes on to claim Lohan’s parents allowed her to sleep with ex-boyfriend Aaron Carter when she was 15 and he 14, and that he caught her sniffing white powder in a nightclub when she was 18. He also alleges that the actress cut herself and threatened suicide during miserable teen years.
Our emphasis added, of course. But really? Her body guard is ex-CTU agent Tony Almeida? What, she couldn’t afford Jack Bauer? Do you think she would have any of the problems she would be having if Jack Bauer were her bodyguard. No! You know why?
Because Jack Bauer would have killed the cops and the drug dealers and her parents and every single member of the paparazzi by now. In fact, he would also have killed the trashy journalists reporting on the story. Because that’s how Jack Bauer rolls.
While we think of it. One thing is for sure, we’ve always thought Mary Lynn Rajskub is attractive. Back on The Larry Sanders Show and again on Mr. Show and then for certain on 24.
Sure she’s dorky but make no mistake about it - definitely hot. Geek Monthly sat down with the actress to talk about her character Chloe, her famous show and all things geeky. Head on over to see the entire photo spread.
Windows Vista DRM – Good or bad?
It’s outstanding. No, fair. Actually I don’t use a PC—we’re all on Macs. Is that weird?
What’s your favorite Linux distro?
The purple one?
Do you think the increase in performance between the Intel Duo and the Intel Core Duo is worth the price?
It’s a little expensive—overpriced.
What is a mouse?
The one I have at home is squishy—but on the show it’s just big—I have to work it with both hands.
In one episode you had to reboot the routers. Why did you have to do this yourself? Don’t you have patsies to do that stuff?
It’s like I have to do everything myself—no one else is to be trusted.
How much RAM is enough RAM?
I need more RAM.
There’s a theory on the net that Chloe has Asberger Syndrome…
I’ve heard about this—let’s just say I’m a genius and leave it at that. And that I can talk to dolphins.
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Our emphasis added, of course. But really? Her body guard is ex-CTU agent Tony Almeida? What, she couldn’t afford Jack Bauer? Do you think she would have any of the problems she would be having if Jack Bauer were her bodyguard. No! You know why?
