The Ten Reasons Why "The One Show" Is The Only Thing I Tune Into On BBC1 Post.

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The Platters That Matter Post.

La-La Land's been putting out quite a few soundtrack CDs for TV shows of late - I've already mentioned their Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Batman: The Animated Series discs, and if I was one for Battlestar Galactica I'd mention their CDs for that show as well (oh wait, I just did). This week, the long-overdue score album of Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman's work on Heroes comes out for pre-order on La-La Land's site (you can already pre-order from Amazon). The CD features music from the first two seasons for sure, otherwise track 8 would be called "Jessica/Niki/Gina/Tracy/Barbara" (tracks in italics are tracks, as the credits say every week, "with the voice of Shenkar"; the asterisked tracks are also on the song album, and I think we can assume the earlier album's "Natural Selection" and "Homecoming" cuts are part of Mohinder's and Claire's suites respectively) and due to the short nature of a lot of the show's cues, many of the tracks are featured in suite form a la a lot of soundtrack albums from the late Maurice Jarre.

Pre-ordering from La-La Land will be my MO, to try and get one of the composer-signed copies. Check out the cover above - and based on the albums for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Summer Glau) and Lost (Maggie Grace), who wants to bet that taking the CD off the tray will reveal a picture of a certain diminutive, dolphin-friendly blonde with a heartrending smile?

1. Heroes Title (:14)*
2. Peter (6:12)

3. Claire (6:43)
4. Hiro (7:30)
5. HRG (6:24)
6. Mohinder (7:59)
7. Sylar (5:30)

8. Jessica/Niki/Gina (5:55)
9. Kirby Plaza (5:41)

10. Fire And Regeneration (2:21)*

The A Picture's Worth A Thousand Bloggings Post.

The above shot from Cindy's Allure spread is undoubtedly the Battle of Helms' Deep of said spread, based on reaction on the 'Net. I can't imagine why.

About the only really negative aspect of it is the "MILFs > 20-year-olds!" crowd, which is a bit unfair. Don't get me wrong, Cindy's claim that she looks "pretty good for 43" is an understatement (and combined with early reviews of MTV's new House of Style unfavourably comparing new host Bar Refaeli with her, this must be a great week for Cindy's sense of self)... but while Cindy is definitely more attractive than loads of women younger than her, she's also more attractive than loads of women her own age and older. Cindy Crawford's always been a load more fetching than the norm, so in a sense this is business as usual. Making it probably the only time that one of my fantasy women being pictured naked and creamed up (not the first dream-come-true musing this has brought up) can be described as "business as usual."

The point is, as fine as 40-plus women like Cindy, Halle Berry and Jennifer Aniston are this doesn't mean ladies an even longer way from Freedom Passes should be knocked. Besides, back when Cindy was in her 20s you can be assured she was on the receiving end of the same "older is better" treatment... my view is, everybody was younger once. (Plus there's always a time limit, but that bridge can be crossed when we come to it.) That said, would Scarlett Johansson have gotten such a reaction in a similar situation?

Quite possibly.

But would Agyness Deyn?

The In Memory Of Trouble Post.

Trouble, the cable channel that used to be The Children's Channel but gradually focused on teens and later on younger people in general (i.e. not older people), is being axed by Virgin Media - and repurposed for sister channel Living. The idea is that not content with having Living and Living2 AND having +1 channels for both of them, it'll eventually become Living3.

I have nothing really against Living - it may have contributed to the swollen ego of Tyra Banks (who, as The Soup pointed out, recognises that you can't spell "mentor" without "me") by running America's Next Top Model and Britain's Next Top Model, and it may have been a major player in the Jade Goody Affair, but any channel that brought UK viewers Charmed, The L Word, Veronica Mars and Boston Legal has to have something in its favour. Nonetheless, Trouble will be missed... aren't there enough lifestyle channels out there already?

The ...And Then Two Come Along At Once Post.

Gisele Bundchen is in the new issue of Harper's Bazaar. But more importantly, so is Cindy - taken by Peter Lindbergh in this spread. That is a must buy when I find it. And so is the newest Allure.

Many, many thanks to Fred Smithson's Celeb Girlz For Charity blog for the heads-up. Especially for this.

The When The Pixie Met The Leprechaun Post.

So over the weekend one of my TV Girlfriends/Mistresses/Concubines was invited to the reopening of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in... er... Hawaii. She was pictured smoking (or at least with a cigarette in her hand) but I haven't got a problem with that - she still has time to quit, and it is possible to be a non-smoking asshole.

She's pictured above with Michael Emerson from Lost instead of Heather Graham. I do have a problem with that. Babes should stick together...

The A Lot More Where That One Came From Post.

With the dullness of the Oscars behind us, something interesting. And more here.

The Happy Birthday, Cindy Crawford Post.

Nothing else to say, really...

The Only On The Disney Channel Post.

I'm not a fan of Wizards Of Waverly Place - Selena Gomez is no Melissa Joan Hart (and certainly no Elizabeth Montgomery), and the show's not a patch on other tween-aimed shows like Hannah Montana and iCarly. Plus its theme song hurts my ears. But I'll have to tune in when "Fashion Week" premieres - whenever the Disney Channel UK gets around it - because it's got Cindy guest starring in her first sitcom appearance since... eurgh... According To Jim. Just Jared Jr. for the whole thing, and check out the pictures.

And props to Cindy for not playing herself! (I know she's cast as a famous model, but still...)

The Piers Morgan Takes A Brief Vacation From Being A Knob Post.

From the Daily Mail via GQ:

Piers Morgan: Which famous women would you most like to be trapped with on a desert island?
Piers Morgan: Cindy Crawford, Scarlett Johansson and Delia Smith. I wouldn't expect the first two to do any cooking. Or wear any clothes.
PM: And who would you least like to be trapped with?
PM: Heather Mills, Cherie Blair and Princess Anne. They would irritate, enrage and bore me to death. In that order.

The vacation ends at that point, but it proves that a stopped clock does tell the right time twice a day.