divine angst

This goes nicely with the previous post, because all of these things are TV or movie related.

1. I am bothered by the “celebrity” interviewers on shlocky networks like the TV Guide Channel who use “whenever” in place of “when.” Example:
   

   Now, whenever you were working on [insert name of junket movie here], did you think working with [insert name of hot actor here] was hard? I mean, he’s pretty hottt!”

   Not to suggest that my actual questions would be more trying (hey, I want to know if working with the hottt guy is distracting, too), but geez. I thought they had someone reading and composing the questions BEFORE they are asked, which I (perhaps wrongly?) assumed meant some copyediting was going on, too.

2. Is “What Not to Wear” getting a little old? I feel like I’m betraying old friends by even suggesting this, but I’m just not as gripped by it as I once was. Friday night they had the “Worst Dressed Couple” show and, as I watched it, I kind of knew they’d pick the couple who were, well, sad, instead of the couple who were possible worst dressed. (The couple they picked were badly dressed, yes, but the woman was very sad, which made me angry. In the other two couples, the woman was all about her fashion choices; in the couple that was picked, the woman actually said that she didn’t like dressing the way she did, but that she did it because she knew her husband liked it. While it’s good to give this couple a makeover, I’m a little bothered by this stereotype of a relationship.)
3. If I find “Legally Blonde” a better watch than most of the drivel on TV, does that make me shallow? I worry about this stuff. I really, really like chick flicks. In fact, tonight, as I sat at home alone (I did try to have a girls’ night, but it was the wrong weekend), I found myself seriously upset that I had somehow misplaced the (archival) copy of “Legally Blonde” I had on VHS. I would have watched a VHS movie instead of a DVD just to have been able to watch that movie. Instead, I watched “Lost in Translation,” a great movie, but not quite in the same genre. We have no DVDs of chick flicks. I realized this last night. I’m going to have to fix that, and soon. Mr. Angst doesn’t go out of town often, but when he does, I’ll be damned if I’ll be left with nothing to watch!