michelle and her manly movie musicals

If you haven't has a chance to check out the Best Week Ever blog, make sure you do. There's some great stuff over there. They have three writers commenting on the state and news of pop culture. Out of them, far and away my favorite is Michelle Collins. Every once and awhile you can catch her on VH1's Best Week Ever, but on the site you can enjoy her stuff all the time.


The whole reason for this post is that I was reading a list she put together of the 12 Manliest Movie Musical Performances Ever. Number nine on her list was Gene Kelly in An American in Paris. This little bit is exactly why I love her comedy...

"Gene is tiny, muscular, light on his feet, and almost always seen sporting a soft calf leather Capezio dance shoe. And you know what? We dig it. Cause Kelly doesn’t have anything to prove, other than that he’ll happily pas de deux your ass to the bedroom and make vaginal love to you all night long."

If you ever see her on a bill in NYC (like the Ball and Chain benefit this last Tuesday), you must go. Brilliant comedienne.

best week ever scoops

I'm not in the habit of reporting celebrity stuff, but a little bit earlier I happened to post about some pictures of Suri Cruise that someone sent me the link for. Then a couple minutes ago I went over to the Best Week Ever blog to catch up on the random whatnots... lo and behold! They had a ridiculously similar post from earlier this morning. Knowing the friend that sent me the link, she may have even found it right from there.

Ah well, further confirmation that years of doing improv and sketch points your brain in similar directions.