Eddie, Dame Judi, and Tara Connor, Oh My!

December 18, 2006

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EDDIE MURPHY is on a special two-hour Inside the Actors Studio tonight. Whether you're interested in Dreamgirls or not, it's a great show. He is funny, open, and revealing. He's given a decade of low-key, weird interviews but this one is like the "old" Eddie. I think Jim Lipton made him feel right at home!

SURVIVOR -- Watching the finale live last night was exhausting. I fast-forward through the challenges when I normally see the show and am more committed to that than ever to continue doing so next season. I just want to know who won and then get them back to camp. They are bo-ring. And confusing.

Who is buying those buffs that they keep advertising on the show? I've never been at the gym or an airport or a casino and seen someone working a buff from "Survivor" -- they have to be getting rich off of buff sales, I just don't see them. Let me know if you see them somewhere in America. Once I had a pitch meeting with someone who used to produce on Survivor and he brought me a buff and I was so excited until I realized that it probably only looks good in Fiji on the actual show. I think I got rid of it.

There was tie-breaker at tribal council between Sundra and Becky, so the two ladies had to go head-to-head in a fire-making challenge. This tie-breaker was to see who would be in the final three and neither of these idiots who had lasted 38 days could start a fire -- it took them an hour with the flint for Jeff Probst to GIVE THEM MATCHES. Whaaaayt? They gave them matches? I couldn't believe it. It was very pathetic. So then Sundra runs OUT out of matches, with still no fire. How about if you can't start a fire in an hour you don't belong on Survivor. If that was Project Runway or Top Chef there'd be pickets in front of Bravo this morning and I would be in hiding. How LAME.

They did away with my least favorite Survivor Finale bit of cheesiness, showing Jeff Probst taking the votes by helicopter to CBS Television City and then walking into the crowd with them, as though he just came from the last tribal council. It was so dumb; I am so happy it's gone. I don't understand, though, why Jeff Probst changed
shirts sometime during the first commercial break. From a blue button down to a Scoop-esque clingy pullover. Is there a "Survivor" wardrobe mistress who can go off the record for me on this?

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