The Official Chris Duncan Web Site

Client Number 9’s last call girl, Ashley Dupre, did an interview with People magazine recently.  It’s not really news that Eliot Spitzer was “strickly business”. However, normal girls don’t get paid thousands of dollars for sex… at least not in straight cash.  Did you already figure out that HCH stands for High Class Hooker?  She had a few select quotes that I felt obliged to share:

“I’m a normal girl.”

“This wasn’t any different than going on a date with someone you barely knew and hooking up with them. The only difference is I can pay my rent.”

“Some guys, they want to have conversations and really get to know each other. With him, it clearly was not like that. It was more of a transaction. Strictly business.  I was there for a purpose — not to wonder who [he] could be.”

Unfortunately, you won’t find this quality on Craigslist

• Beauty and the Geek celebrity version coming to MTV?
• Watch almost any sporting event live on the internet. (at the bottom)
• Showtime plans reality show about hookers…
• Paris Hilton and Benji Madden broke up. So sad…
• Will Nicole Kidman quit acting?
• LAT decides to use a jackass headline on article about McCain winning Missouri.
• GnR, Paul McCartney to debut albums on MySpace. The future! (Thanks, John)
• Are you ready for BRITNEY? (Thanks, Lindsay)

Justin Timberlake made a surprise appearance on SNL last night and killed.  He started with a super-speed monologue on Weekend Update where he ran through his entire (now cancelled) episode that he was going to host next week.  Later, he appeared in this skit as a backup dancer for Beyonce.  Paul Rudd was also a great host.  Maybe SNL isn’t dead.

Bringing sexy back?

• Netflix CEO thinks the remote control will be replaced by a sweet Wiimote-like pointer.
• Hillary Duff to star in NBC show.
• Hollywood scales back partying.
• Newest Guitar Hero not selling as well as previous installment.
• British woman divorces husband for virtual world sex. Also worth noting is that she met her (now estranged) husband in an online chat room.
• Prison Break coming to an end?
• Rosie O’Donnell “variety show” on NBC will feature Kathy Griffin, Jane Krakowski, Alanis Morissette, Danny Bonaduce, Dane Cook and Joe Francis. That sounds random and horrible.
• Paris potential BFF Corrie Loftin was not only in GGW, but also did softcore nude pics under the pseudonym Devin Lexen.
• My mustache heroes: the Croatian water polo team.
• Obama gives first weekly YouTube address.
• Robert Swift has a stupid tattoo on his arm (of the And1 guy). Idiot.
• Tatum Bell, previously a member of the Lions and manager of a cell phone store, signs with the Broncos.
• Maloof’s partner with Mark Burnett for reality show about the Sacramento Kings.
• Pros & Cons of the Blackberry Storm and iPhone 3G.
• Kanye West blogs about his arrest.
• Matthew McConaughey must’ve been stoned when he made up this exercise.
• Justin Timberlake buys $5.5 mn loft in NYC.
• Hamid Karzai offers Taliban safety deal.
• Kim Jong Il “makes new public appearance”.

Here’s a late update.  Anybody want to bet on when Ben Silverman, programming czar at NBC, gets the axe?  Heroes is in the crapper, Chuck isn’t far behind, My Own Worst Enemy & Lipstick Jungle are both canceled, and Knight Rider & Kath and Kim suck.  Here’s the quote that sums it all up:

This year none of the network’s new shows are averaging more than a 2.6 rating. The network had already extended full-season orders to “Knight Rider,” which slipped to a series-low 1.6 last week, and “Kath & Kim,” which has fallen in nearly every outing.

That’s from an article on MediaLife.  The article also mentions the fact that the Heroes lead-out slot (previously occupied by Studio 60, Black Donnellys, and Journeyman among others) never gets any traction.  I think the problem is that Heroes is really a cable show (at least where they’ve taken it) on a network.  It probably belongs on Sci-Fi, which Universal also owns.  The ratings may be eroding, but I think they can keep a core audience.  If Monday Night Football can succeed on ESPN, Heroes could probably kill on Sci-Fi.  Although, Heroes has a massive budget ($4 mn per episode) that probably wouldn’t work on Sci-Fi.  Good thing it isn’t my job to fix this mess.

• Along with My Own Worst Enemy, Lipstick Jungle also gets axed.  Can you hear them calling for Ben Silverman’s head yet?
• LeBron can’t feel own face, dunks from free throw line.
• Love handles will kill you.
• Comedy Central to produce “Evan and Gareth Are Trying to Get Laid” pilot.  It’s about two guys that run an online advice site.  Entertaining?  Probably not.
• Stan Lee to produce gay superhero TV show.  Seems like a little much.
• ESPN’s bid to put BCS bowl games on cable could dramatically alter identity of ABC.
• Jake Plummer moves on from the NFL… to handball.
• Mark Begich leads Ted Stevens by THREE (3) votes to be one of Alaska’s senators.
• NYT’s Sorkin praises Paulson for new TARP direction.  WaPo says bailout lacks oversight.
• What’s it like being Paris Hilton?  Still want to be famous?
  
• Another celeb-driven animated movie is coming… this time with Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Kristen Wiig, etc.
• Former web series Sanctuary gets renewed for 2009 after the channel’s most-watched premiere since 2006
  
• FOX and NBC team up for local news coverage starting in Philly.
  
• Colt McCoy is rooting for Oklahoma.  OCD is as well.
  
• Web-version of Office will work on Linux, iPhone.

The first edition of Eff the AM is skewed towards entertainment news. All of them (minus the Bradley Effect) illustrate how America is concurrently awesome and ridiculous at the same time. I personally prefer Shelley from My New BFF.

• America has the most DVRs
• Simpsons receives its highest ratings in 5 seasons. “The fourth episode of the show’s 20th season played to approximately 12.5 million viewers and was well-received by critics and fans.”
• Familiarize yourself with the Bradley Effect. Hopefully, we’ll never have to hear about it again after today.
• BFF on GGW? Corrie from Paris Hilton’s My New BFF was on Girls Gone Wild.
• TV sex leads to real sex (and pregnancy). Who would’ve ever thought that being a good parent and controlling what your kids watch directly correlates with teen pregnancy?