David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place. The "shot" heard 'round the world
Here’s the story behind yesterday’s TV press tour story about Courteney Cox, “Dirt� and some rather dirty thoughts about her.
In case you can’t be bothered to read that link, despite it boasting the soaring rhetoric of Milton, here’s a quick recap: San Francisco Chronicle TV critic Tim Goodman, in his review of FX’s new tabloid drama “Dirt,� starring Cox as an icy gossip-magazine editrix, seemed to seriously question Cox’s allure in the minds of young men alone in the dark. Jimmy Kimmel quoted the review when Cox appeared on his show, and she replied, bemused, “I mean, not one person in the whole world could imagine masturbating over me? I mean, not one?�
In his subsequent blog entry, Gooden retreated, conceding that Cox emanated “good old fashioned smokin' hotness� on Kimmel’s show. Sadly, he didn’t elaborate further on how he arrived at his retraction on Cox’s fantasy-tasticness.
As fate would have it, Cox appeared at TV press tour Tuesday, so there was one question that absolutely required to be asked. Except that no one seemed to be asking it. Good People of Television, the aggregate members of the Television Critics Association abandoned their journalistic integrity utterly, insisting upon asking only questions pertaining to the show “Dirt� itself.
So it fell to Your Mayor to boldly pose the query on everyone else’s minds. Humbly apologizing that no one else in the group was nearly as salacious as myself, I then asked, “Do you feel better now that since that appearance (on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’), The San Francisco Chronicle has now declared you indeed worthy of illicit male self-gratification fantasies?"
“That actually made me feel good,� Cox confessed. “There’s nothing better than someone saying I’m sorry.�
Cox’s co-star, Ian Hart, actually – and, actually, bizarrely – expressed approval at my eloquence in posing such an impertinent query. Other more tremulous members of the TCA thanked or congratulated me for posing the question, giving them their money quote, and an FX publicist even admitted he offered to fly Goodman (who isn’t currently attending the press tour) down if he would ask the first question of the “Dirt� press conference.
And now, the whole sordid saga comes to a happy ending, so to speak, with Cox and Goodman reconciled, and Cox apparently emerging as the first mainstream actress to express her pleasure at, or at least her not minding, the notion that lonely men envision her in their nocturnal dreams and emissions.
Comments
Sir, I totally would have been on that had I been in the room, though I doubt I would have been able to phrase it so, um, delicately. Well-played.
Posted by: Alan Sepinwall | January 10, 2007 12:40 PM
Well, thank god you had the balls to ask! You deftly managed to untwist everyone's knickers.
Posted by: Suzy Q | January 10, 2007 3:50 PM