Well, maybe there's a stop in Miami first. Tonight Jersey Shore creeps back into our TVs with season two. From slang to spoofs, we're excited to see what season two will bring, but first let's look back at how the gang infiltrated pop culture since last season.
Will you be watching tonight?
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Sporting traditional long johns and velvet trunks called "centerpieces," wrestlers competed in England today. It's believed Viking invaders introduced this colorful style of wrestling.
"Sometimes I, like anybody, wake up in the morning and go, 'F*ck. Really? This is the starting point?' Haven’t you ever picked up a picture of yourself from, like, five years ago, and you look at yourself and you just go, 'And I had no appreciation for how lovely I looked, how fit and healthy I looked.' So now I say, 'Now listen. Ten years from now, you’re really going to think you should have appreciated yourself more.'"
— Julia Roberts tells Entertainment Weekly that as years go by, she's trying to break the old habit of obsessing over her appearance. Just like actress Laura Linney, I think Julia knows the secret to aging is attitude.
The Jersey Shore gang is back tonight with season two of the fist-pumping show, forcing me to think deep questions, like "where did guidos come from?"
The g-word began as slanderous term for lower-class Italian-Americans, but the youth of New York and New Jersey embraced the term and made it their own in the 1970s.
Dr. Donald Tricarico, a sociology professor at the City University of New York, points to Saturday Night Fever as the movie that supplied the guido myth. Working-class Italian-Americans found an escape in underground dance clubs of the '70s. They created the leisure-meets-greaser look by maintaining their cultural identity while adding American status symbols.
Today's definitions range from "Italians who conduct themselves as thugs with an overtly macho attitude" to "a pejorative word to depict an uncool Italian who tries to act cool" to "a good-looking Italian guy" (compliments of Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino).
Probably the best explanation of "guido" is borrowed from Italian. Fred Gardaphè, professor of Italian-American studies at Queens College, points to the idea of bella figura. "It basically means, to put on a show so people don't know the real you," he said. "If you're poor, you make them think you're rich. If you're rich, you make them think you're poor."
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Get excited! Meryl Streep will continue her delightful journey into comedy in a new movie Mommy and Me. The news gets better. Meryl will play Tina Fey's mom. Like any healthy real-life mother-daughter duo, these two actresses each have their own strengths: Tina's a witty writer and improv master, while Meryl is known for dramatic roles and serious acting chops. But they do have more in common than you'd think. Check out five things they share:
- Strong marriages: Both Meryl and Tina exceed Hollywood marriage-longevity standards. Meryl's been married to her husband Don since 1978 and Tina married husband Jeff in 2001 after dating for seven years.
- BAs in drama: It may be popular for celebrities to enroll in college, but it's not so common to graduate. Tina and Meryl belong to the college graduate club — Tina got a BA in drama from University of Virginia, while Meryl got the same degree from Vassar.
- One degree of Lindsay Lohan: Meryl and Tina both worked with Lindsay Lohan while her star was rising. Meryl played Lindsay's mom in 2005's A Prairie Home Companion, while Tina was her high school teacher in Mean Girls.
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