Spice Girls Reunion Still Possible

"Tell me what you want what you really, really want!" This line must have defined the musical industry for many young girls growing up in the early '90s like myself. The look came complete with "titanic platform" shoes, which dominated the young fashion industry around the world.

The Spice Girls were the first major British pop music phenomenon of the mid-'90s to not have a debt to independent pop/rock. Instead, the all-female quintet derived from the dance-pop tradition. The group used dance-pop as a musical base, but they infused the music with a fiercely independent, feminist stance that was equal parts Madonna, post-riot grrrl alternative rock feminism, and a co-opting of the good-times-all-the-time stance of England's new lad culture.

Their proud, all-girl image and catchy dance-pop appealed to younger listeners, while their colorful, sexy personalities and sense of humor appealed to older music fans, making Spice Girls a cross-generational success. The group also became chart-toppers throughout Europe in 1996, before concentrating in America in early 1997.

How such a phenomenon came to an abrupt end is a blur to me. Too much rumors circulated about it before. Today, we come across bits and pieces of news about individual members.

Of course Victoria being Mrs. Beckham remains most visible. But recently, reunion rumors have started to surface. There were articles claiming that the girls turned down request for reunion performance for the Queen's Diamond jubilee celebration just recently.

Geri Halliwell echoed her former bandmate Melanie Chisholm's calls for a Spice Girls reunion performance to launch London's 2012 Olympic Games. Mel C. previously admitted she'd love to reunite the girl group, which also includes Melanie Brown, Victoria Beckham and Emma Bunton, to sing at the opening ceremony, which will be directed by Oscar-winner Danny Boyle.

Halliwell is in favor of the plan, insisting the "Wannabe" hitmakers are the perfect group to represent Great Britain. She tells Britain's Daily Mirror, "The Spice Girls are part of me and always will be. If it happened and felt natural and right, then I'm always open to singing with the other girls."

Adding, "Singing at the games is a great idea and would be an amazing opportunity and it's a sign the Brits are back. This is our time. Everything is circular and now there's a British pop revival."

But before we can see the most famous female pop group of all time, their fans were able to see all the girls gathered together for the premiere of a musical featuring their songs.

Last Tuesday and for the first time since they last appeared together on their 2008 comeback tour, the group met at the St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel to promote new the stage show "Viva Forever." They posed for photos on the main staircase, where they shot the music video for their debut single "Wannabe" back in 1996.

The singers took to their Twitter accounts to share their excitement, with Beckham writing, "Good morning London!! Song of the Day (is) 'Reunited' (by) Peaches and Herb... Sunny day in London, so nice being home!!!"

Meanwhile Brown added, "Whoop whoop where my spice b**tches at!!!... Lovin ALL spice fans always!" Halliwell also tweeted the message, "Look back, realize how far you've come," while Chisholm wrote, "BIG DAY!!!" "Viva Forever" will feature 18 Spice Girls songs when it opens at the West End's Piccadilly Theatre in December.

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Spice Girls Reunion Still Possible

"Tell me what you want what you really, really want!" This line must have defined the musical industry for many young girls growing up in the early '90s like myself. The look came complete with "titanic platform" shoes, which dominated the young fashion industry around the world.

The Spice Girls were the first major British pop music phenomenon of the mid-'90s to not have a debt to independent pop/rock. Instead, the all-female quintet derived from the dance-pop tradition. The group used dance-pop as a musical base, but they infused the music with a fiercely independent, feminist stance that was equal parts Madonna, post-riot grrrl alternative rock feminism, and a co-opting of the good-times-all-the-time stance of England's new lad culture.

Their proud, all-girl image and catchy dance-pop appealed to younger listeners, while their colorful, sexy personalities and sense of humor appealed to older music fans, making Spice Girls a cross-generational success. The group also became chart-toppers throughout Europe in 1996, before concentrating in America in early 1997.

How such a phenomenon came to an abrupt end is a blur to me. Too much rumors circulated about it before. Today, we come across bits and pieces of news about individual members.

Of course Victoria being Mrs. Beckham remains most visible. But recently, reunion rumors have started to surface. There were articles claiming that the girls turned down request for reunion performance for the Queen's Diamond jubilee celebration just recently.

Geri Halliwell echoed her former bandmate Melanie Chisholm's calls for a Spice Girls reunion performance to launch London's 2012 Olympic Games. Mel C. previously admitted she'd love to reunite the girl group, which also includes Melanie Brown, Victoria Beckham and Emma Bunton, to sing at the opening ceremony, which will be directed by Oscar-winner Danny Boyle.

Halliwell is in favor of the plan, insisting the "Wannabe" hitmakers are the perfect group to represent Great Britain. She tells Britain's Daily Mirror, "The Spice Girls are part of me and always will be. If it happened and felt natural and right, then I'm always open to singing with the other girls."

Adding, "Singing at the games is a great idea and would be an amazing opportunity and it's a sign the Brits are back. This is our time. Everything is circular and now there's a British pop revival."

But before we can see the most famous female pop group of all time, their fans were able to see all the girls gathered together for the premiere of a musical featuring their songs.

Last Tuesday and for the first time since they last appeared together on their 2008 comeback tour, the group met at the St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel to promote new the stage show "Viva Forever." They posed for photos on the main staircase, where they shot the music video for their debut single "Wannabe" back in 1996.

The singers took to their Twitter accounts to share their excitement, with Beckham writing, "Good morning London!! Song of the Day (is) 'Reunited' (by) Peaches and Herb... Sunny day in London, so nice being home!!!"

Meanwhile Brown added, "Whoop whoop where my spice b**tches at!!!... Lovin ALL spice fans always!" Halliwell also tweeted the message, "Look back, realize how far you've come," while Chisholm wrote, "BIG DAY!!!" "Viva Forever" will feature 18 Spice Girls songs when it opens at the West End's Piccadilly Theatre in December.

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Breaking Babe: Arianny Celeste Arrested, Still Super Sexy

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Arianny Celeste is a known babe quantity in MMA circles, as she's one of the hottest Octagon Girls in UFC history. She's also big in Internet horndoggery circles for her Playboy spread and general willingness to tweet racy photos of herself. You might be shocked to know that those two fanbases are 96% overlap.

But this bit of news could be her big crossover moment, for she's makin' REAL headlines now. Celeste was arrested in Las Vegas for domestic abuse early Saturday morning, so instead of attending UFC 146, she was in a jail cell. According to TMZ, Celeste was arguing with her boyfriend in a limo when she kicked him in the face  and then threw some vases at him back at their hotel room.

Celeste says the fight was over texts the guy allegedly sent to another woman. What the f*** is this dude thinking? First of all, with all that time she spends in the Octagon, didn't he think some of the ass-kicking skills would rub off on her? And secondly, you're dating ARIANNY CELESTE. The only thing you need a cellphone for is to receive sexts from THIS:

 
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‘Scandal’: Who’s STILL talking about last week’s sexy flashback episode?

Like many a woman in her mid-30s, I’ve had a difficult time forgiving Tony Goldwyn for what his character did to Patrick Swayze’s in Ghost. That worked for his role on ABC’s Scandal: a president we were led to believe got a White House aide (Gilmore Girls‘ Liza Weil) pregnant after his mistress (Kerry Washington’s Olivia Pope) ended their affair — and then possibly had the girl killed when she threatened to come forward — but who we wanted to like because Olivia had loved him. After last week’s episode, which flashed back to the start of their romance, Goldwyn is officially forgiven, and I’m firmly in Republican president Fitzgerald Grant’s camp even though I’m a Democrat. How sexy was Fitz in this hour? I was still direct messaging, IM’ing, emailing, and talking face-to-face with five friends about it today, all of us quoting different lines he said throughout the hour. Let’s recap below. 

We’ll start with him repeating, “You’re right, I would be lucky to have you” after Olivia told him he’d be a fool to fire someone as brilliant as her because he hadn’t liked hearing her say the truth, that people wouldn’t vote for him because it looks like he doesn’t “screw” his wife and his marriage is cold, distant, and dead. A little too much too soon, perhaps, Mr. At That Time Governor, but we’ll pardon your instant desire because you were trying to do the right thing by removing the temptation.

Then, you have Fitz being questioned about his marriage at a debate. “The most honest thing that I can tell you about myself right now…. is that I’m a man in love, with an incredible woman,” he answered, and looked directly at Olivia. The elevator scene that followed was excruciating torture as he inched closer to her in silence until the door opened and they were interrupted. What Goldwyn and Washington (and the director and editor) do so well is let that silence breathe. They allow you to get lost in a moment, like when Fitz took Olivia into a hallway to beg her, just for a minute, to stand with him and not be the candidate and the campaign fixer. We got 30 seconds of them staring at each other in silence, him fighting the pull to lean in, and you felt like they could’ve easily gone on longer had his wife not come through the door. (But it’s good she did, because that hallway was not a discreet location.)

And finally, we get to the two best scenes. After Fitz’s wife invented a miscarriage to explain why she and Fitz had appeared distant and win him some of the female vote, Fitz talked about her with Olivia on the campaign bus (which must have sound-proof seats). He admitted using her as a shoulder to cry on was “sleazy, and low, and not fair to you, and the oldest trick in the book.” And yet, as my colleague Abby West said, he was sexy when he kept going: “How did I get here? Why didn’t I meet you sooner? What kind of a coward was I to marry her and not wait for you to show up?” “Governor Grant…,” Olivia started. And he stopped her. They were so far beyond that. “Just say my name,” he said. “That’s crossing a line, it would be inappropriate,” she said. “Well, let’s be inappropriate,” he responded, smiling. Then, he turned serious. “Say my name.” After 20 seconds of only hearing the sound of the road, she said, “Fitz.” He moved his hand closer to her, and she held it. Cut to the hallway of their floor at the hotel. Olivia paused. “Just go in your room and close the door, and we’ll pretend this never happened…. Go in your room,” he told her. Instead, she wheeled her suitcase to his room.

I talked with Washington today for a finale preview that will post on our Inside TV blog on Thursday, and I asked her about the sex scene, which from the music to the time-shifting editing had an Out of Sight vibe to me. She said in the script, the scene was written straight. “I had heard a rumor that in the first cut of the episode, the editor had done that. I thought it worked thematically with the episode because there was so much time jumping back and forth between two years ago and present day anyway,” she said. Inside the room, there was the broken lamp and that moment of pause when you thought Fitz was coming to his senses about what an affair with his campaign fixer could mean for a presidential candidate, but when he finally spoke, he said, “Take off your clothes.”

Then there was whatever he said to Olivia in bed, which I couldn’t make out. I asked Washington, and she couldn’t help me: “I have no idea. Honestly, doing those scenes is so uncomfortable for me, that I probably couldn’t tell you anything about that scene. It’s very blocked out,” she said, laughing. (A friend told me she tried closed captioning, which didn’t work. So I emailed ABC asking for an official transcript and was told it was supposed to be something the audience couldn’t decipher. So, we can all stop rewinding now.)

In the present, Fitz made her listen to the audio sex tape he’d been sent and she realized it was her on it with him. He was about to leave but asked for one minute. She agreed. They sat on her couch and just held each other in silence — for a minute. The look on their faces — particularly his — was heartbreaking. “When we were doing the scene, because of the embrace, I never got to see the work that Tony was doing. So I was really struck the first time I saw the episode by the level of intensity of what he was experiencing,” Washington told me. “It was an interesting, lovely artistic surprise to be able to go, Wow, wow, look what’s going on for him in that moment.” She helped him put his jacket on, American flag pin clearly visible. “Goodbye, Livvy,” he said. “Goodbye, Mr. President,” she answered. And up went the wall. But for good?

The promo for the finale…

Read more:
‘Scandal’ stars, boss talk tonight’s flashback episode, season 2 possibilities
‘Scandal’ stars host special segment of Spoiler Room Video Edition.
‘Scandal’: Kerry Washington talks premiere’s presidential twist

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Pierce: ‘Desperate Housewives’ is still sexy, smart, fun

Carlos (Ricardo Antoniio Chavira) and Gabrielle (Eva Longoria) divorced and remarried during the course of "Desperate Housewives." (ABC/RON TOM)When Marc Cherry created "Desperate Housewives," he didn’t have a handle on two characters — Gabrielle (Eva Longoria) and Carlos (Ricardo Chavira). They were just sort of "generalized yuppies."

Until he saw similarities between Longoria and the "brilliant" Rue McClanahan, who played the vixen Blanche on "The Golden Girls."

"No matter how selfish or vain her character acted, you still loved her," said Cherry, who was a "Golden Girls" writer/producer. "One day, I was looking at little Eva Longoria and I went, ‘I think she could get away with that.’?"

Longoria wasn’t thrilled that her character started talking about her own beauty. "The more self-involved and vain and selfish and egotistical she became, the funnier she became," said Cherry, adding it was a "big shock" when Gabrielle and Carlos "became our go-to comedy couple because they were both so despicable to one another that it became just a joy."

And "Desperate Housewives" has been a joy for fans for eight years. Soon after its debut it became pop-culture phenomenon, attracting 25-30 million viewers. It was smart, funny, sexy and surprising — an unlikely mix of soap opera and sitcom.

As was the case with Gabrielle and Carlos, even its creator didn’t always know where the show was going. "Sometimes you’ll take something and some [actor] will come along and then it just it pops," Cherry said. "We’ve had times where we maybe cast the wrong guest actor. Some of the plot twists got maybe a little convoluted, so storylines didn’t go."

Yes, the show hit a sophomore slump. A season-long storyline involving new neighbors, secrets and murders never gelled.

But Cherry learned from his mistakes. Although the show never regained all those first-season viewers, it actually improved over that first season, as the plotting got better and the comedy stayed strong.

Cherry took a chance between the fourth and fifth seasons, jumping the narrative ahead five years — and it was a smashing success that re-energized the show.

After Sundays’s penultimate episode (8 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4), "Desperate Housewives" will wrap things up Sunday, May 13. It will be the ending Cherry has planned since the series launched, more or less. His writers,"started adding things. So it definitely got better. But the last act, I’ve had it down for quite awhile now."

And he insists he’s going to make a cameo appearance in the series finale. "Try to stop him," Longoria said with a laugh.

"I’m going to do a Hitchcock," Cherry said, who looks like a writer, not a performer. "And the hair and makeup people will go through more hell that day than they’ve ever gone through with this cast, just so you know."

Scott D. Pierce covers television for The Salt Lake Tribune. Email him at spierce@sltrib.com; follow him on Twitter @ScottDPierce.

Copyright 2012 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Mario C Ft. Beach Boy - Still Mine **HOT 2011 VIDEO**

The very funny Timothy Delaghetto guest-stars in a Music Video for the single release of Mario C ft. Beach Boy - Still Mine (Produced by Roq Lee).

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- Cast & Credits -

Directed by Mitch Lemos

Starring:

Mario C

Beach Boy

Timothy Delaghetto
Jessica Boden

Camera Operator:
Oscar Loreto
Mario Chheng
Mitch Lemos

Dancers:

Loreani Guadalupe
Andrea Saavedra
Sepideh Aria
Pamela Saavedra

After Effects:
Andrew Hakim

Color Correction:
Cory Spire
Mario Chheng

Edited by
Mario Chheng

Blender:
Brett Frager

Key Grip:
Cory Spire

See Bee Productions, 2011

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