Day: October 1, 2019

Kids, don’t try this pick-up line

This really isn’t one of life’s recommended pick-up lines.C
ody and Brandi Rhodes (shown here) met when he said her hair looked awful. “It was not ideal for a first encounter,” he said.
Then again, she admits: “It wasn’t an ideal hairstyle. I did change it.”
Now they’re married and at the core of TV’s latest wrestling surge. (See previous story.) They’re among the founders of All Elite Wrestling, where he’s one of the CEO’s, she’s chief brand officer, both are wrestlers … and neither fits into any loud-lout, dumb-hunk image. Read more…

Best-bets for Oct. 3: Comedies are funny and muddy

1) “Perfect Harmony” and “The Good Place,” 8:30 and 9 p.m., NBC. By Ivy League standards, it’s a rough one-two punch. First, a former Princeton prof manages to make a whole town mad at him; then a Princeton grad turns out to be a total jerk who figures he’s too good for regular-folks Heaven. Both episodes are clever and and one manages to get an esteemed Emmy winner caked in mud (shown here). But don’t get them confused: In one, “fork” is a substitute for a nasty word; the other celebrates a Fork Festival. Read more…