We only watch one football game each year and it’s the Super Bowl. Basically we hang around the punch bowl waiting for the commercials and pay attention to the game only towards the end of each quarter. The instant replays are annoying and all that drawing on the screen and analyzing. It’s like the Family Circus only instead of Billy taking the long way to get the mail, it’s men in tights chasing a pigskin ball. So for us it’s all about the commercials. Here’s a peek at Justin Timberlake’s commercial for Pepsi Stuff (Pepsi’s answer to CokeRewards)  set to air this Sunday, entitled “Magnetic Attraction.”  And what’s the deal with CokeRewards anyway, you have to fill your entire swimming pool with diet coke just to get enough points for a “free” MP3. Thanks.

Andy Samberg looks fab as a blonde!

Let the will they or won’t they begin, hopefully the writers’ strike will be resolved in time for Oscar’s 80th. No doubt the show will go on regardless but let’s hope that we don’t end up with an Oscar show that resembles the Golden Globes. As for this year’s poster we were expecting something brilliant for the 80th instead we have the uninspired flashbulb flanked forward facing statue. Kind of looks like a Star Wars poster which is not surprising considering it was designed by Drew Struzan who created the one sheetsfor all of the Star Wars films. So being the giant piece of fluffy cake that we are, we decided to put our spectacular Photoshop skills to the test to morph the Oscar Poster with it’s separated at birth Star Wars Poster. Twinsies!

Here is our award winning (as determined by our distinguished panel of designers/cats) Oscar poster that should have been:

Exceptional, no? Just sayin’.

And now, the nominations:

Best Picture

Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Best Actor

George Clooney, Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tommy Lee Jones, In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie, Away from Her
Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
Laura Linney, The Savages
Ellen Page, Juno

Best Supporting Actor

Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson’s War
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton

Best Supporting Actress

Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There
Ruby Dee, American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan, Atonement
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton

Best Director

Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jason Reitman, Juno
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood

Best Original Screenplay

Diablo Cody, Juno
Nancy Oliver, Lars and the Real Girl
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
Ratatouille (written by Brad Bird; story by Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird)
Tamara Jenkins, The Savages

Best Adapted Screenplay

Christopher Hampton, Atonement
Sarah Polley, Away from Her
Ronald Harwood, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood (Read on …)

Is it so wrong that we literally laugh to tears when the shark comes on with the laughter voice over? Uh yeah, so wrong it’s right. And then wrong again. And then back to right.

Totally loving the Get Carried Away tag line but where are the rest of the girls? Hopefully there will be more versions of the poster, one for each girl? Samantha is going to be pissed!  We’re already planning our opening night festivities. Can’t wait!

In what appears to be a major overhaul of the Liz Claiborne brand, WWD reports Isaac Mizrahi has left Target *sniff* to join Liz Claiborne as their new creative director. This is the third big move by LC in an apparent effort to revive the struggling brand; in 2006 they purchased the uber chic Kate Spade LLC for $124 million in cash and in 2007 they hired Tim Gunn of Project Runway fame as their Chief Creative Officer. We’ve always looked at Liz Claiborne as a brand targeted towards an older demographic and it looks like they are really trying to escape that image and freshen up the brand. But what’s a girl to do without her Mizrahi fix during the weekly trip to Target? Guess we’ll just have to get knocked up and start shopping Liz Lange rounders.