Kate Hudson: Lunching with Lance and Goldie
Kate Hudson: Lunching with Lance and Goldie
After being spotted out on Monday spending time at the City Bakery before a dinner date, Kate Hudson and Lance Armstrong’s relationship continues to progress towards the “real thing” status.
Earlier today, the “Fool’s Gold” actress took her bicyclist beau out to Ivy On The Shore for a lunchtime rendezvous with her mom, Goldie Hawn.
And with their hand-holding, inseparable ways, it seems apparent that the two definitely are feeling each other, although neither has been willing to talk about their romantic situation.
During an appearance on The View, Armstrong said: “Number one, I know you have to ask that question. And it’s my right not to answer it. Number two, I think when you’re happy about something or proud about something, I think it’s natural in human nature to talk about it. But I’m not going to answer it. Next question.”
Meanwhile, Kate appeared on the show just a week before, giggling when asked the same question before answering: “Ask him.”
Is 30 Rock going downhill?
In reviewing tonight’s season finale of 30 Rock, Robert Bianco of USA Today took the opportunity to bemoan how the show has declined in quality since it came back from the writers’ strike. Essentially, his argument centers on how the show has gotten increasingly absurd, when the show’s initial attraction was how the relatively-sane Liz Lemon reacted to the insanity going on around her. Now, according to Bianco, even Liz is getting wacky, screaming for her sandwich in “Sandwich Day,” for instance, or getting entangled in one romantic situation after another. According to Bianco, the show is “ditching plot and character in a desperate, scattershot search for laughs, as if its new goal were to become a live-action version of Family Guy.”
Hm. Sometimes a critic picks up on subtle changes in a show others can’t, at least not until it’s too late and the show they loved is irreparably damaged. That might be the case here. But right now, I’m not quite seeing what Bianco is complaining about.
Except for last week’s episode, the post-strike episodes of 30 Rock have been pretty funny, and seem to be consistent with how the characters have progressed to this point. We’ve always seen flashbacks and cartoonish moments from Liz’s life. And it’s not like we haven’t seen her two most recent romantic entanglements coming; the thing with Floyd was never resolved, and Dennis has always been too stupid to realize that he and Liz were over.
Have things been cartoony? Sure. But that’s always been the way things worked around the offices of TGS. There was a page war earlier this season, for heaven’s sake!
What do you folks think? Has the show gone downhill? After all, ratings are down, even after the show’s move to the post-Office slot. Maybe Bianco’s not the only one who’s getting turned off. Let me know in the comments.