Oddly Enough Blog

News, but not the serious kind

Thanks, so this is sort of like a Grammy?

By Robert Basler
December 14, 2010
celebrities | Christmas | humor

NORWAY/

Blog Guy, do you still arrange those fantasy photos for your readers?

Yeah, as long as my budget holds out. What do you have in mind?

AUSTRALIA/Okay. I’m seeing, uh, Oprah….

Yikes, Oprah? She charges $30 an hour for fantasy shoots! What’s she doing in your fantasy?

Uh, she’s with that actor Russell Crowe, on a yacht. In Australia.

OMG that’s my whole fantasy photo budget for the year! Anything else?

Yes, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is playing a grand piano, see…

Jeez! It has to be a GRAND piano?

There’s more. I see actress Anne Hathaway, at a Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, and…

RUSSIA/And? What else could there possibly be?

It’s coming, it’s coming… Hathaway is giving the Nobel Peace Prize to… Barry Manilow!

That’s a deal-breaker. Everybody knows how this blog feels about Barry Manilow music.

I see. Well, would you rather have her give the Peace Prize to a group of accordion-playing bullfighters instead? Huh?

Would you like Mr. Manilow to make a brief acceptance speech?

Join the Oddly Enough blog network

Follow this blog on Twitter at rbasler

Top: Actress Anne Hathaway and singer Barry Manilow attend a news conference prior to the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo December 11, 2010. REUTERS/Stian Solum Lysberg/Scanpix

Left: Television host Oprah Winfrey and actor Russell Crowe sail a yacht in Sydney Harbor in this handout photograph taken on December 13, 2010. REUTERS/Copyright: All Rights Reserved/George Burns/Harpo, Inc./Handout

Right: Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin plays the piano at a charity concert for children suffering from eye diseases and cancer in St. Petersburg, December 10, 2010. REUTERS/Aleksey Nikolskyi/RIA Novosti/Pool

More stuff from Oddly Enough

«
»
Comments
9 comments so far | RSS Comments RSS
Dec 14, 2010
2:38 pm UTC

I am really tired of Putin…. why couldnt it have been Charlie with bagpipes instead??

Posted by Shra | Report as abusive
 
Dec 14, 2010
3:26 pm UTC

Hmph. Well, I suppose I won’t see that fantasy shot of Dutch chess Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen with Liv Tyler any time soon. :(

Posted by skeres | Report as abusive
 
Dec 14, 2010
5:30 pm UTC

Isn’t Anne Hathaway the name of Shakespeare’s wife?
Man, she has aged REALLY well.

I’m with Shra. Prince Chuckles and the invisible bagpipes, or Prince Chuckles and the umbrella dance, or Prince Chuckles and the really big mushroom, or …

Posted by Nosmo_King | Report as abusive
 
Dec 14, 2010
6:21 pm UTC

All dressed up like that, he’s really Putin on the Ritz!

Posted by AllThatJazz | Report as abusive
 
Dec 14, 2010
7:59 pm UTC

Really? That’s what you think, Spin? Somebody may need to explain some stuff to you.

Posted by rcbasler | Report as abusive
 
Dec 15, 2010
9:04 am UTC

Or if not the love-child, he definitely is a clone… of maybe both of them….

Posted by Shra | Report as abusive
 
Dec 16, 2010
10:25 am UTC

Is that the one with Danny DeVito and Arny S, Spin?
Teeheeheeeheee… dont know about the rest of you, but Danny is funny…

Posted by Shra | Report as abusive
 
Dec 17, 2010
10:09 am UTC

Isnt putinesca a bad word? Or so I heard? No?

Posted by Shra | Report as abusive
 
Dec 20, 2010
1:29 pm UTC

Lol! You didnt offend Spin… :D
And like Unca said, RasPutin sounds good… :P

Posted by Shra | Report as abusive
 

Post Your Comment

We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/
  •