From Weekly staffer Kater Perez (shown here getting Marissa'd):
Should we consider it a charitable cause—like Save the Whales and Free Tommy Chong—or a desperate cry for sanity from nighttime teen soap opera junkies who can't stand the thought of losing a favorite character? Whatever it is, the folks behind SaveMarissa.com and SaveMarissaTshirt.com are on a mission: to save Marissa Cooper, or rather, save actress Mischa Barton, who plays Marissa, from her demise on Fox's The O.C.
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Ain't it weird how the world works? Other than perhaps Griley, no one this hermitted timepiece converses with at the Weekly actually watches Fox's The O.C. anymore. It just started getting too stupid--and not the good kinda stupid that kept us glued to our La-Z-Boys. (Or was that the persistent rectal leakage?) Anyway, we were right there with The O.C. in the first or second or whatever season it was when one character--forget her name now; the smart teenage chick who was/wasn't Caleb's daughter
Say it ain't so! Someone whom we'd never expect to pass this along just passed this along...
Barton To Say Goodbye to The O.C.?
Actress Mischa Barton may be set to leave hit TV series The O.C., according to media reports in the U.S. The 20-year-old actress, who plays Marissa Cooper on the show, has expressed a desire to focus on a film career. According to TVGuide.com, the show will return for its fourth season in the autumn, without Barton. The O.C. will air its season finale Thursday, where on
Los Angeles Times staff writer Christian Berthelsen, in a piece of writing I can't quite classify (was it a news story? commentary? satire?), titled "OC how far they'll go to be hip," somehow worked nearly every tired text messaging joke from those AT&T wireless commercials into a barely concealed hostile barrage of smug assholery against our fair county and its arguably misguided branding attempts to make everything "OC."
Get your bucket, (keep in mind, this ran on the front page of the Orang
I wrote about the weekly live music at The District at Tustin Legacy a couple days ago, and this Saturday The Block at Orange is hosting "Rock ‘n Road: Where the Music Meets the Road," which brings together high school bands and road safety education. Finally!
This pic is actually from last Wednesday's Misfits show in San Diego (via Wikipedia). So pretend this is happening in Anaheim, and you have a pretty good idea of what it looked like. Last Night: The Misfits, D.I., Invisible Humans at the House of Blues, Anaheim, Nov. 23, 2008.Better Than: Jerry Only's circa 1999 ill-conceived foray into professional wrestling.Shirtless Dude Count: I only spotted 4, but I wasn't able to get all that close to the stage, so that number likely should be higher.There
