Coffee Talk

Oh what the hell: here's a few links so you know what the hell people are talking about around the water cooler / coffee cartridge thingy:

• The transcript of Sacha Cohen's acceptance speech at the Golden Globes after winning Best Actor - Musical or Comedy. "Just remember, this is in his own, polite, British voice, and not in character" - ALOTT5MA. Was there any doubt? It's an award handed out by the Hollywood Foreign Press, and the nomination was for playing a foreign reporter.

• What's Alan Watching? is my daily check-in for write-ups on the previous nights TV from Alan Sepinwall, TV critic for the The Star-Ledger. He's got the write-up on last night's "24". This is the first season I am watching (I'll catch up on the DVD's) and once you sign off on the "Suspension of Disbelief Because It's Only A TV Show" affidavit, it's all good. If you don't sign the affidavit, you're liable to question how Jack can spend 2 years being tortured and then get back to running around LA with no signs of muscle atrophy. Or how his cellphone always has power and a signal. Or how...

Glad to see Alexander Siddig getting a prominent role since his turn as Dr Bashir in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and in Syriana Sepinwall nominates him for "Best Post DS-9" career, right on the tail of Colm Meaney. The whole "He's a terrorist but he's trying to stop a worse terrorist" makes him an unlikely partner for Jack Bauer. And how about a shout out to Canadian comedian Shaum Majunder in a drama role!

Now excuse me while I picks chunks of Kumar and Valencia, California off my TV screen.