Since it’s about TV perhaps it should be in Cafe Society, but it seems more mundane and pointless.
Last night I “Beat 360”, a daily caption contest on Cooper’s show. It wasn’t a very good one but
1- The competition wasn’t that great
2- I think it was more consolation for the one they didn’t show
This was the picture with the actual caption “US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama step off Air Force One at Stansted airport, north of London, on March 31, 2009.” The 360 caption was “Remember not to fist bump the Queen”. My caption, which I freely admit was lame, was
The reason I think this won anyway was because it was my second caption, the first of which isn’t shown on the website (they’re all “moderated”), and was a reference to the DVD gift gaffe with Gordon Brown. I don’t remember exactly what it was but it was something to the effect of
I think his staff probably liked the one above better but decided it would be better for Anderson not to read it on the air so they gave him the second one.
So anyway, while my last name is given on the site, when Anderson read the caption he said
Oooh, I’m tingly… Anderson has just officially made me an international man of mystery! (Don’t know why it said “undisclosed location” since I have it on there- or thought I did, but, I’ve got so damned many logins and web personas that I can’t keep up with which is what.
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His caption: “I’m going to break the ice by saying ‘you’re way better looking than Helen Mirren,’ then you give her the Yes – then you give her the Yes We Can T-shirt, and if she looks like she’s going to ask to borrow money, we’ll tell her we’ve got jet lag.”
(SOUND EFFECT: “Ooooh!”)
HILL: I get that, Jon.
COOPER: I messed up the reading. I apologize, Jon. Your “Beat 360” T-shirt, though, is on the way.
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(Bolding and italicizing mine obviously; I’m not even sure how one would bold and italicize on air- maybe having it read by a trembling black guy or something.)
Anyway, even though he didn’t give my last name and regards my privacy too highly to disclose my location (he’s so clingy and worried about me getting any of the limelight), I think it’s obvious what he was apologizing for, and it had nothing to do with the misreading of the caption. What he was saying was
[QUOTE=Anderson Cooper]
I apologize Jon… I apologize for not being more open about who I am, and more honest about how I feel for you… but Jon, if you’ll just bear with me, I swear that with time, and with your help, I will get the courage to be who I am, and be what you want me to be, and one day… one day Jon I swear, the two of us will go off to our undisclosed location paradise with our three adopted Third World kids and our terriers, and I’m going to take you to meet my mother and say 'you may have designed my genes, but he has designed the rest of my life…", and now I’m going to sing a medley from La Cage aux Folles…
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It wasn’t what he said obviously but how he said it. I could tell what he meant.
