Jezebel: Ann Curry

This Week We Waged War On Terrible TV Hostesses

Jessica — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:00:00 EDT

The long-awaited "all black" issue of Italian Vogue hit newsstands, and we gave you a guided tour.
Judy Blume taught us that having your dessert isn't all it's cracked up to be when you're a disgruntled 60s housefrau.
We became your personal style guru.
Three words: dolphin assisted birth.
See little Emily walk. See little Emily run the fuck away from George Bush.
We wanted to run screaming from Today Show bungler Ann Curry.
Speaking of loathsome tv personalities, it was a big week for Elisabeth Hasselbeck! She told us she has never used a vibrator and cried during a discussion of the N-word.

We shared our dirty desks with the world.
We discussed chick lit and Maxi with author Janelle Brown.
Times of London essayist said: incest is best put your brother to the test. We said: do not want.
We reminisced about advertising icons and proposed a few updates.
This week marked Dodai's one-year Jezeversary, so pour some out for our Hello Kitty-lovin' editrix this weekend!

It's Official: The Today Show Is Making Me Crazy

Dodai — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EDT

Today was the last straw: I officially hate the Today show. I know it's in the category of "morning television," but I always tune in, hoping against hope, that I'll see, you know, the news. But after the missing women and harmed kids stories, they move right along to "When should I throw stuff in my fridge away?" and the earth-shattering suggestion that if you think your pet is sick, you should see a vet. Then there's a "concert" on the plaza. And for the last few months, a horrible feeling has been building and accumulating inside of me, and if I don't let it out, I'll burst: The absolute worst part of the show is the "reporter" known as Ann Curry.

Ann Curry is the worst. She hems, she haws, she giggles. Words come out of her mouth, but they are strung along in an order that make no sense. It's embarrassing. And on top of her incoherence, in spite of the fact that she is supposedly a journalist, she does not ask questions. Well, sometimes she asks stupid questions. Earlier this week, of Pierce Brosnan on his singing voice in Mamma Mia, she asked, "Where does it come from?" Um, out of his mouth? She asked Natasha Bedingfield the same question today: "Your music. Where does it come from?" Bedingfield was gracious enough to explain how she gets inspired to write songs (Ann was shocked: "You write your own songs?!" Did you do your research, Ann? Read the bio? Or maybe ASK?) If I'd been asked "Your music. Where does it come from?" I'd have said, "The speakers."

Today, Nelson Mandela's birthday, Curry "interviewed" Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and filmmaker David Turnley, who spent 25 years documenting the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa. This is, verbatim, Curry's first question for Turnley:

"[Mandela] says in this last clip we just heard, 'It is in your hands now.' And this is the idea in your book the idea that we are now given the baton we now have this legacy."

Turnley barely knows how to respond, but basically just interviews himself and explains the point of his book. Ann follows up thusly:

And that's not all; that's not all. You took these iconic images that show us not just that courage but also… … a man who could despite what he gave up forgave. And I think that was the moment that made people around the world realize that something that we want to believe is possible in all of us."

Wait, what? As seen in the clip above, all the poor man can do is blink. Of all of the questions she could have asked him: "What was your most memorable moment of your quarter of a century in South Africa?" "Did you ever feel that Mandela's life was in danger?" "Did you ever feel that your life was in danger?" "Which, of all of the photographs you've taken, was the toughest to get?" She asks a question that is, in fact, a statement, filled with some kind of breathy faux-gravitas that we're supposed to interpret as sincerity. I wanted to throw my television out of the window. She makes journalism look bad. She makes women in journalism look bad.

And just when I was calming myself down, who should arrive but Kathie Lee and Hoda? Their cackle-filled, weight-loss centric last hour of the Today show veers between mind-numbing, inane and excruciating. And every Friday, they relive the week's exploits through a montage set to "Girls Just Want To Have Fun." These are full-grown women on a news program? Believe me, I want to stab myself (or SOMEONE) in the eyes.

Madonna "Appreciates" That People Are Cynical, Suspicious Of Her

Slut Machine — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:00:00 EDT

Madonna was on Today this morning, in a pre-taped interview with Ann Curry, to promote her documentary about AIDS orphans in Malawi I Am Because We Are, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival this week. It's nice that she is doing some good stuff with her money and fame, but, as Curry says to her in the interview clip above, it's kinda hard to believe that this whole altruism thing isn't just another one of her fads — kinda like Madonna's accent, which isn't as British as it was two years ago. Clip above.

19-Year-Old Math Prodigy Alia Sabur Is Today's Favorite Jezebel

Jessica — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:30:00 EDT

On this morning's Today show, Ann Curry interviewed Alia Sabur, who, at 18, became the youngest professor in the history of the United States. Sabur, now 19, is refreshingly adorable and normal — certainly mature for her age, but completely humble about her achievements. She teaches physics and math at Southern University in New Orleans, a school so destroyed by Katrina that students are still attending classes in trailers. Sabur wanted to teach there because she wanted to help Katrina victims but knew she wasn't good at building houses. "I tried to do what I'm good at," Sabur explained. A voice over notes that Sabur "loves celebrity gossip websites," and pans to a shot of Alia looking at Jezebel. Full clip above.

Jenna Bush was just interviewed on Today ...

Moe — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:00:05 EDT

Jenna Bush was just interviewed on Today and Tracie and I sort of half-watched it. I have never paid attention to Ann Curry; is she always such an embarrassing cunnilinger? Highlights: Jenna asks Chelsea Clinton to call her; the Secret Service does allow her to have sex; no one showed up to her book signing but her mom was all, "Fifteen people? That's great, honey!" which sort of explains how she stays married to Bush; Jenna looks so much like her dad it's creepy and distracting; possibly she has a hangover; she was wearing Louboutins or at least that's what Tracie said; if she was pregnant she um must have had a miscarriage which is very painful so give her some privacy people.

Ann Curry Learns How To Pop And Lock On 'Today'

Slut Machine — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:00:00 EDT

Chris Brown's choreographer and backup dancers (including those little boys who performed with him at the VMAs) taught the Today Show's Ann Curry a routine to the tune of "Run It," that involved a lot of "swagger." This morning, she performed it in Rockefeller Center for a live audience and a panel of "judges", which included her co-hosts and for some reason, P. Diddy. It's sort of crazy how far she'll go to entertain us. It's even more insane that this woman is 50 years old.