Memorable Moments of 2011 ?

2011 -  Memorable moments? I will think about that. Perhaps the word moment  is a clue to why it is not worth thinking about. Is a moment worth anything in the culture of our times?  Yes, personal moments are always memorable. But are public moments truly memorable?  Yep and Nope might help me. I will "yep" and "nope" the entire list and see what I have as a total

(From the NY Times)
It was, as always, a year of memorable moments — some awe-inspiring, some laughable, some just head-shaking. (Charlie Sheen? Winning? Really?) Here are some of the most compelling topics of conversation of 2011.



1. The G.O.P. debates. The best reality TV show not on Bravo.

NOPE

2. The best moment of the debates: “Oops.”

NOPE

3. The second-best moment of the debates: Ron Paul’s errant eyebrow.

NOPE

4. Regis Philbin calls it quits after 28 years.

NOPE

5. Kim Kardashian calls it quits after 72 days.

NOPE

6. Adele.

NOPE

7. Kate Middleton’s wedding dress (by Sarah Burton): Grace Kelly reborn.

NOPE

8. Princess Beatrice’s fascinator (by Philip Treacy). Laugh if you will, but it raised $131,000 for charity.

NOPE

9. Pippa Middleton’s derrière (by nature). The backside that launched a thousand paparazzi shots.

NOPE

10. The D.S.K. whiplash. He’s guilty! No, he’s innocent! Hey, maybe he’s guilty after all.

NOPE

11. The Alexander McQueen show at the Met. A tortured British designer proves almost as popular as King Tut.

NOPE

12. Steve Jobs. Fittingly, many people learned the news of his death on their iPhones.

NOPE

13. Occupy Wall Street. Brought the phrase “the other 99 percent” to a zillion T-shirts and bestowed unexpected, late-in-life fame to a former Ed Koch aide, John Zuccotti.

NOPE

14. Chaz Bono on “Dancing With the Stars”: a transgender star is born.

NOPE

15. Ellen Barkin on Twitter. Never has unbridled profanity been so entertaining.

NOPE

16. Sept. 28 and the most thrilling three hours in baseball history. Final scores: Philadelphia 3, Atlanta 2; Baltimore 4, Boston 3; Tampa Bay 8, New York Yankees 7.

NOPE

17. “9-9-9.”

NOPE

18. “Homeland.” Angela Chase grows up into a pill-popping, bipolar, line-crossing C.I.A. operative. The most compelling character on television in 2011.

NOPE

19. You’re never too young to be a cougar. Selena Gomez (19) snares Justin Bieber (17).

NOPE

20. Splits: Arnold and Maria, Ashton and Demi, Scarlett and Ryan, Candace Bushnell and Charles Askegard.

NOPE

21. Funny women: Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling, Chelsea Handler, “Bridesmaids,” the showstopping moment at the Emmys when all the nominees for best actress in a comedy series came up onstage together.

NOPE

22. Serena Williams has another meltdown at the United States Open.

NOPE

23. Al Sharpton gets a TV show on MSNBC. We’re waiting to see if Tawana Brawley will ever be one of his guests.

NOPE

24. Keith Olbermann leaves MSNBC to go to Current TV, is never heard from again.


NOPE
25. Zooey Deschanel: adorable or irritating? Discuss.

NOPE

26. The Uniqlo phenomenon. Its ads were inescapable (especially for anyone who rode the subway).

NOPE

27. Anderson Cooper’s disappointing talk show. Sigh. He should have waited for Regis to retire.

NOPE

28. A hearty farewell to bin Laden, Qadaffi and Kim Jong-il.

YEP

29. Anthony Weiner resigns after reports surface that he has tweeted pictures of his naked torso to young women across the country. Insert joke here.

NOPE

30. Same-sex marriage comes to New York State.

NOPE

31. Cathie Black’s short, shockingly inept stint as New York schools chancellor.

NOPE


32. O.K., she was a terrible chancellor, but no one deserved that unpitying photo of her that New York magazine ran on its cover.

NOPE

33. Nascar fans boo Michelle Obama and Jill Biden when they show up at a race — to promote a charity.

NOPE

34. Here, there and everywhere. The ubiquitous Nicki Minaj.

NOPE

35. The Murdoch phone-hacking scandal. Has there ever been a better example of schadenfreude?

NOPE

36. Mia Farrow’s and Woody Allen’s son, Ronan (né Satchel) is named a Rhodes scholar.

NOPE

37. The Netflix debacle.

NOPE


38. Waiting for “Downton Abbey” to return.

NOPE

39. The end of Elaine’s.

NOPE


40. In August, Mayor Bloomberg announces a deputy mayor has resigned to pursue “private-sector opportunities in infrastructure finance.” Left out of the announcement: The official had been arrested days earlier after allegations of a domestic dispute with his wife.

NOPE

41. Brian Williams: the next Walter Cronkite or the next Johnny Carson?

NOPE

42. Blake Lively and Leo DiCaprio

NOPE

43. Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.

NOPE

44. Ryan Gosling’s abs.

NOPE

45. The heat wave in July. The hurricane in August. The blizzard in October. Mother Nature must be awfully angry about something.

NOPE

46. The terrifying Tiger Mother.


NOPE
47. Elizabeth Taylor goes out with a bang. The auction of her jewelry, gowns and other belongings at Christie’s raises $156 million, much of which will go to her AIDS foundation.

NOPE

48. The maddeningly catchy (or maybe just maddening) “Moves Like Jagger.”

NOPE

49. Getting lost at “Sleep No More.”

NOPE

50. Getting a lap dance from Hugh Jackman.

NOPE

51. Planking.

NOPE

52. “Twilight.” Isn’t it over yet?

NOPE

53. The body count at “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.”

NOPE

54. The guessing game at Dior.

NOPE

55. Andy Rooney signs off for the last time

NOPE

56. Lady Gaga, yes. Jo Calderone, no.

NOPE

57. Michael Fassbender. And not just because of the frontal nudity in “Shame.”

NOPE

58. Meryl Streep. And not just because she nails the accent (again) in “The Iron Lady.”

NOPE

59. R.I.P., R.E.M.

NOPE

60. The two Emmas (Stone and Watson) rocked the red carpet in 2011.

NOPE

61. “The Book of Mormon.” Never has blasphemy been so hilarious.

NOPE

62. Oprah takes a year — and three finale shows — to say goodbye.

NOPE

63. The 10th anniversary of 9/11.

NOPE

64. Gospel brunch at Marcus Samuelsson’s Red Rooster Harlem.


NOPE
65. “I simply do not know where the money is.”

NOPE

66. The seatmates from hell. Gérard Depardieu is escorted off an Air France flight after he urinates in the middle of the cabin. Alec Baldwin gets into a fight with flight attendants over his refusal to stop playing “Words With Friends” on his iPhone.

NOPE

67. The scandal at Penn State: What did JoePa know, and when did he know it?

 NOPE

68. Mothers of reinvention: Tina Brown and Arianna Huffington.

NOPE

69. The end of “don’t ask, don’t tell.”

NOPE

70. The nearly two-day waits to buy a new iPad 2. (One woman spends 41 hours in line at the Apple store on Fifth Avenue, then sells her spot for $900.)

NOPE

71. Tebow Time.

NOPE

72. Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millepied.

NOPE

73. A fond farewell to Erica Kane and the rest of Pine Valley.

NOPE

74. The now officially annoying James Franco.

NOPE

75. The revival of Larry Kramer’s 1985 play, “The Normal Heart.” An eloquent reminder that Silence = Death.

NOPE

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