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The Daily Show was back last night, which was a huge relief for those of us trying to get a chuckle out of watching the regular news. And it started with a bang: Anderson Cooper moderating a doggie debate. Anderson Cooper could be moderating the phone book debate and I'd still watching, so the puppies were just an added bonus! CONTINUED »
Aw, it's been a couple weeks since we've gotten wind of a major major layoff like this one, were we foolish to think that maybe the worst of the media cuts were over? Guess so: Tulsa World cut 28 of their staffers today, 26 of them within the newsroom. Shit.
No, not Guy Ritchie. Or Sean Penn. A-Rod was partying down with some of Madonna's friends while the singer was still with that Brazilian model Jesus, and the designer spent the entire party following around the New York Yankee. Too bad though, Rodriguez is still hung up on the original Material Girl.
In case you didn't break the piggy bank shelling out for a D.C. hotel and all those inaugural ball tickets, how about picking up $200 worth of commemorative inauguration coins? QVC will be selling their merchandise, including a $36 Obama throw blanket and an Obama pocket watch for $90, in D.C. on the weekend of Barack Obama's presidency, and will even be hosting a live broadcast from the Creative Coalition's inaugural ball. No better way to spend your money, except maybe on anything else.
Scribner released the details on how much the Simon & Schuster branch paid for Laura Bush's memoir. The final tally? A cool $1.6 million, although a source says "it may have been higher than that."
Of course, that's peanuts compared to ex-First Lady, soon to be Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made for her book, Living History, in 2003. Which was also bought by Simon & Schuster, coincidentally. Ouch.
After handing TVGuide the magazine over to private equity firm OpenGate for $1 (plus $100 million in assumed subscriber liabilities), the brand's latest owner Macrovision at least unloaded the TV Guide television network and TVGuide.com website to new hands, reports Bloomberg. The happy parents? Movie production house Lions Gate Entertainment (you know them for their Saw flicks). The selling price: $255 million, which is all the more interesting because Macrovision initially planned to sell its last two properties to former Dick Clark Productions owner Allen Shapiro. But didn't.
If you are in New York this evening and are feeling some post-Holiday depression, eat some Zoloft and come to the MoMA for Silent But Deadly, an evening of old comedy shorts presented by different comedians and hosted by Max Silvestri of Gabe and Max.
Popeye the Sailor Man's copyright is about to expire for Hearst Media, since creator Elzie Segar has been dead for almost 70 years now. So that means anybody can make Popeye t-shirts, screensaves, mugs, and pencils. How are we going to be able to tell the real Popeye material from knockoffs!?
Next up: Mickey Mouse, who's copyright is set to expire in 2023 unless Disney lobs Congress to extend it. That should definitely lead to some awesome half-ass Disneyworld knockoffs.
As expected with today's seating of both houses of Congress for its 111th session, Barack Obama replacement hopeful Roland Burris was turned away from the U.S. Senate by its secretary. The only remaining question: Was Burris refused entry with a simple "Talk to the hand," or did security guards actually blockade the doors?
Haute Living, that relic of a better time when affluence meant something other than just scraping by enough money to make rent, is premiering their fourth edition for San Francisco. Why? Because they apparently can, you silly plebes.
Village Voice Media is running out of cash, fast. Even though it's been over a year since they turned their weekly alt-paper into a slighty smaller weekly alt-paper, and fired a bunch of their bigger-named journos, the Voice, once such a staple of counter-culture in New York, is now left trying to scrounge up enough cash to pay anybody, anybody at all. So editors and senior managers are all taking a 10-15& pay cut, which is unfortunate but basically a good business plan if they don't want to be left holding the accountability bag when all the associate writers and "permalancers" (or whatever they're calling the slave labor) start picketing.
Yes, yesterday NBC canceled Ann Coulter's Today show appearance for today. Officially, the network hasn't banned the blonde zealot from its networks entirely, but they did bump her out of the way because they were … overbooked. Yesterday she bent the sympathetic ear of Fox News and showed up on Hannity & Colmes to spin the situation. Coulter explained her conspiracy theory: NBC purposefully booked her and then reneged to keep her off other shows, too. Not so!, says NBC, which offered her a spot on Wednesday's show ("I think I'll accept and then cancel at the last minute") — they just had to juggle some things around because there is a war going on. Even Alan Colmes thought that was a valid excuse: "Isn't there like a war going on in the Mideast? Isn't it sometimes you re-book guests because of a war going on?" Only problem? They replaced Coulter with celebrity blagher Perez Hilton, who is not exactly a Middle East expert.
Someone unearthed a 2001 video of Barack Obama talking about Southern Samplers and peach cobblers. I swear to shit that man could sell me on Applebees and I would be buying. CONTINUED »
Do you not have a spare million dollars or so to buy yourself 30 seconds of ad time during the Superbowl? Fear not: this year, companies feeling the credit crunch are combining forces to bring you interstitial spectacles that combine several products at once. Thank god Superbowl is that one time of year it's okay to get excited about cool commercials. CONTINUED »
Who knew that working in an Alaskan oil field was such a sought-after position for a new teenage father? Levi Johnston quit his job today after an Anchorage radio station host started questioning the 17-year old's credentials to apprentice out in the fields when he had not obtained a high school degree. The host may also have insinuated that Governor Palin hooked Levi up with that sweet gig, presumably because she wanted the dumb jock and his Oxycotin genes as far away from Bristol as he could possibly go.
German officials stopped a couple from flying off to Africa to get married, totally prejudice against these kids since they were…well, kids. Mika and Anna-Belle, aged six and five respectively, burdened by the responsibility of juice boxes and nap time, slipped out of their parents house and boarded the train for the German airport in Hanover.
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Someone hacked into Fox News' Twitter account and posted stuff about Bill O'Reilly. Despite the obvious spelling errors, I can assure you it wasn't me.
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Remember during the election when Ann Coulter went M.I.A. for basically the entire thing and it was only sometime around early November that we realized there was a high-pitched nasally shriek missing from the debates?
Well now that Coulter has a new book to promote about liberal propaganda, she wants back in on your television tubes. But at least one station is nixing her appearances. CONTINUED »
Two different teen vampire films are currently awing moviegoers around the United States: Twilight, a cloying American flick based on a novel of the same name, has the teenybopper crowd in a frenzy, while Let the Right One In, Swedish and also based on a book, is a hit in the independent cinemas.
Though the films share several themes, how they work within those themes is altogether different. Here's a rundown of their overlaps and distinctions .
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