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The Dirty Dancing Marathon: A New Christmas Tradition
The TV Guide channel has announced that they'll be showing a marathon of Dirty Dancing from noon until midnight on Christmas day this year. It makes no sense, other than as a welcome break from Christmas programming, and we love it. [TV Squad] Read more posts by Lindsay RobertsonFiled U …
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Seth Meyers' Sunday Routine is Pretty Impressive
Best laid plans. We love the New York Times' running feature "Sunday Routine," which gives the rest of us the chance to compare our Sundays to those of celebrities, and also to kind of extremely-low-effort stalk them. Today it was SNL's Seth Meyers' turn to share, and aside from the heroic runn …
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We Found Out Why Robert Pattinson Smells
We've all heard that Robert Pattinson doesn't change his clothes more than once a week and is kind of smelly (just Google "Robert Pattinson smells" if you don't believe us), but it turns out it's all a strategic move to foil the paparazzi, as we learned at the New Moon premiere on Thursday. Nu …
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23 Years of Oprah Screaming Celebrity's Names
Jezebel put together a remarkable montage of Oprah's signature celebrity introductions that shows the host was using the same cadence and enthusiasm at least as far back as 1988. It's honestly mesmerizing. (Our favorite is "Friends!") [Jezebel] Read more posts by Lindsay RobertsonFiled …
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Weekend Box Office: Everyone Who Didn't See New Moon Saw The Blind Side
Top three: The Twilight Saga: New Moon: $140 million; The Blind Side: $34 million; 2012: $26 million. But Precious continues to climb, making $11 million -- nearly twice what it took in last week. [Box Office Mojo] Read more posts by Lindsay RobertsonFiled Under: weekend box office, 2 …
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Don Draper: the Doll
Smooth operator To promote the third season of Mad Men in New Zealand, the communications agency DraftFCB put together Don Draper dolls to send to the media there. While you can't own one, and they don't really look like Jon Hamm, whose face is much craggier and more masculine, with a stronger …
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Tina Fey Did Sarah Palin Jokes at the Ad Council Dinner
Tina Fey hosted the Ad Council's dinner the other night, where she made NBC jokes ("I really believe that if everyone in this room would watch NBC for one night ... then that would be a 40 percent increase") and even did a brief Sarah Palin impression ("all of my ideas are in these glass things!," m …
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New Moon Shatters The Dark Knight's Box Office Records
Nikke Finke breathlessly reports that The Twilight Saga: New Moon is expected to have made $72 million on its opening day, breaking the record set by The Dark Knight in 2008 ($67 million). The lesson appears to be: girls rule, boys drool. [Deadline Hollywood] Read more posts by Lindsay …
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Canadians Are Cool With How I Met Your Mother's Relentless Canadian Jokes
In an article about HIMYM, which has 700,000 viewers in Canada, the CanWest news service addressed the show's constant teasing of its Canuck character, Robin Scherbatsky, played by actual Canadian Cobie Smulders, quoting her co-star Neil Patrick Harris: "By the end of (last) season, Cobie was like, …
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Forget Oprah, Bill Moyers is Retiring!
Lost in, or possibly timed to coincide with, yesterday's puzzling huge fuss about Oprah's planned departure from her show many many moons from now was the news that Bill Moyers, trusted voice of calm reason at PBS, is retiring from weekly television and will end his current show, Bill Moyers Journal …
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Week In Review: Team Volturi!
How many ways is New Moon (the movie) better than New Moon (the book)? We ran the numbers, and the answer is 34. This is less a testament to the vagina-less Chris Weitz than it is a credit to Kristin Stewart's much improved demeanor and Taylor Lautner's not-at-all restless abs. Besides, the tweens o …
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Grey’s Anatomy: Happy New Year!
This episode blasts us through Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's faster than you can say "Meet me in the on-call room." It's a whirlwind of illegitimate children, unrequited love, an alcoholic chief, and a disapproving father. And, as usual, McDreamy magically saves some lives, too. Now …
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Community: Salsa Verde
Its Green Week, everyone! Yes, that hilariously contrived Ben Silverman idea that NBC is actually continuing after Silvermans unamicable departure (as opposed to Pumas On Hovercraft Week and the equally ill-fated Bikini Models With Lasers Week). Green Week works, partly because it offers the Thursda …
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James Franco Debuts on General Hospital
James Franco, bitches. 11/20/09: The day people who had never watched General Hospital before in their lives watched a little bit of General Hospital, just to see James Franco. Never forget! Turns out, it's not very hospital-y, at all, and it's about the mafia and the art world and a lady havin …
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Oprah Invites Us on an Eighteen-Month-Long Journey
Don't shoot the messenger. Oprah Winfrey officially announced today that her show will not continue indefinitely exactly as it is now, and the world reacted with screams and sobs. In her tearful announcement, Oprah said that 25 years felt like the right number, and invited her audience to conti …
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John Woo on Red Cliff, Returning to Asia, and Why He’s Not a Hustler
Director John Woos career in Hollywood began with the 1993 Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle Hard Target, and went on to encompass such massive hits as Mission: Impossible 2 and Face/Off. Now, after fifteen years of toiling in the Hollywood machinery, Woo has returned to Asia, with the medieval war epic …
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James Toback Isn't Taking His Oscar Snub Well
In an interview with the New York Times, enigmatic director James Toback went to great lengths to assail not only the reputation of the committee that selects the shortlist for the Best Documentary award, but also the fairness of their selection process. How is some tiny, dirty covert weirdly protec …
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Ang Lee and James Schamus Discuss the Mistakes They Made With Taking Woodstock
On Wednesday night, the National Arts Club awarded its Medal of Honor in Film to director Ang Lee and his longtime collaborator, Focus Features president James Schamus. It was, the two frankly admitted, probably the only accolade theyd get this year, given critics and audiences tepid reaction to T …
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Blake Lively Isn't the Least Bit Worried About Being Attracted to Alan Arkin
"Apparently naked, not fully naked. I was lying partially naked on Alan Arkin, but strategic body parts were covered. It's always scary when you're in front of strangers half naked, but the fact that it was with Alan, honestly, didn't make it any weirder. I think being with a young dude would have b …
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Jonathan Ames Loves His Bored To Death Vaporizer
When Vulture attended the Bored To Death panel discussion at the Paley Center a few weeks back, show creator (and "drowned ghostly ship's captain" resembling) Jonathan Ames played it coy when an audience member asked him about the role marijuana plays in the show's creative-development process. As h …
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