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Producer claims Fawcett money being misused (AP)AP - A producer being sued by Farrah Fawcett's estate has fired back in a court filing by claiming the late actress' money is being mishandled.Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 29 Mar 2010 | 3:43 am Producer claims Fawcett money being misused (AP)AP - A producer being sued by Farrah Fawcett's estate has fired back in a court filing by claiming the late actress' money is being mishandled.Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 29 Mar 2010 | 3:43 am Fans can choose nominees for MTV Movie Awards (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 29 Mar 2010 | 3:35 am Fans can choose nominees for MTV Movie Awards
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 Los Angeles Times | Monday's TV Highlights: 'Saving Grace' returns for its final season Los Angeles Times ANGELIC: Holly Hunter and Leon Rippy star in the premiere of the final season of 'Saving Grace' at 10 pm on TNT. Anderson Cooper 360: The journalist begins a five-part series examining the leadership of the Church of Scientology (7 and 10 pm CNN). ... Thank goodness 'Saving Grace' is ending; Final run focuses more on faith, than ... A Minute With: Holly Hunter on angels and "Saving Grace" No 'Saving Grace' |
 Ninemsn | Justin Bieber Gets Kissed by Katy Perry! Seven Sided Cube The Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards has an action-packed night with powerful performances, fun and lot of happenings. The most notable thing that happened and really made lot of young people specially guys envious was the kiss of Katy Perry to Justin ... Katy Perry gets slimed at the Kids Choice Awards: Watch the video here Katy Perry Kisses Justin Bieber At Kids' Choice Awards Justin Bieber Nearly Snuffed By Slime At Kids' Choice Awards |
Smurfs Family Welcomes Vergara: Modern Family’s Sofia Vergara has been cast in the upcoming animated/live-action The Smurfs. She will play Odile, a “powerful executive at a high-end French cosmetics company” married to Neil Patrick Harris’ character. The film, which also stars Jayma Mays (Glee) and Hank Azaria, will begin filming in New York next week. With each awesome actor that gets added to this cast, our frustration that this movie is about blue cartoon Smurfs mounts. [Heat Vision/HR]
Fox And Foxx: Jamie Foxx is returning to television twenty years after his In Living Color breakout role, with a new “urban-flavored sketch-comedy show” for Fox. The network has ordered a pilot for the show, executive produced by Foxx and Color writers and MadTV creators Fax Bahr and Adam Small. It is unclear if Foxx will appear on the show, but he should have no trouble bringing in the guest stars considering all his famous friends. [HR]
Comic Trio Wanted: Producers Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald (Men in Black, Gladiator) have bought an untitled action-comedy pitch from writers Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly. The film focuses on three actors who are brought in to help bust a DVD-bootlegging operation. However, when it turns out that the operation is much shadier than initially suspected, the trio “ends up on the run from crooks and cops alike with only their ad-lib skills as weapons.” Michael Cera, Jonah Hill, and Seth Rogen are no doubt going to be keeping their cell phones close at hand tomorrow. [HR]
Lee At Work: Evanescence will be releasing a new album this fall, with a first single out this summer and a tour to follow soon thereafter. Lead singer Amy Lee, who began writing for the album a year ago, said she feels like she’s making “the best album of [her] life.” Fans worried the new album will stray from the sound of previous records need not fret: "It wouldn't be an Evanescence album if it didn't sound somewhat like Evanescence," Lee said. Though if that comment is indicative of the lyrics on the forthcoming album, there might be other things to worry about. [Billboard]
Jacob's Body: Mark Pellegrino (Jacob on Lost) will star in the indie drama Joint Body about a parolee who is abandoned by his ex-wife and restricted from seeing his young daughter. He turns to a “lonely stripper” who he saves from an assailant before he is forced to run from the law and “face demons from his past.” Of course, in his parallel flash-sideways story line, he is a happy guy in an awesome marriage with a nagging feeling something is off. [Variety]
Woods Is Perfect: FlashForward’s Christine Woods has been cast as the lead in NBC’s comedy pilot Perfect Couples, which revolves around three sets of couples. This is the first time in a long time "woods" and "perfect couple" have been in the same sentence of a news story. [HR]
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Demi Moore, who received a lot of press recently for “saving the life” of a young man who tweeted at her that he was considering suicide, fought a new Twitter crusade late Sunday night. After Kim Kardashian posted a picture of her, Serena Williams, singer Kelly Rowland and former MTV VJ Lala Vasquez to her over 3 million Twitter followers with the caption “big pimpin,” Moore decided to send a response directly to Kardashian in which she chastises her for the casual use of the word “pimp.”
“No disrespect I love a girls night out but a pimp and pimping [refers to] nothing more than a slave owner!... if we want to end slavery we need to stop glorifying the 'pimp' culture.”
Kardashian took about ten minutes to respond: "Doesn't everyone [use the word]? LOL."
Twitter [twitter.com/mrskutcher]
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Filed Under: twitter feuds, demi moore, kim kardashian
Frankly, it’s surprising it took this long. Levi Johnston is planning to pitch his very own Alaska-based reality show this week, according to Radar Online, a week after Sarah Palin’s TLC reality show was announced. Johnston has meetings scheduled starting Monday for the show - tentatively titled Levi Johnston’s Last Frontier - which will feature the young father hunting and hanging out with his friends in what is being described as “sort of an Entourage on ice.” We must have missed the episode where Vince had a child, then posed nude for a magazine before ducking out on child support payments. [Radar Online via Perez Hilton]
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Filed Under: sex on skates, levi johnston, levi johnston's last frontier, reality television, sarah palin
"[The Obama Seder is] one of the newest, most intimate and least likely of White House traditions. When Passover begins at sunset on Monday evening, Mr. Obama and about 20 others will gather for a ritual that neither the rabbinic sages nor the founding fathers would recognize." - The New York Times on Monday evening's Presidential Seder, in what is (of course) currently the second-most e-mailed Times story. Last year's Seder, the first ever held in the White House, was, in the words of event organizer Eric Lesser, “the first time in history that gefilte fish had been placed on White House dishware." [NYT]
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Filed Under: passover, barack obama, seders
AP - "Pearl of China" (Bloomsbury USA, 288 pages, $24), by Anchee Min: Pearl S. Buck was an intensely prolific author, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for her 1931 novel, "The Good Earth," and the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize for literature. Her tales of peasant life in China, where she was raised by missionary parents, provided intimate glimpses into a world then unknown to most Westerners.
AP - "Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning" (Belknap Press, 336 pages, $25.95) by Paul E. Peterson: Education reformers have left the essential teacher-pupil relationship untouched for more than a century, fighting instead for changes outside the classroom: desegregation, teacher pay hikes, funding equality, increased testing, vouchers and changes in curriculum.
In an effort sure to be appreciated by the city's mothers and belt manufacturers, Brooklyn politician Eric Adams is launching a crusade against ... sagging pants, spending $20,000 in campaign funds to put up six giant billboards plastered with the campaign’s slogan: “Stop the sag!” Adams, as part of this viral campaign announced today, also made this YouTube video, in which he calls sagging an “insidious spectacle” that originates from a “prison culture” and perpetuates a “long tradition of negative stereotyping.” He concludes: “You can raise your level of respect if you raise your pants.”
While “Stop the Sag” does have a certain oomph to it, we’re kind of surprised Adams didn’t go with the more of-the-moment tagline: “Don’t Look Like a Fool With Your Pants on the Ground."
Senator Adams Unveils Billboard and Viral Campaign to Tell Youth: End the Sagging Pants Culture! [nysenate.gov] [via Gothamist]
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Filed Under: sagging, eric adams, pants on the ground
After just 38 performances, the Broadway revival of The Miracle Worker, starring Abigail Breslin as Helen Keller, is set to close next Sunday, the show’s producers said. Also starring Alison Pill as Keller’s teacher Annie Sullivan, Worker opened on March 3 to mixed reviews. Having cost $2.6 million to put up, the show - which met some early controversy after casting Breslin instead of a blind or deaf actress - will represent a significant financial loss for its producers and investors. Producer David Richenthal told the Times last fall that he would “consider it financially irresponsible to approach a major revival without making a serious effort to get a star”; yet, oddly, he didn't take his own advice -- instead of casting a Scarlett or Katie as Sullivan, he hoped for a miracle.
Closing Date for ‘The Miracle Worker [Arts Beat/NYT]
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Filed Under: closings, abigail breslin, broadway, the miracle worker
Federal agents conducted raids over the weekend in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio and arrested at least seven people, according to CNN. While charges against those arrested won't be unsealed until Monday, a Michigan militia leader says at least one of the targets of the raids was a Christian militia group called Hutaree, an organization that claims on their website to be "preparing for the end time battles to keep the testimony of Jesus Christ alive." A law-enforcement official told CNN the arrests are not "related to any terrorist plot." [AP, CNN]
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It's a rite of passage that's so wrong and yet so right.
And of course we're talking about the annual green-slime slinging spectacular known as the Kids' Choice...
If NBC wasn’t willing to approve Conan appearing on an event for charity, they sure as hell weren’t going to let him help skyrocket the ratings of a CBS awards show. Deadline is reporting tonight that CBS tried to hire O’Brien to host the Tony Awards on June 13, but he was forced to turn down the job due to NBC’s restrictions on his appearances through September 1. Awfully hard to get excited about (inevitable host) Neil Patrick Harris now, huh? [Deadline]
Update: Deadline has updated its story with a NBC source's report that O'Brien is free to make TV appearances after May 1, which would mean he would be available to host the Tony's, though he would not be able to speak freely about NBC on the telecast per the terms of their agreement.
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Filed Under: conan o'brien, cbs, nbc, television, tony's
Barack Obama had a busy few hours in Afghanistan today, meeting with Afghan president Hamad Karzai and then addressing American troops at a pep rally at Bagram Air Base.
Though the content of the Obama-Karzai private meeting wasn’t revealed, the president stood next to Karzai at the presidential palace and said the “American people are encouraged by the progress that has been made," though he referred to the issues that have cropped up along the way. The unannounced visit, the first Obama has made in his presidency, was viewed as a message to Karazi to clean up the court system and crack down on government corruption in the country, as well as cut off the opium trade that has been providing funds for the insurgents.
After his meeting with Karzai, he spoke to about 2,500 troops, emphasizing that Taliban control of the country would put U.S. lives at risk.
“Al Qaeda and their extremist allies are a threat to the people of Afghanistan and a threat to the people of America, but they’re also a threat to people around the world,” Obama said. “My main job here today is to say thank you on behalf of the entire American people. You are part of the finest military in the history of the world. And we are proud of you.”
White House officials had given no advance notice of the trip, and even sneakily told reporters Obama would be spending the weekend at Camp David with his family.
In Afghanistan, Obama Presses Karzai to Fight Corruption [NYT]
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AP - Yoko Komazawa had been at the Tokyo International Anime Fair for nearly six hours when she fell in love with a brown-and-white stuffed panda — a character in one of the fair's featured cartoons.
Looks like everyone working hard on crafting their Matt Damon night drinking games should add in a "Take a shot whenever a celeb takes a shot at Damon" rule. While the broadcast date of the 2010 American Cinematheque Award dinner - which honors an actor for his or her "significant contribution to the art of the motion picture" - has still not been announced by ABC, the event took place last night in Hollywood and reports indicate it was more like a Comedy Central roast than a stuffy Hollywood ceremony.
The tone for the one-hour ceremony was set right off the bat, as Jimmy Kimmel said he had thought he was there to toast Matt Dillon.
"I don't have much to say about Matt Damon, just as he didn't have much to say in Ocean's Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen, " Kimmel deadpanned.
Charlize Theron, Robin Williams, George Clooney (who, oddly, appeared via video engaged in a faux prostate exam), Bill Clinton (also via video) and Clint Eastwood also took turns at the microphone. But of course, it was BFF Ben Affleck who presented the trophy to Damon, whom Affleck’s wife Jennifer Garner referred to as her “darling husband's darling husband."
“Wow! A lifetime achievement award? I started the same time as the guy — so it’s a special night for me too. I actually accepted an award recently as well from the Elks Lodge!” Affleck said.
After taking jabs all night, Damon dished it out during his twelve-minute acceptance speech, nailing Affleck right away: “Next year I’m sure you will be on this stage (presenting this award to someone else)," Damon said. "I hear there's a lot of buzz for Vanessa Hudgens."
American Cinematheque honors Matt Damon [HR]
Matt Damon gets 'mid-career' achievement award [EW]
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Filed Under: kudos, ben affleck, hollywood salues matt damon, jimmy kimmel, matt damon
It's hard to remember this now, but Lady Gaga's sartorial beginnings were humble, with her fashioning bras from halves of disco balls and tying her hair in a bow. (You can see exclusive images of the early Lady Gaga in Vanessa Grigoriadis's cover feature, "Growing Up Gaga.") Eventually, she would paste a zipper over her eye for her American Idol debut, and wear a coat made entirely from Kermit the Frog dolls. As her fashion sense became more avant-garde, her fame sky-rocketed. Her uniform for the past year has often just consisted of drag-queen heels and underwear, whether she's appearing in a fashion magazine spread or simply walking to her car. Take a look back at her greatest fashion moments from the beginning of her career to the present, on stage and off, in this massive slideshow.
Related: Growing Up Gaga [NYM]
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Filed Under: icons, fashion, lady gaga, look book, music, slideshow
Matt Damon may have been honored last night with the American Cinematheque Award, but the tribute was more of a roast than anything else.
Charlize Theron got into the blame game,...
 New York Times (blog) | Closing Date for 'The Miracle Worker' New York Times After only 21 preview performances and 38 regular performances, the Broadway revival of William Gibson's play “The Miracle Worker” will close next Sunday at Circle in the Square Theater, the producers ... 'Miracle Worker' to close on B'way after short run Breslin's debut Broadway show axed The Miracle Worker Will Go Dark; Final Broadway Performance Is April 4 |
Reuters - NEW YORK (Billboard) - Part art project, part all-star indie gathering, "Here Lies Love" is David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's unusual collaborative song cycle about the life of Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines.
 Sydney Morning Herald | Can Miley Cyrus build a movie career? msnbc.com As the star of the long-running TV hit “Hannah Montana,” 17-year-old Miley Cyrus is no newbie when it comes to acting. But as she attempts to cross over into real-life movie stardom with “The Last Song,” her first big film not ... Miley's 'Last Song' Miley Cyrus - No nore Hannah Montana movies Microphones or movies: advice for 12 double threats |
What the Kids Choice Awards lacked in Sandra Bullock, they more than made up for with Taylor Lautner's abs. And slime. Lots and lots of (often surprise) slime—bad luck, Katy Perry, Steve...
 Sydney Morning Herald | 'Bombshell' McGee's father defends her msnbc.com LOS ANGELES - Michelle “Bombshell” McGee, the first woman to claim an extramarital relationship with Sandra Bullock's husband, Jesse James, may be staying under the radar, but her father is defending the tattooed model. “She told me that she was going ... Sandra Bullock Divorce Is In Motion, Sources Say Sandra Bullock: Pregnancy Rumors, Why She Might Not Divorce Jesse James? Sandra Bullock to fight for custody of stepdaughter |
One of the most frequent complaints from Barack Obama's supporters during his first year in office was that the President was too passive. He never imposed his will on Congress the way a forceful president does. According to White House aides, that's about to change.
Politico says that Obama plans to use the momentum from health-care reform's success to push Congress "to close campaign-finance loopholes opened by the Citizens United case, adopt his overhaul of the No Child Left Behind education bill, and perhaps even tackle a clean-energy bill."
Robert Gibbs says the President hopes Republicans learned a lesson from their strategy to just say no to health-care reform. The lesson: When you work together you may get some concessions, but when you're completely obstinate you get nothing. Of course, don't expect a change of tune from the GOP, which seems ready to impeach Obama for his recess appointments yesterday.
Even without GOP support and even in the face of a completely incompetent Congress, Obama isn't likely to give up because, as he said himself, “I’m just that stubborn.”
President Obama plans strong hand with Congress [Politico]
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For frak’s sake, Caprica, pull it together! This episode, the mid-season finale, showed no restraint in pushing each character toward a precipice (some ledges were more literal than others). But what we don’t understand is how the same minds that sent the Daniel-Zoebot-Philomon story line careening to unexpected ends could think it was okay to drag viewers through scenes from Amanda’s fugue state. More Yuppie-emo vegetable chopping as a signifier of inner turmoil? Really? Fine, if Caprica insists on keeping its personalities split, we’re going to recap it that way. But we hope they use their downtime (the air dates for the nine remaining episodes are to be decided) to stop smoking purple and come back a more coherent self.
The Good
Four words, people: high-speed Cylon car chase. Our pleasure centers nearly ruptured! We were confused at first when the episode opened with a delivery truck burning rubber. Wait, what show are we watching? Is that the frakin’ Cylon at the wheel?? We don’t know if viewers who missed Battlestar Galactica had the same reaction, but it felt so strange to see these robots we’re used to occupying decimated planets, or infiltrating spaceships, or even stuck in a lab suddenly in the driver’s seat with two planes in hot pursuit. Oh, the discombobulating absurdity!
To explain how this came to pass, Caprica breaks out the ol' twenty-hours-earlier device. The fact that they hadn’t before makes you appreciate how structurally innovative the show really is. So, lo, those twenty hours ago, Graystone stock dropped 37 percent, forcing Daniel to sell his Pyramid team to Vergis. But the deadline for the defense contract just got bumped up: deliver 100,000 Cylons by next week. The procurement official who delivers the bad news knows why it’s taking so long: “It’s hard to reverse engineer stolen tech.” We like the cynicism dictating that Caprican officials would turn a blind eye to murder just to avoid funding a Tauron.
Philomon is busy telling everyone how he’ll love his virtual girlfriend Rachel (really Zoe's avatar) no matter what she looks like. Eh, not so fast. He confesses as much to Rachel during their virtual date (in a canopy bed, on a lake, covered with rose petals), and she believes him. The setting’s ripped from the pages of a Caprican romance novel, but Zoe, for all her Club V savoir faire, is a still a teenage girl. Plus, he tells her she’s the smartest person he knows. Bonus recap dating tip: This line works.
Philo has an idea for how to get past the generative anomalies: a psych profile of the U-87 to correct against (“Loves the one true god, apotheosis, and Philo. Hates her dad.”) But Daniel’s torture tests from last week seem to have affected him more than Zoe. He’s tired of feigning parental affection for this thing that could bring down his empire. Almost as punishment for its impudence, he orders Philo to irradiate the chip and build him 100,000 Cylons.
Just as Philo’s about to wipe out her hard drive, Zoebot finally reveals herself IRL. (“It’s me, the robot. And I’m Rachel, too.”) He tries to run away. She reaches her hand out to stop him and accidentally crushes a shelf. To sedate her, he repeats the same lines from the canopy bed, but with a very different look in his eye. When he makes a second break to set off the security alarm, she reaches out, but ends up flinging his body into a cement pole. Cylon death toll: one down, twelve colonies to go.
The Meh
The warring factions of the STO cell have a standoff at the docks. Barnabus tells Clarice that STO central likes action, “Not some crazy plans that make you into a bouncer in some homemade heaven.” But between his penchant for murder and Clarice’s apotheosis kick, we can’t tell which side is supposed to be fringier. Barnabus promises Lacy, now officially STO, a preapproved ride for her unnamed cargo to get to Gemenon. But first, she has to swap out a thingy on Clarice’s key chain.
The Spastic
Remember way back in episode four when Amanda single-handedly salvaged the reputation of her family (and Graystone Industries) on national TV? Because it doesn’t seem like anyone writing Caprica does. She’s been reduced to a simpering caricature. We’re not sure if it’s the ghost of her dead brother or the fact that Daniel’s a murderer that’s causing this distress. But it leads to hackneyed scenes of her dreaming of razor blades, watching shows about bridges to jump off, and fingering a sappy Eros day card from her loving husband (all to the sound of drippy Caprican opera). When she finally confronts Daniel, he just keeps chopping vegetables and she walks out the door.
And do you remember how Tamara’s avatar getting stuck in New Cap was going to be a terrific way to complicate the whole avatar apotheosis business? (Because she was unwillingly downloaded and, unlike the Zoebot, has no exit strategy.) Well, this episode took the easy way out, and spent the time closing up the tiresome will-Joseph-become-an-amphead angle. Sam and his secretary find him tweaking in his bathrobe on the couch. As we suspected, his guide Emanuelle was actually his secretary. She convinces Tamara to shoot her dad so he can heal himself with some Tauron organ meats and get over trying to save her. Good, we like New Cap better without Joseph in it anyways.
The final moments of the episode were the most poorly orchestrated we’ve seen so far. We don’t know where Caprica got the idea that it needed to ratchet everything up with vampy, telenovela-esque flourishes to keep us watching. With the opera score now inflecting other subplots, the scenes flash from one story line to the next. What you need to know: The device Barnabus had Lacy plant was a bomb and he forces her to detonate it. Clarice sees Amanda Graystone about to jump off a bridge and gets out of the car, narrowly missing the explosion. Once she’s carjacked a truck off the Graystone Industries lot, the Zoebot starts to take after her dear old mum, sobbing and crying and crying and sobbing until she finally crashes the truck, sending metal bits tinkling off the Cylon body in slo-mo.
The only redeeming detail came when Daniel got a phone call in the last seconds of the hour. Is it the police calling to tell him that he lost his daughter or his wife? “This is Graystone,” he answers — sounding not at all perturbed to be speaking in the singular.
Other Recaps:
Television Without Pity had a "spiritual sense of attrition" watching all the characters they love getting lined up and shot in the head every five minutes. "It's tiring."
PopWatch thinks Caprica is heading away from BSG's fantasy that's realer-than-life into straight fantasy, and that this episode played out like a game of "Two Truths and a Lie."
HitFix thought the name of the bridge (Pantheon) that Amanda may or may not have jumped off of was symbolic of the gods Zoe rejected.
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Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, the team of Japanese architects behind New York's New Museum, have received the 2010 Pritzker Prize for the museums, university buildings, and fashion boutiques they've designed throughout the world. In May, at the official prize ceremony, the duo will receive two bronze medallions, a grant for $100,000, and a new appreciation for the experience of American immigrants. [AP]
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Filed Under: kudos, architecture, kazuyo sejima, new museum, ryue nishizawa
Reuters - Bestselling British author Philip Pullman risks offending Christians with his latest book, a fictional account of the "good man Jesus" and the "scoundrel Christ."
Check it out, Merton, the ChatRoulette piano improviser who is most certainly not Ben Folds, is back! And his second effort is even funnier than the first. We're especially fans of the heartfelt ballad "Diagonal Like You." But if you're looking for any clues of just who the hell this guy is, you won't find any here. You will find some laughs, though, and isn't that why we love Merton?
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Filed Under: viral video, chatroulette, merton, music, video
Maria Bartiromo never liked being called the "Money Honey," but back in 2007 she decided to embrace the nickname and attempted to trademark it for a host of products, including "toy action figures, card games, jigsaw puzzles and toy cash registers." But if you've recently been in the "Young Financial Wizards" aisle at Toys"R"Us, you may have noticed that none of these products were there. That's because Bartiromo has dropped her attempts to trademark her nickname without explanation. Now Erin Burnett can be the first with her name on a toy cash register! [NYP]
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Filed Under: money honey, maria bartiromo, nickanames, wall street
Ab-tastic werewolf Talylor Lautner and his on-screen ladylove Kristen Stewart were the big winners at Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards last night, taking home the award for cutest couple. But if you recall, Barack Obama and Michelle Obama were also nominated for the award. And so begins the GOP's push for Lautner in 2012. [WSJ]
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Filed Under: abs, barack obama, kristen stewart, michelle obama, movies, nickelodeon kids' choice awards, taylor lautner, twilight
3D ticket prices got hiked. A new 3D movie got raised.
The big-as-life cartoon How to Train Your Dragon topped the weekend box office with an estimated $43.3 million.
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President Obama made his first trip to Afghanistan today, a surprise journey that brought him to the presidential palace in Kabul to meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. According to General James Jones, Obama's goal is to get Karzai to “understand that in his second term, there are certain things that have not been paid attention to, almost since day one.” Sounds like someone is getting a lecture. [NYT]
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Filed Under: it just happened, afghanistan, barack obama
Mayor Bloomberg, in his ripped jeans, shades, and a hideous flower-print shirt, joined the cast of Hair onstage at last night's Inner Circle dinner and did what mayors always do at these things: made a fool of himself. After riding on to the stage in a van filled with pot smoke (we're not sure if this violated the smoking ban), Bloomberg halfheartedly sang along to "Age of Aquarius" before his friends Howard Wolfson, the Situation, and Snooki emerged from behind the curtains. Fortunately, they all kept their clothes on and none of them dressed in drag, which means Bloomberg still hasn't matched Rudy Giuliani's performance from 2000. But Bloomberg still has time to make that happen. He just needs to find a dress that fits.
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Filed Under: the third terminator, howard wolfson, inner circle dinner, mayor bloomberg, old men pretending to be young men, politics
Early last night, a 250-foot crane crashed into the top of a 25-story building on Maiden Lane, just three blocks from Wall Street, showering the ground below with bricks and stones, but fortunately, no blood. Though no injuries were reported, falling debris did cause the evacuation of nearby buildings and traffic interruptions. A complaint about a crane on the site was filed on March 8, but a violation wasn't issued. [NYDN]
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Filed Under: it's raining bricks, construction, cranes, disaster
With the proliferation of vaguely choreographed arena pop and rap shows, the occasional onstage face-plant is an occupational hazard. This week it was Fergie's turn to tumble for us, and the...
We really wish we could say that this photo of the Ghetto Superstar was from her elementary school's production of The Little Mermaid, because that would explain her coral reef-looking...
 Reuters | Katy Perry Gets Slimed; Plus Complete List of Kids' Choice Winners Radar Online The Oscars may have come and gone but Awards season isn't quite over yet - Saturday saw the Kid's Choice Awards broadcast live from UCLA's Pauley Pavillion in Los Angeles. Cute teeny bopper audience, cute teen heart throbs and starlets galore, and, ... Justin Bieber – “Baby” at Kids Choice Taylor Lautner & Celebs Give Relationship Updates at Kids' Choice Awards Twilight star Taylor Lautner in double win |
"Twilight" star Taylor Lautner picked up two orange, blimp-shaped trophies at Saturday's 23rd annual shenanigan-packed Nickelodeon spectacle inside UCLA's Pauley Pavilion.
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