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Every Little Bit Hurts -- Figuring Out Trashy Behavior

Mark Olmsted | Posted 12.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Greening Hollywood, Immigrants, Trash, Green Living, Social Class, Litter, Hollywood, Littering, Green News
Mark Olmsted

Some of the worst offenders were the middle-aged men who smoked mountains of Capri cigarettes; if I had $5 for every one I eventually picked up, I would now be living in a villa inCapri.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: The Script That Kills: Austin Peck on The Blue Tooth Virgin

Dan Persons | Posted 11.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: La, Film Industry, Emotion, Trilogy of Terror, Script Doctor, Drama, Jealousy, Controversy, Hollywood, Days of Our Lives, Austin Peck, Los Angeles, Indie, Karen Black, Success, Comedy, Creativity, Roma Maffia, Acting Legend, Off Beat, Satire, Soap Operas, Writing, Tom Gilroy, As the World Turns, Daytime Television, Art, Amber Benson, Therapy, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

A TV writer tries his hand at a feature film. His friend reads the script, thinks it's an ungodly mess of muddled symbolism and Freud 101 anxieties. "Be honest," the writer says.

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Wonder Why Middle America Doesn't Trust Hollywood Liberals? Three Words: Weinstein and Polanski

Keli Goff | Posted 11.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Elite, Liberals, Roman Polanski, Hollywood, Entertainment News
Keli Goff

When people like Mr. Harvey Weinstein paint the former president as harmful to Americans but Roman Polanski as merely misunderstood, they are proving every anti-Hollywood conservative's point for them.

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Matt LeBlanc Returning To Comedy TV

AP | Posted 11.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Matt Leblanc, Episodes, Television, Showtime, Hollywood, London-United Kingdom, United Kingdom, Entertainment News

NEW YORK — Showtime network says "Friends" alum Matt LeBlanc is returning to TV in a new comedy.

LeBlanc will star in "Episodes," a single-camera series about a husband-and-wife producing team whose witty hit comedy on British TV is turned into a dumbed-down American sitcom starring LeBlanc, who plays himself.

"Episodes" is a send-up of the TV world and LeBlanc's image as a sitcom veteran. The show will be a co-production of Showtime and the BBC and will begin shooting a six-episode season in London and Hollywood this winter. It is scheduled to air next year on Showtime and BBC Two. LeBlanc played Joey Tribbiani on "Friends" for a decade. He followed that NBC hit in 2004 with a sitcom based on the same character, "Joey," which flopped.

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Nation Demands Fresh Celebrity Meat

The Onion | The Onion | Posted 11.29.2009 | Home

Read More: Hollywood, Home News

HOLLYWOOD, CA—""We can no longer subsist on Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears," read a statement from Citizens for Renewed Celebrity Consumption....

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TV Review: The Cleveland Show

Catie Lazarus | Posted 11.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Donna Tubbs, The New York Television Festival, Kanye West, Cleveland Brown, Mike Henry, Half-Hour Comedy, Family Guy, The Cleveland Show, Scottie Pippen, Arianna Huffington, Seth MacFarlane, Sitcoms, Television, Cleveland Jr., Cleveland, New York Times, Cartoon, Huffington Post, Fox, Comedy, Hollywood, Animated Show, Richard Appel, Entertainment News
Catie Lazarus

Based on the reaction from the packed crowd at The New York Television Festival's screening, The Cleveland Show will be a welcome in many homes.

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Ego Stew

David Dean Bottrell | Posted 11.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Susan Boyle, Kanye West, Taylor Swift, Entertainment, Show Business, David Dean Bottrell, Kanye West VMA, Entertainment News, Hollywood, Entertainment News
David Dean Bottrell

It's not much of a surprise when megastars like Kanye West land in some kind of trouble. Whatever their moral compass may have been, it no longer works in the upper stratosphere.

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My Obama Recession: My Stock In Obama, Inc. Diminishes

Richard Walden | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Juanes, Economicreform, Recession, Obama, Cuba, Landmines, Hollywood, Health Care, Politics News
Richard Walden

My family invested nearly $15,000 last year in Barack Obama, Inc. stock. We bought in heavily out of accumulated capital and it was a significant amount for us...

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Dirty Dancing in Hollywood

Charlotte Safavi | Posted 11.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Dirty Dancing, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Agents, Patrick Swayze, Indie Film, Movies, Hollywood, Entertainment News
Charlotte Safavi

Everyone has a Dirty Dancing story. This is mine. In the mid-'80s, a year out of Oxford University and a year into an investment-banking career, I decided to dance.

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Death by Resume

David Dean Bottrell | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living

Read More: David Dean Bottrell, Entertainment, Boston Legal, Show Business, Screenwriting, Hollywood, Living News
David Dean Bottrell

Who am I anyway? Am I my resume? We all want to be one of the cool kids. It's tough to let go.

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Redbox: Movie Studios See A Threat In Growth Of Redbox

The New York Times | BROOKS BARNES | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Redbox, Film, Wal-Mart, DVD Rentals, DVD Sales, Netflix, Hollywood, Dvds, Media News

By December, there will be 22,000 Redbox machines in spots like supermarkets, Wal-Mart Stores and fast-food restaurants. Redbox's growth -- it star...

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Ashton Kutcher Talks Public Service, Star Treak, and Football Pants

Vickie Karp | Posted 10.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Twitter, Mayor Cory A. Booker, Entertainment, Film, Hollywood, Newark, Ashton Kutcher, Brick City, Twitter Followers, Video Declarations, Public Service, Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, Demi Moore, Cnn, Sundance Channel, Youtube, Al Gore, Entertainment News
Vickie Karp

Kutcher has challenged Newark's Mayor Cory A. Booker to inspire 300 of his Twitter followers to send video declarations of community service.

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American Masters Toasts Dalton Trumbo

James Sims | Posted 10.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Pbs, Dalton Trumbo, American Masters, Joseph McCarthy, Blacklisting, Hollywood, Entertainment News
James Sims

Trumbo is a reminder that logic does not always factor into the public consciousness.

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Dear Hugh Jackman

Dave Hill | Posted 10.18.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Hugh Jackman, Dave Hill, Fan Loyalty, Hollywood, Fan-Letters, Comedy News
Dave Hill

I am what I and a lot of other people consider to be the foremost authority in North America on all things Jackman. Some might even say I have a serious case of Jackmania.

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Why I Love Jews

David Dean Bottrell | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Entertainment, Humor, Parts and Labor, Show Business, Jewish, David Dean Bottrell, Jewish Culture, Hollywood, Living News
David Dean Bottrell

The biggest reason I love Jews? They love bacon and Christmas more than I do. Friendly, funny, honest and loyal. As Marty's mother used to say, "What's not to like?"

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Hollywood Wins Lawsuit, Losing the War

Nate Wilcox | Posted 09.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Itunes, Realdvd, Media Companies, Universal Studios, Illegal Downloading, Technology, Hollywood, Sony, Media News
Nate Wilcox

In the end, technology is changing with or without the permission of the Hollywood studios.

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The History of Drama (Part One)

David Dean Bottrell | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Entertainment, Show Business, Writing, Hollywood, Illinois, Family, Living News
David Dean Bottrell

All those years of listening to my family spin their outrageous tales had in fact been a master class in recognizing which part of a story could be funny, which part held the most drama or suspense and how to leave your listeners panting for more.

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Don Blanquito: Get Down, Dirty, and Feel the Beat (VIDEO: Explicit)

Tom Gregory | Posted 09.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Pop Music, Explicit Content, Nightclubs, Madonna, Rio De Janeiro, Don Blanquito, Youtube, American Idol, Music, Hollywood, Brazil, Rio, Rap Music, Entertainment News
Tom Gregory

Put down your guns rappers, mover over Justin, there's a new man around with a Brazilian urban sound, he's a man possessed and poised to be heard.

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The Dimming of Star Power in Hollywood

John Farr | Posted 09.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Russell Crowe, Clark Gable, Paul Newman, Compensation, George Clooney, Best Movies by Farr, Cary Grant, Tom Hanks, Barbara Stanwyck, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Tom Cruise, Adam Sandler, Steve McQueen, Great Movies, Hollywood, Entertainment News
John Farr

Could it be that Denzel and Julia no longer merit guaranteed twenty million dollar paydays with every picture? And if so, what precisely has happened?

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Age Doesn't Matter Unless You're a Cheese

Dori Berinstein | Posted 09.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Broadway, Aging, Acting, Entertainment Industry, Hollywood, Entertainment News
Dori Berinstein

Attention all disenfranchised Hollywood writers, actors, producers: Broadway needs you. Broadway, in fact, wants you!

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State of the Union

David Dean Bottrell | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sag, Entertainment, Parts and Labor, Show Business, SAG Elections, David Dean Bottrell, Screen Actors Guild, Unions, Boston Legal, Hollywood, Bluray, Aftra, Martin Sheen, Old Media vs. New Media, Writers' Strike Opinion, Aftra-and-Studios, Writers Guild of America Strike, Writers' Strike, Cable Tv, SAG Strike, Amptp, Doug Allen, Ed Harris, AFTRA Negotiations, Dvr, New Media Advertising, New Media, Alan Rosenberg, Politics News
David Dean Bottrell

If the new SAG leadership doesn't rapidly start taking all the painful, but necessary steps to merge with AFTRA, we are fucked.

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Hollywood Unveils New Rules for Movie Lovers

eSarcasm | Posted 09.17.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Keanu Reeves, Copyright Infringement, Copyright, Realdvd, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Real Networks, Copyright Law, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Hollywood, Movies, Dvd, Kaleidesscape, Satire, Comedy News
eSarcasm

Movie watchers will be allowed to make and eat their own popcorn, but it must be at least three days old and smothered in rancid butter-flavored coconut oil.

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One Smart Blonde

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 09.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Krxa, Billboard, Kfi, Pantages, Humor, Karel, Charles Karel Bouley, Kgo, Advocate, Huffingtonpost, Gay, Politics, Radio, Kngy, Legally Blonde, Knx, Comedy, Hollywood, Musical Theater, Legally Blonde the Musical, Theater, Reese Witherspoon, Entertainment News
Charles Karel Bouley

As in true Hollywood fashion, Elle gets her man (the right one) and happy endings are doled out all around to the deserving, the audience stands and cheers and the curtain falls.

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Hollywood, the Internet and the Poor: No Disconnect Necessary

Robert Townsend | Posted 09.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Television, Internet, Robert Townsend, Entertainment Industry, Hollywood, Entertainment News
Robert Townsend

Today, the entertainment industry is largely overlooking the most powerful distribution vehicle available: the Internet.

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Hollywood's Family Affair

David Dean Bottrell | Posted 09.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: David Dean Bottrell, Entertainment, Hollywood, Parts and Labor, Boston Legal, Show Business, Ryan O'Neal, Entertainment News
David Dean Bottrell

Other people's family fights always make me uncomfortable. That's why I cringed a little last week as I watched Ryan O'Neal's oldest son, Griffin, spewing a few choice memories about his nutty father on Larry King Live.

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