Bridges TV is a Muslim-centric cable TV network, which will be airing a town hall meeting between Muslims and the FBI on May 15. The network is part of the basic package on some cable and satellite services, but not Comcast. A Dearborn Heights Muslim Group in Michigan is putting together a movment to get Comcast [...]

The BBC has the scoop about Norbert Aboudarham, a French playwrite who is living in a cage at a zoo this week to learn what it’s like to be a Panda. He’s developing a project about Pandas. He swears he is.
Ways in which his environment is similar to that of a Panda: the cage looks [...]

You may recognize this week’s title as the punchline to an old joke: What do you call 10,000 lawyers chained to weights and cast into the sea? It brings to mind the top ten for the week ending Sunday April 16. Numbers are Rating/Viewers in millions:

American Idol (TUE) — 17.2/29.6
CSI — 15.2/24.4
American Idol (WED) 13.3/22.6
House [...]

HD-DVD players went on sale yesterday at a few retail chains. Finally, HD is available to the masses! That is the masses who want to watch SERENITY, PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, or THE LAST SAMURAI. This week, these were the only HD disks available.
The selection is interesting, because it bespeaks the industry’s belief that this [...]

John McTiernan (director of the DIE HARD movies, HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, and many others) has admitted that he lied to the FBI in the course of the Anthony Pellicano case. The Hollywood Reporter reveals that McTiernan did hire Pellicano to tap the phones of producer Anthony Roven, his producing partner on ROLLERBALL. This makes [...]

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Kodak takes another step toward oblivion! The Easter Bunny leaves a golden egg for the Weinstein Brothers! American Idol simply refuses to move! I reveal the true magic of Las Vegas. All this and the rumble between Mini Kiss and TinyKiss, today on Box Office Weekly.

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Machines under back-row seats in a single theatre in Japan will exude seven different scents during screenings of THE NEW WORLD, reports the BBC. They add, “A floral smell will accompany love scenes, with a mixture of peppermint and rosemary for tear-jerking moments. Cinemas across the country will be able to download programmes to control [...]

Project Entropia, the “fastest-growing virtual universe utilizing a real cash economy,” announced Tuesday the next phase in its evolution to become the ultimate virtual community, Entropia Universe.  The built-in Real Cash Economy links to that of reality (where you are now, presumably) through a fixed exchange rate of $1 USD for 10 PED, or Project Entropia Dollars.
There [...]

I’m afraid this is a particularly un-shocking week of info, of only minor interest. But it’s still more interesting than watching the shows! Numbers are Rating/Millions of Viewers

American Idol (TUE) — 16.6/28.8
American Idol (Wed) — 15.7/26.2
CSI — 14.7/23.3
House — 13.5/22.7
NCAA Basketball –11.2/17.5
Deal or No Deal — 10.7/17.74
Without a Trace — 10.4/15.2
NCIS — 10.0/15.5
Law ‘N Order [...]

Hang on here - you’re in for a bumpy ride. John Fatale, the lead singer of a KISS tribute band called MiniKiss, inisists that he didn’t try to slip past security guards to make trouble at a gig by Tiny Kiss, another tribute band. Wait for it…
They’re both ALL-DWARF Kiss tribute bands.
Show Host Jeff Beacher [...]