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TV NEWS PIONEER FRANK STANTON DIES AT AGE 98
It’s better this way — friends say he lived the last several years frustrated by his inability to spin in the grave.
SOUL LEGEND JAMES BROWN DIES AT AGE 73
Dying In America - Papa’s Got A Brand New Box - I Feel Dead - It’s A Man’s Underworld. [...]

What popular Us Weekly gossip columnist has been found guilty of soliciting sex with minors? Our source, whose initials are “A.P.” says it’s Timothy McDarrah!
McDarrah, who had also worked at the ultra-swanky Las Vegas Sun:
…was charged with one count of using a computer and the Internet “to attempt to entice, induce, coerce and persuade a [...]

Box Office Weekly #047 (MP3 - 15.7 MB - 23 min)
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In todays show: James Brown jumps up to the big screen… Jim Carrey returns, despite being expensive as hell… And in my commentary, I turn a magic act into philosophical treatise. All this and the cage match between Seacrest and Daly, today on Box [...]

Bangkok: oriental city. But the city don’t know what the city is gettin’; or rather it does, and it’s decided it doesn’t want it any more.
Queen Sirikit of Thailand recently spoke out against the presence of “Coyote Girls”, dancers who have gyrated across the country in the wake of the awful COYOTE UGLY movie. They’re [...]

CASINO ROYALE, reports the BBC, has become the highest-grossing James Bond movie ever. It has generated $454 million worldwide. The previous Bond winner was Die Another Day (Brosnan, Denise Richards as a nuclear scientist named Christmas) and before that, all of the other ones.
I read this and it got me thinking… how does that stack [...]

My wife and I are always on the lookout for a bargain vacation, and with a three-day holiday weekend looming before us this month, something really caught Mrs. K.’s eye - Las Vegas. There were rooms going at the Golden Nugget downtown at $29 a night. The price was right, and I’ve always wanted to [...]

TALLEDEGA NIGHTS DVD TOPS DVD SALES CHART
If you’re not at the top of the DVD chart, you’re a loser!
HILLARY DUFF MADE INTO BARBIE DOLL
No, for real this time.
MAN SELLS FESTIVUS POLES FOR HOLIDAY SEASON
What better way to gather your family around for the Airing of Grievances…
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE DENOUNCES JUDITH REGAN FOR FOR ALLEGED REMARKS
Does that [...]

You know what real journalists do when they don’t have time to write? They quote press releases verbatim! (Hey give me a break - it’s the holidays and have to prepare for a big Vegas trip that we’re making to avoid them.)
New York, NY, December 20, 2006 – Several Nielsen media tracking businesses today released [...]

Popular trade paper and spice o’ life Daily Variety reports on an increasingly bleak outlook for the future - it appears that the studios are planning for a writer’s strike.
Though the writers wouldn’t throw down their tools and walk until November, talk in the street is studios are already ordering up more episodes and stockpiling [...]