· In yet another one of those uncomfortable Martha Stewart Show moments that keep us coming back over and over again, the host describes her mother’s recent stroke in such alarming detail that we now know not only the name of the hospital in which she’s recovering, but the exact floor her room is on.
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Nov
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Another Martha Stewart Overshare [Short Ends]
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Nov
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NBC’s Ben Silverman Thinks Network Rivals Reilly And McPherson Are ‘D-Girls,’ But Not Hot And Fun Enough To Party With [Hollywood Feudwatch]
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In its new issue. Esquire profiles compulsively quotable NBC perfect storm Ben Silverman, who apparently has not been too busy monitoring the foreign airwaves for lowbrow, easily importable reality TV formats he can plug into the holes the writers strike will soon blow in his network’s schedule to publicly invite his favorite rivals over for [...]
Nov
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Today’s most popular headlines are Former … [Stats Feed]
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Today’s most popular headlines are Former Writer’s Assistant Calls Bullshit On Ellen DeGeneres’s Crocodile Tears (6,277 views today), The Strike, Day Four: March Of The Governator (2,418) and Barbara Walters Gets Her Sass On At ‘The View’ (2,196). Today’s most discussed stories are.
Nov
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Ellen DeGeneres Slits The Throat Of Her Baby Monologue As An Offering To The Striking-Writer Gods [Stands]
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Since the ghost of a writer’s room presence from Ellen DeGeneres’s past has come back to haunt the picket-line-circumnavigating chant-target–and in doing so, reopened the age-old debate about how much writer-abuse is too much writer-abuse when your name’s in the title–the first new episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show has aired.
In it, the comedian [...]
Nov
8
Ween, Remembering UPN, Barker [To Do]
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· Music round-up: Of Montreal at Avalon; Ween at the Wiltern; Robbers on High Street at the Echoplex, Mason Jennings at the Troubadour.
· With all of network TV on the brink of strike-hastened extinction, there’s never been a better time to revisit the glorious failures that were The WB and UPN, the two netlets whose [...]