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Don't you love it when journalists...OK, bloggers...throw out preposterous headlines in the form of a question, just to get you to click on the article and find out, inevitably, that the answer is a simple "No."? Like "Is the Airbag the Most Dangerous Part of an Automobile?" No, no it [...]

Who knew Steve Jobs had so much in common with Sarah Palin? Or Michelle Bachmann or the others shouting from their Tea cups. All of them despise the media for daring to shed harsh light on their crusades as they crush anyone in their way who might want to erect a [...]

To quote George Clooney in Intolerable Cruelty, she fascinates me. I'm talking about Oprah Winfrey, not Catherine Zeta-Jones. Every time I see her interview a major star on The Oprah Winfrey Show, whether it's Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, the Twilight kids, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, or Tom Cruise, I always [...]

When I first heard about Bravo's latest reality offering, Work of Art: The Search for the Next Great Artist, in which a bunch of hipster artistes compete against each other for big big prizes, I died a little inside. The fact Sarah Jessica Parker was producing didn't help much. However, [...]

So a former White Sox player, an Olympic speed skater, a meteorologist and a magazine editor walk into a comedy club. That’s no joke—that’s exactly what Ron Kittle, Shani Davis, Amy Freeze and Susanna Negovan did, as the first subjects of the new TV show “The Chicago Stand-up Project.” Created [...]

The Nielsen TV ratings confuse me. For the week of June 28, 2010, NCIS was the third most-watched show in the U.S., with 9.8 million viewers, according to the Nielsens. NCIS: Los Angeles was No. 7 (8.3 million). Criminal Minds was No. 19 (6.2 million). I know that everything goes [...]

Ask any aspiring actor or actress where he or she would like to be in five or 10 years, and chances are, they won't respond, "On a daytime soap opera." Once upon a time, ambitious thespians -- including Julianne Moore, Meg Ryan, Demi Moore, Tommy Lee Jones, and, um, David [...]

Alec Baldwin told CNN's Alina Cho this week that he looks forward to retiring from acting in 2012 when his contract with NBC to star in '30 Rock' runs out. Sure, this sucks if you love the characters of Liz Lemon, Tracy Carson, Jenna Maroney, and Jack Donaghy on the [...]