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- Dos and Don'ts of Drama, with 'Degrassi': Runaway Girl
- Crush Links: Can Things Get Any More Complicated for Miley?
- RIP Knut the Polar Bear
- The Duggars Aren't Discussing Their Focus on the Family Trip
- If You Watch It Backwards: Celebrity Scandal Edition
- Parting Tweet: Diplo On True Heroism
- Go Go Gadget Advertising! 9 Interactive Billboards
- For The Love Of The Beard: Hot Comedians With Facial Hair
- Why It's OK for TV Shows to Have Dated Pop Culture References
| Dos and Don'ts of Drama, with 'Degrassi': Runaway Girl Posted: 19 Mar 2011 10:15 AM PDT
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| Crush Links: Can Things Get Any More Complicated for Miley? Posted: 19 Mar 2011 10:11 AM PDT
Tom Cruise gave Katie Holmes a sewing machine for her birthday. To me, that’s one step away from a vacuum cleaner. And two steps away from a slap across the face. (Crazy Days and Nights) Stephanie Seymour and her son apparently learned from their seemingly Oedipus-like episode at the beach in January, and cooled down on the PDA on this most recent beach trip. (Dlisted) Renee Zellweger and Bradley Cooper have broken up. (People) Tiger Woods‘ ex-wife, Elin Nordegren, and kids have moved into a $12 million mansion.
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| The Duggars Aren't Discussing Their Focus on the Family Trip Posted: 19 Mar 2011 09:23 AM PDT
Why wouldn’t Jim Bob Duggar be allowed to mention the reason for his family taking a trip to Colorado? It could be because, as family friend Chris Jeub announced on his blog, TLC’s cameras would be there to tape the event. TLC might not want Jim Bob giving out spoilers about the show, although 19 Kids and Counting certainly isn’t under a shroud of secrecy about storylines in the way that, say, Fringe is. There could be security concerns – possibly Focus On the Family doesn’t want random Duggar fans showing up unannounced at their event, although I can’t imagine they don’t have their own safety precautions in place for when “celebrities” come to visit. But considering that Focus On the Family issued a press release about the Duggars’ talk, I doubt they consider it a secret. Another reason the Duggars might not want to talk about their Colorado trip? As I’ve noted before, the Duggars only discuss religion on their show in the vaguest of terms. They have publicly claimed not to be part of the evangelical-right Quiverfull movement despite the fact that they were associated with it for years before their reality show. Though TLC’s cameras might be accompanying the Duggars to Colorado Springs, it’s entirely possible that the episode about the trip will focus more on cutesy stuff like packing for 20-odd people and dealing with logistics instead of the meat and potatoes of the conference or the Duggars’ speech there. A previous episode where the family visited Washington, DC showed Rep. Michele Bachmann in the background of a scene but did not identify her by name or mention why the Duggars were visiting her. It wouldn’t be the first time that TLC or the Duggars kept their controversial religious beliefs under wraps for the sake of good PR. Post from: Crushable The Duggars Aren't Discussing Their Focus on the Family Trip |
| If You Watch It Backwards: Celebrity Scandal Edition Posted: 19 Mar 2011 08:50 AM PDT
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| Parting Tweet: Diplo On True Heroism Posted: 18 Mar 2011 03:16 PM PDT
We’d love to have been a fly on the wall (or, more prudently, a passenger on the plane) when this interaction took place. Our favorite dinosaur-tatted DJ, the adorable Diplo, understands that he witnessed the truly miraculous event in the successful stowing of Bobby Brown‘s luggage. P.S. Friday! Post from: Crushable Parting Tweet: Diplo On True Heroism |
| Go Go Gadget Advertising! 9 Interactive Billboards Posted: 18 Mar 2011 03:04 PM PDT
1. Oh my God, this is so cool!! Where is this swingset so I can climb those ladders and watch the sunset? 2. What are other interactive billboards? So began this gallery. Some are shrewd advertising campaigns, stationed on the roads or in the malls. There’s at least one piece of modern street art in there. And some literally reach out and grab you. Post from: Crushable Go Go Gadget Advertising! 9 Interactive Billboards |
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| For The Love Of The Beard: Hot Comedians With Facial Hair Posted: 18 Mar 2011 12:33 PM PDT
Some of the best comedians in the business have very un-funny facial hair. Check out some of our faves who bring the funny and the manly! Post from: Crushable For The Love Of The Beard: Hot Comedians With Facial Hair |
| Why It's OK for TV Shows to Have Dated Pop Culture References Posted: 18 Mar 2011 02:17 PM PDT
As Lilit mentioned in the first installment of her Virgin Viewing column, any movie that you didn’t see right when it came out will have many of its references bleed into other works, so that by the time you get around to watching it, it’s familiar. The same applies to TV shows. The very social aspect that has grown up around pop culture makes it clear that references get passed around and explained; Internet memes and the resources to make quick parodies only feed that compulsion to share. I can’t tell you how many classic movies and TV shows I’ve seen referenced through newer works. The one that stands out in my mind, and is something of an analog to the Simpsons episode that Seitz mentions in his piece, was the South Park episode “Bebe’s Boobs Destroy Society,” in which Cartman plays Silence of the Lambs with his dolls. I laughed at Cartman sending the bucket down into the hole and saying, “It puts the lotion on its hands or else it gets the hose again” and while I knew that there was something suggestive in the line, I had no idea where it had come from. The episode aired in 2002, 11 years after Lambs came to theaters in 1991; I wasn’t old enough at either date to have seen it. It was only when YouTubing clips from the movie last year that I realized what Cartman had been playing at. When it comes to incredibly self-referential TV shows, the one I have to mention was also my first favorite TV show. ReBoot was a CGI cartoon about people who lived in your computer. In other terms, they’re the non-player characters in any computer game. The frame of these games, in which you played their enemy “the User,” allowed for endless references, as our heroes found themselves reenacting Raiders of the Lost Ark, Goldeneye, Austin Powers, and other well-known movies. The characters’ dialogue also referenced movies, albeit without telling you where the joke came from: For instance, the main character always said, “Stay frosty.” I assumed that this was a strange phrase that the creators had come up with. Then in 2009, I saw James Cameron‘s Aliens for the first time; the movie came out in 1986, less than a decade before ReBoot first aired in 1994. I realized that not only had ReBoot taken the movie’s catchphrase, but the show had also had one of its characters wear a huge exoskeleton suit like the one that Ripley uses to fight the alien queen. New shows act as filters to impart older references to kids who aren’t emotionally or intellectually mature enough to take in the entire original movie on their own. So it’s OK for a show like Family Guy to mock Lindsay Lohan‘s jail time or a movie like Avatar, because rather than alienate our kids twenty years from now, the references will only make them more curious as to what the original joke is. Post from: Crushable Why It's OK for TV Shows to Have Dated Pop Culture References |
Now here’s the kind of excitement that Degrassi is best at: Two of its central female characters, Holly J and Alli, put themselves in danger this week but were too stubborn to make things right. Alli’s refusal to go home and either stay with ex-boyfriend Johnny at university or continue on to Toronto, plus Holly J’s propensity to push herself to her physical and emotional limits at her internship, provide the perfect lessons on how to add drama to your life.
Most awkward arrangement ever: the Miley Cyrus and Bret Michaels duet will finally be released. (
Knut the Berlin Zoo polar bear, aged four years old, 
Although sources close to the Duggar family, best known for their huge family and their 19 Kids and Counting reality show on TLC, claimed that the Duggars 
We shared the wonder that is 
Earlier this afternoon, BuzzFeed posted this photo of 
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