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Oops. I accidentally caused a minor conflagration in my toaster oven today when I took my eyes off some would-be pita chips for just a tad too long. Luckily, I’ve been classically trained in such emergency situations, and I knew to simply unplug the toaster oven and just sit there while the fire raged on …
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Interning back in the day: December 1998 In case you haven’t been following the shifting landscape of late night television, tonight marks the last episode of Late Night with Conan O’Brien. The good news is that Conan will be moving up to the Tonight Show later this year, and technically, Late Night as a show …
“Emeril, my dear friend Gail Simmons has expressed an interest in eating beignets all night long. Could you cook her up some? I fear that if we don’t feed her, she’ll get very cranky, bless her heart.” In case you’re wondering where the Top Chef photocap is, rest assured â€â€Ã‚ I’m waiting for bravotv.com to get …
Just last week, I wrote about a fun Facebook meme that parlayed search results on Google into hilarity for all. Laughter was had, tears were shed, and much tagging ensued. A few more memes have come and gone since then, and while they’ve been amusing, they’ve failed to reach the highs of that original “Google …
What happens when you’re a cast member of Wicked trying to be a real rock ‘n’ roller? You get Adam Lambert, one of American Idol’s aspiring stars for season eight. The guyliner enthusiast has already achieved frontrunner status due to his soaring vocals (he performs in next week’s semifinals group), but he’s also attracted some …
America, you’ve got to be kidding me. Did you really fall for all the sentimental crap the producers shoveled out about personality-free performer Michael Sarver? Apparently you did because the sympathetic yet bland roughneck earned a place in the American Idol top twelve last night, baffling thousands of people who surely expected that spot to …
A study in Chenpressionism. Julie Chen turned up in quite the surprising location today: a New York Times article about self-commissioned celebrity portraits. Our favorite hostess and her husband, CBS bigwig Les Moonves, are profiled as some of the many people who’ve had artists recreate their visages for the sake of art. I won’t get …
Anyone else still recovering from the two back-to-back Real Housewives episodes last night? Bravo provided us quite the anthropological spectrum as we moved from the gaudy materialism of Orange County to the somewhat more refined but no less catty drama of the Hamptons. Watching the two back to back, some glaring difference came to the …
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If you’re anything like me, you’re still recovering from the double-dose of horrendous behavior that Bravo served up with its back to back pairing of The Real Housewives of Orange County and New York City. Both hours provided a dizzying amount of hilarious antics that I fear someday will be used by cultural anthropologists to …
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At long last, American Idol moved into its semifinals stage, and the results were decidedly mixed. Things started off promisingly at first with one increasingly strong showing after the next, but then the performances went south very, very quickly. Not helping matters was a glitch-laden broadcast that featured so many miscues on the technical end, …