Author Archives: Ben Mandelker
TOP CHEF MASTERS PHOTOCAP: Raising The Bar
After weeks upon weeks of promotion and hype, the much anticipated “fight” episode of Top Chef: Masters arrived last night. This was finally the moment when we’d get to see the ultimate meltdown: a veritable imbroglio between Ludo Lefebvre and Rick Moonen. What could have possible led up to this most unprofessional altercation? And what …
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Come To The 'Reality Matters' Reading Tonight!
If you live in Los Angeles and love reality TV, you should bust a move to Barnes & Noble at The Grove in Hollywood tonight at 7 PM. Why? Because there’s going to be a reading of Reality Matters, the new anthology about reality TV, and guess what? Imma gonna be a-readin’ from it tonight! …
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I Have High Hopes For Gabourey Sidibe's 'SNL' Debut
Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe is hosting this week’s Saturday Night Live, and I’m oddly excited for it. And no, it’s not just because I love the back-to-back rhyme pairing with last week’s host, Ryan Phillippe (although, coincidentally, my friends and I decided both would make for a wonderful celebrity couple name: Phillippedibe). There’s just something …
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Is This Countess LuAnn's New Love?
Is this LuAnn De Lesseps’ new man? After all, he’s younger, somewhat dark skinned, and his name begins with a J. AH HA! Oh wait. It’s actually just B-Side Blog reader Jason, who snapped this photo with the Countess at this past weekend’s GLAAD Media Awards. I’m not sure how their interaction was, but I …
REAL HOUSEWIVES PHOTOCAP: Giving Us An Eyeful
How crazy have things gotten on The Real Housewives of New York City? Well, let’s put it this way. A ridiculous, turbulent fight involving at least three women and resulting in one of them storming out of a party didn’t even make it into the show promos because such imbroglios are practically commonplace now. Yes, …
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Hey, It's a New 'NYC' Housewife!
Entourage Parody Is Pretty Spot On
If you like Entourage, then check out this parody, which is shockingly spot-on. It might actually be more entertaining than the show itself.
5 Questions With Padma Lakshmi
This video is pretty self-explanatory. I mean, it’s Padma talking about, well, who cares? IT’S PADMA TALKING. And if that doesn’t amuse you, then I don’t know what will. Actually, her little story about the Vicks Vapor rub is pretty amusing, only because I can totally imagine it happening on the set of Top Chef. …
AMERICAN IDOL RECAP: A Little Less Andrew Garcia, A Little More Action
It was Elvis week on American Idol last night, and I couldn’t have been more thrilled. [crickets] That was sarcasm. Let’s put it this way: the only theme less interesting to me would have been the great Rascal Flatts songbook. Truth be told, I’m not a huge Elvis fan. I only have one song of …
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