Tyra Banks hides her "Gossip Girl" dress from paparazzi
She wore a big black chiffon gown while the paparazzi were "twippin" (Tyra's Twitter word for trippin') nearby.
"House" to step back from Huddy
“We’re stepping back from it a little bit," says David Shore. "We’re not ignoring it. We have to carry forward… It’s going to go someplace eventually. PLUS: The cast reacts.
Rainn Wilson: If I don't get an "Office" Emmy, there'll be sadness
"I feel like there's going to be another sad, brutal Hollywood suicide if I don't win one of these suckers by the time I'm done playing Dwight," he tells Vanity Fair. "I'm going to be another statistic, another chalk mark in the Hollywood Hills."
Does "America's Got Talent" suffer from "Drag-phobia"?
The Diva League, a drag queen troupe, got soundly rejected this week. "From where I sit, a bunch of lip-synching old drag queens who can't dance is not what America needs right now," said Piers Morgan. "It's not exactly Barack Obama."
"Monk" and "The Mentalist" have quite a lot of similarities
They might seem like an odd couple, but Adrian Monk and Patrick Jane have many commonalities. For instance, as Mike Hale points out, "Monk and Jane, both eccentric and headstrong, have primary relationships with no-nonsense female minders who must rein them in while taking the brunt of their abuse (Traylor Howard’s Natalie on 'Monk,' Robin Tunney’s Lisbon on 'The Mentalist')"
"Monk" is a "post-Oprah detective"
As its 8th and final season kicking off tonight, "Monk" is going out having redefined the modern hero, says May McNamara. "With his many fears — ladybugs, heights, milk, harmonicas and above all germs — Shalhoub's Monk is a balancing act of contradictions," she explains. "Equally irritating and endearing, he doesn't just refuse to apologize for his skewed vision of the universe, he uses it to see what others do not. "Monk" is a symbol of the Accept Yourself generation, a genuine post-Oprah detective; if he were a more recent creation, he would have Asperger's syndrome."
How "Monk" helped make USA a cable powerhouse
Tonight's season premiere could easily sum up the whole series
Geek Dad: "Everything I Know About Parenting I Learned from Adrian Monk"

