Report: The Who to rock Super Bowl halftime
According to Sports Illustrated, the legendary rock band will perform at the Super Bowl on Feb. 7 on CBS. Which would make sense since CBS' uses The Who songs as theme songs for "CSI," "CSI: Miami" and "CSI:NY." The NFL won't confirm The Who's performance, however. "When we have something to announce, we'll announce it," says an NFL spokesperson.
Carrie Prejean tries to storm out of "inappropriate" Larry King interview
"Larry, it's completely confidential and you're being inappropriate," said the former Miss California, before taking off her mike.
Kimora Lee Simmons: "Top Model" judge?
CW is denying it, but according to the NY Daily News, Tyra recruited her "frenemy" Kimora to sit in as a judge next season to prove she can get along with others.
Stephen Colbert vs. "Sesame Street"
"The Colbert Report" last night lashed out at "Sesame," calling it "the most insidious socialist brainwashing program in our nation’s history."
Sharon Osbourne apologizes for mocking Susan Boyle
"Susan Boyle is a lovely gracious woman and I took advantage of that by poking fun at her," Osbourne said on Twitter of her "cheap laugh."
"The influence of Reality TV has been insidious, pervasive," James Wolcott complains in Vanity Fair. He goes on to list the damage reality is responsible for: 1) Reality TV has lowered network property values, 2) Reality TV has annihilated the classic documentary, 3) Reality TV wages class warfare and promotes proletarian exploitation, 4) Reality TV has debased the time-honored art of bad acting, 5) Reality TV encourages and rewards vulgar, selfish, antisocial, pissy-pants behavior and 6) Reality TV gives voyeurism a dirty name.
"This episode is the turning point for the show," says Ryan Murphy. "Certainly, after this, it remains a comedy, and it’s fun. But writing this made me feel the responsibility of showing the truth of the pain that outcasts go through. It’s not all razzle-dazzle show business. It’s tough, and it’s painful, and it was for me growing up, and it is for most people." PLUS: 
The AMC series doesn't pander to its audience, says Tim Goodman. "It's not every day that a faltering marriage, built on a lie grasped in fear and protected with admirable, unwavering confidence by the main character, collapses so sublimely over the course of three seasons," he writes. "For that matter, it's a rarity when viewers are given insight into the human condition not by quick-cut witticisms or explosive, violent action sequences but in everyday ordinariness that can be drab or meandering – just like life."
"What made 'Balm' tremendous," says Zack Handlen, "was that it offered a glimpse of that salvation that's long been one of the show's defining characteristics. Unlike other crime dramas,' Sons of Anarchy' has people who can be noble, people for whom family life and brotherhood aren't just ways of hiding their essential venality."
As Robert Lloyd notes, in a message to "Sesame": "You are 40 years old now, just a year younger than Mickey Mouse was the year you arrived on television — and he was semi-retired by then, while you still report to work each day. This very morning you begin your 41st season, you and your cast of aging humans and ageless Muppets, with three first-episode veterans still in residence…That kind of continuity is rare, if not otherwise nonexistent, on television. Certainly there is no other children's show to match you for longevity, cultural penetration or global reach."
Black cable channel TV One will present the Donald Trump-produced "Omarosa's Ultimate Merger," which will follow "The Apprentice" villain as she tries to select a man from 12 bachelors. Says Trump: "Omarosa is smart, witty and difficult, but all of those qualities will make for some very interesting entertainment."
Where was the relaxed good humor shown in her comedy specials. What we got instead, says Robert Bianco, was "a strained, strident hour that seemed underfunded and, despite all the time put into it, underrehearsed, as if someone thought it could run on raunch and righteous anger alone."
