Amanda Kimmel recalls "Survivor" catfight
"I was like, 'I've never been in a catfight before, but let's do this!'" said Amanda. "I should have ran and locked myself in the bathroom and flushed it down the toilet, but I was shell-shocked."
"Prison Break's" Sarah Wayne Callies joins "Walking Dead"
She'll play the "slowly-unraveling wife" of the AMC show's hero, played by Andrew Lincoln.
Lindsay Lohan to star in an E! Mother's Day special
She and her sister will be filmed rearranging her mom's close.
"Full House's" Jodie Sweetin is said to be pregnant again
According to RadarOnline, is having a baby with her DJ boyfriend, Morty Cole. Sweetin already has a 2-year-old daughter.
Erin Andrews now owns peephole videos
Andrews acquired the rights from the felon who shot them, and now she can file federal copyright lawsuits against anybody who distributes or broadcasts the videos.
David Letterman, in a rare appearance on "Regis and Kelly" this morning, also said (or jokes) that he wanted Sarah Palin, George W. Bush and Conan for the Super Bowl ad that eventually featured him, Oprah and Jay Leno. Dave said of the sex scandal, "You take a look at the explosion, and it knocks you down and you wake up every morning and you’re scared and you're depressed and sad." (
"The Office" has become too complacent, especially when it comes to risk-taking, says James Poniewozik. "Knowing that it had one season to finish Michael Scott's run on the show might free 'The Office' to start taking risks again, to be a show with real stakes where things really change, and it would give Carell the sendoff he deserves," he writes.
"Next season," he says on his blog, "it will take more than just looking under a rock to find a hidden idol. I won’t give away what we’re doing, but in planning our creative for next season we coined a phrase, 'The Russell Factor' and it influenced how we will play the hidden idol next season."
Because the cable channels are more valuable, the NBC Universal boss says, "We've thought about it in the past, should we change the name of the company?" But Zucker — who also admitted he might run for public office — said "it doesn't disappoint us, it didn't upset us that people talked about that (that the cable channels are the real moneymakers). That's who we are." (scroll down)
That's according to music legend Al Kooper, who with several of Conan's band members. "They let him go," he says of Weinberg, who hasn't appeared on Conan's nationwide tour. "This is a big transition, and they're all signing new contracts and everything so they replaced him, as far as I know." He adds that Weinberg's exit is the only change, but that "there was a lotta conflict because of Springsteen."
It all has to do with the requirements of marketing, says Katherine Meizel. "Siobhan did not want to put her voice in a box," she says. "She was a 'funny little thing.' She was quirky. She was spunky and all other manner of adjectives that end affectionately in 'y.' (Plus, she had style, she had flair, she was there!) But unless one of them is 'GaGa,' adjectives are not enough to sell millions of albums these days. Boxes, though, get the job done. So with one last glorious echo of the Barbra-ic YAWP she came in with, Siobhan has left us alone to 'Think!' on what we have wrought."
Of last night's episode, James Poniewozik writes: "The thing about Glee is that its audience is a confederation of people who like the show for sometimes entirely different reasons: for the songs, for the darker small-town stories, for Sue Sylvester's zingers, for the don't-stop-believin' uplift, for the realistic drama, for the heightened melodrama. And, of course, there are people who like all of the above. Often, Glee zigs back and forth among these constituencies: a light episode here, a dramatic episode here, a music-heavy episode there. My ideal Glee would integrate those aspects into each episode under one big roof."
"Given ABC's recent approach to series such as this," says Troy Patterson, "it is perfectly natural to be wary that 'Happy Town' will turn into a five-pound bucket of red herrings. Treading the line between artful confusion and total nonsense has been ABC's thing in recent years. Consider the triple-agent escapades of later seasons of Alias, the stumbling time trips of 'Day Break' and 'FlashForward,' and whatever the hell it is that happens on Lost. Has the network learned from its mistakes? Will Happy Town realize its potential? It's a mystery to me."
Kurt, says Emily Nussbaum, "isn’t a sweet victim or a sassy sidekick: He’s a moral mixture, seizing center stage. Sometimes the role evokes the stereotypical evil queen, but more often it suggests early Barbra Streisand, whose classic medley of 'House' with 'One Less Bell to Answer' is referenced in (tonight's) episode. For all 'Glee’s' hip-hop references, Barbra is pretty much the show’s patron saint: the original homely underdog seducer, the outsider who was willing to violate the values of mere prettiness for a different kind of power."
