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Haylie Duff: The TV Squad Interview
I talked with Haylie Duff that afternoon. She has a new show on MTV called Legally Blonde: The Search for Elle Woods. Ten young women from across the country will compete for a starring role in the hit Broadway show.
Read on to find about what Haylie said about the finalists, the judges, an…
Seinfelds reply to cookbook author’s lawsuit
Well, Jerry and his wife have finally responded to cookbook author Missy Chase Lapine’s lawsuit.
Lapine sued the Seinfelds after Jerry went on The Late Show with David Letterman and said some rather nasty things about her, including calling her a “wacko” and suggesting she was a stalker (ev…
Tom Cruise visits Trek set
Don’t you just love the web? News traveling so fast, ideas extrapolated and speculated upon based on the simplest of facts. That said, here’s a sweet little tidbit that I found amusing. Tom Cruise was spotted on the Los Angeles set of the new Star Trek feature film. He reportedly was visiting …
TV Obits: DoQui, Lopez, Browning, Taylor, Kleiner, Leavitt
A roundup of TV humans from in front of the camera and behind the scenes who have passed absent.
Robert DoQui: He was a veteran character actor who arised in a ton of TV shows by the years, including ER, The Outer Limits, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Party of Five, The Practice, NYPD Blue, Picke…
Pushing Oscars - Kristin Chenoweth to sing at Academy Awards
The buzz about ABC’s Oscar broadcast is starting in earnest, and yesterday it was announced that Kristin Chenoweth, the adorable Olive Snook on Pushing Daisies, has been tapped to sing one of the Academy Award nominated songs, “That’s How You Know” from the film Enchanted, according to the Baltimore…
Jimmy Kimmel responds to Silverman video
On national television, Sarah Silverman revealed that she was cheating on her boyfriend, late-night talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel, with Matt Damon. Now, it’s Kimmel’s revenge.
Kimmel will be releasing his own video called “I’m F**king Ben Affleck”. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are longtime friend…
David Groh dead at 68
Actor David Groh is probably best known for his role as Rhoda’s husband Joe Gerard on Rhoda. He was additionally a regular on General Hospital and guest starred on several shows, including Police Story, Law and Order, Girlfriends, The X-Files, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, JAG, Baywatch, Melrose Plac…
Gary Coleman weds on isolated mountaintop
At the age of 40, it looks like Gary Coleman finally tied the knot. The 4-foot-8 actor married 5-foot-7, 22-year-old Shannon Price on a Nevada mountaintop in a private ceremony. The couple met on the set of the film “Church Ball”.
Strangely abundant, the couple got married all the way back in Aug…
Roy Scheider dead at 75
He’s best known for his role as Police Chief Martin Brody in the first two Jaws films, but Roy Scheider had a expanded television career as well.
He played Captain Nathan Bridger on Seaquest DSV in the mid-90s, and plus had a regular role on Third Watch. His other TV appearances included spots on…
TV Obits: McWethy, Cuniff, Dabney
A roundup of TV public from in front of the camera and behind the scenes who have passed absent.
John McWethy: He was a veteran journalist who was the chief national defense and Pentagon reporter for ABC News from 1979 to 2004. He reported on everything from foreign affairs, the military, …
MSNBC’s David Shuster is not having a good week - VIDEO
MSNBC correspondent and anchor David Shuster finds himself in not one but two controversies nowadays.
First, while filling in for Tucker Carlson yesterday, Shuster made the comment “Doesn’t it seem like Chelsea’s sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?” referring to Chelsea Clin…
A letter to Anderson Cooper
Dear Anderson:
I was just reading about you by at TV Newser. I guess that is the new trend in TV news shows, anchors blogging habitable while their show is still going on. Greta Van Susteren by on Fox News has been doing it, and now you’re doing it too.
You called Wednesday night’s first effor…
Penn Badgley: In the Limelight - VIDEO
If you were asked “Who is Penn Badgley?,” you would probably say something like “Isn’t he the guy from Gossip Girl?” Yes, he is. Others would probably reply with “The curly haired cutie from The Mountain?” Again, right. But what did he do before that? Silence would probably be the most popular rep…
Chris Berman takes his crew to effin’ TV school - VIDEO
This video has been floating around the blogosphere for a few days — thanks to Deadspin, who always seems to be able to dig up fun clips like that — but I wanted to put it up here, for those who missed it (or those who find it so funny that they want to see it by and by again):
The clip is an o…
