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Thursday, July 23, 2009
Small Screen

Never Piss Off David Letterman

11:29AM the cajun boy | John Michael Higgins isn’t a household name, but you’ve probably seen him acting in Christopher Guest films and/or as Wayne Jarvis on Arrested Development. He also portrayed Letterman in The Late Shift, something he says Letterman still hates him for. More »
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
People

Ed McMahon: TV’s Affable Uncle

12:01AM Richard Lawson | Sad news about the death of Ed McMahon today, a TV icon who represented a disappearing breed—of ubiquitous, up-for-anything TV personality, of a colloquial ease with the camera that transcended any silly show he found himself on. More »
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Small Screen

Jimmy Kimmel Destroys ABC At ABC Upfronts

7:04PM the cajun boy | TV host and comedian Jimmy Kimmel had what the Times’ Dave Itzkoff termed as a “‘Jerry Maguire’-like moment” while delivering an address to potential advertisers at US network ABC’s upfront presentation on Tuesday, and it was simply awesome. More »
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Saturday, December 1, 2007

Wayne Newton Recalls The Pain Of Being The Richard Simmons Of The Carson Era

7:20AM Defamer Hollywood | Until we saw this on Larry King Live last night, we honestly had no clue how hard Johnny Carson made things for our secretly favourite Dancing with the Stars contestant, Wayne Newton, who couldn’t pull on a single, sequined polyester outfit and launch into song in a Las Vegas floorshow without having the late night despot crack some crass joke questioning his sexuality. More »
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