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And Now A Message From The Bipartisan Youth Choir Of Atlanta

11:00AM Seth | The Ron Clark Academy’s T.I. parody “You Can Vote However You Like” (sample lyric: “Stick wit McCain you gone have some drama”) is so frickin’ adorable we could just bite their little equal-time-honoring heads off. Breaking! King of the Hill’s butane tank has finally run dry. Jon Hamm will play Liz Lemon’s boyfriend on a 30 Rock arc this season. Don’t screw this one up, Lemon. Obama sprinkled his magical ratings glitter on cable too, giving The Daily Show and The Colbert Report their largest audiences ever. Apparently, there exist popular stereotypes that define residents of West Hollywood, Santa Monica, Sherman Oaks, Westwood and Holmby Hills, and Dylan McDermott, Zoe Saldana, Lake Bell, Nick Stahl, and Shannen Doherty are going to play them. We’ll let you match neighbourhood to actor. And finally, we’d like to introduce you to Troublemaker, the kind of Sulawesi black-crested macaque you just wanna kick back and have a beer with. More »

Fundraising Shocker: Fred Thompson Probably Not Going To Squeeze Much Money Out Hollywood

12:37AM Defamer Hollywood | With Law & Order star Fred Thompson’s well-publicised announcement of his presidential candidacy still fresh in everyone’s minds, the LAT’s Cause Cèlebré column takes an opportunity to evaluate the former senator’s prospects for raising some of the seemingly limitless industry cash that rains down from the Southern California sky each time Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama set foot within the Los Angeles city limits. Unsurprisingly, the Times finds that the Republican’s Hollywood fundraising time would be better spent robbing some Famimas at gunpoint rather than waiting around for a gay billionaire to throw him a Malibu beach party: So what’s Thompson to do? Take the show on the road and rake in the dollars elsewhere. The place that made the former Tennessee senator rich as an actor cannot be counted on to pour cash into his presidential run, especially if he’s going around bashing gay marriage and Roe vs. Wade. The minute he comes out strong against embryonic stem cell research – a fervent Hollywood cause – he’ll be banished from every cocktail party north of Sunset Boulevard. More »