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• Sesame Street Celebrates 40th Anniversary With … Controversy?

  
  Britannica Blog — Authority: 479
  Sesame Street celebrates its 40th anniversary today with a visit from First Lady Michelle Obama.  But its recent re-broadcast of an episode mocking FOX News as POX news, with a script that read, “Now there’s a trashy news show,” has raised the hackles of some viewers, who think the venerable children’s ...
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• What I’ll be watching Sunday night

  
  Lake Neuron — Authority: 130
  As much as I love the original, I remain cautiously optimistic, in large part because of the combination of the words “Ian” and “McKellen.”
  8 hours ago

• Background Noise

  
  The Second Road Family — Authority: 135
  “The level of sexual imagery in modern life is astounding. I knew intuitively this was true, but when you tune into it, you just can’t believe it. I click on the Yahoo! finance page, and there’s this blond model in a low-cut dress looking at a computer screen and nibbling alluringly on the temple of her ...
  9 hours ago

• Contra Kim Stanley Robinson

  
  Balloon Juice — Authority: 152
  Quoted in I09 *: Anyone can do a dystopia these days just by making a collage of newspaper headlines, but utopias are hard, and important, because we need to imagine what it might be like if we did things well enough to say to our kids, we did our best, this is about as good as it was when it was handed to us, ...
  12 hours ago

• Angels above Berlin.

  
  Active Minds blog. By Hanson Dodge Creative. — Authority: 112
  What an incredible day to be in Berlin. This is just one of the performances earlier today, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayerAlong the former border between the Brandenburger Gate and Potsdamer Platz living angels have settled on ...
  13 hours ago

• Demi Moore W Magazine December 2009

  
  Pop Crunch — Authority: 713
  In the December issue of W Magazine , Demi Moore, now 47, talks about everything from being labeled a “cougar” (she prefers the term “puma”) to the age-old problem of ageism in Hollywood. The former box office star — best remembered for her starring roles in hits like Ghost and G.I. Jane — is ...
  16 hours ago

• Tiffani Thiessen Pregnant

  
  Pop Crunch — Authority: 713
  Kelly Kapowski is with child! Tiffani Thiessen — she dropped the “Amber” years ago — and her husband, artist and actor Brady Smith, are expecting their first child together next spring, the actress’ rep confirmed to PEOPLE on Monday. “We are over the moon!” the couple said in a statement. ...
  17 hours ago

• More Brit GenX TV

  
  junkdrawer67 — Authority: 116
  I hadn’t realized before but hulu does that amazon thing where they suggest other shows you might like based on whatever show you happen to be watching. Same way amazon does with books, although I have to say I often find amazon’s suggestions suspect, at least for my taste. Anyhoo… one of the suggestions ...
  18 hours ago

• Spanish Flu Cartoon #2

  
  Blog Obispo — Authority: 136
  November 8, 1918The Telegram of the late teens did not have a comic or sports page, newspapers have evolved many specialized features in the 90 years since. Sports pages, stock tables, advice columns, comic pages all would be part of the future. Page two was a light hearted page compared to the others with two ...
  20 hours ago

• Head games

  
  Lake Neuron — Authority: 130
  A month ago, when I posted about Wayne Brady’s revival of “Let’s Make A Deal,” I joked about the trend of former “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” cast members getting game shows. Well, my North Carolina brother — who, unlike me, is not particularly a game show fan — has alerted me to the existence of ...
  21 hours ago

• Madonna Meets The Parents; The Queen Of Pop To Meet Jesus’ Family

  
  Pop Crunch — Authority: 713
  Madonna is planning a trip to Brazil, where she will meet the parents of her 22-year-old boyfriend for the first time. The 51-year-old pop queen is slightly nervous about meeting Jesus Luz’s mother Cristaine Regina Da Silva who is 15 years younger than her, insiders tells London’s The Sun . Close ...
  23 hours ago

• Ashlee Simpson “Chicago” Broadway Debut December 2009

  
  Pop Crunch — Authority: 713
  Ashlee Wentz-Simpson has rebounded nicely after being unceremoniously booted from Melrose Place last month– the actress will reprise her role as Roxie Hart in Broadway’s Chicago , OK! Magazine has learned. The singer-turned-actress landed a role as Violet Foster on the remake of the 1990s soap opera ...
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• Marla Sokoloff Wedding

  
  Pop Crunch — Authority: 713
  Actress Marla Sokoloff married Alec Puro, a drummer with the band Deadsy, at an evening ceremony in Beverly Hills on Sunday. The 28-year-old bride — who appeared on hit series Full House and The Practice — arrived at Il Cielo restaurant at 5:50 p.m. with five bridesmaids and two matrons of honor. The ...
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• Remember when the ads used to be better than the programs?

  
  Peter Martin — Authority: 521
  That was in the days when every television advertisement broadcast here had to be made here. Call it protection if you want, but it resulted in quality ads that actually spoke to Australians in our own (peculiar) language. In order to celebrate its 75th anniversary the legendary Australian agency George Patterson ...
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• 11 Rejected Ideas for Full-Length Nickelodeon Specials

  
  abdpbt — Authority: 121
  Oh, Maaaan! Scared Straight: Swiper The Fox At Corcoran Don’t Call Me The ‘Little Green One!: Brobie Uncoverd, A Barbara Walters Interview Special Extreme Makeover: From Dora The Explorer to Dora And The Explorer Girls Wuzzleberries Are Not The Only Fruit: An After-School Special Starring Widget From ...
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• 1944: Georges Suarez, collaborationist editor

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 426
  On this date in 1944, the restored French Republic shot the editor of the collaborationist newspaper Aujourd’hui ( Today ). Suarez ’s (linked page in French) writings (French again) had endorsed the German occupation and called for steps even beyond what the Germans were prepared to take: the wholesale ...
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• Article Title Unknown

  
  IZO — Authority: 516
  N.O.M., 7%.
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• Article Title Unknown

  
  IZO — Authority: 516
  Karandash, Lenin, Everyone Loves The Motherland (But They Dont Love Russia).
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• Article Title Unknown

  
  IZO — Authority: 516
  Showbiz news. "Gipsy punk rockers" Gogol Bordello to visit Moscow (newsru.com, in Russian). Boris Moiseev to marry an American woman called Adel (gazeta.ru, in Russian).
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• Hiphop Holocaust

  
  Lance Strate's Blog Time Passing — Authority: 110
  With the 71st anniversary of Kristallnacht upon us (we have a special commemoration planned for this Friday at Congregation Adas Emuno, for example), the question of how to communicate the Holocaust would be a timely one.  Simply put, the magnitude of the event seems to go beyond our meager abilities to express it, ...
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