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  • Jul. 8th, 2009 at 9:24 PM
david tennant angst
Just watched "Silence in the Library" and "Forest of the Dead."

Uh.

Wow.

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Need a laugh today?

  • Jun. 25th, 2009 at 9:36 PM
keith stern
iTunes is giving away the brilliant "Racial Sensitivity" episode of Better Off Ted for free! Here's the link.

 

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It's all about the sanctity of marriage

  • Jun. 5th, 2009 at 1:15 PM
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Reality gets a bit ‘Stranger’ with new Fox show

Network developing series in which brides-to-be meet husbands on big day

LOS ANGELES - Fox is developing "I Married a Stranger," a matrimonial reality series in which brides-to-be don't meet their husbands until they exchange vows.

The premise of the show is that a woman frustrated by the dating scene agrees to wed a man she's never met. While she prepares for her blind wedding, friends and family select a spouse from a pool of six eligible suitors offered by the show's producers. The men are eliminated one by one until only two candidates remain. Both finalists walk down the aisle, but only one makes it to the altar to reveal himself to his new wife.

"She never meets him until the actual moment when they say 'I do,'" a source close to the project said. "It's like the big scene that comes after an entire season of 'The Bachelor,' only this is in every episode."

There are couples in California who have been together for 20 or 30 years or more who can't legally get married, and these idiots are marrying a complete stranger for a television show. Where are the National Organization for Marriage protesters on this one?


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He's a good boy

  • Apr. 29th, 2009 at 10:01 AM
keith has no idea
The headline "Yankees Cut Ticket Prices by 50%" both greeted and amused me when I got to work today. I know from reading Keith's baseball blog (I only skim for the parts I actually understand) that empty expensive seats have been a big bone of contention at the new stadium. Keith was reached for comment in the AP wire story about the price cut:

...MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, who owns three $850 Legends Suite season tickets, was unhappy prices were cut only for those with front-row seats while others will be given additional tickets.

"If they're offering only selective refunds, depend upon it: There are going to be lawsuits," he said. "Great, more tickets nobody wants. The silver lining here is that even more charities are going to be getting even more tickets from me."

All together? Awwwwww.

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Seriously?

  • Apr. 28th, 2009 at 8:24 AM
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I know the right is infamously irony-deficient, but seriously? From the HuffPo:

...This study investigated biased message processing of political satire in The Colbert Report and the influence of political ideology on perceptions of Stephen Colbert. Results indicate that political ideology influences biased processing of ambiguous political messages and source in late-night comedy. Using data from an experiment (N = 332), we found that individual-level political ideology significantly predicted perceptions of Colbert's political ideology. Additionally, there was no significant difference between the groups in thinking Colbert was funny, but conservatives were more likely to report that Colbert only pretends to be joking and genuinely meant what he said while liberals were more likely to report that Colbert used satire and was not serious when offering political statements. Conservatism also significantly predicted perceptions that Colbert disliked liberalism. Finally, a post hoc analysis revealed that perceptions of Colbert's political opinions fully mediated the relationship between political ideology and individual-level opinion....
So when he says gay people should not only not be allowed to marry, but shouldn't be allowed to have drivers' licenses, they don't get that it's a joke? Or that he really means it?

Wow.


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isn't he the cutest thing
Award-Winning Journalist Keith Olbermann Joins MLBAM

PR Newswire

NEW YORK, April 22

NEW YORK, April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- MLB Advanced Media, the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball, announced today that it has hired award-winning anchor, sportscaster and journalist Keith Olbermann as an at-large columnist. Olbermann's columns, currently available three times per week at keitholbermann.mlblogs.com, will provide fans with his "Baseball Nerd" perspective of the game across various platforms. He also is the first national journalist hired as part of MLBAM's digital newspaper initiative, currently scheduled for a May launch.

At his request, Olbermann's full salary for his work as an at-large columnist will be split equally among three charitable organizations. They will be: the Baseball Assistance Team, St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital and the Jayden Braden/Ariana Marzano College Fund, established in support of the late John Marzano's grandchildren. Marzano, a former Major Leaguer and MLB.com host, died just over one year ago in a home accident in Philadelphia.

"I've long respected MLB.com's editorial independence and I'll be delighted to test it," said Olbermann. "Seriously, it's an honor to be able to write about all the obscure things I love inside the game I love, and to help some worthy causes in the process, and to honor an old friend. Not to mention that it will be my politics-free oasis. Unless another cat jumps up at another Governor."

"We are delighted by Keith's actions in every aspect of this endeavor, from his wonderful writing to what he is giving to honor the legacy and family of John Marzano," said Dinn Mann, Executive Vice President, Content, MLBAM. "Keith is not just a student of the game, he is an unmistakable personality who combines punch line instincts with journalistic drive. This is an exciting step in the landscape of sports commentary and MLBAM."

Olbermann is currently the host of "Countdown with Keith Olbermann," an hour-long nightly news and commentary television program on MSNBC. Starting with the 2007 NFL season, Olbermann also has served as a co-host of NBC's Football Night in America. He spent the first 20 years of his career in sports journalism as a sports correspondent for CNN in the 1980s, winning the Best Sportscaster award from the California Associated Press three times. Olbermann later co-hosted ESPN's SportsCenter from 1992 to 1997. After leaving ESPN, Olbermann became a sports anchor and producer for Fox Sports Net from 1998 to 2001, during which he hosted several World Series broadcasts.

A New York native, Olbermann graduated from Cornell University.

SOURCE MLB Advanced Media
Website: http://keitholbermann.mlblogs.com

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Keith fanboys

  • Apr. 3rd, 2009 at 7:09 PM
keith 4 million dollar grin
Over on his Baseball Nerd blog, Keith shares snapshots of the new Yankee Stadium.
The phrase - well, the "palace" part - is Derek Jeter's. It's unoriginal, cornball, and entirely accurate. In managing to transplant the history of Yankee Stadium, and amplify the grandeur of the old place, and wrap the whole thing up in state-of-the-art hi-tech bells-and-whistles, the Yankees have created a landmark.

I'm a traditionalist, as pro-past as anybody watching the game. Since my first tour of the shell of the ballpark a year ago this month, I have been waiting to be disappointed. At every turn, I have instead been overwhelmed.

The ballpark is deliberately outsized, to recreate for an adult the awestruck feeling of walking into the old place, for the first time, as a kid, when you might've gotten the impression that the people who built Yankee Stadium were the same ones who had done The Grand Canyon.


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BEST. TWO FER. EVAR!

  • Apr. 1st, 2009 at 2:56 PM
kermit the frog
Found via the Mythbusters Facebook page: Jamie and Adam in the Countdown studio with Keith!

WOW!!!

This makes me happy. No foolin'!

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Some happy Buffyverse news

  • Mar. 31st, 2009 at 9:49 AM
david tennant grin
After hearing yesterday that poor Andy Hallett passed away, only aged 33, it was nice to read some happy news. From the World Entertainment News Network:
* HANNIGAN'S BIRTHDAY BABY
AMERICAN PIE star ALYSON HANNIGAN was given a special gift on her 35th birthday -- her first-born child.

The actress and husband Alexis Denisof welcomed baby Satyana into the world on 24 March (09) - meaning mother and daughter will share the special anniversary.

A spokesperson for the star tells People.com, "They're very excited, and mom and baby are doing great."

And Hannigan, who kept the sex of her baby a secret throughout the pregnancy, will be glad she has given birth - because she lost the ability to concentrate while she was with child.

She told TV host Ellen DeGeneres in February (09), "I get tired a lot and I have pregnancy brain, which I never realised was a thing but it is. I sort of feel like a Koala bear where I'm slightly stoned all the time and I'll say the wrong word."

Hannigan and Denisof met on the set of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in 2000 and married in California in 2003. (MJ//LR)
Awwww. Happy birthday, tiny Scooby.

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ACK! NO!

  • Mar. 30th, 2009 at 8:46 PM
aaron tyrol somber
Andy Hallett -- who played the irrepressible Host on Angel -- has passed away from heart disease, only 33 years old.

He was soooo talented!

Please enjoy )

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  • Mar. 3rd, 2009 at 9:11 PM
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Hey!

  • Feb. 14th, 2009 at 4:35 PM
cat woah!
Did anyone notice that the kidnapped blond victim on Criminal Minds this week was Harmony from Buffy and Angel? Neat!

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In Britain's Sunday Observer:

...Rachel Maddow - in her own words a mannish lesbian policy wonk who doesn't own a television set - is not your average anchorwoman in America, or indeed on this side of the Atlantic. Later today when she goes live on air she must swap her Red Sox T-shirt and baggy Levi's jeans for what she calls "lady clothes" - a bland slate-grey trouser suit. (She won't say who it's by for fear of insulting the designer.) Her chunky Eric Morecambe glasses will be exchanged for contact lenses (which she's still getting used to). Reluctantly, there will be the merest smear of lipstick and blusher. She will, however, cling on to her trainers, safely out of sight under the desk. (The stylists at American Vogue recently offered her an array of extravagantly high-heeled Louboutin shoes for a photo shoot. She insisted on a pair of Converse boots.)

With their ironed hair and shrink-wrapped foreheads, women on American television news programmes all too often come across as shrill harpies or eye candy. Maddow seems to have both types on the run. She goes on air as if she's got nothing to prove, this despite the fact that she'll have done hours of preparation: a cheerful and clever geek, fluent in irony, alternately idealistic and sceptical, who doesn't believe in talking down to the viewers. Her aim? To raise the level of debate in America so that the right kind of decisions are made in the future....

A cheerful clever geek! Nailed it!


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From the NY Times

  • Jan. 31st, 2009 at 2:15 PM
tina fey cool
Huzzah! A great interview with Adam Baldwin in the NY Times:

NOW that Adam Baldwin has figured out how to make it look easy — this surly, deadpan, tough-guy thing he does every Monday night on NBC as the monosyllabic secret-agent sidekick on the action-comedy series “Chuck” — he doesn’t mind admitting how hard it used to be.

He was 18 when he got his first taste of movie-star limelight as the title character in the 1980 film, “My Bodyguard,” then roles in summer comedies like “D.C. Cab” in 1983 and smaller parts in prestige films like “Ordinary People” despite not having a clue about what he was doing.

“I was horrible,” he said of some of his early performances, particularly the one in “D.C. Cab” (in which his co-stars included Bill Maher, Gary Busey and Mr. T). “I didn’t know how to work. I didn’t know how to process a character, and, certainly, I wasn’t as funny as I should have been.

“But I did learn a lot of technical stuff, how to be on a set, where to stand, how to do a fight scene, things like that,” he said during a recent interview in a high-end Santa Monica coffee shop, one of those mad-scientist places where they grind the coffee in front of you and serve it in vacuum-sealed flasks on a silver tray. “But then I had to learn how to act. And that just takes some people longer than others. I’m no Leonardo DiCaprio....”
I know, you'll be in your bunk.

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HAPPY BIG 5-O TO KO!!!

  • Jan. 27th, 2009 at 8:59 AM
keith holla
Have a happy happy birthday, sir!

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New neighbor at MSNBC

  • Jan. 22nd, 2009 at 8:36 AM
keith pink
From the NYT:

MSNBC Wants to Add a 3rd Prime-Time Show

by Brian Stelter

WASHINGTON — Building on the momentum of its prime-time hours, MSNBC is developing a 10 p.m. program that would complement its left-leaning evening lineup, the cable news channel’s president said this week.

A new program could increase the competition between MSNBC, a unit of NBC Universal, and its two chief competitors, Fox News Channel and CNN, for news viewers in the time slot. Unlike most major networks, MSNBC’s original programming ends at 10 each weeknight. The 8 p.m. program “Countdown With Keith Olbermann” is rerun at 10 p.m., where it usually ranks third.

But Phil Griffin, the president of MSNBC, is making 10 p.m. a priority now. In an interview on Tuesday in a studio on the Mall, hours after the inauguration of President Obama, Mr. Griffin said that the channel needed a third original show in its lineup.

“We can’t let this momentum stop,” he said.

Cutting for length )

So who would you like to see at 10:00? (Like I'm going to be awake at that hour.) I vote for either Alison Stewart or Tamron Hall. Another intelligent woman with her own show would be a great thing.

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And the final Cylon is...

  • Jan. 17th, 2009 at 4:43 PM
aaron contemplative
a pleasant surprise!

Yes, I have finally seen last night's episode. What'd you think? 

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Love is...

  • Jan. 16th, 2009 at 10:43 PM
aaron contemplative
not watching the Battlestar Galactica season premiere because your husband couldn't stay awake to see it and DVR'ing it instead.

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