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As I was driving my mother-in-law to the airport this afternoon we were having our usual low-intensity disagreements about politics, war, the media, whether or not Diane Rehm and her voice like a 110-year-old tracheotomy victim should remain on the air, and we did agree that while there is a …

You know that Lisa Marie Presley got a very generous binding offer to shut the hell up about her life with Michael Jackson when the couple divorced. In an Australian TV interview she hints but doesn’t doesn’t reveal anything in particular about their life together: Presley said she felt powerless …

USA's Americanized version of a hit Brit detective series. . .

It would appear that night vision sex tapes and intense vacuity are no roadblock to stardom, at least if you’re Paris Hilton: Star magazine broke the report that the blonde is about to step into the strappy mules of former Guess? babes, including Claudia Schiffer, Anna Nicole Smith and Bridget …

Our Sydney Smith has turned away from Howard Stern with these pithy words: I listened to last Friday’s rant, when he projected – wrongly – that his show would be over by the end of this week. I listened to him blame – wrongly – Republicans and Christians for his …

Checkin' out the health care options in Stephen King's Maine. . .

The new Fox series Wonderfalls debuts this Friday, March 12, at 9pm ET. It’s another “what if freaky weird stuff happened in everyday life” kind of thing: What if one day inanimate animal objects began talking to you? If that seems crazy, just imagine how Jaye Tyler feels! Set against …

After watching faithfully, sometimes breathlessly, the first three seasons of The Sopranos, we took last year off for a variety of reasons: inconvenient airing times, sick of Tony, sick of the ultimate moral hole at the bottom of all these lives, the previews weren’t nearly as favorable as previous years. …

This will be an interesting show: how will they handle Nipplegate? Will they parody the stunt itself? Will they ignore it? Singer Janet Jackson is to host TV comedy show Saturday Night Live next month in her first network performance since her infamous TV breast-baring. NBC said Jackson would present …

SciFi Channel's new geek reality competition. . .