As if his life-altering run-in with a pink dildo-wielding lunatic weren’t karmic payback enough, Girls Gone Wild visionary/rack-flashing videographer Joe Francis recently found himself on the…
Variety reports that the dubloon-counters at Disney have overturned their Pirates of the Caribbean 2 treasure chest and shaken it until another $3.6 million fell out, pushing its record-breaking…
Reuters - The down-to-the-wire World
Cup final was a hit on this side of the Atlantic too, with both
ABC and Univision reporting strong viewership Sunday.
Olympic skier Bode Miller has signed a one-game contract to play for baseball for the minor-league Nashua Pride.
AP - Even though he has left CBS News, Dan Rather is still getting plenty of airtime. Rather has signed on to make a weekly news show, “Dan Rather Reports,” for the small HDNet network, a spokeswoman said.
Barry Bonds’ personal trainer asked a federal appeals court to allow him to leave prison on bail nearly a week after a judge ordered him locked up for refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating the Giants slugger for perjury and tax evasion.
Reuters - USA Network’s new drama
series “Psych” debuted to 6.1 million total viewers Friday
night, making it the highest-rated premiere for a new basic
cable series this year.
In keeping with his intention of petitioning his way on the ballot if Ned Lamont wins the August 8 Connecticut primary, Joe Lieberman filed papers today to start his own party: Connecticut for Lieberman.
Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz said Lieberman will be able to secure a higher position on the November ballot by creating a new party rather than petitioning his way on as an individual. Bysiewicz said Lieberman would be fifth on the ballot under the new party, compared with eighth or ninth as an individual.
He must collect 7,500 signatures by 4 p.m. Aug. 9, the day after the primary.
Reuters - Three weeks after his bitter
departure from CBS News, veteran broadcast journalist Dan
Rather has reached a deal to host a weekly news program
starting this fall on premium high-definition channel HDNet.
Alexander Payne’s follow-up to Sideways, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, is the Backdraft-meets-Boat Trip story of two firefighters who pretend to be a gay couple in order to receive domestic…
· Critic Stephen Farber’s Reel Talk screening presents Ed Burns’ The Groomsmen tonight at the Wadsworth Theatre, with a special appearance by star Donal Logue.
· Music round-up: The…
Yahoo! brought its Trip Planner out of a 9 month beta period today and it’s an interesting example of cool Web 2.0 apps aimed for popular adoption. Users can drag and drop Flickr photos from a pop-up of their Flickr sets to illustrate travel destinations. Maps are put to a commercial use beyond […]