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The Biggest Loser: This unscripted weight-loss competition series returns for a new season. Alison Sweeney hosts (8 p.m. NBC).
Homeland Security USA: In the tradition of "Deadliest Catch" and other workplace adventure shows, this new unscripted...Tags: Kings (tv program), Football, Courteney Cox, Scrubs (tv program), Madeline Kahn
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Inappropriate Ads
Thursday evening, I had the pleasure of watching the family movie "Willie Wonka and The Chocolate Factory" starring Gene Wilder on American Movie Classics. At almost every commercial interval, the same ad for a male-enhancement product was aired. It... -
"Dancing" ends seventh season with win by Brooke Burke
verne.gay@newsday.comThe inevitable finally became reality last night: Brooke Burke won the seventh season of " Dancing With the Stars," confirming the judges' opinions, if not necessarily the fans'. Dialidol.com, a scarily accurate Web site that predicts winners for TV's...Tags: Human Accomplishments, Justice System, Television, Judges, Dancing
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Marty Feldman
The TV ZoneWell, I am the jerk of the moment. In this morning's wrap for Newsday on last night's "Dancing with the Stars," I closed out my piece with this line... "Cloris Leachman ... well, you know all about that. Season......Tags: Dancing, Television, Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman
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Cloris Leachman hosts 'Young Frankenstein' special
wertstv@gmail.comOff the Wall can't get enough of Frau Blucher. 'HE VAS MY BOYFRIEND!' Ah, for the days when Cloris Leachman was cutting up as a mad doctor's mistress instead of decimating "Dancing With the Stars." Leachman's got something to say (natch) in "It's...Tags: Movies, Halloween, Madeline Kahn, Television, Joan Rivers
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Alec Baldwin Joins TCM
The TV ZoneAnd no, he's NOT leaving "30 Rock" either! You see, Alec can walk and chew gum at the same time, and so he's gonna do a once a week hosting gig on TCM, for a series entitled "The Essentials."......Tags: Movies, Celebrity, Alec Baldwin, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Television
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Grab summer before school starts
247-4732It's time to savor the last sips of frivolous summer. Before long, we'll all be knuckling down and getting serious. But let's not rush it. We can squeeze in a bit more relaxation and recreation, right? Here are 10 ways to have fun before school's back...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Historic Jamestowne, Virginia Living Museum, Sailing, Chesapeake Bay
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'Pineapple Express'
rafer.guzman@newsday.comVeering wildly between red-eyed stoner humor and blood-red violence, " Pineapple Express" is an uneven but entertaining action-comedy that answers a question you've probably never asked: What if someone gave Cheech and Chong a shot of testosterone and a...Tags: Movies, Drug Trafficking, Tropic Thunder (movie), Quentin Tarantino, The Foot Fist Way (movie)
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Broadway a big hit for Verdugo Hills High drama students
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNew York Behold America's theater capital, twinkling, preening, clanging, stoking ambitions and devouring tourist dollars. Now behold the drama students of Verdugo Hills High School, their parents ferrying them from the San Fernando Valley to LAX, their...Tags: Theater, Subway Transportation Industry, Grand Central Terminal, Central Park, Transportation
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'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' (stars Jason Segel, Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, Russell Brand)
Tribune criticEarly in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," the protagonist Peter Bretter, played by Jason Segel, steps out of the shower as his girlfriend, played by Kristen Bell, arrives back at their apartment. Peter thinks it's carnival time. Sarah, however, has come to...Tags: Movies, Nicolas Cage, Television, Kristen Bell, Hawaii
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'Frankenstein' actor nurtures a new role and a new son
Associated PressWhen Christopher Fitzgerald learned he would be in one of Broadway's biggest shows, he was already deep in another role. He was trying to act from inside an enormous, marshmallowy Cabbage Patch costume, filming one of those offbeat Geico auto insurance...Tags: Theater, Celebrity, Broadway, Steppenwolf Theatre, Mel Brooks
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'Young Frankenstein's' cast
robert.kahn@newsday.comDirector-choreographer Susan Stroman didn't hire "Young Frankenstein" cast members to "recreate" the eccentric performances of the 1974 movie. Instead, she sought out versatile actors who could "sing, dance, act and be funny ... but they also had to...Tags: Theater, Peter Boyle, Movies, Broadway, Madeline Kahn
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