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The American Music Awards (ABC, 8 p.m.) are presented live tonight from the Nokia theatre in Los Angeles.
Whitney Houston, who will make her first performance on the show in 10 years, will receive the "international Artist Award" for her trouble. Other scheduled performers include ...
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Lady GaGa
Except for an out of place revival of "Make Em Laugh" in the opening monologue, the still emerging actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt -- "(500) Days of Summer" was his big film credit -- mostly melted into the cast of "Saturday Night Live" this week.
That's a compliment to him; he became ...
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Saturday Night Live
To wind up the second annual Expedition Week, National Geographic Channel takes a look at ancient crocodiles with considerable appetites. Computer animation helps the retelling of the story from 65 million years ago, "When Crocs Ate Dinosaurs" (National Geographic Channel, 9 p.m.).
It comes ...
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Keanu Reeves
Echoes of some live shows I saw this week -- Bob Dylan with Dion as well as Metric. Sampling more of the new Tegan and Mary and the R.E.M. live album. Played just about everything in my bag, and then dug into station vinyl for tunes by The Feelies and The Replacements.
Generally things worked ...
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Bob Dylan
R.E.M.
The Replacements
Couldn't resist seeing Bob Dylan one more time at the United Palace Theatre, in New York. Way, way uptown in Washington Heights in a big old ornate movie palace that's currently used as the home base for Rev. Ike's eccentric ministry. Accordingly, Dylan seems to start the shows I see there with ...
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Bob Dylan
They're rushing the season again on TV, even with the bad specials. "Larry the Cable Guy's Hula-Palooza Christmas Luau" (CMT, 9 and 10:30 p.m.) has the pretentions of holiday special so lowbrow, it's practically dragging on the floor. If it's anything like his last Christmas special, there's no ...
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Oprah's announcement today that she will leave her show on Sept. 9, 2011 means a lot of things:
Deciding to end her syndicated daytime show after 25 years, a very good run, she will also ensure that she will leave at the top, rather than fade or decline into irrelevance.
She has ...
Television
Oprah Winfrey
For a show planning to wind up after 25 years on the air, shouldn't there be more episodes of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" that instantly spring to mind as classics?
It's almost not possible to even assemble an off-the-top-of the head Top 10 most memorable "Oprah" episodes. And if you did ...
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Oprah Winfrey
In the midst of this overreaction to Oprah news, you may be asking: Wasn't Oprah involved in a cable station before?
Yes. In 1998, she was one of the initial investors in the Oxygen cable network. Like O Magazine, which she also started in 2000, it celebrated the wonder of her first initial ...
Television
Oprah Winfrey
Irina Shabayeva, 26, who distinguished herself as the Queen of Mean during the first Lifetime Channel run of "Project Runway," won the event Thursday. Her line of urban warrior-wear was hailed as "sleek, modern, creative and told a story." Judges fretted that it was almost monochromatically ...
Television
Project Runway
Lifetime Channel
The U.S. is still yet to adopt the number system of the same name. And the Canadian band named Metric also has a way to go before becoming a household name in lower 48.
But still, a girl can dream. And the basis of the latest work by the fourpiece imagines stadiums filled with adoring fans, ...
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A Connecticut woman is winner of "The Simpsons" character contest.
Peggy Black of Orange got to fly out to Los Angeles, meet with "Simpsons" producers and help bring to life a character she devised called Ricardo Bomba.
Bomba is described as "a smooth talking ladies' man from South America ...
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The Simpsons
Chris Martin
Coldplay
This month marks the one-year anniversary of the shocking and senseless terrorist attack of a luxury hotel landmark in Mumbai that left 170 dead and 300 wounded after a three-day siege that kept the world mesmerized.
The first of at least a couple of documentaries dealing with the incident ...
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Contemporary dancer Channing Cooke, 18, of Haverhill, Mass., and hip hop dancer Kevin Hunte, 23, of Brooklyn, N.Y., were cut from "So You Think You Can Dance" Wednesday, leaving an even dozen still in the race.
Kevin had been part of a jazz routine deemed disappointing by judges Tuesday. But ...
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So You Think You Can Dance
Nigel Lythgoe
Shakira
She may still think of herself as shy and awkward, but Nicole Fox, 18, won "America's Next Top Model" Wednesday, in a season where no contestant was over 5-foot-7.
Tyra Banks, who's not so good in explaining why she chose one finalist over the other - Laura Kirkpatrick, 19, was runner up. But ...
Television
America's Next Top Model
Tyra Banks
So as not to interfere in any way with the one night that has strong ratings, NBC has moved the Emmys to Aug. 29, 2010 - well before Labor Day let alone the traditional start of the fall TV season in late September.
The last time it was held so early was also the last time NBC aired the ...
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Emmies
The competitions on "America's Next Top Model" (The CW, 8 p.m.) are so fixated on photo shoots, it seems out of character that the finale always involves a runway walk.
Be that as it may, it seems like Nicole Fox, 18, of Louisville, Colo., with the flowing red hair and serene expression out ...
Celebrities
America's Next Top Model
Eddie Murphy
Tyra Banks
Another casualty of the fall TV season, "Hank," the sitcom starring Kelsey Grammer as a downsized executive has been canceled and yanked from the schedule. It will be replaced tonight by a second helping of a new comedy that's been more of a hit, "Modern Family" (ABC, 8 and 9 p.m.), making a ...
Celebrities
Hank
Glee
It was a weird coincidence that the two vice presidential candidates in last year's election were both being featured on TV interview shows. Sarah Palin, of course, was all over the airwaves, first on Oprah, and then with Barbara Walters and by the end of the week probably with your local ...
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Sarah Palin
Oprah Winfrey
Barbara Walters
Joe Biden
The Daily Show
For a model without a household name, Joanna Krupa lasted a pretty long time on "Dancing with the Stars." Lacking the stiffness that kept many of her fellow models from doing very well on the show, she tended to dazzle judges with her shimmying and was aided throughout by inventive ...
