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Whitney Houston Drowned (After an Apparent ‘Heart Episode’ and Some Cocaine)

From the Los Angeles Times: Singer Whitney Houston appears to have suffered a heart episode before accidentally drowning in the bathtub of a Beverly Hills hotel suite, according to coroner’s officials who listed cocaine use as a contributing factor. The autopsy results were released Thursday after weeks of intense speculation over how the 48-year-old pop […]

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Press Release of the Day

From Lifetime: Television for Women: Lifetime has picked up Bristol Palin: Life’s a Tripp, an all-new docuseries that will provide an exclusive, rare glimpse into Bristol Palin’s real life as a young, single mother forging her own way in the world while living under the constant spotlight as a member of one of America’s most […]

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Ellen Has A Few Words for the ‘One Million Moms’ Who Want Her Fired for ‘Open Homosexuality’

Last week the American Family Association offshoot One Million Moms pushed to get JC Penney to fire Ellen Degeneres as its spokesmodel due to her open homosexuality. Afterwards JC Penney rightly told the bigot moms to shove it. During a show taping today, Ellen addressed the kerfuffle (along with the reconfirmed unconstitutionality of Prop 8) […]

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More Good Progressive News

Earlier this week, the American Family Association group One Million Moms lashed out against JC Penney’s new choice of spokesmodel: Recently JC Penney announced that comedian Ellen Degeneres will be the company’s new spokesperson. Funny that JC Penney thinks hiring an open homosexual spokesperson will help their business when most of their customers are traditional […]

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Are Your Pants Too Dry?

Then I suggest reading this week’s I Love Television by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey: Though one might think my sole talent is monkey and poop jokes, I’ll have you know I’m actually extremely talented in one other area: ACTING!! Before I became America’s most unbeloved TV columnist, I was a practitioner of the THE-UH-TAH. (That’s “theater” […]

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“Dear Mr. Scorsese: This Is What They Did to Your Movie Last Night.”

Gothamist shares the story of the NYC screening of Martin Scorsese’s Hugo that was plagued with problems, including two film-stopping projection malfunctions before the audience was made to watch the film’s climactic 30 minutes overlaid with preshow advertisements. Enjoy the hilarity below. The Gothamist report focuses on the crowd’s anger, but in the video it […]

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