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28 Sep 2010 20:19

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Culture: New TV season: Critically-respected “Lone Star” the first to fall

  • 8 days and done for the first series cancellation of the season source
  • 4.1 the series’ ratings for its first episode last Monday
  • 3.7 the series’ ratings for its lamentably last episode this Monday
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28 Sep 2010 10:45

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Culture: Trojan’s “Triphoria” ad somehow getting aired on daytime TV

  • Have to give it up to Trojan. They somehow made a device that one would never expect to have a mainstream audience into something that some networks have approved for daytime advertising. The secret? They don’t in any point of this video use the word “vibrator.” source
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28 Sep 2010 10:21

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Culture: Study: Agnostics and atheists know more about religion than you

  • what A new Pew study suggests that atheists and agnostics know more about religion than their Christian counterparts do.
  • why Higher education is part of it, but some of it might be a lack of self-examination of faith by those who have already converted.
  • butNot every religious group has this problem – Jews and Mormons rank nearly as high as agnostics or atheists in understanding. source
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27 Sep 2010 11:31

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Culture: Octomom yard sale: How desperate has she gotten, anyway?

  • $100 to mug for a photo with her and the kids source
  • $85to buy a fridge that once held her many kids’ formula
  • yesshe also tried to sell an autographed nursing bra
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26 Sep 2010 21:57

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Culture: Greed good for Oliver Stone: “Wall Street” his best opener ever

  • $19 million for anticipated sequel “Money Never Sleeps” source
  • » A surprising fact: Despite his long film career, filled with iconic zeitgeisty films, he’s only broken the $100 million barrier once – with his second film, “Platoon,” which scored $138 million at the box office. Many of his films – not counting for inflation – tend to plateau around the $70 million mark, including 2004’s similarly ripped-from-the-headlines “World Trade Center.” At 3,500 theaters, it’s his largest opening ever, and is well along to topping the $43 million the original “Wall Street” made way back in 1987.
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26 Sep 2010 19:44

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Culture: Pitch-perfect comic parodies poke fun at tea party

The Tea Party jokes are good, yeah, but it’s the way that the comics nail their source material that really makes it a great read. (via Jeff Greco) source
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26 Sep 2010 01:06

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Culture: Pixar finally gets a woman in the director’s chair

  • bad Pixar, one of the most creative film companies in the world, has been a guys-only club in the director’s chair for its entire existence.
  • good That’s about to change with “Brave,” due in 2012 – which will be written and directed by Brenda Chapman. source
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24 Sep 2010 13:30

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Culture: Sesame Street smarts: Grover puts Katy Perry thing into perspective

  • Well played, Grover. Well, played. In response to the whole Katy Perry faux-cleavage scandal, Grover and Elmo showed up on “Good Morning America” this morning. Elmo promised another playdate with Perry, while Grover asked if his outfit was “too revealing.” You have the comic timing of a champ, Grover. source
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24 Sep 2010 11:37

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Culture: Months after Conan screw-up, NBC head Jeff Zucker is out

  • You win, Conan fans. And TV fans in general. It took a few months to hit, but Jeff Zucker – a.k.a. the guy who set up the disastrous Jay Leno lineup switch last season – is headed out the door in the wake of the Comcast merger, and not by his own choosing. “in the last nine months it became increasingly clear that they did want to put their own team in place — and I didn’t want to end up being a guest in my own house,” he said. While NBC’s cable networks did great, the mothership struggled, and as a result, Zucker’s out. Good riddance. You deserve it for what you did to Conan O’Brien. source
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24 Sep 2010 09:09

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Culture: “The Social Network” early reviews are in! Here’s a sample

  • one “Despite its insistently unsexy moving parts (software, algorithms), the movie is paced like a thriller, if one in which ideas, words and bank books blow up rather than cars.”
  • two “Thanks to lightning-fast line readings by Eisenberg and other actors, there is probably more dialogue in “The Social Network” than all of [David] Fincher’s other movies put together.”
  • three“[Fincher’s] portrait of campus life among America’s elite is pitch-perfect, every bit as much as the drug-and-party excesses of Silicon Valley and the war rooms of corporate attorneys.”
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