Big winners at the 40th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards, which took place Sunday, June 17, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., included Dr. Mehmet Oz, Ellen DeGeneres and Ricki Lake.
Oz picked up his third consecutive Emmy award…
Posted on 17 June 2013.
Big winners at the 40th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards, which took place Sunday, June 17, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., included Dr. Mehmet Oz, Ellen DeGeneres and Ricki Lake.
Oz picked up his third consecutive Emmy award…
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Posted on 16 June 2013.
Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, was doing a live interview with Howard Sattler on radio station 6PR when the host brought up rumors that Gillard’s partner, a hairdresser by profession, might be gay. (Julia Gillard, Howard Sattler, sc…
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Posted on 16 June 2013.
Having just written about American pop metal band Cinderella for this site in relatively glowing terms (to a degree that even surprised me), I still find myself generally disgusted with the music that typically reaches mainstream rock critic…
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Posted on 16 June 2013.

Keeping Up with the Kardashians star Kim Kardashian gave birth this weekend to Kanye West’s baby. Although she wasn’t due until July 11th, Kardashian gave birth prematurely to a baby girl early Saturday, in Los Angeles.
Find out more here.
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Posted on 16 June 2013.
Here’s a bitter pill for all the dads out there, hip-hop is far less kind to poppas than mommas. I had to scrape through all the corners of the earth to find just a handful of the fatherhood equivalent of this Mother’s Day playlist. Dads need love, too.Posted in MusicComments Off
Posted on 15 June 2013.
This Father’s Day, Turner Classic Movies offers up a variety of great films that will surely please fathers of all ages.
The day starts bright and early with Bonjour Tristesse (1957), a romantic melodrama directed by Otto Preminger and starring Jean Seberg as a freethinking teenager who tries to sabotage the engagement between her playboy father (David Niven) and his future bride (Deborah Kerr).
For those who rise at a more reasonable time, TCM will air two classics directed by Vincente Minelli, The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963) starring Glenn Ford and Shirley Jones, and Father of the Bride (1950) featuring Spencer Tracy and a young Elizabeth Taylor.
In late morning, be sure to catch Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941), which will be followed by a pair of political-themed films, All the King’s Men (1949), starring Oscar winner Broderick Crawford as a populist politician who falls prey to corruption, and John Ford’s The Last Hurrah (1958), featuring Spencer Tracy as a political boss facing societal change as he runs for re-election.
Following Smokey and the Bandit (1977) with Burt Reynolds and Sally Field, Turner will air one of the great all-time classics, To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), starring Gregory Peck in his iconic role as Atticus Finch. Up next will be Life With Father (1947), Michael Curtiz’s domestic comedy about a benevolent father (William Powell) trying to become master of his domain despite the family’s domineering mother (Irene Dunne) ruling the roost.
After a midnight showing of Charlie Chaplin’s silent classic, The Kid (1921), night owls can watch the little-known Iranian docudrama, Close-Up (1990), directed by Abbas Kiarostami, and the great courtroom drama, 12 Angry Men (1957), directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Henry Fonda, Jack Klugman, and Ed Begley.
David Niven and Deborah Kerr in ‘Bonjour Tristesse’ (1957)/Sony Pictures; Elizabeth Taylor and Spencer Tracy in ‘Father of the Bride’ (1950)/Warner Bros.; and Gregory Peck and Mary Badham in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ (1962)/Universal Pictures
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Posted on 14 June 2013.
Being on the radio certainly brings deejays, talk show hosts, and others on the air a certain degree of fame. And that fame feeds the very voracious human ego. Some handle it well, some not so well. But, it would be hard to imagine radio without the ego-driven people in it because it’s competitive and cut-throat and you need an ego to survive. That said, radio doesn’t offer “pictures” like TV so much of the local fame is sucked up by those egomaniacal television news anchors. Drat! Fame, Anonymity, Ego and more is all part of the Wacky World of Radio. Let’s talk about it. (Graphic Credit: © Corey Deitz)Posted in EntertainmentComments Off
Posted on 14 June 2013.
MasterChef Season Four has gone for bigger challenges like providing healthy lunch for 300 school children.
That’s probably a smart play since, even with a former NFL football player among the contestants, there’s unlikely to be anyone as c…
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Posted on 14 June 2013.
Kanye West and Jay-Z enjoyed plenty of ink for their ability to keep Watch the Throne from leaking early. Not so much for Kanye’s latest, Yeezus. Ye’s sixth solo album has leaked onto the interwebs. Peep the tracklist below.
Yeezus Tracklist
The rest is between you and Google.
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Posted on 14 June 2013.
You know, 40 isn’t so bad. With the average life span being what it is today, age 40 is actually pretty young. (Isn’t it the new 20? Or is that 30?) Then there’s the concept of the Top 40, which is the name of a music sales chart and a music …
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