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Articles From August 5, 2011
Friday Aug 5, 2011 55:00 PM ET
My suggestion to all would-be chefs desirous of obtaining their own cooking show (The Next Food Network Star), becoming head chef of a swanky restaurant (Hell's Kitchen) or just taking home a quarter of a million bucks (MasterChef), for goodness sake, learn your risotto!
Friday Aug 5, 2011 35:00 PM ET
Image Entertainment has set Terry Gilliam’s The Fisher King for Blu-ray release on November 8. But the fact that Sony has licensed it to Image means the Blu-ray isn’t likely to have any bonus material whatsoever.
Friday Aug 5, 2011 35:00 PM ET
Well, we knew that To Catch a Predator’s Chris Hansen couldn’t keep it in his pants. The irony in his being caught cheating on his wife a few weeks back was so great that I think we all enjoy a great big SMH moment before promptly forgetting the sketchy creep-catcher and his sexcapade. But this story just keeps getting better.
Friday Aug 5, 2011 30:00 PM ET
Hero Initiative, the non-profit organization that provides financial aid to comic creators fallen on hard times, has announced that the celebrated writer and artist Matt Wagner will be their special guest at next weekend’s Wizard World Chicago Comic Convention. The...
Friday Aug 5, 2011 20:00 PM ET
Movies rarely improve seven chapters into a franchise, but Rise of the Planet of the Apes proves to be a stunning exception to the rule thanks to a magnetic star turn by Andy Serkis as a super-intelligent chimpanzee. In this prequel,...
Friday Aug 5, 2011 10:00 PM ET
It would be hard to find a better drummer than Carmine Appice. He's been working at his craft for over 40 years. Although best known as a member of Vanilla Fudge, Cactus, and superstar power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice, he's also played with the likes of Rod Stewart, Blue Murder, Pat Travers, Ted Nugent, and many others.
Friday Aug 5, 2011 25:00 PM ET
A new breed of Paris-based action auteurs don't have time for chit chat because they're too busy out-thrilling Hollywood at its own game.
Friday Aug 5, 2011 45:00 PM ET
Paris. Must stop coming here in August. My friends take off on day one and leave the place to the middle-aged in below-the-knee shorts, find-it-if-you-can guide books, and no known French. Du café Wilbur, du café. It’s so easy to...
Friday Aug 5, 2011 15:00 PM ET
Dave Schrader is a grounded mainstay of the paranormal community. Via his respected paranormal talk show Darkness Radio, lectures and events, his book The Other Side: A Teen's Guide to Ghost Hunting and the Paranormal, and his role as head...
Friday Aug 5, 2011 44:25 AM ET
Actress Courteney Cox made it mainstream with her TV show Cougar Town, a show about an older woman dating younger men. Now the phenomenon of the "cougar" -- older women who hook up with younger guys -- has crossed the Atlantic. It's official!
Friday Aug 5, 2011 35:00 AM ET
Toddy's chic Smart Cloth is an excellent tool for cleaning those love-to-have, hate-to-smudge surfaces on tablets, TVs and other gadgets.
Friday Aug 5, 2011 30:00 AM ET
Plus, Is Heidi Klum really leaving Project Runway?
Friday Aug 5, 2011 30:00 AM ET
Degrassi: The Next Generation's Ramona Milano talks about some of the difficult parenting choices her character of Audra Torres has to make in next week's (August 9th) episode of the popular Canadian-made teen TV drama.
Friday Aug 5, 2011 00:00 AM ET
Frehley talks to us about his years as Space Ace, why he was forced to room with Simmons in the early years, and what it really felt like getting electrocuted, and being sober for the past five years.
Friday Aug 5, 2011 00:00 AM ET
This column is like the title says - its intention is to fill the gap for those of us who were satiated musically in the '60s and then searched desperately as we aged for music we could relate to and...
Friday Aug 5, 2011 30:00 AM ET
"The way to improve is to reject everything you're doing," he told me. "You have to create a void by destroying everything. You have to kill it. Otherwise you'll just say the same jokes every night for years and years."
Friday Aug 5, 2011 00:00 AM ET
MTV today is a behemoth that has little to do with music, but for the innocence of what was (if it ever was truly there) I leave you with this charming Christmas performance featuring Billy Squier and those original VJs.
Friday Aug 5, 2011 00:00 AM ET
So many classic songs have been associated with products we have no interest in or have been used to sell everything from cold drinks, washing detergent, holidays, beds, cars…you name it, it’s a song put to it.
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