Emmy Changes: Some Awards to be Taped

Emmy organizers say they will tape the presentation of some awards to help make the ceremony more appealing to viewers.
The Television Academy said Thursday the move is intended to create the most entertaining show possible.
The academy board approved the changes Wednesday night, providing for some awards to be given out before the broadcast. Edited clips [...]

SNL: Amy Poehler Returns to Thursday Editions

Amy Poehler will make fun of the news again.
She’s returning to the anchor desk for the first two editions of NBC’s limited fall series “Saturday Night Live: Weekend Update Thursday.” It’ll be just like old times: Poehler will be paired with Seth Meyers.
Bringing Poehler back for a couple of “Weekend Update Thursday” shows is a [...]

Little Surprise Hiding in the Popcorn

The Blind Side of Life

I’ll admit – I rolled my eyes each time I saw a promo for ‘More to Love.’ I mean, what else could FOX come up with? Right!?
I even kept channel surfing during the first few minutes, but somehow I always kept going back.
Was it because of the possible train wreck aspect? Of course – who [...]

Only in L.A.: Sperm Bank Offers Celebrity Look-a-Like Babies

Want to have a baby that looks like your favorite celebrity? It just a whole lot easier to design your future baby, thanks to a Los Angeles sperm bank.
” California Cryobank” announced Tuesday that it has started posting photos of celebrities who resemble their donors to give prospective clients a better idea of what their [...]

Musical History Up for Sale

One of the few “Jenny” phone numbers left is for sale on eBay.
The phone number made famous in the Tommy Tutone hit “867-5309/Jenny” is up for auction, with a Philadelphia area code of 267.
As of yesterday, the lead bid was $720. The auction ends August 4.
Many of the “Jenny” numbers were taken out of service [...]

SAG Votes to Oppose Hollywood Hospital Closure

The Screen Actors Guild has voted to oppose closing a motion picture home where many actors and others have spent their last years.
By a slender margin, the SAG board voted Saturday to oppose closing the Motion Picture & Television Fund’s long-term care facility in Woodland Hills.
SAG has no formal say in the hospital’s future but [...]

‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’ Now 10th Biggest Hit of All Time

“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” is now the tenth-biggest hit of all time.
It made another $8 million over the weekend, for a total of $379 million so far. That pushes “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” into eleventh place.
Transformers is only about $1 million behind the number-nine movie, “Revenge of the [...]

That’s Life

I recently listened to Frank Sinatra’s ‘That’s Life’ and was inspired to write my little own song-
That’s life. So what……get up, stand up, start over.
Create your own history.
Guide the stars. Deny the critics.
Never far behind but miles above the pack.
Preserving all, erasing the nameless
That’s life.
Spot in the universe, dominant as a planet, yet small enough [...]

Taco Bell Ad Star Gidget the Chihuahua Dies at 15

Handlers say Gidget the Chihuahua, whose Taco Bell commercials made her a star, has died. She was 15.
The owner of Studio Animal Services in Castaic says Gidget suffered a massive stroke late Tuesday at her trainer’s home in Santa Clarita and had to be euthanized.
Gidget was the sassy mascot in Taco Bell commercials from 1997 [...]