Looks like the local news is starting to care about Burning Man. Our ace L.A. Weekly photographer Josh "CuriousJosh" Reis chatted about the event on FOX 11 last night.
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Shannon Cottrell Paul J. Salamoff and his TARDIS Console
Paul J. Salamoff is a former special-effects artist from Burbank who now works as a writer and producer. He's also the owner of the TARDIS console from the 1996 Doctor Who television movie starring Paul McGann. This weekend, he unveiled the refurbished prop at Los Angeles' annual gathering of Whovians, Gallifrey One.
It makes sense that Salamoff, who gave the prop new life with the help of two other fans, would choose Gallifrey One for the big reveal. A Doctor Who aficionado since childhood, Salamoff has been attending the convention for at least 15 years. While this convention still flies a little under the media radar, Gallifrey One is becoming better known as more and more people in the U.S. are obsessing over the long-running British sci-fi franchise, which airs on BBC America.
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Among the middle-aged princesses who've been born out of Bravo's Real Housewives franchise, Andy Cohen has always been king.
bravotv.com Andy Cohen and the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills toast the end of Season 2.
As both a high-level network executive and an on-air personality who regularly interviews the women, he's in a unique position to oscillate between superfan and superior. He pals around with the ladies both at cast reunions and on his late-night talk show, where they're frequent guests, yet puts them on the spot with cringe-worthy questions they have no choice but to answer. (When your boss asks you a question, don't you typically answer it?)
Usually it's fun to watch. But the other night during his interview with Beverly Hills Housewife Kim Richards, Andy crossed the line, exploiting his position by conducting a completely inappropriate interview with a woman just days out of rehab.
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Floppy-haired conductor Gustavo Dudamel made an appearance on Sesame Street last week to teach Elmo a musical thing or two about a musical thing or two -- including the definition of the word stupendous. You know what would be truly stupendous? For the affable maestro to show up on some other TV shows. He's got a killer mane and facial expressions that rival an early-'90s Jim Carrey, so finding other spots shouldn't be tough.
Here are five we'd love to see:
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Have you seen that video of the dogs barking the Darth Vader song? Chances are, if you have a pulse and an Internet connection, you have. The viral video is a teaser for a Volkswagen Super Bowl commercial, so yes, that makes it a commercial for a commercial.
It's bold new territory for advertising companies, who now acknowledge what many Super Bowl viewers suspect: The commercials are the best part. To find out more about this viral hit, we spoke with music video and commercial director Keith Schofield. He's the man behind the Duck Sauce human-heads-on-crotches, Wintergreen's "How to Make Meth," Diesel XXX Safe for Work Porn, Fat Boy Slim's Censored Naked party videos and more.
We talked with Keith about the making of the video, dog whisperers, canine erections and the key elements for directors who want to make a video go viral.
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It's Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reunion time! Those delicious three weeks in which Andy Cohen forces the ladies to relive every tension-filled moment from the past 18 episodes they've supposedly "grown from" or "moved past." (But inevitably just end up fighting about all over again.) The public shaming is why we watch the rest of the season.
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So what better way to celebrate than to reflect on what invaluable lessons we've learned from the ever-wise Housewives this year.
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The fourth season of RuPaul's Drag Race sashays back onto the LOGO Network on Monday, but this week, the queens from the show (past and present) descended upon -- where else? -- West Hollywood for flamboyant carousing as only an elite clan of glamazon cross-dressers could.
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The official premiere party was held at Eleven nightclub on Santa Monica Boulevard, complete with colorful red carpet ops outside (Honey, the posing went on all night!) and endless Absolut cocktails inside, just like the gals enjoy on the Ru after-show, Untucked. Plus, there was a screening of the first episode.
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"Did you ever have a situation where you meet somebody and you end up having a long, nerdy conversation with them?" Jordan Peele, who stars with Keegan-Michael Key in Comedy Central's new sketch show, Key & Peele, asks over the phone.
Comedy Central Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key playing President Obama and Luther on Key & Peele
It's happened to me and has likely happened to many people reading this article. You meet someone and end up engaged in a conversation that would only make sense to someone who shares your knowledge and passion for a particular subject. The conversation goes on for what seems like forever and you end up with a new friend. For Peele, he didn't just end up with a friend -- he found his eventual comedy partner, Key.
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Flickr/89AKurt Not so funny anymore: former SNLer Victoria Jackson joined the Tea Party because she enjoys Snapple.
Careers after Saturday Night Live aren't as easy as you think. For those alums who haven't reached Adam Sandler-level box office heights or thrived in sitcom character roles -- or passed away, sadly -- there's a cache of them who have just left comedy entertainment entirely.
Here are five career 180s committed by former SNL players on their resumes, to go with our new cover story on Victoria Jackson (who knew we'd ever be writing those words).
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Considering the airwaves are cluttered with dejected bachelorettes, fist-pumping and wars over things as trivial as cupcakes, it's difficult to imagine this as a time when television should be revered.
MTV.com Snooki and Deena on Jersey Shore
Or is it?
That was the prompt at hand during last night's Zocalo Public Square event: "Is This the Golden Age of Television?" -- a panel that hosted both industry insiders and media critics who, if ever so politely, battled that very question.
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