Casting Call: Washington Families, Come and Get Your Dream Home!
Don’t just find a little Cash In The Attic-- make your whole house a gorgeous investment! The producers of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition are at it again, and you could be the lucky dream home winner!
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Amazing Race: All-Stars -- Don't Mess With the Little People
Amazing Race: All-Stars
Title: "Beauty is Sometimes Skin Deep"
First Aired: 2/25/07
New Yorkers Kevin and Drew were the second team to be eliminated in the CBS reality thriller, Amazing Race All-Stars. After numerous injuries, snafus, and bellyaches, the boys from Staten Island found themselves limping into last place. While their lackluster showing was far from surprising, this week’s episodes had plenty of claws and awes.
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MeeVee Video Top 5: Oscar Week, America's Next Top Model
The glitz and glamour was on last night for the 79th Annual Academy Awards. Ellen DeGeneres got her first nod as host. As long as she doesn't do her "white girl dance," she'll win over audiences.
I do have to say, however, I'm very disappointed in the Academy this year. Ellen DeGeneres showed great courage in "coming out," and has made her niche on the comedic world, but there's an even more deserving host. The woman who has shown greater audacity than Ellen, coupled with even greater humor (hands down!), has to be Britney Spears. Shaving her head was very bold, and her attack on a car with an umbrella? Pure comedy genius! Maybe next year, Academy. Think about it.
Along with Oscar coverage video clips, this week Video Top 5 features Rainn Wilson's SNL monologue, as well as behind-the-scenes looks at The Amazing Race and America's Next Top Model. Enjoy!
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Grease: You’re the One That I Want -- Ladies Night
Grease: You're the One That I Want
Title: Episode 7
First Aired: 2/25/07
Teen Angel Frankie Freakin’ Avalon descends on Grease: You're the One That I Want for a once-in-a-lifetime guest performance. Meanwhile, the Angel of Death swoops down on “Bellhop Danny” Kevin and “Serious Sandy” Kate, thinning the herd from ten to eight. Tonight’s episode belonged to the gals. Unless you were Kevin or Kate, it was also a hell of a lot of fun.
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Totally Frakked: Battlestar Galactica - Norma Ray Gun
Battlestar Galactica
Title: “Dirty Hands”
First Aired: 2/25/07
After a thrilling start, tonight’s episode of Battlestar Galactica gums up the works and stalls faster than a car with a gas tank full of sugar. It’s yet another gritty glimpse into the seedy underbelly of daily Colonial life that would have been perfect for Mike Rowe on Dirty Jobs, but likely left some viewers pining for the return of the Cylons.
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Oscar Fashion Best and Worst: Does This Statue Make Me Look Fat?
79th Annual Academy Awards
Aired: Sunday, Feb. 25
The 79th Annual Academy Awards held a whole lotta surprises this year, from awards to speeches to, yes, the fashion. There were smokin’ hot looks, and outfits that made us scream in fright. There were snappy tuxes and oodles of bling. But who were the Oscar fashion darlings? Join us as we reveal the best and the worst of the red carpet styles.
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Oscars: "The Departed" Has Some Staying Power
The 2007 Academy Awards have come and gone, but not without leaving a wake of happy winners and politely smiling... um... "non-winners." Martin Scorsese clearly stole the show, as The Departed took home Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Film Editing. This was Marty’s first win for directing, and his timing couldn’t have been better…
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Tonight's Picks: Monday, Feb. 26
The Black Donnellys -- Debut
Think of this series as The Irish Sopranos. The Black Donnellys follows four brothers as they make their rise through the ranks of a Boston crime syndicate. In the premiere, the Donnelly boys kidnap a mob-affiliated bookie to avoid repaying gambling debts. This should end well...
Deal or No Deal
If Howie Mandel looking like a soul-patched Lex Luthor isn’t incentive enough to tune in, then how about Joe Torre? The New York Yankees manager guest stars, advising a New Jersey contestant as to which case is best. How about the one the hot model is carrying?
Heroes -- Company Man
Matt and Ted acquire some unexpected (and unwilling) house guests when they kidnap the Bennet family. As so often happens in life, upsetting people with superhuman abilities leads to tragic results. Doesn't anyone ever learn? Eric Roberts guest stars.
Oscars: Scorsese Ends Drought, Departs with Multiple Oscars
After trying a little too hard to be hip last year, the Oscars didn’t pretend to be anything other than what they've always been. Musical numbers, montages, and speeches all wrapped up before they bogged things down, though one had to wonder what a montage was doing at the end of Hour Three. As the show kept going, and going, I found myself parroting Kate Winslet’s evocation of that famous editorial edict-- cut to the chase. In case you couldn’t make it to the end, here’s what you missed…
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Oscars: Ellen DeGeneres (Hearts) George Clooney. Get It?
The questions were numerous. Will Scorsese get the Oscar? What did Tom Cruise whisper in Sherry Lansing's ear? Will Sacha Baron Cohen give the most memorable speech in Oscar history? The last one has been answered in the negative, as Borat lost out to Bill Monahan’s The Departed. The show staves off the second half slump with a few quick quips (one of which, oddly, had DeGeneres pining away for George Clooney) and some cleverly-edited montages that would put any video mashup artist to shame.
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Academy Awards: Off To A Good Start, Maybe Even On Schedule
79th Annual Academy Awards
LIVE! Sunday, Feb. 25 on ABC
We’re halfway home at the 79th Annual Academy Awards and, although the mid-show blahs are starting to set in, the awards hit the ground running. This year’s theme is clear: A celebration of the nominated. So the show started with a short film of by Errol Morris featuring a montage of off-the-cuff interviews with a handful of this year's nominees standing in front of a simple white backdrop (Macintosh commercial style). Then it was time for Ellen Degeneres to do her thing…
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Oscars: Ads and Inconveniences
Odd how no one talks about Oscar ads (considering the fuss they make about super Bowl ads). Predictably, they all seem to have a cinematic look about them, a bit more aesthetically pleasing than the plague of talking CGI animals that have taken over the Super Bowl. The most striking ones: the image-make-over Citgo ad just before the start of the show, and the ad for the IPhone, which doesn’t come out for another four months.
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Oscars: Playing It Safe
The Oscars started the trend of beginning each awards show with a goofy skit, a technique perfected a few years ago with the CGI insertions of Billy Crystal into the nominated films. This year’s intro, which looked and sounded like an Errol Morris documentary, played up the “Isn’t it great to be here?” angle. Host Ellen DeGeneres's monologue got a bit sillier, segueing into a strangely brief gospel number. Keeping it simple this year, it appears.
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Oscars: In Serious Need of Retooling
Is the Oscar telecast first and foremost about who wins -- in which case everything but the announcements of the winners is a distraction -- or is it a show? As a determinant of future success, winning an Academy Award has some short term benefits, boosting box office and DVD sales, but it's no guarantee of lasting relevance. (See: Gooding, Cuba Jr.) Better to just sit back and enjoy the Oscars as the most watched TV show in the world.
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Anna Nicole Smith Continues To Attract Drama, Even In Death
It’s been more than two weeks since Anna Nicole Smith’s passing, and the three-ring circus that was her life has followed her into death. The battle over where to bury her body continues, no cause of death has been determined, and three separate men are claiming to be her baby’s father. So much for “rest in peace.”
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