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By Malina Saval
HollywoodNews.com: I’m a celebrity entertainment journalist, which basically means that I spend half my life regarding my reflection in the rearview mirror of my car while crawling along in L.A. traffic on my way to whatever hotel, café or manse the star I’m interviewing is awaiting me. Oh, and I drink a ridiculous amount of coffee and watch way too much TV, mainly in the way of cable, because it’s part of my job requirement and it’s a good way to rationalize not actually doing any writing. In any case, there’s so much good cable out right now it’s hard to resist.
While network generally shies away from the stuff we really want to see – sex, drugs, psychosis, anything subversive and a little off kilter – cable swoops in and provides all that in aces. There’s a reason that white-hot cable shows (think AMC’s Mad Men and Breaking Bad) have surpassed so many of the tepid network offerings in the way of critical kudos and Emmys.
Granted, not every show on cable is a good one. I used to be really into True Blood its first two seasons, but I’m becoming so sick of vampires, I honestly wish they’d all die already (Plus, I interviewed Anna Paquin a year or so ago and she scoffed dismissively when I suggested that vampires were the new penguins). Anyway, the one major thing that truly sucks about cable shows is that most run for only 13 episodes per season, which means that if you fall in love with a show, you could literally get knocked up and birth a child before the next season finally rolls around.
HBO’s Hung is back this season, which was really raw and funny last year and gets props for promoting the notion that a male prostitute with a big dick can also be real softy. Penises are actually a strong theme running throughout a few of my favorite cable TV series.
Showtime’s Californication is returning early this fall, which is one of the smartest, sharpest shows out there. What makes the show really interesting is that it thrusts star and recovering sex addict David Duchovny into a role where art definitely imitates life (He plays a wanton lothario on the show).
And now MTV appeals to the teen crowd with The Hard Times of RJ Berger, about a high school nerd with a huge [...]

HollywoodNews.com: Lifehouse will perform and be a part of the 2010 VH1 Do Something Awards later this month. In support of their latest album, “Smoke and Mirrors,” the band has just released a music video for their song “All In.”
The new video strays from any story-lines to show clips from their live show as well as rare moments of the band in their off days. The video is by no means their strongest effort, but gives fans a behind-the-scenes look at the band.
Watch the new video below:
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HollywoodNews.com: Khloe Kardashian is already raking in dough from her reality shows “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” and “Kourtney & Khloe Take Miami,” and now she’s about to add a third show to the lineup.
Khloe and her husband Lamar Odom are getting their own reality show on E!, reports Hollyscoop. The series will show Khloe “trying to get pregnant” and her daily life being a wife and stepmother to Lamar’s two children.
Will you watch Khloe’s new show or have you had enough of her?
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By Roger Friedman
HollywoodNews.com: The word around Capitol Records is that they’re about to launch a re-master re-release program for the Beatles’ Apple Records catalog.
Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end. We were wrong.
The last time someone cleaned up and re-released the Apple catalog was back in 1991. Since then, most of the releases have drifted out of print.
Apple Records was not a great success, but it had its shining moments. The catalog consists of James Taylor’s first album ever, plus albums by Badfinger, Billy Preston, R&B great Doris Troy, Mary Hopkin (pictured), and Jackie Lomax.
There are also early solo albums by Ringo Starr and George Harrison that have fallen by the wayside.
Apple’s shiniest moment, for my money, is Badfinger’s “Straight Up” album, produced by Harrison and Todd Rundgren. It’s just perfection–and that’s the name of one of the songs. It also contains the classic hits “Day After Day” and “Baby Blue.” It’s so good, it should be framed.
I will be particularly interested in Doris Troy’s self titled album. Troy’s biggest hit for Atlantic in the 60s was “Just One Look.” Later she sang, quite beautifully, on Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon.”
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By Andy Pemberton
HollywoodNews.com: New pictures reveal that the eldest son of Michael Jackson, Prince Michael, could have the same skin disease as his dad.
The 13 year old revealed white patches under his arm while on a recent holiday to Hawaii with his siblings Paris, 12 and Prince Michael II, eight.
While it could just be a result of exposure to the sun, it looked more serious than just peeling skin.
Vitiligo is a hereditary skin condition whioch discolours the face and the body. Jackson blamed the disease for the gradual lightening of his own skin over the years. Critics claimed he intentionally bleached his skin.
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By Greg Hernandez
HollywoodNews.com: Who knew J.R. Ewing could be so forgiving?
Of course I’m really talking about actor Larry Hagman who last night at The Magic Castle in Hollywood reunited with Mary Crosby, the actress whose character shot dastardly J.R. Ewingon Dallas back in 1980 in TVs first great cliffhanger.
Photographer Brian Putnam snapped the two together last night after a cabaret performance by Mary’s mother, Kathryn Crosby.
Mary’s father, of course, was Bing Crosby and Kathryn’s show was a tribute to the late, great crooner.
The Who Shot J.R. episode of Dallas was titled A House Divided and was broadcast on March 21, 1980. Viewers had to wait all summer, and most of the autumn because of a Hollywood actors’ strike (and Hagman’s own holdout), to learn whether J.R. would survive, and which of his many enemies was responsible.
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By Roger Friedman
HollywoodNews.com: Sting is a major rock star and Trudie Styler, his wife, is a political activist and movie producer with an acting background. So you don’t expect them to go all 19th century, but that’s what they did last night at Jazz at Lincoln Center. In the Allen Room, for a charity called the Culture Project and Music Unites, they performed their own version of an 1837 “Love Letters.”
With a background of the sun setting over Fifth Avenue almost on cue, Sting and Trudie performed their two hander, “Twin Spirits,” that’s based on the letters back and forth between composer Robert Schumann and his decade-younger pianist wife Clara Wieck. This time they had help from actor David Straithairn, who narrated, and Joshua Bell on violin, and singers Nathan Gunn and Camille Zamora.
The audience consisted of no less than Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Denise Rich, actor Richard Kind, screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher, movie producer Bonnie Timmerman, and classical pianist Steven Masi, and loads of well heeled patrons who donated to a fund that keeps music education in schools. They got their money’s worth, too: the piece, conceived by John Caird, is a keeper. It’s also well-tailored for the couple.
Sting has done plenty of acting in movies, plays and videos. So no one is taken aback by his excellent reading of the slightly huffy Schumann. (They share the trait of being prolific, and blend a bit.) Not so well known is that Styler began her career at the Royal Shakespeare Company with Caird in 1981.
As Clara, she is luminous and captivating. I think a lot of people are genuinely surprised. But as she and Sting reprise this performance for various charities, Styler gets better and better. Last night, with the sun melting and disappearing behind her, Styler–more beautiful and better dressed than Clara Schumann could have hoped for–captured lightning in a bottle.
Later, some patrons repaired to the couple’s Central Park West duplex aerie, where a hot jazz combo played some re-made pop songs. When they launched into The Police’s “Walking on the Moon.” Sting said, “I know that song,” and sang along. Fletcher talked about his new movie, which Timmerman will produce. Book publisher Roger Cooper, of Vanguard Press, was excited about coaxing Styler into writing a book. Denise Rich said she did not have money with Ken Starr, after all. (We’ll see.) A nice, young, wealthy couple from Los Angeles told [...]

HollywoodNews.com: The “Bachelorette’s” Ali Fedotowsky has been sharing her love life with the world over the past few weeks, but as the season comes to a close fans can rest easy knowing that this story ends happy….at least for now.
In the new issue of Us Weekly, she confirms that there is a proposal on the finale and she proudly accepts. It isn’t just for showbiz either, as she is already planning the wedding for early 2011. A source told them, “She’s already thinking about the details.” Another source added, “She did the show because she was ready to settle down and get married.”
We just hope this story doesn’t turn out like the “Bachelor’s” Jake Pavelka.
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HollywoodNews.com: Kim Kardashian is getting a wax figure at Madam Tussauds and will be guest starring in the season 3 premiere of “90210,” but what fans may not know is that she is a dog lover.
She got a boxer named Rocky when she was with now ex-boyfriend Reggie Bush and she says ,”Rocky is most like me, his mommy. He’s really cool and calm, and goes with the flow,” reports People. Lately Rocky has been spending time around sister Kourtney’s baby Mason and she adds, “Mason hasn’t really been around dogs that much. My mom has three and Kourtney keeps them away. But yesterday I wanted to really introduce them.”
The meeting went well as “Rocky was licking Mason in the face, and Kourtney was mad at me,” Kardashian admits. However, she adds, “I was like, ‘No, they need to meet!’ It was really funny. And Rocky did calm down after a little bit.”
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HollywoodNews.com: Kendra Wilkinson has done more photo shoots than she can count despite being so young and now her baby, Hank Baskett IV, is following in her footsteps.
As Kendra and husband Hank got him ready for an upcoming shoot for People Magazine, she posted a picture with the following message on her blog: “Hey everyone! It’s always an adventure getting baby Hank dressed, he’s such a curious lil guy, always squirming and touching everything in sight. Here we are getting him ready for a People photo shoot, as you can see it’s a two person job. How cute is that little mohawk he has going on?! lololol. Lil Hank has done his fair share of photo shoots so he’s pretty much a pro by now…he’s always hamming it up for the camera haha. SUCH a stud!”

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