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President Obama boosts ratings for talk shows Oct 25th 2012, 22:39 President Obama is the hottest celebrity on TV these days. His visit to Jay Leno on the "Tonight" show appear to have produced the program's biggest Wednesday crowd since the week Leno returned to host the NBC late-night franchise — after the network booted Conan O'Brien. Read full article >> Spike TV offers biggest prize in TV history — $10 million — to anyone who can find Bigfoot Oct 25th 2012, 22:31 Poor Simon Cowell. Not only has his singing competition, "The X Factor," been eclipsed in the ratings this fall by the NBC singing competition "The Voice" — now he also can no longer claim that his show's $5 million prize is the biggest in TV show history. Read full article >> In other news: Justin Timberlake's wedding video leaked, retracted Oct 25th 2012, 22:14 •Justin Timberlake apparently has some interesting people in his circle: One pal who put together a video tribute to the star and bride Jessica Biel featuring tributes from L.A. homeless men, many semi-incoherent, screened for what we can only assume was the hilarity of guests at their multi-million dollar wedding in Italy; and another person with access to said video, who leaked it to Gawker.com. The Web site abruptly removed the video Thursday, though, after a lawyer for the amateur filmmaker, Justin Huchel, claimed the video had been stolen and threatened legal action against the site. Read full article >> Love, etc.: Princess Madeleine and Christopher O'Neill Oct 25th 2012, 21:01 •Engaged: Princess Madeleine of Sweden, 30, to New York hedge fund partner Christopher O'Neill, 38, palace officials in Stockholm announced Thursday. It's a happy rebound for the youngest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia and current fourth-in-line. Just over two years ago, she broke up with a lawyer fiancé back in Sweden after a Norwegian handball player declared she'd had a one-night stand with him. Madeleine promptly fled to Manhattan, where she met O'Neill. Wedding planned for next summer. Read full article >> Taylor Swift and Conor Kennedy are reportedly broken up Oct 25th 2012, 19:52 The blossoming romance between Taylor Swift and Conor Kennedy — a country-pop-meets-Camelot-family union that gave us many cute pictures of the pair kissing and a super-overblown story about them crashing a wedding — has reportedly ended. Read full article >> Hey, isn't that . . . ?: Sean Penn, Donald Rumsfeld, Tareq Salahi Oct 25th 2012, 18:15 • Sean Penn lunching at Westend Bistro in the downtown Ritz-Carlton Thursday. Jeans, black leather jacket, sneakers, slicked back hair, slight beard and mustache. Sat with two men and a woman in what looked like a business meeting. The star apparently snuck into town for a little-publicized ceremony Wednesday at the American Red Cross, where he received its International Humanitarian Service Award for his hands-on relief work in Haiti. Read full article >> See 'The Hobbit,' or just eat 'The Hobbit' at Denny's Oct 25th 2012, 17:28 Most people find it impossible to think of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" without simultaneously thinking, "Man, I could really go for a turkey melt at Denny's." Actually, that sentence is only true if you change the words "most people" to the "marketing staff at Denny's." Which is why, starting Nov. 6, there will be an entire "Hobbit" menu available at Denny's, as a tie-in with the upcoming Peter Jackson movie. The restaurant chain that provides a safe haven for the drunk, the hungover and those seeking meals that involve the words "grand" and "slam" announced the tie-in Wednesday in a news release that made me laugh and, also, made me kind of hungry. Read full article >> Read this: Who is Jimmy Savile? Oct 25th 2012, 16:00 Another interesting story in The Washington Post: Who is this Jimmy Savile character you keep hearing about? An endearingly kooky British TV host — "a kind of freakish Dick Clark," as this video illustrates — who, since his death last year, is "accused of being one of Britain's most prodigious, and certainly most famous, child abusers," with more than 200 victims, report Paul Farhi and Karla Adam. (Scratch that: The number is now up to 300.) Why is this a story in the U.S.? Because the New York Times just hired the BBC exec who may or may not have been involved in spiking a Savile exposé. Read full article >> Axl Rose: Seven things we learned from his 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' appearance Oct 25th 2012, 15:50 Something very unusual happened Wednesday on late-night television. Axl Rose — frontman for the original Guns N' Roses as well as the current, reconfigured version of the G N' R — appeared and did a lengthy interview on a nationally broadcast television show. This is an extremely rare event, because doing talk shows requires qualities such as as being on time. Which is not Axl's strong suit. Read full article >> Diddy okay after car wreck; video shown at Justin Timberlake wedding sparks controversy Oct 25th 2012, 14:07 A morning mix of entertainment headlines... Sean "Diddy" Combs is reportedly fine after a car accident Wednesday in which a Lexus hit his Cadillac Escalade in L.A. The Associated Press reports that no one was hospitalized and that Diddy planned to seek medical attention on his own. Based on TMZ's photos, however, the front of Diddy's car got badly damaged. (Associated Press) Read full article >> Halloween costumes for the fashion-forward reveler Oct 25th 2012, 10:00 There are some Halloween celebrations that call for a more than a skin-barring Seasame Street character. (File this under anti-sexy costume rant.) Luckily, some of the latest runway trends translate surprisingly well into last-minute costumes. By adding a few accessories and the right make-up, you can transform your recent fashion splurge into a costume that will be noticed for all the right reasons. Read full article >>

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