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Survivor Micronesia Finale
Recap May 11, 2008
Survivor Micronesia opens with a brief recap of the season’s events. It has been a Survivor unequaled by any other in injuries. Kathy, Jonathan, and James all leave without being voted out, Kathy battered and worn out by the elements while Jonathan and James leaving due to infections from injuries.  Cirie, Parvati, and Natalie work as a Black Widow allliance, taking out castaways through total blindsides. The weather, with it’s unexpected deluges keeps the camp wet up to five hours at a stretch.
Back at camp, Amanda, Natalie, Cirie, and Parvati cheer and celebrate at the unprecedented event at tribal council.  The girls, in a clever move, convinced Eric that he could do without the immunity necklace and then voted him out. They recount how they have repeated this move over and over and everyone falls for it.  They are all excited at playing final four.
Natalie may be the last fan standing, but she has a strong bond with Parvati who says everyone there has earned a spot in the game. Each of them hopes that the common ground will lead them to victory.
The ladies assemble for the immunity challenge. They will start on a very small perch over water from which they will pull up a bucket of water and fill a chute. As the water in the chute rises it will bring a set of keys up within reach. Once the survivor has the keys she will dive in the water and swim ashore to unlock a chest. Natalie and Parvati are in the lead, opening their chest while Amanda is just getting her keys. Cirie is lagging, but catches up after getting her keys. All four girls have gotten the chest open which gives them rungs to a puzzle ladder. There are sixteen rungs that fit precisely to their spaces. Amanda pulls ahead and after relocating two rungs that are misplaced, she wins individual immunity from tribal council.

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Will an on-demand world, in which viewers can watch what they want when they want, drive schedulers to therapy?
Television executives say traditional network schedules will remain the dominant programming paradigm for some time. But HBO’s series “In Treatment” may provide a look into the future.
The critically acclaimed series starring Gabriel Byrne averaged 2 million viewers per episode.
The wrinkle: HBO says only 12% of them saw episodes in the weeknight prime-time slots in which they made their debuts.
HBO airs its shows multiple times, on its main network and its multiplex channels. Most of the people who watched “In Treatment”—68%, in fact—watched it during a subsequent airing.
Another 9% saw it on digital video recorders. Another 7% watched the show on HBO On-Demand through their cable operators and another 4% saw the show through a digital provider, including HBO.com, iTunes, Amazon Unbox or an affiliated Web Site.
Subscribers will be able to watch more shows online as HBO for Broadband rolls out.
“We create programs that we think people want to watch, and then we let them watch where and when and how they want,” said Dave Baldwin, executive VP of program planning at HBO. “If I were scheduling one of the major networks, contemplating the changes in platforms and technology, I would look to get my resume in order and try to get out of there.”
Not so fast, say other network schedulers.
“The majority of people still watch television the old-fashioned way,” said Preston Beckman, executive VP of strategic program planning and research at Fox. “That doesn’t mean it’s always going to be that way. But I believe that in the short run, or as long as I have to worry about it, which is another three or four years, what I do I have to do the way I’ve always done it.”

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Oh, B.! Lose the hideous cape, but keep the B&W headband, please. Photo courtesy of the CW.
And finally, the headbands. GG gets a lot of credit for prolonging this trend. At our count, no less than 16 extra-wide, jewel-encrusted and be-bowed headpieces were on view across the Upper East Side. We just had to pick a favorite, and the winner is: Blair’s large-bow and black-and-white striped version, circa 8:26 PM. Cute!
And with that, we bid you an “xoxo.” Oh, you know you love it. See you next week!
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NEW YORK, New York –
Rosie O’Donnell admits she was a handful when she was on “The View.”
O’Donnell tells NBC’s “Today” show that Barbara Walters wasn’t used to someone as passionate about her views as she was on the show. She says “passion on that show wasn’t number-one.” She says she forced Walters to be “more emotional than she’s comfortable with.”
She also confirmed reports that she exploded at Walters before an episode of “The View” because Walters hadn’t called her and taken her side during O’Donnell’s feud with Donald Trump.
Despite their differences, she says she’s still friends with Walters.
O’Donnell admits she was also “a lot” for Elisabeth Hasselbeck to handle and she says she’s “trying” to have at least an e-mail relationship with her.
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‘Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles’ Premiere Party
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All Access: ‘Celebrity Circus’
It’s not exactly breaking news to say Hollywood is a circus. But now a new TV show takes this concept to a whole new level.
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Abbey Curran hasn’t let cerebral palsy stand in her way. This beauty went on to win the Miss Iowa pageant and now she is vying for the Miss USA crown. Abbey revealed to Access Hollywood’s Maria Menounos how she has been able to overcome h
Tina Fey Talks ‘30 Rock’ Return, Part II
Tina talks about where the “30 Rock” story line picks up after the hiatus. Plus, could Oprah be headed to the show?
Stanley Kamel In ‘Monk’ (2005)
In this scene from the hit show, Dr. Charles Kroger (Stanley Kamel) talks with Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub) in a therapy session.

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The middle-aged men who tried to steal the Yankees’ opening day bunting from an upper deck agree their actions were “stupid” but hope the Yankees drop charges.
Keith O’Rourke, 39, and John Bunjaporte, 41, were arrested on Tuesday night and the Yankees organization, seeking to make them an example of intolerable fan behavior, said they would revoke their season tickets. However, the pair bought the tickets from a scalper, so now the Yankees are still considering what they’ll do with the real season-ticket holder (who had sold them to the scalper).
O’Rourke told the Post he saw the bunting was fastened by a screw, so he and Bunjaporte “started to unscrew it, and we looked at one another and said, ‘Wait, this is stupid.’” Even though one security guard let them go (because they said they weren’t taking the bunting), another guard and a cop took them in.
Bunjaporte said, “I understand, because it was stupid, but come on, relax a little bit. I just wanted a souvenir.” But Yankees COO Lonn Trost will not relax, though, “We have a whole year to get through. We’re concerned that this will become an epidemic of petty theft.” Yeah, and they should worry that when they go to Boston, a hawk will attack A-Rod, because that’s what a hawk at Fenway did to a girl named Alexa Rodriguez.
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There’s no enforcement of real crimes at Yankee Stadium. Last night, in the tier level, I sat in front of a very fat, loud, vulgar couple. They spoke to each other in 80 decibel voices, every other word was f***in’ this and f***in’ that. And every player that came to bat was encouraged to f***in’ hit the s**t out of the ball. Not only did they offend my sensibilities, but those of dozens of parents of kids seated in the same section. Not one guard or cop stopped to request them to tone it down, despite the likelihood that they were heard throughout the right field tier level. I’ve been to games (particularly against the Red Sox), where everyone who cursed was ejected from the ballpark.

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Features the Most Memorable ’80s Songs from the Most Iconic Superstars ofthe Decade Including Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, The Police, Rick Springfield, Bob Seger, David Bowie and More!NEW YORK, March 10 /PRNewswire/ — The world’s best selling multi-artist album series, NOW That’s What I Call Music! is back this Spring with their first genre specific album. NOW That’s What I Call The ’80s, scheduled for release on March 11, will feature 20 of the decade’s biggest smash hits, from New Wave to Pop to Hard Rock.NOW That’s What I Call The ’80s features huge hits which defined the decade, including songs by Duran Duran, Wham!, David Bowie, Cyndi Lauper and more! VH1 Classic will run a one hour special “VH1 Classic Presents: NOW ’80s” featuring videos from the artists on the album. The show will be hosted by one of MTV’s original VJ’s Mark Goodman, and includes a special guest appearance by ’80s heartthrob Rick Springfield, who will reminisce about his musical experiences from the decade.NOW ’80s is a compilation joint venture featuring top hits from EMI Music, Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group. NOW ’80s will be released by SONY BMG Music Entertainment.NOW That’s What I Call Music! Vol 27, featuring 20 huge chart-topping songs from artists like Alicia Keys, Rihanna, Chris Brown and Sara Bareilles also hits stores on March 11.The NOW That’s What I Call Music! series debuted in the United States in 1998 after the NOW brand had become an enormous, multi-platinum international success for nearly 20 years. To date, the NOW series has generated sales of over 200 million albums worldwide, and has sold over 67 million copies in the United States since its debut. Every album in the NOW series has reached the Billboard Top 10, and it is the only non-soundtrack, multi-artist collection to reach #1 Billboard status on the Billboard Top 200 Album Sales Chart.

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V.Wright was the turf accountant of the novel’s hero, Stephen Dedalus, a layabout student whose life centred around smoking, dreaming and getting horseracing tips through the post from the “Backer’s Friend” in Newmarket.
“Sensational news” was always reaching V.Wright’s ear. “Information from the RIGHT QUARTER” was always shared with those willing to send him a bob in the mail. “Leaving me now because of bad luck would indeed be a ‘puzzler’,” he writes after his latest “GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY” comes in last. “It is very comforting to know that I have clients who are sportsmen who do not lose heart when the luck is ‘the wrong way’.” To get back in winning form he tells his customers to “GO IN FOR THE WIN OF YOUR LIFE” with his “treble nap CAST-IRON PLUNGER… Old friends will know that I do not send ‘guessworks’ but only STRICTLY OCCASIONAL advices over animals already as good as past the post… P.S. The above will be the business. Yours, Verney.’”
Good ol’ Verney. I thought of him last week as the Cheltenham Festival unfolded. The real-life, modern-day equivalent of Verney are those characters who advertise their premium-rate telephone tipping lines in the Racing Post every day. It is extraordinary how similar they are to Verney. Almost 70 years after At Swim-Two-Birds was published, they use a lot of the same kind of language and display the same sense of certainty about their “good things” as he did. But are their tips any better? That’s what I wanted to discover. Are they any more liable to make a profit or are they as much in the dark as the rest of us?

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OK, let’s get one thing cleared up before we start the recap of the show…
YES, Joanne did bungle and let the pre-taping cat out of the bag last week. She said “Sunday” (the day she and the ladies actually taped their performances), then quickly attempted to cover it with “I mean, Wednesday” (referring to the day the show was broadcast.)
YES, as confirmed by my behind-the-scenes AI contact, the performance shows at this point in the competition ARE pre-taped. Currently, the boys are singing for their supper on Saturday, the girls on Sunday. Do I think some transparency of this fact would have been appreciated by the general populus before Joanne’s tongue trippage?
Of course. But then, I’m a big fan of the truthiness.
I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising, given the current number of contestants and the extreme amount of work to be done between shows: Picking songs, rehearsals, Vommercials, hair, make-up, photo shoots, interview packages, schooling for the young ‘uns, you name it. Oh yeah, they try to sleep a little too.
Does it take a little of the excitement away from Tuesday and Wednesday nights right now? I think so. And according to all the emails I have received from AI fans asking if the pre-taping rumor is true, they do too.

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ACTOR Jack P Shepherd is preparing for another battering as soap’s most evil character reaches a new low.
Friday will see Corrie’s warped David Platt push mum Gail down the stairs – then step over her prone body as he runs away.
Jack, 20, explains that soap fans often blur the line between reality and fiction – and says he is attacked by old ladies with HANDBAGS because of his storylines.
He admits: “It’s always the little old ladies who have a go at me.
“Younger people think David is great but the grannies attack me with their handbags.
“What is it with grannies and their handbags? They should be given Asbos!
“They call me a ‘tinker’, and a few other more – shall we say – colourful words that you probably couldn’t print in a family newspaper.
“I scare children, too. They’ve been known to burst into tears just at the sight of me.
“I know I’ll get more of that next week. They want to know why I’m so awful to my mum so these scenes will really get them going.
“I get a lot of reaction from all sorts of people when I’m out and about but it’s generally in good humour so it doesn’t bother me.”

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