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- Pee-wee Herman is back at the playhouse
- How Zucker's Leno quick fix got NBC into a quagmire
- When Disney cartoons became reanimated
- 'The Marriage Ref': Seinfeld blow the whistle on the flip side of single life
- TCA Press Tour: 'Undercover Boss' Is a Changed Man
- Girls line up to be 'Little Miss Perfect'
- Hollywood taps Elmore Leonard again
- Like 'Spartacus,' Starz lives by the sword
- A lengthy birth for 'Life Unexpected'
- 'Fly Girls' gives Virgin America first-class product placement
| Pee-wee Herman is back at the playhouse Posted: 10 Jan 2010 12:00 AM PST 'Why now?' you may ask. Well, because creator Paul Reubens has plans. For anyone old enough to have come into pop cultural consciousness in the mid-'80s, Pee-wee Herman casts a long shadow -- albeit, an almost transcendently nerdy shadow, one most often recalled dancing atop a bar to the Champs' jaunty instrumental "Tequila" in his 1985 breakthrough movie "Pee-wee's Big Adventure."
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| How Zucker's Leno quick fix got NBC into a quagmire Posted: 09 Jan 2010 12:00 AM PST The NBC executive apparently had moved Jay Leno to prime time to avoid losing him to rival networks and to keep a promise to Conan O'Brien. But the focus on short-term gains proved a costly blunder. Jeff Zucker was a fearless news producer and fast-rising entertainment executive who was just 41 when he became head of NBC Universal. But in the last few years, the onetime whiz kid behind the "Today" show -- he turned Katie Couric into a star -- has made several costly miscalculations that have led to a spectacular fall by the country's premier television network.
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| When Disney cartoons became reanimated Posted: 10 Jan 2010 12:00 AM PST The film 'Waking Sleeping Beauty' shows how the studio went from the bleak '80s to creative and box office success. It was like any other class reunion -- friends who hadn't seen each other for decades catching up while "When You Wish Upon a Star" played in the background. But even though there also was talk of old wounds and slights, this holiday-season gathering wasn't marking the anniversary of any high school or college graduation. Instead, the several hundred people crowding into Hollywood's El Capitan Theatre had come together to revisit one of the best comeback stories in show business history: the resurrection of Walt Disney Animation.
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| 'The Marriage Ref': Seinfeld blow the whistle on the flip side of single life Posted: 10 Jan 2010 12:00 AM PST Jerry Seinfeld is producing and will appear on the show that seeks resolution with humor. erry Seinfeld is producing and will appear on the show that seeks resolution with humor.
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| TCA Press Tour: 'Undercover Boss' Is a Changed Man Posted: 09 Jan 2010 04:00 PM PST "I have a whole new appreciation for what they do every day," says Larry O. Donnell III of his employees at Waste Management, Inc.
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| Girls line up to be 'Little Miss Perfect' Posted: 10 Jan 2010 12:00 AM PST In reality television, to film something is to judge it: The chattering contestants of "The Bachelor," the hair products of "Jersey Shore," the gruesome piles of "Hoarders": They're there because someone deems them sufficiently other, sufficiently disruptive, to gain a viewer's attention -- and presumably, disdain.
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| Hollywood taps Elmore Leonard again Posted: 10 Jan 2010 12:00 AM PST This time it's for the FX show 'Justified,' starring Timothy Olyphant as Leonard's Kentucky coal miner turned lawman, Raylan Givens. It's just a few blocks from some of Los Angeles' best regional Mexican food, but thanks to the magic of television, we're not in Highland Park but Kentucky coal country. Or rather, in a tiny, cramped hardware store, stuffed with bags of powdered stucco, countless screws and what may be every cleaner known to man.
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| Like 'Spartacus,' Starz lives by the sword Posted: 10 Jan 2010 12:00 AM PST The pay-cable channel hopes to attract attention with its bloody, steamy take on the gladiator tale. Green screen helps save some green. The gladiators of ancient Rome may have endured horribly violent lives, but they also saw plenty of overheated sex. At least that's the version of history on display in " Spartacus: Blood and Sand ," a sword-and-sandals epic that Starz, the premium cable network, rolls out Jan. 22.
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| A lengthy birth for 'Life Unexpected' Posted: 10 Jan 2010 12:00 AM PST After plenty of behind-the-scenes bumps, the CW show is finally about to make its debut . Nobody's happier than its creator. Those involved with " Life Unexpected ," a new midseason drama on the CW, like to joke that they should have T-shirts made that read, "Not Dead Yet."
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| 'Fly Girls' gives Virgin America first-class product placement Posted: 10 Jan 2010 12:00 AM PST The upcoming CW series about the lives of a real group of female flight attendants who happen to work for the airline is a dream come true for company chief Richard Branson, who may guest star. Could there be a better advertisement for a brash, young company than to have a network TV series built around it, starring five of its gorgeous female employees and their impossibly glamorous lives? Probably not.
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