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Is Dick Wolfe's "Law & Order:CI" Getting Rid of Vincent D'Onofrio, Katheryn Erbe, and Eric Bogosian?

Roger Friedman over at Showbiz 411 is reporting that Law and Order Honcho Dick Wolfe will be making some changes and phasing out long time favorites Vincent D'Onofrio & Katheryn Erbe, along with the great Eric Bogosian, who joined the cast in 2006. Friedman speculates that L&O:CI will be putting it's strength on Jeff Goldblum, who plays a lighter style detective.....Perhaps the grittier intense style of D'Onofrio and Erbe don't sit well with USA Network execs whose programming is much more light dramedy like MONK, or BURN NOTICE.  But as a L&O fan, one is used to changes over the years.  Just wondering when USA network will rerun some of the original episodes with Michael Moriarty as the District Attorney!

Showbiz411
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Real Housewife of Atlanta - Kim Zolciak- Should Having a Stripper Past Matter?

Really, all the talk about the "Real Housewives of Atlanta", the arguments, the personalites, this make the other Bravo Housewife shows look tame. Now info that one of the Housewives from Atlanta has a stripper past- Kim Zolciak. For 3 months in 2003 she allegedly appeared as Bambi, at The Cheetah Club. Zolciak said she never stripped, but was a cocktail waitress.  I don't know what the big deal is.  This is 2009. Not the 1950's.

Fox News

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Turkey's "Somebody's Watching You" Reality Show - Hoax! Participants Duped for Internet Porn!

Shameful...a group of Women are put in a Big Brother type setting - and for two months they think they are being filmed for an Reality TV Show- "Somebody's Watching You"  only to find out that the producers had only intended to distribute nude footage to porn sites on the internet. Police raided the villa where the show was being filmed after complaints from some of the participant's parents.

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Royal Pains Season Ending Episode! What was the Final Song? The Veils - Sit down by the Fire

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WWE's Vince McMahon Tells of Plans to Launch 24 Hour Wrestling Network on Basic Cable

WWE CEO Vince McMahon told the Los Angeles Times that he wants to launch a 24 hour wrestling network on basic cable. McMahon's WWE owns virtually all of the television and closed circuit broadcasts of every major wrestling organization that ever exicted- Except Jeff Jarrett's Total NonStop Wrestling (TNA). Though basic cable is the hardest tier of cable to get place on- I wouldn't count McMahon out by any means.

LA TIMES

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USA's Royal Pains Unique Season Ending Cast Wrap RAP Video!

Thursday ends the first season of USA's Royal Pains, and what better send off than to create a RAP video, and include many of the cast and crew. Cool Video.


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Freedom! Carl Reiner Curses Live at the Joan River Roast! Funny Bit! NSFW

Carl Reiner was responsible for The Dick Van Dyke comedy show in the days of b/w TV. So when he was invited to roast Joan Rivers, he was ready. Reiner takes the dais, and reminds the audience that when he was writing, producing the classic show...you couldn't say "pregnant".   See how Carl Reiner handles Cable TV in the 21st Century.....

Roast of Joan Rivers	Sun, Aug 9 10pm / 9c
Carl Reiner - Swearing
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Criss Angel Guillotine Stunt Goes Bad!!! I Don't Think So! - Video

Criss Angel is a theatrical magician, and goes for a shock value.  So a guillotine stunt goes wrong...at least that is what the video shows. Its from a back angle....and is purported to be "unreleased" footage. The video was posted on July 31...and one would think that if an accident like a beheading really happened the media would be all over it....especially in Vegas.  Oh! I forgot to mention- the new season of A & E's Criss Angel- Mindfreak is set to debut soon.

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RIP - Walter Cronkite! I remember your May 4, 1970 Kent State Broadcast

There are going to be many many stories about Walter Cronkite, so as I was driving home listening to the obit from CBS on the radio...I thought back to Kent State. The killings had just taken place, and students were on the commons, and the Guardsmen told us "Campus was closed, Leave by 5PM".  So I grabbed my girlfriend, and her friend, and whatever belongings I could get into my car, and drove home to Cleveland. I didn't know how big and sensational the story of the Kent State shootings were...until at my Mom's house, we turned on the CBS Network News, and the lead story from Walter Cronkite was the shootings at Kent State.  That day, and really that broadcast had a significant effect on my life.  He was a true pioneer in broadcasting, and as I said on Buzzfeed, a whole generation will miss him.

Buzzfeed

Gene Simmons of KISS Family Jewes Urinal Cake- Just what the World Needs

What can anyone say. Simmons is a master marketer. But it also says something for the A&E Cable Series Simmons and his family stars in that Urine cakes are promoting!

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