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New Food Network Show: 24 Hour Restaurant Battle

July 8, 2010 By 1 Comment

Ever wonder how long it takes to get a restaurant started? How about 24 hours?! At least that’s all Food Network’s new show ’24 Hour Restaurant Battle’ thinks it takes!

Hosted by Scott Conant, who you may recognize from ‘Chopped,’ ’24 Hour Restaurant Battle’ is pretty self-explanatory: Each one-hour episode features dueling teams who must conceive, plan, and open their own restaurants in 24 hours. On each team, one person handles front-of-house issues like décor, seating, and service while the other manages back-of-house matters like menu planning, shopping, and cooking. When the doors open, each restaurant serves a group of diners along with Scott and a rotating panel of judges. Based on the restaurant’s concept, execution, and viability, the judges choose a winning team who receive $10,000.

I am seriously hoping they select chefs who can’t stand one another to be on the same team. I wanna see Paula Deen cut someone.

You can catch ’24 Hour Restaurant Battle’ on Food Network WEDNESDAY JULY 21 at 10:00 PM/EST, or you can catch an exclusive SNEAK PEAK JULY 18 at 10:00 PM/EST. You can learn more about the show BY CLICKING HERE.

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Lindsay Lohan NOT Dropped from Label

October 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment

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Lindsay Lohan might not be able to afford her nose candy much longer since reports have surfaced of her being dropped by her record label. The rumor states that after working for an year and a half on her album, Lindsay has been dropped by Casablanca Records. According to her reps, this isn’t true. Gossip Cop also states that reps for the label have also called crap on the drop story.

And a rep for Universal Music, the parent company of Casablanca, says she’s still on the Casablanca label, with distribution through Universal.

The struggling actress and wanna be fashion VIP is reportedly having trouble finding work that pays, as it has also been revealed that her high-profile work for the Ungaro fashion house has been mostly for clothing. While she reportedly paid for both her stay in Paris as well as her flight, she did manage to snatch about $100,000 worth of clothes in the process.

Per NYMag:

Though last week it was reported that Lindsay is working at Ungaro for free clothes alone, Moufarrige says she’s getting paid: Moufarrige won’t reveal her pay package, saying only that it is “quite enough. It’s expensive”. Given her unpredictability, it is also a risk. Her fragility, says Moufarrige, “has been factored in”. It needs to be.

However, sources have reported that Lindsay has been followed around by a camera crew lately, being followed by a camera crew in Paris at the Vogue party and later when she hit a ton of clubs around town. This is leading many to believe that she’s taken the reality TV high-road, just like many other washed-up, worn-out celebs have. There’s always plan B Lindsay – Sell your Ungaro clothes on ebay for the quick and easy buck. Those pills don’t buy themselves!

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Why You Should Be Watching ‘Glee’

September 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I am totally in love with “Glee”. All of you who follow my weekly ‘Lost’ recaps are aware that I do not profess my love to just any show. Even shows that I know are good, I always compare to the brilliance of ‘Lost’ and they fail…until now.

I do enjoy a good comedy. Tina Fey and the high-larious people at ’30 Rock’ knock my boots every week. But ‘Glee’ isn’t like that either. It’s totally different from anything and that is why I love it.

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So what usually happens to shows like ‘Glee’? Well, five people like me write about how wonderful it is, we tell everyone we know, those people say they are going to watch it and never do…and then it gets cancelled. This is what happened with ‘Arrested Development’. I can’t take that again. It will kill me.

Therefore, I am taking it upon myself to pimp the hell out of ‘Glee.’ ‘Glee’ is my new boo (sorry Kathy Griffin). You must watch it, and I will give you three reasons why:

1. Jane Lynch: I fell in love with this bitch when she starred in “Best in Show.” I am a HUGE fan of all things Christopher Guest (c’mon people, ‘Spinal Tap’ is amazeballs) and was pleasantly surprised to find that Jane’s character in that movie held her own against comedic heavyweights like Guest, Michael McKeon, and Catherine O’Hara. Then, she started popping up in all the right places in all the right roles, like ‘The 40 Year-Old Virgin’. She’s amazing. And without missing a beat her ‘Sue Sylvester’, the cheerleading coach who is more Adolf Hitler than pom-pon prom queen, has me in stitches every time she is on the screen. Whether she is revoking the tanning privileges of her Cheerios, or trying to get Mr. Schuester to take iron supplements to help him with his menstruation, she steals every scene she is in and rightfully so.

2. Hot Guys: Phew! Really, hot guys on a show has been on hiatus too long. Seriously. All I have to look forward to are a few moment when Matthew Fox’s character doesn’t shave on ‘Lost’ and Josh Holloway’s parades around topless. Yea, yea. John Krazinski is cute. But he’s not this cute. Matthew Morrison and Cory Monteith together, on the screen, hotness spilling over, making it quiver, making me often pause the TV and rewind to see them smile or lick their lips again. And again. And again…sorry is it hot in here. And please don’t worry ladies. I know, Monteith plays a high schooler. But I checked. He’s 27. Yum.

3. Music: I am the first person to completely deny my hidden obsession for musicals. I honestly have never seen ‘The Sound of Music’ or ‘Mary Poppins’, but if the vodka is flowing at the right speed, I will karaoke your ass under the table with some ‘Grease’ tunes. Yes, I sang along to the music that was belted out when I saw ‘The Producers’ on Broadway-much to my husband’s chagrin. And you know what-SO DID YOU. You love musicals. You know you can’t wait to see ‘Nine’ and you know you’ve seen ‘Moulin Rouge’ more times than you will ever admit. And that is why you will love this show. Last week, I spent days singing ‘Golddigger’ thanks to Matthew Morrison. This week, I am all over Color Me Badd thanks to the Acafellas. You will be too. Trust me.

‘Glee’ airs Wednesday nights at 9:00 EST on Fox.

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Katherine Heigl Is Overpriced

May 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment

It didn’t take long for Katherine Heigl to get back on her high horse. It seems the “Grey’s Anatomy” actress and resident beyotch was in talks to star with an ensemble cast in Gary Marshall’s romantic comedy “Valentine’s Day”, but she pulled out of the project when her demands weren’t met…or even entertained by the producers.

It seems Heigl and her people came to the table demanding she be paid a staggering $3 million-more than any of the other actors work on the flick-actors that include Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway, and Shirley MacLaine.

As if her price tag wasn’t enough, that price is attached to a mere 14 days of shooting. That’s right kids, Heigl believes she’s worth $1.5 million/week.

A rep for Heigl denies the claims via Page Six:

“The story is ludicrous. Early negotiations are a daily occurrence in this business, and just for clarification, Katherine walked away from this project for multiple reasons.”

Multiple reasons? Like not getting $3 million, her own trailer, chef, white roses, personal umbrella holder, and someone to wipe her bum?

Heigl is known for being a major beyotch on sets and often bites and gnaws the hands that feed her.

While shooting “Knocked-Up” she criticized how writer/director Judd Apatow portrayed women in the film, and she withdrew her name from last year’s Emmy race stating, “I do not feel I was given the material this season to warrant a nomination.”

Hey Katherine, next time you withdraw your name, you are also free to stay home so we aren’t subjected to 10 minutes of you and Seacrest kisses each other’s arses on the red carpet.

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Real Housewife, LuAnn de Lesseps, Getting A Divorce

March 31, 2009 By Leave a Comment

The “Real Housewives of New York” are down for the count…or countess I should say. It seems that Countess LuAnn de Lesseps and her husband the Count have parted ways. Oh no! Who will boss the poor housekeeper, Rosie around? Who will forget to feed the dog? Who will wave to Victoria as she is shipped off to boarding school?

It seems the Count has a wandering eye. It probably didn’t help that he spends most of his time in Europe while LuAnn spends her days wandering around New York spending his cash.

Via The New York Post:

“She got wind he was seeing somebody and he didn’t answer her when she called. He finally sent her an e-mail saying he was with an Ethiopian woman in Geneva and he was serious with her.”

According to her rep, LuAnn and the Count will remain “friends” for the sake of their children. I, however, am inclined to believe this friendship has more to do with alimony payments than children. A source also adds that LuAnn has no intention of making this into a bitter divorce.

Although I am completely addicted to this show, which airs tonight at 10:00 PM/EST on Bravo, I must admit the Countess is a piece of work. This divorce announcement comes only a short month before her book, “Class with the Countess” is due to be released. That’s classy!

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Completely “Lost” Recap- “LaFleur”

March 5, 2009 By 6 Comments

OK “Lost” fans, brace yourselves. This week’s installment of our favorite show, “LaFleur” was what many of us call a ‘filler episode’. It showed us what happened to our friends on the island (Sawyer, Juliette, Miles, Daniel, and my boy Jin) during the three year absence of the Oceanic Six.

Instead of boring you all with a play-by-play recap (I mean, you did watch the show, right?), I will just give you the gist of it and then move on to what you all want to read about anyway: another one of my harebrained ideas of what is going on with this show.

Long Story Short (if I am capable of that)

The show begins oddly by showing Sawyer as part of the Dharma Initiative on a mission to stop good Old Horace Goodspeed from blowing himself up. However, I want to start back three years earlier where our dear island friends (and a clothed Sawyer-Boo! Hiss!) are going through a shift in time prior to my man Locke moving the frozen donkey wheel (weird). We are quickly shown a VERY Egyptian looking statue from behind. It’s obviously Egyptian since the statue is holding onto two ankhs. Is this the same four–toed statue we were introduced to (and then deserted from) two seasons ago? Don’t know. Here’s the speculation. In last week’s episode, we were shown Locke’s foot while it was in a cast. He had only four toes. This likely means the statue represents Locke. Since we didn’t see the feet of this statue, it is possible that they are one in the same (I will get to that connection later).

Time shifts again, though differently this time. As Miles describes, it was more like an earthquake than a flash. Daniel explains that the shifting is done and Juliette gives Locke mad props for making it all happen. Our friends no longer suffer from headaches or bloody noses and are ready to assimilate into whenever they are.

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“Celebrity Rehab Presents: Sober House” Season Finale

March 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Dear friends, the time has come: “Celebrity Rehab Presents: Sober House” is coming to an end…for this season anyway. You know there are enough train wrecks out there to fully compliment at least another five seasons.

What will happen to former “American Idol” runner-up to the runner-up Nikki McKibbin? Will Mary Carey forget everything my beloved silver fox Dr. Drew has taught her and return to a life of porn movies and pills? And what about former Guns and Roses drummer Steven Adler? Since moving into the “Sober House” he has had two relapses and was even arrested for possession of heroine. Will he be able to make it in the real world without the help of the Pasadena Recovery Center staff? He couldn’t even pee in a cup without someone’s help, so I am going to guess probably not.

I had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Drew recently while he was promoting his many shows and his upcoming book: “The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism is Seducing America” (which is due in stores March 17).

I asked the doc if he ever worries about what motivates some celebrities to sign-up to have their battles with addiction filmed. He responded:

“We are always concerned with what motivates a patient to seek treatment. I have found that if you pay them to show-up and pay them to stay-in, they stay longer and increase their chance of getting better.”

I guess Andy Dick was harder-up for work than I thought.

You can read more of my interview with Dr. Drew here at Hollywood Dame.

Catch the season finale of “Celebrity Rehab Presents: Sober House” Thursday March 12 at 10 PM ET/PT.

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