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ON THE
TUBE: Fri - Sun
Friday
Today (NBC) -- Katy Perry
Good Morning America (ABC) -- Lady Antebellum
Regis & Kelly (synd) -- Ashton Kutcher, Larry David
(repeat)
The View (ABC) -- Bethenny Frankel, Christine Baranski
(repeat)
Ellen DeGeneres (synd) -- Penelope Cruz (repeat)
Jay Leno (NBC) -- Seth Meyers (repeat)
Jimmy Kimmel (ABC) -- Eva Mendes (repeat)
David Letterman (CBS) -- Sylvester Stallone (repeat)
Jimmy Fallon (NBC) -- Billy Crudup (repeat)
Craig Ferguson (CBS) -- Eric Idle (repeat)
Starz wraps up the mini-series Pillars of Earth.
Saturday
Look, up in the sky...it's the SyFy Channel's Meteor
Apocalypse!
Sunday
NBC airs live coverage of this year's Emmy Awards.
Lifetime airs the season finale of Drop Dead Diva.
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THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT: The Biggest Box Office Losers In
History - According
to CNBC
5. The 13th Warrior (1999) -- Adjusted for inflation,
this Antonio Banderas action movie lost $125 million
dollars.
4. Sahara (2005) -- Matthew McConaughey and Penelope
Cruz stumbled through this clunker, which lost $133
million dollars.
3. The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) -- One of the
most famous bombs in recent history, Eddie Murphy's Pluto
Nash cost $120 million dollars, but only earned $7
million. Ouch. Adjusted for inflation, that's a $134
million dollar write down.
2. The Alamo (2004) -- Dennis Quaid and Billy Bob
Thornton managed to lose $134.7 million dollars on this
remake.
1. Cutthroat Island (1995) -- The grand champion,
Cutthroat Island is the biggest financial disaster in all
of movie history, a fact confirmed by the Guinness Book of
World Records. $147 million dollars down the drain.
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LINDSAY'S BACK TO DRIVING, TWEETING - Lindsay
Lohan is out of rehab and on the road. A day after her
release Tuesday, LiLo headed to the DMV and got her
driver's license re-instated. By yesterday (Thursday)
morning she was seen cruising around in her Maserati. She
then headed to Twitter to rant about photographers. Her
first post-jail tweet reads, "Clearly, paparazzi
shouldn't be allowed to take pictures or video while
someone's driving or at a stop light."...Her license
had been suspended before she was locked up in relation to
her 2007 DUI cases.
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HEIDI SAYS SPLIT WAS HER FAULT - Before
you go blaming Spencer Pratt for destroyed his marriage,
listen to what Heidi Montag has to say. She tells Life and
Style magazine that her love of plastic surgery led to the
couple's demise. "Spencer begged me not to get the
first surgery and it almost broke up our relationship.
Then he begged me not to get the second one and it did
break our relationship."...But Heidi's not too happy
with the work she's had done. "I've had my nose tape
on 24 hours a day since November. The tape is supposed to
keep the swelling down and hold my nose in place the way
[the doctor] sculpted it. I don't want my nose to fall off
like Michael Jackson's."
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BRISTOL PALIN WILL BE DANCING WITH THE STARS - Another
Palin has landed a TV gig. Bristol Palin will be shaking
what her mother gave her on Dancing With the Stars next
month. She'll reportedly compete against David Hasselhoff,
Jersey Shore's The Situation and Florence Henderson...Her
mom's documentary series Sarah Palin's Alaska will
premiere in November. And her baby daddy, Levi Johnston,
is filming his run for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska for a
proposed reality show.
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MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGER COMES OUT OF THE CLOSET - A
former star of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers says he
had to quit the kid's show because he was discriminated
and harassed for being gay. David Yost, who played the
Blue Ranger from 1993 to 1996, says the show's staff used
gay slurs and humiliated him. He just recently came out of
the closet.
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Will Forte has quit Saturday Night Live. The MacGruber
star plans "to pursue new opportunities."
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The Kardashian-Jenner family will receive the key to
the city of Beverly Hills at a wine and food festival
Thursday.
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Sandra Bullock will join New Orleans Mayor Mitch
Landrieu Sunday for the ribbon cutting of a new health
clinic she helped fund at Warren Easton Charter High
School.
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The man who allegedly tried to break into Paris
Hilton's home earlier this week has been charged with
attempted burglary. Nathan Lee Parada, 31, faces six years
in prison if convicted.
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BIG BROTHER: Double Eviction - On
last night's Big Brother...
Ragan said Matt's betrayal really woke him up, and the
two had it out. Ragan also discovered he's up against an
alliance with Hayden and Enzo.
The Head of Household competition had houseguests
digging through packing peanuts for clues. Hayden's the
new boss, and later won veto power in a trivia
competition. He used the power to save himself from the
block.
At the first eviction vote, Matt was sent home. Brendon
was eliminated in the second.
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No autotuning here, say `American Idol' producers - A
furor over whether Simon Cowell's British talent show
"The X Factor" electronically altered contestant
voices has prompted "American Idol" to make a
pre-emptive strike..."We have never, nor would we
ever, use Auto-Tuning during the 'American Idol'
competition," producers of the Fox show said in a
statement Thursday...Fans of "The X Factor" have
alleged online that pitch-correction software was used to
alter some performances. The show's producers responded to
the outcry by acknowledging that post-production was used
to correct for the interplay of the various microphones
used during filming.
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Levi Johnston takes back his apology to Palin - Levi
Johnston, the father of Sarah Palin's grandson, says he
wishes he hadn't apologized for telling lies about the
former Alaska governor because he's "never lied about
anything."...Johnston said in an interview on
CBS'"The Early Show" to air Friday that he
wishes that he hadn't issued the apology to Palin..."I
don't really regret anything," Johnston said, who has
appeared nude on the cover of Playgirl. "But the only
thing I wish I wouldn't have done is put out that apology
'cause it kind of makes me sound like a liar. And I've
never lied about anything. So that's probably the only
thing. The rest of the stuff I can live with."
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Judge: Chris Brown doing `great job' on probation - The
judge overseeing Chris Brown's probation for beating
ex-girlfriend Rihanna sang the praises of the R&B
artist on Thursday and urged him to keep chipping away at
his community service requirement...The judge said Brown
had consistently worked to satisfy his six-month community
labor sentence, but she did not say how many hours he had
completed.
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ELIN SPEAKS OUT - Elin,
whose divorce from Tiger Woods was finalized Monday, tells
People, "I've been through hell." She says Tiger
was very good at keeping his cheating ways a secret.
"I never suspected, not a one. For the last
three-and-a-half years, when all this was going on, I was
home a lot more with pregnancies, then the children and my
school."...She tells the magazine this was her first
-- and last -- interview.
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MILEY SPLITS WITH BOYFRIEND - Miley
Cyrus has sung her last song with her Aussie beau...The
17-year-old has ended her yearlong romance with Liam
Hemsworth. The two met on the set of her 2009 movie The
Last Song.
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HEIDI DOWNGRADING HER BOOBS - Spencer
Pratt isn't Heidi Montag's only regret...The reality star
is having second thoughts about her recent breast
enlargement, telling Life & Style magazine, "I'm
desperate to go back to normal. I'm downgrading and going
a little smaller, to a D or a double D."
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KIM K. WOULD DATE THE BIEB IF HE WAS OLD ENOUGH - In
two years, things could get very interesting between Kim
Kardashian and Justin Bieber...Kim tells George Lopez that
she'd considered dating the 16-year-old pop star "if
he was of legal age." She adds, "He definitely
has this swag to him."
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Sandra Bullock will give her first TV interview since
breaking up with Jesse James on Tuesday's Today show.
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Investigators have turned Mel Gibson's domestic
violence case over to the Los Angeles D.A. to decide on
charges. A decision could take months.
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Mad Men star Christina Hendricks is featured in London
Fog's fall 2010 ad campaign.
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Cake Boss star Remy Gonzalez has been arrested for
sexually assaulting a minor. He's being held on $300,000
bail in the Morris County Jail in New Jersey. Gonzalez is
married to "Cake Boss" Buddy Valastro's sister.
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Timbaland reports watch theft, later changes story - Authorities
are investigating a claim by rapper Timbaland that someone
stole a $2 million watch from his Malibu home...The Los
Angeles County sheriff's office says the rapper-producer
reported the theft over the weekend but there was no
indication of a break-in at his home. Detective Vic
Paladino says Timbaland is concerned the thief is someone
he knows.
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Henson donates original Kermit to Smithsonian - The
original Kermit the Frog, his body created with an old
dull-green coat and his eyes made of pingpong balls, has
returned home to the nation's capital, where the puppet
got his start...The first Kermit creation from Jim
Henson's Muppet's collection appeared in 1955 on the early
TV show "Sam and Friends," produced at
Washington's WRC-TV. Henson's widow Jane Henson on
Wednesday donated 10 characters from the show to the
Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
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Coppola, Godard to receive honorary Oscars - Directors
Francis Ford Coppola and Jean-Luc Godard, actor Eli
Wallach and historian Kevin Brownlow are this year's
recipients of the Governor's Awards from the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...Honorary Oscars are
given for "extraordinary distinction in lifetime
achievement, exceptional contributions to the state of
motion picture arts and sciences, or for outstanding
service to the academy."
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HITTING DVD & BLU-RAY
The Back-Up Plan is new to DVD and Blu-Ray today.
Jennifer Lopez meets the man of her dreams on the day she
resigns herself to getting artificially inseminated. Alex
O'Loughlin (from TV's Moonlight) and Anthony Anderson
co-star. It comes with deleted scenes, a making-of special
and behind-the-scenes footage.
City Island stars Andy Garcia as a corrections officer
who secretly takes acting lessons. Julianna Margulies,
Steven Strait, Emily Mortimer and Alan Arkin co-star. It
comes with commentary, deleted scenes, a making-of special
and a digital copy.
TV includes the second season of 90210, the third
season of Gossip Girl, the sixth and final season of Lost,
the seventh season of NCIS, and the 13th season of The
Simpsons.
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UPCOMING MOVIES - FRIDAY, AUGUST 27TH
THE LAST EXORCISM (horror) Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell,
Louis Herthum. A troubled minister allows his last
exorcism to be filmed by a documentary crew.
TAKERS (action) Michael Ealy, Gaius Charles, Matt
Dillon, Paul Walker, Idris Elba. Professional criminals
attempt to pull off one last big job.
AVATAR: SPECIAL EDITION (fantasy) The blockbuster
returns with an extra nine minutes of new footage. (750
theaters)
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