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Heeeeeeerrrrre’s Jonny!

The _Daily Show_'s Jon Stewart will "return as host for the 2008 Oscar telecast":http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=news&id=11763. The switch back to Stewart (who hosted the 2006 Awards) was a decision made by ...
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It’s All in the Dyes

Consider this the obligatory 9/11 post. While "some":http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/11/mueller.bin.laden/ publications are debating the implications of Bin Laden's speech in his recent video tape, "others":htt...
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Ask A Black Man

Richard Pryor didn't come up with all of those wildly provocative punch lines by himself. A large amount of his scathing onstage material and Grammy-winning LPs are credited to _The Richard Pryor Show_ head wri...
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All About My Other

Last year, Ari Sandel's "_West Bank Story_":http://www.westbankstory.com/ somehow won an Academy Award for "Best Live Action Short Film." The film told the story of an Israeli soldier falling for a Palestinian ...
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Lost and Found

If the season finale of "_Big Love_":http://www.hbo.com/biglove/ has left you jonesing for your weekly fix of polygamist Mormons, check out "_CNN.com_":http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/07/lost.boys/index.html's st...
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No Mo’ Mo

After only a couple years of operation, restaurant/bar/performance space "Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction":http://www.mopitkins.com is "up for sale":http://www.nypost.com/seven/09052007/gossip/pagesix/pagesix...
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Rabbi Hangs Ten

Rabbi Nachum Shifren, otherwise known as the "Surfing Rabbi" is divinely inspired by the waves of Malibu, CA where he teaches surfing to people of all faiths and denominations, including at risk kids in the Los...
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Gary Coleman, Eat Your Heart Out!

Okay, so there "might not be anything newsy":http://www.heebmagazine.com/blog/view/278 about a former child star getting rough with a lady friend or having to go to rehab, but you gotta take a look at "yesterda...
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Minority Report

A few of years ago, we challenged "_Hyphen_,":http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/ the magazine of Asian American arts, culture and commentary to a table tennis competition to determine once and for all who owned the...
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The Kid Stays in the Pixel

The master movie producers behind _How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days_ are collaborating on a big screen adaptation of the 80s arcade game, "Joust," "set 25 years in the future in a Las Vegas suspended in mid-air":h...
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Elsewhere in Social Networking…

Now that "Facebook is reaching beyond the college demographic,":http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20227872/site/newsweek/ social networking-wannabes are licking their chops and getting ready to prey upon what they pr...