McGill Tribune - If I could do a case study on some of the alarming hypocrisy that characterizes media today, I would centre it on supermodel-turned-media mogul Tyra Banks. She truly embodies the modern rule of television: anyone willing to forego dignity, self-awareness, and all ironic detachments can potentially earn about $30 million a year.

Examiner.com - This seems to be the 'buzz' from the folks in & around the industry, blogosphere and simple folks homes now that Ms. Williams have gotten such rave reviews from her move daytime television. The Radio vixen and veteran of 23 years in the Inner City Broadcast Radio industry have decided to clip her on air wings for the time being and focus upon her blazing arrival into the television talk show hosts scene. There is a rumor mill on the horizon as folks tune in to watch some unconventional, sasy, unleashed, ofttimes unscripted words coming out of the mouth of

Newsweek - USA - American Idol without Paula Abdul is like Christmas without presents, summer without sunshine, Three's Company without Suzanne Somers. Simon Cowell might be the mastermind at the judges' table, but Paula is the show's No. 1 star. When she's at her best—the cleavage, the tears, the dancing—who cares about any of the contestants on stage? When she's at her worst—the slurring, the crazy talk, the bickering with Simon—she's even better.

But it looks like Paula's job might be on the line. In an interview Sunday with the Los Angeles Times, her manager David Sonenberg said: "Very sadly, it does not appear she's

Salt Lake Tribune - United States - Despite being a judge on "American Idol" for every season of the top-rated TV show, Randy Jackson has never been involved in an album by an "Idol" alum.

Jackson is the executive producer of "High Hopes & Heartbreak," to be released July 21 by Brooke White, the blond-tressed 26-year-old singer who finished fifth in the 2008 season. She was commonly known on the show as the Mormon nanny who had never seen an R-rated movie. Perhaps soon she'll be known for her music, with her new album featuring songs rooted in the 1970s California-country style she grew up listening to in

Maryville Daily Times - Maryville,TN,USA - Without a doubt, NBC's "Last Comic Standing" changed Ralphie May's life -- and it may have saved it as well.

In addition from his socio-economic move -- from a four-plex at Crenshaw and Adams in Los Angeles to a house in the Hollywood Hills -- May also obtained the financial stability to tend to his health. He's still a big guy, but he's not the morbidly obese funny man that Americans fell for.

"I got something I'd never had before -- insurance," May told The Daily Times this week. "I went to a specialist at Cedars-Sinai (Medical Center), and I got gastric

Los Angeles Times - CA,USA - Until someone dialed 911 on Feb. 8 to report a disturbance in Hancock Park, the pop star Rihanna and her R&B-singer boyfriend, Chris Brown, enjoyed relatively wholesome reputations. Attractive and talented, the couple were known as sexy but not oversexed, fun-loving but not reckless. The two seemed unlikely to be involved in anything more shocking than an all-night dance party.

That image opened the door to a host of commercial endorsements. Brown appeared in ads for Doublemint gum and milk while Rihanna hawked more than a dozen products, including Nike sportswear, Totes umbrellas, Venus razors and Fuze beverages.

But then came the

Daily News Tribune - Waltham,MA,USA - A good meal includes good food and good wine, but more importantly it's about joining with family and friends for a meal and conversation, says television chef Sara Moulton.

"The most important thing for a family, the 'glue' that keeps the family together, is sitting down together for dinner," says Moulton, the host of "Sara's Weeknight Meals" on Channel 2.

Moulton will be at the Boston Wine Expo Saturday and Sunday demonstrating simple ways for families to spend less time cooking and more time at the table together. She'll join other public television chefs Ming Tsai of Wellesley's Blue Ginger restaurant and

Cinema Blend - USA - You won't see me in the audience when Bravo shows the Josh Brolin episode of Inside the Actor's Studio tonight. I was stuck in the back of the smallish theater, far from the floor seats reserved for the fresh-faced students who are well trained to fawn at every word of James Lipton, card-reader, hard-questioner extraordinaire.

But seriously guys, I swear I was there, on a freezing New York night last November, the same week Brolin was hitting the publicity circuit for Milk, which opened a week later. I invited my friend with me, and as the only one of us who

Daily Pennsylvanian - Philadelphia,PA,USA - You may know him best as the Silver Fox. Or as the host of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360. But he prefers to be known simply as Anderson, a non-partisan news anchor who considers himself privileged to have his job - a job he did not know that he would want upon his 1989 graduation from Yale as a political science major.

For most of his life, Anderson had a keen interest in news. During his SPEC fall speaker keynote address on Saturday, he explained to a packed Irvine Auditorium that he decided to begin his career in journalism by "traveling to

The Futon Critic - San Jose,CA,USA - Like the fine-tuning of someone's fashion style, Bravo's "Tim Gunn's Guide To Style" begins season two tonight with a little fine-tuning of its own.  Tim Gunn has a new co-host in Gretta Monahan as well as a show with a quicker pace and efforts to dig deeper into why women dress the way they do.  Talking to our Jim Halterman, Gunn and Monahan discussed the new and improved series with the same camaraderie that is evident onscreen.

After being aided by supermodel Veronica Webb in season one, Gunn is now paired with Monahan, who is a top celebrity stylist and brings

MarketWatch - USA - Fresh off his hugely successful performance as the host of the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards, COMEDY CENTRAL has signed charismatic and controversial comedian Russell Brand to shoot a one-hour stand-up special, it was announced today by Elizabeth Porter, senior vice president, specials and talent, COMEDY CENTRAL. The special will feature Brand and an eclectic roster of special guests and will tape in November in New York City, airing in 2009.

"Russell Brand's comedy is a perfect match for our audience. He's a fresh new face with a rock-star aura and a unique and unpredictable act that pushes the envelope of

San Leandro India West - San Leandro,CA,USA - The unexpected question posed by renowned corporate strategist Prof. C.K. Prahalad drew chuckles from the 150 entrepreneurs, business-owners, and IT professionals attending his talk Sept. 18, organized by the Southern California chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs at the Sheraton Cerritos hotel.

Prahalad teaches corporate strategy at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. A prominent consultant, he has received many honors and has co-authored several books including the 2004 best-seller, “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profit.” Last year, he was named the world’s most influential management thinker by The Times of London’s annual survey

Norman Transcript - Norman,OK,USA - Journalist Jim Lehrer, executive editor and anchor for "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," is the inaugural recipient of the Gaylord Prize, established by the University of Oklahoma Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication to honor a nationally recognized journalist with high standards of excellence.

Lehrer, an Emmy- and Peabody-award-winning journalist, has been chosen to moderate the presidential and vice presidential debates for the past five elections and will again host the first presidential debate on Sept. 26.

"We are grateful to the Gaylord family for endowing this prize of national importance and designating the University of Oklahoma to award it," OU

eFluxMedia - USA - Who doesn’t love Sacha Baron Cohen, except the people he tricked into saying really embarrassing things for the world to see and, more recently, fashion designer Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, whose show during Milan Fashion Week on Thursday gained a little more salt and pepper than it was initially planned?

All with the help of Sacha’s alter ego. No, there was no Kazakhstan reporter in the backstage, but a ravishing presence on the catwalk, among the confused models. Yes, the famous flamboyant Austrian fashionista, Bruno made an appearance onstage sporting a rather interesting outfit.

As any self-respecting fashion commenter, Bruno was

Entertainment Weekly - USA - Elizabeth Banks is about to have a movie-star moment. She's just come from the world premiere of Kevin Smith's Zack and Miri Make a Porno at the Toronto Film Festival, arriving at the Four Seasons in a sleek Prada dress with an SUV-size entourage in tow. The maitre d' at the hotel's chic lounge has swiftly grouped a collection of tables in one corner for her crew. Just as Banks settles in, a stranger approaches with that unmistakable look of omigod-I'm-about-to-talk-to-a-celebrity anticipation. He leans over and asks, ''Excuse me, are you Chelsea Handler?'' Whoops. Banks smiles, apparently loving that she's

Sacramento Bee - CA, USA - Stephanie Izard was kicking back at Lake Tahoe the other day.

None of the dishes that helped her win Bravo TV's "Top Chef" competition in June was on her menu.

No sautéed red snapper with truffled white asparagus, no lamb medallions with maitake mushrooms and braised pistachios, no ricotta pound cake with salted banana cream and lime glaze.

Just shrimp sautéed in bacon fat, finished with a corn salad and toasted almonds.

"Bacon makes everything taste better," said Izard as she fried a couple slices while preparing the shrimp dish during her cooking demonstration at the 23rd annual Lake Tahoe Autumn Food and Wine

Washington Post - United States - When HBO decided earlier this year to pull the plug on "Inside the NFL," the long-running weekly talk and highlight show that actually began on free, over-the-air television 31 years ago, Cris Collinsworth was, by his own description, "stunned."

"I'm still stunned, and the guys at HBO who worked on it are still stunned," he said in a recent telephone interview. "I'm sure it was done for financial reasons. There's an abundance of highlight shows everywhere you look. Maybe the ratings didn't justify the costs. But even so, this was something that was on from the beginning of the (HBO) network,