Million Dollar Money Drop Gives Contestants Second Chance
“There are no second acts in American lives,” said F Scott Fitzgerald. Au contraire, if Fox’s Million Dollar Money Drop is anything to go by.
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College Students’ Persons of the Year: Robert Gates and Nicki Minaj
What’s more surprising: that college students didn’t pick a reality TV star or that they know who Robert Gates is?
Behind Google’s Holiday Doodle
If you’re into Google Doodles then Micheal Lopez is your very own Santa.
To Boldly Go Where No Play Has Gone Before: A Klingon Christmas Carol
nuqneH? qaStaH nuq? peDoghQo’ buy’ ngop (that would be Klingon for, “Hello? What’s happening? Don’t be silly. That’s great news!”)
How Million Dollar Money Drop Dropped the Ball
Game-shows should work on the same premise as math: the answer is either right or wrong. But yet again, we’re confronted with an instance of 1+1=3 and it might have ended up costing one couple a small fortune.
What Were the Year’s Most-Pirated Movies?
James Cameron’s 3D epic Avatar might have lost out to ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker when it came to Oscars, but it has no peer in the slightly less glamorous list of the most-pirated films of the year. But no speech …
Off With Her Head: The Queen To Be Taken Off British Stamps?
Is this the modern definition of austerity? The potential selling off of the Royal Mail is not going to be hampered if the new owners want to replace Queen Elizabeth II with something else of their choosing.
Why Times Are Tough for Your Average Santa
Just because everyone out there’s thinking it, doesn’t it make any less worthy: this holiday season for Santa has been more “no, no, no,” than “ho, ho, ho.”
EGOT in Doubt? Tracy Morgan to Miss Several Episodes of 30 Rock
It’s going to be doubly difficult for Tracy Morgan to win the Grand Slam of show business, the EGOT, (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) if surgery causes you to miss out on what you’re best known for performing in. (via EW)
Last.fm Crowns Ke$ha As Most-Played Artist of 2010
At least we now know what the $ stands for.
Charles Dickens Fails to Get Oprah’s Book-Club Bump
Oprah’s latest book club pick of a certain Charles Dickens hasn’t troubled the charts. Great Expectations? Better downsize them to Small.
Report: The Obamas Aren’t Invited to the Royal Wedding, Either
If you’re reading Mr. and Mrs. Obama, we know exactly how you feel.