Looks like my picks for the top concerts of the '70s made it to the top 10 in the Vote Down to the Greatest MSG Show of All Time! Led Zeppelin and Springsteen have made it to to Round 2 and now it's time to vote for the Best of the '80s featuring top concerts from Michael Jackson, Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen to Madonna, Whitney Houston, and many more.

So far Culture Club is in the lead - THE INSANITY!!! Michael Jackson and Whitney are close behind so it's time to start getting some votes up!

Polls for the '80s decade, Round 1 End on Monday, November 16th. Who's your pick for best '80s show? Click on the source below to vote and see who else made the lineup.





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( Project Runway fans of Minneapolis, make it work! )

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I'm not sure if this is considered post-worthy or not, so I'll leave that up to the mods to decide. Basically I met AFI last night, but we weren't allowed to take pictures, so no ONTD sign. I was able to get a shaky video of Hunter acknowledging ONTD's exsistence. He didn't quite know what I was talking about when I said "ONTD" but he got it when I said "Oh No They Didn't".



My voice sounds weird...I'm really shy and quiet and was trying hard to not be, and ended up talking obnoxiously.

Likely to be seen on the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince DVD (or possibly during the ABC Family special), a new featurette for the sixth film titled "The Pitfalls of Teenage Love" has been released on iTunes.

The 3 minute, 52 second video includes many interviews with various cast members about the relationships in Half-Blood Prince. Lots of new behind-the-scenes footage can also be seen.


Wow, the acting in this film sucked. Everything is just painfully awkward. Especially the Dan/Bonnie chemistry. I like Yates telling her the most important thing is just to ~connect~ with Dan.

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( Heather Locklear's ~big entrance~ to Melrose Place )

( Navid tells Naomi that Adriana's doing drugs again )

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Can Amanda's comeback PLEASE spice shit up on MP? Because even I think it's boring now... and I like everything. I hope she brings the whole bitchy, catfighting, pyschotic female characters thing that the 90s MP had going on. I'd love to see Katie Cassidy slapping Heather Locklear or viceversa.

Tony Award winner Sutton Foster and Tony nominees Marin Mazzie and Jennifer Damiano will take part in the industry presentation of the 1988 cult musical Carrie.

As previously reported, Stafford Arima (Altar Boyz, Tin Pan Alley Rag, Somewhere in Time, London's Ragtime) will direct the 29-hour Equity reading that will take place in Manhattan Nov. 20.

According to the official website for Carrie, the cast will feature Foster (Shrek, Thoroughly Modern Millie) as gym teacher Ms. Gardner, Mazzie (Passion, Ragtime) as Ms. White and Damiano (Next to Normal, Spring Awakening).

Also revealed are "American Idol" finalist Diana DeGarmo (Hairspray, The Toxic Avenger), Molly Ranson (August: Osage County), Matt Doyle (Spring Awakening, Bye Bye Birdie), John Arthur Greene (West Side Story) and Philip Hoffman (A Catered Affair).



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Lauren leaving the launch of Assassins Creed in LA last night





Meanwhile, her new line at Kohl’s which was launched in limited release to 300 stores, is set to rollout to all Kohl’s store ahead of schedule in the wake of strong sales.

Kohl's has benefited from its expansion of exclusive brands like Dana Buchman, Simply Vera Vera Wang, and LC by Lauren Conrad, which launched in October, as well as cost-cutting.

"We continue to experience improvement in inventory management and increased penetration in 'Only at Kohl's' brands," CEO Kevin Mansell said in a statement.

He added that the company is accelerating the rollout of the LC by Lauren Conrad label from the 300 stores it occupies currently to all 1,059 stores nationwide in March, from an earlier goal of by next fall.

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Hills fans, don’t forget to swing by Borders to pick up your copy of Heidi’s new novel Compton Cookie!



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( gotta admit i'm only here for the glee though )

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Rock star Sting has called the X Factor "televised karaoke" and said judges like Simon Cowell have "no recognisable talent apart from self-promotion".

The singer, 58, told London's Evening Standard that the Saturday night show was "a soap opera which has nothing to do with music".

He added: "I am sorry but none of those kids are going to go anywhere, and I say that sadly."

( jedward isn't for everyone... )

A Monopoly movie? When word first spread about Universal's plan to make a film based on the venerable board game, it wasn't hard to predict the smirking suggestion from every skeptic within arm's reach of a computer keyboard: "Do not pass go, do not collect $200 ... "Then came word that Ridley Scott, of all people, was interested in directing the project and, well, observers just didn't know what to think. Why on earth would the filmmaker behind "Gladiator," "Alien" and "Blade Runner" be interested in the dapper little cartoon-capitalist called Uncle Pennybags?

But Frank Beddor, a pivotal figure in the project's odyssey, says doubters should remember that a film's core concept is merely a starting place, not the whole ride. "Everybody reacted the same way when they heard that there was going to be a 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movie -- and I did too."

I talked to Beddor for a Los Angeles Times Calender cover story on "The Looking Glass Wars" his reimagining of Lewis Carroll's classic characters -- Alice, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, etc. -- as players in a dark fantasy epic of royal intrigue and magical battlefields. Our conversation turned to his interesting role in the Monopoly enterprise and he revealed quite a bit about the premise that lured Scott into the project.

 

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1. The Wire (HBO, 2002-08)


Taking full ad vantage of the generous breadth of the television format—and HBO’s commitment to ambitious, form-expanding programming—The Wire unfolded like a great American novel, trusting viewers to pick up on the intricate connections between seasons, characters, and myriad details. Starting as an impressively scrupulous, evenhanded depiction of the Baltimore drug trade, the show opened up into an ever-expanding portrait of a city, one weakened institution at a time, from the unions to the schools to the newspaper business. At every turn, Simon and his crack team of writers (including crime novelists George Pelacanos, Richard Price, and Dennis Lehane) revealed how the corrupt and often grossly incompetent acts of the powerful consistently preyed on the city’s most defenseless residents. Rooted in Greek tragedy, this grim series was mitigated by moments of profound redemption, a penchant for gallows humor, and an abiding respect for the quietly heroic men and women who try to make a difference.
Essential episodes: “Bad Dreams,” “Final Grades,” “Late Editions”

2. The Sopranos (HBO, 1999-2007)

The depiction of evil in storytelling has been complicated ever since Lucifer became the breakout character in Milton’s Paradise Lost. It would be a mistake to say all 86 episodes of The Sopranos are a commentary on the relationship between storytellers and their wicked characters, but that was definitely on the mind of show creator David Chase. Over the course of its six seasons, the series followed the misadventures of Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), a charismatic multiple murderer who uses psychotherapy to help him balance his relationships with his wife and children, and to deal with the stress of his position as a powerful figure in the New Jersey mafia. Chase and other writers used Tony’s dual life as means to examine consumerist culture, the lasting impact of violence, Italian-American identity, and dozens of other themes. With a strong cast anchored by Gandolfini’s brilliant leading turn, each season served up soap opera, mob intrigue, and surrealist digressions, all tied together by the main character’s quest for self-realization. The dark inevitability of that quest’s end will be forever debated by fans, but one lesson is clear: having sympathy for the Devil doesn’t make him any less monstrous, no matter how much we might wish otherwise.
Essential episodes: “Employee Of The Month,” “Whoever Did This,” “Made In America”

3. Arrested Development (Fox, 2003-06)

As Ron Howard explains at the beginning of every Arrested Development episode, “This is the story of a wealthy family who lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together.” That’s a deceptively simple way of explaining Arrested Development, but the complexity of the show’s writing is what kept fans enamored. In short, AD not only makes viewers laugh, it makes them feel smart. What other TV comedy so richly rewarded a vigilant audience with inside jokes, subtle callbacks, and long-form farce? Of course the spoiled, obnoxious characters (especially those played by Jessica Walters, Will Arnett, and David Cross) are entertaining as they are, but the writing around them makes the show a classic. Arrested Development’s gags run the gamut from puns (Sunday brunch places named “Skip Church’s” and “Miss Temple’s”) to the sweet (George Michael’s homage to Charlie Brown) to the nearly profane (the word “cunt” is referenced a surprising number of times for a network TV show) to the ridiculous (“Bob Loblaw’s law blog”), yet it all ties together. The series demands attention and repays it with bits that don’t even register until the second, third, or even fourth viewing. And the telltale sign of Arrested Development’s greatness: it looks like it was fun as hell to make.
Essential episodes: “Pier Pressure,” “Mr. F,” “Righteous Brothers”
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The second single from Lady GaGa's upcoming studio album entitled "The Fame Monster" is "Telephone" featuring Beyonce!

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Syfy’s Alice will debut in less than a month, on December 6th, but Pop Culture Zoo got a first-look at the series, as well a chance to join an interview panel featuring Mark Stern, director Nick Welling, and actors Caterina Scorsone (Alice) and Matt Frewer (who plays the White Knight). Four clips of the mini-series were shown, proving that the network has found a way to tell a story about more than a dumb girl that simply falls down a hole.
This version follows a twenty-something Alice into a parallel-universe Wonderland after a back-alley confrontation with a gang of ‘Suits’, led by the White Rabbit. She enters a trippy casino-world where captive people’s memories are erased and their emotions are drained and bottled (leaving them mere “Oysters”), under the rule of the Queen of Hearts.

Willing’s Alice is set in a very modern Wonderland, with a very independent, proactive Alice (who also knows martial arts) at the story’s center. During the panel interview, director Nick Welling offered his take on what separates this Alice from others:

“This is the Wonderland that’s 150 years on from that Wonderland that you read about as a children’s story…. Just as we have evolved 150 years, so to has Wonderland. And not all for the better.”
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Looks interesting, and Kathy bates look likes she is having fun with this..

Nielsen SoundScan has announced major changes coming to the way it tabulates the weekly album sales chart. The SoundScan/Billboard 200 will now include catalog releases in the official chart alongside new albums. The chart had previously only listed releases from the previous 18 months, with older releases moved to a seperate chart. However, with this year's massive sales figures for Michael Jackson and Beatles albums, their numbers were missing from the official weekly charts.

Reuters reports that the changes go into effect for the sales week ending November 22, making the November 25 sales chart the first as a "comprehensive" chart. Jackson is the second-biggest selling artist of 2009, after Taylor Swift, and his best-of set Number Ones was the best-selling album in the country for six weeks earlier this year, though it wasn't reflected on the official chart.

In other Nielsen SoundScan news, the company has released new data on vinyl and digital music sales in 2009. For the SoundScan era, vinyl sales have set a new high point, with over two million vinyl records already sold this year. This breaks last year's record of 1.9 million.

As for digital music, four artists have broken Rihanna's digital tracks sales record (she sold 9.9 million digital songs in '08) already. So far, 11.3 million digital Michael Jackson songs have been sold, 11.1 million Lady Gaga songs have been sold this year, with 10.3 million Black Eyed Peas tunes and 9.98 million Taylor Swift songs.

Nielsen SoundScan reports that next week, the 2008 year-end digital album sales total of 65 million will be broken, as well as the one billion track sales mark.

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