Tag: Arts And Entertainment

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Betty White's Big Saturday Night on 'SNL'

Friday, May 07, 2010

Following an aggressive Internet campaign by the actress's fans, Betty White, is set to host Saturday Night Live this weekend.  The 88-year-old actress will join Jay-Z on the show. Comedian Whitney Cummings talks about good comedy, and why the golden girl's still got it.

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    In Living Color: Looking Back, Twenty Years Later with David Alan Grier

    Friday, April 16, 2010

    Twenty years ago this weekend, a new sketch comedy show, "In Living Color," made its debut on the then-fledgling network, Fox.

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    Making 'Treme': The New HBO Series from David Simon

    Friday, April 09, 2010

    Fans of David Simon's "The Wire" are eagerly awaiting the premiere of his latest HBO Series, "Treme." "Treme" is another city-biopic that chronicles a group of people struggling for survival in a scarred neighborhood. But post-Katrina New Orleans is very different from the Baltimore projects fans of "The Wire" came to know intimately. Treme is a poor neighborhood in New Orleans and we get introduced to it three months after the flood waters have receded.

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    The Science of Time Travel Movies

    Friday, March 26, 2010

    Today, the widely anticipated John Cusack/Rob Corddry vehicle, "Hot Tub Time Machine" hits theatres nationwide. As the title suggests, the film centers on a hot tub that transports its characters through time, back to the more innocent year of 1986.

    Rafer Guzman, Takeaway movie contributor and Newsday writer talks about the most memorable time travel movies, and why audiences find these tales so compelling.

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    The Value: Affordable Living at Sea

    Tuesday, March 16, 2010

    For our series, "The Value," Takeaway correspondent Farai Chideya traveled to the Bay Area for a lesson on how to live on the  cheap in one of the country's most costly neighborhoods. A family in Saulsalito, California manages to cut costs by living on their boat. By avoiding expenses like the cost of a car and gas, the family is able to sail around the world and return home with adventurous stories to tell.

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    Sadie the Scottish Terrier Wins Westminster Dog Show

    Wednesday, February 17, 2010

    For show dogs, it all came down to last night's results. After weeks of grooming, pampering and prepping, the officials at the Westminster Dog Show declared Sadie, a four-year-old Scottish Terrier, the "Best in Show."

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    This is Your Brain on Google

    Thursday, February 04, 2010

    A few weeks ago, Roz Chast, esteemed New Yorker cartoonist, created a cartoon that had us all charmed. It depicted an imaginary "Google Magazine" with story titles like "Capitol Nebraska What" and "Parakeet Molasses Safe." For this week's tech segment, we talk with Roz about how she came up with her cartoon, and how Google has become a regular part of her life.

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