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Surprise link found between the NBA and 60 year-old, short, white Englishmen: The Rolling Stones are featured in the latest NBA television ad as part of the basketball organization’s “Love It Live” campaign. The 30-second spot debuted on cable’s TNT during Tuesday’s (October 29) opening night doubleheader matching the Philadelphia …

If you didn’t know better, you might think TV was all about imitation: Add supermodel to the list of dream jobs reality television is promising its viewers. UPN has given an eight-episode midseason order to an hourlong reality series tentatively titled “Supermodel,” with Tyra Banks serving as an executive producer …

There is so much going on with the Osbournes you could write a blog just about them (let me know if there is one). The first family of metal will be back on MTV in November, daughter Kelly has a new CD coming out, and now Sharon has announced that …

Hollywood and Vine will now boast something worth seeing: A group of businessmen announced Tuesday the establishment of a $25 million Motion Picture Hall of Fame, scheduled to open in 2004 at the corner of Hollywood and Vine — or Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street. Heck, why not? Baseball players …

New cable network to build the commercials into the shows to thwart ad-skipping technology: a new cable network has elevated the practice beyond the occasional, building such anti-ad-zapping efforts directly into its business model. The entire schedule of the new network, Fine Living, has been specifically set up to incorporate …

24 is back and we were glued to the tube last night for the opening episode. The no-commercials (they were all attached to the beginning and the end) ploy worked well, moving the action along – it was tough to decide when to pee. In case you have been in …

A couple of weeks ago in celebration of Columbus Day, we discussed a series of books containing a quite unfavorable picture of the explorer, much of it written in his own words. Columbus clearly was, shall we say, insensitive to the well-being of the natives he found in the New …

Other than as status symbol/conspicuous consumption I don’t get the whole celebrity artifact craze: Kurt Cobain’s boyhood home sold for a $150K premium last month, but from the relic standpoint, at this one is an actual piece of Elvis. I mean when the technology catches up, you can clone the …

Sharp increase in politically-motivated attacks – hacking for Allah: Pro-Islamic hackers are on the frontline of a potential new cyber war after the end of a cease-fire by “hacktivists” and virus designers that followed the September 11 attacks on the United States, Internet experts say. Pro-Islamic hackers are escalating attacks …

Bid for world domination: RealNetworks Inc. on Tuesday made the source code for its Internet media playing software available for other software and hardware makers to use in their products, in a push to make its technology the industry standard. “We are leveraging momentum in market, both among consumers and …