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Jai Rodriguez: From “Queer Eye” to Style Guy

He spent five seasons — and earned an Emmy — transforming average Joes and their average homes into works of workable chic. Now Jai Rodriguez has teamed up with Style Network to bring Ultimate Style to everyone with a taste for “the latest” and a half hour to spare every Saturday night. Tapping the wisdom of fashion and lifestyle trendsetters wherever they happen to find them — on the catwalks and on the streets, in the salons and in their homes — Jai and his cohost, fellow beauty-on-a-budget guru Daisy Fuentes, use their own expertise to help you translate the […]

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Drama

When It Rains … : A “Cane” Recap

Posted by Sarah Old Man Samuels is on the floor of his office, oozing blood as Alex tries to grasp what’s just happened. Alex calls 911 and puts his coat around Samuels and tries to stop the bleeding, but of course it’s not doing anything. Alex: “I want you to make it so you can rot in prison for arson and the attempted murder of my son.” OMS: “I’ll die happy knowing you didn’t get the satisfaction of killing me.” Alex: “I hope it hurts, Joe. I hope it hurts, real bad, all the way down.” Old Man Samuels dies, […]

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Reality TV

Amazing Race: Cherry On Top Of The Sundae That's Already Melted

Michelle & Bex Graphic Designers This week gave us a more exciting episode — airport suspense, physically challenging (and possibly dangerous) tasks and teammates hating on each other. That’s the kind of stuff that makes us love Amazing Race! TK and Rachel came in first last week so they leave the Pit Stop in Vilnius, Lithuania at 1am with $109 for this leg of the race. They must make their way to the airport and fly to Dubrovnik, Croatia, to find the Fort of St. Lawrence. Kynt & Vyxsin leave next followed closely by the other teams. Nicolas & Donald […]

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Reality TV

Survivor: China: Finale and Reunion Recap

To give you an idea of how bad a contestant I would be on Survivor: I get exhausted merely from watching the two-hour finale and hourlong reunion show. The final four reflecting on their journey, the tribute to the fallen Survivors, the endurance challenge, the agonizing decision of who to take to the finals, the grueling interrogations at the final Tribal Council, Jeff Probst asking our burning questions (and leaving some unasked) at the reunion show — I’m left feeling drained and a little overheated and queasy. It’s as if parking myself in front of the TV and shushing my […]

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An Insider’s Life On The Set Of “Spider-Man 3”

There are no happy endings for superheroes. If there were, comic books would cease to exist, and — more importantly for masses of moviegoing fans — superhero film sequels would become horribly boring. Not a chance for that in Spider-Man 3, with its plethora of nasty villains and Peter Parker at war with his own expanding ego. Not that he doesn’t have reasons to be egotistical. After all, Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst) is going to marry him and the city finally considers his web-slinging alter-ego a hero. But it’s not long before a strange entity from another world takes hold […]

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Reality TV

Survivor: China: Week 12 Recap: Two Catty Meanies, A Puppet And Blur-Butt

Maybe it’s because I’m relatively new at this blogging thang, but I admit to getting a kick out of checking the blog stats for me and my fellow Channel Guide bloggers. It’s interesting to see which of my postings get lots of hits and which of my brilliant musings get barely a glance. In particular, I’m amazed (and humbled) at how many hits have come from people searching with words pertaining to Amanda and her butt (which, by the way, once again attained blurry glory in this episode, and often). So as I approach the end of my first Survivor […]

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Reality TV

Project Runway: Disappointment and Surprises, All In One Day

I’m seriously ready for some drama tonight. We’ve been given a glimmer of hope that we find out what the drama is with Jack. We begin the episode with Jack discussing a sore that he thought was a zit, but by the way it’s growing, it’s definitely not a zit. Apparently he has had staph infections in the past, and he’s hoping that this is not one of them. I can’t blame him. It’s a nasty thing to have. But first, it’s model selection time. There’s this really weird shadow behind the Project Runway logo. What appears is a group […]

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Reality TV

The Girl Who Becomes America’s Next Top Model. Yes, I will tell you.

by WindUpDoll There’s a lot of crying in this episode. A lot. Weepy, weepy, weepy ’cause the girls LOVE each other and everything is all warm & fuzzy. Blech, I mean, snooze. This is the episode where we all know what’s going to happen. There will be a Cover Girl ad. There will be a runway show. Tyra will ask the girls who is the strongest and who is the weakest. This is just the way Tyra has decreed it, and it shall be so. No surprises, we begin with Saleisha marveling at how marvelous it is to be in […]

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Drama

“Cane’s” Two-Hour Extravaganza

Posted by Sarah A two-hour event for a drama series? I think they were just making up for the fact that last week they were bumped in favor of the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. The reason I think so is that the first episode was a standalone. It had nothing to do with the major plot arc: a hurricane hit, Santo was left to watch Alex’s youngest, Alex’s house got broken into by looters and lots of gunpointing and table-turning ensued, and Henry went to the distillery to check on Terry only to find her with her Australian husband (she’s […]

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Comedy

“How I Met Your Mother” Recap: The Platinum Rule

Over the past few seasons of How I Met Your Mother, Barney has taught us a lot of things about dating — the Lemon Law, the Crazy/Hot Scale, etc. But now we find out that one lesson stands above all others: that of the Platinum Rule. The Platinum Rule takes the Golden Rule — which Barney incorrectly thinks is “Love thy neighbor” — and extends it to the next level: “Never ever, ever, ever love thy neighbor.” Ted’s decision to date Dr. Stella Zinman, the woman who has been removing his butterfly tramp stamp, is the catalyst for Barney’s explanation […]