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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
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Burton Olivier's Neil Gaiman-composed tattoo. (Photo posted on http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/)

Novelist and The Sandman creator Neil Gaiman, whose commencement speech last week at the University of the Arts went viral over the weekend, has made headlines again for composing a poem especially for a fan who had it tattooed on his back.

The fan, Los Angeles' Burton Olivier, asked Gaiman if he’d compose a comic book panel to be inscribed on Olivier’s back as a large tattoo. Gaiman was game and wrote a poem which was then illustrated by famed comic book artist David Mack.

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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
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" Woman in a Red Dress," painting by Jane Seymour. (Photo: AP)

Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman star Jane Seymour (whose actual, real given name is groovy: Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg) will make two appearances Friday (7-9 p.m.) and Saturday (5-8 p.m.) in King of Prussia.

Seymour, 61, is making in-gallery appearances in support of a joint exhibit of paintings by the actress and her son, Sean Flynn at the Wentworth Gallery at the Court at King of Prussia, 690 West Dekalb Pike, #2016.

Gallery info at 610-337-8988 or at http://bit.ly/LaXXjp

Info on Seymour, her appearances and images of her work:
http://www.janeseymour.com/home.htm

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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
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Will post-rehab Sitch continue to show off his buff at every occasion? We do hope that part of his persona has stayed intact!

He’s dazzled us with his remarkable talent for belching, boozing and babe-ing and his incredible prowess as a suntanning machine.

Now Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino dims the lights, so to speak, to whisper to us of his pain as an addict and his road to salvation and sobriety.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
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Is this the next Bond Babe? (She'd look smashing in a bikini, no?)

If reports are correct, producers of the James Bond film series are committing one of the greatest outrages since the unjust trial and barbarous execution of Jean d'Arc:

Replacing the MI6 agent’s trademark beverage vodka martini shaken not stirred (and with “a large thin slice of lemon-peel,” as Ian Fleming wrote in Casino Royale) with beer. Why?!


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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
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Cherry Hill High School West grad Gary Gagnon will face the entrepreneurial, cut-throat capitalist sharks on the Mark Burnett-created reality competition show Shark Tank for its season finale Friday on NBC to sell them on a type of eco-friendly footwear  he calls Remyxx sneakers.


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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
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Photo by Kimberly Butler. Posted at www.neilgaiman.com/

I’m told some Neil Gaiman fans have suffered insomnia for months, years, even decades, kept awake by burning questions about the author, screenwriter, graphic novelist, comic book writer, children’s book writer, songwriter, husband and father.

Perhaps you take issue with his use of a particular comma in a particular panel in an early issue of Gaiman’s famed The Sandman series?

Are you haunted by the inky existential darkness Gaiman imposes on poor Coraline?

Want your queries answered?

Submit a question for us to pose to Gaiman when we meet him for a few minutes Wednesday afternoon.

The 51-year-old British-born Minneapolis, Minn., resident will be in town this week to pick up an honorary doctorate of fine arts from the University of the Arts. He  will address the college’s newly-minted artistes at The University of the Arts’ 134th Commencement ceremony at the Academy of Music, at Broad and Locust Streets in Center City at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 17.

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Monday, May 14, 2012
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Will Britney use her python to 'X Factor'?

The world already is way ready to move on From The Big News of The Month, to wit that Britney Spears has signed a fat (albeit most definitely not phat) $15 million deal to share her worldly wisdom and considered opinions as a judge on Simon Cowell’s answer to Simon Cowell’s American Idol, The X Factor.

Demi Lovato also has been signed by the show, TMZ adds to the multiple Brit reports.

Thing is, we can’t move on.

We are chained to the past thanks to Fox: The network hasn’t officially announced their move. They’ve not denied it. They’ve not confirmed it.

This even though TMZ has photos and a video of Britney arriving in New York City this morning, reportedly to take the stage when Fox eventually makes its official announcement.

TMZ’s vid even has Idol judge Randy Jackson confirm the news: He says Demi and Brit’s addition is “hot.”

VIDEO: Brit arrives in New York this morning, reportedly to join Fox suits for the exciting announcement!


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Thursday, May 10, 2012
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British actor Sean Bean most recently loved and admired for his turn as a wintry lord in HBO’s Game of Thrones was arrested by London police on Wednesday for allegedly making harassing, abusing phone calls to his ex-, Georgina Sutcliffe, London tabloid Daily Mirror revealed today

Bean who questioned but has not been charged with a crime.

Bean married Sutcliffe who was married to Bean from 2008 to 2010 was his fourth wife.

He was previously married to:

Debra James (1981-88)
Melanie Hill (1990-97)
Abigail Cruttenden (1997-2000)

Bean has yet to make a statement.

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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
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MyAnna Buring in 'White Heat'

MyAnna Buring is known to a growing cadre of British horror film connoisseurs for her terrific turn in Neil Marshall’s The Descent, her enigmatic presence in the brutal assassin-for-hire thriller/comedy, Kill List and her role as mega-blond vampiric Alaskan hottie Tanya in the Twilight: Breaking Dawn films.

The 27-year-old Swedish-born actor tackles what she says is her first serious, meaty dramatic role in Paula Milne’s new mini-series, White Heat, which debuts tonight at 10 p.m. on BBC America. (Read about the show here.)


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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
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Teresa Giudice will demonstrate her cooking skills Friday at Parx Casino.

In what will surely be the best Mother’s Day Experience-with-a-capital-E you’re likely to have, Teresa Giudice, mother of four girls, “homegrown Italian chef extraordinaire” and noted star of The Celebrity Apprentice and The Real Housewives of New Jersey will brandish her culinary powers Friday at Fabulicious Event-with-a-capital-E at Parx Casino® at 2999 Street Road in Bensalem.

Teresa, 39, whose parents emigrated to Jersey from Sala Consilina, in Southern Italy, is a North Jersey girl all the way: She grew up in Paterson and now lives with her hub Giuseppe “Joe” Giudice in Towaco in Morris County.

Friday, she will give fans a double treat. She’ll talk to fans about her cooking, her books and her TV career beginning at 5 p.m. in the casino lobby.

Then at 7 p.m. she will take the casino’s 360 stage to demonstrate a recipe from her cookbook, Fabulicious!: Teresa's Italian Family Cookbook

The press release promises so much:

“Learn her fast & fit recipe tips live in person. During the demonstration, the famous Parkmen of Parx Casino® will pass around her fabulicious recipe samples for all to enjoy."

It concludes, the release with this appealing, warm embrace: "Let Parx Casino® roll-out the red carpet for Mom this extra special night.”

Teresa has an eventful week on Celebrity Apprentice: She was fired by boss Donald Trump on Sunday's show. But according to Perez Hilton, Trump plans to bring her back as a helper of sorts for the show's final challenge.

Hilton says Teresa is using her new-found celebrity to add oomph to her marketing campaigns for her wine line, Fabelli and a new teeth whitener she's hawking for Pearlbrite Concepts.


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About Tirdad Derakhshani
Tirdad Derakhshani was born in Tehran, Iran, and raised in London and rural North Jersey, where he closely studied a theoretical, radical post-Hegelian approach to cow-tipping. He moved to Philadelphia in the mid-‘80s to seek enlightenment, and instead received a B.A. in literature at Penn. While pursuing doctoral studies in modern religious thought and philosophy, he worked at the Inquirer as a news clerk, researcher, editor, and entertainment writer.

He hopes SideShow will help citizens better understand the vicissitudes of the Consumerist-Military-Industrial-Infotainment Complex, or, in other words, why Britney Spears has a tendency to shave her head, Brangelina to adopt children, and Lindsay Lohan to crave imprisonment. Read SideShow every morning.