Bad reputation Barbie
Joan Jett is the inspiration for the latest from Mattel.
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New season, new book
The Times Sports staff on the Lakers' 50 amazing years
Afternoons without Oprah
Oprah Winfrey told her audience Friday that she had made up her mind to end her hit daytime talk show in September 2011 "after much prayer...
Oprah to end her show in 2011
In another blow to the struggling business of network television, Oprah Winfrey is expected to announce on her program today that she will...
California approves new standards on energy-hungry TVs
California is putting big-screen television sets on a diet.
'Parks and Recreation' develops a community
In the NBC comedy "Parks and Recreation," Amy Poehler plays Leslie Knope, an upbeat,...
Hamish Hamilton to direct Oscars broadcast
At 82, the Academy Awards are long overdue for some cosmetic enhancement. And the show's producers have tapped a new director they hope...
CNN's Candy Crowley talks about her new look
Poking around Google a few weeks back to see how various television reporters were playing the healthcare debate, I searched for "Candy...
Composers and lyricists make pitch to join Teamsters
David Carbonara has a gig many of his peers would covet: He writes music for the critically acclaimed AMC show "Mad Men."
Heather Locklear returns to 'Melrose Place' just in time
That shaking underneath Hollywood tonight is not from a quake, but from the force unleashed by the return of a TV powerhouse no less than...
''''Passing: Dennis Cole: Popular '60s television actor''''
''''Dennis Cole, popular TV guest star from '60s through '90s, dies at 69; Bruce King, three-time New Mexico governor, dies at 85; Francisco...
Edward Woodward dies at 79; British actor starred in 'The Equalizer,' 'Breaker Morant'
Edward Woodward, the British actor who starred in the 1980s detective TV series "The Equalizer" and the movies "Breaker Morant" and "The...
Ken Ober dies at 52; host of MTV's 'Remote Control' game show
Ken Ober, a comedian and actor who as host of MTV's "Remote Control" in the 1980s guided the raucous question-and-answer trivia contests...
Network TV winners and losers
TV ratings haven't toppled over a cliff this season. That counts as something of a triumph for the networks, given that they spent much of...
Guy Fieri hits the road, not for dives, but for concert halls
Guy Fieri looks at the concert-club scene and thinks it's missing food. Or maybe it's that the food scene needs more of a club-concert vibe....
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