If there is, in fact, intelligent life somewhere else in the universe — and at this point, I’d hate to think we’re all there is — here’s hoping whatever’s out there bases its view of Earthlings on something other than this summer’s network TV lineup.
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The last night of Brittany O’Dale’s Las Vegas bachelorette weekend is forever etched in her memory. She would do anything to forget it.
Jeff Conaway, who starred in the sitcom “Taxi” and the movie musical “Grease” and battled drug and alcohol addiction on “Celebrity Rehab,” died Friday.
District Judge Jackie Glass says her informal role of a drug court judge is what prepared her to replace Nancy Grace as host of the TV show “Swift Justice” this September, not the fact that she presided perhaps with a heavy hand over O.J. Simpson’s high-profile armed robbery trial in 2008.
Married co-anchors? Fairly rare. Kim and Dana Wagner have teamed on-air four years come July on KSNV-TV, Channel 3, currently anchoring “Wake Up with the Wagners,” a 4:30-7 a.m. weekday block, plus the noon-12:30 p.m. newscast. We know a little about those Wagners — they’re, well, pleasant.
It took four attempts, but “Boston” Rob Mariano finally won “Survivor.” The trash-talking 35-year-old veteran of the CBS reality series overcame wacky 52-year-old former federal agent Phillip Sheppard and 19-year-old dancer Natalie Tenerelli to take home the $1 million grand prize on Sunday’s finale of “Survivor: Redemption Island.” Mariano said he earned eight votes from the nine-person jury of dismissed contestants.