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The Defamer Guide to Saving the Oscars

Richard Rushfield · 10/20/09 02:30PM

The show may or may not get higher ratings than the American Idol finale, but the subject of who will host and produce the 82nd Academy Awards telecast remains Hollywood's perennial obsession.

Why Ellen Was Picked for American Idol

Richard Rushfield · 09/10/09 11:30AM

For all the attention Washington's bluster gets, history will see this little health care squabble as a mere sideshow distraction from the news we received yesterday; news that will fundamentally alter the way we pick our next American Idol.