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more about #bensilverman more comments → TedSez: Seriously, if a beauty pageant asks you who you'd like to have lunch with, the answer is always Jesus. Rounding out the Top Ten are Abe Lincoln, Opra... more » Unsolicited Advice: Miles and miles of squares, and still nobody cares... more » starke: no foster, you don't have an ear infection. you have been infected with the spirit of oscar wilde! i swear it! that is all. more » unclevanya: Too many stories, to much to do before Thanksgiving, so I stopped at "West Wing actress"... She's not unknown to a West Wingnut like me. How I love t... more » CumaeanSibyl: Pattinson and Daniel Radcliffe ought to form a support group for victims of capital-F Fandom, except that such a group would itself inspire terabytes ... more » katekate is squared: Is that guy in the pink shirt also in the AzzWizzard Coalition? Then it could be a triumvirate. Feel better, Foster! Although I must admit that I'm... more » TheUptightMidwesterner: Reading this is like doing a bump off some club kid's ass. I wait for it every Saturday morning in agony when I am stuck working. Oh Foster, you make ... more » momof3wildkids: Why do I think both Poppa Lohan and Jon Gosselin are sexting Lindsay? Sort of a blackberry 3way. more » Swifter: Balk is contagious, it seems. more » bboston88: You're so sassy and slightly hostile lately Foster, I love it! more » Lysergic Asset: This gossip roundup brought to you by Red Bull, Sugar Coated Frosted Flakes and crystal meth. (I kid you, Foster.) more » The Sneak: JOKER'S WILD: Seamlessly combines a tired pre-existing television concept with an already cliché "online" component by having Internet poker players ... more » TheSometimesWhy: Which court system deals with cases of creative bankruptcy? more » moneyries: So it's same ol' TV...mixed with that wacky new internet! more » dystopika: I love Emo Philips, been wondering what he's been up to... #bensilverman more » -
#gossiproundup
Michael Lohan and Jon Gosselin Actually Formed a Coalition of the Azzwizzards
Kind of like a Harry Potter book, right? Michael Lohan's now Jon Gosselin's contracts expert. Nothing but squares at the Daily News. Robert Pattinson hates his life. Carrie Prejean: monumentally stupider than previously imagined. Here's your Saturday Morning Gossip Roundup: More » -
#television
Is Ricky Van Veen Spending Too Much Time with Ben Silverman?
Ricky Van Veen announced the production schedule for his brand-new TV studio, and it would appear the CollegeHumor founder believes the future of the small screen lies in the past, because he's unleashing a mess of game shows. More » -
#moguls
Ben Silverman's New College Buddy
As an NBC chairman, Ben Silverman once mingled with true media titans. But now the fallen mogul rolls with a different crowd; we hear he's besties with CollegeHumor editor-in-chief Ricky Van Veen. Now they might be in business together. More » -
#nikkifinke
Nikki Finke Now Addicted to Self-Unawareness
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#television
NBC Chief Says He's Not Playing to Lose While Leno Loses to Cable
You've got to feel for NBC TV's newish chairman Jeff Gaspin; not only does he take the wheel amid the Mother of All Media Typhoons, but he inherits it from a Captain hell bent on steering directly into an iceberg. More » -
#siftingthrough
Ben Silverman, We Will Miss You
That NBC chair Ben Silverman is flying/being pushed out of the peacock coop isn't really all that surprising. He's always been kind of a disaster. A blowhard (in more ways than one) party boy with streaks of ego and irresponsibility.
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#departures
Wunderkind Ben Silverman Out at NBC
Once-celebrated, now-beleaguered NBC co-chairman Ben Silverman is leaving the company, it was announced on Ryan Seacrest's Twitter this morning. (Yes.) Well, OK, the New York Times has confirmed. So what the heck happened? Is this good news or bad? More » -
#whitehousevistors
Dear Mr. President: Please Stop Palling Around With This Man
Barack Obama's bizarre alliance with NBC continued last week when the White House invited network chief/seasoned clubrat Ben Silverman over for a highly publicized meeting just in time for the launch of Silverman's shitty new show, The Philanthropist. More » -
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#trapezoidoflies
Heidi Pratt's 'Hospitalization' Is One Giant Reality TV Mess
Heidi Pratt was rushed to a hospital in Costa Rica last night for some kind of stomach infection while filming/quitting I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here. Our source calls the entire thing out. More » -
#twinpeaks
Dallas Woman Births Twins Fathered By Different Men
Well here's a story sure to give pause to any father of twins who's ever heard anyone utter the words, "Gee, your kids don't look very much alike at all!" More » -
#bensilverman
Why Does Ben Silverman Still Have a Job?: The Bill Carter NYT Profile Edition
Times TV reporter Bill Carter's profile on NBC co-chairman and Executive Bong Smoker Ben Silverman ran today. To put it lightly: Carter takes Silverman by the collar, beats him, and stuffs him in a locker. More » -
#nightmares
Dane Cook Shares 'Romantic' Rape Role Play Fantasy With Oprah
Today Oprah, noted fast food terrorist, took a short break from destroying America with diabolical chicken riots to welcome Dane Cook on her show, who promptly horrified the world with details of his sex life. More » -
#tvexecutivesgonewild
Ben Silverman, NBC's Boy King, Freestyles Topless in Aspen's Swanky Locker Rooms
NBC co-chairman Ben Silverman, half man, half fraternity sergeant-at-arms, has long been a bit of an enigma, and now his "How Does He Have His Job?" quotient is going to skyrocket. You ready for this? More » -
#comebacks
Jay Leno's Best Sick Jokes
Jay Leno's rep says it looks like dehydration sent the Tonight Show host to the hospital last week. But Leno prefers to process his trauma by mocking Conan O'Brien and Ben Silverman. More » -
#failures
Most-Watched Super Bowl Ever Is a Disaster for NBC Universal
Jeff Zucker's division made about half as much money last quarter as it did the year before. So to judge by the upward-failure arc of his career, he'll be running GE in about three weeks. More » -
#productplacement
NBC Sells Its Nonexistent Soul For a $5 Subway Sandwich
NBC has shockingly ruined the integrity of its dramatic show Chuck by allowing Subway what is perhaps the most blatant (and therefore laughable!) product placement in network TV history. Mmm, smell that chicken teriyaki. More » -
#resolved
Project Runway Deal Signed, Harvey Weinstein Returns to Bashing NBC
Harvey Weinstein's gracious-in-defeat couldn't last long. After paying off NBC to take his Project Runway to Lifetime, the mogul had "personally" congratulated the network. Now, he's calling NBC chairman Ben Silverman a big naked-arm-wrestling homo. More » -
#comedy
How Seinfeld's New Show Will Work
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld gave the New York Times exactly two examples of disputes that might be tackled in his (dubiously) forthcoming reality show The Marriage Ref. More » -
#nostalgia
Seinfeld Returns To NBC
Oh, hey, look: Flailing NBC executive Ben Silverman just bought a reality TV project from Jerry Seinfeld, marking the 1990s comedian as the ultimate trailing indicator of desperation and creative bankruptcy. More » -
#30rock
'30 Rock' McFlurryGate Overshadowing More Persuasive iPhone-Contra Affair
For all the e-ink spilled over whether 30 Rock gave the McFlurry too much product placement last week (even Jane Krakowski is unsure now!), we think there's a different, far bigger case to be made. More »
