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Katherine Heigl Scrubs In For Another Shift

Douglas Reinhardt — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EDT

Much like the first day of elementary school, Katherine Heigl spent a decent portion of her first day back on set catching up with the cast and crew of the popular medical drama Grey's Anatomy. When it came to time to explain what she did over her vacation, an uncomfortable silence filled the parking lot. A pensive Heigl kicked at a few imaginary pebbles then explained that she's got to listen to her lines on her iPod in her car and added that she might check out that 'cake fart' website everybody is raving about as well.

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MTV In Bed With Bill Gates

Seth — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:09:09 EST

TV networks are quickly realizing the necessity of aligning themselves with a major online content store. ABC and NBC made the obvious choice of an Apple/iTunes marriage, but MTV has decided to forego the shiny, white, easily-scratchable party, pairing its soon to launch URGE network with woefully unhip big meanie, Microsoft:

[...] MTV is betting that its global reach through more than 100 channels will vault URGE over competitors. MTV plans to offer music videos, television shows and 2 million song tracks through individual sales or a monthly subscription service. Specifics such as pricing and which songs and videos would be offered weren't disclosed.

MTV Networks Music Group President Van Toffler said the company, a unit of Viacom International Inc., allied itself with Microsoft because it wanted to exploit the flexibility and ubiquity of Microsoft's Media Player software, which comes preinstalled in the Windows operating system.

"[Apple Chief Executive] Steve Jobs has a point of view," Toffler said. "ITunes is about a digital storefront for a la carte downloads. Our goal is to create a utopian music community that keeps subscribers coming back."

We can hardly believe our good fortune, knowing a musical Garden of Eden awaits us and all it took was the pairing of one monopoly, Microsoft's plundering computer kingdom, with one media conglomorate, Viacom's plexus of teen famewhore opiating TV networks. It will be nothing short of a virtual Shangri La, where in place of eternal youth and happiness, you can watch an episode of Laguna Beach crash your computer.

MTV to Sell Online but Shuns the IPod [LA Times]

A Message From Your Guest Editor

Seth — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:01:56 EDT

Seth here, with wonderful news! Mark (CDC code name: Patient Zero) has come down with a nasty case of bird flu*, and so I'll be guest editing for the rest of the week. I couldn t be more thrilled to be back here at Defamer.com Bathroom Reading for Your Cubicle (or vice versa, for all you Sidekick-wielding on-the-/gotta go types).

The theme I have chosen for this visit is convergence, what with the exciting introduction of the new iPod and um could you excuse me for one moment? I just have to tell my assistant something

NO, ZACH. You tell those little NUTSUCKERS at Dan Tana s they ll take me at 8:00, not 6:00, and if they don t LIKE IT, I m one MOUSECLICK away from renaming this thing DanTanasSecretIngredientIsRATSHIT. DOT COM.

Back again! Sorry about that. Fax was out of toner. What was I saying? Oh right, some crap about iPods. Listen I got a 9:30 kroissant klatch at Barney Greengrass with a couple stiffs from The New Paramount they want to talk about a project they re developing for summer 2009, some Harry Potter meets Bruce Lee bullshit, Maddox Jolie tapped for the lead. Can we pick this up later? You re the best. I ll have Zach call you.

*Joke. He is on vacation. Conserve your concern.