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Les Moonves' Daydream, on Canvas

Hamilton Nolan — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:24:02 EST

Look, it's the portrait of CBS boss Les Moonves and his wife Julie Chen that hangs in their den. It shows various hangers-on toasting the couple as Les is maybe getting a hand job? [NYT]

Whoa: 6 Questions That Occurred To Us Upon The 18th Anniversary Of 'Blossom'

Kyle Buchanan — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:07:54 EST

1. Whose voice has gotten deeper in this reunion clip: Mayim Bialik's or Joey Lawrence's?

2. Who has gotten more grooming-obsessed: Mayim Bialik or Joey Lawrence?

3. Where is other sibling Anthony? Is he on the far side of the soundstage, droning on interminably about his sobriety to a CBS.com intern?

4. No shout-outs to David "Hey Dude" Lascher?

5. Why, after getting a doctorate in freakin' neuroscience, would Bialik decide, "Lemme go into acting again!"

6. What was up with that episode of Blossom where Joey's hot boss at the video store will promote him if he sleeps with her, and he turns her down and learns a Very Important Lesson? Wasn't he, like, a total horndog? What exactly was the problem? That never sat well with us.

The People Of 2009 Can Finally Get Stoned And Watch Blossom [Videogum]

There Is No Nighttime Sex Act That Escapes The All-B.J.-Seeing 'Big Brother' Eye

Seth — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:46:54 EST

With the fumigation circus tent removed from the Big Brother house on the Radford lot, every stubborn germ, virus, and parasite from the last batch of contestants effectively snuffed, we're now ready for another round of the hit CBS reality series. And while there was certainly nothing broke with the show's last incarnation—who doesn't love watching 16 off-duty bartenders stand around a kitchen island sharing Jew-spotting tips?—they've tweaked Season 9 considerably. Big Brother: 'Til Death Do You Part pits eight teams of two against one another: all couples. And by that we mean, sex-having couples.

This, of course, led the show's night-vision cameras to capture some not-exactly-family-viewing activities, available to pervy all-access premium subscribers. (Video above, possibly NSFW.) Upon subsequent viewings, we're stricken by how team Matt and Natalie's bobbing-comforter exploits are rendered even hotter by the snoring accompaniment of an unseen housemate. (Seriously, Julie Chen. Sometimes we have no idea how you preside over all this tawdriness. Do you kiss Les with that mouth?)

Big Brother 9 [CSBS]

Drew Carey Already Working Miracles On His First Day On The 'Price Is Right'

Seth — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:19:10 EDT

Everything after the final notes of its familiar theme, from the playing out of a highly suspect "perfect game," to the friendly sign-off reminder to "help control the sex-worker population: Have a hooker spayed or neutered today," suggested a new era has dawned at The Price is Right. Gone is Bob Barker's well-calibrated "atmosphere of terror." In its place is new host Drew Carey's atmosphere of congeniality, where every contestant is referred to as "buddy" or "man," and where new cars are given away with a frequency that would make Oprah blush.

In honor of his first day on the job, Carey sat down with another emcee of a CBS show featuring a wide array of dimwitted Americans doing impossibly stupid things for cash and prizes, Julie Chen, to relay first-hand what it feels like to shepherd a congregation of Plinko-board-worshiping revivalists.

The Price is Right [CBS]