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James Sims James Sims is the Senior Editor at BroadwayWorld.com. Beyond his duties on this website, James also contributes as a featured blogger for the Huffington Post.

Having grown up in Los Angeles, California, James spent time working as an entertainment reporter on the west coast before heading to New York City to attend Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.sofasnark.com">SofaSnark.com</a> and follow James on Twitter at <a href="http://www.twitter.com/simsjames">@SimsJames</a>.





Jay Leno Says Conan O'Brien Wasn't Only One Screwed
April 1, 2010

Now that Conan O'Brien is off the air, Tonight Shows prodigal son Jay Leno is trying to clear the air about the late-night shakeup at NBC, telling Joy Behar that he got screwed too...

ABC's 'Lost' 'V' Bug Pisses Off Letterman & Colbert
April 1, 2010

LOST executive producer Damon Lindelof jumped on the ABC bashing via his Twitter account Tuesday night, tweeting: Yes, people, I saw it too. :34 minutes until I cry myself to sleep...

Jon Stewart Uses Muppets for RNC Sex Scandal
March 31, 2010

Robin Williams might have been the guest on last night's Daily Show with Jon Stewart, but it was a gag involving Muppets that stole the show, especially for all of the political gurus watching Comedy Central's program...

Big Bucks for Ad on ABC's 'Lost' Finale
March 30, 2010

Media buyers told Ad Age that a 30-second spot during the Lost series finale will cost approximately $900,000, a number ABC is refusing to comment on...

MTV Posts 'The Hills' Final Season Trailer
March 30, 2010

A new trailer has been posted online promoting the sixth and final season of MTV's pop culture hit The Hills, the spinoff of the networks earlier hit, Laguna Beach...

Women & Hollywood: Liz Lemoning of TV
March 30, 2010

It's that time of the year when spring is in the air and we all shed our dreaded winter coats and look into out closets and check out the spring/summer apparel with a fit of excitement and dread. (Will that one fit after this particularly cold winter?)...

Zombies Set to Invade AMC
March 29, 2010

Zombies are getting ready to invade AMC after the cable network ordered six one-hour episodes of The Walking Dead, a sci-fi series based on the Robert Kirkman comic book, reports The Wrap...

Jamie Foxx Returns to TV with Sketch Comedy
March 29, 2010

Jamie Foxx is a hard working man of showbusiness, with Hollywood blockbusters under his belt and chart topping songs to his name, and now the star is set to return to his television roots with a new sketch-comedy show on Fox, according to the Hollywood Reporter...

Chloe Sevigny Apologizes for 'Big Love' Bashing
March 29, 2010

As for Sevigny's relationship with HBO moving forward, according to the actress, things seem to be patched up. 'They accepted my apology. We have a great mutual respect for one another.'

3D TV Gets Tiger Woods Treatment
March 29, 2010

Should 3-D not be your game, perhaps the other big selling point of this year's Masters Tournament is. Tiger Woods will make his grand return to professional golf, and broadcasters are salivating over the prospects...

'Times Stands Still,' a Play for All Journalists
February 1, 2010

As if the reality of media layoffs and non-existant newspaper readerships wasn't enough of a reason for journalists to take up drinking, along comes Broadway's Time Stands Still, a play focusing on the emotional breakdown of a war correspondent...

Diane Paulus Directs Opera for American Museum of Natural History
January 19, 2010

It's not often that my work as an entertainment and Broadway reporter crosses paths with my day job as the New Media Specialist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, so when I heard that an opera was going to be staged in the Museum's Hayden Planetarium, I was excited to check it out...

Ragtime Closes Proudly
December 29, 2009

Ragtime's lack of celebrity is one of many reasons why the musical failed to set box office records, as was pointed out by Patrick Healy in The New York Times last week. While that ultimately led to an early demise -- the production closes on January 3rd -- Ragtime should wear that as a badge of honor...

SOFA SNARK: Season of Bush
December 24, 2009

With a new season of Showtime's The Tudors coming up and Barack Obama now bogged down by controversial plans for Afghanistan, it seems appropriate to reflect on a recent trend that graced the Broadway stage over the past couple years...

Viral Directors
December 17, 2009

The Golden Globe nominations were announced this week, placing a handful of Hollywood directors on a pedestal for all others to admire. Martin Scorsese will be bestowed with the prestigious Cecil B. DeMille Award while James Cameron has returned from his post-Titanic absence to join Clint Eastwood, Quentein Tarantino, Jason Reitman and Kathryn Bigelow in the Best Director category...

Muppets vs Queen
November 25, 2009

Queen, the iconic rock band led by the equally iconic singer Freddie Mercury, has found its way into the world of Jim Henson's Muppets...

Wonderettes Closes
November 7, 2009

Off-Broadway's The Marvelous Wonderettes has been playing to enthusiastic crowds at The Westside Theatre since it settled in New York City following an extended run in Los Angeles - where I first saw the show and fell in love. Word has now come down that the quaint musical will close on January 3 after having played 545 performances...

Eric Millegan Bipolar
October 28, 2009

Fans of Fox's hit show 'Bones' probably remember Eric Millegan as the awkward Zack Addy, a co-worker of Dr. Brennan with a penchant for serial killing. Millegan's character turned out to be working for a cannibal before getting caught in the act...



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