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HBO's vampire drama True Blood rounded out its second season with big ratings (5.1 million) and critical acclaim. With approximately 12 million viewers an episode, when factoring in On Demand and DVR, True Blood is a smash...

So sit right back, catch the Emmy Awards live on CBS and make sure to check back here on SofaSnark.com for live blogging throughout the night. You can also follow me on Twitter @columbiajames ...

Sofa Snark's video blog is back just in time for the launch of prime-time's Fall lineup. The CW kicked things off Tuesday night with two juicy teen dramas. First up was the second season of 90210. With a new show runner attached to the program, 90210 has a glossy new look complete with sexed up antics and plenty of beach bunnies...

Lost fans should be familiar with the fictitious Dharma Initiative and its choppy training videos. For those new to the world of Lost, feel free to read up on the lengthy history of all things Dharma on Lostpedia. CBS has taken a page from the Dharma playbook and concocted a similar training video starring the show?s host, Jeff Probst. It?s titled, Tribal Council Orientation...

Dalton Trumbo survived the blacklist, as did many other marked writers, mostly by writing screenplays under pseudonyms. Names like Ian Hunter (Roman Holiday), Millard Kaufman (Gun Crazy) and Robert Rich (The Brave One) allowed Trumbo to make a living...

As news broke Monday that the Walt Disney Co. would purchase Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion the Internet flared up with speculation and wonderment. Could Pixar team up with Marvel and produce a string of eye-popping action films? After all, the deal will bring upwards of 5,000 Marvel characters under the Disney umbrella...

Brian Stokes Mitchell. The actor performed The Impossible Dream from Broadway's Man of La Mancha - a musical based on Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. The song was a fitting tribute to a man that spent much of his political career following his own impossible dream - health care for all...

Neither screenwriter Kelly Fremon nor Hollywood starlet, Alexis Bledel could have seen the recent economic meltdown coming when first creating the sentimental teen comedy, Post Grad ...

Lee documented the final performances of Passing Strange on Broadway using his filmmaker?s eye to create a documentary that could easily be pegged as a concert film. Passing Strange the Movie can best be described as a modern day The Last Waltz, full of the same innovation that Martin Scorsese brought to The Band. Fans of film, music and Broadway will all find something to love about Lee?s Passing Strange the Movie. Prepare to be moved all over again...

It?s not often that my work at New York?s American Museum of Natural History intersects with the entertainment industry, so it was very exciting to work on a project for the Museum?s newest space show, Journey to the Stars. I had the opportunity to sit down with the show?s director, Carter Emmart, and produce a behind-the-scenes look at this new production at the Hayden Planetarium...

Like any true-blooded American that grew up in the 1980's can attest, films like Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off set the standard for sentimental teenage fare. Surprisingly Hughes only directed eight films, the last being Curly Sue in 1991, but he wrote many more, including the popular Vacation films, Weird Science, Uncle Buck and Home Alone...

There is no disputing that Howard Stern is a master at his craft, nor is there any disputing that the Three Stooges were the greatest comedic team producing film shorts during Hollywood's early years. The Three Stooges: Lost and Found Interviews is a 'can't miss moment' for all lovers of pop culture. And knowing Stern there is bound to be multiple repeats of this gem on Sirius XM...

Originally from New York, Mayer wrote Adam taking place in and around Manhattan. Like many locally shot romantic movies ? An Affair to Remember, When Harry Met Sally, any classic Woody Allen film ? Adam showcases one charming New York City spot after another...

The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien might be losing the ratings war to the Late Show with David Letterman, but not when it comes to the 18- to 49-year-old age demographic. Conan?s humor skews younger. CBS shouldn?t be so proud of hanging onto a demographic that already has a foot in the grave...

While U2 travels around Europe on the first leg of their 360 Tour, director David O'Reilly has released the band's latest music video for I'll Go Crazy, If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight. Film fans might recognize O'Reilly for his short film, Please Say Something, which earned him the Golden Bear at the 2009 Berlinale. The director also earned some Internet credibility for his Octocat videos...

This blog was first created for the purpose of entertainment reporting and opining, however, with the passing of Walter Cronkite, I felt it necessary to pay respect to one of the most honorable news reporters to grace television screens. He was not an entertainer ? unlike many delivering the news today. Cronkite told the news as it happened...

While publicists and studio executives tire themselves out today making calls and greasing the marketing wheels, celebrities took things into their own hands on Twitter. Here are a few 140-character messages that showed up this morning from those internet savvy celebs ? or possibly their overpaid ghost tweeters...

Equality is a key message running throughout Hair, the 1967 musical that originally forced people to look at so-called hippies, not with disdain or fear but with understanding. While the days of the original Haight-Ashbury culture is gone, Hair remains culturally relevant. And now it's another alternative lifestyle that has found meaning in the period piece...