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Estelle Getty, the diminutive actress who spent 40 years struggling for success before landing a role of a lifetime in 1985 as the sarcastic Sophia on "The Golden Girls," has died. She was 84. (July 22) Other Media You Might Like
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Gong Show Revived Coming to Comedy Central
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 07:05 PM | Read MoreJust as American Gladiators had new life breathed into it last season, so, too, will a seventies favorite: The Gong Show, which aired in NBC daytime from 1976 to 1978, will be revived on Comedy Central.
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New Comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall - Opens Nationwide April 18th
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 11:59 PM | Read MoreThe New Comedy "Forgetting Sara Marshall" is yet another crowd-pleasing comedy like The "40-Year-Old Virgin", "Knocked Up" and "Superbad". It will make you laugh and squirm the whole way through, It has just the right balance of funny and sweet. It also signals an introduction of sorts to a couple of engaging talents. Jason Segel, co-star of Apatow's ''Knocked Up'' and ''Freaks and Geeks'' and the CBS sitcom ''How I Met Your Mother,'' settles comfortably into his first screenplay and first leading role. Drawing on his own experiences, Segel plays a big, lovable puppy dog of a guy who gets dumped when he's most vulnerable by his TV-star girlfriend, Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell).
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US Outsources Passport Production
Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 02:28 PM | Read MoreIn a story with enough irony to make you sick, it's just been revealed that the US has been outsourcing the production of its new, microchip-fitted passports to shoddy sweatshops in Thailand, where the high-security technology has already been stolen by China and blank passports have a high risk of being stolen by criminals and terrorists.
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Office Workers Unite!
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 01:10 PM | Read MoreHello all you office jockeys out there (don’t worry, I’m one too). How often do you find yourself drifting off into a daydream about finally getting ahead at work? Whether it’s winning the lottery or telling the boss where he can shove his performance review, we all like to think about the various ways we are going rise above the tight confines of our cubicle. Until we do however, we’ll just have to settle for breaking the monotony of our day with hilarious videos on livevideo.com.
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Cool: Charge Your iPod With…Your Shirt?
Thursday, February 14, 2008 at 12:50 PM | Read MoreNever let your cell phone, or your iPod run out of batteries—just plug them into your shirt, walk move around a bit, and they’ll be good to go! This is the claim a group of U.S. scientists made recently in the journal, “Nature”. They have invented a fabric that, if made into a shirt, could harness power generated from someone simply walking around in the shirt—or even from a slight breeze. The scientists, based at the Georgia Institute of Technology, used the semiconductive properties of zinc oxide nanowires to design the fabric.
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