This Year's Best Super Bowl Ad

Everybody Loves Eliza Dushku!

A fan shows some love to Eliza Dusku, on the set of "Dollhouse:"

10 Things You Don’t Know About Women By Jennifer Love Hewitt

10 Things You Don’t Know About Women By Jennifer Love Hewitt

1. PMS is not a lame excuse to be able to yell at you. It’s a great excuse.

2. We really can pump our own gas. It’s just that we’ve got this fantasy of you as a ’30s-era full-service station attendant. You’d look so cute in the hat.

3. We’re not complimented when you call your ex a slut. She dated you, too. So what are we?

4. We’re smart enough to know that smell is always the dog.

5. Yes, we can dish it out.

6. No, we can’t take it.

7. We want to raise children. We just don’t want you to be one of them.

8. Women are meant to talk and men to listen. We don’t want to be fixed; we want to be heard.

9. When we ask if you’ve had any work done, it’s because we want to know what our kids will really look like.

10. When we ask you how we look, it’s okay to lie; when we ask you how she looks, you better lie.

Mad Men On Sesame Street

Unfortunate Series Of Events At The US Open

"Lost - The Final Season" Poster

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Mike's Hard Lemonade

Playboy Guitar Hero

Fall Is In The Air

Time to get back into college football, and to verify that neither the Penn State mascot nor the USC cheerleaders have changed their uniforms in at least forty years. (Click on the images for more detail.)

Lost Girls

Following up on Lost Boys

Mad (Wo)Men

Mad Men: "C'est Magnifique"

Weeds: Nancy And Celia

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Sookie And Bill

Anna Paquin And Stephen Moyer, with Stephen Moyer's daughter.

The Lust Map And "True Blood"

Geographers from Kansas State University have created a map of the spatial distribution of the Seven Deadly Sins across the United States.

This map highlights the concentration of lust.

It's no wonder that Louisiana was chosen as the setting for "True Blood."

Million Dollar Baby

For anyone who was inspired and moved by Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby," you just have to be rooting for Gina Carano this Saturday night:

"Enrolled in psychology classes at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Carano was 30 pounds too heavy, rudderless, half-lost to drinking and chatting up other girls’ boyfriends by the time a friend’s muay Thai instructor finally called her a mess. And the church of athletic redemption narratives found itself another lost soul.

“I’ve only answered to God, sometimes my family, sometimes not, and fighting,” Carano said. “No relationship, no boyfriend, girlfriend; it’s the only thing that has kept me focused.”

"In time she was traveling the world, taking fights in Thailand and staving off concerned relatives. After a while she started making money. After a while she developed a sense of mission.

“I want it to be easier for other females to be able to walk into a gym and train, because it changed my life,” she said. “I live in Las Vegas, where it’s difficult to meet a gentleman who doesn’t think of you as a stripper or a piece of meat. I like the training and the lifestyle. I get to wake up and focus on myself and being better. It eliminates all the drama when you have to think about somebody punching you and taking your head off.” New York Times

Her next fight is on Showtime, August 16.

Julia Child - "The French Chef"

An excerpt from a New York Times Magazine remembrance of Julia Child:

"The show was taped live and broadcast uncut and unedited, so it had a vérité feel completely unlike anything you might see today on the Food Network, with its A.D.H.D. editing and hyperkinetic soundtracks of rock music and clashing knives.

"While Julia waited for the butter foam to subside in the sauté pan, you waited, too, precisely as long, listening to Julia’s improvised patter over the hiss of her pan, as she filled the desultory minutes with kitchen tips and lore.

"It all felt more like life than TV, though Julia’s voice was like nothing I ever heard before or would hear again until Monty Python came to America: vaguely European, breathy and singsongy, and weirdly suggestive of a man doing a falsetto impression of a woman. The BBC supposedly took “The French Chef” off the air because viewers wrote in complaining that Julia Child seemed either drunk or demented."

Health Care Debate

If you live in one of the "blue states," are not a regular consumer of local or network news, and your only sources for information are online and NPR, then you need to watch this television commercial, which is having a huge impact on the health care debate:

I'm Good! (Pepsi Max)

The Only Reason I've Ever Even Thought About Owning A Cadillac

I doubt that I'd ever buy a Cadillac, but Kate Walsh is very convincing.

This is one commercial I don't fast-forward through: