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TV Reviews: Using nature footage of macaques, the producers have cobbled together a dramatic narrative that's a little-too-brazenly modeled after the visual style of '300,' down to the comicbook lettering, dramatic music and foreboding, thunder-filled clouds.

Tenpercenteries: Exec previously with Kaplan Stahler Braun -- Alan Braun, partner in Kaplan Stahler Braun, is exiting the boutique tenpercentery to join CAA as an agent in its alternative TV department.Braun has developed a niche for himself repping reality producers as well as comedy and drama scribes. Among the clients following him to CAA are unscripted production shingles Authentic Entertainment (Bravo's 'Flipping Out'), Jupiter Entertainment (Oxygen's 'Snapped') and Pie Town Prods. (Lifetime's 'Dietribe').Braun joined Kaplan Stahler in 2001 and was upped to partner in 2004. Braun's exit from Kaplan Stahler follows the move last month of former agency partner Bob Gumer to APA.

VH1 is airing two series that are both about rehab, sort of, but they're very different. One mocks and exploits its participants, while the other is even more devastating and tragic than the show that gave it life. Confessions of a Teen Idol is sort of like Celebrity Rehab, if Dr. Drew's goal was to torture the celebrities about their drug use and convince them drugs had screwed up their life, and then offer them heroin, ecstasy, cocaine, and alcohol. The series concluded this weekend, and was filmed at the soundstage used as the house for Real World Hollywood (it's the same space, just redecorated), and spent a lot of time at the beginning showing us how these 1980s and 1990s idols were destroyed affected by their fame, but the whole goal of the series is to see who can become famous again. What?The executive producers who screw with their heads include two former teen idols, Scott 'Charles in Charge' Baio and Jason 'Wayne from the Wonder Years' Hervey, and they're infuriatingly m

Was Slumdog Millionaire such a great movie? Did is get 8 Oscars just because it depicited the struggle of a common man or did it get so many awards because somebody very nicely ridiculed Mumbai and its lifestyle.Content Producer: Payal PathakPublished: Feb 23, 2009

Automated external defibrillators save lives. Hotels can save lives by installing automated external defibrillators to help quickly get a heart beating again if a guest has a heart attack. Content Producer: Julia BodeebPublished: Feb 23, 2009

Your family has already spent a ton of money putting together a wedding. But did you stop to figure the tips you'll be expected to provide to the folks who provide services for your special event? Here are the acceptable ranges for gratuities.Content Producer: Vonda SinesPublished: Feb 23, 2009

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin was drafted in to help rocker David Byrne write his new album, after the former Talking Heads star was struck with writer's block.

There's no telling when lightning will strike a song. Consider the case of "At Last," the Mack Gordon/Harry Warren composition immortalized by Etta James. Beyonce performed it in "Cadillac Records," the recent movie about Chess Records....

Film News: Worked with Polanski, Bertolucci -- Hercules Bellville, longtime right-hand man to producer Jeremy Thomas who also worked closely with Roman Polanski, Bernardo Bertolucci, Michelangelo Antonioni and numerous other filmmakers, died Saturday in London. He was 69. He had been successfully treated for cancer more than a year ago but suffered a relapse at the beginning of this year.

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