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Channeling those Golds into Acting Careers
First we've got Michael Phelps hosting the SNL season opener and making a cameo in Entourage.
Latest Olympian casting news:
Gymnast Nastia Liukin will be appearing on Gossip Girl and gymnast Shawn Johnson will be making an appearance on The Secret L......
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Michael Phelps is Taking Over Your Television
I'm not obsessed with Michael Phelps. I swear (despite the fact that I have been posting about him on a daily basis). It's just...he is going to be invading our TV screens over the course of the next month and I would be remiss if I did not inform...
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Michael Phelps: Comedian?
Michael Phelps can add one more item to his resume: SNL host.
In his continued quest to help NBC score ratings gold (sorry, had to), Phelps has been tapped to host this season's Saturday Night Live premiere.
The show will air on September 13th and w...
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Top 10 Moments of the Olympics
I really should stop writing about the Olympics, because they are over, but I couldn't resist just one last post.
Yesterday I asked you all to share your favorite Olympic moments.
Now, check out this Reuters list of the top moments:
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Spotlight on Last Place
I enjoyed this person's blog entry chronicling some of the last-place finishers in various Olympic events:
Stories from the Back of the Pack
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Michael Phelps Mania!
In case you have been living in a cave, Michael Phelps collected his 8th Gold Medal on Saturday night, beating Mark Spitz's record of 7 Gold Medals in a single Olympics.
Is he the greatest Olympian of all-time? I could debate this for hours...
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The Office/Olympics Cross-Promos
If you've been watching the 2008 Beijing Olympics as obsessively as I have, you may have already caught some of these promos on TV.
If not, check out some amusing promos for the new season of The Office that are all Olympic-themed:
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What?! Those Chinese gymnasts were not 16? Say it isn't so!
Just the other day SideReel presented you with a handy dandy Olympic Scandal Roundup and now we have another one to add to the list:
The AP has dug up an old news story from a Chinese newspaper featuring one of the gymnasts on the gold medal-winnin...
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Olympic Scandal Roundup
While the opening ceremonies of the Olympics were completely awesome, the Games have not been entirely without their controversy.
Most recently, word has come out that the girl we thought was singing "Hymn to the Motherland" during the Opening Cere.........
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Awesome Moments of the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Approximately 1 billion people, or 15% of the world viewed the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympics this Friday evening.
Were you one of them?
They were truly breathtaking...if not a little bit scary (2008 people doing things in perfect synchroni...
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