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We've suckered another organization to take us seriously and now MTV has not only credentialed LAist on the red carpet during Sunday's Movie Awards up in Universal City, but they have set up a one-of-a-kind Live Blogging Tent for a hand-selected group of folk like us. The key word is live. This is the first year MTV is broadcasting this awards show live, which is one reason there will be just two musical acts....

A Word or 21: Mark Burnett can't come up with anything new other than Pirate Master - and you thought Survivor had gone down the tubes. Tonight - Thursday - May 31, 2007 Orioles @ Angels (Fox Sports, 7:00 p.m.) Dodgers @ Nationals (PRIME, 7:30 p.m.) Pirate Master (CBS, 8:00 p.m.) Series premiere! Reality show set up to piggyback on a movie not produced by this network - lawsuit anyone? 2007 Scripps National Spelling...

- Just like the old days, tonight on the Late Show with David Letterman, Kramer will burst into Jerry Seinfeld's spotlight and apologize for his racist remarks. Word is Richards doesn't apologize any better than he delivers stand-up. Kyle Doss and the other African Americans who were at the Laugh Factory show on Friday probably won't be satisfied - Defamer - UPDATE: CBS News has posted a clip of the interview on their site...

Feeling the heat from the controversy stirred up by activists and protests swirling around his hit show Survivor, creator Mark Burnett not only called his critics ignorant but claimed that dividing the teams up by ethnic groups will not make for a racial show. "By putting people in tribes, they clearly have to get rid of people of their own ethnicity," Burnett, who also created NBC hit "The Apprentice", told a group of reporters...

Dahm, who is a triplet, was accompanied by her bridesmaid sisters Jocelyn and Nicole, while Dr. Phil served as his son's best man. - hollywood.com A pair of Los Angeles transit buses collided today near a downtown parking structure, injuring 11 people, including two seriously, authorities said. - Daily Breeze To hype her forthcoming debut album, Paris, Paris Hilton will be making a few in-store appearances to meet and greet fans. - IGN Supernova,...

Don't look now, but The Donald is heading this way. The next season of The Apprentice will be shot here in Los Angeles, because, producer Mark Burnett says, "Donald has so many recent West Coast projects that it made perfect sense to change locations and along with it change the flavor of the weekly tasks." We are just waiting to get to the bottom of a freeway exit and see the wanna-be-Apprentices selling bags of oranges.

OK, so summer TV is like a car crash on the 405. You really don’t want to slow down and look, but you do anyway. That's what happened to LAist when we happened to catch some of “Rock Star: INXS” earlier this week. (It was a toss-up between that and “Hell’s Kitchen” on FOX.)

Can you imagine if the host of the Grammys used his monologue to gripe about the popularity of rap music and how it was crowding the kind of music liked off the charts? Or what if the host of the Oscars blurted out, "You know what? Sound effects editing is for hacks!" Well, what Garry Shandling did to reality television as the host of the Emmys last night was no different.