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Is Charlie Sheen Living Out His Own Groundhog’s Day?

Admit it: when you heard that another one of Charlie Sheen’s Mercedes had been “stolen” from his Los Angeles gated community and driven into a ditch off the side of Mulholland Drive — for the second time in four months — you immediately fantasized that the actor was living out his own Phil Connors nightmare.

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Betty White on The View: Remembering Rue and The Golden Girls

Since Rue McClanahan’s passing on June 3, there’s one thing that’s been missing: the comforting coo of Rose Nylund herself, Betty White. Though White released a statement about her Golden Girls co-star immediately after her death, it wasn’t until today on The View that we were able to see her reflect on the duo’s halcyon days of lanais and pastel-colored pants. Video of White discussing the shock of McClanahan’s death (and her status as the last living Golden Girl) is after the jump.

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True Blood’s Ratings Don’t Suck

True Blood came back to HBO with its biggest season premiere yet , although its 5.1 million viewer tally — up 38% from last year’s opener — isn’t the show’s highest-rated episode ever. Still, if True Blood can continue its unlikely trend of growing from episode to episode, as it did last season, this is a great place to start. How soon until they add some (literal) bloodsuckers to Tilda ? [ EW ]

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True Blood’s Ratings Don’t Suck

This Week On Cable: The Slasher Origins of Matthew McConaughey and Renee Zellweger

Cable’s rich pageant offers many things this week, but nothing quite as riveting as the spectacle of Matthew McConaughey laying the foundations of his career in the badlands of Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequel hell…

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Gary Coleman Game Changer

Details surrounding the death of Gary Coleman are about to get even murkier thanks to newly surfaced legal documents in which the Diff’rent Strokes actor specified that he did not want to be pulled off life support — a direct contradiction of what happened on May 28, when the actor’s ex-wife Shannon Price instructed doctors to pull the plug on the comatose Coleman. Since then, Price has been accused of charging $50,000 for an interview and shopping photos of the actor shortly after he passed away. [ TMZ ]

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Breaking Bad Finale Ratings Rise

Apparently viewers do like soul-crushingly bleak darkness on their television. The season finale of Breaking Bad was watched by 1.6 million viewers, up 17 percent from last year’s season finale. Overall, Breaking Bad was up 22 percent for the season in the 18-49 demographic. No wonder AMC renewed it. No word yet on whether the network will pay for fans’ therapy bills. [ THR /The Live Feed]

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So Just Who is This Zach Anner and What was He Doing with Dennis Quaid, Bill Clinton and the KKK?

Ladies and gentlemen, meet Zach Anner. A self-described “wheelchair-bound lady magnet” from Austin, Zach is currently being championed as Oprah Winfrey’s successor after accumulating over 2.5 million votes in “Oprah’s Search For the Next TV Star,” a competition where users can upload their own reality show pitches and let internet users determine which is the best. So just where did America’s next comic star — who jokes that cerebral palsy is “the sexiest of the palsies” — come from? Roll the tape.

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So Just Who is This Zach Anner and What was He Doing with Dennis Quaid, Bill Clinton and the KKK?

Which VJ Should MTV Re-Hire as a ‘Twitter Jockey’?

MTV’ s hurtling into the post- TRL future by opening up a new position: “Twitter Jockey.” The lucky hire will cover events like the Video Music Awards in 140-character blurbs while being just as unbearably live as the event itself. Though the network’s holding a giant contest in order to recruit, I say this is a grand opportunity to re-hire some of the network’s best vets. Join us as we rank the finest candidates from old MTV.

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Is This Woman the Next Great Reality TV Villain?

It’s a little too soon to tell who’s got the serious leverage in the new season of Next Food Network Star , but the only reason I’m watching it at all is because of one woman: Dzintra Dzenis, an Austin chef who I think has the potential to be among the most deplorable — and successful — reality-show contestants in recent memory. Good luck, Dzintra!

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Is This Woman the Next Great Reality TV Villain?

The Rubicon WTF? Factor: Parsing the Headscratch-y Reality of AMC’s Newest Series

So: Did you watch Rubicon last night? Whether the first-episode preview lived up to the hype you had in mind, it boasted one quality we can all agree on: Jason Horwitch’s show promises more than just an little bit out there . Thank goodness for Movieline’s Rubicon WTF ? Factor, a handy metric deriving each episode’s most quizzical matters on a scale of 0 to 30, broken down byt the degree of difficulty to understand, the developments’ plausibility, and Horwitch and Co.’s execution of each. Together, we will get our heads around this show. At least until it introduces a Smoke Monster, at which point I got nothing. (Needless to say, SPOILERS AHEAD. )

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