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Diane Keaton Appearance on 'Colbert Report' Gets
Awkward (Video)

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The Oscar winner catches the Comedy Central host off guard with her flurry of non-sequitors and teasing.

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Blake Shelton & Miranda Lambert Fire Back At
Country Star's 'Voice' Slam

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"The Voice" doesn't have a fan in country star Eric Church. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Church took issue with reality singing competitions and the prizes awarded.

?It's become 'American Idol' gone mad," Church said, as reported by the blog, Keepin' It Country. "Honestly, if Blake Shelton and Cee Lo Green f---ing turn around in a red chair, you get a deal? That's crazy. I don't know what would make an artist do that. You're not an artist."

Church also took issue with musicians who become reality show judges. "Once your career becomes something other than the music, then that's what it is," he said. "I'll never make that mistake. I don't care if I f---ing starve.?

Shelton, a coach on "The Voice" and wife Miranda Lambert, a "Nashville Star" contestant in 2003 and mentor on "The Voice," shot back on Twitter.

Church supported Lambert on her 2010 tour Revolution. She thanked Church for the tour on Twitter while naming other reality show competition winners who have made it big in the music industry.

Lambert has been known to speak her mind on Twitter. After Chris Brown's 2012 Grammy performance, Lambert took to the social media platform to question why Brown was allowed to perform twice at the awards show. And after the 2012 ACM Awards, Lambert took issue with Ashton Kutcher's presentation.

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Nelson Davis: Dick Clark's Business Lesson

post from TV on HuffingtonPost.com on 01 May 2012 02:31:34 PM. © TV on HuffingtonPost.com

I was fortunate enough to know Dick Clark and receive the benefit of him sharing a number of his experiences as a business owner. Like so many others, I first became aware of Dick as the host of American Bandstand and a Saturday night show sponsored by a chewing gum company. As a teenager living in a public housing project, I had no concept of the business principles and protocols that brought Dick into our apartment or that paved his way to more than 50 very successful years. He was simply a likeable guy introducing the music and performers of the day that I wanted to see. But by the late '70s when I was planning to move to Los Angeles, he had become a business role model for me.

Dick started in radio and so did I. He began hosting TV programs and I'd gotten to do some of that as well. During a visit to LA, I saw a sign on an office saying Dick Clark Productions on the Sunset Strip. That switched on a light bulb for me. After that I wanted to have a business that produced what is now referred to simply as content. My eyes were opened to two new role models. Dick and Merv Griffin were leaders in leveraging their on-air presence into access to the offices where TV programming was being purchased. Where do you think Ryan Seacrest learned his empire building skills?

In the early 1980s, I finally met Dick and found him just as easy to relate to as the personality I'd grown up with on television. By that time I was an executive at the NBC network and Dick Clark Productions was one of the companies that regularly called on us to pitch program ideas, I made sure that we met and it wasn't long before I peppered him with questions like any student would when given some attention by a master. Lesson number one was: "Nelson, there are very few bad program ideas; there are just ideas waiting for the right time." For example, do you remember TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes from its birth in 1982? Dick Clark Productions had a hand in that one.

Dick's interest in owning media content really began when he was just the host of American Bandstand broadcast from WFIL-TV in Philadelphia. I wouldn't be surprised if Clark got some entrepreneur lessons from the owner of that station, the late Walter Annenberg who went beyond being a media mogul to become one of America's best known philanthropists. Bandstand was a sensationally fast developing hit TV program which transformed Dick into a famous personality who controlled major access to the eyes and ears of the teenage population! That kind of leverage enabled him to develop ownership interests in record companies, distributors and even the songs themselves. Dick said "my tentacles went in every direction." The lesson here is leveraging what you have into ownership positions in other products and services. A modern master of that art is Donald Trump.

Some years after I first met Dick, he told me a story about how excited he was taking a train trip from Philadelphia to New York with a serious amount of cash stuffed in his pockets. Though I don't remember which business (it may have been a movie) it was in, he had been offered the chance to invest in something and it thrilled him. Even at age 70, Dick displayed that youthful enthusiasm for business ideas. We were together in Florence, Italy, back in 2001 for a mutual friend's birthday celebration. Because he wasn't as recognizable in Italy as here, we had a nice business conversation while standing near the Duomo as hundreds of people walked by! Dick and his wife owned some property in the Caribbean, and he talked about starting a shrimp farming business. After I teased him with a reminder that shrimp don't sing or dance, came a simple confession. He said, "Nelson, you know I've always got to be doing something." By that time, Dick was very wealthy, famous and accomplished, but he still loved working and ideas more than lavish spending or an exorbitant lifestyle. Unbridled enthusiasm is a success magnet. While many people of his age were eyeing a rocking chair, Dick was fishing for opportunities.

Dick Clark was a personality and entrepreneur for the ages. He knew how to make people feel at ease. By helping others shine, some of the light fell on him and helped power his fortune. Though he was a firm and sometimes blunt boss, he had some loyal thirty-year employees. He probably sent more thoughtful congratulatory notes and gifts to various people than a head of state. I'm amazed and impressed by how long and well he did it. I'm still delighted that I not only got to meet one of my business idols, but that he shared some great lessons with me. With apologies to James Brown who was nicknamed "the hardest working man in show business," I now nominate Dick Clark for that role.

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Ice Queen Christina Aguilera Wears A Tiara On
'The Voice'

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"The Voice" isn't just about its competitors, as judge and mentor Christina Aguilera surely knows. The pop star donned a tiara and fishnet stockings on the show last night - perhaps reminding viewe...

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PHOTO PREVIEW: 'Supernatural' Season 7, Ep 21:
'Reading is Fundamental'

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After seeing the promotional photos (in the slideshow to the left) for the next all-new episode of Supernatural, entitled "Reading is Fundamental" we have so many questions!For starters, what exactly are Meg's (Rachel Miner...

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Jeff Probst, Ricki Lake Lighting Up Daytime On
Global TV

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What is this, 2012 or 2000? As soap operas become a dying breed (though the renewals of "General Hospital" and "Days of our Lives" provide some solace, along with existing shows "The Young and the Restless" and "The Bold and the Beautiful"), it's evident that networks need to revamp their daytime lineups and bring in the big guns to compete with the likes of Ellen DeGeneres, Anderson Cooper, and Katie Couric.

Enter Jeff Probst and Ricki Lake, both veterans in the TV hosting game.

Global is hoping Probst and Lake will be a big part of their daytime image overhaul. Probst hit it big when "Survivor" premiered in 2000, while Lake has been a familiar face in the afternoon TV circuit since 1993 with her titular talk show.

"The Ricki Lake Show" will be more of an "Oprah"-like take on the genre. According to a press release sent out by Global TV, "Ricki will cover topics that interest the modern-day woman. This is a new Ricki, reflecting where she and her audience are now in their lives."

The daytime game is kinda-sorta new for Probst, who's helming "The Jeff Probst Show." He's often filled in for Regis Philbin on "Live! With Regis and Kelly" (as well as Larry King on his former CNN show), but he's only helmed hundreds of "Survivor" Tribal Councils, so he's more than prepared for what's to come. "The Jeff Probst Show," which he will also executive-produce, "will cover topics ranging from relationships and family dynamics to newsmakers of the day, families and individuals facing challenges," reads the network release.

The airdates for the new shows, which debut in September, will likely be announced later this month when Shaw Media announces their Fall 2012 schedule. But Global's current daytime roster consists of "Days of Our Lives," "The Talk," "The Doctors," "'Til Debt Do Us Part," and "Y&R" -- which means something's gotta give.

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Hillary Clinton Rejects Jason Segel's 'HIMYM'
Role Offer

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has turned down the chance to play actor Jason Segel's mom on hit TV comedy How I Met Your Mother. The Forgetting Sarah Marshall star publicly appealed to ...

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Law & Order: SVU Welcomes Back Alum Dean Winters
for Season 13 Finale

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WATCH: Customers Leap To Transgender Waitress's
Defense At Local Diner

The ABC program "What Would You Do?" has never shied away from tackling controversial topics, and this week's forthcoming episode is no exception.

In an effort to determine one community's acceptance of transgender people, "RuPaul's Drag Race" alum Carmen Carrera is cast in the role of a New Jersey diner waitress, while an actor portrays a longtime customer who deplores the fact the waiter he once knew and liked as "Christopher" is now a woman.

"Once upon a time, I was Chris -- and now I'm Carmen," Carrera, who reportedly is revealing that she is transgender for the first time on the program, says to the customer.

But Kevin isn't hearing any of it, responding angrily, "I don't think I can even eat here! This is disgusting! They have, like, freaks waiting tables!"

Check out a clip from Friday's episode above.

Take a look at 20 transgender pioneers below:

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