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Product placement has been a part of TV and movies since their beginnings, and finally someone's put together a video montage of laughably obvious placement moments  — for historical purposes, of course. Fred and Wilma Flintstone split a pack of Winstons while Bugs Bunny unironically urges the children of America to drink the Kool-Aid. They're not all really product placements — some are just ads

10 Best Academy Award Moments The 83rd Annual Academy Awards air on ABC Sunday, February 27th. This year's co-hosts are Anne Hathaway and James Franco. The film with the most nominations is The King's Speech, up for twelve Oscars. The segment where the entertainers who died are remembered is one of my favorite parts of the annual broadcast...

At this Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony trophies will be passed out to some of the lesser known artists who make a big impact on the movies we watch, the Foley artists and sound engineers. During the production of a movie the actors are miked to catch all of their dialogue but almost all of the background sounds are not recorded at that time, they are added in later...

The Cars in England 1979 The Cars are releasing their first studio album in 24 years called Move Like This on May 10th according to Rolling Stone. Lead singer Ric Ocasek thought he'd never make another Cars record considering what had happened in the past with personalities and the death of their bass player Benjamin Orr in 2000 but last year he found himself with new songs, "a lot of which I

Tom Carnegie remembered The "Voice of Indianapolis Motor Speedway," Tom Carnegie died Friday at the age of 91. Carnegie called the Indy 500 motor race sixty one times, the Brickyard 400 twelve times and the Indy Grand Prix six times. He worked for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway from 1946 until he retired in 2006...

Snow Explodes Off Semi Have you ever seen anything like this on the Interstate? With all the heavy snow across the country, especially in areas not used to getting the white stuff, some drivers are forgetting to clean off their vehicles before traveling...

The Eagles popularized country rock in the 1970's and now drummer Don Henley is reportedly in Nashville working on an album of country cover tunes according to recent tweets and internet sites including //theboot.com/2011/01/24/don-henley-country-album-2011/...

A video at www.bobseger.com teases that he may hit the road this year. A short video plays a medley of Seger songs and photos and in the middle a U.S. map appears with some states highlighted, then a countdown and explosion with the words "Stay Tuned To BobSeger...

A man who helped launch the careers of a lot of rockers passed away on Monday, Don Kirshner died of heart failure in Florida at 76.  He employed some of the best songwriters in the music business at New York's Brill Building, including Carole King, Neil Diamond and Neil Sedaka, and used them to write songs for projects like The Monkees and the animated band The Archies.  Those were a couple of my

Ever see this one from In Living Colour?  Several outstanding comics got their start on this show!