Last month, Occupy Wall Street protestors almost ended up in the background of some scenes for The Dark Knight Rises, the final movie of Christopher Nolan‘s Batman trilogy, but the producers ended up scrapping the idea. Now a popular TV show is facing its own problems trying to incorporate the Occupiers into its plotline. Law [...]

The new media world being what it is, someone caught footage of adult film actor Stephen Hill leaping to his death yesterday after an eight-hour-long standoff with L.A. police. Hill was on the run from police after allegedly killing a co-worker, fellow adult film actor Tom Dong, with a Samurai sword and injuring two others (one seriously).

Last week’s news that NBC was canceling long-running television series Law & Order appeared to take a lot of people by surprise. The show, which is in its 20th season, has now been running for so long that there is an entire generation of New Yorkers (and others) who don’t know television viewing without it. There is a also an entire generation of up-and-coming actors who will now be without the frequently successful entree into acting life it provided. Here’s some of the more famous ones.

On last night’s Countdown, host Keith Olbermann included a quote by Andrew Breitbart that sounded rather familiar to me. I waited a few seconds to see if there would be any attribution, but the onscreen graphic simply said “Andrew Breitbart – Dec. 10.” Where was the source?

What’s the fastest way to get Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly talking about you on national television? Comparing them to a violent cancer, also on national television, is a pretty safe bet. Two nights ago, a character in Law & Order likened Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Bill O’Reilly to “a cancer spreading ignorance and hate” against immigrants. Beck and O’Reilly were quick to hit back against the show’s “far-left” agenda:

Who: Dick Wolf, Rene Balcer, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston (Law & Order), moderated by Pat Mitchell What: The Inside Media series’ “Law & Order: Twenty Years and Counting” Where: The Paley Center for Media When: November 16, 2009 Thumbs: Up