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Simon Fuller Starts Work On A NEW Musical TV Series…About A Rock Band On The Rise!

We have a feeling that Glee, and now Smash, are just the tip of the iceberg!
American Idol producer Simon Fuller and Lionsgate have reportedly started work on a new "contemporary television musical drama," which will focus on the lives and romantic entanglements of a new California rock band, and is being geared for both network and cable!
According to Lionsgate Chief Executive Officer Jon Feltheimer and Vice Chairman Michael Burns:
Tags: american idol, band, chief executive officer, coo, development, glee, jon feltheimer, kevin beggs, lionsgate television, michael burns, musical, production, sandra stern, simon fuller, smash, television group president, vice chairman
American Idol Needs 'Fresh Energy' Says News Corp President!

Snap, snap American Idol!! Snap, snap!!!
News Corp president, COO, and deputy chairman Chase Carey has a few words for you!!
At the 20th annual Deutsche Bank Media & Telecom Conference, Chase explained his feelings on the show's current state in TV land:
Tags: american idol, chase carey, coo, fresh energy, news corp
Grocery Store Responds To Elton John Magazine Controversy

Well, at least SOME corrective action was taken.
In light of the disgraceful news yesterday that Arkansas supermarket chain Harps had censored the new issue of Us Weekly for showcasing Elton John, his husband David Furnish, and their baby son on its cover, the company's President Kim B. Eskew has issued the following statement:
We have received a number of comments regarding an incident in our Mountain Home store involving the current issue Us Weekly Magazine depicting Elton John, David Furnish and their newborn son. I would like to explain how this happened. For many years we have provided each of our stores with shields which can be used at the manager's discretion to cover the front of magazines when they receive complaints from our customers regarding either the photo on the cover of the magazine or the titles of articles contained within the magazine. Sometimes those photos might be sexually provocative or too revealing. The magazine article titles might also be too suggestive for some customers. In this case our store manager received some complaints, and as has been our custom, placed the shield over the cover of the magazine. When we began receiving complaints at our corporate office, we reviewed the magazine in question, removed the shield and are selling the magazine in all our locations today without any shield. Our true intention is not to offend anyone in our stores and this incident happened at just one of our 65 locations, which when brought to our attention, we reversed.
Kim B. Eskew
President & COO
Harps Food Stores, Inc.
Wow.
We don't know what's worse - that there is so much hate in the world that people couldn't even walk by a magazine cover featuring two homosexual men and their child - what should be a happy, joyous occasion - without freaking out, or that the manager was convinced enough by these complaints to consider the image 'too suggestive' for the world to see!
We appreciate that they've made the effort to correct this offensive and ignorant move, but frankly, we're still horrified that this even happened in the first place.
Grow up, America. The LGBT community is NOT GOING ANYWHERE.
Tags: ban, censored, controversial, coo, cover, david furnish, gay, harps, husband, kim b. eskew, magazine, president, response, son, supermarket, us weekly, zachary jackson levon furnish john
Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams To Step Down As CEO

According to Twitter CEO Evan Williams himself via the Twitter Blog, he'll be stepping down as CEO.
Williams has asked the company's COO, Dick Costolo, to take over his position, so he can focus on product strategy.
He must REALLY be into product strategy if he's willing to give up the CEO position of Twitter!
…Either that, or there's another @motivation, but we love Twitter, so we shall give him the benefit of the @doubt!
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Tags: ceo, coo, dick costolo, evan williams, product strategy

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