Television Archives

Atlantic City, NJ, August 17, 1009 – Dancing with the Stars duo Karina Smirnoff and Maks Chmerovskiy are spending their summer dancing up a storm for a live audience in Broadway’s Burn the Floor.  On Mondays the Great White Way is dark, so the couple headed to Atlantic City’s Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa for some R&R.  The engaged lovebirds nibbled sushi at the hotel’s Izakaya, and then, of course, headed to club mur.mur for some (what else?) dancing!  As you can imagine, intimidated fellow clubgoers stood aside and watched in amazement as Maks and Karina tore up the dance floor.

Alas, Broadway is a demanding mistress with eight shows per week, so the two headed back to NYC in the wee hours as they had to perform the next day.

Los Angeles, August 9, 2009 – Let’s face it, the 2009 Teen Choice Awards was all about the guys.  While the Gibson Amphitheatre stage was swarming with gorgeous gals, the evening’s hottest, Transformers star Megan Fox, summed up the mood of the ceremony when accepting her Choice award for Female Hottie:  “I love you guys. And I'm gonna shut up now so you can all look at Robert Pattinson," Fox told the crowd.  And look they did: Pattinson’s Male Hottie award was one of 11 for Twilight. 

With hosts the Jonas Brothers receiving several awards along with Zac Efron, Chace Crawford and Ed Westwick, screaming female fans were everywhere.

The Teen Choice Awards airs on Monday, August 10, at 8 PM E.T. on Fox

Atlantic City, NJ, Aug. 1, 2009 – After winning twice on Dancing with the Stars, Julianne Hough released a top-selling country music album.  Along the way, she was nominated for a Creative Arts Primetime Emmy Award for choreography.  So, boy, did we feel like failures when we learned that Hough accomplished all this before the age of 21!

She celebrated her 21st birthday with her close-knit family this weekend at Atlantic City’s Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa.  Julianne and her sisters Maribeth and Katherine shopped, dined at Bobby Flay Steak, and danced late into the night at club mur.mur, where they surprised the birthday girl with a cowboy boot-shaped cake. 

Photo: courtesy Borgata Hotel

New York, July 7, 2009 – We were surprised to see that Sacha Baron Cohen was, for once, not in character as Brüno when he appeared on the David Letterman show to promote the movie.  Cohen arrived at the taping dressed in a suit, and to the disappointment of fans waiting outside, dashed inside without fanfare. 

After the taping concluded, fans waited…and waited…and waited for Sacha Baron Cohen to come back outside.  What could be taking him so long, they wondered.

Finally, after quite a long time, the comedian emerged from the studio and it was clear what had taken so much time – he had changed into full Brüno regalia.  And then, Cohen proceeded to camp it up to the maximum, posing suggestively, signing autographs up and down the street, and basically putting on a show.  “I was laughing so hard, I nearly dropped my camera,” one photographer told us.