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Tasting Report: 2009 Radio-Coteau Pinot Noir

Radio-Coteau (r?? d? ? - k? t??) adj. A colloquial expression suggesting ?word of mouth.? Region: Northern Rhone.

Literal Translation: broadcasting from the hillside.

I can't say for sure where I first heard of Radio-Coteau but I'm glad I did. It may have been @DrncPno on Twitter that planted the first seed which in turn encouraged me to buy a bottle of their 2006 La Neblina Pinot Noir. Paired with a simple mushroom pizza on a Friday night that wine was simply amazing. Not an off note in the bottle. Purely delicious.

Their focus is on Pinot Noir from the North Coast of California (Sonoma Coast, Russian River Valley, Anderson Valley). They also produce Chardonnay and Syrah.

Their wines sell in the $40-$55 range which is one of the things I love about California Pinot Noir: You can buy wines from top producers at entry-level Napa Cab prices.

Stylistically, I think their wines are similar to Dehlinger's: Balanced and pure yet unabashedly new world. Proprietor Eric Sussman spent time as an associate winemaker at Dehlinger - as I learned in this excellent informative piece from Terroirist - so perhaps the similarities are more than coincidental. Both Dehlinger and Radio-Coteau produce Pinot Noirs with Goldridge fruit.

I hopped on their mailing list last year tried a couple of Pinot Noirs from the highly regarded 2009 vintage. They were as distinctive as they were impressive. Here are my thoughts:

2009 Radio-Coteau Pinot Noir La Neblina - USA, California, Sonoma County, Sonoma Coast (2/19/2012)
A beautifully balanced yet powerful and flavorful California Pinot Noir. The wine is unfined and unfiltered yet beautifully radiant in the glass. Wonderfully aromatic immediately upon opening with classic aromas and flavors of bright cherries, black tea, sweet spice, and cola. Silky mouthfeel and long finishes that stays with you long enough to want to take another sip. Tremendous stuff and a very good value at $42. Highly recommended. Enjoyed it quite a bit more than the 2009 Radio Coteau Alberigi which was dominated by orange peel. (94 points)
2009 Radio-Coteau Pinot Noir Alberigi - USA, California, Sonoma County, Russian River Valley (12/4/2011)
There's a lot here to like but the orange peel aromas and flavors were overly dominant for me at this point which makes it hard to go nuts about the bottle I tasted from. (91 points)

And here is my note for the 2006 I mentioned earlier:
2006 Radio-Coteau Pinot Noir La Neblina - USA, California, Sonoma County, Sonoma Coast (9/18/2010)
Really enjoyed this bottle. What struck me about it as being memorable was that it didn't have an off note or aroma in the entire bottle. And the amplitude was spot-on as well. Classy stuff. Enjoyed thoroughly with a mushroom pizza. (92 points)

Posted from CellarTracker

Their 2010s are just being released to mailing list members. Like other Sonoma Pinot producers they're saying the vintage was challenging but successful. In general I'm buying 2010 California Pinot Noir, but trying to be selective. 2009 was a tremendous vintage and there's still inventory around. And there's always another great vintage right around the corner.

For more information on Radio-Coteau visit their website and sign up for their mailing list. You can occasionally find their wines at retail as well.

Question of the Day: Have you tried Radio-Coteau? If so what did you think? If not, what are some California Pinot Noir mailing lists you'd recommend?

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WellesleyWinePress/~3/P-OzH9VG-x8/tasting-report-2009-radio-coteau-pinot.html

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May 14, 2012 5:53:43 PM

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'The Voice' Heads to Middle East, North Africa

Stuart Kemp
Sony Pictures Television Arabia pacts with Dubai's MBC Group to produce the Talpa singing competition format.

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May 14, 2012 1:53:32 PM

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May 14, 2012 11:53:44 AM

Field Notes from a Wine Life ? Power Structure Edition

Odds and ends from a life lived through the prism of the wine glass…

Naked Wine and Occupy Wall Street

It’s not hard to notice the parallels between the natural wine movement and Occupy Wall Street - both are valid causes sorely lacking coherence and a rallying point that would move them from fringe head-scratcher to mainstream momentum.

• Natural wine is about purity of wine expression—shepherding grapes grown without chemicals to the bottle with as little human manipulation as possible, representing the place where they came from in the process.

• Occupy Wall Street is about re-calibrating the world’s best economic system – capitalism—to preserve the middle-class, the labor force that has allowed the U.S. to create the most productive economy in the world.

Neither movement represents fringe radicalism as some would have you believe. I look at both as being valid inflection points and, at their core, about keeping a balance between big and small, allowing every man and woman an equal opportunity at pursuing success around their particular truth.

What reasonable person would deny the validity of either if not clouded by confusion?

One idea well-conceived and well-communicated can change the world, but, unfortunately, both the natural wine movement and Occupy Wall Street are prevaricating from their essential truth, rendering them both toothless and feckless.

No need to crib from Che Guevara, but appealing to base logic and the common denominator would do both movements some good.

Just one man’s opinion…

On the Aussies, Redux

A few weeks back, I noted how the Australian wine industry was poised for a rebound in public perception due in part to two things happening in concert – public backlash to Yellow Tail wine, what I call the, “Derision Decision,” and an unspoken coalition of influencers recognizing Australia’s artisanal wine production – the antithesis of Yellow Tail. I cited recent sympathetic mentions from Jay McInerney in the Wall Street Journal and Dan Berger, wine writing’s current patriarch, as proof points.

You can add to the list of sympathetic mentions about artisanal Australia with recent mentions from Jancis Robinson and James Suckling.

Don’t sleep on Australia. It’s making a comeback slowly, but surely in public perception.

Tim Mondavi and Wine Spectator

Thomas Matthews, the Executive Editor for Wine Spectator magazine (WS), has commented on my site a few times. Each of these instances has been to protect or project Wine Spectator around its editorial goals.

Good on Thomas for not being afraid to get in the ring. Certainly, WS takes its fair share of shots from the wine chatterati, mostly with grace and aplomb.

Lest I cast myself as anything but objective, I should note that James Laube’s article on Tim Mondavi and Continuum in the current issue of WS (November 15th issue) is everything right about what mainstream wine media can offer wine consumers that online wine writing (mostly) doesn’t –long-form, depth, first-person access and an effort that takes weeks and not hours.

Laube’s piece is excellent - well-written and balanced; acknowledgement thereof is in order.

Besides the Wine

Jordan winery has two wines – a Cabernet and Chardonnay, but they really have a triumvirate in terms of things to buy. Jordan focuses on food and wine as being partners at the table and, to that end, any purchase from Jordan should also include their olive oil. Wow!

The Jordan olive oil makes Trader Joe’s EVOO seem like Two Buck Chuck, comparatively speaking. A little whole wheat Barilla pasta, some homemade pesto using the Jordan olive oil and some artisan bread in five minutes a day and you’re assuredly living the good life. The rub is I wouldn’t pour the round Jordan Chard with the pesto, probably a Sauvignon Blanc, but don’t let that dissuade you from picking up their olive oil – it’s good stuff.

Source: http://goodgrape.com/index.php/site/field_notes_from_a_wine_life_power_structure_edition/

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May 14, 2012 9:53:31 AM

Upfronts 2012: NBC Adds Fall Iteration of 'The Voice,' Looking at New Coaches for Second Cycle

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"Community" and "Whitney" move to Friday. But NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt says there is "no intention" to shunt them to "the graveyard."

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thr/news/~3/51qhVSFpBPg/nbc-upfronts-the-voice-community-whitney-christina-aguilera-adam-levine-323798

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May 14, 2012 7:53:35 AM

The British Film Institute Maps Out Five Year Funding Plan

Stuart Kemp
The gatekeeper lays out plans for $460 million lottery funding over the next five years and put British producers front and center of innovation plans.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thr/news/~3/zdkPcGfglhw/british-film-institute-maps-five-year-funding-plan-323808

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May 14, 2012 5:53:32 AM

U.K.'s Mara Pictures Pacts With Pakistan's Footprint

Stuart Kemp
The British-based indie distributor strikes a deal with South Asian multiplex and distribution company to bolster output in region.

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May 14, 2012 3:53:26 AM

MGM options 'On the Island'

EXCLUSIVE: 'Twilight' producers in talks to produce

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May 14, 2012 1:53:30 AM

Chris Hemsworth and Wife Reveal Meaning Behind Daughter India's Name!

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May 13, 2012 11:53:33 PM

Katy Perry is real dark and moody now

?Yeah, that’s right, my hair is purple, each strand a silent scream that pierces like a razor in my heart so I’ll know I?m still alive.? (image source of katy at the narm awards dinner last night = wenn, getty)

Source: http://www.wwtdd.com/2012/05/katy-perry-is-real-dark-and-moody-now/

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May 13, 2012 9:53:33 PM

'Back to the Future' Star's Unique Postcard Recalls On-Set Stories

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Tom Wilson's long note tells of his time making the iconic trilogy as well as his more recent exploits.

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May 13, 2012 7:53:31 PM

Kate - and Puppy! - Cheer on the Princes at Polo Match

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May 13, 2012 5:53:35 PM

Monticello Vineyards experiments with wine flavored cheese

At a Wine & Cheese festival in Carlsbad, Monticello Vineyard?s Stephen Corley approached them and indicated the winery might be interested in combining the Monticello wines with their Gouda cheeses. Monticello sent a case of their wines containing three varietals: Estate grown Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Cabernet Sauvignon. Continue reading →

Source: http://www.winecountrygetaways.com/napablog/monticello-vineyards-experiments-with-wine-flavored-cheese/

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May 13, 2012 5:06:15 PM

Bree Olson is a good model

Actually the picture agency didn?t say who this model was, but I?m pretty sure it?s Charlie Sheen’s ex and super famous porn star Bree Olson, doing a photo shoot yesterday in the window of the Oliver Peoples store on Sunset Blvd (*). She’s probably not actually naked, because that would seemingly be illegal, [...]

Source: http://www.wwtdd.com/2012/05/bree-olson-is-a-good-model/

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May 13, 2012 4:41:13 PM

Field Notes from a Wine Life ? Media Edition

Odds and ends from a life lived through the prism of the wine glass…

Rex Pickett

If you’re not reading Rex Pickett’s (author of Sideways and Vertical) blog, you are officially remiss.

Pickett is a gifted writer who cranks out perfectly incubated long-form posts with turns of phrase that are both wry and rich, offering insight into the machinations of publishing, film and stage that few culture vultures grasp.

Pickett recently wrote an extensive (3900 word) post on the reasons why a film sequel to Sideways (directed by Alexander Payne) would not be made from Vertical, Pickett’s book sequel. In doing so, Pickett offered a discursive meditation on Payne’s artistic pathos and the factors that may be playing into Vertical’s stall on the way to celluloid.

Unfortunately, Pickett removed the post after re-publishing a second version that deleted much of the armchair psychologist rumination he originally channeled from Payne’s psyche. An email inquiry to Pickett on why he removed the post (in either iteration) has gone unanswered.

If I were a muckraker, I would publish the post because Pickett’s deletion of the post from his site did not delete the post from RSS feed readers like Bloglines or Google Reader. But, I’m not a muckraker…

Hopefully, Pickett will revisit the topic in a manner that is less confessional and more elucidation because it was worth the extended read time. Until then you can read the other posts on his site and gain tremendous insight into the vicissitudes of the publishing process, what the afterglow is like after capturing the cultural zeitgeist and how he’s helping bring Sideways to the theatre with a stage version.

It’s definitely recommended reading.

A Discovery of Witches

While we’re on the topic of books and authors (and with Halloween around the corner), a reinforcing mention goes to Deb Harkness of Good Wine Under $20. Earlier this year a little book she wrote called, “A Discovery of Witches” was published and immediately shot up the best sellers lists. The movie rights were acquired this summer by Warner Bros, likely securing Harkness’ financial future in the process.

While I read fiction infrequently (the last fiction book being Vertical by Rex Pickett), those that I know who can tell the difference between kindling and a classic call A Discovery of Witches “mad genius.”
Any conversation about a wine blogger doing good should begin with Deb Harkness who is now dabbling in rarified air. Pick up her book if you haven’t yet.

Bargain Wine Books

There’s little doubt, in the prolonged US economic malaise we’re experiencing, that “value wine” and “bargain wine” are hot topics. Heck, an entire channel of business has been defined with “Flash” wine sale sites. Given that, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that a couple of wine books would be published with this specific focus.

What is a surprise is that the books are authored by wine writers with real chops engaged in offering a deeper narrative than the slapdash compendiums of wine lists that has passed muster in years gone by.
Just in time for the holidays, Natalie MacLean has Unquenchable: A Tipsy Quest for the World’s Best Bargain Wines publishing on November 1st and George Taber, a wine writer on a tear with his fourth book in six years, has A Toast to Bargain Wines: How Innovators, Iconoclasts, and Winemaking Revolutionaries Are Changing the Way the World Drinks publishing on November 15th.

An Idea worth Duplicating?

Celebrity deaths come in threes and new wine ideas come in twos.

We’ve seen this duplicative market entry in recent years with winery reservation systems CellarPass and VinoVisit and now we’re seeing it with quasi-wine search engines.

WineMatch and VinoMatch are both in the early stages of launch purporting to help a consumer match their likes with wines they might enjoy.

Meh. The problem with these sites isn’t that consumers don’t need help finding a wine they like, the problem is that most wine consumers don’t understand what kind of wine they like. Yes, it’s the tannins that dry the back of the mouth and its residual sugar that makes that K-J so delectable…

By the time consumers figure out their likes and dislikes graduating beyond the “go-to,” they don’t care about having somebody help them “match” their wines to their tastes because they’re on their own adventure.

It’s just my opinion, but these sites face looooong odds of finding consumer success and short of the slick willy seduction that happens with some wineries who haven’t been bitten and as such aren’t twice shy, they won’t find *any* success. But, I’ve been wrong before, at least once.

Pictures and Pithiness

While we’re on the topic of online wine services, I’m not sure whether I should be happy or aghast that I’ve been a habitué of the online wine scene for long enough to see a derivative – it’s like watching a remake of the movie Footloose when I was saw the original in the theatre.

There’s a new wine site called TasteJive that takes the concept of a wine blog called Chateau Petrogasm, popular in 2007 and 2008, to new heights.

Around the premise that a picture is worth a thousand words even if that picture has nothing to do with wine, they have created a site that provides nothing but visual metaphors with a 140 character description for finding wines you might like.

I loved the idea of Chateau Petrogasm, I like the idea of a perfectly crafted 140 character slug, but I’m very uncertain about the community aspect of TasteJive—the users who control the uploading of pictures and descriptions.

As noted mid-20th century photographer Diane Arbus said, “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”

Not exactly a recipe for success in bumping into a wine.

Source: http://goodgrape.com/index.php/site/field_notes_from_a_wine_life_media_edition/

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May 13, 2012 4:28:03 PM

Fashion Police: Lil' Bow Creep

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May 13, 2012 4:23:25 PM

Wango Tango 2012: Big Time Rush Members Talk Fender Charity Project, Tease Upcoming Tour Expansion (Video)

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Kendall Schmidt and Logan Henderson tell THR that their band will be adding a few international shows to their upcoming summer tour, which kicks off July 5 in Columbus, OH.

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May 13, 2012 4:21:20 PM

'Desperate Housewives' Cast Gift to Crew Sheds Further Light on Teri Hatcher's Estrangement (Photo)

Jethro Nededog
Another sign of the separation between the long-running ABC series' stars emerges.

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May 13, 2012 4:18:32 PM

New 'Godfather' Book Will Be Published After Paramount, Mario Puzo Estate Strike Deal

Eriq Gardner
Sides agree to put money from the forthcoming book, "The Family Corleone," into escrow as they continue to fight over who has copyright authority on literary sequels.

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May 13, 2012 2:12:34 PM

Win Tickets to ZAP?s 2011 Grand Zinfandel Tasting at Fort Mason!

You heard correctly. Beyond Napa Valley is giving away 4 tickets to ZAP’s Grand Zinfandel Tasting at Fort Mason. All you have to do is write a Zinfandel-inspired Haiku. Click the link below for all of the details. We hope … Continue reading →

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May 13, 2012 2:10:22 PM

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May 13, 2012 2:08:14 PM

Are Community and 30 Rock Ending? Is Smash in Trouble? NBC Boss Weighs In!

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May 13, 2012 2:06:37 PM

Australian Wine: The Once and Future King?

You’ve never heard of Campbell Mattinson: He’s a young, urbane Australian wine wordsmith who forsakes the academically erudite and plaintive wine writing style of legends past for a muscular writing style that is jocularly loose yet incisive, showing every bit of the wunderkind talent of his global English-language contemporaries, Jamie Goode and Neal Martin.

Likewise, you probably haven’t heard of Mattison’s *new* wine book, Thin Skins: Why the French Hate Australian Wine first published in Australia in 2007 and now just released in America.

Seemingly stillborn upon its October publishing date in the states and updated with a scant epilogue where the author notes, “The headiness described in the early passages of this book is now long gone,” the book formerly offered in situ context on the boom and looming bust of the Australian wine landscape and is now something of an ipso facto think piece on the manifested reality.

With recency in absentia as one negative checkmark, Thin Skins as a body of work brooks no favors for itself either. Even when first published four years ago, it represented a compendium of articles and profile pieces, individually quite good, but collectively never quite transcending its constituent parts, especially one that supports the premise of the title. And, unlike its subject matter, time has not aged the book into cohesion.

Worse still, brought to the U.S. market by publisher Sterling Epicure, the book is likely supported with little more than the gas it takes a truck to drive a meager allotment of books to an Amazon.com warehouse and the dwindling number of Barnes & Nobles that still populate the landscape, a veritable line item in an editors’ fourth quarter publishing spreadsheet under the header, “wine.”

Thin Skins seems destined for a hastened half-life and quick retreat to the remainder bin at Half-Price Books…it’s an ignoble fate heaped upon by my damnation.

But, I’ve feinted purposefully, misdirecting by caveat because, despite everything I’ve mentioned having some inherent truth(including the author being very talented), Thin Skins is a wildly entertaining book that delivers on providing a teasing glimpse into a distinctly Aussie viewpoint on the factors that led to the Australian wine boom (Parker points, market forces, greed and drought) and in so doing the author makes three key points worth repeating:

1) The Aussie wine industry, save for its Gallo-like equivalents, is NOT happy about their country’s production being viewed globally as syrupy supermarket plonk

2) Our U.S. perception IS NOT reality regarding Australian wine; their wine industry has an abundance of refined, terroir-based wines from small vintners

3) The Aussie wine business will rise again on the international scene (in an entirely different form).

One key takeaway for me from the book is that Australia is remarkably similar to the U.S.

In the U.S., some reports indicate that 90% of the wine sold is “corporate” wine, the kind found at supermarkets across the country. However, what IS different is that 90% of our national conversation about wine focuses on the 10% of the wine production that ISN’T in the supermarket i.e. everything non-corporate – the boutique, artisan and interesting.

Yet, when it comes to Australian wine, we don’t continue our conversation about the small and beautiful. Instead of talking about the superlative, we view their entire country production through the lens of the insipid, the Yellowtail and other critters that cost $6.99 at Safeway.

American wine consumers would be rightfully indignant if the world viewed our wines not as we do, a rich tapestry, but as industrialized plonk from the San Joaquin Valley.

This is where Australian wine is at today—a ‘perception is reality’ mistake of colossal proportions.

While offering an abundance of stories from small producers along the way, Mattison suggests that while it may take time, with Australia having 162 years of winemaking history, the day will come, sooner rather than later, when Australian wine forsakes its near-term reputation and is viewed on the world stage as a wine producing country that can proudly stand next to its New World peers.

I wrote recently that I’ve noticed a slow change in tenor from American influencers regarding Aussie wine, they’re becoming more sympathetic, they’re starting to speak less dismissively and more optimistically and holistically about Australian wine, discussing the merits and great diversity in the land of Oz.

Recent Symphony IRI sales data bears this out as well. According to a Shanken NewsDaily report from this week, Australian wine in the $15 - $19.99 category rose 23% in September. In addition, growth is coming from varietals not named Shiraz (see also syrupy supermarket plonk). Instead, Semillon, Riesling and Pinot Noir are showing growth.

Still, it’s not the land of milk and honey here in the states for Aussie wine, as it once was. Overall sales are down by volume and dollars, but as Mattinson alludes the correction in the U.S. market isn’t going to be pretty, but it will be healthy and it’s quite possible that Australia will decrease in overall volume and dollar sales from persistent decline at the low-end for years to come as the high-end grows, but not at a rate to replace what was lost.

The net sum of that doesn’t balance a spreadsheet, but it does balance mindshare.

Pick-up Thin Skins if you want to get turned on to a great wine writer while also enjoying a greater understanding of Australian wine – where it has been and where it’s going—perhaps not as a future King, but definitely not in its current role as court jester.

Campbell Mattinson’s Wine Site: The Wine Front

Source: http://goodgrape.com/index.php/site/australian_wine_the_once_and_future_king/

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May 13, 2012 1:55:20 PM

Hello world!

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

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Bobby Paunesca to Write and Direct Chinese Co-Production 'The Girl Who Knew Too Much'

Gregg Kilday
The thriller will be produced by Mandragora International Group and the China Film Corp.

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Box Office Report: A Still-Super 'Avengers' Easily Eclipses 'Dark Shadows'

Gregg Kilday
The Johnny Depp vampire movie, directed by Tim Burton, could prove more potent abroad.

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Inside Sofia Vergara and Nick Loeb's Split

Arguments over settling down and differences in lifestyle made the volatile relationship crumble

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May 13, 2012 10:53:29 AM

'Desperate Housewives' Cast Gift to Crew Sheds Further Light on Teri Hatcher's Estrangement (Photo)

Jethro Nededog
Another sign of the separation between the long-running ABC series' stars emerges.

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May 13, 2012 8:53:28 AM

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May 13, 2012 4:53:32 AM

Sony Corp. Reports Fourth Consecutive Fiscal-Year Loss

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The entertainment and consumer electronics giant attributed its record $5.7 billion deficit to the effects of last year's disasters in Japan, a weak global economy and a strong yen as its film unit reported full-year revenue growth but a lower operating profit.

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Locarno Taps Thai Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul to Head Main Jury

Eric J. Lyman
The lakeside Swiss festival picks trend-setting auteur whose films have been honored in Cannes, Venice.

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May 13, 2012 12:53:33 AM

Jennifer Hudson and Sister Speak Out About William Balfour's Murder Conviction

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Stars Get Their Groove On While Getting Fit!

Outkast, Rihanna and Whitney Houston aren't the typical tunes you'd expect to hear from a yoga class. But stars like Gossip Girl's Kelly Rutherford are finding that music is adding a fresh twist to their workout and doing wonders for their body.

?I?ve always loved the results of Pilates and yoga, but I missed the music, pace and energy of more cardio- based disciplines,? says Amanda Freeman, founder of SLT: Strengthen, Lengthen, Tone in Manhattan. So Freeman partnered with yoga guru Erin Jacques to create SLT Yoga. ?Both SLT and SLT YOGA offer clients what they want: strengthening, lengthening and toning in a motivating and challenging environment.?

Judging by Kelly's fit physique, their formula works.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InTouchWeekly/~3/IcB22LI7_DQ/stars_get_their_groove_on_whil.php

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Chandra West Charisma Carpenter Charli Baltimore Charlies Angels

May 12, 2012 6:53:28 PM

Kris Humphries' Sister Kaela Now a Ford Model

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ETFashion/~3/0EIsDomkh-g/index.html

Laura Harring Laura Prepon Lauren Bush Lauren Conrad

May 12, 2012 4:53:34 PM

Guilty Verdict in Hudson Family Trial

Jennifer's brother-in-law, William Balfour, was convicted of murdering her mother, brother and nephew in October 2008.

Source: http://www.eonline.com/videos/v183182_Guilty_Verdict_in_Hudson_Family_Trial.html

Kate Moss Kate Walsh Katharine McPhee Katharine Towne

May 12, 2012 2:53:31 PM

A Guide to the Best 'Hunger Games' Fashion

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ETFashion/~3/J0InfXq0FlY/index.html

Jennifer Aniston Jennifer Gareis Jennifer Garner Jennifer Gimenez

May 12, 2012 12:53:30 PM

THG Week in Review: May 6-12, 2012

Welcome to THG's Week in Review! Below, our staffers look back at the stories, stars and scandals that made the last seven days some of the craziest ALL MONTH.

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Now, a rundown of the week that was at The Hollywood Gossip: