KINNEY LITTLEFIELD

For The Associated Press
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Hopper stars in Starz series `Crash'

With a raft of weird roles to his credit, Dennis Hopper might well yawn about playing another wacko. Yet Hopper is totally tickled by his outrageous new alter ego, freaky Los Angeles music producer Ben Cendars in the Starz series "Crash."

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Vampire novels adapted for HBO's 'True Blood'

As fictional lovers go, bubbly blond Sookie Stackhouse and tall, pale Bill Compton are as massively mismatched as they come. After all, Sookie (Anna Paquin) is exuberantly human and Bill (Stephen Moyer) is, well, totally undead in HBO's flamboyant new vampire saga, "True Blood."

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CW retools fabled teen show `Beverly Hills, 90210'

"Gutter balls only, please!" someone yells during a rehearsal at the Lucky Strike bowling alley for the CW's new series "90210." So co-stars Jessica Stroup and Shenae Grimes downplay their bowling skills.

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Talk-show host Tavis Smiley tackles Obama and race

Tavis Smiley is all wound up. His voice is rough from too much vocalizing, but the host of public television's "Tavis Smiley" talk show and public radio's "The Tavis Smiley Show" is on an oratorical roll about race, politics, and his fellow African-American, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

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NBC launches horror anthology series 'Fear Itself'

Hanging suspended from the ceiling all night long might not appeal to your average actor. But the feat was freaky fun for Jesse Plemons, who stars in NBC's new horror anthology series "Fear Itself."

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`ER' starts countdown to series' final flatline

Deep inside Stage 11 on the bustling Warner Bros. lot, a giant of a television show is starting to die.

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Tasha's on Trial in New `L Word' Season

Rose Rollins is defensive about her Tasha.

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`Tin Man' Re-Imagines `Wizard of Oz'

No dancing down the yellow brick road for Zooey Deschanel, star of Sci Fi Channel's new Emerald City adaptation, "Tin Man." And no warbling "Over the Rainbow" a la Judy Garland, either.

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