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The news today that Amy Poehler and Will Arnett are expecting their second child poses some questions for the one-camera sitcom: How are they going to deal with Leslie Knope’s baby bump? It’s a particularly sticky issue for Parks , which features way more outdoor and full-body shots than, say, How I Met Your Mother , which dealt with the simultaneous pregnancies of its two female leads, Cobie Smulders and Alyson Hanigan, with a mixture of humor (Hanigan holding a basketball in front of her stomach, other characters noticing at the end of an episode that they haven’t seen her character in days) and the show’s easy settings (at least a quarter of each episode takes place in a bar booth). In the past, shows would either write a character’s pregnancy into the series, or awkwardly try to hide it and in most cases fail miserably (see Julia Louis Dreyfus on Seinfeld — you could practically see the baby kick )

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How Will Parks and Recreation Hide Amy Poehler’s Pregnancy?

By Martha Reed I belong to the Pittsburgh chapter of Sisters in Crime and I’m starting to think we have some funky mojo going when it comes to scheduling our events and running into freakish weather. Last January, during our Hallie Ephron Workshop, a surprise blizzard blew into Pittsburgh exactly one hour before the event was scheduled to begin. An ice storm blasted Western Pennsylvania the day of our Holiday Luncheon this year and just last weekend – after months and months of planning – our Writers Retreat featuring special guest teacher and moderator Ramona Long was situated in Confluence, PA, which if you’ve been watching the news was Ground Zero for the snowmelt flooding on the Yachagheny river on Saturday.

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I Survived the Confluence Writers Retreat!

Using nothing but pom-poms and enthusiasm, Bruce Willis proved he bleeds green on The Late Show last night, dismissing David Letterman’s later observation that the team is no longer in the playoffs. Harold Ford stopped by The Colbert Report with disastrous results while Jon Stewart gleefully watched Obama take on the GOP . Speaking of glee, Jimmy Fallon parodied Glee ! Watch our compilation to see what you missed

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Last Night on Late Night: Bruce Willis, Jets Superfan

According to a report from Michael Ausiello , Michael Scott, the co-manager of Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton branch and the company’s highest-ranking employee, is getting a new love interest this season! Showrunner Paul Liberstein, who also plays Toby, shed some light on how Michael lands his lady: “It’s one of these set-ups where a bunch of people go out and you don’t know you’re being set up.” When Michael discovers what’s going on, “he kind of flips out and goes into ‘date mode,’” says Lieberstein. “And it goes in a weird direction from there.” The role hasn’t been cast yet, so we drew up some suggestions of who should be the “she” in “that’s what she said.” The Boston accent Julianne Moore attempted as Jack Donaghy’s high school flame on 30 Rock was more wack than wicked .

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Who Should Play Michael Scott’s New Love Interest?

Has ABC, the network that will air the Oscars on March 7, prematurely announced the nominations on its website? It certainly looks that way! A simple search of the word “oscar” on ABCNews.com brings up a long list of results titled “2010 Oscar Nominations.” Are these just the best guesses of over-eager editors? Maybe.

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Did ABC Already Announce the Oscar Nominations on Its Website?

Earlier last month, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry admitted that the band was on the hunt for a new front man following some in-fighting between Steven Tyler and the other aero-dudes. Tyler is not pleased about this. A letter sent by his attorney to the band’s manager says Aerosmith must “immediately cease and desist from engaging in acts and conduct to the harm and detriment of your own client, Aerosmith, and our client who is one of it members.” In an interview with Billboard , Tyler’s lawyer Skip Miller seemed offended at the very notion that Aerosmith might try to replace his client and suggested that if they move forward with their plans to do so, a lawsuit will be on the horizon.

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Steven Tyler Might Sue If Aerosmith Replaces Him

Our latest batch of pretty live music photos features tinnitus-inducing punk-rock from Mission of Burma, delicate indie-pop from St. Vincent, and everything in between, including Amanda Blank, Anti-Pop Consortium, Here We Go Magic, Preacher and the Knife, Glass Ghost, Rain Machine, the Crystal Method, Les Savy Fav, and Midnight Masses

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This Weekend’s Concerts, From Mission of Burma to St. Vincent

Apparently, Warner Bros. is convinced that so many Americans are stupid enough to pay $15 to see Clash of the Titans that it warrants pushing its release back a week and spending the extra money it costs to convert the film to 3-D. Because really, if we learned anything from the unprecedented success of Avatar , it’s that no one wants to see Sam Worthington in just two stupid dimensions.

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Warner Bros. Decides to Convert Clash of the Titans to 3-D

London producer Kieran Hebden has made some of the most accessible electronica this side of Moby. As Four Tet, he has softened the instrumental dance music on records like 2003′s Rounds and 2005′s Everything Ecstatic with organic textures and samples. The hypnotic new There Is Love in You could surely sell a whole lot of cell phones or Volkswagens if he were inclined to sell it to ad makers.

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Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden on Scoring James Bond, Making Music From Heartbeats

“If you’ve never fist-pumped or gone tanning, creeped, or smushed … leave now.” So predictable, so funny. (And recall that the director of Downfall , the movie on which all these are based, is a big fan of the meme.) [ PopCrunch ] Filed Under: tv , clickables , downfall , hitler meme , jersey shore , movies , video

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Hitler Reacts to the News That Jersey Shore Might Not Be Filmed in Jersey

Life Unexpected , the CW’s surprisingly smart new drama about a foster kid who finds her birth parents, features some familiar teen-TV faces. There’s Kerr Smith, also known as Jack from Dawson’s Creek , and Shiri Appleby, who became a starlet while falling in love with a quasi-alien on the WB’s hit Roswell . After three seasons on that show, Appleby’s career quieted down considerably, though she continued working in bit parts and occasional episode arcs on shows like ER and Six Degrees .

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Life Unexpected’s Shiri Appleby on the CW Cabal, Fading From the Spotlight, and Playing a Mom at 31

“Grammy asshole weekend in LA. Yuck … The Grammys = the old guard / old media propping up their puppets trying to convince the outside world (and each other) they’re relevant.” — Trent Reznor [ Trent_Reznor/Twitter via Pitchfork ] “By the time I was 16, 10 of my close friends had died

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Trent Reznor Didn’t Even Want to Be Invited to Your Stupid Party, Anyway

By Paula Matter Just when I was appreciating the fact that I don’t have to blog until April, having Kelli Stanley here yesterday prompted this post. I haven’t met Kelli yet, but I’m sure looking forward to it when it happens. I friended her through Facebook probably because she’s the friend of a friend of friend

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Random Thoughts & Thanks

By Martha Reed There were two hurdles in my latest draft that I was dreading from the onset – an emotional scene between two of my characters (tackling emotion isn’t my strong suit) and a pivotal vehicular accident scene involving precise calculations and quite a bit of math. Math has always been a problem for me – I’m much better using words – and since I’m lazy and most people are kind I can usually con somebody into doing the math for me and just giving me the end result

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The Cutting Room Floor

A minor UI improvement to Firefox has been made to Firefox and it’s currently only available on nightly builds of Firefox: the Stop and Reload buttons have been merged into a single button. This change should make it into Firefox 3.6. While a page is loading, the button acts as a Stop button: When it’s done loading, it becomes a Reload button

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Stop and Reload buttons merged in Firefox

by Joyce I’ve been emailing back and forth with the other Working Stiffs today trying to come up with some ideas to keep the blog “fresh.” Some of us have been doing this blogging thing for over three years and sometimes it’s not easy to come up with topics that haven’t been done to death. Pat’s flash fiction bit and poll the other day were a lot of fun, and I was thinking maybe we need more of something like that. We’ve started brainstorming an idea for the month of February that looks promising if we can figure out what the heck we’re doing.

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This week, Vulture read some “For Your Consideration” ads , we used math to prove that 2009 wasn’t the worst year ever , the HMFIC took aim at anti-smoking advocates , Kanye West improved on the oeuvre of Maya Angelou , Warren Beatty did not have sexual relations with 13,000 women , Michael Cera made some new friends , Jason Reitman cured cancer , Ellen Page got paid , Stephen King went to the movies , A.O. Scott lit up , James Franco announced a gallery show , someboy leaked the Twilight 3 script , we learned the true cost of piracy , Matthew Goode said delightful things , the Bachelor cheat was revealed , NBC canceled Leno , then put him back on at 11:30 , Jay joked about it , Avatar won Best Picture , Leap Year was released for some unknowable reason , Jersey Shore was on again , we asked some questions , Benzino smelled like old people , Lost fans told Obama where to stick it , we stammered through coitus , and Miley Cyrus retired . Read more posts by Lane Brown Filed Under: roll credits ,

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Week in Review: Smoke on Pandora, Fire at 11:35

Reasonable people all agree that the third season of polygamy-fest Big Love was awesome. Season four starts Sunday, and as we scan the winter TV landscape, it’s safe to say that the show is the closest thing we have right now to Mad Men — that is, if you don’t watch it, you will seem completely foolish to all your college-educated friends and never be invited to cocktail party again. There’s all sorts of scheming and tense man stuff having to do with power and how you wield it, but we love it for the soapy, feminine-coded, domestic relationship drama

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Everything You Need to Know About the Must-Watch Big Love

After years of small but important roles in such TV series as Star Trek: The Next Generation , Battlestar Galactica , In Treatment , and 24 , Michelle Forbes carved an indelible new niche for herself — sexy psycho — as the troublemaking, orgiastic maenad Maryann on True Blood . The native Texan (who sounds strangely British on the phone) adds to that portfolio in season two of the Canadian crime series Durham County , which airs on Ion Mondays at 10 p.m. In this eerie drama with a noir touch, Forbes plays a wounded and mysterious forensic psychologist who has a central role in this year’s creepy murder case

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True Blood’s Michelle Forbes Adds a New Sexy Psycho to Her Repertoire

Over at Surf, New York ‘s Emily Nussbaum shares the outtakes from her recent interview with Times op-ed columnist Gail Collins, who, it turns out, is only one of the more avid Joss Whedon fans on the Grey Lady’s masthead: “There are a number of huge Buffy fans at the Times ,” she says. “Paul Krugman is one, Andy Rosenthal is one, and Andy and I keep talking about trying to invite Whedon to come to an editorial-board meeting.

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Gail Collins: Huge Buffy Head