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Bestselling books the week of 1/5/12, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
Will and Kate visit L.A.: Locals' top 10 southern California must-sees

Royal newlyweds William and Kate have a busy, business-first itinerary for their three-day visit to southern California, which begins Friday. If they had asked us, we’d have given them these 10 tips for how to savor the SoCal experience. For every obvious tourist gambit, we’ve thrown in some insider info about where to pan for the best Angeleno cultural gold.

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'Arrested Development' creator Mitchell Hurwitz discusses season 4

The 10 new episodes being released at the same time will allow for more clues and connections in the plots, says Hurwitz.
Vox News
Sarah Palin co-hosts 'Today.' How'd she handle it? (+video)

Sarah Palin's morning-show faceoff with Katie Couric and the 'lamestream media' produced no high drama, no big gaffes, but plenty of hype, conventional wisdom, and 'organized chaos.'
SAG Awards' unexpected winners: 'The Help,' Dujardin win

The Screen Actors Guild Awards featured some unexpected winners, including 'The Help' for best overall cast performance and French actor Jean Dujardin for best actor in 'The Artist.'
Not so Modern Family: Top sitcoms make for sexist, inaccurate television

In the five highest-rated primetime sitcoms (The Big Bang Theory, Modern Family, Two Broke Girls, Two and a Half Men, and How I Met Your Mother), male characters are professionally accomplished, while female characters are unemployed or struggling.
Bestselling books the week of 1/5/12, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
Antiabortion ads from outlier presidential candidate raise eyebrows

Antiabortion activist Randall Terry, running for president as a Democrat, is running graphic ads about abortion in early primary states. Free-speech rules allow federal candidates to run uncensored ads.
Horizons
Words with Friends dust-up: Bad for Baldwin, great for Zynga

Alec Baldwin kicked off plane for playing Words with Friends. There are few winners in such a news story – but Zynga is one of them.
Words with Friends gets actor Alec Baldwin kicked off flight

The Words with Friends cellphone game seems to have gotten Alec Baldwin kicked off an American Airlines flight from LA to New York.
Will and Kate visit L.A.: Locals' top 10 southern California must-sees

Royal newlyweds William and Kate have a busy, business-first itinerary for their three-day visit to southern California, which begins Friday. If they had asked us, we’d have given them these 10 tips for how to savor the SoCal experience. For every obvious tourist gambit, we’ve thrown in some insider info about where to pan for the best Angeleno cultural gold.
Chapter & Verse
"Parks and Recreation" jumps into the book business with "Pawnee: The Greatest Town in America"

"Parks and Recreation" deputy director Leslie Knope (a character who exists only on TV) will publish a book about Pawnee (a place every bit as fictional as Knope).
Tracy Morgan headed Nashville to apologize for anti-gay rant

Tracy Morgan is heading to Nashville to apologize for an anti-gay rant many have criticized him for.
Comcast to share content with Netflix, competitors

Comcast: To take over NBC, Comcast agreed to license popular NBC shows and movies to competitors like Netflix and Apple. the only question is, can they afford it?
Jay Leno: Hasty Pudding Man of the Year? Really?

Jay Leno: The comedian was named to be Harvard University's Hasty Pudding 2011 Man of the Year. Why was he chosen?
Director Tyler Perry receives 19 NAACP Image Award nominations

Tyler Perry has been nominated for a whopping 19 NAACP Image Awards for his work on "For Colored Girls," "Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too?" and others.
Pee-wee Herman Show: Paul Reubens hits Broadway

Paul Reubens, bringing "The Pee-wee Herman Show" to Broadway, reflects on his career and what his Pee-wee Herman character means to him.
Tina Fey thanks Sarah Palin for top comedy award

Tina Fey is the youngest (and the third woman) to win of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
Hulu Plus to play on Roku, TiVo set-top boxes

Hulu Plus, which launched as an invitation-only service in June, lets people watch current and back episodes from more than 45 shows from ABC, NBC and Fox.
The Simple Dollar
Reader mailbag: Should I cut my hair? And other priorities.

When life seems a little scattered, it's important to focus on priorities.
Emmy nods: Conan O'Brien gets his day as TV landscape evolves

Emmy Award nominations released Thursday tapped Conan O'Brien's short-lived stint on NBC's Tonight Show, as well as a handful of shows from non-broadcast networks.
Tina Fey to get prestigious Mark Twain humor prize

Tina Fey joins the ranks of Bill Cosby, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin and others who have won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
Conan O'Brien on '60 Minutes': a TBS tune-up

Conan O'Brien, appeared on television Sunday night for the first time since his abrupt departure from NBC's 'Tonight Show.' Cultural buzz, not ratings, will fuel his success, observers say.
Date Night: movie review

Steve Carell and Tina Fey played a bored suburban couple who stumble into the crime world in the action comedy ‘Date Night.’
Global News Blog
'Oriental Yeti' found in China is no Yeti

Photos of what Chinese trappers call an 'Oriental Yeti' show what appears to be a big cat with mange. Bigfoot researchers are worried that the hype discredits real yeti research.
Why has Hollywood forsaken conservatives?

Hollywood’s liberal bias is offensive – and bad business. It’s time conservatives changed this.
Advertisers up the ante as products become TV plots

Products no longer simply appear in shows – they're becoming important parts of the plot, too.