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Nov 24 2011 02:00 AM ET

Gail Simmons Blogs episode 4 of 'Top Chef: Texas': Turning up the heat

by Gail Simmons

Categories: Television, Top Chef

Image Credit: Scott McDermott/Bravo

As told to Nuzhat Naoreen

I thought the [contestants] did a great job [at the chili cook-off]. It was really fun. I love chili. Texas chili is very specific. I’d never been to a rodeo before, so it was great to be at an event like that.

Chili is very, very regional. It’s sort of like a bolognese in Italy. Everyone has their own very specific recipe. Every region within Texas and also across the Southwest makes their own type of chili and every chili is made differently, so sometimes it takes six hours, sometimes it takes 16. But to make a great chili you definitely need to give it time. You can’t rush the meat. You want to make it as tender as possible. You want to cook it on a low heat for a long period of time. The flavor of the meat [should be] in the actual stewing liquid itself. READ FULL STORY »

Nov 23 2011 05:09 PM ET

David, Seinfeld talked Natalie Wood case on 'Curb' in season 7

by Mandi Bierly

Categories: Television, Waiting, Who Else Remembers This?

The mystery surrounding Natalie Wood’s death 30 years ago may not have been a recent topic of conversation for most people until police announced they were reopening the case last week. But as Slate’s Brow Beat blog keenly observed, Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld worked it into a debate about whether reunions are ever a good idea during the seventh season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Watch the scene below.

And as for Robert Wagner’s ill-timed return to NCIS last night: His character, Tony DiNozzo’s con man father, was — spoiler alert! — ultimately cleared of any wrong doing after he woke up with a dead man in the trunk of his rented Rolls. He’d been roofied at a bar and framed by the lawyer of a business associate who’d just screwed them both. READ FULL STORY »

Nov 23 2011 02:45 PM ET

Essential Info: Jeremy Renner Edition

by Mandi Bierly

Categories: Animals, Apropos of Nothing, Essential Info, Grooming, Have You Seen This?, Movies

Image Credit: Andrew Evans/PR Photos

Here at PopWatch, we understand that some information is important and some isn’t. But we also believe that some unimportant information can be essential: For example, do you need to know that Jeremy Renner grew up with a pygmy goat named Sugar? No. But like us, you want to. It’s with that in mind that we launch a new recurring PopWatch category, Essential Info.

We begin with more of what you want to know about the Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol star from his fascinating Details cover story:

• He and his best friend, actor Kristoffer Winters, renovate homes, which Renner sometimes lives in while they’re under construction. Sometimes, the homes have no working electricity or indoor plumbing

• He was a professional makeup artist

• He was starstruck when he met… Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan

Nov 23 2011 02:19 PM ET

Did Jennifer Lopez use a body double in her Bronx-set Fiat ads? The car company responds

by Lanford Beard

Categories: Jennifer Lopez, Television

Even after her blatant Fiat shill during Sunday’s American Music Awards, Jennifer Lopez is on the receiving end of some heat about the ads she purportedly filmed in her native Bronx for the car company. The Smoking Gun first claimed that J. Lo used a body double for the “My World” commercial and never, in fact, returned home for the shoot. We reached out to Fiat, who affirmed the videos were “filmed in the Bronx as well as outside locations.” See J. Lo’s “My World” commercial and read Fiat’s full statement below.
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Nov 23 2011 01:20 PM ET

NASCAR's Kurt Busch apologizes for eviscerating ESPN race reporter

by Jeff Labrecque

Categories: Ouch! That Was My Ear!, Sports, That Was Way Harsh, Tai, The Bad Man Scares Me!, Total Trash

Image Credit: Jerry Markland/Getty Images

NASCAR driver Kurt Busch lived up to his last name on Sunday, unloading on Dr. Jerry Punch when the veteran ESPN race reporter attempted to ask him a question after his car limped into the garage during the season-ending Ford 400 in Miami. “Can you get this motherf—– out of my face,” Busch said after Punch tried to ask him what the automotive problem was. When Busch continued his expletives, Punch finally walked away.

Yesterday, Busch and his Penske Racing team officially apologized. “Unfortunately, our result in the season-ending race at Homestead on Sunday was not what we had hoped for as a team,” said Busch, who started the race fourth but finished 34th. “In my frustration with the loss of my transmission early in the race, I let my emotions get the better of me. I regret having done this and apologize to the sponsors of Penske Racing, to NASCAR, its fans, to the media and in particular, Dr. Jerry Punch.”

Watch the foul-mouthed exchange below:

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Nov 23 2011 12:55 PM ET

'Community' breaks first rule of 'Beetlejuice': Don't say Beetlejuice three times! (Right, Beetlejuice?)

by Aly Semigran

Categories: Comedy, Community, Guess Who!, Have You Seen This?, Television, Things That Are Awesome!

Three years might seem like an awfully long time to set up the punchline to a joke — especially when you know what the result of said punchline is — but leave it to Community to still manage to make it a satisfying payoff. Each season, a character on the show has uttered the phrase “Beetlejuice.” Since we’re in the third season (and, please, oh please, not last), that means the word has been said on the series three times. You know what that means, Beetlejuice fans! Watch the Community “Beetlejuice” sequences here in which they summon everyone’s favorite bio-exorcist: READ FULL STORY »

Nov 23 2011 12:32 PM ET

'The Muppets' opens as best-reviewed wide release of 2011

by Benjamin Wood

Categories: Awwwwww So Cuuuuuute, Kids' Corner, Movies, Muppets, The Muppets

Image Credit: Patrick Wymore

Statler and Waldorf would have a thing or two to say about this. According to Rotten Tomatoes, the best movie of the year so far stars felt puppets from the 1970s.

The Muppets, which opens today, was poised to debut at a perfect 100 percent on the review accumulation site… but a pair of last-minute critiques dipped the film’s score to a still-stellar 98 percent. Perfection would have been a nice feather in the cap of writer-star Jason Segel, but the actor and Muppet champion can still take pride in his passion project being the best-reviewed wide release of the year. The nearest competitor is this summer’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2, which scored 96 percent. READ FULL STORY »

Nov 23 2011 11:55 AM ET

Understatement of the day: Megyn Kelly calls pepper spray 'a food product' on 'The 'O'Reilly Factor'

by Lanford Beard

Categories: Made Us Think, Politics as Entertainment, Television

Though the pranksters of the Internet might beg to differ, blinding pepper spray is no laughing matter. Fox News firebrand Megyn Kelly appeared on The O’Reilly Factor recently to argue the legal ramifications of last Friday’s altercation between Occupy UC Davis protesters and campus police. Said Kelly, pepper spray “is a derivative of actual pepper. It’s a food product essentially.” (A food product that sent two people to the hospital, mind you.) “Listen, I know the tape looks bad,” she admitted, but police officers at UC Davis were within their rights to use force (and pepper spray) on the nonviolent protesters, she argued. See the full interview below. UPDATE: Kelly has explained her comments to TVNewser: “[O'Reilly] wanted me to tell him what is in pepper spray, so I told him what the active ingredient is. That’s all I meant to convey… not that I meant it’s a snack! … I think what happened was people didn’t watch the whole segment and assumed I was diminishing it. In no way did I mean to diminish what was happening.” READ FULL STORY »

Nov 23 2011 11:30 AM ET

Last chance to vote for your 2011 Entertainers of the Year!

by EW staff

Categories: Entertainers of the Year

If you haven’t already, it’s not too late…yet! Be a part of EW’s annual Entertainers of the Year issue by voting for your picks in the polls below. But don’t dilly-dally: Polls close tonight at 11:59 p.m. Winners will appear in the special issue that hits stands Dec. 9.

Get to votin’, people…

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Nov 23 2011 11:15 AM ET

EW’s Bite of the Night for Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011

by Lanford Beard

Categories: Bite of the Night, Bits and Bobs, Channel Surfing, Dancing With the Stars, Réalité, Reality TV, Ridiculata, Sound Bites, Television

We at EW scoured the TV line-up last night to find the best one-liners from your favorite shows. On last night’s Dancing With the Stars finale, Carson Kressley had no chance of taking home the coveted mirror ball, but that didn’t mean he had no hope of taking home something (or someone) else. Read on…