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LOS ANGELES — A host had gone missing for the 2013 Emmy nominations on Thursday, so in stepped – who else? – Neil Patrick Harris.
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said actress Kate Mara from “House of Cards” was unable to make it because her plane had a mechanical malfunction and couldn’t take off from Santa Fe, where she is on location. So Harris stepped in to co-host with Aaron Paul of “Breaking Bad.”
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LOS ANGELES, March 23 (Reuters) – Green slime spewed furiously at the Kids Choice Awards on Saturday, where “Twilight Saga” star Kristen Stewart and British boy band One Direction won two awards apiece.
Stewart, 22, escaped the slime but plunged her hands into the green goo, saying she “felt like I have finally found my kindergartner self,” as she accepted trophies for movie actress and favorite female butt kicker.
Organizers said more than 350 million votes were cast online in more than 20 categories, spanning film, television, books, music and sport for the stunt-filled annual award show on youth channel Nickelodeon.
Hosted by “Transformers” actor Josh Duhamel, who is married to singer Fergie, the show in Los Angeles featured performances by Pitbull and Christina Aguilera, as well as Ke$ha.
Johnny Depp and Katy Perry accepted orange blimp-shaped trophies for favorite female singer and movie actor respectively and both stars had words of wisdom for the audience of kids and young teens.
“This is such a cool award … stay safe, stay in school, don’t do drugs,” Perry told them. Depp said he was “truly honored and humbled. Thank you for what you are, which is the future.”
Selena Gomez, 20, the ex-girlfriend of pop star Justin Bieber, took the female TV actress award for her Disney Channel series “Wizards of Waverly Place,” even though the show came to an end more than a year ago.
Bieber, who is on tour in Europe, was voted favorite male singer and was among several stars who did not make it to accept their award in person.
No-shows included One Direction, who are also on tour and who won for favorite music group and song for “What Makes You Beautiful,” “X Factor” judge Simon Cowell (favorite villain), and Ross Lynch, 17, who was named favorite TV actor for Disney Channel’s pop star series “Austin & Ally.”
Sandra Bullock, Neil Patrick Harris, Duhamel, Pitbull, Nick Cannon, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and dozens of audience members got covered in slime gushing out …read more
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NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 3 (UPI) — Beyonce, Neil Patrick Harris and a host of other celebrities have descended upon New Orleans in preparation for the Super Bowl Sunday, observers said.
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 31 (UPI) — Jason Segel, Neil Patrick Harris and Alyson Hannigan have signed on for a ninth and final season of their U.S. sitcom, “How I Met Your Mother,” CBS said.
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By Kashmir Hill, Forbes Staff When Facebook launched its social search engine “Graph Search” last week, I suggested that Facebook stalking would now be limited only by users’ creativity in coming up with search queries. Well, congratulations to Tom Scott who has won the creativity prize with his Tumblr, Actual Facebook Graph Searches. He’s posting and crowd-sourcing a series of searches that surface potentially embarrassing, hypocritical, threatening or unsavory information about Facebook users, such as: “Current employers of people who like Racism” “Spouses of married people who like [cheat-on-your-partner dating site] Ashley Madison” “Family members of people who live in China and like [the very very banned] Falun Gong” “Islamic men interested in men who live in Tehran, Iran” “People who like Focus on the Family [anti gay marriage] and Neil Patrick Harris [very gay and due to be married with kids]” “Single women who live nearby and who are interested in men and like Getting Drunk” “Mothers of Catholics from Italy who like Durex” There is no private information unintentionally exposed here. It isn’t as Gizmodo quipped in a post last week that “people are now sharing horrible things about themselves thanks to Facebook Search.” They were already sharing these things. These are simply interesting juxtapositions of public information that was previously harder to access and display. For example, one could have gone to the public “Racism” page and looked at a list of everyone who liked it (hopefully ironically) and then looked through their profiles to figure out who their employers were, but it involved more steps. Facebook has simply done what any good tech company should do — remove those onerous steps and make it much easier to find out who’s racist, who’s cheating, who wants to get drunk tonight, or, perhaps best of all, all of the above.
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