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With award-winning flicks like No Country for Old Men and O Brother, Where Art Thou? under their belts, the Coen brothers are considered to be masters of the big screen. Their latest project, however, will bring their work to television. FX recently announced that the duo will be adapting their Oscar winning film Fargo into a new series.

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He's engaged!

On the most recent season of AMC's hit show Mad Men, weasely ad man Pete Campbell, played by Minneapolis-raised Vincent Kartheiser, got tangled in a messy extra-marital affair with an acquaintance's wife, guest-star Alex Bledel.

Off-screen, the two actors started dating. Now, after about a year together, their relationship is going better than their TV characters' did: Yesterday, Us Weekly broke the news that the two are engaged.

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Former City Pages staffer, Oscar winner, and host of Red Band Trailer Diablo Cody may be returning to television, as EW is reporting that she just sold a pilot to ABC.

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Actress Alison Arngrim was 11 years old when she auditioned for the part of Nellie Oleson, the manipulative brat of Little House on the Prairie. She had already read for the roles of Laura and Mary Ingalls, and wasn't surprised that she didn't get either part, telling her father that she "so wasn't the prairie type." What did surprise her was that she kept getting called back to read.

When she was asked to audition for Nellie, she immediately realized that the character was a total bitch. Michael Landon, who played Charles Ingalls, and producer Kent McCray were in hysterics when Arngrim read for the part, and they hired her on the spot. Arngrim spent the next seven years perfecting her bitchiness, and would practice reciting her lines in the meanest way possible.

"I thought, 'How can I say this so that if someone talked this way to me, I would want to punch them in the face? What would be the most annoying, horrible way I could do this?'" Arngrim says. "I would try the line readings different ways until I got to where I would just want to hit someone, and that was it. I had found the correct line reading."

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Fans of The Real Housewives of New York City know that Ramona Singer enjoys her pinot grigio. In true Singer form, she decided to turn her passion into a business, creating her own brand of wine.

The successful entrepreneur -- who started her first company at age 29 and currently has a skincare line, a jewelry collection, and her own Amazon store -- says that fans would continually ask what her favorite brand of pinot grigio was. She was constantly trying to find the perfect wine when her husband, Mario, suggested the she create her own line.

Singer teamed up with Opici Wines to create Ramona Singer Pinot Grigio, which is made in the Veneto region of Italy.

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Trash-art finds from the foreclosed homes of hoarders, artists, families [with pictures]

It's a job that most people couldn't stomach, but somebody has to do it. The folks at DuAll clean foreclosed homes that were formerly residences for hoarders, junkies, transients, and more. With each gig comes new smells, horrors, and, occasionally, interesting finds amongst heaps of trash.

Team member Peter Majerle sees the art in these discoveries, and for the past few years he has snapped some of the more bizarre finds and striking images. He and the rest of the crew will be featured 9 p.m. this Sunday on National Geographic's Taboo as they work through a typical day sifting through trashed homes.

The teaser is after the jump, but we should warn you that you probably don't want to be eating lunch when you watch it.


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You might know Tony Award-winner Idina Menzel from her Broadway roles as Maureen in Rent or Elphaba in Wicked, or as Shelby Corcoran in the hit television show Glee. This Saturday, Minnesotans will have the opportunity to see her perform in-person at the Orpheum Theatre.

The veteran singer got her start in the music industry performing at wedding and bar mitzvahs at the young age of 15. She admits that she lied about her age to the band at her audition because she was afraid that they wouldn't hire a teen. She's glad they believed her, because it was a great experience.

"When I first started, I thought it was the coolest," she says. "I felt like such a professional because I was getting paid to sing."


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