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James Sims James Sims is the Senior Editor at BroadwayWorld.com. Beyond his duties on this website, James also contributes as a featured blogger for the Huffington Post.

Having grown up in Los Angeles, California, James spent time working as an entertainment reporter on the west coast before heading to New York City to attend Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.sofasnark.com">SofaSnark.com</a> and follow James on Twitter at <a href="http://www.twitter.com/simsjames">@SimsJames</a>.





Sofa Snark: Fela! Joins Bono, Legend in Video
Sofa Snark: Fela! Joins Bono, Legend in Video
June 4, 2010

Bono and John Legend join dancers from Broadway's Fela! in the music video for Angelique Kidjo's spin on the classic 'Move On Up.'

Sofa Snark: Tom Cruise Gets 'Risky' on MTV
Sofa Snark: Tom Cruise Gets 'Risky' on MTV
June 3, 2010

There is one iconic moment in Tom Cruise's film career that stands out to this day, and that's his dancing to Bob Seger's Old Time Rock and Roll. That scene in Risky Business showing Cruise in his tighty-whities sliding across his parent's living room floor...

Sofa Snark: Hollywood Talent Births ‘Kid’ Off-Broadway
Sofa Snark: Hollywood Talent Births ‘Kid’ Off-Broadway
May 26, 2010

Where there was plenty of opportunity to go over the top with The Kid -- the story chronicles the adoption process through the eyes of a sex columnist and his gay partner -- there was an overall sweetness to the show that left audiences feeling open to the idea of this whacky couple brining a child home...

Sofa Snark: Joss Whedon Tackles Misfit Angst With GLEE
Sofa Snark: Joss Whedon Tackles Misfit Angst With GLEE
May 18, 2010

Not only does 'Glee' follow Joss Whedon's creative tone, but the latest episode, Dream On, focuses on three of the main characters fantasizing about their wildest dreams...

Glenn Beck Develops Nazi Tourette's
May 14, 2010

Lewis Black is back, in black, on 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,' and his latest appearance on the Comedy Central show was built around a frightfully funny attack on Fox News' Glenn Beck -- a man Black says has Nazi Tourette's...

Matthew Fox Calls LOST Finale 'Profound'
May 11, 2010

Matthew Fox spoke with the Hollywood Reporter and discussed some of the emotional hardships both he and his character Jack went through while filming the final LOST episode...

Women & Hollywood: Betty White Effect
May 11, 2010

Everyone who watched Saturday Night Live this past weekend knew that something special was happening from the moment Betty White took the stage. She made fun of the Facebook group that pushed for her to host SNL, appeared in every sketch and was so fuckin funny that I actually laughed out loud...

Muppets Discover 'LOST' Secrets
May 6, 2010

As 'Lost' fans dig around the internet for clues and theories, two rather clever creatures decided to find out some secrets by sneaking into the offices of co-creators Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. Those creatures happen to be a couple of Jim Henson's Muppets, and their exploits were captured on video...

First Video Clip of Conan O'Brien on '60 Minutes'
May 1, 2010

Sunday will mark Conan O'Brien's return to television, although not in his comedic form, rather as the subject of an interview on '60 Minutes'...

Max Weinberg and Conan O'Brien Split Up
April 29, 2010

Now comes word from musician Al Kooper that Max Weinberg has indeed ended his working relationship with Conan O'Brien, according to Zap2It.com...

Sofa Snark: Publishers Can Take Warning From 'Collected Stories'
Sofa Snark: Publishers Can Take Warning From 'Collected Stories'
April 29, 2010

Rupert Murdoch and Jonathan Burnham, consider yourself warned. Playwright Donald Margulies has assumed the role of a publishing soothsayer, and what he predicts isn't pretty...

New on TV: 4/29/10
April 29, 2010

Things are about to get a bit more musical on Fox as the network airs a musical episode of the mysterious series Fringe tonight...

New On TV: 4/28/10
April 28, 2010

Tonight sees the premiere of a new ABC series, Happy Town, which takes a page from the David Lynch series Twin Peaks -- expect creepy characters and strange story lines...

Hulu.com Prepares to Charge Viewers
April 21, 2010

Hulu.com, the internet's mecca of free streaming television episodes, and the alternative to cable subscriptions for freeloading college students, is about to change things up with a paid subscription service...

TV Themes Get Nixed from Emmy Awards
April 21, 2010

Television theme music writers have been dealt a blow by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The Emmy Award category that has previously recognized the main title theme song for TV shows has been nixed by the awards committee...

Sofa Snark: Music's Past & Future Meet on Broadway
Sofa Snark: Music's Past & Future Meet on Broadway
April 20, 2010

Broadway needs to begin taking more chances on new kinds of musicals. While 'American Idiot' shows the future of Broadway musicals, 'Million Dollar Quartet' provides the backstory to the long hard journey that the music industry took to get us to this point. Here's hoping U2 can swoop in next season with 'Spider-Man' the musical and reaffirm that rock music belongs on Broadway...

Sofa Snark: 'Glee' Could Save Arts Education
Sofa Snark: 'Glee' Could Save Arts Education
April 14, 2010

While most prime-time programming is filled with cookie cutter procedural dramas and a seemingly endless number of Law & Order spinoffs, all merely teaching kids how to dispose of a dead body, Glee has quickly turned into a show advocating for a positive change in America, even while maintaining its cotton candy sweetness...

Sofa Snark: 'Addams Family' Dead as Doornail
Sofa Snark: 'Addams Family' Dead as Doornail
April 9, 2010

After the reported hefty advance sales run dry, it would suit the Broadway community to dispense of The Addams Family as fast as it did that other clunky deadly musical, Young Frankenstein...

Sofa Snark: ABC's 'Lost' Takes Page from 'Matrix'
Sofa Snark: ABC's 'Lost' Takes Page from 'Matrix'
April 7, 2010

Like every other LOST fanatic, I'll be tuning in every night until ABC finally wraps up this mysterious television wonder. Only five episodes left until series finale time...

Trailer for Showtime's 'The Tudors' Sizzles
April 7, 2010

One of TV's hottest dramas, The Tudors, which also boasts a historical premise, returns to Showtime this Sunday, and if the newly released trailer is any indication of things to come, then all hell is going to break loose in King Henry VIII's kingdom...



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