Yesterday, G4 announced the cancellation of its two lead programming series come the end of the year, "Attack of the Show," and "X-Play."

The news comes less than three months before NBCU's plan to revitalize the network from geek to GQ chic come 2013.

The shows provided gamers with one of the first original outlets on television that offered an in depth first look at video games, films, technology, and more. Both series also heavily covered gaming events including E3 and San Diego's Comic Con.

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Debuting in March 2005, "Attack of the Show!" was a big success with its original cast list consisting of Chris Hardwick, Olivia Munn, Kevin Pereira, and Adam Sessler.

Combined, both series aired more than 3,000 shows and launched the careers of many of its co-hosts from Kevin Pereira to Olivia Munn.

The show's cancellation isn't a complete surprise.

After Munn's exit in 2010 to pursue her acting career, the show never really regained traction using a series of guest hosts up alongside its final original cast member, Pereira, until naming Candace Bailey as Munn's replacement in January 2011.

DirecTV dropped the channel right before Munn's departure, citing it among its lowest-rated networks.

Kevin Pereira was the last original cast member to leave the show at the end of this May. He's currently working on a SyFy show, "Viral Video Showdown" which will debut October 30.

As of late, many viewers have been turned off by the younger talent consisting of eye candy hosts Bailey and Sara Underwood, feeling the show offers more fluff and less incentive for diehard gamers.

We've rounded up some of the show's most watched clips, as well as a few celebrity cameos.

And, naturally, we've included a few memorable clips of scene stealer Munn.

August 2010: James Cameron appeared on the show to talk about the re-release of "Avatar."

December 2009: Jimmy Fallon played "Tweet"-tac-toe on air when he went on the show to discuss coming to late-night television.

December 2008: Pereira and Munn take shots of hot sauce on air.

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Movie lovers, and Hitchcock fans in particular, are about to get a fascinating double dose of behind-the-scenes dramatization. First up is "The Girl," which premiered on HBO on October 20, that tells the story of the relationship between Hitchcock (Toby Jones) and Tippi Hedren (Sienna Miller), the model selected to star in "The Birds" despite having no acting experience. Then, on November 1, "Hitchcock" will premiere at the AFI Film Festival – and is slated to open in select theaters by the end of the month. "Hitchcock" deals with the filming of "Psycho," focusing on the relationship between the director (Anthony Hopkins) and wife Alma Reville (Helen Mirren) while he is making one of the greatest horror films of all time. (And to answer your next three questions: Scarlett Johansson plays Janet Leigh, Jessica Biel plays Vera Miles, and James D’Arcy plays Anthony Perkins.)

Novels about writing are hard to read; we can’t think of any paintings about painting or songs about songwriting, but both of those seem like bad ideas. Film, though, is different, as movies about movie making can be both profound and fun. As a viewer, you’re free to ponder the layers: Text vs metatext; the film vs. the film-within-a-film. But you’re also free to ignore that and simply enjoy the opportunities for comedy and intrigue offered by a film set. A film set that is itself the set of a film. The film about the film.

Here are ten great movies (or at least noble attempts) that peel back the skin of polished cinematic product and tell their stories within the guts of the process. Some are imagined accounts behind real movies; others are fiction from the title sequence to the credits. For the purposes of this list, we’ve left out – good as they are – biopics like "Chaplin," "Ed Wood," and "Boogie Nights" and concentrated on films that are about making a single film. Even so, the list of what might have been included – among them "King Kong," "Le Mepris," "The Player," and "Bowfinger" – runs well beyond ten entries. What can we say? Everything, even a Fellini movie, has to end sometime.

8 ½ (1963)

Director: Federico Fellini

Successful director Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) is blocked. Everyone expects his latest work, a quasi-science fiction movie, to be yet another hit, but Guido can’t bring himself to care about it too much. He’s going through personal problems – the harem of sorts that has come to surround him (including a wife and a mistress) is rebelling. Guido is weary of his complex life, of having so many people depending on his every decision, yet it is through memories and imagined dialogues that he finds his way back, and ultimately rededicates himself to his career. A three-hour nonlinear autobiographical portrait of an apathetic, angst-ridden director? In anyone else’s hands, this would be a recipe for self-indulgent disaster, but when you’re Fellini – arguably the greatest director of all time – you can get away with it.

S.O.B. (1981)

Director: Blake Edwards

After a string of successes in the early and mid 1960s, including "Breakfast at Tiffany’s," "Days of Wine and Roses," and two Pink Panther movies, Edwards’ career hit the skids, beginning with the poorly-received "Darling Lili." "S.O.B." is a send-up of Edwards’ experiences making that film, which was beset by studio interference and recut before release without Edwards’ permission. In "S.O.B.," suicidal producer Felix Farmer (Richard Mulligan) tries to save a dog of a picture by turning it into an erotic musical in which Felix’s wife, the Julie Andrews-like Sally Miles (played by Edwards’ wife, Julie Andrews) will shatter her wholesome image by appearing topless. When this seemingly-terrible idea starts looking like it just might work, the studio begins to meddle. Felix dies in the fight to save his film, which ends up being highly successful. Sally, now widowed, wins an Oscar.

Barton Fink (1991)

Director: Joel Coen

This Coen Brothers film is more about writing movies than filming them – and it’s really more about not writing than writing. Protagonist Barton Fink (John Turturro) arrives in Hollywood after some success in the New York theater world. A studio executive gives him his first assignment: “A Wallace Beery wrestling picture.” Time goes by and Barton cannot get more than a couple lines into his script. Intrigue swirls; there’s a serial killer on the loose and Barton’s experience meeting a broken-down novelist (based on William Faulkner) is hardly inspiring. "Barton Fink" ends with a macabre flourish that might have been avoided if Barton had simply done the job he was hired for. As the studio man says, “Wallace Beery. Wrestling. What do you need, a road map?”

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The names Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan and Steve Jobs aren't usually associated with failure.

But before these successful super stars made it big in their respective industries, they first failed, were fired, or heard the word "no" countless times.

But they never gave up.

See what 15 game changers had to overcome before becoming famous.

Walt Disney was told a mouse would never work.

Before Walt Disney built the empire he has today, he was fired by a newspaper editor because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas."

In 1921, Walt formed his first animation company in Kansas City, where he made a deal with a distribution company in New York, in which he would ship them his cartoons and get paid six months down the road. He was forced to dissolve his company and at one point could not pay his rent and reportedly survived by eating dog food.

Also, When Walt first tried to get MGM studios to distribute Mickey Mouse in 1927, he was told that the idea would never work because a giant mouse on the screen would terrify women.

Entrepreneur Walt had a whole slew of bad ideas before coming up with good ones, read about them here.

J.K. Rowling was on welfare.

Before J.K. Rowling had any "Harry Potter" success, the writer was a divorced singled mother on welfare struggling to get by while also attending school and writing a novel.

Luckily, that novel turned into the "Harry Potter" franchise, which has since made Rowling a billionaire as of April 2012.

Oprah Winfrey was told she was "unfit for TV."

At age of 22, the now-TV mogul was fired from her job as a television reporter because she was "unfit for tv."

Winfrey was terminated from her post as co-anchor of the 6 o'clock weekday news on Baltimore's WJZ-TV after the show received low ratings. Winfrey has called it the “first and worst failure of her TV career.”

Winfrey was then demoted to morning TV, where she found her voice and met fellow newbie Gayle King, who would one day become her producer and editor of O, The Oprah Magazine.

Seven years later, Winfrey moved to Chicago, where her self-titled talk show went on to dominate daytime TV for 25 years and ultimately head her own channel, OWN.

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Back in 2010, I wrote a story about some very rare and very expensive video games. Thanks to that article, Tanner Sandlin of Austin, Texas realized he had one of only a handful of known copies of the Atari game, Air Raid. Normally the cartridge sells for about $3,000 online, but Sandlin had an ace up his sleeve: the game’s original box, which had never been seen before. The game and the box wound up selling for $31,600 on eBay.

If you think that’s crazy, there’s a good chance that Tanner’s auction-price record is about to be shattered.

Recently, a man in California (we’ll call him Lucky, as he would prefer to remain anonymous), was reading another article about rare Atari games. Naturally, Air Raid was mentioned, as was the $31,600 sale price. Lucky recalled that he’d been given a sample copy of the game by a sales rep back in the 1980s when Lucky was an assistant manager at a drug store that sold video games. Lucky took the game home, played it for a few minutes, but decided he didn’t want to order it for the store’s inventory. When he told the sales rep he could have the game back, the rep said not to bother because none of his other clients were all that interested, either. Lucky stuck his copy of Air Raid in an old Atari display case at home, where it sat virtually untouched for the next 30 years.

Upon reading the article, Lucky and his daughter scoured through his old collection and found they had the second known copy of Air Raid in the box. But unlike the copy that Tanner bought from a clearance bin at a discount store in the mid-1980s, Lucky’s Air Raid has never been in circulation, so the box is in near-perfect condition.

As Lucky and his daughter were taking photos of the box to send to Albert Yarusso, the owner of AtariAge.com (who personally examined Sandlin’s Air Raid box in 2010), they discovered something else tucked inside: the instruction manual. Before now, there was only speculation that a manual even existed, so this makes Lucky’s the only “CIB” (Complete In Box) copy of Air Raid ever found.

After verifying that the cartridge still worked, Lucky and his daughter put Air Raid up for sale on GameGavel.com, an auction site exclusively for video games. Will it break Sandlin’s $31,600 sale-price record? Watch the auction and find out!

Watch Lucky discover the rare cartridge here: 

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After Brad Pitt's nonsensical spot for Chanel No.5 was skewered by people with eyes and ears — and inevitably ended up in a series of SNL sketches — Chanel re-edited the original ad to be more ... well ... bearable.

Although the pseudo-intellectual raving about the world turning "and we turn with it" is the same, the visuals are different. Now instead of watching Brad Pitt awkwardly recite his enigmatic monologue, refusing to make eye contact with a camera lens, viewers are treated to images of beautiful women staring out windows, spinning, and walking on water.

While part two is as cryptic as part one, it is certainly less uncomfortable. Who knew that showing less of Brad Pitt would improve a commercial?

Watch the spot here:

And in case you missed it, here's the original, directed by Joe Wright:

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• Madonna got booed while performing in New Orleans after telling the audience to "Vote for Obama." The singer was heckled when she asked, “Who’s registered to vote?” followed by “I don’t care who you vote for as long as you vote for Obama.” After fans started to walk out, she tried to recover by saying  ”Seriously, I don’t care who you vote for… Do not take this privilege for granted. Go vote.”

• But Beyoncé's $32 pro-Obama hoop earrings have helped a Puerto Rican jeweler sell thousands of pairs since the singer was photographed wearing the designs last week.

• Adam Levine defended his fellow "Voice" judge Christina Aguilera, who has been critiqued for her body, saying: “People shouldn’t say those kinds of things. Because, ‘F**k you.’ Come on, guys. Grow up ... [Aguilera] gets a lot of it, which pisses me off, and of course I have her back, of course I defend her. I think it’s a really, really ugly part of our culture.”

• Meanwhile, Christina Aguilera is looking to get back into the acting game--she's just waiting for the perfect "crackhead" role. "I want it to be honest and genuine in expanding my wings and doing something really, really different. A crackhead on the street or a drug addict. Or something crazy and meaty and juicy. Something that really took me out of myself," Aguilera said at an industry panel this week.

• Kim Kardashian wore a $2,000 long, blonde wig as part pf her "Splash" mermaid Halloween costume Saturday night in NYC.
• After a 26-year-old Billy Idol fan worked for two years to get the rocker to play his birthday party, even setting up a website called playmybirthdaybillyidol.com, the rocker finally obliged Friday night at the Showbox SoDo club in Seattle.
• Will Smith also performed at a birthday party this weekend, rapping for actress Gabrielle Union's 40th birthday celebration alongside Doug E. Fresh. Watch below:

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Last Thursday, Business Insider threw its annual SA 100 bash at the New York Stock Exchange. In attendance were some of 2012's brightest tech stars. They launched companies, sold their startups, and invested in The Next Big Things in New York tech.

Wiley Cerilli, a founder who sold his company for $100 million, was there. So were the founders of Stamped, who were acquired by Yahoo last week.

If you missed it -- or the swanky after party -- we have you covered. Photographer Michael Seto took the party by storm and snapped shots of the entire evening.

Last Thursday, some of New York's most impressive tech people gathered on Wall Street. They were celebrating the annual Silicon Alley 100 list, a group of people who have done the most interesting things in tech this year.

Guests they made their way up to the trading floor, where the cocktail party was being held.

Every person on the SA 100 list was given a $150 shopping spree to Johnston & Murphy.

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It's uncertain how much Hurricane Sandy preparation up much of the east coast affected the box office–AMC began closing many theaters in NJ, NYC, Philadelphia, Boston, and the D.C./Baltimore area–but it was an extremely slow weekend at theaters. 

Despite four new releases, no new film managed to gross $10 million. The highest-grossing film for the weekend earned slightly more than $12 million. 

Gerard Butler's surfing film "Chasing Mavericks" failed to make a splash earning $2.2 million. The Fox film cost an estimated $20 million to produce. 

Meanwhile, the next Bond film, "Skyfall" is tracking well two weeks ahead of its U.S. release. Overseas, it has earned $77 million opening weekend. 

Out of the top ten this week are "Looper" after five weeks, Disney's "Frankenweenie," and "Pitch Perfect." 

Here are this week's winners and losers: 

10. Nickelodeon's try at a grown-up tween film "Fun Size" just managed to make it into the top ten earning $4 million. 

9. Summit's "Alex Cross" drops sharply in week two earning $5 million. To date, the film has earned $19.3 million of its $35 million budget. 

8. Meanwhile, Summit's horror flick "Sinister" narrowly beats "Cross" with $5.07 million. In three weeks, the movie has managed to pull in more than $39.5 million on a $3 million budget. 

7. Kevin James' "Here Comes the Boom" stays in the same place at $5.5 million this weekend. 

5. Horror flick "Silent Hill: Revelation 3D" ties with "Taken 2" in its opening weekend grossing $8 million of its estimated $20 million. 

5. "Taken 2" manages to only fall three spots also earning $8 million. Worldwide, Liam Neeson's action thriller has "taken" more than $315 million. 

4. "Paranormal Activity 4" falls from the top spot this week. The fourth film in the franchise dropped 70.1 percent earning $8.6 million this weekend. 

3. Halle Berry and Tom Hanks' "Cloud Atlas" debuted to a week $9.4 million. 

2. Adam Sandler's "Hotel Transylvania" is still surging at theaters thanks to a 262 theater bump. The film earned $9.5 million in week five to bring its U.S. total to $130.4 million. 

1. It's been a long time coming, but Ben Affleck's "Argo" finally earns the top spot with $12.3 million. In three weeks, the film has grossed $60.7 million, surpassing its estimated $44.5 million budget. 

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Kate Upton has faced an uphill battle as a curvy woman in the fashion industry. 

But the model has a powerful ally on her side: Vogue. 

The magazine is featuring Upton on the cover of its latest Italian issue. 

Here's a preview: 

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UPDATE: Jimmy Kimmel's Brooklyn show Monday night has been canceled. Letterman and Fallon will film without audiences. The "Seal Team 6" screening in DC has been postponed.

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Hurricane Sandy may be hitting the Northeast, but her impact is reaching even Hollywood.

From canceled film premieres and permits to theaters going dark, here's how the Frankenstorm is affecting Hollywood productions on the East Coast:

• New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg halted all outdoor shooting permits for series including "Gossip Girl," "The Good Wife," and "Blue Bloods," among others.

• The show must go on for late-night! New York-based late night shows "Late Show with David Letterman" and "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" will still tape Monday for broadcast later in the night. "We will be doing the show tomorrow night no matter what," Fallon Tweeted Sunday.

• L.A.-based Jimmy Kimmel, who planned a weeklong set of shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, said he would rely on generators if power should wane and even flew out extra staff and crew to prepare of any emergencies. Celebs set to brave the elements on his show Monday night are Kelly Ripa, Chris Rock and Alicia Keys.

• Comic Louis C.K. has postponed two New York stand-up shows until March 2nd, posting on his website: "I thought about this very carefully and I really started to worry about making 4300 people come into midtown manhattan on Sunday night, which is just when the stormatron 5000 is supposed to crush our empire. new york state has ordered the s[h]utdown of all mass transit (subways, buses and commuter trains) as of 7pm Sunday night. If it's any consolation, I'm eating a pretty staggering fee for canceling the show. But I can take it. What I can't take is the thought that there's a CHANCE 4300 people will be in danger trying to get home from my stupid show."

• Production on the Connecticut-based indie film "After the Fall," starring David Duchovny, has shut down temporarily. Producer Anthony Mastromauro told THR: "We have decided to cancel tomorrow as all indications are that the storm will hit us in some capacity and I cannot put any of my crew or actors in harms way."

• TV news organizations are in disaster protocol, meaning only essential regular broadcast personnel are expected to report to work.

• Broadway and Off-Broadway shows that have canceled Sunday or Monday evening performances include Chicago, The Phantom of the Opera, Mary Poppins, The Lion King and Evita, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
  

• Almost every movie theater in NYC has been shut down and have sent employees home until Tuesday. Here's a list of AMC movie theaters in the Northeast that will be closed through tomorrow.

And, according to The Hollywood Reporter:

Focus Features has suspended the New York City premiere of its Oscar hopeful, Anna Karenina, which was set for Tuesday night in Union Square. Director Joe Wright and star Keira Knightley were set to attend, and the distributor is working to reschedule for another evening"

Monday's New York screening of the Denzel Washington starrer Flight has also been grounded. And Universal cancelled its Monday screening of The Man With the Iron Fist. But perhaps in a nod to the macho Navy SEALS, the Weinstein Co. and National Geographic are staying the course with their Tuesday premiere of SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden.

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Though Hurricane Sandy will barrel through the East Coast this evening and tomorrow morning, people have taken to Twitter and Tumblr to bring a sense of calm and humor before the storm. 

Internet memes of Sandy have popped up over the weekend including Olivia Newton-John's titular character of the same name from 1978's "Grease." 

Most of the hurricane memes showing up are from a particular episode of "Spongebob," "Survival of the Idiots," where moon suit-wearing squirrel Sandy is waken from her hibernation slumber early and goes on the attack. 

Here are a few of them below: 

The major meme from "Grease" is being touted as the evolution of Hurricane Sandy. 

Then there are the Spongebob ones:

This has been the most popular one spreading around Tumblr:

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Fox is well-known for cross-promoting its shows during live sporting events, including graphics, announcement from commentators, and occasionally seeing stars of primetime shows strategically seated. In recent years, Fox has found another avenue for self-promotion: our national anthem.

Last night, prior to game four of the World Series, Demi Lovato, a judge on Fox's "The X-Factor," sang the national anthem (and it was awful). And the night before, it was Zooey Deschanel of Fox's "New Girl." It was also the second straight World Series in which both sang the national anthem.

In fact, eight times in the last two World Series, including all four games this season, the singer of the national anthem had ties to a show on Fox...

• 2011 Game 1 — Scotty McCreery, a former contestant on "American Idol"
• 2011 Game 4 — Zooey Deschanel, star of "New Girl"
• 2011 Game 5 — Demi Lovato, judge on "The X-Factor"
• 2011 Game 7 — Chris Daughtry, a former contestant on "American Idol"
• 2012 Game 1 — Philip Phillips, a former contestant on "American Idol"
• 2012 Game 2 — Matthew Morrison, star of "Glee"
• 2012 Game 3 — Zooey Deschanel, star of "New Girl"
• 2012 Game 4 — Demi Lovato, judge on "The X-Factor"

And while they are accomplished as singers to some degree, Fox made sure we knew they were part of the Fox family. Notice above that Fox did not identify any of Lovato's musical accomplishments, just her role on their network. It is also worth noting that Fox (or Major League Baseball) invited Deschanel, and not M. Ward, the other member of her band She & Him.

But maybe the most egregious part of this is that the last two games were in Detroit. Not only did Fox and MLB trot out retreads, they ignored a long and rich history of music in the home of Motown. A history with singers much more accomplished (and talented) than these human billboards.

It's insulting to Detroit. It's insulting to accomplished singers. It is insulting to baseball fans. And it is insulting to our country.

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James Bond films are based on a few basic ingredients: ladies, action, drinks, and cars. After seeing an infographic comparing Bonds based on the first three, it's time to look at the best rides the best secret agent of all time has ever driven.

This infographic by Evans Halshaw has them all, from the undeniably awesome Aston Martins and BMWs, to the more surprising Toyotas and Fords.

Infographic by Evans Halshaw. View the interactive version here.

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Joss Whedon, director of "The Avengers" and creator of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," is definitely not a Romney supporter.

He recently recorded and posted a video explaining the potential for a zombie Apocalypse if Romney is voted into office.

Whedon says Romney is a very different candidate than Obama.

According to a video posted by Whedon, Romney has:

"The vision and determination to cut through business-as-usual politics and finally put this country back on the path to the zombie apocalypse. Romney is ready to make the deep rollbacks in healthcare, education, social services, healthcare, reproductive rights that will guarantee poverty, unemployment, overpopulation, disease, rioting -- all crucial elements in creating a nightmare zombie wasteland. But it's his commitment to ungoverned corporate privilege that will nosedive this economy into true insolvency and chaos, the kind of chaos you can't buy back. Money is only so much paper to the undead. The one percent will no longer be the very rich, it will be the very fast."

Whedon goes on to say "he's not afraid to face a ravaging, grasping hoard of subhumans because that's how he sees poor people already."

He advises Americans to start hoarding canned goods "because if Mitt takes office, sooner or later the Zomnies will come for all of us."

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Comedian Louis C.K. was set to perform in New York Sunday night, but hours before the show he posted an open letter on his blog canceling his New York performances thanks to the threat of Hurricane Sandy.

"I thought about this very carefully and I really started to worry about making 4300 people come into midtown manhattan on Sunday night," explained Louis.

"If it's any consolation, I'm eating a pretty staggering fee for canceling the show. But I can take it. What I can't take is the thought that there's a CHANCE 4300 people will be in danger trying to get home from my stupid show."

Read the letter in its entirety below (via LouisCK.net):

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The Holmby Hills mansion where pop legend Michael Jackson died is about to sell to investment banker Steven Mayer, TMZ is reporting. 

The home is in escrow and closing this week. 

Sources told TMZ the home is selling for between $17 million and $20 million. It was originally listed for $23.9 million.

The home is currently completely empty, where as all of Jackson's things were auctioned off last December. 

Jackson passed away in the home in 2009. 

Welcome to Jackson's former home.

The home has lovely landscaping.

The home is modeled after a French Chateau, conceived by Richard Landry.

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Tony Montana may have been living the American dream in Miami, but the real mansion that served as a backdrop for the 1983 movie "Scarface" is actually located in Santa Barbara, California.

It’s also available to rent for a cool $30,000 a month through Village Properties Realtors.

The 10,000-square-foot Roman Revival mansion is located on a 10-acre property with a swimming pool, two fountains (both indoor and outdoor), tiled murals, and a guesthouse. It also has four bedrooms, a rooftop terrace, and staggering views of the Pacific Ocean.

The house is known locally as "El Fureidis," or "little paradise." It was designed by American architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and built in 1906.

A bird's eye view of this gigantic property shows the scope of the 10-acre estate.

The palm trees and famous white fountain in the front make it easy to picture this mansion in Miami.

Here's another view of the famous fountain surrounded by four pools of water.

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With Hurricane Sandy well on her way and Hollywood production in NYC at a standstill, celebrities are sending out well wishes for safety, photos of the storm, and letting us know where we can find info on storm news.

Here's what those from Katie Couric to Lindsay Lohan are saying about Frankenstorm around the Twitter-sphere.

One of the most helpful news bits for anyone seeking Sandy coverage:

Katie Couric: Both @NYTimes & @WSJ suspending paywalls today so u can check their sites for #Sandy updates even if u don’t have dig subscription. #nice!

Many sent their thoughts and prayers for safety:  

Zachary Quinto: "sending thoughts of safety to the entire east coast in the path of hurricane sandy."  

Pam Anderson: "EAST COAST: As Frankenstorm approaches, remember to care for your animal companions"

Rob Lowe: "Flying home from east coast and #Sandy. Wish I could bring all in harms way with me. #StaySafe"

Melissa Joan Hart: I have at least 2 family members in evacuation zones that haven’t left and 2 more in the center of Sandy. Praying they stay safe!

Whoopi Goldberg: "Here's hoping we all make it thru the storm better people, friends, mothers fathers sisters & brothers& greatfull for days the days we have."

Kendra Wilkinson: "Good morning everyone. Hope everyone on the east coast is ok and safe."

Extra's Maria Menounos braved the storm:

Others tweeted about their storm preparation and overall impressions:

Joy Behar: "Everything is cancelled. I'm in my pajamas cooking. I already made meatloaf and baked rigatoni. Stay safe & stay dry. #Sandy" 

Jerry Seinfeld: Mayor Bloomberg going with zip up neck sweater to fight Sandy. Shows preparedness. Windy: zip it up Storm over: back down

Piers Morgan: Can we anchors just agree that all TV reporters covering #Sandy should ‘stay safe’ and stop using that phrase ad nauseam? 

Rob Lowe: ”Oh Sandy, this boardwalk life for me is through.” @springsteen

Despite mass shutdown of transportation in NYC and NJ, Broadway, and movie theaters, not everyone's stopping production:

Jimmy Fallon: East coasters stay safe – watch the news and look for updates. #Sandy We will be doing a new show tomorrow night no matter what. #LateNight 

Howard Stern: Yes, the show must go on. We are planning on doing a radio show tomorrow. 

The Jersey Shore Cast:

JWoww (@JENNIWOWW): "Jersey stay strong we got this. play in the puddles afterwards like we did as kids."

Snooki (@snooki): "Lorenzo’s first storm! Holding him tight." 

Michael Sorrentino (@ItsTheSituation): "Everyone stay safe during the storm!!!"

Vinny Guadagnino: "Thoughts and prayers to my second home and fam in Seaside NJ ."

Lindsay Lohan didn't seem to get all the hullabaloo: 

"WHY is everyone in SUCH a panic about hurricane (i'm calling it Sally)..? Stop projecting negativity! Think positive and prey for peace."

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The latest Bond film may not hit theaters in the United States for another week; however, spoilers have already found their way online.

Don't worry, we're not spoiling anything here. 

If you MUST know, Wikipedia's current updated entry for "Skyfall" contains a full plot synopsis including twists, the fates of major characters, and more.

It was only a matter of time until spoilers made it to the Web.

The film debuted over the weekend in more than 30 locations including the U.K., Ireland, Russia, and Egypt to more than $80.6 million worldwide.

If you must read the spoilers, you can access the Wikipedia entry, HERE.

"Skyfall" will be released in the U.S. November 9.

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2. Make It Rain" by Fat Joe and Lil Wayne:

3. "No Rain" by Blind Melon:

4. "Gimme Shelter" by The Rolling Stones:

5. "Sandy" by John Travolta in "Grease":

6. "Who Will Stop the Rain" by Asia:

7. "It's Raining Men" by The Weather Girls:

8. "Thunder Road" by Bruce Springsteen:

9. "Hurricane" by Bob Dylan:

10. "Riders on the Storm" by The Doors:

11. "After The Storm" by Mumford and Sons:

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