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• Green Freaks: 'No Impact Man' Is Amazingly Still Married

  Published: July 31, 2007, 6:10 pm

  Tags: Colin Beavan, Earth, Green Freaks, Keepin Up The Beavans, Salt, The

  Remember Colin Beavan, the 40-something Brooklyn writer who forswore toilet paper and showers in pursuit of a book deal about being green? To us it seemed that his wife, a kindly Business Week editor...

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• Now, that's a spicy mango

  Published: August 5, 2007, 12:15 pm

  Tags: El Yucateco, El Yucateco Haba Ero, Elyucateco, Elyucatecohaba Ero, Haba Ero, Hot Sauce, Hotsauce, Kosher Salt, Koshersalt, Mango, Mangoes, Patak S Mango Pickle, Patak Smangopickle, Salt, Sriracha

  of sprinkling my mango with salt and hot sauce. His wife was from Guyana and she always had a bottle of homemade Scotch bonnet pepper sauce. Actually it wasn't so much a sauce as a fiery mix of chopped bright orange and yellow peppers floating in vinegar. This wasn't the first time I encountered this combination though. Back in my college days

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• Sodium & Blood Pressure: What's the Connection

  Published: August 6, 2007, 5:30 pm

  Tags: Bacon, Blood Pressure, Processed Foods, Rdi, Salt, Sodium

  all know salt enhances the flavor of food, but too much sodium... well that is a different story all together. If you excessively salt your food, please read this post to learn some of the danger of sodium. Sodium in small amounts is definitely essential since it: Helps maintain the right balance of fluids in your body Helps transmit nerve

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• Back From Break With More HSM2 News

  Published: August 6, 2007, 7:32 pm

  Tags: Dish Of Salt

  Well, I'm back from a nice long two-week vacation, which included a glorious eight days in Hawaii. You realize how little most people care about train wreck celebrities like Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton when you leave Hollywood. I had not heard their names uttered one time. Of course it helped that I ignored the tabloid magazines and

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• The Plot Of 'High School Musical 2'

  Published: July 19, 2007, 7:30 pm

  Tags: Dish Of Salt

  To quote the "High School Musical 2" music video that I've been watching over and over today as I write a story for Access Hollywood about Vanessa Hudgens, "What Time Is It? Summer Time! It's our vacation!" Well, its my vacation time too for the next two weeks. I'm off to see family and then a nice relaxing week in Hawaii with no cell phones and

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• Day Two: Live From The NBC TCAs

  Published: July 18, 2007, 3:28 pm

  Tags: Dish Of Salt

  Alas, the longest day of the year is the not the Summer Solstice. It's day two of the NBC TCA. Today I have twenty-six scheduled interviews. Three of them were no-shows. Here's how it all went down... 9:03. I arrive three minutes after my first scheduled interview with trainer, Jillian Michaels from "The Biggest Loser". Traffic was a

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• Day One With The Stars Of NBC

  Published: July 17, 2007, 5:57 pm

  Tags: Dish Of Salt

  This is the week when the networks get together for the Television Critics Association's (TCA) annual gathering in LA. The networks make all their announcements about the new Fall season and hype up their new shows. Every year Access Hollywood sends me to interview the new stars and to help promote returning ones. NBC is always the longest two

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• It's Here! Friday's are "High School Musical 2" Days

  Published: July 13, 2007, 5:42 pm

  Tags: Dish Of Salt

  So, if you are a fan of "High School Musical" and you read my blog, you know I spent three days on the set in St. George, Utah. Today's the day Access Hollywood begins airing our exclusive "High School Musical 2" stories. Every Friday we will unveil a new segment. If you happen to miss them you will be able to get them online here at

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• Meet The New Star Of "Grey's Anatomy" - Chyler Leigh

  Published: July 12, 2007, 6:51 pm

  Tags: Dish Of Salt

  Production began today in Los Angeles on the set of "Grey's Anatomy" and it's so long to Kate Walsh, as she heads off to "Private Practice" and bye bye Isaiah Washington who was now famously fired and hello to 25-year-old Chyler Leigh. Leigh is joining the cast as a regular this season. She'll play Meredith Grey's (Ellen Pompeo) half-sister

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• Hangin' at the "Hairspray" premiere with HSM!

  Published: July 11, 2007, 3:59 pm

  Tags: Dish Of Salt

  Nights like last night are why I got into the entertainment news business. Normally, at a red carpet premiere you are smushed in next to dozens of other camera crews. It's so tight you can barely move and you are stuck behind a station, leaning over to get the interview. It's a frustrating experience to say the least as the studios have

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• Thank you "Hannah Montana!"

  Published: July 9, 2007, 1:53 pm

  Tags: Dish Of Salt

  While Access Hollywood was off on hiatus last week, I was busy planning a special visit to the set of "Hannah Montana" for my 4 1/2-year-old cousin, Rachel. I have a very small family so her mom, Michelle is like a sister to me and Rachel and her 7-year-old sister, Hannah, are more like nieces to me. Rachel was diagnosed with Leukemia when she

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• DOS: Meet The Next "Bachelor"

  Published: August 8, 2007, 6:18 pm

  Tags: Dish Of Salt

  Despite a terrible track record when it comes to making love last, ABC's "The Bachelor" just won't die. The show is returning for it's 11th go round thanks to a boost in the ratings it got with "Dancing with the Stars" as its lead-in on Monday nights last season. 34 -year-old Brad Womack will be the new guy looking for love. Womack is

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• Day Two With The Stars of NBC

  Published: July 18, 2007, 5:18 pm

  Tags: Dish Of Salt

  Alas, the longest day of the year is the not the Summer Solstice. It's day two of the NBC TCA. Today I have twenty-six scheduled interviews. Three of them were no-shows. Here's how it all went down. 9:03. I arrive three minutes after my first scheduled interview with trainer, Jillian Michaels from "The Biggest Loser". Traffic was a nightmare

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• "Heroes" Hayden On Surviving Young Hollywood

  Published: August 9, 2007, 5:26 pm

  Tags: Dish Of Salt

  With train wrecks like Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears spontaneously combusting (as I like to call it) each and every day it makes you wonder what the heck is wrong with young Hollywood. Is everyone falling apart right now? Fortunately no. So far, there seems to be a few young folks that have been able to keep on the straight and narrow like

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• A Very Special HSM2 Screening

  Published: August 10, 2007, 5:36 pm

  Tags: Dish Of Salt

  Last night Access Hollywood staff members and their family were treated to a very special early screening of "High School Musical 2." Right on our stage we set up a screen, movie theater style chairs and pillows on the floor for the kids. We even had popcorn, candy and snacks just like a real movie theater (minus the outrageous prices!). If

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