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Top Chef Texas' Snow White challenge: its most-successful product placement ever

Top Chef 9 »     by Andy Dehnart / January 19, 2012, 12:55 PM Top Chef Texas has been kind of hit or miss for me. Some episodes seem interesting and inspired, while others seem like the producers are phoning the same tired formula again. But last night’s episode, which featured Charlize Theron and product placement for her upcoming film Snow White and the Huntsman, was this season’s best, and that’s because the challenge inspired the chefs to create outstanding, visually interesting food, and Charlize was a fantastic guest judge. This season has some talented characters—Beverly has been a complex villain, if you can call her that, and Chris Jones looks weirder each week—but they haven’t produced consistently entertaining episodes as the show treks around Texas. Everything came together last night, though, especially the food, which was incredible. Tom Colicchio called it “one of the finest meals I’ve had the pleasure of eating” in nine seasons, and during judging, said, “I’m nit-pick...
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Top Chef producers sue Texas to prevent release of details about the state's product placement

Magical Elves, the creators and producers of Top Chef, have sued the Texas attorney general to prevent the release of information in documents from the Governor Rick Perry’s office related to the $400,000 Texas paid for product placement in the new season. Today, The Dallas Observer reports on the progress of its requests for documents detailing what the money will be used for, and describes what happened: “…the governor’s office asked the Attorney General’s Office to first decide whether the records should be released. (Certain proprietary information is exempted from the state’s public record laws.) Despite pleas from Magical Elves, on September 21 the Attorney General’s Office ruled that, yes, whatever the governor’s office dug up belongs to the people. Perry’s office ‘may not withhold any of the submitted information.’ [Now,]…Magical Elves has sued the attorney general, hoping to stop the governor’s office from turning over some amount of information regarding its arrangement wi...
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Info Product Profits Exposed

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Choosing The Right GHD Hair Product For You

Your hair is your crowning glory. That being said, you should always choose the best for it, especially when it comes to hair styling products. There are a number of different companies today offering similar products, each promising the very same thing – to offer you the hairstyle you want. However, there are only a handful of products that have been proven to truly deliver what they have promised to their customer. GHD hair styling products are among them. GHD, or Good Hair Day, is a company that has been known to offer the most innovative and easy-to-use hair styling products on the market.  While they offer a variety of different hair styling and hair care products, the company is most known for their GHD hair straighteners.  These hair straighteners can now be found in various places, from professional hair styling salons to teenager’s lockers.  And because hair textures and needs are different, there are a number of different GHD hair straightening devices that are available to ...
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