Media short ends: Your Valderrama is so ignorant, he doesn't understand where the linguistic idiom he's exploiting comes from

– Tonight Wilmer Valderrama debuts his new MTV show ‘Yo Momma.’ The trash-talking televised contest was inspired not by the rich African-American oral tradition from which trash talk derives, but, the auteur tells the NYT, from a scene in ‘Summer Catch,’ a movie starring himself and Freddie Prinze Jr.

– Is Stacey Snider’s new job at Dreamworks a Pellicano-fallout contingency plan devised by Sumner Redstone? Edward Jay Epstein thinks so.

– This week, ‘Brokeback Mountain’ becomes the first studio movie available

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