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How To Be A Seat Filler At The 2011 MTV Video Music Awards

It might be too late to get tickets to Sunday night's MTV Video Music Awards but there's still a way you can get in, and you might even get to rub elbows with a few celebs.

1iota.com is still looking for seat fillers over the age of 18 to sit in the featured camera seats while the artists, celebrities and ticket holders are temporarily away from their spots during the show. Having been seat fillers are two previous, high-profile award shows, we can say that there's nothing like bragging to your friends about having just sat 8th row center and watching Aerosmith, Beyonce, Mariah Carey and Justin Timberlake do their thing like it ain't no thang.

This year's VMAs will be held at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles and will feature performances by Lady GaGa, Beyonce, Bruno Mars, and more.

It's not to late to apply for a position as a seat filler, just register with 1iota.com ASAP and fill out the application at 1iota.com, then get ready to sit among all of the VIPs at the show!

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The Celebs and Their Mountains of Luggage Arrive to LAX for the Oscars

The 83rd Annual Academy Awards are this weekend, and you know what that means! It means LAX is crawling with paparazzi angling for the best shots at celebrities arriving on flights from around the world. Celebs like Victoria Beckham and Katie Price, the latter who remains largely unknown in the USA despite being regular gossip fodder in the UK.

Price (who really has no business being at the Oscars) arrived last night on a Virgin Atlantic flight from London, one on which her arch-enemey Victoria Beckham was also scheduled. The DailyMail is predictably making a huge deal out the fact that Posh Spice switched her flight last-minute from VA to take Air New Zealand instead. We don't care about that so much; we just can't stop gawking at the above image of Katie Price's luggage.

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Where the Winners Will Be Partying After the Golden Globes

Celebrities don't show up at the Golden Globe Awards just for the free drinks and statues; they're also in it for the studio's infamous after-parties.

Most of the post-Globes festivities are held right at The Beverly Hilton, which can cause chaos for those trying to maneuver through the hotel's hallways and elevators. "It’s like throwing a wedding in a hotel where six other weddings are going on, and you’ve all invited the same guests," is how one host described it. But, it also makes for easy party-hopping for celebs, and crashers.

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Attend Oscar Events in Hollywood Without Becoming a Stalker

So, you wanna take part in the Oscars but don’t have a nominated film, fancy gown or any Hollywood connections? Don't worry, there are still plenty of Oscar-related events for you too. Lindsay Lohan, you might want to take note.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences traditionally sets up bleachers along the red carpet so fans can watch all the stars arrive. Every September, they hold a week long online lottery giving away tickets for the spots. Anyone can put their name in but you have to have pretty good luck to win considering last year over 20,000 people entered but only 300 seats were available.

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'Slumdog Millionaire' Tour: Effective or Exploitative?

First comes the critical accolades, next come the tourists: The same week "Slumdog Millionaire" got ten Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, a Mumbai company announced it would start offering the "Slumdog Experience," giving film lovers the chance to see the real-life neighborhoods in Danny Boyle's movie.

Reality Tours and Travel is no flash in the pan: The joint India-English owned company was founded two years ago to introduce visitors to the Dharavai slum outside of Mumbai. Cameras are not allowed and visitors travel on foot in order to be as inconspicuous as possible, with the guides speaking to local residents as they travel.

Of course anyone who has seen "Slumdog Millionaire," in which our hero works for a spell as a tour guide in Agra, knows the, er, perils of shady operators on the road. But we're liking the do-gooder aspect of pumping the profits from these tours (a 2.5-hour trip is $10) back into the surrounding communities, including into an associated NGO providing vocational training and English lessons. It seems like a better way to enact change than, say, trying to win a milli on a national game show.

Related Stories:
· Slum Tours [Reality Tours and Travel]
· Slumdog Millionaire: The Experience [Faded Youth Blog]
· Slum Visits: Tourism or Voyeurism? [NYTimes article via Realitytoursandtravel.com]
· Movie Set Travel coverage [Jaunted]

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Oscar Nominations Announced

"We have a new camera focused on the press, so try not to fall asleep," joked Michael Seligman, longtime Academy Awards producer in the waning minutes before this year's Oscar nominations were announced at 8:30 this morning. We're not actually in the room, but we're as restless as a basket of kittens over here. (Go Team Winslet!)

Best Picture: "The Reader" (set in Berlin); "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (New Orleans, mostly); "Frost/Nixon" (London), "Milk" (San Francisco) and "Slumdog Millionaire" (India).

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2008 Emmys Travel: Fey's Funny, "Race" Wins Again

What, no beehive and glasses? Fresh off her turn as Sarah Palin on "SNL," Tina Fey walks the red carpet before the Emmy Awards ceremony last night in Los Angeles. Fey's series "30 Rock" walked away with best comedy and she and costar Alec Baldwin took home statues for best lead actress and actor, respectively.

Other big winners of the night: "John Adams" (Best Miniseries), which takes place in Revolutionary-era New England, and the New York-set "Mad Men" (Best Drama) for its portrait of the '60s. And Jaunted obsession "The Amazing Race" scooped up its sixth consecutive reality-competition prize.

Biggest losers: All the television shows whose themes Josh Groban mangled, medley-style.

Related Stories:
· 60th Primetime Emmys: A Night of Firsts [The Hollywood Reporter]
· Movie Set Travel: Baby Mama [Jaunted]
· Celeb Travel coverage [Jaunted]

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