Ree Drummond was a West Coast transplant and vegetarian when she met and married a corn-fed Oklahoma cowboy.

She started writing about her new life on the range on a blog called The Pioneer Woman the name meant to be tongue-in-cheek, but at times not too far from the truth. Like when she lost all water pressure to her house for four months while taking care of her two small children.

I had to learn to haul water in, boil water on the stove and fill toilets, she says in a recent interview.

Plumbing problems, thankfully, will take a backseat on Drummonds new Food Network show, The Pioneer Woman, set at the Oklahoma ranch she shares with her husband and four kids. (It premieres Saturday at 11:30 a.m.).

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Brad Pitt plays a hero in many of his movies, and now he’s one in real life after saving a woman on the set of his new movie from being trampled.

It happened Thursday during a scene of “World War Z” in Glasgow, Scotland, when 700 extras were used to portray a zombie invasion, People magazine reported.

One woman slipped and Pitt was there to help her escape from being trampled.

The woman suffered only has a scrape on her knee, thanks to her new favorite movie star.

“Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” stars Katie Holmes.

() — “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” opens with a brutally unsettling sequence: In a stately stone manor, a man traps a pretty housekeeper and smashes her teeth with a hammer (he’s already done the same thing to himself), all to offer up those teeth as a ritual sacrifice to the spirits who live there.

(The spirits must sit around watching “Saw” sequels.)

I can’t say that I totally enjoyed this sequence, but it did seem a harbinger of a sickly effective shocker; so did the fact that fantasy/horror maestro Guillermo del Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth”) is the film’s producer and co-writer.

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You may know that Jimmy Fallon has been announced as host of SNL this upcoming season on December 17^th- back to his roots! Exciting, right?

Well, we want to share with you another aspect of Jimmy Fallon – the psychic aspect – as you’ll see in this incredible moment from a December episode of SNL from 1998! Fallon comes back as “The Ghost of Christmas Future” to tell then-host Alec Baldwin, who will also be a host this year, about the time he hosts SNL in December 2011, after becoming a big deal and hosting his own show!

Who would have known that years later that opening monologue would come true! You will d

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Fiona Leviny has been forced to leave The Renovators.

LEAVING a job unfinished is not her style, but medical reasons have forced popular contestant Fiona Leviny to make a heartbreaking and premature departure from reality TV program, The Renovators.

“I was very upset to leave the show,” Fiona said.

“The remaining contestants were shocked by the news.

“We’ve all worked hard together and it very emotional. I tri

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The following is a guest post from the Disney Food Blog’s AJ Wolfe as part of WESH’s extended coverage of the Epcot International Food and Wine Festival at Walt Disney World.

The 2011 Epcot International Food and Wine Festival is fast approaching, and bookings for many of the events open on Aug. 16. Now — though we’re nearly two months ahead of the game — is the time to start planning, as the most popular events and activities sell out quickly.

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