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And I thought the Piers Morgan interview of Jermaine Jackson was excurciating

Rosie O’Donnell gets her wish: Russell Brand will be the first guest on her new talk show. … O’Donnell has said she’s fascinated with Brand and called him a genius. She previously said she would love to have him as her first guest. Brand just missed joining the Chris Brown-pitying conspiracy theorist on my list [...]

Metro Atlanta students saved from presidential brainwashing

“You guys are growing up faster and interacting with the wider world in a way that old folks like me didn’t have to,” Obama said. “So today, I don’t want to be another adult who stands up to lecture you like you’re just kids. Because you’re not just kids. You’re this country’s future. Whether we [...]

If the death penalty is a deterrent …

Then why are executions on the rise?

Sly Stone homeless

This should be happening to Seals and Croft, or Kenny Loggins. Not a genius like Sly Stone, who’s living on the streets of L.A. after squandering his fortune. “I like my small camper,” Stone told the New York Post in an article co-written by William Alkema, director of a documentary about the band. “I just [...]

President Gaffe

Conservatives have long pointed to President Obama’s contention there are 57 states as proof he’s every bit as gaffe-prone as his predecessor. Perhaps, but does anyone believe that was anything but a misstatement? Problem is, he’s been misspeaking a lot of late. L.A. Times columnist Andrew Malcom is keeping count. “We’re the country that built [...]

Pay Sarah Palin to think

(credit to Bill Maher for the headline) Alaska Republican Sarah Palin is “on the verge of making her decision of whether or not to run for office” – and her backers should write a check right away, a letter from her political action committee says. The Sept. 20 letter from SarahPAC treasurer Tim Crawford says: [...]

Tea partying on the Titanic

(via Weigel)

Hollywood is over: Sitcom edition

The scores of promos for “Whitney” during last Sunday night’s Falcons game promised something awful. It delivered. Our heroine is rather less randy, and the central scene of the Whitney pilot concerns her effort to reheat a sex life that has reached a cryogenic temperature. To spice things up, Whitney gets herself a naughty nurse [...]

Hollywood is officially over

Better add new screens at the Hell Cineplex. Coming this fall: Footloose The Three Musketeers (featuring a chick this time and Matrix-style special effects; will it include a remake of one of the worst songs of all time from the last Musketeers remake?) A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas Jack and Jill (with Adam Sandler [...]

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