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Four Humiliating Moments From Agassi’s 60 Minutes Interview
5:33PM Azaria Jagger | Lucky Katie Couric scored the tell-all interview timed to coincide with Andre Agassi’s tell-all memoir, where the ex-tennis star cops to ruining his career with a meth addiction and to wearing a toupee at the French Open. More »
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8:47AM Gabriel Snyder | at a memorial service held today at Lincoln centre for 60 Minutes creator Don Hewitt who died at age 86 in August, according to Broadcasting & Cable.
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8:47AM Gabriel Snyder | at a memorial service held today at Lincoln centre for 60 Minutes creator Don Hewitt who died at age 86 in August, according to Broadcasting & Cable.
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Don Hewitt, 60 Minutes Creator Dies
1:55AM Hamilton Nolan | Don Hewitt, the American creator of 60 Minutes, has died at the age of 86.Molly Meldrum Will Soon Be Advising Channel Seven Viewers To Do Themselves A Favour
9:49AM Jess McGuire | Hurrah for Uncle Molly! The most well-connected St Kilda supporter on the planet will be heading back to our screens in a regular manner with the papers reporting he’s been hired by Channel Seven to… well, do something on their soon-to-be-head-to-head-with-60-Minutes current affairs show called Sunday Night.
Music guru Molly Meldrum will be part of Channel Seven’s new Sunday night show, imaginatively titled Sunday Night. Meldrum has already filed two stories – both interviews with leading international music acts – for the program that is expected to debut at the beginning of the ratings season next month.
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Inside Anderson Cooper’s Shirtless Seduction of Michael Phelps
2:30AM Kyle Buchanan | Last night on US version of 60 Minutes, a middle-aged man spent fifteen minutes attempting conversation with an inarticulate bohunk until the younger man finally agreed to let him come over. Or, as it was promoted, “Anderson Cooper interviewed Michael Phelps.” More »
4:38AM STV | And I’m Barack Obama: The post-election afterglow scored a direct hit last night on 60 Minutes, where the President-elect and wife Michelle’s rangy hour-long interview with Steve Kroft drew 24 million viewers. The 6.4 rating is the newsmagazine’s highest in nine years, and what did we learn? There will be Republicans in his Cabinet, no new dog would survive the grueling transition process to the White House, and college football needs a playoff system. Also, if you stuck around to the end, Andy Rooney bemoaning frivolous TV news. And here we thought Obama had dispatched all those mavericks. [The Live Feed] More »
Alec Baldwin Fights Off ‘60 Minutes’ Offensive With Thoughtful Age Gags
4:15AM Defamer Hollywood | For all the career renaissance we’ve seen from Alec Baldwin over the last three or four years, not even his Golden Globe for 30 Rock overshadows his legendary turn as “Sociopathic Father” in last year’s wildly popular Web-exclusive release Thoughtless Little Pig. Even Morley Safer couldn’t stop talking about it last night on 60 Minutes; in the accompanying video, watch the “appalling” Baldwin float like a butterfly and sting like a bee under Safer’s withering sallies, punch back with word of his forthcoming book on “divorce and parental alienation” and finally score the knockout with his disarming rejoinder about a potential political career: “There’s other things I want to do. I mean, in a matter of weeks I’m going to be 50… By 60 Minutes correspondent terms, I am a young man!” Oh, Alec, you bastard. We just can’t stay mad at you. [60 Minutes] WATCH VIDEO More »
