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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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1:33AM Brian Moylan | [Katie Couric can do nothing but laugh as Annie Liebovitz tries to pawn anything that's not nailed down last night during a panel discussion at the 2009 Women's Conference in Long Beach, Calif. Image via Getty]
‘How Much Can I Get For This?’
1:33AM Brian Moylan | [Katie Couric can do nothing but laugh as Annie Liebovitz tries to pawn anything that's not nailed down last night during a panel discussion at the 2009 Women's Conference in Long Beach, Calif. Image via Getty]
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Kristen Stewart And Lady Gagadong Just Want To Move On
1:15AM Foster Kamer | Kristen Stewart thinks she’s boring now sans social life. Oh, honey. Lady Gaga wants Kanye to respect the cock(y decision she made to leave their tour). Jon Gosselin: still a cock. Presenting your Saturday Morning Gossip Roundup: More »
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Michael Jackson Asked Katie Couric Out On A Date, Using His Rabbi
3:20AM John Cook | On the Late Show With David Letterman last night, Katie Couric told the story of how Michael Jackson asked her out on a date in 2000 (two years after her husband died), using Rabbi Shmuley Boteach as a go-between. More »
Friars Roast-Crashing Tom Cruise Reunited with Glib Tormentor Matt Lauer
6:40AM Kyle Buchanan | If Brooke Shields and Tom Cruise could patch things up after Cruise called her a pseudoscience-worshiping devil-thetan incubator (we’re paraphrasing), then surely, we thought, Cruise and Matt Lauer could eventually let bygones be bygones. You may remember how the actor and anchorman tussled back in 2005 when Cruise accused Lauer of not personally, personally understanding either Ritalin, postnatal depression, or why the son survived in War of the Worlds. Now, we hear, the Friars Club Roast of Lauer that just concluded in New York featured a surprise, couch-jumping guest. Says KTU reporter Paul Westcott: More »
How ‘SNL’ Plans to Cover Last Night’s Debate (Without Having to Actually Hire a Black Woman)
3:50AM Kyle Buchanan | Though pundits like Time’s Mark Halperin are claiming that last night’s vice presidential debate left Saturday Night Live little to parody (really?), it’s hard to imagine that SNL would leave its ratings on the table by ignoring what was perhaps the most-anticipated Sarah Palin event of the entire election year. Now, according to EW’s Michael Ausiello, SNL does indeed plan to cover the debate, which leaves it with one problem: the moderator, Gwen Ifill, was a black woman, and SNL still has none in its cast. It’s the same problem the variety show has run into when covering Michelle Obama, and just as rumours flew that Lorne Michaels had approached Maya Rudolph about that role, SNL has its sights set on a very specific Ifill impersonator who’s not a member of the actual cast: More »
Hasselbeck Not Leaving ‘The View’ Until She Adorns Her Living Room Wall With Four Bloody Scalps
2:45AM Kyle Buchanan | Back when Rosie O’Donnell left The View, many industry watchers predicted the program would quickly return to its safe, easygoing roots (and that ratings would dive as a result). Oh, how they underestimated the Hasselbeck! The election year has provoked The View’s resident Republican into a lather almost daily, whether she’s obfuscating about Barack Obama or calling an unlikely moratorium on Sarah Palin discussion. In fact, things have gotten so heated lately that rampant speculation had Hasselbeck headed for Fox News, forcing her agent to issue a statement today:
Elisabeth Hasselbeck Would Prefer It If You Just Ignored That Palin/Couric Debacle
7:20AM Kyle Buchanan | After Elisabeth Hasselbeck nearly brained Barbara Walters yesterday with a coffee mug filled with steaming-hot Republican rage, producers for The View wisely kept Walters away from today’s show, though things were just as politically heated. Today — as it often is — the topic was Sarah Palin, and Hasselbeck’s had quite enough of that issue, thank you very much! More »
Conundrums: Elect Sarah Palin, and Lose Diddy Forever
5:40AM Kyle Buchanan | Though John McCain came out of the Republican National Convention with a lead over Barack Obama, the general consensus is that political momentum has swung back Obama’s way — and for further proof, look no further than important swing voter Diddy. Last seen praising Sarah Palin’s RNC speech (”You did your thing. You gave a speech that pretty much shut me the fuck up”) Diddy has changed his tune even faster than a ridiculous nickname past its expiration date. Now, after having watched Palin biff question after question with Katie Couric, Diddy is frightened — so frightened, he’s hiding under the covers, threatening never to come out if McCain and Palin get elected. Finally, a celebrity endorsement the Republicans can actually use! [Diddy Blog] More »
