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8:09PM Azaria Jagger | Dina Lohan recounts corporal punishment at daughter Lindsay’s hands, Tom Cruise converses with doorknobs, Natalie Portman wishes she didn’t take it off. Come, stroke the supple hide of today’s gossip. More »
Dina Lohan: Lindsay Punched Me In The Face
8:09PM Azaria Jagger | Dina Lohan recounts corporal punishment at daughter Lindsay’s hands, Tom Cruise converses with doorknobs, Natalie Portman wishes she didn’t take it off. Come, stroke the supple hide of today’s gossip. More » 
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Rosie O’Donnell’s ‘Screaming Match’ With Wife Destined To Leak
9:00AM Ryan Tate | Julia Allison caught some flack for tweeting yesterday about Rosie O’Donnell’s “knock-down drag out” fight with her wife Kelli, but O’Donnell probably didn’t expect to keep the incident secret. She’s neighbours with Allison, after all. More »
Kathy Griffin/Clay Aiken Encounter Leaves One Wounded
9:03AM Kyle Buchanan | When Hollywood’s best and brightest finally look for signs leading up to today’s stripper-consuming, Dark Lord-producing Pop Cultural Doomsday, we have a feeling they’ll find a trail of dark psychic energy leading all the way back to the day before Thanksgiving, when NBC aired a televised ritual of evil incantations known as Rosie Live! It was here that the stage was no doubt set for our destruction, and accordingly, comedienne Kathy Griffin adopted a “what the hell” attitude and attempted to mend fences with longtime foil Clay Aiken backstage. Sadly, even the impending end of the world couldn’t produce warm feelings from Aiken: More »
Peeved Elisabeth Hasselbeck Tells Noted Indian Scholar to ‘Go Light a Bowl of Incense’
7:30AM Kyle Buchanan | Though Elisabeth Hasselbeck has offended many during her tenure on The View, she’s never quite had what could be called, in the show parlance, a “Ching Chong” moment. So named for Rosie O’Donnell’s Asian language impression in which she shrieked, “Ching Chong Ching Chong!” and stopped just shy of declaring, “That was me, Rosie, playing an Oriental!” the gaffe is the type that incurs the wrath of an entire race, and Hasselbeck may have had her own in this morning’s episode.
Rosie O’Donnell And NBC Team Up To Bring You A Holiday Stinker For The Ages
2:41AM Seth | Happy Black Friday, everyone! We trust your yam-holes were well and truly stuffed yesterday, and today you partook of the wonderful sales being offered by retailers across the nation, without trampling any employees to death or causing miscarriages. While we’ve spent the last few days far away from a TV set, we understand NBC’s Thanksgiving eve offering of Rosie Live—wherein Rosie O’Donnell attempted to revive the variety format by inviting some of her closest friends onto a Broadway stage to trade jokes, sing songs, and have a slice of a delicious roasted turkey dressed up in a dowdy pantsuit and wig to look like Barbara Walters—tanked in a major way. THR reports “a mere 5 million viewers tuned in…[matching] ABC’s recently canceled Pushing Daisies as the night’s lowest-rated program on a major broadcast network.” Drudge Report linked that report, thereby summoning a geiser of profane anti-Rosie invective of the “LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER” variety in the comments. Then again, the critics actually paid to sit through it weren’t much kinder, with the LAT wondering “what was she thinking?” and TV Guide calling it “dead on arrival…a ghastly ego trip.” In case you missed it—and you probably did!—we’ve collected some lowlights after the jump, each excruciating in its own, special way. Enjoy! More »
Didja Hear the One About Rosie and ‘The View’? Now You Have, Twice
7:37AM Kyle Buchanan | So much has gone down on The View since Rosie O’Donnell quit that it feels like ancient history when O’Donnell reopens those old wounds for some extra publicity, but we made an exception yesterday because her reaction video to Barbara Walters’s smackdown was succinct and cute. Sadly, if O’Donnell’s appearance on Conan last night is any indication, the View-Bashing Express in her head is running on a circular track. More »
Barbara Walters to Rosie and Star: ‘Ladies, Get On With Your Lives’
3:39AM Kyle Buchanan | While promoting her upcoming variety show Rosie Live yesterday, Rosie O’Donnell shocked exactly no one by dishing dirt on her former View cohosts. “[Barbara Walters] wanted everyone to believe and think and act as if we get along and are really good friends and happy and hang out together, and, you know, that’s just not the reality,” O’Donnell said. “I’m not saying they loathe each other, but the fact of the matter is, there was not a lot of camaraderie off camera.” We’ve heard similar stories, but O’Donnell’s comments at least compelled the co-hosts to summon some on-screen camaraderie today in order to denounce both Rosie and intermittent Barbara-basher Star Jones. Sadly, we fear that their ridiculously transparent “The Former Co-hosts Who Must Not Be Named” shtick will only open the door for a publicity-hungry Debbie Matenopolous to attempt an unsolicited, aggrieved rebuttal in the pages of Life & Style. The View [ABC]
‘Rosie Live’ to Treat Viewers to Spectacular Liza Minnelli / NeYo / Kathy Griffin Collision
3:33AM STV | NBC began teasing Rosie Live in prime-time over the weekend, alerting viewers to Rosie O’Donnell’s Nov. 26 variety-show experiment by touting a slate of America’s most well-recognised holiday-season talent. Alanis Morissette! Kathy Griffin! Ne-Yo! Acrobats! And, in a booking coup loaded with potential for grandeur, onstage collapse and/or both, Liza Minnelli, herself the host of one of TV’s all-time great variety specials and a showstopping Rosie idol from way, way back. What to expect? O’Donnell defies you to wait and see:
Dump-Happy Anne Hathaway to Cut Off ‘Fiance’
6:05AM STV | Anne Hathaway is set to star in The Fiance, about a young woman who, despite her parents’ wishes, leaves her seemingly perfect fiancée in order to find herself. Let us guess — he’s Italian, right? [Variety] Lionsgate has attached Ashton Kutcher to portray an ex-hit man in the action-comedy Five Killers. [Variety] Today in survival: ABC has picked up a full second season of its medical soap Private Practice, and CBS ordered more scripts for its new series Worst Week. [The Live Feed] After the jump: What Oscar-nominee hopes to win the Nobel Peace Prize and call Bill Clinton a “weenie” in her next film? More »
