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Morning Memo: Brad Pitt Confused About His Family's Fame; Tricia Walsh-Smith Sexy, Scary; Britney Spears Isn't Ready to Tour

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:09:44 -0500

Brad Pitt told Larry King that he didn't understand the public's interest in his life with Angelina Jolie and their children, though he would allow that his is an "interesting family. It's not your usual family." [Us Weekly]

Tricia Walsh-Smith, who you might remember from the Youtube tirade she directed at former husband Philip Smith, has posted a new video in honor of her ex's promotion to chairman of the Shubert Organazation. The clip is...

Video: Corsi Versus Media Matters on Larry King Live Last Night

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:23:56 -0400

Jerome Corsi, he of Swift Boat fame, was on CNN's Larry King Live last night defending his new book, The Obama Nation against Paul Waldman, a fidgety fellow from progressive watchdog group, Media Matters. On August 12th, Jim Rutenberg and Julie Bosman pointed out in The New York Times that many of Mr. Corsi's claims—specifically that Barack Obama never addressed when he stopped using drugs—were false.

Mr. Corsi, at one point said, "My...

Barbara Corcoran: Get Off The La-Z-Boy And Go Buy!

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:17:54 -0400

Barbara Corcoran was on Larry King Live last night as part of a panel on the mortgage mess (transcript here). The founder of the Corcoran Group, now an author and TV personality, couldn't understand why more people weren't now buying homes and quickly:

I think you ought to be out there shopping the market now. You have three times more inventory. Prices have been reduced by over 15 percent in many markets, some markets...

Morning Memo: Trouble With The Ledger Estate; Larry King's Wife's Secret Pain

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:06:46 -0400

Michelle Williams is reportedly feuding with Heath Ledger's family over the late actor's will. [P6]

Ron Perelman and his ex, Patricia Duff, are back in court because a court-appointed lawyer for their 13-year-old daughter says that the girl has been subjected to emotional abuse. [NY Daily News]

Ashley Dupre thanked her fans and critics on her MySpace page yesterday. [NY Daily News]

Helena Christensen will not...

Report: Larry King Extends Contract with CNN, But Not Guaranteed 9 P.M. Show

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:26:55 -0400

On Tuesday April, 22, Steve Krakauer of TV Newser was the first to report that CNN's suspender-wearing newsman Larry King had re-upped with the cable news network through June 2011.

The news immediately kicked up more speculation about what that might mean for the beleaguered Katie Couric, who had been (conveniently!) rumored as a possible replacement for Mr. King, sometime next year. Most commentators greeted the news of...

The Future of Katie Couric: A Morning Round-Up

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:14:56 -0400

Filling out the rumors floated in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, today the New York Times reports that a “wide-ranging discussion” about Katie Couric’s future took place among CBS executives back in February:

The discussion took place in New York on Feb. 28 and involved four people: Ms. Couric; her agent, Alan Berger of the Creative Artists Agency; Sean McManus, the president of CBS News; and Leslie Moonves, the chairman of...

Bad News Bear Bumped by Bev Hills Ump: CNN's Larry King Pitches Fit at Son's Little League Game

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:34:32 -0400

CNN fixture Larry King’s 9-year-old son Chance Armstrong King plays Beverly Hills Little League. King père is the coach of Chance’s team.

On Monday, March 10, during a heated game, the suspendered talk show host apparently got into a confrontation with one of the league’s umpires. “[Mr. King] was making a fool out of himself as a manager on the field, talking in the middle of the field in the middle of...

Great Moments in Candid Katie

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:26:57 -0400

Candid Katie Couric can be a great thing. But recently most of the genre's memorable moments—Husky eyes!—have come to us courtesy of Harry Shearer. Not from the official Ms. Couric sanctioned YouTube channel.

That said, this most recent clip from the YouTube project, in which Ms. Couric travels to an interview with CNN's Larry King, has one pretty classic moment.

At the 1:24 mark: She is following the venerable newsman down a hallway outside...

Shirley MacLaine Adores New Mexico, Aliens

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:37:17 -0500

Shirley MacLaine was just honored with a lifetime achievement award at the Santa Fe Film Festival, and according to the 73-year-old film star, the win meant more than her 1983 Oscar for a poignant, now-iconic turn in director James Brooks’ Terms of Endearment. “Of all the awards I've gotten all over the world—and I have been in this business a long time—this means more to me because I'm being awarded this...

Times Forgets Its Own Reporting on Larry King

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:48:08 -0500

Gawker catches New York Times TV reporter Bill Carter in what looks like an embarrassing slip. Mr. Carter reported today that Shepard Smith's new contract with Fox News, which is worth around $7 million a year, will make him better-paid than anyone at rival CNN, "if reports of $5 million for Anderson Cooper and $6 million for Lou Dobbs are accurate." But in 2002, The Times reported that CNN's Larry King was set to...

Still Unsure About Hillary '08

Thu, 21 Sep 2006 05:43:36 -0400

Speaking on Larry King last night, Bill Clinton said he wasn't sure he wants Hillary to run for president, but that if she was won, "she would be a magnificent president."

"There's only one thing I know with absolute conviction. If she got elected, she'd be fabulous. I don't know if she's going to run, I don't know if I want her to run, I don't know if she'd win if she ran. She...

Fox News Superstar Bill O'Reilly Wants to Oppose Hillary in 2006!

Sun, 09 Apr 2006 20:00:00 -0400

You’ve probably seen this guy, Bill O’Reilly. He hosts a show on the Fox News Channel, The O’Reilly Factor. He’s a tall, blue-eyed fellow, and he likes to stir things up. Argues a lot, cuts off his guests. His audience eats it up. A lot of people love Bill O’Reilly, you see. Then again, a lot of people would like to punch Bill O’Reilly in the nose.

The joke’s on them, though. Mr....

CNN's Royal Pain: Would Nancy Succeed King?

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 19:00:00 -0500

March 16 was a good day for tributes to CNN’s Larry King. But not on CNN.

Over on Fox News, personalities were lining up to praise Mr. King. Greta Van Susteren was applauding him on the air and on her blog, adding that Fox News Channel chairman Roger Ailes was also a fan. Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes broke off bickering to pay homage, while the chyron beneath them read “We Respect Larry.” ...

CNN’s Royal Pain: Would Nancy Succeed King?

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 19:00:00 -0500

March 16 was a good day for tributes to CNN’s Larry King. But not on CNN. Over on Fox News, personalities were lining up to praise Mr. King. Greta Van Susteren was applauding him on the air and on her blog, adding that Fox News Channel chairman Roger Ailes was also a fan. Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes broke off bickering to pay homage, while the chyron beneath them read “We Respect Larry.” In...

The Awful Untruth

Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:00:00 -0500

“That this man is standing in front of me and everyone else in this room is lying to us is heresy. The truth is all that matters. This is fucking heresy.”—James Frey, A Million Little Pieces, page 178

“If you’re an addict whose life has been moved by this story, and you feel that what James went through was able to—to help you hold on a little bit longer, and you connected to that—that is...

The Awful Untruth

Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:00:00 -0500

“That this man is standing in front of me and everyone else in this room is lying to us is heresy. The truth is all that matters. This is fucking heresy.”—James Frey, A Million Little Pieces, page 178 “If you’re an addict whose life has been moved by this story, and you feel that what James went through was able to—to help you hold on a little bit longer, and you connected to that—that...

Edelman Blasts Mahoney

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:25:00 -0500

Another day, another serious setback for Jeanine. Really, the meltdown is now pretty much total. Mike Edelman, a Westchester lawyer who was once a young prosecutor alongside Pirro, who remains a great Pirro fan, and who is routinely quoted as a friend and advisor to the district attorney, has posted a long, rough, angry column on a site called Yonkers Tribune, blaming Pirro (and Pataki) political advisor Kieran Mahoney for Pirro's disaster, into which he...

Hop On, Everybody! Jane Fonda Taps Gas For Anti-War Bus Tour

Sun, 07 Aug 2005 20:00:00 -0400

From: Fonda Communications L.L.C. To: All members of the media Re: The Jane Fonda “Stop the War Now” Bus Tour, March 2006. Dear Editor, Blogger, Journalist, TV Producer or otherwise influential member of the media, including Native American Smoke Signalers:

The Eagles are back. Pink Floyd is back. The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson is back. And now, another 60’s icon is taking her act on the...

Road to Redemption: Pull on a Sweater, You're Now 'The Get'!

Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:00:00 -0500

On the morning after the Iowa caucuses, certain parts of Los Angeles-or, to be more precise, certain blocks in Brentwood, Bel Air and the Pacific Palisades-awoke in a brief but palpable panic. No, it wasn't that these home owners had missed the latest "style advisory," warning that black automobiles were now outré, and that the new palette for socially prominent Los Angelenos runs to shades of silver.

Glancing out in the driveway-for reassurance-one could see...

Larry King is Live But Legal Analyst Is On the Screen

Sun, 07 Dec 2003 19:00:00 -0500

At the close of Larry King's big 70th-birthday special on Nov. 19, Larry King Live 's executive producer Wendy Whitworth and guest host Dr. Phil McGraw surprised the suspendered superhost by bringing his wife and children onto the set.

"Tonight wouldn't be complete if you didn't have the really important people," said Dr. McGraw. While Mr. King may not have been "surprised" by his family's appearance-"Oh my gosh!" he exclaimed-he was genuinely taken aback by...

Ring Ring … Britney's Wolfin' a Bialy at Kossar's.

Sun, 31 Mar 2002 19:00:00 -0500

Upoc, a wireless messaging service that distributes text and

voice info to cell phones, has a popular user group called "NYC Celeb Sightings." Two years old, with 1,846 registered members, the group sends instant messages to each other about celebrity spottings in Manhattan. Here are some highlights: Sept 7, 1:19 AM, greg: Ozzy Osbourne getting off plane from LA @ JFK - looks a little confused Sept 7, 2:27 AM, supertoad: Eric Nies (The Real World) @ China White...

Bring Back the King Column: An Hommage , Not a Parody

Sun, 16 Sep 2001 20:00:00 -0400

News Item: " USA Today Drops Larry King Column."

O.K., everybody and his brother has done a parody of Larry King's USA Today column, so let me make this clear: This is not a parody . This is an hommage , an appreciation, a call for reconsideration. I have to admit, I've considered doing a parody myself in the past: His column was at times parodiable, what with the apparently aimless concatenation of musings and...

Welcome to Kalman Sporn's World -- Hillary and Jacko Just Live There

Sun, 03 Dec 2000 19:00:00 -0500

The first thing you see in Kalman Sporn's West 70th Street apartment is a picture of himself with the Pope. It's odd, since the gay sons of Orthodox Jewish rabbis don't normally hang with the Pope. But as a friend of Mr. Sporn's commented, "It's more about the Pope as celebrity, you know?" Because Mr. Sporn has only met the Pope on one occasion, he doesn't yet include him in what he refers to...

After Ellen , NBC Heads Into Gay Territory ... Farewell, Larry Sanders, Your Hair Was Nice

Sun, 31 May 1998 20:00:00 -0400

Peter Bogdanovich's Movie of the Week

The two Humphrey Bogart movies that are quintessentially Bogart–in which that line between a star actor's screen persona and a specific character he's playing is most thoroughly and effectively erased so that these become indistinguishably one–were directed and produced back-to-back by Howard Hawks; both co-star Lauren Bacall at her freshest and most defining (her first two films), and both have screenplays worked on by William Faulkner, one based...

Welcome to Christmas '86, The Sequel

Sun, 14 Dec 1997 19:00:00 -0500

Yes, it's the middle of December again: that time when we sit down and ruminate on the state of relationships with our loved ones; the season when we take pause and reflect on the kindness and considerations of our cohorts and employees during the past 12 months; that moment in the calendar when we contemplate the pluses and minuses, the joys and the sorrows, the good times, the bad, the frustrations, surprises and disappointments...