‘Daddy’ Jacko | Clive Davis | Halle Berry Accuser’s Mom Told Kids: Call Jacko, Others ‘Daddy’ The mother of the 12-year-old boy who has accused Michael Jackson of child molestation implored her kids to call the pop singer “daddy.” The woman told a British newspaper interviewer early last year that …
Read More »Latest Markey Crusade Focuses on Security
WASHINGTON – Massachusetts DemocraticRep. Ed Markey (search)has been known for turning a fine political phrase, but when he complains that the “booties on a baby’s feet” are inspected more thoroughly than the “belly of a Boeing,” he’s not just trying to be clever. “Unfortunately, too many Americans are not aware …
Read More »Another Big Win for the ACLU
Hi, I’m Bill O’Reilly. Thank you for watching us tonight. Another big win for theAmerican Civil Liberties Union (search). That is the subject of this evening’s “talking points” memo. The nation’s most dangerous organization sued the city of San Diego for renting property to the Boy Scouts. The ACLU said …
Read More »Fake Jewels Are a Girl's Best Friend
They’re oversized, colorful and tantalizing as candy — and they’re winding up on stars like Madonna, Cameron Diaz and Gwen Stefani. Forget diamonds, rubies and sapphires. Never mind Tiffany and Cartier. Kiss those eye-popping pricetags goodbye. Today’s hot baubles are fake. “The idea of colorful, faux jewelry is spreading to …
Read More »Will Kevin Bacon Bring Home the Oscar?
Kevin Bacon | Disney | Jimmy Kimmel | Cy Coleman Will Kevin Bacon Bring Home the Oscar? Add the underrated Kevin Bacon to this year’s list of potential Best Actor Oscar nominees. His understated, brilliantly realized performance as a just-released ex-con child molester in “The Woodsman” is his best work …
Read More »The Numbers Speak for Themselves
All right, enough. While reading these various stories on rival CNN’s travails and what the recent management shakeups mean there, I catch this comment from Teya Ryan, CNN’s executive vice president, commenting on this channel. “I don’t think FOX has an impressive news-gathering operation at all,” she tells the New …
Read More »Reagan Mini-Series Stirs Controversy Before It Airs
Controversy is already churning over a TV mini-series about PresidentRonald Reagan (search)and his legacy. An article in The New York Times reported that family members and close associates of the former president — who now suffers fromAlzheimer’s disease (search)— have already begun stewing about The Reagans, a two-part series set …
Read More »Tikrit Journal: Into the Hole
TIKRIT, Iraq – My first impression when I crawled down into Saddam’s “hole,” where he was nabbed Saturday night, was, “Hey, this isn’t all that bad.” It was a bit of a tight, dirty squeeze going down. But once I got to the base compartment, it was relatively well-built, with …
Read More »Exclusive: Polanski Will Give Holocaust Interview
Polanski Interview | Madonna’s Discount |X-Cellent | Marcia, Marcia, Marcia Clark Exclusive: Polanski Will Give Holocaust Interview Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski may become the last person interviewed by the Shoah Foundation, which wasfounded by Steven Spielberg in 1994 with the goal of filming 50,000 survivors of the Nazi Holocaust. Polanski, …
Read More »Beatty-Hepburn Relationship Was No 'Love Affair'
Beatty vs. Hepburn | Pop Star for Sale | ‘Gigli’ DOA | Beatty vs. Hepburn: Their Botched ‘Love Affair’ There was a lot of excitement about A. Scott Berg’s book “Kate Remembered” when it was published last month. Most of it had to do with Katharine Hepburn’s revelations about Spencer …
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