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Archive for April, 2007

Rosie O’Donnell Bolts for Broadway?

In Culture, Media, celebrity, entertainment, gossip on April 30, 2007 at 10:20 pm

Even though she is leaving “The View,” Rosie O’ Donnell has already lined up a new gig on Broadway.

Word has it that O’Donnell is in negotiations to play a part in the musical version of the novel “Les Miserables” and hopes to snag the role of Madame Thenardier.

O’Donnell’s part would be a supporting role, that of the wife and partner in crime to a con artist innkeeper.

Since O’Donnell didn’t seem to like playing a supporting role to Barbara Walters on “The View,” if she gets the Broadway part it probably won’t take long for her to go after the starring role and maybe even add ad lib a few lines about a conspiracy between Donald Trump and John Edwards’ hairdresser.

Bill Clinton Hooks Up with Rachael Ray to Battle Obesity

In Celebrities, Culture, Media, Politics on April 29, 2007 at 8:07 pm

When he’s not playing “Fundraiser-in-chief” for his wife’s presidential bid or campaigning for an “Ambassador to the World” gig, former president Bill Clinton tries to get his mug on the tube every chance he gets.

The latest cause he’s gotten involved with is remedying childhood obesity and to get the job done he’s paired up with TV cuisine queen Rachael Ray.

Clinton appeared on an episode of Ray’s show and together they fixed a bowl of turkey Bolognese with whole wheat pasta.

“I love to cook,” he said. “I used to cook a lot.”

The show was the vehicle of choice to announce that Ray will work with Clinton’s Alliance for a Healthier Generation, an organization the former prez created to combat diabetes and childhood obesity.

This is the same Alliance that coerced soft drink and food manufacturers to sell healthier products in school vending machines and assisted schools in shaping up their lunchroom menus.

Clinton told Ray’s audience of his lifelong struggle to stay slim and his weakness for fast food.

“I’ve got a scar down my chest to prove it,” he said, referring to his 2004 quadruple bypass surgery.

Clinton emphasized the importance of addressing the obesity issue, and the consequences of failing to, by using a term that for the ex-prez could be a bit risky.

After describing all of the perils of unchecked obesity, Clinton said, “It will be immoral if we let it happen.”

Sheryl Crow Says We Use Too Much Toilet Paper

In Celebrity News, Culture, Hollywood, Music, Politics, celebrity on April 23, 2007 at 7:41 am

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Singer Sheryl Crow is concerned about the way you wipe your butt.

Crow says you should use “only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where two to three could be required.”

On her website, Crow writes, “I have spent the better part of this tour trying to come up with easy ways for us all to become a part of the solution to global warming. Although my ideas are in the earliest stages of development, they are, in my mind, worth investigating. I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting.”

I’ve got a better idea. Let’s wipe our rear ends with Sheryl Crow CDs.

Salma Hayek Denounces The Bible.

In Culture, Movies, Politics, celebrity, entertainment, religion on April 22, 2007 at 3:10 pm

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Unmarried and pregnant Salma Hayek has a new vocation, theologian. The actress has decided to sound off on the contents of the Bible. Seems she’s doesn’t agree with the way the Good Book treats women.

“I don’t like the way the Bible views women – this thing about the Virgin Mary conceiving a child without having sex – so if you conceive a child by having sex, there’s a subliminal message that there’s something dirty about it,” the actress told Marie Clare magazine.

“And this is what makes us divine,” Hayek added.

“I mean, the possibility of creating another life should remind women that we are creators, that we are made like God in our ability. There is nothing greater than to create another human being.”

Feminists are ecstatic over Hayek’s idea that women are like God. By applying a woman’s “right to choose” to interpreting the Bible she’s created “the right to pick and choose.”

Michael Moore’s Cuba Stunt

In Culture, Entertainment Business, Hollywood, Media, Movies, Politics, celebrity on April 16, 2007 at 7:34 am

Just is case anyone thought Michael Moore had taken an early retirement from his unethical approach to movie making, a report from the New York Post shows the filmmaker is seeking to undermine one of the nation’s institutions once again.

Moore’s production company has engaged in a scheme designed to bolster the ridiculous argument that medical care in Fidel Castro’s totalitarian dictatorship is superior to health care in the United States.

As part of Moore’s latest film “Sicko,” which deals with the subject of American health care, the deceptive director transported Ground Zero workers with respiratory ailments to Cuba to prove that the care provided in the U.S. is inferior to the care offered at Fidel’s centrally planned “paradise.”

In typical Moore fashion, the factually challenged filmmaker used ailing 9/11 workers as pawns to apparently satisfy his personal ambition.

An ill worker who was allegedly promised to be taken to Cuba was left behind by Moore. Michael McCormack, a disabled medic, was contacted via phone.

“What he [Moore] wanted to do is shove it up George W’s rear end that 9/11 heroes had to go to a communist country to get adequate health care,” McCormack told the Post.

Moore went to Cuba minus McCormack.

“It’s the ultimate betrayal,” McCormack said. “You’re promised that you’re going to be taken care of and then you find out you’re not. He’s trying to profiteer off of our suffering.”

In a tape of a telephone conversation between McCormack and a Moore producer, a female voice indicated, “Even for the people that we did bring down to Cuba, we said we can promise that you will be evaluated, that you will get looked at. We can’t promise that you will get fixed.”

Moore’s popularity in communist Cuba has been solid ever since a pirated version of his movie, “Fahrenheit 9/11,”was shown on state-owned TV.

How Hillary Will Solve the Sanjaya Crisis

In Media, Politics, celebrity, entertainment on April 14, 2007 at 12:03 pm

Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton recently went on a WOKQ-FM radio talk show to answer voter’s questions.

The New York senator was asked what the United States can do about the crisis created by contestant Sanjaya Malakar staying on “American Idol” despite an apparent lack of talent.

“That’s the best question I’ve been asked in a long time,” Clinton said. “Well, you know, people can vote for whomever they want. That’s true in my election, and its true on ‘American Idol.’”

John Edwards’ Phony Fox Attack

In Culture, Media, News and politics, Politics on April 10, 2007 at 7:09 am

For the second time in recent months, Dem presidential candidate John Edwards has cancelled his participation in a debate because of Fox News Channel’s involvement.

Since August 2000, the former North Carolina senator went on FNC 33 times without objection.

In what seemed like a desperate attempt to distinguish himself from Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, when far-left activist groups like MoveOn.org started pressuring him Edwards bowed to bloggers’ demands.

“We believe there’s just no reason for Democrats to give Fox a platform to advance the right-wing agenda while pretending they’re objective,” Edwards’ deputy campaign manager Jonathan Prince whimpered to the Associated Press.

The Edwards campaign suggested that the carefully coiffed candidate is “’looking forward to a different debate hosted by the institute and CNN in South Carolina in January 2008.”

Based on his quick cave-in to pesky lefties, Edwards has shown that for either of his Americas, when push comes to shove he’ll roll like a baloney sausage.

Disney Queasy About Keith Richards’ Ash Remarks

In Culture, Hollywood, Movies, Music, celebrity, entertainment on April 8, 2007 at 9:04 pm

Disney is having some PR problems.

Mickey and Minnie’s corporate boss is also in charge of “The View,” the program that’s enabling Rosie O’Donnell to spout her enemy-pleasing inanity.

The company also has Rolling Stone Keith Richards contracted to appear in an upcoming sequel, “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.”

Richards’ recent comments about snorting his deceased father’s ashes mixed with cocaine likely had executives applying “Head On” directly to their foreheads.

The rocker who made news last year after falling from a coconut tree now claims he was only joking about the nasal experience.

Senior vice president Dennis Rice told U.K. music magazine NME, “When (a senior Disney publicist) forwarded the (Richards) story to me, I thought ‘How are we going to spin this?’”

The Disney exec evidently doesn’t subscribe to the old adage that any publicity is good publicity.

“Keith won’t be doing a lot of publicity for this movie,” Rice divulged.

Keith Richards Sucks Dad Up His Nose

In Celebrity Crime, Celebrity News, Culture, Media, Music, Social and Politics, Star Celebrity Gossip!, celebrity, entertainment, gossip on April 3, 2007 at 6:05 pm

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Rolling Stone Keith Richards may have indulged in a host of illegal substances in his life, but, hey this is not something to be bragging about.

“The strangest thing I’ve tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father,” Richards told the British music magazine NME.

“He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn’t have cared,” he said. “… It went down pretty well, and I’m still alive.”

Richards’ father, Bert, died at age 84 in 2002.

It’s bad enough to be boasting about sucking up blow, but mixing it with your departed dad’s remains is ghoulish.

Rosie O’Donnell’s Weird Science

In Culture, Hollywood, Media, Politics, celebrity, entertainment on April 1, 2007 at 10:05 am

rosie_abc_010.jpgContinuing in her bid to destroy the credibility of Barbara Walters and ABC, Rosie O’Donnell’s factually deficient and irresponsible comments on “The View” are increasing in both frequency and outrageousness. Maybe she’s been hanging upside down too long

Drawing on her apparent science background she lectured viewers on the events of September 11, 2001. “I do believe that it’s the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel,” O’Donnell confidently affirmed. “I do believe that it defies physics that World Trade Center tower 7—building 7, which collapsed in on itself—it is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved. World Trade Center 7. World Trade [Center] 1 and 2 got hit by planes—7, miraculously, the first time in history, steel was melted by fire. It is physically impossible.”

Rosie’s weird science prompted a response from Popular Mechanics magazine.

-Steel was weakened – not “melted.” The crashes destroyed support columns and ignited raging fires that weakened the steel structures so that the towers could no longer support their own weights. Building 7, which had fuel tanks located throughout, including two 6000-gal. tanks in the basement, collapsed because fires weakened its steel structure.
Steel melts at about 2,750 degrees Fahrenheit—but it loses strength at temperatures as low as 400 F. When temperatures break 1000 degrees F, steel loses nearly 50 percent of its strength.

-The North and South Towers weren’t knocked down by they were “hit by planes.” In fact, both towers remained standing for more than a half-hour after the planes hit.

- Tower 7 wasn’t hit by a plane, but was severely damaged due to debris from the collapse of the North Tower. (Which is when the fires started.) In early photographs of building 7 smoke and debris obscured the pictures so that the first reports from FEMA did not take into account the extent of damage due to the debris from the collapsing 110 floor North Tower.

After additional studies, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) indicated that the debris from the North Tower hit building 7 with the force of a volcanic eruption. Almost a quarter of the building was carved away from floors 11 and higher. The NIST has found no evidence of a blast or controlled demolition.

But lack of evidence doesn’t stop Rosie. Her blog claimed that “the British did it on purpose” to provide an excuse for war. She spoke out on “The View” cocerning the British sailors held hostage by Iran, “There were 15 British sailors and Marines who apparently went into Iranian waters and they were seized by the Iranians. And I have one thing to say: Gulf of Tonkin, Google it.”

Memo to Rosie: You have become “The View’s” and America’s albatross. Google it.