The Briefing Room
General Category => Sports/Entertainment/MSM/Social Media => Topic started by: mountaineer on February 19, 2011, 07:37:33 pm
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This is a place to put stories about celebrities, especially those who weigh in on matters of politicial importance, from Sean Penn blathering about his boyfriend Hugo Chavez to the daily ditz of "The View."
Today's offering: Canadian teen pop star Justin Bieber expressed some opinions in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine. Some of his opinions - whether completely and accurately reported or not - drew some attention. BigHollywood's Oceander Loesch (http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dloesch/2011/02/19/yes-this-in-defense-of-justin-bieber/) comments: Yes, This: In Defense of Justin Bieber
So here goes. The other day CBC contacted me for a response on something or other teen pop sensation Justin Bieber had said in Rolling Stone. He’d said something about health care the producer said, and had knocked America’s health care system while extolling the virtues of “free” (and broke) Canadian health care. I shrugged it off and as I was sick and had a cramped schedule that night, declined the interview. I thought how Hillarycare was headline-rampant back when I was about Bieber’s age and how I wouldn’t have wanted my developing understanding of such a complex issue under national scrutiny.
The next day I began seeing headlines like this one (http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/02/justin_bieber_abortion.html) in my RSS reader and I felt a pang of regret, a missed opportunity to stand up for someone. His quotes (http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/justin-bieber-abortion-thinks-canada-trumps-us/story?id=12940503)?
On abortion: “I really don’t believe in abortion. I think [an embryo] is a human. It’s like killing a baby.”
On abortion in cases of rape: “Um. Well, I think that’s really sad, but everything happens for a reason. I don’t know how that would be a reason. I guess I haven’t been in that position, so I wouldn’t be able to judge that.”
This kid, I thought, is going to be devoured. (http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-rolling-stone-responds-to-justin-bieber-abortion-controversy/)Here Is the Abortion Conversation Justin Bieber Will Be Apologizing for TomorrowCraft your own publicist-approved clarification and apology in the comments!
Why exactly would he feel the need to apologize for this tomorrow? Is the concept of having the balls to stand up for what you believe such a foreign concept to Hollywood that they feel the need to expect a PR-crafted spin on the truth the moment it’s uttered? Why the hell is Rolling Stone grilling him about policy that they themselves don’t even understand? He’s a teenager. Touring the world and selling boatloads of albums, but a teenager, nonetheless. Sure, many would disagree with his remarks (which seeemed facetiously made) on health care – though to his credit, he himself admits that he doesn’t know what he doesn’t know, more than the poseurs scripting the article will admit, the same folks who will try to ensnare him with his own remarks the following day.
I tell you one sure way to make your ideology unattractive: freak out as exampled above over a teenager’s answer. In a culture that gave us “Skins” and the rehashed, second coming of Ace of Base/Grace Jones/ Madonna, celebrate the little things as a step in the opposite direction of that. I’d hate to see people make a bigger deal over his non-understanding of health care rather than his remarks on life. The latter is huge. He’s a teenager. Give him a break.
Life isn’t like the complexity of nationalized health care where “free” isn’t free; life is a simple issue: you want choice, go to Walmart and choose your brand of condom, diaphragm, lube, et al. Considering that the majority of abortions are obtained solely as a form of birth control, it’s hardly any sort of women’s rights issue – oh, unless the woman in question is the female in utero. And considering worldwide that the female sex is the one obliterated by “choice,” I’d only call it a “women’s rights” issue with extreme sarcasm.
So congratulations to Bieber who is, at the tender age of 16, more of a man than most of the scrubs in Hollywood. The cool thing is that he’s not alone: many of his exact demographic feel the same way.
Shame on the media for trying to paint a target on a 16-year-old. In a world of self-aggrandizing, plasticine brands, it’s refreshing to see a glimmer of something real. When you see that, speak up for it. Loudly.
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Brace Yourself, ‘Glee’ Fans — Sarah Palin’s Headed To McKinley High!
It may be just a parody, but we’re sure the real Sarah will get plenty fired up by it!
Gleeks — get ready for Sarah Palin to inject some venom into your favorite show!
Casting calls have been put out for a new character on Glee named Tammy Jean, described as a “recent Tea Party candidate and home schooler — a Sarah Palin type,” Movieline reports. The season two episode will begin shooting Feb. 22.
Glee has been less than kind to Sarah in the past, as illustrated by Sue Sylvester’s season one quip that two of her Cheerios are “the stupidest teens I’ve ever encountered — and that’s saying something. I once taught a cheerleading seminar to Sarah Palin.”
Who do you think would be a good choice to play the Sarah knockoff? It will be hard for anyone to match Tina Fey’s epic impersonation, but we’re open for suggestions!
link (http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2011/02/19/sarah-palin-glee-tina-fey/)
Tammy Jean sounds more like a Southern stereotype, but what do you expect.
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With that name Tammy Fae Baker comes to mind more than Palin.
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Actually, what's more amazing here is that, in 2 short years, Sarah Palin has become a cultural point of reference - to quote from the daft casting call, "a Sarah Palin type." In other words, she is attaining the same sort of stature that Google has, now that searching for something online is also popularly known as "googling" for something.
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Well, this seems about right. :thud:
Kathy Griffin, Loretta Divine to Guest Star on 'Glee'
4:47 PM 2/19/2011 by Annie Yuan, Hollywood Reporter (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kathy-griffin-loretta-divine-guest-157419)
They will play judges on the show's upcoming "regionals" episode.
Fox has put Kathy Griffin and Loretta Divine on the judging panel for Glee's regionals competition.
TV Guide confirmed that Griffin will play Tammy Jean, a conservative home-schooling Tea Party candidate rumored to be based on Sarah Palin, while Devine will take on the role of a stripper-turned-nun named Sister Mary Constance.
Griffin took to Twitter to announce the news. When asked if she would be appearing on the hit show she replied, "So excited!! It's true!!"
The McKinley High Glee Club learned in the recent episode "Comeback" that the Regionals theme would be "anthems." There has been no word yet as to when the show will air.
Bashing Palin and mocking the Catholic Church, looks like a two-fer.
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Hollywood Reporter (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mpaa-close-naming-chris-dodd-159661)
He'll bring a wealth of relevant experience to the post. whistleMPAA Close to Naming Chris Dodd Its New Chairman (Report)
An announcement may be made early this week.
The Motion Picture Association of America is close to naming former Democratic senator Chris Dodd as its new chairman, the New York Times reports, citing two people with knowledge of the matter.
A contract announcement may come early this week.
An MPAA spokesperson had no comment. A rep for Dodd could not be reached.
The organization has been looking for a new chairman for roughly a year.
Dodd is known for working with both sides of the political aisle and is also connected in the nation's capital, characteristics the MPAA values. Dodd has had a long career in the Senate and worked multiple terms in Congress. He campaigned to run for president in 2008.
But he doesn't just have connections win politics. The ex-Connecticut senator is also friends with Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels.
If a deal comes through, Dodd would be replacing Dan Glickman.
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MPAA Close to Naming Chris Dodd Its New Chairman
One fantasy-maker meets another? A match made in fantasy?
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Well, this seems about right. :thud:Bashing Palin and mocking the Catholic Church, looks like a two-fer.
Kathy Griffin is certainly obsessed with Palin isn't she?
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Rosie splits with lover Tracy
February 21, 2011
Rosie O'Donnell has split with her girlfriend of over a year, Tracy Kachtick- Anders, sources tell Page Six.
The comedienne, multimedia star and former TV talk-show host, who has four children, confirmed in January last year that she was dating Tracy, a Texas artist and mother of six.
She made the announcement after they were spotted holding hands in Miami in December 2009, and soon their combined brood of 10 kids became one big family.
But sources tell us they recently parted ways, with Tracy living at a separate house with her children, while she and Rosie, who lives in Nyack and on Miami's Star Island, remain on good terms.
A rep for O'Donnell told us, "Rosie and Tracy never officially lived under one roof. They have lived near one another for quite some time, and their families still socialize and they see each other frequently."
But a source said, "They have definitely split up, but it is very complicated because their kids are very close. They still spend a lot of time together." The insider noted that Rosie still has pictures of her and Tracy together on her blog.
Tracy is active in parenting issues. She launched Open Arms Campaign, a nonprofit organization to recruit adoptive families in the LGBT community.
Rosie has four kids with ex-wife Kelli Carpenter, with whom she split in October 2009. After announcing her new relationship, O'DonNell said, "Tracy has six kids, she lives next door . . . It's a lot! We're the Gay-dy Bunch! It's a challenge, but when you fall in love with someone, they come with a whole bunch of things, including children" -- adding that she fell for Tracy because of her love for kids.
On her radio show, O'Donnell went on to describe Kachtick-Anders as a "lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely person," adding, "I love it all. It's almost too good to be true!"
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/rosie_splits_with_lover_tracy_A0XRT37gzTIX0vcoYcLzSM#ixzz1EhM29ERr)
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When her kids grow up and write their tell-all it will be another mommie dearest is my hunch.
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"30 Rock" had big plans for its 100th episode airing on April 20. The team led by star and executive producer Tina Fey was hoping to land an appearance by Bill Clinton.
"They hoped he would appear next week to shoot the episode," an insider said. "They included him on the call list, but it didn't happen."
Regis Philbin and Sherri Shepherd were also named as possible guests. Sources said Fey wrote to Clinton advisor Doug Band asking the ex-prez to come on.
A Clinton rep said, "The request was made and immediately denied without asking him."
NY Post, Page Six (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/missing_bill_B2S1c4h4Zw0Xteo1mHHWJK#ixzz1FXczubJT)
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good.........
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NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/rosie_splits_with_lover_tracy_A0XRT37gzTIX0vcoYcLzSM#ixzz1EhM29ERr)
Boy, funny how you can "morph" a series of one-year liaisons into "marriages" when left-wing queers are involved.
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Oh my, just watching The Good Wife and they have a scene at the beginning where they get new client -- Lou Dobbs -- and who comes in at the same time -- Joe Trippie :thud: both playing themselves....... ~LOL~
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Julianne Moore To Play Sarah Palin In HBO Movie 'Game Change'
http://www.deadline.com (http://www.deadline.com) ^ | 03-09-2011 | By NELLIE ANDREEVA
Julianne Moore is set to star in HBO Films' Game Change. Directed by Jay Roach, the movie is based on Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s 2010 book about the 2008 Presidential elections and follows John McCain’s presidential campaign, from his selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate to their ultimate defeat in the general election.
Danny Strong, who previously wrote the Roach-directed HBO movie Recount, about the aftermath of the 2000 Presidential elections, penned the script for Game Change. Roach is executive producing, with Strong co-executive producing.
So far, Palin has been most famously portrayed on TV by Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live.
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I don't think so. There is honesty shining in Palin's face; nothing bit irony and conceit in Fey's face.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1365046/Im-love-Bill-Friends-say-Monica-Lewinsky-got-married-kids.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1365046/Im-love-Bill-Friends-say-Monica-Lewinsky-got-married-kids.html)
'I'm still in love with Bill': Friends say why Monica Lewinsky has never got married or had kids
dailymail ^
The scandal almost destroyed his career and left his presidency permanently tainted. But 15 years on, Bill Clinton’s former intern Monica Lewinsky has not got married or had children because she is reportedly still in love with him and 'always will be'. Miss Lewinsky, 37, has run a successful business, hosted a reality television show and moved overseas - but has never found love, according to friends.
Monica still hasn’t got over Bill and would take him back in a second,’ a friend said. ‘She told me: “There will never be another man in my life that could make me as happy as he did",' the friend told the National Enquirer magazine.
More... 'I had an affair because I love America', claims presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich ‘Monica still carries a torch for him. She’s dated some guys, off and on, since the whole White House mess. But she’s never been able to get Bill out of her heart’. Miss Lewinsky was aged 22 in 1995 when she began working in the White House and had an affair with President Clinton, which he famously denied at first. She now lives in Los Angeles, California, and does not have regular employment, reported the National Enquirer.
She has previously designed handbags and been a pitch woman for Jenny Craig. She also participated in a book, written with Andrew Morton, called Monica's Story, for which she earned a reported $500,000. In 2006 she earned a master's degree in social psychology from the London School of Economics, having shut her handbag line and temporarily moved to England. Mr Clinton was impeached by Republicans in 1998, who tried to throw him out of office. But his wife Hilary said in 2007 that their marriage was 'worth the investment'.
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'All My Children' actor doesn't know what happened to money raised for 9/11 victims
By ISABEL VINCENT and MELISSA KLEIN
July 3, 2011
Here's one performance that won't win him a Daytime Emmy.
Hunky actor Jack Scalia, who once played Susan Lucci's love interest on "All My Children," started two patriotic charities -- including a 9/11 nonprofit -- but his role as a philanthropist was just an act.
He raised more than $100,000 for military vets and 9/11 victims, yet paid out little -- and now claims he doesn't know what happened to the money.
The IRS just yanked the tax-exempt status from Scalia's 9-11-01 Lest We Forget group because it failed to file a single tax return in its decade of existence. And his Operation American Spirit charity, founded to help wounded vets, was suspended by California authorities because of lapses in paying taxes and fees.
The Brooklyn-born actor, who first gained notice as a Jordache jeans model, started the 9/11 charity in New York soon after the terrorist attacks.
Scalia, who now lives in California, told The Post he "wanted to do something to help." He was living in New York City while starring on "All My Children" as Chris Stamp, and his brother was with the FDNY.
He claims the group collected cash through events such as autograph signings, but he said he had no memory of how much or where it went.
"A little bit came in and went back out," he said.
The group was never incorporated in New York and never registered with the Attorney General's Office, a requirement for soliciting donations in the state. It never filed a tax return, either.
Scalia, who also starred in the 1980s series "Remington Steele," declared bankruptcy in 2004, claiming that, as of May of that year, he had made just $1,400. His assets included a Harley motorcycle and several firearms.
He started Operation American Spirit in 2007 and boasted to the press that he would raise $100 million. He organized a 1,500-mile bike ride in 2007 along the West Coast to raise awareness of wounded vets and made stops at VA hospitals.
But the group fell far short of Scalia's goal, collecting $88,937 in 2007 and $14,490 in 2008, according to its tax filings.
The nonprofit claims it distributed just $5,000 in grants in 2008 to help injured vets, but tax filings provide no details on the recipients of the cash.
Scalia, who is listed as president of the organization, said he didn't know who got the money.
"I was riding my bike and being the spokesperson," he said. "I don't know that end of it."
The charity was based at a sprawling estate and private golf course in Rancho Mirage, Calif., once owned by Edra Blixseth, who dated Scalia.
Blixseth declared bankruptcy and is reportedly at the center of a criminal probe involving millions in loans she took out.
Her former assistant was a board member of Operation American Spirit and her bookkeeper, who is also said to have been questioned by the FBI, incorporated the charity.
New York Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/soap_star_in_vani_act_Io82alf3cGwlnHwt5NOaIL#ixzz1R2m3x2F3)
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Here's another one. Looks like there's a cottage industry in phony 9/11 charities:
Olympic scheme an ice-capade
By CANDICE M. GIOVE
July 3, 2011
The feds have put a 9/11 charity run by an Olympic figure-skating champion's agent on ice.
Ice princess Tara Modlin, who reps flashy bronze medalist Johnny Weir, latched onto the credibility of a 9/11 dad, Lee Ielpi, to start the charity, 9/11 Families Giving Back, a year after the attacks.
The agent claimed to have raised over $600,000 to provide scholarships and aid to terror victims.
But tax records show no beneficiary ever got a dime.
The IRS just stripped the group of its tax-exempt status for failing to file income reports.
The purported charity, later known as the Heritage Foundation of 9/11, held major fund-raisers called "Stars, Stripes and Skates" events that drew figure skating's biggest names.
She enlisted her longtime friend's father, Ielpi, who lost his son Jonathan, to lead the group. She continues to list him as president on tax documents.
But Ielpi told The Post that he broke ties with the group years ago.
Though money rolled in from ticket sales, it all melted away on $200,000 in consulting fees and $52,270 in travel expenses for such stars as Nancy Kerrigan and Sasha Cohen.
Modlin said she never took a dime from the charity.
"People make mistakes, and this was a ginormous one," she said.
ttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/olympic_scheme_an_ice_capade_gmV6wxsTJep2bpqNjdPgmN#ixzz1R2pIQiSb
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Did anyone watch this last night? If you can get past Diane Sawyer's breathless ditziness and Caroline Kennedy's vacuousness, it was almost interesting. Jackie purred, "I loathe the French," which was kind of fun.
Disney brass miffed ABC missed Jackie exclusive
Last Updated: 1:51 AM, September 14, 2011
Keith J. Kelly
Walt Disney Co. brass apparently were furious that the world exclusive on the embargoed Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis book and tapes from her 8 1/2 hours of interviews with Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. ran first on NBC, not on ABC, which like the book’s publisher, Hyperion, is owned by Disney.
Hyperion said that it learned that NBC had obtained a copy of the book and audio set only on Friday after “NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams” aired its first report.
The book, “Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy” -- based on recordings she made with Schlesinger in 1964 and kept secret until now -- had an embargo date of today.
The audio first aired Friday on the Nightly News with excerpts of Jackie Kennedy’s putdowns of LBJ and Martin Luther King, Jr. NBC’s “Today Show” aired more excerpts on Monday and Tuesday morning.
Hyperion offered the gift-wrapped scoop to the New York Times for publication yesterday, but after NBC broke the embargo, it allowed the Times to run the story on Monday, a day ahead of schedule.
ABC still pressed ahead with its two-hour “exclusive” with Diane Sawyer last night at 9 p.m., which featured among other things a sit-down interview with Caroline Kennedy, who had written the foreword to the book, and longer excerpts from the audio tapes.
“Caroline Kennedy and her family granted ABC the exclusive rights to the audio,” said Marie Coolman, a spokeswoman for Hyperion. “We made NBC aware of the copyright, and we urged NBC to respect those copyrights.”
NBC apparently obtained the book via a bookstore owner who put it out for sale early. However, the network did limit its excerpts from the audio to what is commonly termed “fair use” excerpts.
Whatever angst Hyperion may feel for its sister division ABC, its irritation must have been eased by all the publicity, which propelled the high-priced ($60) book and audio set to the top of pre-publication best-seller lists.
Yesterday, prior to the Diane Sawyer special on ABC, the book ranked in the top five on Amazon and was No. 1 on Barnes & Noble’s list.
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/disney_brass_miffed_abc_missed_jackie_atb2UqdtTQmj7mYCTv0DlN#ixzz1XweoOsDw)
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Kathy Griffin is certainly obsessed with Palin isn't she?
Yep. I'd say its more about Palin having a stable marriage and a family than anything else. The political differences are just an excuse.
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I've always thought Jackie was a well educated bimbo. Nothing in those audio tapes to date have changed my opinion.
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I've always thought Jackie was a well educated bimbo. Nothing in those audio tapes to date have changed my opinion.
I think that is a compliment. :pondering:
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I think that is a compliment. :pondering:
...with a unibrow.....
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The Jackie Kennedy Tapes and the Media’s Double Standard
Posted by Gina Dalfonzo Sep 14th 2011
The day before the release of Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy, the Washington Post’s “Reliable Source” column ran a few of the juicier tidbits from Mrs. Kennedy’s taped interviews. Among those tidbits: “She calls [Martin Luther] King ‘a phony.’”
Oh, but don’t worry! The Post wants us all to know that Jackie’s opinions, about King and other prominent figures of her time, “aren’t that shocking.” A little “catty,” maybe. “But,” the writers add helpfully, “they underscore that Jackie was smarter and more politically astute than she let on.”
Time for Round 5,290,367 of “If a Republican Had Said That … ” Because you know exactly what would have happened if a Republican had. Adjectives like “smart” and “astute” wouldn’t be allowed within a hundred miles of the conversation. On the contrary, such remarks about a civil rights leader would be taken as incontrovertible proof that said Republican’s entire party was made up of hateful, ignorant Neanderthals, none of whom deserved to be elected dogcatcher.
In fact, because God has a sense of humor, this article was published in the print version of the Post on the same day that papers around the country—the Post included—ran a smear about Sarah Palin’s alleged racism, courtesy of author Joe McGinniss and cartoonist Garry Trudeau. Show of hands: Who expects either man to give Jackie Kennedy the same treatment any time soon? Yeah, that’s what I thought.
Interestingly, the Post doesn’t even bother to give context for Mrs. Kennedy’s remark. Other sources explain that she had a poor opinion of King because of various rumors and allegations she had heard about him, which, if they don’t excuse the remark, at least help explain where she was coming from. But apparently the “Reliable Source” columnists didn’t think we needed to know that. All we need to know is that Jackie is still tops with them, whatever she thought or said, for whatever reason she said it.
To many people, the whole Kennedy family will always be sacrosanct, no matter what unsavory truths come out about them. If I’ve learned nothing else from belonging to an extended family full of Catholic Democrats, I’ve learned that. But one would hope—perhaps even dare to expect—that journalists would eschew that sort of nostalgic hero-worship. Unfortunately, one would be wrong.
BigJournalism (http://bigjournalism.com/gdalfonzo/2011/09/14/the-jackie-kennedy-tapes-and-the-medias-double-standard/)
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Cindy Adams writes in the NY Post:
THE Jackie O hoo-hah. We lived next door for 25 years. She, 1040 Fifth. Me, 1050. No neighbor type I’d invite over for Passover, we weren’t exactly buddies. But we knew one another.
Before Onassis money, she was chintzy. Slow with tips. She’d shop local supermarkets. Use a car service. For free outfits she told designers people would favor their creations if she did. Buying the apartment after her death, David Koch spent millions just on old wiring including window air conditioners.
A bookshelf carpenter worked long then presented his bill. Pen in one hand, paper in another, she said: “Shall I pay this or would you prefer a letter suitable for framing?” I know he chose cash for his souvenir because some of these same artisans worked for me.
She’d walk the neighborhood chewing gum. Bike in our park. Smoke in privacy like in Bergdorf’s dressing room. Favored fotogs always knew where, when she’d be where and when. Despite a cultivated attitude that she was above such things, she voraciously read gossip columns. She’d search for her name. We patronized the same places and in ’87 she spent $100 a week on periodicals.
Unfortunately, I knew too much. May ’94 the front-page exclusive that Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was nearing her end -- was mine.
link (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/cindy_adams/preacher_actors_tell_truth_lNkMiBuRDBu2JBRh15uPIN#ixzz1Y3IE1PvL)
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Yep. I'd say its more about Palin having a stable marriage and a family than anything else. The political differences are just an excuse.
No they're not. Kathy Griffin is a huge conservative basher, and has been for years. She's also best buds with Rosie O'Donnell.
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No they're not. Kathy Griffin is a huge conservative basher, and has been for years. She's also best buds with Rosie O'Donnell.
She only went political around 2005 or 06. I know, up until then I was a fan of hers. I love stand up comedy.
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Me too. Loved Kathy Griffen for a long time, but she's just gone off the deep end in the last couple of years.
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Me too. Loved Kathy Griffen for a long time, but she's just gone off the deep end in the last couple of years.
It could be just her 'finding a niche' and earning a good living with celebrity status.
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Remember the White House "crashers"? It seems they've broken up. Mrs. S. ran off with a rock musician, or something.
Attention-loving twit Tareq Salahi is being comforted by “father of the year” Michael Lohan since his washed-up wife, Michaele, left him following an affair with Journey guitarist Neal Schon.
Scorned Salahi, who at first reported her kidnapped after she disappeared with Schon this week, and Lohan went to club Opera in DC after a dinner date on Thursday.
Salahi jumped into the booth with DJ Dirty Hands and put on headphones. He was overheard saying, “I want it to look like I’m having fun.” He pretended to spin songs while Lohan cheered him on. We can only wonder, is this a desperate stunt to land a reality show?
Page Six (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/partners_in_slime_9o84QxM4hxY89XA0S4sUwL#ixzz1YDG0zBcf)
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I heard this yesterday and cracked up........ total kooks all of them.
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What a freak show.
New bride rips DC reality wife’s beau
By DAVID K. LI
September 19, 2011
White House gate crasher Michaele Salahi spent her weekend rocking backstage in Tampa with Journey, waiting to run into the open arms of guitarist Neal Schon -- whose new wife teed off on him.
“This is very painful for me, and I’m very hurt,’’ Schon’s soon-to-be-ex, Ava Fabian, told TMZ.
Fabian, 49, a former Playboy pinup, tied the knot with Schon, 57, in July. Asked if she’d take Schon back after his antics with the equally married Salahi, Fabiany replied: “No!’
Salahi, 45, of the reality- TV show “The Real Housewives of DC,’’ and her husband, Tareq Salahi, 43, began their 15 minutes of fame in November 2009, when they crashed President Obama’s first state dinner.
But they apparently developed serious marital problems soon after. When Michaele ran off to be with Schon last week, Tareq said he thought she’d been kidnapped and called the cops. Deputies soon discovered she was with her new beau.
Tareq Salahi is now filing for divorce.
“She continually exposes our friends and acquaintances to her adulterous relationship and has flaunted the same throughout the community, the nation and indeed the world,” he Salahi said in papers filled in Warren County, Va.
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/new_bride_rips_dc_reality_wife_beau_LnYOEdpS6x35R1XySgezXN#ixzz1YP2ILFMu)
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Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher split?
Demi boots ‘cheater’ Ashton
By LEONARD GREENE
Additional reporting by Emily Smith
September 28, 2011
She’s telling her boy toy to bounce.
Fed-up cougar Demi Moore has had it up to here with her half-grown husband’s harlots, and is officially ending her six-year marriage to Hollywood hunk Ashton Kutcher, according to a report.
The expected split comes on the heels of reports that Kutcher, 33, bedded a young woman after a booze-fueled boys’ night out at a San Diego nightclub on Sept. 24, which also happened to be his and Demi’s sixth anniversary.
The 23-year-old “other woman” went into hiding after hiring a top Hollywood attorney, according to Radar Online, whose sister publication, Star magazine, is reporting the split.
“Ashton and Demi have separated and the marriage is wover,” a source close to the pair told Star magazine.
Tongues were wagging this week when Moore, 48, stepped out solo at the New York Lifetime premiere of “Five” looking even skinnier than usual.
She has also tweeted recently about having “your own back” and “trying to find the light I lost.”
Representatives for Moore and Kutcher did not respond to requests for comment.
New York Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/demi_boots_cheater_ashton_OdzEmNG2agUrDvLUFQOmzJ#ixzz1ZFtJsZVL)
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I never understood what she saw in him from the start......
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The two of them were real Obama groupies. whistle
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The two of them were real Obama groupies. whistle
I know, their Twitters were ridiculous... interesting that Bruce Willis is a conservative.
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I never understood what she saw in him from the start......
And vice versa...
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Ol' Ashton sure knows how to pick 'em.
Ashton’s blonde working double-time to cash in
Last Updated: 8:43 AM, September 30, 2011
Blonde Sara Leal, who reportedly slept with Ashton Kutcher last weekend, is working overtime to cash in on the scandal. Sources tell us she’s working with an ex-lover-turned club promoter to sell her story. She’s also in cahoots with a paparazzo who plans to sell staged new “street” pictures of Leal. “She gets a cut of whatever [the photos] sell for,” a source said.
We revealed Leal has also asked for a six-figure payday from Kutcher to stay quiet about their alleged liaison in San Diego’s Hard Rock Hotel last weekend. She’s been meeting with attorney Keith Davidson, who represented a Betty Ford Clinic worker who filed assault charges against Lindsay Lohan but later dropped them.
Reps for Ashton and wife Demi Moore were mum last night. But Kutcher sounded fed up on Twitter, writing yesterday, “When you ASSUME to know that which you know nothing of you make an ASS out of U and ME.”
Photos of Kutcher leaving an LA club with a blonde last June got the Web abuzz yesterday, but sources tell us she’s Austin Dawn, a spokesmodel for one of Kutcher’s tech companies. Moore, who had been here promoting Lifetime’s “Five,” an anthology of films directed by her and Jennifer Aniston, Alicia Keys, Penelope Spheeris and Patty Jenkins, was back in LA but stayed unusually quiet on Twitter.
Page Six (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/ashton_blonde_working_double_time_yHDKJQBrU8rPNI8TtcCC9L#ixzz1ZRK49BvH)
That "assume" thingey probably was pretty clever when he learned it in 7th grade.
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He's always been a jerk........... what Demi ever saw in him eludes me.
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Check out what John Ratzenberger ("Cheers," postman Cliff Claven) says about America's work force on this thread. (http://gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=58580.msg213185#new) Very insightful.
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thank you, mountaineer! :beer:
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More fun job
Last Updated: 4:18 AM, October 6, 2011
George Clooney had plenty of opinions on the presidential race at Time magazine’s “10 Questions” interview with editor Rick Stengel yesterday, but said he had no interest in running for office himself. Clooney directed, co-wrote and plays the role of a presidential candidate in the new movie, “The Ides of March.” But when asked if he would consider a political run himself, he said, “No -- I’d run from [it].” By staying out of politics, “I don’t have to compromise. I get to say that ‘I think that what’s going on in the North-South is bad,’ and I don’t have to worry that the Chinese would be upset or the Russians will be upset. My job is much more fun.”
The star told the audience that he asked President Obama at a recent fund-raiser what kept him up at night, to which Obama responded: “Well, look, everything that gets to my desk is critical mass -- if it gets to me, nobody else can handle it but the president. And it’s a big deal.”
But Clooney added that when he asked Obama to pinpoint just one thing, the president confided, “Pakistan. That worries me.”
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/more_fun_job_u6sJ77nwX3EFCUHqMkjNzH#ixzz1a0Bsjane)
I don't suppose it occurred to George Clooney just how stupid the president's response was. :thud:
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Good grief.
We hear . . .
Last Updated: 4:18 AM, October 6, 2011
... That Bill Clinton will present Keith Richards with the Mailer Prize for Distinguished Biography at the Norman Mailer Center’s benefit at the Mandarin Oriental on Nov. 8 ...
Page Six (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/we_hear_we_hear_gLWgjrZNYAlDnUS1SUk4jI#ixzz1a0DRgBB7)
Bubba's not too much of an attention whore, is he?
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George Clooney and Mike Huckabee are joining forces over Durfur........... I was actually turned off by the commercial running for this, but it confirmed Huckabee is not who he tried to present to the public.
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Performance artist to give birth on stage. (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/star_really_is_born_GuVLQ8GNBnnsV4czweTWDM) I think I'm going to be sick.
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Performance artist to give birth on stage. (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/star_really_is_born_GuVLQ8GNBnnsV4czweTWDM) I think I'm going to be sick.
OMG.......
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NY Post asks:
Which political power couple is on the outs and living separately? Despite denying it, they’re distraught as they try to pick up the pieces of their marriage ...
No telling whether it's a local political power couple or people all of us might know. It's not the Weiner-Abedins, apparently:Anthony Weiner is back to the gym, working on his unforgettable, much-photographed figure. The wily ex-congressman, who flaunted his pecs and other outstanding features in racy texts to female admirers, was seen lifting at New York Health & Racquet Club at 21st and Park Avenue. A female gymgoer told us, “I said, ‘Damn that guy has nice arms’ before he turned around and I saw who it was. I shuddered.”
Weiner and pregnant wife Huma Abedin recently moved from their Forest Hills co-op to a three-bedroom Greenwich Village apartment. The two have been seen recently strolling the streets of SoHo with Abedin’s purse in Weiner’s “nice arms.”
link (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/weiner_workout_9bW2gSsTYESS9LKYZJdx0K#ixzz1aNqTNhP6)
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George Clooney and Mike Huckabee are joining forces over Durfur........... I was actually turned off by the commercial running for this, but it confirmed Huckabee is not who he tried to present to the public.
Someone should ask Clooney, or Huckabee why they call it 'Darfur'.
The answer is pretty simple. If they stated its The Sudan, anyone that googled
the NATION would realize its an Islamic Fundementalist regime that kills 'infidels'. Darfur
is a PROVINCE of The Sudan.
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Bubba Clinton's birthday bash the event of the century. No, really.
Ron not invited to Bill’s big 65th
Last Updated: 4:20 AM, October 14, 2011
The bromance between Bill Clinton and Ron Burkle seems to be over. A rep for Clinton confirmed to us last night that Burkle “was not” invited and “isn’t attending” Bubba’s 65th birthday bash this weekend in Hollywood.
The two-day gala features performances by Kenny Chesney, Lady Gaga, The Edge and Bono. Guests include Barbra Streisand, Aileen Getty, Berry Gordy, LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Ewan McGregor, Donna Karan, Stevie Nicks, Fergie, Felicity Huffman, Jane Fonda, Steve Bing and Patricia Arquette.
Clinton left Burkle’s Yupaica and distanced himself from the billionaire during Hillary’s presidential campaign. However, a rep for Burkle insisted he was invited to Clinton’s shindig, and told us, “He [Burkle] was invited but he lives in London so he can’t make it. He donated to the event and his kids are attending.” He blasted Clinton’s rep’s claim as “silly,” adding “He received an invite in the mail and a phone call from (Clinton) close friend Mark Weiner.”
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/ron_not_invited_to_bill_big_th_nJD3bOuwytMvL7p6cYKYqO#ixzz1alMB5XGY)
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The MSM will report that Ailes assaulted a liberal by sneaking up and grabbing him from behind.
Ailes saves choked liberal
Last Updated: 4:20 AM, October 14, 2011
Fox News head Roger Ailes has saved the life of a liberal. Ailes and anchor Eric Bolling came to the rescue of analyst Bob Beckel when he began choking over lunch yesterday. Ailes was taking the hosts of Fox News’ “The Five” to lunch with execs Bill Shine and Suzanne Scott, when Beckel choked on a shrimp.
“He was leaning over strangely and turning different colors,” said a source at Del Frisco’s, adding that Ailes “noticed first, stood up and immediately began performing the Heimlich. Ailes led the way. When [Beckel] was still red and purple, Bolling came in for the assist, and then Beckel spat something up.”
On-air later, a grateful Beckel said, “We were having lunch and I choked. I couldn’t breathe at all. My boss Roger Ailes stood up and gave me the Heimlich. He couldn’t get his arms all the way around me, but he loosened it up. My brother here [Bolling] saved my existence. I want to thank everybody.” He advised viewers, “Don’t eat too fast. And don’t eat big shrimp.”
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/ailes_saves_choked_liberal_rzX7tK2UmbjaKTCq4RYZiM#ixzz1alMvkRW6)
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Gaga loves Bill
By BOB FREDERICKS
Last Updated: 9:53 AM, October 17, 2011
She’s gaga over Bubba!
Pop superstar Lady Gaga seductively sang for ex-President Bill Clinton à la Marilyn Monroe during a star-studded celebration of the 10th anniversary of the silver-haired horndog’s charitable foundation.
“Bill, I’m having my first Marilyn moment. I always wanted to have one, and I was hoping that it didn’t involve pills and a strand of pearls,” the edgy songstress joked as Clinton, wife Hillary and daughter Chelsea sat in the audience with a bevy of A-list celebs at the Hollywood Bowl in LA on Saturday night.
“If someone had told me so many years ago that I’d be doing that right in front of you, I just would not believe them. I would have given a good, American f--k you,” the singer, sporting a platinum blond ’do, said.
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/gaga_in_loves_bill_MRGW2nwx1aOv3XxYSdcHWN#ixzz1b3jrwa6g)
Am I the only who who is nauseated by this hot mess of a woman?
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Am I the only who who is nauseated by this hot mess of a woman?
Nope....... I think it is sad these are the people our young worship today.
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What a mess! The one on the right, too.
(http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Hy8JOZ216PQwj0Qh0VUNLg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYwMA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/152/2011/10/17/billgaga600_162621.jpg)
Er, left ... no, right
(http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/oek4ymAqBQfFrW1A90UhhA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTM0MA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/152/2011/10/17/chelseagaga340_162128.jpg)
Lady Gaga Drops F Bomb in Front of Clintons
October 17, 2011 | Hot Topics
Former President Bill Clinton watched as Lady Gaga, who performed during the "A Decade of Difference" concert over the weekend, said, "If someone had told me so many years ago that I'd be doing that in front of you, I would not have believed them. I would have given them a good American f*** you." ...
The 42nd president later said, "I thought, 'My God. I get Lady Gaga, and I will have a heart attack celebrating my 65th birthday.'" ...
link (http://extratv.warnerbros.com/2011/10/lady_gaga_drops_f_bomb_in_front_of_clintons.php#ixzz1b56lHC00)
Classy.
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(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/16/article-2049771-0E61CC0D00000578-89_306x423.jpg)
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/16/article-2049771-0E61CC5400000578-835_306x423.jpg)
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Chelsea Clinton making the rounds of celebrity gay weddings.
Bill White and Bryan Eure will be serenaded by Aretha Franklin at their wedding Sunday at The Four Seasons Restaurant. After 10 years together, White, the former president of Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, and Eure, a commercial insurance broker, will tie the knot in front of a power crowd including Speaker Christine Quinn, Chelsea Clinton, ex-Gov. George Pataki, Mayor Mike Bloomberg, former Mayor David Dinkins, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, Georgette Mosbacher, Bill Bratton, Mort Zuckerman, Jon Tisch, Bill Rudin, Jimmy Nederlander, Barbara Walters, Lou Dobbs, Oceander Perino, Piers Morgan, Gayle King, Bob Woodruff, Rich Santulli, Rosie O’Donnell, Buzz Aldrin, Karolina Kurkova and Clive Davis.
The event will mark the first gay wedding at the power-lunch palace. We’re told top lawyer David Boies will officiate after just getting his license to marry couples, and event planner Harriette Rose Katz is organizing the lavish gala.
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/intrepid_wedding_crowd_VxCwf5JaZaK2jRNBtj4TtJ#ixzz1bEemq9Vp)
That's an eclectic group, to say the least.
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Oh, Chelsea and mom were loving Lady Gaga and Gaga is all about the gay community....
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Fathead alert.
Alec & GOP in war of twitwits
By ERIK KRISS, Bureau Chief
Last Updated: 9:25 AM, October 27, 2011
ALBANY -- Liberal standard-bearer Alec Baldwin launched a Twitter tirade yesterday at New York’s top Republican, who earlier called out the sitcom star for pushing a new millionaires tax.
In a string of tweets yesterday, Baldwin attacked Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos for telling Baldwin this week to butt out of the debate over raising taxes.
“Only a Nassau County Republian tool like Dean Skelos could drag my name into a debate on state income tax,” Baldwin tweeted to his more than 477,000 Twitter followers the day after Skelos’ shot.
Skelos (fewer than 1,000 Twitter followers), who says a New York tax on million-dollar earners would drive jobs to other states, tweeted back, calling Baldwin a “hypocrite” for being a TV pitchman for a big bank.
It all started with Skelos’ quip on the “Capitol Pressroom” radio show: “We can’t be influenced by the Alec Baldwins of the world that are just buying a $17 million condo in Greenwich Village -- and he’s going to tell us that we should tax everybody else.”
Samplings of Baldwin’s bite-sized brickbats as they appeared on Twitter yesterday:
“I pay more in income txs in 1 yr than Skelos pays in 20. So what’s his point?”
“I challenge Dean Skelos 2 a Citizen’s Responsibilities Contest. Provide ur tax returns and personal itinerary for the past ten years.”
“Then let’s see who has done more for their communities.”
Skelos dragged fellow millionaires-tax opponent Gov. Cuomo (fewer than 15,000 Twitter followers) into his response.
“If @AlecBaldwin thinks I’m wrong, he must think Gov Cuomo is too since he agrees with me u can’t raise taxes on businesses, working people.”
And then: “Hypocritical @AlecBaldwin rages against corporate greed yet is a paid spokesperson for corporate giant Cap One.”
Baldwin: “C’mon Dean Skelos!! You professional distorted of facts!! Join me in a press conference. And bring your tax returns!!”
“If I had $17 million to spend on an apt, I’d use a big chunk of that to #defeatdeanskelos.”
“@SenatorSkelos I know some folks at the Wagner School when you’re ready to brush up on tax policy.”
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/alec_gop_in_war_of_twitwits_ufZBdKDRVoDnMrccPMEGGJ#ixzz1c0nm7Wy6)
Hey Alec, I know some folks at the local elementary school when you're ready to brush up on the English language.
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Shul girl Oprah
Visits Brooklyn rite site
By MAXINE SHEN
Last Updated: 7:32 AM, October 28, 2011
“O,” vey!
Oprah Winfrey visited a Jewish ritual bath at Brooklyn Heights’ Congregation B’nai Avraham synagogue while filming an upcoming Hasidic-themed episode for her OWN network’s new show, “Oprah’s Next Chapter.”
Winfrey didn’t actually take a dip in the mikvah -- a purifying, traditional bath used by female members -- said Rabbi Aaron Raskin.
“She just wanted to see it and had the women give her a tour and explain the details of how it works,” he said of her Wednesday visit.
Raskin said Winfrey’s camp contacted the synagogue a few weeks ago to ask about visiting the mikvah.
The rabbi said he didn’t need much convincing to open the synagogue’s doors to Winfrey’s cameras.
“Any opportunity that we have to make the mitzvah [good act] of mikvah known -- the beauty of mikvah known -- we’re happy to do,” he said.
“She did have security,” Raskin said, “And therefore, any room she was in, nobody was allowed to go into besides those who were doing the interview.”
Raskin said that during his own chat with her, their discussion naturally turned to religion.
“She told me that she tries to be a channel to do God’s will in the world,” the rabbi said.
In addition to the mikvah, Winfrey visited neighborhoods in Crown Heights and Borough Park to learn more about the daily life of Hasidic Jews, reported the Jewish news site chabad.org.
She sat down with two Hasidic families, ate a traditional meal and talked about community affairs with five local women, the site said.
In the new TV series, Winfrey searches for interesting stories and reports on them.
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/shul_girl_oprah_3EGDmgFFm3Q5mq3xRYqYfJ#ixzz1c6en1B6d)
Maybe she's just looking for some new practices to incorporate into the decidedly non-Christian (http://www.bpnews.net/BPFirstPerson.asp?ID=27712) Church of O.
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Jesse Ventura Lawsuit Dismissed, Former Gov. Says He'll 'Never Stand For The National Anthem Again'
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura is so upset by the dismissal of his airport security lawsuit that he threatened Friday to apply for dual citizenship so he can spend more time in his beloved Mexico – or run for president of what he labeled "the Fascist States of America."
Ventura sued the federal government in January, alleging that airport scans and pat-downs amounted to unreasonable search and seizure. A district judge in St. Paul threw out his lawsuit Thursday, ruling it should have been filed in a Circuit Court of Appeals.
Outside the federal courthouse in St. Paul, with a crew from his "Conspiracy Theory" cable TV show filming, Ventura said he hadn't decided whether to continue pressing his lawsuit. He said he wanted to make his case before a jury not a panel of judges.
Ventura has said a titanium hip implanted in him in 2008 sets off metal detectors and that agents previously used hand-held wands to scan his body. He said he was subjected to a body pat-down after an airport metal detector went off last November. Ventura said he hasn't flown since and won't fly commercially again.
Ventura, a political independent who served one term as governor, teased that he might have to run for president to change the policy and a court system he regards as broken. Moments later, he vowed to apply for Mexican citizenship so he can live there more months of the year.
The former Navy SEAL said he had lost his patriotism.
"I will never stand for a national anthem again. I will turn my back and I will raise a fist," he said.
HuffPoo (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/04/jesse-ventura-lawsuit_n_1076670.html)
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Obese celebrity chef and reputed cokehead Mario Batali has something to say about those evil Wall Streeters:
Street strikes back after Batali's 'Hitler' attack
By MARK DECAMBRE
Last Updated: 4:09 AM, November 10, 2011
And Wall Street thought Italian bonds were tough to stomach.
Bankers are fed up with chef Mario Batali after he uncorked a tirade against Wall Streeters, comparing them to brutal dictators Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin.
On Tuesday, Batali said, “So the ways the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed and taken most of it into their hands is as good as Stalin or Hitler and the evil guys.”
The rotund 51-year-old chef, world renowned for his famed Italian eateries Babbo, Del Posto and Eataly, dished at a Time magazine panel where he was a participant weighing candidates for the magazine’s Person of the Year.
His remarks left a bad taste in the mouths of bankers who took to the Internet -- and their ubiquitous Bloomberg terminals -- to voice their displeasure.
One Wall Street restaurant owner cum high-yield broker told The Post that Batali is going to face the wrath of Wall Street -- the well-heeled constituency that can afford to chow down at his pricey hot spots, including a $300 truffle-tasting menu at Babbo.
“I’ve been to every one of his restaurants but what [Batali] said was just out of line today,” said Michael Misisco, a broker at trading shop Mint Partners, part of BCG Partners.
“Such good food, but never again,” wrote fixed-income broker Michael Wassong at Eurobrokers, commenting on a restaurant forum on Bloomberg.
The Food Network celebrity, known for sporting orange Crocs, shorts and a greasy ponytail, issued an apology yesterday through spokeswoman Pamela Lewy.
“To remove any ambiguity about my appearance at [Tuesday’s] Time Person of the Year panel, I want to apologize for my remarks,” he wrote in an e-mail statement.
Batali wrote, “It was never my intention to equate our banking industry with Hitler and Stalin, two of the most evil, brutal dictators in modern history.”
New York Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/it_batali_roast_qXZJY6MCQDpIXj0yXAjejO#ixzz1dJ1r4fPH)
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You've got to be kidding me.
Bill Clinton admitted he was “chopped liver” next to Keith Richards in the eyes of his mother-in-law, Dorothy Rodham -- “a woman who lived and breathed for the Rolling Stones.”
“Do you have any idea of what it’s like to have a 92-year-old groupie living in your house?” the former president asked while presenting the Norman Mailer Prize for Distinguished Biography to Richards for his book “Life,” at the Mandarin Oriental. Clinton recalled bringing Dorothy, who died this month, to the Beacon Theatre to see the Stones years ago, and watching her line up just to faint in front of Richards.
Clinton teased the rocker, calling him, “The one life form besides the cockroach capable of surviving a nuclear war.” Richards joked, “You’ve heard some words from some incredible people tonight about some serious stuff. The only serious stuff I’m interested in I’ve given up.” ....
Page Six (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/clinton_upstaged_by_keef_CJK0gT3SJdwvSZlTtw9olN#ixzz1dJ5L22uZ)
(http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2011/11/09/pagesix/web_photos/clinton_and_richards--300x300.jpg)
Death and Death Warmed Over
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OMG........... will none of these people ever just go away!
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It must just kill Clinton not to be in the limelight.
Self-roasting Bubba
Last Updated: 3:12 AM, November 11, 2011
Bill Clinton made a surprise appearance -- and braved a Washington insider’s worst nightmare, a roomful of comedians -- at the Stand Up for Heroes benefit at the Beacon Theatre on Wednesday. And Clinton wisely poked fun at himself, The Post’s Mandy Stadtmiller reports. “We learned in the last few months, because of the Human Genome Project, which I spent a lot of your tax money on to finish, that . . . between 1 and 4 percent of your genome comes from our pre-human ancestors the Neanderthals. Now it didn’t surprise my wife and daughter to learn that I was part Neanderthal.”
Comedy Central star Jon Stewart took ribbing Clinton a step further: “Herman Cain is saying, ‘The Democratic machine is setting me up,’ ” he said. “There’s no way the Democrats are setting [Cain] up on sexual charges . . . everyone knows the Democrats don’t think sexual misconduct is grounds for excluding you from running for office.”
Comics Kathy Griffin, Ricky Gervais and Jim Gaffigan also showed at the event, which drew some big names including George Stephanopoulos, Gayle King, Diane Sawyer and rocker Roger Waters. Bruce Springsteen auctioned off a guitar, harmonica and shirt for $160,000 for charity. The night kicked off the New York Comedy Festival and served as a benefit for the Bob Woodruff Foundation for injured service members.
Page Six (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/self_roasting_bubba_7Ra1gZxwqTMRkv9Lo7JKxI#ixzz1dP2VXUmt)
Wow, those are some really big names.
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Carrie Fisher says Ted Kennedy once asked her whether she'd be having sex with Chris Dodd in a hot tub. Story here (http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/11/10/carrie-fishers-new-memoir-recalls-another-kennedydodd-sexual-tag-team-move/)
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It remains a tossup which Democratic President is the most disgusting: Clinton or Obama
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It remains a tossup which Democratic President is the most disgusting: Clinton or Obama
Clinton raped Juanita Brodderick. Obama is screwing the entire country.
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Our favorite loony lefty, misbehaving again:
‘Plane crazy’ Alec grounded
By ERIN CALABRESE and DAVID K. LI
Last Updated: 5:15 AM, December 7, 2011
Hothead Alec Baldwin was kicked off an American Airlines flight in LA yesterday after flipping out and throwing a tantrum when he refused to turn off his iPhone — because he was in the middle of an online game.
“He was beating the walls of the lavatory to the point that the captain called us to see what that was about. They heard it in the cockpit,” said one crew member on the JFK-bound flight who had to deal with the “30 Rock” actor.
“He was asked five times. Everybody is the same. Everyone has to follow the rules, it doesn’t matter who you are,” the employee told The Post. “He was violent, abusive and aggressive.”
Baldwin said that he was playing the Scrabble-like game “Words With Friends” when an overzealous flight attendant started harassing him.
“Flight attendant on American [Airlines] reamed me out 4 playing WORDS W FRIENDS while we sat at the gate, not moving,” Baldwin tweeted.
He then took a verbal swipe at the woman, tweeting: “Last flight w American. Where retired Catholic school gym teachers from the 1950’s find jobs as flight attendants.”
But a passenger on the flight, Steve Weiss, who sat across the aisle from Baldwin, said there was nothing funny about what was going on.
Weiss said after the plane landed at JFK, adding that Baldwin, 53, was “actually talking on his phone” — not playing a game. “The door was closed — they had just announced they were pulling away from the gate.
“He got up, threw his papers on the floor and stormed into the bathroom, slammed the door closed, beat on the wall and then came back,” Weiss said.
“He said, ‘If you want to kick me off, kick me off.’ He was just crazy. He just flipped out.”
But Baldwin’s version was backed up by former boxing champ Oscar de la Hoya, who was also on the flight.
“I didn’t think there was a problem,” de la Hoya said.
“I actually felt Alec Baldwin was turning off his devices . . . and he just got a little angry, that’s about it.”
After Baldwin was removed from Flight 4, he caught at later AA flight home to New York, which took off without incident.
He landed at around 11 p.m. and didn’t comment to reporters.
Baldwin was in Southern California to appear on “Conan” Monday night.
Michael J. Wolf, founder of the Web site Activate.com, first reported the brouhaha on Twitter.
“On an AA flight at LAX,’’ Wolf tweeted. “Alec Baldwin removed from the plane. We had to go back to the gate. Terrible that everyone had to wait.” ....
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/plane_crazy_alec_grounded_ZCfFu4MkSekWsXBhpcnu4J#ixzz1fqqQ35fZ (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/plane_crazy_alec_grounded_ZCfFu4MkSekWsXBhpcnu4J#ixzz1fqqQ35fZ)
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You or I would have been hauled off to jail... not put on another flight.
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You or I would have been hauled off to jail... not put on another flight.
You or I would have been regarded a terrorist.
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December 20, 2011
Finally: Actress tells Sean Penn he’s a ‘communist bleep’ [VIDEO]
By Chris Bedford - The Daily Caller Published: 9:28 AM 12/20/2011 | Updated: 10:17 AM 12/20/2011
Sean Penn with Hugo Chavez in 2007 - Howard Vanes/Associated Press
While waiting to collect her mother’s luggage at LAX, actress Maria Conchita Alonso confronted vocal Hugo Chavez supporter Sean Penn, calling him “a communist bleep,” WMAL reports.
Conchita Alonso — known for her role in “The Running Man” and “Predator 2,” and who once acted in a 1988 film with Penn — had previously written an open letter criticizing him for his support for the Venezuelan dictator. Spotting the actor, who was also waiting for lost luggage, she approached him. When the “Milk” star recognized her, his smile disappeared: He told her he didn’t want to talk to her and accussed her brother of trying to assassinate Chavez.
In an interview with WMAL, the actress said she told Penn, “You are in favor of Hugo Chavez and [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad.”
When Penn denied he supports Ahmadinejad and called Conchita Alonso “a pig,” she replied, “And you are a communist, Sean Penn! … You’re a communist bleep!”
LISTEN:
video at link
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/20/finally-actress-tells-sean-penn-hes-a-communist-bleep-video/#ixzz1h6qzCtsU (http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/20/finally-actress-tells-sean-penn-hes-a-communist-bleep-video/#ixzz1h6qzCtsU)
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Brava!
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Gangsta love for B. Hussein
Spike Lee will throw a fund-raising dinner for President Obama in New York on Jan. 19, Page Six has learned. The film-maker, who has been both supportive and critical of Obama’s presidency, and wife Tonya Lewis Lee will host the commander-in-chief at their Upper East Side brownstone with an intimate 6 p.m. reception for 60 guests paying $38,500 per head or $71,600 per couple, and have stipulated the event will be “no more than six tables and 60 people.”
It won’t be Obama’s only stop in the city that day. His fundraising will begin late afternoon at four-star restaurant Daniel on the Upper East Side for a discussion with leaders in the Jewish community organized by Dr. Daniel E. Fass and Alexandra Stanton, among others. Tickets cost $25,000 for an Obama-greet and photos or $5,000 for a regular ticket.
Also at Daniel, scheduled for the same time, is a small cocktail reception with the president at $15,000 per ticket, including candid photos. Invitees can become hosts if they sell five tickets for $75,000. A source told us, “Daniel has hosted so many fund-raisers for Obama, it has become New York’s official Democratic dining room.” The White House didn’t comment last night.
Page Six, NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/steping_up_for_hj75YM7Pd00OUplCdd3KJO#ixzz1iVC3Hvj9)
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The hood does love their Obama
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama might be powerful and well-known, but the White House got some real star power Wednesday: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie stopped by for a chat with the chief executive.
The uber-famous Hollywood pair were spotted in the Oval Office by photographers waiting outside for the president to take off for a trip to Chicago.
The White House confirmed Pitt and Jolie were in town to screen Jolie’s movie about Bosnian war crimes at the Holocaust museum, and dropped by so the president could talk with Jolie about her work on preventing mass atrocities and combating sexual violence against women.
Pitt was seen sporting a cane, which he’s been using following a skiing injury.
NY Daily News (photos at link) (http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-meet-president-obama-oval-office-visit-white-house-article-1.1004784)
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Limousine Liberal News:
Penn made ambassador for Haiti
Last Updated: 1:47 AM, January 16, 2012
Sean Penn was officially made an ambassador at large for Haiti on Saturday night for his relief work for the country, still reeling from the devastating earthquake two years ago. Penn was offered the job by the Haitian foreign minister Laurent Lamothe at the Cinema for Peace benefit at the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills. “I do accept,” Penn said, adding it would be useful to “change being called hey you (bleep), to hey Mr. Ambassador!”
The event, which raised $5 million for Haiti, was attended by an A-list crowd including a very thin but happy-looking Demi Moore, Melanie Griffith, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Orlando Bloom, Mel Gibson, James Gandolfini and Hilary Swank. During the auction, singer Damien Rice spent $475,000 on Bono’s guitar while Roberts’ husband, Danny Moder, bid $50,000 on a trip to Haiti with Penn.
http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/penn_made_ambassador_for_haiti_e8wjm7PMM1To74kAdmzDjL#ixzz1jd53i3t4 (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/penn_made_ambassador_for_haiti_e8wjm7PMM1To74kAdmzDjL#ixzz1jd53i3t4)
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Maybe Penn should go try living as an ordinary Haitian for a while (that'd be the last we'd ever see of him; more's the pity that he'll never do that).
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Maybe Barry has a secret Hollywood crush. Big Hollywood (http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2012/01/18/obama-celeb-wish-list-most-powerful-man-in-world-sends-birthday-greeting-to-sitcom-star/) reports:
Obama Celeb Wish-List: Most Powerful Man In World Sends Birthday Greeting to Sitcom Star
by Hollywoodland
President Barack Obama inherited a mess, or so we’re endlessly told by Obama’s celebrity backers. But the Commander in Chief apparently has enough time between fixing the economy, managing the war in Afghanistan and dealing with a near-nuclear Iran to send personal birthday greetings to a sitcom actress.
Obama fired off his best birthday cheer Jan. 9 to Zooey Deschanel, the adorable star of Fox’s “New Girl” sitcom:
"Michelle and I send our warmest wishes for a happy birthday … I hope your day is filled with love and laughter, and I wish you all the best for good health and happiness in the year ahead."
Sadly, Deschanel didn’t make the cut when it came time to crafting the president’s celebrity “surrogates” list, even though lesser lights such as Laura Breckenridge, Reagan Gomez and Eric Christian Olsen (“Dumb and Dumberer”) made the grade.
Deschanel is a star on the rise, no doubt. Perhaps this birthday missive will catapult her to not only greater fame but a higher rank on the president’s 2012 re-election campaign.
(http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/files/2012/01/Deschanel-Birthday-Obama.jpg)
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oh brother!
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Doofus.
Babes gravitate to ex-gov
Last Updated: 12:09 AM, January 24, 2012
David Paterson was living large on Friday night at Rare View Rooftop on West 26th Street, where he was surrounded by a bevy of beautiful women. [I don't mean to be insensitive, but how did he know?]
The ex-governor, in a dapper black suit and red tie, popped two bottles of Grey Goose at a reserved table. Paterson arrived solo, without wife Michelle, at 11:30 p.m., and stayed until past 2 a.m at the birthday party for fashion photographer Pierre Baz.
“He was surrounded by two or three women at his table the entire time,” a spy said. “People kept walking up to him and asking him to take a picture.” Paterson, who hosts an afternoon radio show on WOR-AM (710), had an aide with him at the club who chirped in his ear the name of each person.
“He seemed very shy,” our spy said. A rep for former gov said: “[He] was an invited guest in attendance at a birthday celebration for Pierre Baz. He spent time with a number of different guests.”
Despite him recently being seen in public less often with Michelle, the rep added, “He and his wife are doing well.”
Page Six (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/babes_gravitate_to_ex_gov_CxLsnDovNAMg81mTpETqoL#ixzz1kNgBxAN8)
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I was looking for a photo of that gawdawful ensemble Moochelle wore on Jay Leno's show, and stumbled upon this picture from last October when Obummer appeared on the program. Anyone else think the behavior of Jay's producer is just a little too "familiar"?
(http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0gXKcPg38H7L7/x610.jpg)
(http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0dpPdjm3YCcTD/610x.jpg)
Jay must be thinking, "Geez, get a room!"
Now for Sasquatch:
(http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1015121.1328102093!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/image.jpg)
OMG
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Two items about little-watched cable news networks, from today's Page Six in the NY Post:
Anchors at play
February 1, 2012
MSNBC anchors Lawrence O’Donnell and Tamron Hall have a romance spicing up off set. The single “Last Word” host, 60, has been quietly dating the pretty midday anchor and rising star at the network for months. The duo have kept their relationship low-profile in the studio but have been spotted canoodling at downtown haunts. O’Donnell, a “West Wing” producer who has a daughter with ex-wife Kathryn Harrold, was linked to actress Kerry Washington in 2008. MSNBC declined to comment.
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Waking up to TV tension
February 1, 2012
A Lack of chemistry is already plaguing CNN’s new morning show “Early Start” as it attempts to gain footing one month after the launch. Hosts Ashleigh Banfield and Zoraida Sambolin “have expressed frustration about the schizophrenic nature of the show,” a source said. Another source said they just don’t gel — Banfield talks too much, Sambolin doesn’t say enough.
Meanwhile, executives are looking to support Soledad O’Brien — who anchors the following morning show “Starting Point” solo, with a regular crop of panelists — and have expressed interest in adding conservative commentator Will Cain and CNN analyst Roland Martin to the cast. We also hear that executives are thinking about developing an 11 p.m. show. A network rep denies this, adding, “We couldn’t be more pleased with Soledad and the direction she is taking her program. Her newsmaking interviews and substantive panel discussions are the centerpiece of the program. Ashleigh and Zoraida are doing great.”
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/anchors_at_play_g0KoVRAL7L9lnshZ2UCuJM#ixzz1lEN19qUN)
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Oprah finds her inner Jewishness. Or something.
Chutzpah Winfrey
A rare sitdown granted to Hasidic Web site
By MICHAEL STARR
Last Updated: 5:59 PM, February 10, 2012
Oprah Winfrey has discovered her inner Jewishness.
Winfrey, who rarely does interviews, sat for a TV chat with a Hasidic rabbi on the day last fall she immersed herself in Brooklyn’s Hasidic neighborhoods. The interview, produced by Oprah’s OWN network and posted Wednesday only on chabad.org, the Web site of the Lubavitcher sect, was a rare scoop for a site that deals mainly in religious practices.
“There’s more Hasidic Jew in me than I know,” says Winfrey — dressed in a modesty-preserving ankle-length skirt— at the end of the interview with Rabbi Motti Seligson, the Web site’s media liason.
“She was very real and very warm and easy to connect with,” Seligson told The Post yesterday. “What I really think was nice about this was [Winfrey’s] willingness to experience Hasidic life — as opposed to just going off stereotypes.”
Last October, Oprah took cameras into Hasidic homes in Borough Park, Crown Heights and a mikvah, a ritual bathhouse, in Brooklyn Heights as a part of her “America’s Hidden Culture” segment on her weekly “Oprah’s Next Chapter” show.
Seligson is briefly featured at the beginning of Sunday’s episode, in which Winfrey also visits the Ginsberg family.
In the interview, Winfrey says that her experience dispelled some of her misconceptions about Hasidic Jews.
“I have been perhaps, like most people who’ve walked down the street and seen Hasidic Jewish men, in particular . . . oftentimes wearing the hats and long beards and always found it somewhat formidable or intimidating,” she says.
“This experience has really confirmed and affirmed what I truly believe as one of my deep spiritual principles — that we’re all more alike than different.”
Winfrey also says she was “speechless” that, when she visited the Ginsberg family — and mentioned Mickey Mouse, Shrek, Beyoncé and Jay-Z to their kids — none of them recognized the references.
“They said they didn’t even care and weren’t even curious about it,” she tells Seligson.
“We live in a culture where seven-and-a-half hours a day are spent consumed by some electronic device . . . It’s amazing to me that, right across from Manhattan, there’s a whole world of children who aren’t doing that and who are happy, fulfilled and loved.”
“I had a few questions I wanted to ask her,” Seligson said yesterday, explaining innocently how he got the interview.
“I really wanted to hear about her experiences,” he said.
NY Post (http://ttp://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/chutzpah_winfrey_XrVGo0ZFoOh0J7ZUV76AwN#ixzz1m2E7JK8Z)
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I don't think Oprah can decide what she is.
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Samuel L. Jackson admits he's a racist, but that's a good thing.
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Politics of color
February 11, 2012
Samuel L. Jackson said he voted for President Obama because of his color: “I voted for Barack because he was black. ’Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people — because they look like them,” the actor says in an outspoken interview in the March issue of Ebony.
Jackson sounds off on his feelings for Obama to writer Kevin Powell, saying: “That’s American politics, pure and simple. [Obama’s] message didn’t mean [bleep] to me. In the end, he’s a politician. I just hoped he would do some of what he said he was gonna do. I know politicians say [bleep]; they lie. ’Cuz they want to get elected.”
Repeatedly using the N-word, Jackson added that Obama’s philosophical presence had been universally appealing: “When it comes down to it, they wouldn’t have elected a [bleep]. Because, what’s a [bleep]? A [bleep] is scary. Obama ain’t scary at all. [Bleeps] don’t have beers at the White House. [Bleeps] don’t let some white dude, while you in the middle of a speech, call [him] a liar. A [bleep] would have stopped the meeting right there and said, ‘Who the [bleep] said that?’ I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, ’cuz he ain’t gotta worry about getting re-elected.”
Defending his repeated use of the taboo epithet, the “Pulp Fiction” Oscar nominee added, “[It] became a part of my vocabulary when I was born . . . Because it was used on me in my house, often . . . I know the word [bleep] as an admonishment, an endearment, a criticism and an invective. So I use it; I don’t run from it. I don’t have an issue with it or who says it. I always put it in the context of how it was used on me.”
Page Six (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/politics_of_color_MDmhUI8zFK19t18kHfrI0M#ixzz1m56WWR9j)
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Ah, to be a limousine liberal!
Working on Maggie’s farm
Last Updated: 8:25 AM, February 12, 2012
Are Maggie Gyllenhaal and other Brooklyn boldfaces shirking their shifts at the clubby Park Slope Food Co-op?
According to sources, Gyllenhaal is one of the many celebs and VIPs in the stroller-heavy neighborhood who send minions to work the two-hour, 45-minute monthly shifts required to maintain good standing with the co-op and gain access to its organic quinoa, kale, black futsu squash, Mutsu apples and other produce.
Neighborhood blogs first reported that co-op members were sending nannies, cleaning staff and personal assistants to work their shifts. Annoyed residents say the practice is out of control among the co-op’s wealthier members.
“Everyone in Park Slope is talking about the wealthy members of the co-op sending people in their place to do their shifts,” one groused. “[The co-op] doesn’t know how to do deal with it. The celebrities are sending other people. While Gyllenhaal has done shifts, she has also been sending somebody else to do her shifts.”
Another frustrated member told us: “I don’t have a cleaning lady or any staff to send. I had to hire baby sitters at night to take care of my kids while I did my shifts. It’s ridiculous!”
Other organic devotees say they’ve seen Gyllenhaal toiling away. “She definitely has done her own shifts,” one vegetarian spy said. “And she even brought her brother [Jake Gyllenhaal].” The source explained that Maggie Gyllenhaal does not “do her shifts on the floor,” but rather in “private areas” so as not to cause commotions, or spills, in any aisles.
But an insider said that “fancy members, like big actors,” can arrange “future time-off plans, or FTOP, so if they go on location, they can skip future shifts.”
A rep for Gyllenhaal told us, “She doesn’t have an assistant.” But when we asked if she was sending another stand-in, the rep said: “Who would go? She doesn’t have anyone in her employ except me, and I don’t do it.” A rep for the co-op told us, “We do not give out information regarding our members.”
http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/working_on_maggie_farm_xvdQggXZrKu2rBPNUijmiJ#ixzz1mB1Efpmh (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/working_on_maggie_farm_xvdQggXZrKu2rBPNUijmiJ#ixzz1mB1Efpmh)
I wouldn't know Maggie G. if I tripped over her, and it's a little hard to believe the very sight of her would cause commotions or spillages. :laugh:
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Actor David Cross does cocaine in the White House, 65 feet from Obama. I bet Obama is wishing he'd shared a little.
'How I snorted cocaine 65 feet from Obama': Comedian David Cross reveals he did drugs at White House event
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 3:37 AM on 21st February 2012
Comedian David Cross claims he snorted cocaine at a White House event, just feet away from President Barack Obama -- just so he could say he did it.
The 47-year-old funnyman, best known for playing Tobias Fünke in 'Arrested Development,' claims he was attending the White House Correspondents Dinner in 2009 when he did the drugs.
Cross has long been open about his history of drug use and abuse and hard-partying, but this claim is remarkable, even for him.
He has made the statement previously in his stand-up shows, but it was never clear whether he was being serious or not. However, Cross dished details of the incident during an interview appearing in the March issue of Playboy magazine, due out later this week.
'It was a tiny granule of coke that I put on my wrist and said, “Watch this. I need a witness.” And then I ducked under the table and did it,' he said.
Cook claimed he was about 65 feet from the president at the event when he snorted the drugs.
'It wasn’t like I got high. The jolt was similar to licking an empty espresso cup. It wasn’t about that. It was just about being able to say that I did it, that I did cocaine in the same room as the president. I’m not proud of it, nor am I ashamed of it,' he told Playboy.
He was at the dinner as a guest of his fiance, actress Amber Tamblyn. He says involving her in his drug use is his only regret from the incident. 'I was her date, her plus-one, and she got dragged through the mud because of what I did. She had nothing to do with it. She didn’t know I was going to do it,' he said.
'And because of that she’ll never be invited to the White House again. That’s not cool.'
Obama, himself, is no stranger to cocaine. In his book 'Dreams from My Father,' he admitted to smoking marijuana and doing 'a little coke' as a young man.
Daily Mail U.K. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2104106/Comedian-David-Cross-claims-snorted-cocaine-near-President-Obama-White-House-event.html#ixzz1n1ekKni3)
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Probably the first time he's changed his underwear in nine years ...
Old tux, new shoes
Last Updated: 11:50 PM, February 25, 2012
While stars are working on their red-carpet looks for tonight’s Oscars, schlubby director Michael Moore is going with a familiar one. “I’ll be wearing the same [tux] I wore when I won the Oscar nine years ago,” he tells The Post’s Billy Heller, referring to his Best Documentary Feature win for “Bowling for Columbine.” But at least the director and Academy board of governors member is splurging for some new garments, including a more comfortable pair of shoes “and a change of underwear.”
Page Six (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/old_tux_new_shoes_NM04Y1BPiX0LC9hWxB54aI#ixzz1nVgSt7OM)
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Unbelievable....... EOnline goes to PDiddy arriving... he gets out of his SUV and has some white guy with a roller rolling his tux to make certain there isn't any fuzz and while this is going on Diddy is primping in the window of the car while some hot blond in the car is taking his picture on her cell phone..., then he puts his foot up for the guy to check his shoes...... can we say giant ego?
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Samuel L. Jackson admits he's a racist, but that's a good thing.
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Politics of color
February 11, 2012
Samuel L. Jackson said he voted for President Obama because of his color: “I voted for Barack because he was black. ’Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people — because they look like them,” the actor says in an outspoken interview in the March issue of Ebony.
Jackson sounds off on his feelings for Obama to writer Kevin Powell, saying: “That’s American politics, pure and simple. [Obama’s] message didn’t mean [bleep] to me. In the end, he’s a politician. I just hoped he would do some of what he said he was gonna do. I know politicians say [bleep]; they lie. ’Cuz they want to get elected.”
Repeatedly using the N-word, Jackson added that Obama’s philosophical presence had been universally appealing: “When it comes down to it, they wouldn’t have elected a [bleep]. Because, what’s a [bleep]? A [bleep] is scary. Obama ain’t scary at all. [Bleeps] don’t have beers at the White House. [Bleeps] don’t let some white dude, while you in the middle of a speech, call [him] a liar. A [bleep] would have stopped the meeting right there and said, ‘Who the [bleep] said that?’ I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, ’cuz he ain’t gotta worry about getting re-elected.”
Defending his repeated use of the taboo epithet, the “Pulp Fiction” Oscar nominee added, “[It] became a part of my vocabulary when I was born . . . Because it was used on me in my house, often . . . I know the word [bleep] as an admonishment, an endearment, a criticism and an invective. So I use it; I don’t run from it. I don’t have an issue with it or who says it. I always put it in the context of how it was used on me.”
Page Six (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/politics_of_color_MDmhUI8zFK19t18kHfrI0M#ixzz1m56WWR9j)
Great; don't let the door hitcha on the way out, little man.
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“I voted for Barack because he was black. ’Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people — because they look like them,” the actor says ...
So far, no presidential candidate has looked like me, but that didn't prevent me from voting for the one I thought would best preserve the republic.
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Eliot Spitzer testing the waters?
Spitz puts toe in
Last Updated: 11:47 PM, March 9, 2012
Eliot Spitzer’s return to national politics with a fund-raiser at his Fifth Avenue home for Washington state gubernatorial hopeful Jay Inslee was a low-key affair. Sources tell us that wife Silda Spitzer was front and center at the party on Monday for Democrat Inslee. We’re told guests included billionaire John Catsimatidis and Spitzer’s lawyer friends, including J effrey Moerdler and his former Horace Mann pals, Ropes & Gray partner Jason Brown and trusts and estate attorney Herb Nass. Also there was Democratic lobbyist and consulting firm owner Tonio Burgos. Sources had speculated that fund-raising is also a chance for Spitzer to test the political waters without drawing too much attention.
Page Six (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/spitz_puts_toe_in_jq28d1nZgxnMlO4UMtiKbK#ixzz1oih39PHU)
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So far, no presidential candidate has looked like me, but that didn't prevent me from voting for the one I thought would best preserve the republic.
Which just makes you a racist - in the eyes of the left, that is.
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Eliot Spitzer testing the waters?
Spitz puts toe in
Last Updated: 11:47 PM, March 9, 2012
Eliot Spitzer’s return to national politics with a fund-raiser at his Fifth Avenue home for Washington state gubernatorial hopeful Jay Inslee was a low-key affair. Sources tell us that wife Silda Spitzer was front and center at the party on Monday for Democrat Inslee. We’re told guests included billionaire John Catsimatidis and Spitzer’s lawyer friends, including J effrey Moerdler and his former Horace Mann pals, Ropes & Gray partner Jason Brown and trusts and estate attorney Herb Nass. Also there was Democratic lobbyist and consulting firm owner Tonio Burgos. Sources had speculated that fund-raising is also a chance for Spitzer to test the political waters without drawing too much attention.
Page Six (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/spitz_puts_toe_in_jq28d1nZgxnMlO4UMtiKbK#ixzz1oih39PHU)
Again Eliot Spitzer? Oy Vey!
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CNN power duo separate
Last Updated: 12:50 AM, March 21, 2012
CNN political power couple John King — ruler of the dynamic data-crunching, touch-screen election map — and Dana Bash have split after less than four years of marriage.
A friend of the couple told us: “ and John have been separated for the last several months. They continue to co-parent their young son and to work together . . . They ask that their privacy be respected during this difficult time.” They were married in May 2008 in Cape Cod, Mass., and King, who was raised Irish Catholic, converted to Judaism before the wedding (“I’m studying to convert and will consider inviting you to my bar mitzvah,” King told Page Six at the time).
We’re told that “Magic Wall” wizard King has no current intention of reconverting. Bash, a CNN senior congressional correspondent, gave birth to their son, Jonah, in June. Now, Bash and King are living in separate homes in Washington, DC. Friends say Bash has appeared on King’s show since the split. A CNN rep said, “We don’t comment on personal matters.”
Page Six (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/cnn_power_duo_separate_qigQ8hJbdQrNPZb878AnqM#ixzz1pkddfSdn)
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Schwarzenegger and Shriver postpone divorce proceedings:
Arnold Schwarzenegger is still working hard to charm back Maria Shriver and get back into the good graces of her powerful family. The former California governor made a speech at Audemars Piguet’s Royal Oak 40 Years exhibition gala in New York, repeatedly praising “my wife’s family” and especially the work done by his “amazing mother-in-law” Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who founded the Special Olympics and was a strong advocate for children’s health and disability issues before she passed away in 2009 at age 88.
Sources tell us Schwarzenegger has been working hard to patch things up with Maria after she filed for divorce last July when he admitted fathering a son with their housekeeper. We revealed he and Shriver have tried therapy and delayed their divorce proceedings, setting the next court date for July 1, 2016 — more than four years away.
Schwarzenegger spoke Wednesday to a crowd at the Park Avenue Armory that included Patriots star Tom Brady, Ed Burns, Swizz Beatz, Tiki Barber, Prudential powerhouse Dolly Lenz, Olivier Audemars, François-Henry Bennahmias and Philippe Merk. Yesterday, the Governator swooped into Upper East Side eatery Nello for lunch, grinning at diners, and ordered gnocchi with truffles. Witnesses said other patrons, including Garlic NY Pizza Bar owner Sasha Berg, who was dining with real estate developer Jeff Burack, were dumbstruck.
One patron told us, “The restaurant went silent, apart from one person who cried, ‘What the [bleep]?’ It didn’t faze him that a large group of paparazzi was clamoring outside. Schwarzenegger chatted to his staff, enjoyed his dish and said hello to restaurateur Nello Balan.”
Page Six (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/forgive_me_maria_iiOD2z2loBteTlMCOq3VPI#ixzz1pwWKS9by)
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Former 'ER' star Noah Wyle arrested in DC protest
By MICHAEL WEINFELD | Associated Press – 1 hr 9 mins ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former "ER" star Noah Wyle and more than 100 members of the group ADAPT have been arrested during a Capitol Hill protest to urge Congress not to cut Medicaid.
The protesters, many in wheelchairs, were handcuffed in the rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building.
Wyle and members of ADAPT say any cuts in Medicaid spending would force people with disabilities and the elderly out of their homes and into nursing homes to get the services they need.
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busy day on Page Six
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Bust comes between Calvins
April 25, 2012
Calvin Klein’s younger boyfriend Nick Gruber was arrested after punching a man, also named Calvin, he took home after a party.
Gruber, the 22-year-old ex-porn star paramour of the 69-year-old fashion icon allegedly hit Calvin Swint, 20 — who’s believed to work as an intern for New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg — on the balcony of his Greenwich Street penthouse during a 4:20 a.m. fight yesterday.
Sources tell The Post’s Kirstan Conley that when cops arrived, Gruber flailed his arms to avoid being cuffed and shoved his hands into his pants. Police found cocaine in Gruber’s underwear when he was later searched.
Other sources tell Page Six that Gruber — who had an on/off relationship with Klein and was recently reconciled with him — has some explaining to do since “Calvin paid his rent two years upfront, and was just saying how happy he was in the relationship.” Klein is also sober.
Gruber was arraigned last night at Manhattan Criminal Court on a felony charge of possessing a stimulant and two misdemeanors — resisting arrest and assault with intent to cause physical injury.
But Swint told The Post he didn’t want to press charges: “I don’t want to be involved in any of this. We’re good friends, end of story.”
Swint added, “Everybody expects Nick to be somebody. He’s a great guy, he’s a funny guy — he’ll make it, he was talking about going to college. I’m absolutely not in a relationship with him. He’s like my brother, so if he was angry, I could understand why he could take it out on me. We all get depressed sometimes. I feel for him. No one else was on the balcony, just us. It happened, and then I left. I felt embarrassed . . . I’ve never been in a fight before. I went downstairs, and the doorman asked if they should call the police because my eye was bleeding . . . I’m sorry this happened.”
Klein’s rep couldn’t be reached. Gruber’s lawyer, Ben Brafman said he was “confident” the charges “will be dismissed.”
http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/bust_comes_between_calvins_qrvHq2g2ufwCAVznBZWIWO#ixzz1t3EpsdLA (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/bust_comes_between_calvins_qrvHq2g2ufwCAVznBZWIWO#ixzz1t3EpsdLA)
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(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/04/29/article-2136823-12D2A2CB000005DC-528_634x388.jpg)
Unlikely mingling: Lindsay is pictured next to former Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum at the star-studded bash
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2136823/Lindsay-Lohan-glams-White-House-Correspondents-Dinner-2012.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2136823/Lindsay-Lohan-glams-White-House-Correspondents-Dinner-2012.html)
The look on his face.....priceless! :silly:
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Santorum actually has a very creepy face.... look at his eyes...... his features are not symetrical.
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Santorum actually has a very creepy face.... look at his eyes...... his features are not symetrical.
Which can only mean that he's not evil; after all, the Devil wears Prada.
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Clooney home $weet for prez
By GEOFF EARLE
May 5, 2012
WASHINGTON — George Clooney is proving just as good at raking in campaign cash as he was at cracking casino safes in “Ocean’s Eleven.”
President Obama has sold out his blockbuster May 10 fund-raiser at the movie star’s home — putting the campaign on track to haul in at least $6 million from $40,000 tickets to the event, a campaign source said.
But the fund-raiser could double that take through an online sweepstakes that will pick one donor, asked to pay as little as $3, to get a chance to win two tickets to the bash at Clooney’s home in Studio, City, Calif. The campaign reportedly has hauled in $6 million from the sweepstakes alone.
Meanwhile, Karl Rove’s Crossroads super PAC has been mocking Obama for going Hollywood. “After four years of a celebrity president, is your life any better?” its ads ask.
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/clooney_home_weet_for_prez_SpVcdxxOszAaWimDvKrj5I#ixzz1u0C02Eo2)
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Does anyone have any idea who Stacy Keibler is? Something to do with elves and cookies, maybe?
Keibler goes to the mat for O
Last Updated: 11:49 PM, May 13, 2012
Stacy Keibler was supposed to be at the wedding of her former WWE wrestling pal Gail Kim and the Food Network’s Robert Irvine — but skipped the event to attend George Clooney’s fund-raiser for President Obama.
Keibler missed out on the nuptials at the Charles Krug Wintery in Napa, Calif., on Thursday to instead be at Clooney’s big $40,000-a-head Obama gig also attended by Tobey Maguire, Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black.
But the wedding was just as lavish an affair. Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto, Food Network host Michael Chiarello, Camelback Mountain executive chef Beau MacMillan and Citizen Cake owner and Iron Chef finalist Elizabeth Faulkner all cooked separate courses.
Sources tell us Food Network star Guy Fieri was best man to “Restaurant: Impossible” host Irvine, and Morimoto and Food Network “Unwrapped” host Marc Summers both led the toasts.
Witnesses said Irvine, 46, and Kim, 35, “are totally in love.” And you can tell why: Kim is the reigning titleholder of the TNA (Total Nonstop Action) Women’s Knockout Championship and wrestled under the name “La Felina.”
British chef Irvine said on Twitter that he planned the event, giving his bride only the date and the location. He tweeted, “My total surprise wedding for @gailkimITSME is almost done, she has no knowledge of what’s going on and I am surprising her . . . she knows just to show up looking as she always does beautiful and I have everything else.”
Meanwhile, Keibler looks just as beautiful in Self’s June issue. She told the magazine: “I pride myself in taking great care of my mind, body and soul and not just through exercise. It’s also about getting enough sleep, eating nutritious and organic meals and taking good care of my skin.”
NY POst (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/keibler_goes_to_the_mat_for_dCyI3CEUKvWD8PBbXahY5N#ixzz1uqRlpfAt)
Yuck, Guy "Fieri" (real name, Ferry). What a putz.
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I guess we'll wait in vain for the OWS/spread the wealth around types to complain about wealthy people spending their own money however they want, considering the wealthy in question are good liberals.
CORRENS, France — Angelina Jolie certainly does not mess around when it comes to boys’ toys.
Jolie forked over almost $1.6 million on a helicopter and flying lessons for fiancé Brad Pitt, and it’s not even his birthday.
“They’ve had a helicopter pad installed in the grounds of their south of France home, Chateau Miraval, so Ange thought it would be nice to buy Brad a helicopter as a surprise present,” a source said.
“But even though Brad has his private pilot’s license, he still needs to take a few flying lessons, which he’ll start straight away.”
Perhaps they could take Pitt’s ex-wife, Jennifer Aniston, out for a spin now that they are back on talking terms after years of fighting and public digs. The “Friends” actress sent them an $800 bouquet ahead of this week’s Cannes Film Festival to congratulate them on their engagement.
NY post (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/angelina_heli_brad_eyswTP64euLSr6VEc3KetJ#ixzz1v26D0KAL)
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Speaking of celebrity self-righteousness:
Batali on ‘feed the poor’ diet
By CHUCK BENNETT
May 16, 2012
Restaurateur and TV chef Mario Batali has traded risotto Milanese for rice and beans to protest proposed cuts in food stamps.
Batali, his wife and two teenage sons are on a food- stamp diet — $1.48 per meal — for the week.
“I’m . . . starving,” said the beefy Batali, who’s on the board of the relief agency Food Bank for New York City. “Rice and beans is in my lunch every day.”
Congress is eyeing billions of dollars in cuts, which could remove 2 million people from the program.
Ny Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/batali_on_feed_the_poor_diet_Ke7MeI6eWSGNBfuRPjhwnI#ixzz1v26aQxyh)
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Anyone else think this is just a tad disrespectful to the flag (even if she was singing for the troops)?
(http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2012/05/24/pagesix/web_photos/KatyPerry235824--300x300.jpg)
Katy Perry was ready to party with Adam Lambert after serenading the troops Wednesday night. The singer, wearing an American flag dress, gave a performance for sailors at Pier 9 in Brooklyn as part of Fleet Week, and even pulled one lucky uniformed cadet onstage for a kiss. Later, Perry went to the Dream Downtown to meet Lambert at a table at upstairs lounge PH-D, where the two partied until 3:30 a.m. While there, Perry jumped in the DJ booth to request Rihanna songs.
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Bill & butthead
Running into Alec – luckily not his fist
By JOSH MARGOLIN and DAN MANGAN
June 21, 2012
I’m a huge fan, Mr. President — but I still might punch you in the face!
Hothead actor Alec Baldin was all smiles for a change yesterday when he ran into former President Bill Clinton on a Midtown street.
The Bloviator bumped into Bubba as Clinton was leaving a luncheon at Standard Chartered Bank on Sixth Avenue, and bent the ex-president’s ear for a bit.
“They’ve known each other for a while,” a source told The Post.
Baldwin — who less than 24 hours earlier was walking around with a hotel sheet over his head — wrapped up his day with an appearance on the “Late Show with David Letterman” and the New York premiere of his movie “To Rome with Love.”
The “30 Rock” star’s chat with Letterman addressed his alleged attack on a paparazzo Tuesday outside Manhattan’s Marriage License Bureau — which has authorities mulling criminal charges against him.
“Nobody got punched,” Baldwin told Letterman. “I kind of pushed him out of the way because he almost hit me in the face with the camera.”
At one point yesterday, Baldwin shouldered aside a female “Inside Edition” reporter and rammed his bike into a male reporter.
Meanwhile, lawyers for his stalker, Genevieve Sabourin, filed papers yesterday in Manhattan Supreme Court that said Baldwin not only took her to dinner, but also a show and then back to her hotel room.
Baldwin had previously said he only took her to dinner in 2010 as a favor to a mutual friend.
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/bill_butthead_UKRE4HaN693kHpd6CzvsLO#ixzz1yQYlmvu7)
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Our favorite lefty has murder fantasies. What a surprise.
Mad man Alec reveals sick & twisted murder fantasies
By JEANE MACINTOSH
July 2, 2012
He really is off the rails. Alec Baldwin may have kept his roiling temper at bay during his weekend wedding — but he admits he fantasizes about violently offing his enemies.
In the new issue of Vanity Fair magazine, which hits stands this week, the surly actor said he has wanted to murder the lawyer of ex-wife Kim Basinger “with a baseball bat.”
Baldwin added he would have liked to “gut’’ TMZ producer Harvey Levin, who on his Web site posted the infamous voicemails of Baldwin calling his teenage daughter a “pig.”
“I wanted to stick a knife in him and gut him and kill him, and I wanted him to die breathing his last breath looking into my eyes,” Baldwin told the magazine.
Baldwin, who just last week got into yet another fight with a photographer, acknowledged that he often “gave the Heisman” — or stiff arm — to people in Hollywood and that he sometimes acts “unreasonably” and “childishly.”
But he waxed philosophical about his fury.
“You have to let that go. Enough time — I mean, it does heal wounds,” he said.
His notoriously nasty relationship with Basinger is now “cordial,” Baldwin insisted, and the two speak “from time to time” about their daughter, Ireland.
Asked where his anger comes from, Baldwin blamed it on his business. [Then why don't all other actors scream at their children and call them pigs?]
“You know, Hollywood does draw some very strange characters, and then the power of Hollywood and what they can do with it becomes like a blood sport to them,” he said.
Baldwin revealed he recently asked another hotheaded actor, Mel Gibson, to come on his podcast. But he said it wouldn’t be to talk about Gibson’s violent rages against baby mama Oksana Grigorieva or his drunken, anti-Semitic rants.
“I said, ‘Mel, this isn’t about regurgitating,’ ” Baldwin recalled. “The only thing I want to ask you about the travails in your life is: What did you learn?”
Baldwin — who married Manhattan yoga teacher Hilaria Thomas on Saturday — discussed his then-impending nuptials with VF.
“I thought, I’m probably never going to meet somebody like this again, and so I decided I would get married,” Baldwin said. “And I am getting married, which is kind of mind-blowing to me.” [We're also amazed anyone would marry Crazy Alec]
He credited Thomas with helping him stick to a no-sugar diet given that he’s pre-diabetic and for staying away from booze.
When he’s not dreaming up ways to mess with his enemies, Baldwin said, he still thinks about a political career.
“I do want to go into politics. I really, really do,” he said. “And I don’t know if I will. You have to stop and ask a lot of whys. Run for the glory? Run to complete some missing piece of myself?” [Like what, your brain?]
Baldwin said he imagines President Obama saying to himself, “Wow, this isn’t what I thought it was going to be.’ You’ve got to put up with all this s--t .” [We have to put up with Obama's s--t, Alec. Fair's fair.]
The actor noted, “I can keep doing what I’m doing for a living now and be perfectly happy.”
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/mad_man_alec_reveals_sick_twisted_LJBn1ghxVkNBrtPc4jfmrL#ixzz1zT720z3D)
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I think Alec Baldwin ought to lead a resurgence in trepanning. I'm confident that if enough holes are drilled in his skull it might not put him back on the rails, but it would ensure the only thing that comes out of his pie hole of his would be drool.....
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The final tweet
July 3, 2012
Alec Baldwin has quit Twitter, again. The hotheaded star signed off yesterday with a simple, “It’s been fun.”
The last time he quit was after he was removed from an American Airlines flight in December. But a source said, “He just takes time off,” and will likely return.
But Baldwin also shut down a fan who approached him for an autograph yesterday outside his Greenwich Village pad. “I’m just a fan,” a saleswoman from Brooklyn pleaded.
Baldwin responded, “I’m very busy. Sorry, can’t talk,” prompting her to ask, “Is he really that arrogant?”
Baldwin also told a reporter at a local organic cafe, “I’m having a private conversation, can you back off, buddy?”
New wife Hilaria chimed in, “Please get out of my face.’’
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/the_final_tweet_pWIyLUM4MRMN4qjBY79RQP#ixzz1zYpuMtYF)
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Alex Baldwin is just the gift that keeps on giving.
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Hilaria spins Hamptons
July 4, 2012
Newlyweds Hilaria Thomas and Alec Baldwin are hitting the Hamptons in lieu of honeymooning after their much-hyped nuptials. Yoga instructor Thomas will teach Soul Yoga classes at SoulCycle’s East Hampton studio every weekend this summer beginning Saturday, we hear. (If you were thinking of turning yourself into a pretzel with the Spanish sexpot, all her upcoming classes are already sold out for this weekend.)
Thomas was spotted at a spin class yesterday morning with Baldwin, whom she’s credited with whipping into good health. Spies said the pair were sweating and wearing their sparkling wedding bands.
Thomas “looked like a schoolgirl in love,” a spy said, whenever she looked at her angry actor hubby.
Baldwin, meanwhile, will also keep busy out east: He’s hosting a documentary series as part of the Hamptons Film Festival. We’re told the “30 Rock” star hand-picked the movie “Detropia” by Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing for his SummerDocs series, and will moderate a Q&A after a screening Friday of “Searching for Sugar Man” at Guild Hall.
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/hilaria_spins_hamptons_dX1rIYXKB0X0AwEUvJYICI#ixzz1zgFwt4CL)
Anyone placing bets on how long this lasts?
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What the hell kinda name is Hilaria?
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What the hell kinda name is Hilaria?
IIRC she is Spanish.
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Short for Hilarity, which pretty much describes any relationship with Alex Baldwin.
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Alec Baldwin, again.
Churchgoers diss Baldwin
Last Updated: 12:02 AM, August 9, 2012
For most, a Sunday church service is a moment for peace, worship and reflection — unless Alec Baldwin is in your congregation.
Sources tell us that some of the parishioners at Most Holy Trinity Parish in East Hampton are so sick of Baldwin’s blustering that a group stood up and turned their backs on the hot-tempered star as he gave a reading from the pulpit.
A source told us of the protesting parishioners on July 29: “Alec loves to be the center of attention and often reads from the pulpit, which really annoys some in the congregation. It is so bad that, one recent Sunday, he went up to read, and part of the congregation stood and rudely turned their backs on him.”
The source said, “Even though he has generously given a lot of money to the town, there are people who just don’t like him. He has a need for attention and shows up at every event. When people go to the church, they don’t want to see the movie star up there.”
Another source suggested that those who turned their backs were staunch Republicans who disagreed with outspoken Baldwin’s liberal views.
Baldwin, who has an eight-acre spread in East Hampton, and new wife, Hilaria Thomas, are regular parishioners at the church, of which he’s a generous benefactor. Last year, he donated a set tour of “30 Rock” to a church fund-raising auction.
Rev. Donald Hanson, the pastor, told Page Six, “Alec Baldwin reads from time to time at the church, and read again on Sunday two weeks ago.” Asked about parishioners who turned their backs, Hanson said, “I was told that happened, but I did not personally witness it, as another priest was saying the Mass.”
And about the reason for the public protest, he added, “I am not going to comment, as I wasn’t there.”
A representative for Baldwin said, “Alec was focused on the prayers, so he has no way of knowing if this happened. But does someone violating the sanctity of a church even deserve a response?”
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/churchgoers_diss_baldwin_Rtq3a98W2NIyCJcMONlSdJ#ixzz233CDzS73)
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One of Alec Baldwin's younger brothers is as active on twitter as he is, AND he is a staunch conservative who isn't above needling his older brother. :laugh:
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Soros to marry again at 82
August 12, 2012
Billionaire George Soros is to marry again at age 82 after getting engaged to girlfriend Tamiko Bolton, Page Six can exclusively reveal.
The legendary investor — the seventh-richest person in America, worth $22 billion according to Forbes — announced to close friends and family last night that he’s engaged to the 40-year-old businesswoman as he celebrated his 82nd birthday at his Hamptons home.
A source told Page Six, “George planned a surprise announcement to his assembled friends and family at his birthday party last night. He told them he and Tamiko are engaged and plan to marry next summer in Southampton.” Guests at the party included Blackstone’s Byron Wien and the mogul’s son Alexander Soros.
Sources tell us the couple met at a lunch in New York in 2008, and, “Their relationship has developed over time.” While they have mainly kept a low profile as a couple, the hedge-fund titan recently stepped out with her in public in May at a Paley Center screening of “The Untouchables.”
We’re told George proposed to Tamiko on a recent weekend in the garden of his Southampton home. Sources say he presented her with a Graff ring, a brilliant-cut diamond in platinum setting on a rose-gold band with rare pink pave diamonds.
Tamiko, the daughter of a Japanese-American nurse and a retired naval commander, grew up in California. The attractive brunette has an MBA from the University of Miami and works as a consultant in health care and education. She started an Internet-based dietary supplement and vitamin-sales company and, more recently, a Web-based yoga-education platform.
Dad-of-five George has been married and divorced twice. He wed Annaliese Witschak in 1960, and they had three children before divorcing in 1983, when he wed Susan Weber Soros, 25 years his junior. They had two children and divorced in 2005.
When asked if there is a pre-nup, Soros’ attorney William D. Zabel said: “It is well known that Mr. Soros will leave the bulk of his estate to charity but he intends to provide generously for his wife.”
http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/soros_to_marry_again_at_q6JSxzEDniUSmzYIMnMktK#ixzz23NpT1jGF
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And by "charity," we mean various Marxist causes around the world.
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I wouldn't kick her outa bed for eatin' soda crackers.....
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/SeniorChieftain/a-167321_george-soros-dan-tunangann.jpg)
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He had a different girlfriend last year (yes, that's George showing off his hot beach body):
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Soros to marry again at 82
August 12, 2012
Billionaire George Soros is to marry again at age 82 after getting engaged to girlfriend Tamiko Bolton, Page Six can exclusively reveal.
The legendary investor — the seventh-richest person in America, worth $22 billion according to Forbes — announced to close friends and family last night that he’s engaged to the 40-year-old businesswoman as he celebrated his 82nd birthday at his Hamptons home.
A source told Page Six, “George planned a surprise announcement to his assembled friends and family at his birthday party last night. He told them he and Tamiko are engaged and plan to marry next summer in Southampton.” Guests at the party included Blackstone’s Byron Wien and the mogul’s son Alexander Soros.
Sources tell us the couple met at a lunch in New York in 2008, and, “Their relationship has developed over time.” While they have mainly kept a low profile as a couple, the hedge-fund titan recently stepped out with her in public in May at a Paley Center screening of “The Untouchables.”
We’re told George proposed to Tamiko on a recent weekend in the garden of his Southampton home. Sources say he presented her with a Graff ring, a brilliant-cut diamond in platinum setting on a rose-gold band with rare pink pave diamonds.
Tamiko, the daughter of a Japanese-American nurse and a retired naval commander, grew up in California. The attractive brunette has an MBA from the University of Miami and works as a consultant in health care and education. She started an Internet-based dietary supplement and vitamin-sales company and, more recently, a Web-based yoga-education platform.
Dad-of-five George has been married and divorced twice. He wed Annaliese Witschak in 1960, and they had three children before divorcing in 1983, when he wed Susan Weber Soros, 25 years his junior. They had two children and divorced in 2005.
When asked if there is a pre-nup, Soros’ attorney William D. Zabel said: “It is well known that Mr. Soros will leave the bulk of his estate to charity but he intends to provide generously for his wife.”
http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/soros_to_marry_again_at_q6JSxzEDniUSmzYIMnMktK#ixzz23NpT1jGF
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And by "charity," we mean various Marxist causes around the world.
Would that be "Zabel" as in Schulte, Roth & Zabel?
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Kelsey Grammer says the Emmys snubbed him because he's a Republican (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/15/kelsey-grammer-emmys-snub-republican_n_1784677.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmaing6%7Cdl4%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D193001), story at HuffPoo.
Kelsey Grammer has an interesting theory for why he wasn't nominated for an Emmy this year. During his appearance on "The Tonight Show," the actor told Jay Leno he was baffled his performance on "Boss" didn't make the cut.
When pressed by Leno to offer a possible explanation, Grammer floated the fact that he's one of Hollywood's few "declared, out of the closet Republicans."
The actor described a somewhat detailed scenario wherein an Emmy voter relied on politics in making their selection (rather than a critical attention to the potential nominees), then sarcastically said he doesn't "believe that's possible." ...
More, with video, at link.
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Grammar is likely correct in his assertion, Boss is actually very well acted...
now re: Soros
works as a consultant in health care and education. She started an Internet-based dietary supplement and vitamin-sales company
Perhaps this means Democrats will stop trying to take our vitamins away from us now that Soros has an interest in them being sold?
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This inbred clan of drunks and druggies is beyond stupid.
Inside the Kennedy legend
August 18, 2012
Mark Shriver revealed some Kennedy-clan secrets at an intimate reading of his new book about his dad, Robert Sargent Shriver Jr., “A Good Man.”
“We all have a drinker in the family,” joked the Save the Children bigwig and brother of Maria Shriver of his family’s colorful history. “We all have the eccentric aunt, problems with drugs.”
But Shriver then revealed at the Mid-Cape Democratic Campaign Headquarters how “people in his family had always suspected” that then-President Richard Nixon leaked a story to the press that Mark’s older brother Robert “Bobby” Shriver and cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had been busted by police on Cape Cod on marijuana charges as teens.
“Mark was actually very funny while telling stories of his father and mother,” said a spy at the reading Wednesday night in Hyannis, Mass. “One person in the audience told him he could be a comedian.
“Mark also told a story about his older brother Robert being arrested on Cape Cod [in 1970], and how that story hit the front page of every newspaper in the country, and his family always believed Richard Nixon leaked it to the media,” the attendee told us.
Shriver’s brother and cousin were both 16 years old when cops arrested them for marijuana possession in Hyannis Port. The charges were dismissed after a year of probation.
Two years later, Mark’s dad — nicknamed “Sarge” — ran against Nixon as Democrat George McGovern’s running mate.
Our spy told us, “Mark spoke about all of the jobs his father held, [creating] the Peace Corps, and as US ambassador to France. He also said Sarge planned John F. Kennedy’s funeral when Jackie Kennedy asked him to help.”
Mark arrived at the reading from Cape Cod Hospital, after one of his kids sprained an ankle. Family members at the reading, where about 50 gathered, included Anthony Kennedy Shriver (who Mark joked had “only come for the free food) and a number of the clan’s kids.
Page Six (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/inside_the_kennedy_legend_X2uZXSeae31kpChJL0nIGK#ixzz23u2oP483)
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Today's gossip tidbit from Page Six:
Which perky national TV anchor is having an affair with a very married local TV anchor?
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Today's gossip tidbit from Page Six:
Which perky national TV anchor is having an affair with a very married local TV anchor?
That is the only clues?
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That's it. "Perky" implies Katie Couric, but she's no longer an anchor and her romantic liaisons are well known. I don't know any perky anchors. Anderson Cooper? ^-^
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That's it. "Perky" implies Katie Couric, but she's no longer an anchor and her romantic liaisons are well known. I don't know any perky anchors. Anderson Cooper? ^-^
Okay......... exceot her reported boyfriend isn't in the news business, but is a cheater it seems....
Katie Couric spotted out for a jog with pals amid boyfriend John Molner cheating rumors
Financier’s ex Jessica Hsu says he was two-timing — but a source says Molner knew after one date with Couric that it was ‘anchors away.’
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/katie-couric-boyfriend-john-molner-spotted-a-jog-cheating-rumors-article-1.1137925#ixzz247dEfkrX
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Taylor Swift crashes Kennedy wedding (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/taylor_swift_crashes_kennedy_wedding_GjcMpUY2YQI4XeSBSHyrRJ)
Taylor Swift crashes Kennedy wedding in Boston
August 22, 2012
Not everyone is cooing at the budding Taylor Swift-Conor Kennedy summer fling.
Swift crashed the Kyle Kennedy-Liam Kerr wedding in Boston over the weekend and was asked twice to leave by the mother of the bride, Victoria Gifford Kennedy, the Boston Herald reports.
Gifford Kennedy told the publication that Conor was invited to the wedding but never RSVP’d.
“They texted me an hour before the wedding and asked if they could come. I responded with a very clear, ‘Please do not come.’ They came anyway.”
The mother of the bride said no to the Grammy award-winning singer because she didn’t want her to detract from her daughter’s big day. Indeed, Swift and Conor allegedly caused a mild commotion in the lobby with fans asking for pictures and autographs.
"I personally went up to Ms. Swift, whose entrance distracted the entire event, politely introduced myself to her, and asked her as nicely as I could to leave. It was like talking to a ghost. She seemed to look right past me,” she said.
Victoria said the duo left the reception during the dinner but returned after the meal and spent the rest of the night dancing.
Swift’s rep, Paula Erikson, insisted to the publication that the country singer was a welcomed guest and the bride was happy to have her there.
“There is no truth to that,” Erikson said. “Taylor was invited to the wedding and the bride thanked her profusely for being there.”
However, a source for the publication reported seeing Swift being asked to leave the Fairmont Copley Plaza hotel where the wedding took place that Saturday.
Conor’s mother Mary hung herself May 16 in her Bedford, NY home. Swift is reportedly helping Conor cope with the tragedy.
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Ah, yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's time for...
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The good news for Taylor, and the bad news for the Kennedys, is that she now has a boatload of ammo for her next song...
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Plane desperate for Conor
Last Updated: 12:09 AM, August 28, 2012
Taylor Swift is so smitten with Conor Kennedy that, after leaving him in Massachusetts to head back to Nashville, she missed him so desperately she sent a jet to pick him up from the Kennedy home.
Sources exclusively tell Page Six that country superstar Swift left the Kennedy family compound in Hyannis Port alone just over a week ago to go to Nashville to work and promote her new single, “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.”
But one source said, “Taylor missed Conor so much, she sent a plane for him a few days later. He’s been with her ever since, and his family doesn’t know when he will be back. Things have become so serious between them so fast that no one in Hyannis Port would be surprised if they eloped.”
A Kennedy source told us that despite their still-brief romance, which they say started in July, Swift seems “totally in love with Conor. They are inseparable and are all over each other all the time. While his relatives really like Taylor, some feel their lovey-dovey behavior is cute while it has made others in the family feel a little uncomfortable.”
The love-struck pair crashed the wedding of Kyle Kennedy in Boston. The bride’s mother, Victoria Gifford Kennedy, said she had asked them via text not to come, then asked Swift to leave twice. But, “It was like talking to a ghost. She seemed to look right past me.”
Another source close to Swift, 22, said, “She always falls very hard and becomes very intense very quickly, and this time is no exception. In fact she seems to have fallen even harder.”
According to reports, Swift even bought a home next to 19-year-old Conor’s family. And she was spotted holding tight to him while accompanying him and his siblings to their mother Mary Richardson Kennedy’s grave site.
Reps for Swift, who so far have not commented on the relationship, didn’t get back to us last night.
Page Six (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/plane_desperate_for_conor_6JhnIKV2059XAp52vG5FgP#ixzz24q7yIBai)
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How heartwarming to know that this b---- has so little success in finding people who might be faithful to her. Maybe she's just not all that loveable.
Rosie to new wife - cheat and you get nothing
Last Updated: 11:33 AM, August 29, 2012
Before their secret rush wedding in June, Rosie O’Donnell subjected her new bride Michelle Rounds to eight months of grueling prenuptial negotiations — and she’ll get nothing if she cheats, Page Six can exclusively reveal.
Sources say O’Donnell, 50, was so tough in the talks that they didn’t get the prenup signed until hours before the intimate June 9 wedding, which was held in front of just a few people at O’Donnell’s home in Nyack.
While comedienne and talk-show host O’Donnell has been “extremely generous to Michelle in the prenup,” sources say, her 40-year-old bride “gets nothing if she cheats.”
Lawyers for the pair had been in talks over the agreement since they were engaged last December.
The couple, who had planned to marry in August, brought the wedding forward after Rounds was diagnosed with rare desmoid tumors, also known as aggressive fibromatosis, in June. She had surgery June 14.
Meanwhile O’Donnell has also had health issues. She revealed Aug. 20 that she recently suffered a heart attack.
Our source added, “Both women have health issues, but the prenup negotiations were pretty fraught in the days before the wedding. Rosie just wanted to get it signed under her terms. She wasn’t in the mood to make any compromises.
“Despite this, Rosie and Michelle truly love each other, and they wanted to marry before Michelle underwent surgery,” the source said.
Rounds has gone through several gastrointestinal operations to remove the tumors and is now recovering at home with O’Donnell. They are expected to have the wedding celebration later this year, when they are both feeling better.
“We married in private before her surgery, just the two of us,” O’Donnell wrote this week on her blog. “When we’re both well enough [we] will have the wedding of our dreams.”
Rounds’ lawyer, William D. London, declined to comment. O’Donnell’s rep Cindi Berger had repeatedly denied to Page Six in June and July that O’Donnell and Rounds were married.
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/rosie_wife_no_cheat_sheet_s3VKlVLgCCFnMGGXQnGu2M#ixzz24y2sJhMI)
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This girl's in for a world of hurt, I fear, like just about every other woman who ever got involved with a Kennedy.
Taylor Swift’s new album could contain songs about Conor Kennedy
Last Updated: 3:53 PM, August 29, 2012
Taylor Swift’s written some thinly veiled breakup songs about past beaus, including John Mayer, but her upcoming album “Red” could include tunes about her current love Conor Kennedy.
In Rolling Stone, Swift says it was a tough challenge to balance songs that drew from past heartbreak as well as new, hopeful romance.
"Trying to chronicle each step of the way was challenging, because you go to some really dark places with the lyric,” she tells the music magazine. “Then in the next track, you're talking about how amazing it is to meet somebody new."
Swift also says “Red,” out October 22, will continue her track record of writing confessional songs about romantic relationships.
"I know general things about love," she says. "How to treat people well, what you deserve and when to walk away. Other than that, love is a complete mystery – and that's why I like to write about it."
Page Six recently reported Swift’s so smitten with Kennedy that she recently sent a private plane to pick him up in Massachusetts after she’d left him to head home to Nashville.
A source told us, “Taylor missed Conor so much, she sent a plane for him a few days later. He’s been with her ever since, and his family doesn’t know when he will be back. Things have become so serious between them so fast that no one in Hyannis Port would be surprised if they eloped.”
Meanwhile, Swift’s reportedly buying a house near the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port. “That would be so amazing,” she says in Rolling Stone on newsstands Friday. Some say that she’s already scooped up the property.
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/taylor_swift_new_album_could_contain_MDhvqen3MX8uljrXyylqwN#ixzz24y3QObwS)
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Yep.. Swift is in for a huge fall... probably of Britney Spears proportions if the stories since this "romance" started are even close to accurate.
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After hearing her last song (it was so bad I put it in the Jukebox from Hell), it's blatantly clear she has major issues. Look, I understand that dating for a musician who's constantly on the road and with a schedule like hers is extremely difficult, if not impossible (I think of the case of Cliff Richard, who has been out there doing music for 50 years but had to give up any dreams of marriage to do it), but come on! So often she places the blame on somebody else when she herself is the one acting belligerent. Yet I've never heard her do a mea culpa for her angry outbursts.
What's worse is that her teen-girl audience eats her garbage up. That song went to #1 on the Hot 100.
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Speaking of the Kennedys:
Hosp duo’s demand of Kennedy
By CARL CAMPANILE
Last Updated: 3:18 AM, October 3, 2012
EXCLUSIVE
Two nurses say a healthy dose of money and a public apology on the “Today” show will help cure the “pain and suffering’’ they’ve endured since Douglas Kennedy moved his newborn son out of their hospital, The Post has learned.
But that’s not enough for Cari Luciano and Anna Lane. Their proposal also includes a weird demand that Kennedy, a Fox News Channel reporter, spend two weeks collecting garbage.
The son of slain Sen. Robert Kennedy was charged with child endangerment and physical harassment after an altercation with the nurses when he took the infant, Bo, out of the maternity ward at Northern Westchester Hospital on Jan. 7.
“Douglas is confident that he will be fully exonerated at trial. He had no interest in making any kind of deal,” a Kennedy friend said. “This proposal smacked of a shakedown.”
Kennedy has pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor count of child endangerment and two counts of harassment, which are violations. He is scheduled to go to trial Oct. 22 in Mount Kisco.
In a secret March 19 “settlement proposal” drafted by Luciano and Lane’s lawyer, Elliott Taub, and obtained by The Post, the nurses offered to withdraw their allegations — for a price.
Taub wants “a monetary settlement to each nurse the sum of which is to be agreed upon and paid, commensurate with each nurse’s physical and psychological injuries, pain and suffering, and particularly posttraumatic stress disorders.
“The nurses,” Taub said, “agree to keep this settlement amount strictly confidential.”
The deal would force Kennedy to plead guilty to “some charge in exchange for the nurses withdrawing their criminal complaints . . . with a sentence or penalty of community service to be set by the DA and/or Court — preferably collecting garbage daily in Mount Kisco or Chappaqua for at least two weeks,” said Taub, who did not respond to a request for comment.
The plan also demands Kennedy donate to a children’s health fund.
Moreover, it would require Kennedy, who has five children, to publicly apologize to the nurses on the “Today” show for his actions, including allegedly twisting the arm of one nurse and kicking the other.
Kennedy rejected the deal.
A spokesman for Westchester County DA Janet Fiore declined to comment. But a source close to the case said there was “not even a hint” of plea bargaining.
A former Brooklyn prosecutor criticized the nurses’ attempts to settle the case for a price.
“It’s wrong,’’ said David Schwartz, who is not involved in the case.
“You can’t exchange a quid pro quo of this magnitude. It’s a play for money, and they’re not going about it the right way.”
It’s the prosecutor who determines whether to pursue the case or accept a plea, he added.
NY Post, photos at link (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/nur_ing_grudge_bCu7rPec8nQsNxy6CCcRnN)
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Speaking of the dimbulb who, like the Kennedys, seems to believe she's entitled to forage at the gubmint trough as an elected official despite no particular knowledge, intellect, experience or talent:
Chelsea Clinton Exited Wall Street to Seek Career With Meaning
By Lindsey Rupp on October 03, 2012
Chelsea Clinton says she left her career on Wall Street three years ago to find more purpose.
“Intellectually, I loved my job, but I didn’t get any meaning from it,” says Clinton, 32, who worked from 2006 to 2009 as an associate at Avenue Capital Group LLC, a New York- based hedge fund firm. “I didn’t fundamentally become re- motivated every day in the way that I do now.”
Clinton has since earned a Master’s degree in public health from Columbia University, where she teaches a course in cross- national health policy, and is working on a PhD in international relations from Oxford University. She’s on the boards of IAC/Interactive Corp, the School of the American Ballet and Weill Cornell Medical College, and is a special correspondent for Comcast Corp.’s NBC television network.
She spoke about her Wall Street job in an interview at the Clinton Global Initiative’s annual meeting last week, fresh from a discussion about the future of Haiti.
She still appreciates the finance business, she says. Her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, is the co-founder of the hedge fund Eaglevale Partners LP. Clinton says she believes in the industry’s ability to improve the lot of the world’s poorest citizens, by investing in their enterprises.
“They need people like those on Wall Street, who will be dispassionate about it and who will be gender-blind,” Clinton says. Increasingly, “the development world is moving toward an investment mindset.”
‘Wall Street-ese’
Financial institutions can help push it in that direction, she says. “The people I know on Wall Street are engaged and interested in our city and our country. I hope that people will just look out their proverbial back door.”
At the three-day CGI conference, Clinton joined her father, former President Bill Clinton, in cajoling bankers, executives, philanthropists and non-profit leaders to commit time and money to global quandaries, such as human trafficking, land rights for women and sustainable farming in Africa.
She watched her mother, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, talk about Libya. She hosted her own panel, called Optimism in the 21st Century, steering discussion among a teenaged cancer researcher, the president of the Ford Foundation and the finance minister of Nigeria.
“One of the things that CGI, as a platform, aims to do is to bring people together so at least conversations are happening in the same room and, hopefully over time, in the same language,” she says. “Academic-ese, Wall Street-ese and development-ese historically have all been rather distinct.”
Trading Floor
Clinton knows the spotlight. She jokes that her birth, in 1980, was front page news -- at least in Arkansas, where her father was governor. She spent her teen years in the White House, and first traveled to sub-Saharan Africa as a high school student in 1997.
Four years later, she graduated from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and saw no clear career path, she says. Her friends were typically choosing one of five pursuits: consulting, banking, law school, medical school, or “gap years to go find themselves, generally somewhere in Southeast Asia.”
Clinton chose McKinsey & Co., the management consulting firm, and moved to New York. Three years later, she joined Avenue, which was started in 1995 by Marc Lasry and his sister, Sonia Gardner, and has about $12.5 billion in assets. Lasry is close to the Clinton family and a long-time donor to Democrats.
“I wanted to understand how people thought about money who were in the business of making money,” Clinton says. She was one of about three women on a trading floor of roughly 50, and appreciated that her success was measured by the numbers.
“It was incredibly, fiercely meritocratic, and I loved that,” she says “Quite literally, there was a bottom line to my performance.”
“Ultimately,” she says, “that wasn’t the metric I wanted to judge my life by in a professional sense.”
Business Week (http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-10-03/chelsea-clinton-exited-wall-street-to-seek-career-with-meaning)
Her husband tried to break away and become a ski bum, but I see he was dragged back to the more "respectable" hedge fund life so as not to ruin her electability. Incredibly, literally, proverbially, that is (just speaking in BriefingRoom-ese).
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http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-rips-obamas-debate-performance-looked-like-he-took-my-million-and-spent-it-all-on-weed/ (http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-rips-obamas-debate-performance-looked-like-he-took-my-million-and-spent-it-all-on-weed/)
Bill Maher Rips Obama’s Debate Performance: Looked Like He Took My Million And Spent It All On Weed
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During his opening monologue tonight, Bill Maher admitted he was not happy with how President Obama did during his first big debate this week. He told his audience that Obama undeniably “sucked” during the debate, and surmised that the million dollars he gave to the campaign was probably spent on weed.
Maher surmised that because Wednesday was Obama’s anniversary, “he apparently had the sex first and was completely spent” for the debate. He contrasted Romney looking “charged up” with Obama looking like Michael Jackson on diprivan. Maher admitted that Obama “sucked” during the debate, and made a joke referencing the money he gave to the pro-Obama Super PAC
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Maher surmised that because Wednesday was Obama’s anniversary, “he apparently had the sex first and was completely spent” for the debate.
Not with Moochelle, I'd wager.
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Not with Moochelle, I'd wager.
:silly: :silly: :silly: for sure not with moosie.
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The celebrity "First Daughter" manages to get herself in the news again. She must have a heck of a publicist.
Why Chelsea sits out Obama campaign
Last Updated: 8:27 AM, October 11, 2012
After being a prominent campaigner for her mother, Hillary Clinton, five years ago, Chelsea Clinton’s absence from the current presidential campaign is conspicuous. But sources tell us she isn’t disillusioned with President Obama, but that her contract with NBC News “prevents her from participating in the campaign.”
Between 2007 and the end of the 2008 primaries, Chelsea played a role in her mother’s run for president, appearing at more than 100 college campuses before introducing Hillary at the August 2008 Democratic National Convention. This year, Chelsea attended both the DNC and the RNC conventions, but took a more neutral role. The former first daughter moderated a panel about millennials — 18- to 29-year-olds — at the RNC in Tampa in August. She then cheered on her father at the DNC in September and moderated a panel for the National Journal about the youth vote.
Another source told us, “Because of her work with NBC, Chelsea has been participating on both sides of the process.”
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/why_chelsea_sits_it_out_jNutPdkPXDojJnDqNPvJfO#ixzz28zgHoIF9)
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“I wanted to understand how people thought about money who were in the business of making money,” Clinton says. She was one of about three women on a trading floor of roughly 50, and appreciated that her success was measured by the numbers.
“It was incredibly, fiercely meritocratic, and I loved that,” she says “Quite literally, there was a bottom line to my performance.”
“Ultimately,” she says, “that wasn’t the metric I wanted to judge my life by in a professional sense.”
We can't have a Clinton thinking like a conservative! Hillary probably stepped in and tamped down THAT urge.
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NYC acts for Prez
Last Updated: 8:29 AM, October 15, 2012
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A host of top actors are being invited to take part in a New York fund-raiser for President Obama attended by First Lady Michelle Obama on Wednesday. “Presidential actors” — who have played the president or the first lady on TV and film — are being invited to join in a performance directed by “The Graduate” director Mike Nichols.
We’re told that actors on the wish list include Geena Davis, Cherry Jones, Cynthia Nixon, Sam Waterston, Blair Underwood, Sigourney Weaver and James Earl Jones. The event will take place at event space 583 Park Ave., and tickets cost from $500 to $5,000, which gives you a great seat and a photo opportunity with the first lady.
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Wide-angle lenses suggested.
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Is Tinseltown turning on Obama? (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/tinseltown_is_turning_on_bam_CVmaKIeaQvPLmyeSRyTBYI)
by Andrea Peyser
Look out. Hollywood is having a Republican crisis.
Once America’s most dependable bastion of liberal blather, the land of make believe has gone rogue. Each week, the new movie season brings another defection to Camp Romney, a place where taxes are less punishing, foreign policy is reliably pro-Israel, and stupid movies like “Innocence of Muslims’’ are not blamed for costing American lives.
It’s the terrorists, stupid.
You can see this sea change in the new Ben Affleck-directed movie, “Argo.” Once an ardent Obama-phile, the disaffected Hollywood hunk has chosen this election season to take on flaccid Democratic ex-President Jimmy Carter with a terrific and damning (to the government) new film about the 1979-81 Iranian hostage crisis. It seems no accident that the film brilliantly foretells today’s bloody events in the Middle East.
The land that once loved Obama is not stupid when it comes to selling tickets. The unexpected hit of the summer was Dinesh D’Souza’s documentary, “2016: Obama’s America.’’ The stinging big-screen indictment of Obama’s socialist leanings and disloyalty to the state of Israel was — surprise! — produced by the Oscar winner behind “Schindler’s List,” “Rain Man” and “Jurassic Park,” Gerald Molen.
“All of my movies have been about telling the truth,” Molen, a rare Hollywood Republican — who knew? — told The Hollywood Reporter.
Even hard-left filmmaker Michael Moore has grown weary of a commander-in-chief who doesn’t appear up to the job. After Obama’s disastrous performance in the debate against Mitt Romney, Moore tweeted, “If Romney keeps this up . . . Obama is going to vote for him!”
Four years ago, I doubt that the anti-union movie “Won’t Back Down’’ would have been green-lighted, let alone attract an A-list cast including Oscar nominees Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis. The poorly reviewed film (by lefty journalists) broadcast the message that Americans are fed up with liberal teachers unions that care nothing about kids while protecting rotten teachers and obstructing efforts at school reform.
Even loopy actress Lindsay Lohan, who once called Obama’s elevation to president “amazing,” said she’s endorsing Romney this time, although I suspect La Linz’s loyalty is not a great score for Mitt.
“Argo,” with its early Oscar buzz, stellar cast and formerly reliably liberal director in Affleck, may present the most chilling depiction of our enemies since “The Manchurian Candidate.’’
The flick’s backdrop is the snatching of 52 American hostages by Iranians at the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979. The hostage crisis carried on for months, as an impotent Carter couldn’t do anything right.
“Carter’s s--tting enough bricks to build a pyramid,’’ remarks a CIA superior Jack O’Connell (Bryan Cranston).
The CIA, meanwhile, hatches a plot to extract six Americans who’ve escaped the embassy and are holed up at the Canadian ambassador’s house. In a real-life drama that was kept secret until the Clinton administration, CIA operative Tony Mendez (Affleck) rescues the six Americans after 87 days, convincing the Iranians that the Americans are really part of a Canadian film crew.
The remaining 52 hostages finally came home after a mind-boggling 444 days in captivity. By then, fed-up voters replaced Carter with Republican President Ronald Reagan.
Affleck, no big fan of Romney, has soured on Obama. “I voted for Obama last time, although he got to be all things to all people then,” he said while promoting his film. “And now, he’s got a record, which makes it really different . . . I obviously have more complicated feelings.”
“Argo” evokes another complicated recent Middle East crisis: the murders of American Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three colleagues. Five days after the event, UN Ambassador Susan Rice hit the talk shows, insisting that Stevens’ killing resulted from a “spontaneous” protest rally against “Innocence of Muslims,” a schlocky film seen as insulting to the prophet Mohammed.
The Obama administration wanted to blame the deaths on something out of its control but has since backed off the claim, looking as weak as Jimmy Carter at his most impotent.
In 2012, the Hollywood brain trust knows that images of American strength sell better than those of self-flagellation.
There is hope.
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And this ...
Tim stuns H’wood with Bam slams
By SEAN DALY
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/tim_stuns_wood_with_bam_slams_mD27QlhZQvrLnod3NKJxNI)
Last Updated: 6:16 AM, October 15, 2012
Comedian Tim Allen has an idea for a home improvement at the White House: Get a new tenant!
A rare Republican in Democrat-loving Hollywood — let alone in prime time — Allen delivers a comic smackdown in the season premiere of his ABC sitcom, “Last Man Standing.”
It’s the first sign the GOP may be making inroads in what has been nearly solid support for the president on the left coast.
In the episode, airing four days before the election, Allen’s uber-conservative character, Mike Baxter, tries to persuade his impressionable 18-year-old daughter to vote for Mitt Romney.
“The Democrats will tax [your] inheritance and probably use that money to throw gay weddings for illegal aliens,” Allen’s character tells the Kardashian-loving teen, who thinks Bill Clinton’s mother is secretary of state.
“Democrats love spending other people’s money. Free health care for everybody . . . Whoopee! Now lazy people can go around licking doorknobs.”
While Allen squeezed some jokes in at the president’s expense, he wasn’t given an unlimited leash to bite into Bam. Allen told The Post that the Disney-owned network scrapped numerous jokes, including one in which his character calls the president “a communist.”
“I love communist jokes,” Allen said. “The right sees everything as a communist.”
“We also had this line about the Clintons where I say, ‘They’re like shingles; just when you think they are gone, they pop back up.’ ”
That, too, got cut.
Among the lines that survived:
* “Romney is a doer. It’s easy to be consistent, like Obama, when all you have done is ‘organize communities.’ ”
* “He did a great job with that South Side of Chicago. It runs like a watch down there. Of course, you can’t wear one.”
Allen said there are plenty of jokes aimed at Romney — because the network thought it was necessary to give the show some balance.
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RFK Jr. and late wife didn't pay for many of renovations to make Westchester mansion eco-friendly
By ISABEL VINCENT and MELISSA KLEIN
Last Updated: 8:02 AM, October 28, 2012
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/poor_rfk_got_it_on_the_house_Ijnvs8XZOaRKldY6dZdJyO) EXCLUSIVE
For the Kennedys, it was easy being green.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his late wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy, didn’t pay a penny for the high-end kitchen appliances, dual-flush toilets, solid brass and zinc faucets, hardwood flooring and hypoallergenic rugs when they created their eco-friendly Westchester mansion. Even the bamboo hangers and the cleaning products were free — a $1.3 million bonanza of swag.
Now five months after Mary Richardson Kennedy’s suicide at the sprawling estate in Bedford, her husband is set to make a windfall.
RFK Jr. claims he already has a buyer after listing the house last week for $3.995 million. He and his first wife bought the original 1920 clapboard farmhouse on the site for $745,000 in 1985.
Kennedy married Mary Richardson in 1994, and they were raising their four children in the house, which flooded in a 2003 storm. Mold infested the home and made it uninhabitable. The Kennedys, along with interior designer Robin Wilson, crafted a plan to raze it and rebuild with as little outlay as possible.
Contractors and vendors donated their services or slashed their rates for the promise of free publicity. There were offers of “platinum sponsorships” and talk of tours to showcase the mansion and its products. Home-improvement TV host Bob Vila started filming a show chronicling the construction, “Our Green House,” for NBC. It does not appear the show ever aired.
“He didn’t think he should pay for anything; even the suits he wears were donated,” a source said of RFK Jr. “He felt people should pay for him. He had an enormous sense of entitlement.”
Bedford town records show the cost of the renovation project was $2.5 million, but it’s unclear if that includes all the freebies the family got. They took out a $1 million loan in September 2009, records show.
The project was a win-win for the Kennedys and Wilson. The family even got a tax deduction for donating the remains of the old house to a nonprofit.
Wilson got a book deal out of it, writing “Kennedy Green House” to highlight her work. Wilson portrays the Kennedys as being financially squeezed as the project went over budget and they lived in a rental home during construction, which started in the fall of 2008.
RFK Jr. could hardly be described as poor. He is a professor of environmental law at Pace University and in 2009 earned $2.2 million in speaking fees alone, according to someone who saw his tax returns.
Yet Wilson was calling vendors asking for free bulletin boards.
Scott Kochlefl, who owns Ideation Design Services Inc., said he thought it was odd that the Kennedys would ask for a handout of his product — an eco-friendly alternative to a corkboard. He supplied seven boards worth $189.87.
The kitchen was designed for free, and the craftsman who did the bookcases and fireplace mantels charged half his rate.
Jeff Bridgman, an antique-flag dealer, loaned the couple some 35 framed flags to hang on their walls in a kind of rotating art gallery.
Builder Jim Blansfield, who led the two-year construction project, said he charged “very, very much less than what I would normally charge. I felt the project had great merit.”
Blansfield said he was proud of the house, but it has not resulted in any increase in his business.
The Kennedys showed off their newly finished estate to reporters in April 2010.
But the couple’s marriage was already in shambles. RFK Jr. filed for divorce a month after the press tour and moved out in 2011. The TV show never aired.
Although Mary Richardson Kennedy — an architect by trade who is barely mentioned in Wilson’s book — was involved in every detail of the project, she resented the house being used as a showplace, according to the source.
“It wasn’t a private place for her and the kids,” the source said. “It was like living in one of the windows at Macy’s.”
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I have long found him to be the most reprehensible of all of RFK's children.
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Chris Brown dresses as ‘terrorist’ for Halloween
Last Updated: 9:49 AM, November 1, 2012
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/chris_brown_dresses_as_terrorist_vWj2rrtbaCyiVjlCmYPKCM)
As you can see, Chris Brown and his friends decided to dress as what appeared to be armed terrorists for Halloween last night. The R&B singer posted this incredibly offensive photo onto his Instagram account, causing his 1.5 million followers to get instant whiplash from shaking their heads in disgust.
Brown and his idiot posse are standing in front of an expensive looking car and wave their presumably fake guns at the camera. The singer is front and center with a fake beard, holding a machine gun high above his head.
"Ain't nobody [bleep]ing wit my clique!!!!" he captioned with the pic, referring to the song “Clique” by Kanye West and Jay-Z.
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Chris Brown via Instagram
Chris Brown (middle) and his friends dressed as terrorists for Halloween
No stranger to controversy, Brown made headlines a month back when he debuted a neck tattoo that looked suspiciously like the images of Rihanna after he sent her to the hospital in 2009. He denied the tattoo was of Rihanna, but the damage was done.
Chris Brown, please stick to music.
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The Kennedys are just a never-ending mess of disgustingness.
RFK Jr. and late wife asked Al Franken to help them receive no-cost home renovations: designer
By ISABEL VINCENT and MELISSA KLEIN
Last Updated: 6:12 AM, November 4, 2012
Posted: 1:40 AM, November 4, 2012
EXCLUSIVE
A discount isn’t good enough — for the Kennedys, it has to be free.
That was the message from Mary Richardson Kennedy, with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., while they were remaking their mold-infested 1920 house as a green showpiece, according to Robin Wilson, the interior designer who worked on the project.
The Bedford, NY, house’s energy-efficient windows were being provided by a local distributor for a Minnesota company, Marvin Windows and Doors, at a discount of more than $100,000.
But Richardson called Sen. Al Franken, a Minnesota Democrat and an ally of her husband, and asked him to push the company to donate the windows.
“Mary reached out to many people and corporations, including Al Franken,” Wilson told The Post.
A spokesman for Franken denied the claim, saying the senator “was never asked by Mary Richardson Kennedy for help with renovations.”
The windows are just one example of the many items the Kennedys coveted when they remodeled their seven-bedroom mansion. They raked in more than $1.3 million in free products and got deep discounts from the builder and other contractors — with the promise of publicity and credit on a never-aired Bob Vila television show for NBC.
RFK Jr. put the house on the market last month for $3.9 million — five months after his estranged wife committed suicide on the property.
Vila was on board through another Kennedy connection — Sarah Johnson Redlich, a film producer who lived in Bedford and wanted to work on the Vila show. Redlich had worked on a documentary based on RFK Jr.’s book “Crimes Against Nature.”
Wilson said it was a part of her job with the Kennedys to secure products and services for “free or as free as possible” during the renovation project, which stretched from 2008 to 2010.
“Robin Wilson kept saying, ‘If you don’t thoroughly donate the windows to us then we are going to completely omit the fact that you were even a part of this project,’ ” said a source familiar with the construction work. Despite the hard sell from Wilson and Mary Richardson Kennedy, the window distributor refused to budge. The Kennedys paid $230,000 for the windows, which had a retail price of $350,000, the source said.
The company got no credit for its work in Wilson’s book about the house, “Kennedy Green House,” or on the book’s Web site.
“This was purely a scenario of someone just trying to take advantage of their status, and it was almost to the point of grotesque,” the source said. “There was a complete abuse of power.”
Free Benjamin Moore paint for the mansion did not go far enough for the Kennedys. They also wanted enough paint for their vacation house in Hyannis Port, Mass., and to cover a float in the village’s annual July 4th parade, another source told The Post.
But Wilson herself got stiffed. Mary Richardson Kennedy fired her just as the project was winding down and paid only a part of her final bill, Wilson said.
RFK Jr. would not comment.
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/rfk_jr_political_arm_twi_xatYVghiAMmxcn50rUiJQP)
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Celebrities are so used to getting tax-free swag it boggles the mind.. I remember reading several years ago about Demi Moore going to buy a new bed and being incensed the store was not going to give it to her because of who she was....
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No shortage of ego here.
Oprah reveals breast cancer scare for the first time as she admits she may shut down namesake magazine
By Daniel Bates
PUBLISHED: 10:42 EST, 26 November 2012 | UPDATED: 11:00 EST, 26 November 2012
Oprah Winfrey recently had a breast cancer scare and fears she may have to shut down O Magazine as she hates 'bleeding money'.
The chat show queen has revealed that in October she went to see doctors but that it turned out to be a 'false alarm'.
She had however taken the news so seriously that she did not even tell best friend Gayle King until after she got the all clear. ...
Rest of story (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2238708/Oprah-reveals-breast-cancer-scare-time-admits-shut-namesake-magazine.html#ixzz2DLY0Pst5)So she announces that she does not have breast cancer, never did, and that's newsworthy? What am I missing?
Oh yes, and that's a shame that OWN and her magazine are losing money hand over fist.
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Clinton to become next ambassador to Ireland?
Irish eyes smiling on Clinton?
By CINDY ADAMS, New York Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/cindy_adams/irish_eyes_smiling_on_clinton_NMfz6P7ixqXydQHwSmqKBI)
Posted: 11:53 PM, November 25, 2012
Bill Clinton was just in Limerick, Ireland’s Adare Manor. Arrived at Shannon Airport early Saturday, 12:45 a.m. Private jet plus entourage, 10 pieces of luggage and his own black golf bag. Extra security of 10 swept the area. Secret Service earlier scanned the hotel, installing six floodlights at the entrance to secure protection. Bill went straight to room 301, his second time in this historical Irish property built in 1720.
Ordering room service, the ex-prez stuck to his diet. Intercepting the waiters, security delivered his veggie sandwiches personally.
Rumors swirl he’ll replace retiring ambassador Dan Rooney, 80, who’s returning to Pittsburgh next year. This is Clinton’s third 2012 visit — October, June, now November. When made a Freeman of Limerick, he received the honor personally, and they erected his statue at the golf course. He joked, “Because of my Irish heritage, if I bought a house here I could run for president of Ireland.”
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Crowe ‘Tale’ of B’klyn woe
Last Updated: 8:31 AM, November 27, 2012
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/crowe_tale_of_klyn_woe_JNqQ0FTm4kxV8ijh7gGeuM)
Residents in Sandy-ravaged Red Hook are roiling over the star-studded Hollywood movie starring Russell Crowe that’s taken over their Brooklyn neighborhood as they try to dig out of the devastation.
Locals tell Page Six that production on “Winter’s Tale” — also starring Jennifer Connelly, Will Smith and Colin Farrell — was meant to leave by Thanksgiving. But shooting has been extended, causing traffic snarls, blocking access and parking residents say they need to continue digging out from Sandy’s damage.
“The crew’s taking up all the parking spaces on the streets that residents and business owners desperately need to help the area dig out and recover,” local Francis Kerrigan said.
Business owners also complain that Conover Street, by the water, is clogged with the crew’s cars. Kerrigan added: “We were told the shoot would be done by Thursday. But now the crew says it will be longer because [Crowe, pictured right] didn’t show up for filming last week. When I asked when it would be done, the answer was, ‘As long as it takes Russell to film.’ This is a case of no-show Crowe adds to the [bleep] show!”
Another resident said the filming was too soon after the storm: “People are still trying to dig out. Fairway was under six feet of water. Now the movie has a craft-services tent in the parking lot.”
But a source close to the production told us shooting was delayed not because of Crowe, but by the storm which wreaked havoc on numerous schedules, including Crowe’s “Noah,” which just wrapped, and CBS’ “Person of Interest.”
“It’s not true at all that Russell missed any days on set,” the film source said. “Schedules for every production filming in New York have been shuffled because of Sandy, ‘Noah’ included. The film’s been working closely with the City of New York, and everything has been above board.”
Crowe’s rep told us, “There is no truth to this . . . [Russell’s] scheduled first day of shooting was [Sunday].” She said Crowe had only been on the set once earlier for “pre-production.” A rep for the movie had no comment.
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No shortage of ego here.Rest of story (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2238708/Oprah-reveals-breast-cancer-scare-time-admits-shut-namesake-magazine.html#ixzz2DLY0Pst5)So she announces that she does not have breast cancer, never did, and that's newsworthy? What am I missing?
Oh yes, and that's a shame that OWN and her magazine are losing money hand over fist.
The Oprah empire is crumbling...
...looks like her Favorite Things this year will be IOU's.
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Cindy Adams writes about our cheesy politician/celebrities, the Gores and the Clintons:
Amicable Gores forge ahead
By CINDY ADAMS (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/cindy_adams/amicable_gores_forge_ahead_YB2LtHL2v5IC72u73TWl8M)
Last Updated: 12:48 AM, November 29, 2012
Tipper. Update on the lady who used to be the once was, formerly, previous wife of Al Gore, who used to be the once was, formerly, previous VP of the US. Living far from glorious friendly Washington, she’s in Santa Barbara. Now happy. Dating a photographer.
But the split’s civilized. She sees Al, they speak, even recently vacationed together. It’s just that they don’t anymore want to live together.
Al, meanwhile, has made a crateload. Fat with cash. Fat with investments. And with nothing overwhelming to stress him, also fat with fat.
HILLARY. Bone-weary, she has one whole year to do zippo. Tend her hair, face, weight, nerves, family, friends and wardrobe. She needs to play. Do a spa. Sleep. Laugh. Waste a day. She admits she is well aware the public wants her in public life. Wherever she goes she’s constantly asked to run for president. Before she even thinks to do it, or starts raising money, staffers and PACs, it’s a year to rest. Then she’ll decide. Right now she doesn’t even know what she wants to do.
But I know what Obama did. His very first call after re-election? William Jefferson Clinton. To say thanks. To acknowledge Bill helped push him over the top.
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Guess who is waiting for Hillary to declare in or out before SHE jumps in for 2016?
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Chelsea trying for baby, Bubba says
Last Updated: 9:26 AM, November 20, 2012
Bill Clinton says his daughter Chelsea and son-in-law Marc Mezvinsky are trying for a baby, according to our spies. Sources attending the All Ireland Scholarship Awards at the University of Limerick — where Bill was a special guest Saturday — overheard Bubba telling a guest when asked if he and Hillary want to be grandparents that Chelsea and Mezvinsky “tell us they’re working on it.”
When the spy asked if Hillary would run for president, he laughed, saying, “You’ll have to ask her.”
The ex-prez reportedly picked up $250,000 for speaking at the event, where 125 students received scholarships and guests included Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan, businessman JP McManus, rugby icons Keith Wood and Paul O’Connell and Michael Smurfit, owner of the tony K Club.
Bubba arrived in Ireland on Friday and stayed at the luxe Adare Manor Hotel and Golf Resort, where guests have included Hugh Grant and John Travolta. Spies say he hit the links with pals Friday before his speech in front of 600 invite-only guests.
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/chelsea_working_on_baby_bubba_says_chpLuNIrNlItmRHICna73K?utm_campaign=OutbrainA&utm_source=OutbrainArticlepages&obref=obinsite)
Ugh.
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As if we weren't nauseated enough by the thought of Chelsea Clinton spawning...
Facebook or Instagram?
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Meryl Streep put on their brightest smiles to snap a self-portrait at the Kennedy Center Honors Gala dinner at the State Department.
(http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2012/12/03/news/web_photos/03.1n003.hillary1.C.TA--300x300.jpg)
Acting as hostess, Clinton worked the room at the star-studded Saturday-night fete, held for the 2012 Kennedy Center Honorees ahead of last night’s Honors Gala.
She even took time to pose for fans with her hubby, ex-President Bill Clinton.
Among the honorees attending were members of Led Zeppelin, blues icon Buddy Guy, Dustin Hoffman and David Letterman.
At one point, the ex-prez had to be coaxed to pose for a photo with the honorees.
Streep, who won an Oscar playing Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady,” is a professed fan of the secretary of state.
“She has turned out to be the voice of her generation. I’m an actress, and she is the real deal,” she said this year at the Women in the World Summit at Lincoln Center.
The Honors Gala will air on CBS Dec. 26.
I'm not an actress, and you're a nitwit. ^-^
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Hillary looks a lot better with that mess she calls hair these days pulled back like this.
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Yup, it looks clean in that pic.
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Notice how even Meryl Streep - unlike the Hilldebeaste - has figured out that "women of a certain age" should have long hair down to their shoulders, as if they were 20-somethings.
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From the NY Post "Page Six" column:
We hear ... THAT Grammy winner Bruce Sussman and AXS-TV host Rob Shuter received a letter of congratulations on their one-year wedding anniversary from Barack and Michelle Obama, (which may replace Sussman’s framed gold record for “Copacabana” over their fireplace) . . .
How many heterosexual couples received anniversary greetings from The Won? Does Barry have an employee whose only job is to keep track of celebrity gay weddings?
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From the NY Post "Page Six" column:How many heterosexual couples received anniversary greetings from The Won? Does Barry have an employee whose only job is to keep track of celebrity gay weddings?
8888crybaby 8888crybaby 8888crybaby our country has truly sold out to the devil.
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Global party
Last Updated: 1:08 AM, January 2, 2013
Posted: 12:34 AM, January 2, 2013
Leo DiCaprio and his “Wolf of Wall Street” co-star Jonah Hill racked up some impressive air miles for their New Year’s celebrations — cheering in the New Year in both Sydney and Vegas. The actors were spotted partying on a boat with a group of attractive bikini-clad women while cruising Sydney Harbor on Saturday. The pair flew from Australia to Vegas on a chartered 747 along with stars including Jamie Foxx, Kevin Connolly and Leo’s latest love, Margot Robbie. A source tells us, “They partied at Marquee Star Lounge Sydney and left at 1 a.m. Australia time, flew 13 hours to Vegas, arriving at 10 p.m. to Vegas, and went to Lavo to watch the fireworks.” Leo and his crew later partied at Marquee until the early hours. Over at 1Oak at the Mirage, pregnant Kim Kardashian, along with Kanye West, rang in 2013, and witnesses told us, “Kim and Kanye looked to be very much in love, sharing a long kiss after Kim counted down the new year to the night club. While Kim was alcohol-free, her group went through multiple bottles of Dom Perignon, and Kanye was seen touching her belly.” The DJ played Kanye and Jay-Z songs, all of which “Kanye sang along to and stood on the platform at his table for all to see.” Other celebrity attendees included Robin Thicke, John Legend and Chrissy Teigen, Lucas Haas, Erin Andrews and Foxx, who got on the mike to give a performance of “Gold Digger,” even though Kanye had already left the building.
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Comments: Dave Mattheisen ·
F*cking Hollywood eco-Nazi hypocrite.
"Fossil fuel usage for me but definitely not for thee".
Thomas Mcgeehan · Top Commenter · Manhattan, New York
I agree.
Kevin O'Neill · Top Commenter · Southbury, Connecticut
They learn from the 'chosen one'. Obama flies around in AF1 like it's his personal toy. No one has put more mileage on that plane since it was built. Liberals make the rules for others to follow but not themselves. No president should be allowed to use that plane for campaign stops and vacation trips. It should only be used for government business. Period.
They think there is no end to the oil in the ground and waste it at every opportunity. There will be none left when our grand kids need it to stay warm. But at least these POS liberals are having fun.
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Paul Vincent Zecchino · Top Commenter
This is the one who reportedly owns a private island off Belize, 'to save the planet'? How does chartering a 747 to London and filling it with entertainers lower the dreaded 'carbon footprint'?
Oh, that's right, it doesn't. Typical superrich leftist, 'rules for thee, not for me.'
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Kim K who is still married to husband #2 is now pregnant from Kanye.
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Kim K who is still married to husband #2 is now pregnant from Kanye.
Yup, and not even the least bit embarrassed. Yay for the apocalypse! :woohoo:
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Kim K who is still married to husband #2 is now pregnant from Kanye.
Well, these days a marriage only matters if it is a gay marriage.
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Yup, and not even the least bit embarrassed. Yay for the apocalypse! :woohoo:
One of the reasons my sister refers to them as the "Kartrashians."
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The Kardashians may as well be the symbol of the end of Western Civilization.
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Michael Moore raises holy hell
Last Updated: 8:58 AM, January 9, 2013
Page Six (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/moore_raises_holy_hell_JHzuJm2N6pPC2i8xOcP18K)
Michael Moore got a bad review from at least one upset critic at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards at Crimson on Monday.
Moore was there to present Best First Film to David France for his doc “How To Survive a Plague,” a salute to a protest group that stormed St. Patrick’s Cathedral in 1989 over the AIDS crisis. But Armond White, gadfly critic and former organization chair, began heckling him for “anti-Catholic” rhetoric.
Moore raised hackles when he recalled how activists at the height of the epidemic blocked roads, threw pies at politicians and interrupted Mass at St. Patrick’s. Moore stated, “I personally like that one. I say that as a former seminarian.”
But White and a friend shouted, “[Bleep] you!” “You liar!” “Shut up!” and “Drop dead!”
Moore responded, “I’ve pissed off the Catholics,” and began a blessing in Latin. He then went on to say that “those who would deify Reagan and Pope John Paul II are responsible for the deaths of thousands of people . . . because of their bigotry.”
White — who has dished out his fair share of criticism to Moore in his reviews — was later heard saying that Moore “disparaged Catholics,” and told us, “I was offended . . . He was there to present the film and not present a personal political diatribe.”
Moore says, “I was just describing some of the things of the film . . . is a reactionary conservative [bleep]hole.”
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Burkle avoiding Clinton? Sparks fly at Globes party
Posted: 12:20 AM, January 15, 2013
Bill Clinton mingled with Hollywood talent and top agents at the CAA Golden Globes after-party at the Sunset Tower Hotel. But one top power broker was missing. Sources said Ron Burkle, who has invested heavily in the Weinstein Co. and Relativity Media, was not there “because of his back story with Clinton.”
The pair were friends and flew around on Burkle’s jet, but then fell out. His rep said, “Ron went to Harvey’s party, then home.”
Burkle was expected to join Clinton at a fund-raiser for Kobe Bryant’s foundation in LA last night.
Other stars at the CAA bash included Robert Downey Jr., George Clooney, Bill Murray, Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban and Amy Adams. Meanwhile Weinstein Co.’s Globes party nearly went up in flames when a drunk woman crashed into a heating lamp, sending the contraption and the guest toppling into a wooden table and chairs.
A witness said, “There was a gasp as guests could only watch the flaming tower fall and wonder whether it would then ignite the wooden patio furniture. But luckily the fire went out and the wobbly woman was attended to, then escorted to the exit.”
At the same time, Heidi Klum was burning up the party inside without her bodyguard boyfriend nearby. Klum jumped up on a wobbly cocktail table at midnight, dancing to hip-hop. “Castle” star Nathan Fillion told the supermodel if she got on the table, he’d take off his pants, which he did. Ryan Seacrest’s girlfriend Julianne Hough also tore up the floor, as did Chris Tucker, who showed off some Michael Jackson moves. Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale were hanging on a couch in front of “The Hunger Games” star Josh Hutcherson. Leonard DiCaprio played it cool, hanging with Bradley Cooper and Jonah Hill. Also there were Quentin Tarantino, Jamie Foxx and J.Lo, who glossed over an awkward moment when she bumped into her ex, Sean “Diddy” Combs, by introducing her boyfriend Casper Smart.
Page Six (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/sparks_fly_at_globes_party_hoWQYhCpnUdwfx26M2X1SI#ixzz2I3E7qj99)
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What's a little debauchery among friends?
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Al Roker's White House poopy pants - the story that just won't go away.
Rubbing Lauer’s nose in it
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/rubbing_lauer_nose_in_it_9xpmT4hdhcs5NYhYDL372I)
Posted: 11:49 PM, January 16, 2013
Chelsea Handler got in deep doo-doo with Comcast brass over a joke about Al Roker’s unpredictable bowels that also smeared Roker’s “Today” colleague Matt Lauer, sources tell us.
Roker recently confessed to “Dateline” that he once “pooped” his pants at the White House, and news of the accident, ahem, exploded online.
Handler responded with a zinger on her E! show, “Chelsea Lately,” saying, “This isn’t the first time a ‘Today’ show cast member was in the news about this sensitive subject. For years it was common knowledge that Matt Lauer spent every morning [s - - ting] all over Ann Curry.”
WireImageChelsea Handler But Handler’s bosses — Comcast owns NBC and E! — were apparently not as amused as her audience.
“Chelsea’s writers were warned to lay off Matt,” says a source close to the show. “They don’t want them making more fun of Matt and the Ann Curry situation right now.” Lauer’s been a public target since Curry was canned as co-host of “Today” and replaced by Savannah Guthrie.
This isn’t the first time Handler’s slung some comedic excrement Lauer’s way. When Lauer made what seemed like a dig at Meredith Vieira during a “Today” segment on “cankles” back in 2009, Handler fired back with a shot at him.
In November, the comedienne canceled an appearance on “Today” by calling in hours before she was supposed to be on the show, due to what her rep told us was “food poisoning.”
But Handler said on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” later the same day, “That was a lie. I wasn’t sick,” and she apologized while getting in a swipe at “Today” hosts Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford, by calling them “Hoda Kota-ba and Kathie Lee Jifford.”
An E! spokesman told us about Handler and her writers being warned about Lauer: “This is absolutely false, and no such request was made.” A rep for “Today” declined to comment.
And Mr. Soiled Slacks himself meanwhile said yesterday that he’s stunned that his messy White House secret has become such a Web sensation.
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He had a different girlfriend last year (yes, that's George showing off his hot beach body):
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New life for Soros ex’s $50M suit
By JULIA MARSH
Last Updated: 3:39 AM, January 26, 2013
New York Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/new_life_for_soros_ex_suit_xHCjyHK4qqaukwT3fCfkIO)
Expect a second season in a Brazilian soap-opera beauty’s drama with her former squeeze, billionaire financier George Soros.
A Manhattan Supreme Court judge shot down the octogenarian mogul’s attempt to dismiss a blockbuster $50 million lawsuit by his decades-younger ex, actress Adriana Ferreyr.
Justice Debra James upheld most of the beauty’s claims against the lefty activist, who allegedly reneged on a promise to give her a $1.9 million apartment and then slapped her around when she complained, court papers say.
Soros had promised to buy Ferreyr the East 85th Street apartment in January 2010, just before he dumped her, court papers say.
The judge dismissed only a fraud claim, ruling that Soros, 82, really did mean to buy the dream home for Ferreyr, 29, even though he ultimately gave it to another gal pal.
James called Soros’ alleged behavior “atrocious.”
He “exhibited violent conduct towards her and hired persons to follow and intimidate her,” the judge’s decision noted.
The two sides will continue the saga at a court date in February.
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I'm putting this in the "politics and celebrity collide" section, not "news," because I view most of these cable news personalities not as actual reporters. They're just celebrities who happen to talk about current events and present Obama's side of things.
CNN snares Chris Cuomo
January 29, 2013
ABC News’ Chris Cuomo is defecting to CNN — and will take on “Today” and “Good Morning America” with a revamped new morning show he’ll host alongside the network’s Erin Burnett, Page Six (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/cnn_snares_chris_cuomo_M1CZxHKNDZTTqvGTtLYO3I) has learned.
We hear that new CNN chief Jeff Zucker has succeeded in signing Cuomo, who co-hosts “20/20” with Elizabeth Vargas and is also ABC’s chief legal correspondent and the brother of Gov. Andrew Cuomo. We first reported that Zucker was eyeing Cuomo and has been “looking for an anchor he can basically make the centerpiece of the network.”
He has also poached ABC’s senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper. And, as we previously reported, Zucker also has his eye on former “Today” co-host Ann Curry, who is still tied to an NBC contract but has been stopped from doing live interviews.
We also hear Zucker has been scouting top print and digital reporters in Los Angeles to beef up CNN’s Hollywood reporting. Reps for CNN and Cuomo were not available for comment last night.
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The perpetually starstruck President Kardashian hobnobs with the Miami Heat. Considering what a Kardashian would do with any of these fellows, I'm sure he's envious of Kym and Khloe.
LeBron takes DC
Last Updated: 12:43 AM, January 30, 2013
Posted: 12:16 AM, January 30, 2013
Before LeBron James headed to the White House with his Miami Heat teammates, he fired up the crowd at nightclub Capitale in DC. James partied with Heat teammates Ray Allen and Rashard Lewis, John Wall from the Wizards, Tyreke Evans and DeMarcus Cousins from the Sacramento Kings, and Roc Carmichael from the Houston Texans. The NBA MVP hopped on the mike for nearly 30 minutes. “Turn the lights out; this is DC,” he boomed at one point. “We party all night!” Eight bottles of Hennessy and Moët & Chandon Nectar Imperial Rosé were ordered by the ballers. President Obama honored the Heat Monday afternoon for the team’s charity work and winning the 2012 NBA title.
(http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2013/01/30/pagesix/web_photos/lebron_james_ap--300x300.jpg)
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More on rearranging the deck chairs on the SS CNN, from the NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/cnn_boss_plays_hard_game_e6l8gXuyqOqJkTkaWpk1SK):
Many of CNN’s top talents were being moved around like chess pieces yesterday.
After new CNN honcho Jeff Zucker hired Chris Cuomo from ABC, he dismissed pundits James Carville, Mary Matalin and Bill Bennett. CNN managing editor Mark Whitaker resigned, and Anderson Cooper learned his show will no longer be repeated in prime time. Cuomo is expected to be joined by Erin Burnett on a new morning show.
Page Six reported Dec. 10 that Zucker wanted to move Burnett from her prime-time slot “to revive the cabler’s moribund morning ratings.” She is, however, contracted to prime time, and a source says, “They’ll have to throw a bucket of money at her to go to the morning.”
And Soledad O’Brien has been promised a role in prime time.
Zucker has been taking an active role in all departments of CNN, not just human resources. “He is all over everyone at the network,” said one source. “He is e-mailing everyone, around the clock, the anchors, the control rooms, he has inserted himself into everything. It is great for the network.”
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And Soledad O’Brien has been promised a role in prime time.
:thud:
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These two are celebrities in the "infamous" sense.
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Weiner & Spitzer: Shamed pol summit
February 8, 2013
It was a summit of the previously pervy pols Wednesday night when Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer crossed paths. Spies saw the duo dining at separate tables at posh David Burke Townhouse — and when they saw each other, they met in the middle of the dining room for a public bro-hug.
“Weiner and Spitzer were both having business dinners across the room from each other. But when they spotted each other, they got up and hugged,” said a gobsmacked guest at the Upper East Side eatery.
The reformed sexter and sock-wearing john then went to their neutral corners, we hear, rather than getting up to any trouble afterward. Reports say Weiner could be eyeing a comeback by running as city comptroller.
NY Post/Page Six (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/shamed_pol_summit_GdKMNc7fMWGkyEYpWMSWkN)
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‘State’ of mind
February 14, 2013
While Fashion Week preoccupied New York’s young and beautiful Wednesday night, power brokers gathered at Monkey Bar to watch President Obama’s State of the Union Address.
Billionaire David Koch, Google’s Eric Schmidt, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, “Steve Jobs” author Walter Isaacson, Newark Mayor Cory Booker, starchitect Richard Meier and MoveOn.org founder Eli Pariser were spotted at Celerie Kemble and Boykin Curry’s dinner for the annual oration.
A spy said James Fallows, a previous State of the Union speechwriter, moderated a conversation and “kept things from coming to blows.”
Others at the Atlantic magazine-sponsored bash included Starwood Capital’s Barry Sternlicht and Jonathan Soros.
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/state_of_mind_WT2DkRzjybVgU31UBj9yWN#ixzz2KsZAfdFL)
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One of the evil Kochs dining with all those whacko leftists? Strange bed- or tablefellows, indeed.
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Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius is charged with murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend.
... Pistorius, 26, kept a collection of powerful weapons at his gated, luxury South African home as a means of protection against his country's soaring crime rate, according to a British writer who had exclusive access to the Olympic sprinter. ...
According to British writer Jonathan McEvoy, who was given unprecedented access to Pistorius in a broad-ranging 2011 Daily Mail interview, the athlete held serious concerns for his personal safety, perhaps unsurprisingly given his nation's appalling record of violence. ...
Say what? I thought everything would be sunshine and lollipops once South Africa overthrew apartheid and elected Mandela. They definitely need to outlaw high-capacity magazines.
Story at Yahoo! sports (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/oscar-pistorius-reportedly-had-arsenal-at-home-to-allay-fear-of-invasion-122246774.html)
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Page Six (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/stars_valentine_surprises_HHJ0dhwGRI5YUPPKdKY53M)Celebrities wined and dined their sweethearts on Valentine’s Day just like everyone else. Matt Damon brought wife Luciana to a romantic date at the Gansevoort Park Hotel’s Asellina, where he had a bouquet of roses delivered during dinner.
Bruce Willis took his wife, Emma Heming, to an intimate lunch at the Atlantic Grill near Lincoln Center, where they shared oysters and other dishes.
Chelsea Clinton dined at SD26 with a gal pal, since we hear her hubby, Marc Mezvinsky, was traveling. ...
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Sean Penn's promise for Haitian earthquake victims
Last Updated: 9:17 AM, March 13, 2013
Posted: 12:21 AM, March 13, 2013
Page Six (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/penn_promise_for_haitians_VzQd9dYb52O5iKwWUJgebK)
The government of Haiti is giving Sean Penn $8.75 million to move some 14,000 earthquake victims off the private golf course they’ve been occupying for the past three years.
Up to 60,000 people lived there at one point in plywood shacks. The money, from the World Bank, will go to Penn’s J/P Haitian Relief Organization, which will use it to subsidize rents and build new housing in the nearby Delmas 32 neighborhood, and those uprooted by the quake are to move there by early next year.
Penn — who was just in Caracas for the funeral of his friend Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez — has spent less time in Haiti recently, reports The Post’s Richard Johnson. But his spokeswoman denied that his humanitarian efforts there were coming to an end. Penn’s charity will continue “to support the residents of Delmas 32 to demonstrate that something fundamentally different can come from a ‘slum’ in one of the poorest cities in the world,” she said.
And finally, golfing can resume at the Petionville country club.
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I doubt Obama will give it a go, though. Too many poor black folks there.
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George Soros: Ex threw lamp at me
March 12, 2013, Page Six (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/soros_ex_threw_lamp_at_me_Axp9xwqRaKt16EI5TT0rGL)
Billionaire George Soros is finally fighting back in the legal wrangle with his former mistress Adriana Ferreyr — countersuing her for defamation and assault, and alleging she threw a glass lamp at him during an argument in bed.
Soros’ lawyers last night filed their response to the Brazilian bombshell’s $50 million suit in 2011, which claimed he promised her a $2 million apartment at 30 E. 85th St. but instead gave it to her love rival, his now-fiancée Tamiko Bolton.
Soros’ papers state: “Soros and Ferreyr . . . engaged in a physically intimate relationship over the course of several years. [They] continued to date other people. [At the time of the alleged assault in 2010] Soros was approximately 80 years old, and Ferreyr was approx. 27 years old.” [Ewww]
Soros’ suit claims the fight started “while lying in bed” when “Ferreyr asked Soros about the status of the apartment . . . Soros informed her that another woman with whom he had a relationship was living in Apt. 7C, and that the other woman was very happy living there.”
“Ferreyr became enraged, picked up a nearby lamp that was made partly of glass, and knowingly, intentionally, and wilfully attempted to strike Soros with it,” his suit claims. “The lamp struck Soros’ forearm, then fell to the floor and broke . . . Soros did not hit Ferreyr . . . Ferreyr stood up and cut her foot on one or more of the shards of glass.”
Police were called and, according to the court papers, “Ferreyr made false statements to the police . . . [by claiming] ‘Soros with an open hand smacked her on the right side of face.’ ”
Soros’ assault and battery suit claims she struck him “with the lamp in an effort to harm him.” He’s also suing for defamation, claiming her statement that he “hit her in the face” was false.
Soros’ lawyer William Zabel said, “This is the first time that we have had an opportunity to respond formally to Ms. Ferreyr’s false claims and to make our own counterclaims to hold her accountable for the harm her malicious assertions have caused Mr. Soros.” Ferreyr’s lawyer William Beslow declined to comment.
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Where did Haiti find 8 billion dollars -- Obama?
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"Where did Haiti find 8 billion dollars...?"
The petty cash drawer?
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Bill and Hillary Clinton, Meryl Streep take in Ann Richards show
Last Updated: 9:43 AM, March 14, 2013
Posted: 12:15 AM, March 14, 2013
Bill and Hillary Clinton were spotted this week at Holland Taylor’s new one-woman show about former Texas Gov. Ann Richards.
Also at the Vivian Beaumont the same night was former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her astronaut husband, Mark Kelly, and Oscar-winner Meryl Streep, who went backstage after the show with regular Vanity Fair photographer Brigitte Lacombe.
Said a spy, “The Clintons are both mentioned in the play, during which Richards has a few phone conversations with President Clinton.”
We’re told the ex-prez told Taylor, “We met Ann Richards in 1972, and all of those stories she tells about me are true — that’s the way it happened.”
Streep told Holland, who also wrote the play, “I’m in awe. Will you write something for me?”
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So Gabby's husband is using her shooting to get them A-level invitations in Democrat circles.
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So Gabby's husband is using her shooting to get them A-level invitations in Democrat circles.
Exactly. I guess he wasn't enough of a celebrity as an astronaut, so he has to ride her blood-soaked coattails.
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The happy couple. I guess he's given up on his dream of living as a ski bum in Colorado. Pretty fancy stuff for people with no apparent marketable skills.
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Chelsea Clinton buys new $10.5 million apartment across the street from her husband's $4 million 'starter pad' bought just before they married
Couple spotted four-bedroom apartment while out walking in Manhattan
Pad boasts stunning views of Madison Square Park and a marble bathroom
They already live in luxury apartment block nearby in Flatiron District
By Sam Adams
PUBLISHED: 06:23 EST, 14 March 2013
Most young couples could only dream of buying a luxury four-bedroom apartment in the centre of Manhattan. But Chelsea Clinton, 33, and husband Marc Mezvinsky, 35, are about to swap their $4 million pad for a huge new $10.5 million one nearby.
The former first daughter and Mr Mezvinksy - who married in 2010 - are believed to have spotted the 5,000 sq ft property while out walking in the area. The apartment is located in The Whitman building next to Madison Square Park, one of the most desirable corners of Manhattan's Flatiron District.
They signed a contract for the property, which has stunning views of the park, last month, the New York Post reports.
Her father, former US President Bill Clinton and mother - ex-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton - are understood to have run their eyes over the couple's home during a visit last week. Her famous parents even agreed to pose for photographs with tradesmen who were carrying out work there, the Post reports. The building, which is being marketed by Douglas Elliman Real Estate, has one apartment on each floor and boasts various security features, including a key operated lift.
Ms Clinton and Mr Mezvinsky's floor has four bedrooms, six and a half bathrooms, a home office and den. It also has a 252 sq ft planting terrace and a private storage unit is included with the property. The five-story building also boasts 'top-of-the-line' amenities, including a full time doorman, residents' only gym and a refrigerated package room. The couple's apartment has a massive living area with timber floors and is flooded with natural light thanks to floor to ceiling windows.
The kitchen would be any amateur cook's dream, with a glass splash-back, a large marble worktop and state-of-the-art appliances. The spacious bedrooms in decadent New York home are equally doused in natural light with large windows overlooking the street. And the bathrooms, covered in grey marble tiles, are roomy and ultra modern.
Ms Clinton married Mr Mezvinsky in Rhinebeck, New York at a ceremony attended by many of America's most powerful figures. She was first reported to be in a relationship with Mr Mezvinsky in 2005, and became engaged to him over Thanksgiving weekend in 2009.
The couple's current flat on Fifth Avenue is far from shabby either - boasting three bedrooms, two bathrooms as well as a gym and doorman.
The 1,922 sq ft condo is in the Grand Madison - a building that has been dubbed 'the most elegant and historical building downtown.' The couple will presumably sell the $4 million home, which boasts 'unforgettable views' over downtown Manhattan including Madison Square Park, the Flatiron Building and the Clock Tower - an extraordinary domed white marble building on 25th Street at Madison.
According to a Douglas Ellisman listing, the couple's 'starter pad' has a powder room, an open chef's kitchen with beautiful bluestone countertops, oak floors, Italian marble bathrooms, huge windows and scores of other luxury finishes.
Assuming a 4 per cent interest rate and 20 per cent downpayment, Ms Clinton and Mr Mezvinsky's already-hefty mortgage payments total around $18,460 a month. But they're set to skyrocket. According to StreetEasy.com, if the pair put down a $2.1 million - or 20 per cent - deposit on their new $10.5 million home, their monthly mortgage bill will be in the region of $52,000 and closer to $60,000 if the couple handed over a 10 per cent downpayment instead.
Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2293195/Chelsea-Clinton-buys-new-10-5-million-dollar-apartment-street-husbands-4-million-starter-pad-bought-just-married.html#ixzz2NYXAnm00)
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Photos at Daily Mail link.
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"Photos at Daily Mail link."
My, looks like a nice little fixer upper for the young couple.
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Photos at Daily Mail link.
Very nice, but too much gray for my taste. I also wouldn't like laying in bed looking across into someone else's windows and vis-versa... love the building exterior, the architecture is nice.
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Cooking scars
March 15, 2013
Huma Abedin drew worried glances at a fund-raiser for Terry McAuliffe, who is running for governor of Virginia, by wearing bandages on both forearms.
Abedin was joined by husband Anthony Weiner at the event, thrown by billionaire hedge-fund manager and longtime Clinton backer Marc Lasry and his wife, Cathy, at his Manhattan town house.
Sources tell us Abedin was injured during a cooking accident. She burned her arms taking something out of the oven.
Bill Clinton headlined the $12,500-a-ticket fund-raiser for McAuliffe, and then many headed to a fund-raising dinner at Doug Band’s apartment. During the event, Clinton also revealed that Lasry is the new US ambassador to France.
Ny Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/cooking_scars_dLe2Y2pbA4Bi4GSbgukftN)
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The neverending saga of George Soros' love life (ewww) continues:
Ugly new mess for Soros ex
Last Updated: 12:48 AM, March 18, 2013
Adriana Ferreyr, the Brazilian bombshell who’s in a legal battle with ex-lover George Soros, is about to be named in another lawsuit. Kyle Dubensky, a Columbia University theater student, plans to sue Ferreyr for $5 million because, he says, she falsely accused him of raping her on New Year’s Eve.
Sources say, aspiring actor Dubensky says he and Ferreyr had consensual sex in her Harlem apartment. But he alleges that when he tried to leave, she blocked his exit and dug her nails into his arm, drawing blood.
The source says that Dubensky then fled and got into the elevator but that a naked Ferreyr chased him and started to strangle him. When the two got downstairs, he alleges, Ferreyr told a Columbia guard she’d been sexually assaulted and the guard called the cops.
Dubensky was allegedly arrested and held by police for 18 hours, but the District Attorney’s Office did not press charges.
A letter from Columbia to Dubensky obtained by Page Six states that there was an investigation by the school’s Student Services for Gender-Based and Sexual Misconduct, but that “reasonable suspicion does not exist in this case to believe that a violation occurred.” The report does not name Ferreyr.
But a friend of Ferreyr’s told us that Dubensky “tried to have sex with [Ferreyr] without a condom” and that he “strangled and tried to hit her” in the building after she pursued him from her apartment. The source added that Ferreyr blacked out when cops arrived and woke up in a hospital and that she was the one who asked the prosecutor to release Dubensky.
When we asked Dubensky’s attorney, Michael J. Roberts, about Ferreyr’s pal’s version of the events, he called it “utter fiction.”
“This is not a case of he said, she said,” he said. “. . . The [DA] was presented with the case and refused to file a complaint. In addition, Columbia University . . . declined to pursue the case and saw no reason to investigate further.”
Ferreyr’s attorney, William Beslow, declined to comment. Ferreyr, 28, a Columbia student, is suing Soros, 81, for $50 million, charging he promised her a dream apartment, then gave it to his fiancée. She also claims Soros slapped her during a 2010 argument, but a Soros countersuit alleges that the former soap star attacked him.
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I never heard of her and didn't bother to "google" her, either. :laugh:
‘Google me, bitches’
Last Updated: 12:13 AM, March 19, 2013
Gossip lead singer Beth Ditto, who was arrested and charged early Saturday morning with disorderly conduct outside Bungalo Bar in Portland, Ore., displayed drunken, diva-ish behavior before getting cuffed, according to witnesses.
“When Beth and her friends came into the bar they immediately said, ‘We have a superstar out here. Can we get some service?’ ” an eyewitness told Page Six, adding, “Beth walked in and broke a glass. Bar staff cut her off and walked her out, but she just kept trying to come back in. She was screaming, ‘Don’t you know who I am? I’m Beth Ditto. Google me, bitches.’ ”
We’re told one friend of the “Standing in the Way of Control” singer took a more violent route, kicking the bartender, who was described as a “scrawny, thin guy,” in the genitals before being pulled off of him. Then, “Beth went outside and stood in the street, took off her shoes and threw her purse down and started screaming ‘O-bam-a,’ ” our source said, adding, “She kept getting louder and she wouldn’t leave — she wouldn’t listen. She was a hot mess.”
Twelve cop cars arrived on the scene and arrested the 32-year-old rocker. She’s awaiting a court date on the charge.
Page Six (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/google_me_bitches_QWrRmr2AjaNtgWsmpzcecM)
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Ahh, what would we do without these brilliant celebrity insights?
Redford’s report
Last Updated: 7:05 AM, March 28, 2013
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/redford_report_zkYZRUYb9gQNQNx2dlN9LI)
Bob Woodward’s been written off by Robert Redford, who played the Watergate sleuth in “All the President’s Men.” Speaking Tuesday at an LA screening of his latest movie, “The Company You Keep,” Redford told how he first became intrigued with Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the Washington Post reporters whose digging ultimately led to the resignation of President Nixon in 1974.
“When I read an article about them, I realized one was a Jew and one was a WASP,” Redford recalled, reports The Post’s LA correspondent Richard Johnson. “One guy was a Republican, the other was a radical; one guy was a very good writer, the other wasn’t so good. They didn’t like each other, but they had to work together. I thought, ‘Wow, that’s fascinating, that’s a great story.’ ”
The pair collaborated on three books. But Woodward has since had greater success as an author — with 13 books to his credit, compared to Bernstein’s three — though Bernstein’s always had the reputation of being the better writer.
As for Nixon, FishbowlLA blogger Richard Horgan reports that Redford instantly disliked Tricky Dicky when the future president presented the 13-year-old Redford with an athletic award in 1950.
“I didn’t know who he was,” Redford said. “He was just a guy in a suit. When Nixon handed me the award and shook my hand, it was just a vibe. I thought, ‘I don’t like this guy.’ ”
Redford’s new film also stars Shia LaBeouf, Stanley Tucci, Anna Kendrick and Susan Sarandon.
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Nothing political here, I just wanted to say ... FLAVOR FLAV!! (the mugshot)
(http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2013/04/11/news/web_photos/11.1n008.flavorflav--300x300.jpg)
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I'm a celebrity! I bet marathon bombing victims want to see meeee!!!!!!!!!!
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Bradley Cooper visits Boston Marathon bombing victim
April 19, 2013
Bradley Cooper and New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman have paid a visit to gravely injured Boston Marathon bombing victim, Jeffrey Bauman, Jr..
Edelman posted a photo of their visit on Twitter with the caption: “Visited #survivor #stud #hero Jeffrey Bauman Jr. today. He was looking great and is a true inspiration. #strong”
In the photo, Bauman gives a thumbs-up and holds a football while lying in his hospital bed.
The 27-year-old Bauman lost both his legs below the knees in the horrific Boston attack. Bauman was photographed being wheeled from the scene in a now-iconic photo captured by AP. Despite his injuries, he provided evidence while still in intensive care.
“Visited #survivor #stud #hero Jeffrey Bauman Jr. today. He was looking great and is a true inspiration. #strong” Bauman awoke in the hospital and asked for a pen and paper on which he wrote: “bag, saw the guy, looked right at me,” his brother, Chris, said.
Bauman then gave the feds a full description of the man he saw drop a bag at this feet. He said the man wore a cap and sunglasses, a description similar to the image of the FBI’s Suspect No. 1, his brother said.
The “Silver Linings Playbook” actor is in Boston filming director David O. Russell’s "American Hustle,” with Jennifer Lawrence and Christian Bale.
(http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2013/04/19/pagesix/web_photos/bradley_cooper_boston--300x300.jpg)
New England Patriots receiver Julian Edelman posted this photo of his and Bradley Cooper's visit to the hospital. “Visited #survivor #stud #hero Jeffrey Bauman Jr. today. He was looking great and is a true inspiration. #strong
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We hear that Jennifer Lawrence and Harvey Weinstein will present Bill Clinton with a GLAAD Media Award in LA tonight, and Leo DiCaprio and Charlize Theron will present lawyer Steve Warren with an honor ... Page Six (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/we_hear_9M4uQFJfTiWcFGvOxSkspM)
Why?
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The perpetual celebrity:
Bill Clinton says Chelsea changed his view on gay marriage
Last Updated: 11:23 AM, April 22, 2013
Posted: 11:21 AM, April 22, 2013
Bill Clinton was honored at the GLAAD Media Awards for his gay rights advocacy as well as his endorsement for same-sex marriage on Saturday. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, the former President credits his daughter for changing his mind.
The former President said during his acceptance speech that his daughter "has had a profound impact on the way I see the world. It's sort of humbling when you get to be my age when your child knows more than you do about everything."
"Chelsea and her gay friends have modeled to me how we should all treat each other regardless of our sexual orientation or any other artificial difference that divides us,” said the honoree. “Many of them come and join us every Thanksgiving for a meal. I have grown very attached to them."
"And over the years, I was forced to confront the fact that people who oppose equal rights for gays in the marriage sphere are basically acting out of concern for their own identity, not out of respect for anyone else."
Clinton’s view on marriage equality changed substantially over the years. During his presidency, he signed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which denies federal benefits to same-sex couples.
"I want to keep working on this until not only is DOMA no longer the law of the land, but until all people — no matter where they live — can marry the people they love," Clinton told the crowd.
He has since called his approval of that law one of his biggest mistakes as President and has urged the Supreme Court to strike the law down.
"You are the agents of change. I got this award tonight, because I was the object of your affection - or not, as the case may be,” he added. “My daughter led me to support the marriage equality law in New York when we were debating it, and to oppose North Carolina's denial of marriage equality, and to do all these other things. So I want to thank her too. Thank you, GLAAD. Thank you, Chelsea."
"Whenever we turn away from treating someone with the dignity and honor and the respect that we would like accorded to ourselves, we have to face the fact it's about us," Clinton concluded.
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Yeah, some of Chelsea's best friends are gay. And black, oh yeah, black friends, too.
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What a dingdong, yet I'm sure the good people of NY will elect her to some office for which she's completely unqualified.
Bill and Hillary Clinton met Chelsea’s husband at Mario Batali's Babbo
May 2, 2013 Page Six (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/thanks_to_batali_gXOIDOjEZHEDafN5rsMj2K)
Chelsea Clinton owes a lot to Mario Batali, saying he’s been a huge influence on her life. While one might assume they share a love of Crocs and Fanta Pants, Clinton explained it was over a dinner by the superstar chef that her (probably very nervous) husband, Marc Mezvinsky, met her parents, Bill and Hillary, for the first time.
“It’s not hyperbole to say I could not imagine my life in New York or really my life in general without Mario,” she told the crowd at Tuesday’s Food Bank for New York Can Do Awards at Cipriani Wall Street.
“The first meal I shared with the man I am now very happy to call my husband and the people I am now very happy to call my husband’s in-laws, otherwise known as my parents, was at Babbo. Thankfully, that went well.”
Also at the event were Sandra Lee, Selita Ebanks, Lauren Bush Lauren, Tom Colicchio, Rachael Ray and Kelly Bensimon. Jon Bon Jovi performed.
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It's the ultimate collision of politics and celebrity: the KENNEDYS!
Caroline Kennedy turns heads in coke trial jury selection
By LAURA ITALIANO and YASMINE PHILLIPS
May 13, 2013 New York Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/caroline_kennedy_turns_heads_in_ZaWX2uXEbH4gVekkuPsGRN?utm_campaign=OutbrainA&utm_source=OutbrainArticlepages&obref=obinsite)
She punted on the question of whether she or any member of her family has ever been a crime victim. And she didn't mention her campaign appearances on behalf of Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance. Still, Caroline Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg was selected as a juror in a felony crack cocaine sale trial today, turning heads in Manhattan Supreme Court in a way no other unassuming-looking, Upper East Side gal with a backpack and tote bag could do.
"My name is Caroline Kennedy; I live on the Upper East Side; I've lived at my present address for twenty five years," Kennedy said, sitting in the jury box of a 13th floor courtroom for jury selection.
A small murmur of recognition spread through the courtroom, and Kennedy continued -- speaking into a small microphone as she recited her answers to a written jury questionnaire.
"I live with my husband and two grown children," she said. "I have a law degree."
Then came the question, about halfway down the questionnaire, of whether she or any member of her family has ever been a victim of a crime. That's when the daughter of an assassinated president and niece of an assassinated attorney general skipped the question. Instead, she answered the next question, which inquired if she or anyone close to her has ties to a law enforcement.
"My brother, years ago, worked as an assistant district attorney," she said of her brother, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr. John-John, as he was affectionately known, a prosecutor for the Manhattan DA's office for four years in the early '90s, and died in a plane crash off of Martha's Vineyard in 1999.
The lawyer and philanthropist did not mention, at least in open court, her 2009 campaign efforts on behalf of the current DA, Cyrus Vance Jr.
Kennedy was similarly tight-lipped when a defense lawyer asked if she and her fellow prospective jurors know anyone with a drug problem. "I know … a few people," she mumbled. The list of Kennedy's with admitted histories of drug issues is a long one, and includes her cousins Robert F., Jr. (heroin), David, (heroin), and Rep. Patrick J., (cocaine).
"Absolutely," the defense lawyer for accused drug dealer Nelson Chatman said, when a reporter asked after court if he believed all of the selected jurors could be fair, including those who had headlined at fundraising dinners for the DA.
"Otherwise, I wouldn't pick them," said the court-appointed lawyer, Mark Jankowitz.
It could not be immediately determined whether -- during a closed door jury selection session -- Kennedy did give a fuller accounting of her law enforcement ties, family history of drug use and tragic connection to two of the biggest political crimes in the twentieth century. Either way, Kennedy was chosen as a trier of fact in the third degree cocaine possession case, which should keep her at the courthouse for a week or more.
Jurors must return to court tomorrow at 11 a.m. for possible openings in the case, which charges Chatman, 31, sold crack cocaine to an undercover at Lexington Ave. and East 129th Street last December.
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"Bill Clinton says Chelsea changed his view on gay marriage."
I must say that I agree with Bill on this one.
Hillary definitely should have married a woman.
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She punted on the question of whether she or any member of her family has ever been a crime victim
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to ask her how many members of her family have committed crimes?
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Some snark from Cindy Adams, NY Post:
House Speaker John Boehner’s daughter Lindsay, 35, who lives in Hollywood, Fla., married Jamaican construction worker Dominic Lakhan, 38, last week in Delray Beach’s Sundy House garden. She has a tatto’d arm. He a marijuana conviction. She: strapless white gown. He: dreadlocks. Sixty guests including Mrs. Debbie Boehner and other daughter Tricia, 32.
The Daily Mail and Gossip Extra report they’re registered at Macy’s. So far the pair’s classiest gift was a $500 KitchenAid; the cheapo was $7.99 on sale bath towels. Dress code besides heavy security plainclothes dudes, uniformed sheriff, a squad car, cops and invitees’ ID wristbands were Hawaiian shirts and sundresses.
A big-time six-course sit-down? Uh-uh. Three-piece band and buffet in a small banquet room. Blinds drawn. Snoopers couldn’t snoop.
Court records list the groom’s 2003 and 2006 arrests. Once for possessing 2 grams of pot. His new father-in-law has stated he’s “unalterably opposed to legalizing marijuana even for medical purposes.”
I am stating the Speaker wore a bright tie, bright smile, said he was “proud” and danced at his daughter’s wedding. ...
UNITED States Sen. Rand Paul. Republican from Kentucky. Know what he did recently during a big-time high-powered hotshot multimillionaires’ fund-raising meeting? Clipped his nails. Those around were grateful he was manicuring fingers not toes . . . Daniel Craig keeps his ID secret with mail to his New York house. Being the truly wonderful person that it is well-known I am, I will not reveal the town or that fake name.
link (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/cindy_adams/bevy_of_brides_NXrGD1WusTabv8rTLqEEBM#ixzz2TpzafOy3)
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Good grief.
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UNITED States Sen. Rand Paul. Republican from Kentucky. Know what he did recently during a big-time high-powered hotshot multimillionaires’ fund-raising meeting? Clipped his nails. Those around were grateful he was manicuring fingers not toes
Given the source and her target, I want independent verification before I believe it.
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This is NY Gov. Andy Cuomo's ex:
Kerry Kennedy's trying time: Drugged-drive rap stands
By LAUREL BABCOCK, New York Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/kerry_trying_time_phr03QjDhNB2e6qCfuN0yJ)
May 22, 2013
Kerry Kennedy must stand trial for drugged driving, a Westchester judge said yesterday in rejecting a bid by the former wife of Gov. Cuomo to dismiss the misdemeanor charge.
North Castle Town Court Judge Elyse Lazansky set Oct. 8 for the next court date in the case of Kennedy, 53, who was allegedly under the influence of a sleeping pill when she swerved her Lexus into a tractor-trailer on I-684 near her home last July 13.
The judge conceded that Kennedy, a human-rights activist who is the 10th of 11 children of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, “is not a typical criminal defendant. She has achieved a great deal and is dedicated to good works.”
But Lazansky added, “Other gifted, powerful and wealthy politicians and celebrities too numerous to mention have faced a wide variety of criminal charges and have gone on to do their jobs or serve the public in many important ways.”
The judge said Kennedy “cut a wide swath of danger and risk to other vehicles on the road during rush hour that day, allegedly driving on the grass, the median, hitting a tractor-trailer and weaving across lanes of the interstate.”
Kennedy refused to comment as she left court after the brief hearing.
Her attorney, Gerald Lefcourt, said he has “every confidence that Ms. Kennedy will be exonerated.”
Kennedy, who is a niece of the late President John F. Kennedy, was arrested after she allegedly failed sobriety tests.
She reportedly told police that she accidentally took a sleeping pill instead of the intended thyroid medication she takes every day.
Prosecutors claimed dropping the charge would fuel the perception that Kennedy was being let off because of her celebrated name and status.
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pretty hard to mix up a sleeping pill for a thyroid pill.. they look NOTHING alike.
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Kennedy...who is the 10th of 11 children of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy
There is something wrong with the entire Kennedy clan going all the way back to Papa Joe, and probably beyond.
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Bubba’s guard robbed by kids
Last Updated: 12:44 AM, May 26, 2013
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/bubba_guard_robbed_by_kids_KAguli2sMVs8l3FLsbArQK)
Bill Clinton’s tough senior adviser Justin Cooper was mugged in Paris Wednesday by two young kids in broad daylight.
Cooper, who served as Clinton’s “body man” and most recently special adviser since Clinton left office, was in France at the same time the ex-president was in Paris for an AIDS conference organized by the international non-profit UNITAID.
Cooper was said to be withdrawing money across the street from the historic Hotel George V just off the Champs-Élysées when he was attacked. While Cooper was at the ATM, two boys said to be grade-school age approached.
As reported by the French newspaper Metro, one of the boys asked Cooper to sign a fake petition while the other one snatched 300 euros ($387) he’d withdrawn from the ATM. The youths, who were not carrying weapons during the attack, then ran off.
Metro reports that the perps are still at large, and video of the incident is being reviewed.
Cooper is a longtime close aide to the former president, and helped Clinton write several of his books, including his 957-page, 2004 memoir, “My Life.” Clinton thanked Cooper in the acknowledgments, saying, he “gave up more than two years of his young life to work with me every day and . . . all night.
“He never lost his patience, his energy never flagged and by the time we got to the last lap, he sometimes seemed to know me and what I wanted to say better than I did,” Clinton wrote.
Cooper is also a former employee of strategy group Teneo, run by Clinton adviser Doug Band and Declan Kelly, the former US special envoy to Northern Ireland.
Clinton on Wednesday spoke at a dinner for UNITAID, which uses innovative financing to increase funding for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis treatments in low-income countries.
A rep for the Clintons declined to comment on the incident.
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I wonder what this is about. From the July 22 "sightings" section of the NY Post's Page Six:
VALERIE Jarrett at the Cosmopolitan offices to visit editor Joanna Coles . . .
Cosmo? :shrug:
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Bubba’s guard robbed by kids
Last Updated: 12:44 AM, May 26, 2013
NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/bubba_guard_robbed_by_kids_KAguli2sMVs8l3FLsbArQK)
Bill Clinton’s tough senior adviser Justin Cooper was mugged in Paris Wednesday by two young kids in broad daylight.
Cooper, who served as Clinton’s “body man” and most recently special adviser since Clinton left office, was in France at the same time the ex-president was in Paris for an AIDS conference organized by the international non-profit UNITAID.
Cooper was said to be withdrawing money across the street from the historic Hotel George V just off the Champs-Élysées when he was attacked. While Cooper was at the ATM, two boys said to be grade-school age approached.
As reported by the French newspaper Metro, one of the boys asked Cooper to sign a fake petition while the other one snatched 300 euros ($387) he’d withdrawn from the ATM. The youths, who were not carrying weapons during the attack, then ran off.
Metro reports that the perps are still at large, and video of the incident is being reviewed.
Cooper is a longtime close aide to the former president, and helped Clinton write several of his books, including his 957-page, 2004 memoir, “My Life.” Clinton thanked Cooper in the acknowledgments, saying, he “gave up more than two years of his young life to work with me every day and . . . all night.
“He never lost his patience, his energy never flagged and by the time we got to the last lap, he sometimes seemed to know me and what I wanted to say better than I did,” Clinton wrote.
Cooper is also a former employee of strategy group Teneo, run by Clinton adviser Doug Band and Declan Kelly, the former US special envoy to Northern Ireland.
Clinton on Wednesday spoke at a dinner for UNITAID, which uses innovative financing to increase funding for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis treatments in low-income countries.
A rep for the Clintons declined to comment on the incident.
He wasn't mugged so much as he was snookered by a pair of nascent con-men; no doubt they'll be running for office as French Socialists sooner rather than later.
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Yesterday's NY Post published snippets of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s diary, in which he confessed his sex addiction. In today's installment, he reveals his opinion of ex-brother-in-law Andrew Cuomo, Al "The Charlatan" Sharpton and others. Fun reading!
Diary bombshell: RFK’s secret slams against Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Gov. Cuomo
By Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein
September 9, 2013 | 4:04am
The Post exclusively reported Sunday how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. grappled with what he called his “lust demons” (http://nypost.com/2013/09/08/rfk-jr-s-sex-diary-of-adultery/) and kept a scorecard of more than two dozen conquests in a secret diary. Below are more sensational details from the journal, in which RFK Jr., a member of the political elite, bashes everyone from then-brother-in-law Andrew Cuomo to the Rev. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
Over breakfast on New Year’s Day 2001, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his brother-in-law Andrew Cuomo sat down to talk politics.
Cuomo’s tenure as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development was about to end, and he sought Kennedy’s counsel as he mulled a run for New York governor.
“Andrew could win because he is totally focused and energetic,” Kennedy later observes. “He could lose because he lacks humanity and doesn’t love people. He is not a retail politician.”
Cuomo did go on to seek the Democratic nomination in 2002 and blundered badly. His criticism of Gov. George Pataki in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks was widely viewed as inappropriate and derailed his campaign.
Kennedy recorded the thoughts in a bombshell diary from 2001, a copy of which was reviewed by The Post. The fat, red book, covered with bumper stickers shouting liberal slogans, bluntly reveals the scion’s true feelings about some of the most important political figures of our time, including family members such Cuomo, fellow Democrats and Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
RFK Jr. also kept notes for his journal during his month-long stint in a Puerto Rican prison that July. He, the Rev. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson’s wife, Jacqueline, were charged with trespassing during protests on Vieques, the Puerto Rican island the US Navy used as a bombing range.
The Revs. Jackson and Sharpton “give me the creeps,” Kennedy writes in a July 5 entry.
“Al Sharpton has done more damage to the black cause than [segregationist Alabama Gov.] George Wallace. He has suffocated the decent black leaders in New York,” he says. “His transparent venal blackmail and extortion schemes taint all black leadership.”
Rev. Al Sharpton gave Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “the creeps,” he wrote in his diary.
He goes on to call Sharpton a “buffoon” who has never escaped the “stench” of his advocacy for Tawana Brawley, the black Dutchess County teen who fabricated a story about six white men raping her in 1987.
Kennedy said that he couldn’t forget the Brawley episode.
He writes that Jesse Jackson has “a desperate and destructive addiction to publicity.” He recalls that Jackson, at labor leader Cesar Chavez’s funeral, pushed “Cesar’s friends and family out of the way to make himself lead pall bearer.”
“I feel like with Jesse, it’s all about Jesse,” Kennedy writes.
“His love affair with [Nation of Islam leader] Louis Farrakhan and his Jewish xenophobia are also unforgivable,” Kennedy adds.
“I feel dirty around him, and I feel like I’m being used. I feel like with Jesse, it’s all about Jesse.” ...
More snark about Mario Cuomo, George W. Bush and others in today's New York Post (http://nypost.com/2013/09/09/diary-bombshell-rfks-secret-slams-against-al-sharpton-jesse-jackson-and-gov-cuomo/).
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Very interesting.........
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RFK Jr. is a pathetic excuse for a human being. So are the people he mocks as giving him the creeps, buffoons, unforgiveable, etc.
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RFK Jr. is a pathetic excuse for a human being. So are the people he mocks as giving him the creeps, buffoons, unforgiveable, etc.
That is what made this an interesting read... he is one of my least favorite people - right up there with Al Gore and all their fake Global Warming crap......
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Well, that's comforting. Sharpton forgives Kennedy's diary diss (http://nypost.com/2013/09/10/sharpton-forgives-kennedys-diary-diss/).
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More news from the incestuous bunch of losers that is Hollywood:
Rahm Emanuel was feted last night at a dinner prepared by top chef Danièle Mazet-Delpeuch at the Core Club to celebrate the film “Haute Cuisine.” The French film — being distributed by Harvey Weinstein — is based on Mazet-Delpeuch’s culinary career, including becoming private chef to former French President François Mitterrand.
We hear that as part of the gig, the French cook served meals to world leaders including Margaret Thatcher, George H.W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev. Spotted at the power party were Ron Perelman, Robert De Niro, David Boies, Barry Diller, hedge-fund manager Orin Kramer, former Bill Clinton aide Doug Band, James L. Dolan and Susan Torricelli.
So what does the ballerina have to do with this chef's career? Hey Rahm, a few more children were slaughtered in Chicago this month. How about focusing on that?
Page Six (http://pagesix.com/2013/09/18/weinstein-hosts-bash-for-rahm-emanuel-2/)
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NY Post (http://nypost.com/2013/09/21/chelsea-clinton-gets-750000-break-on-new-condo/)
Chelsea Clinton gets $750,000 break on new condo
By Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein
September 21, 2013 | 9:43pm
Maybe there’s a presidential discount.
Chelsea Clinton and hubby Marc Mezvinksy paid $9,250,000 for a four-bedroom apartment in the celebrity-studded Whitman condominium building on Madison Square Park, city records filed this month show. That is $1.2 million less than the $10.5 million asking price, and $750,000 below what the building’s other two occupants paid for their 5,000-square-foot units. All three apartments are nearly identical, except that the Clinton-Mezvinsky pad is on a higher floor.
The building also includes a duplex penthouse apartment that’s on the market for $25 million.
NASCAR champ Jeff Gordon plunked down $10 million cash for his condo. Hedge-funder John Silvetz and his wife, model Wilda Deon Bray, also paid $10 million, which was $250,000 less than the asking price for their unit.
The three apartments officially went on sale in February, and went to contract within two months of each other.
Clinton and Mezvinsky purchased the property using a company called Cafema LLC. [???] They took out a $5 million mortgage in addition to a $500,000 line of credit, records show.
The East 26th Street building once belonged to Plumbers Local 1, and was converted to condos by developer David Mitchell. President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton toured the property in early March.
Clinton and Mezvinksy had been living around the corner in a three-bedroom apartment on Fifth Avenue since their 2010 marriage. The apartment was on the market for $4.7 million, and is listed as under contract on the Stribling real estate Web site.
Clinton works as a special correspondent for NBC News, and is studying for a doctorate from Oxford. Mezvinksy, who used to work at Goldman Sachs, started a hedge fund in 2011.
“Marc and Chelsea agreed to buy the apartment last year. As they were the first to do so in the building, they received a discount, as is not uncommon in New York,” a spokesman said.
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Sean Penn puts up a political smokescreen as he chugs on E-cigarette at Clinton Global Initiative conference
By Shyam Dodge/Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2432455/Sean-Penn-puts-political-smokescreen-chugs-E-cigarette-Clinton-Global-Initiative-conference.html)
PUBLISHED: 15:56 EST, 25 September 2013 | UPDATED: 16:48 EST, 25 September 2013
When Sean Penn needs to smoke it appears nothing can stand in the way between him and his next hit of nicotine.
And that was certainly the case on Wednesday, when the actor was seen puffing away as he sat on a panel for the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York, seemingly unable to make it through the lengthy chat without his fix.
But the high-profile 53-year-old's cigarette was an electronic device, leaving no offending odours or pollution, during the live onstage discussion.
The veteran silver screen star wore a black suit and tie for the event as he listened intently to the heated conversation.
The topic on the table for discussion was Haiti and what the conference labelled Expanding Cross-Sector Coordination in Haiti.
And Penn, who is the CEO & Founder of J/P Haitian Relief Organisation, could be seen speaking passionately about the continuing relief efforts following the disastrous 2010 earthquake that left a continuing nightmare of ruin.
The Mystic River star puffed thoughtfully on his electronic device as fellow panellists Kathleen Matthews of Marriott, Digicel Chairman Denis O'Brien, and Haiti's Ambassador-at-Large Danielle Saint-Lot took their turns speaking.
Penn, who first rose to stardom in 1982's Fast Times At Ridgemont High, even performed a few smoking tricks as he blew out small wisps of smoke through his nostrils.
And the discreet device did not appear to offend his fellow panellists as he seemed to use the cigarette as a conversational tool, puffing thoughtfully and gesturing with it on several occasions.
After the massive, 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti three years ago, killing 230,000 and making 1.3 million more homeless, Penn flew to the country in his private plane to aid the victims. Since that time he has said that rebuilding Haiti is now his life's work.
In 2011 the actor told Oprah: 'Everybody who has spent time in Haiti knows how important it is for the world to see what is going on here.'
Penn's organisation has single-handedly paid for many of the restructuring efforts in the troubled country. Last year Penn paid for all the engineers, equipment, and construction costs to demolish and remove the rubble of the Haitian National Palace.
But the actor has not just leant his money but also his muscle to the efforts, as he has been pictured over the last three years performing many manual labour tasks to help with the relief work.
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/09/25/article-2432455-1843177100000578-385_634x497.jpg)
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But the high-profile 53-year-old's cigarette was an electronic device, leaving no offending odours or pollution
Unfortunately the same could not be said about Penn himself.
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Well, if the article is correct, Penn's put his money where his mouth is on Haiti. No fan of his, but highlighting the smoking of an ecig seems perfectly in line with the trivia that dominates Brit media.
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First she's going to have to get her husband to spend some time with her. Has he abandoned his plan of becoming a ski bum?
Chelsea Clinton: We want to have a baby in 2014
NBC (her employer) (http://www.today.com/news/chelsea-clinton-we-want-have-baby-2014-8C11323010)
Next up on Chelsea Clinton's agenda: Becoming a mom.
Clinton, 33, who has been married for three years to husband Marc Mezvinsky, told Glamour magazine in a recent interview that they are intent on starting a family next year. The death of Clinton’s grandmother, Dorothy Howell Rodham, in 2011, resulted in the couple prioritizing what they want in life.
“We sat down and said, 'Here's what we want to do,’’’ Clinton told Glamour. “The first thing on the list was simple: We want, God willing, to start a family. So we decided we were going to make 2014 the Year of the Baby. And please, call my mother and tell her that. She asks us about it every single day."
The daughter of former president Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was hit hard by the death of her grandmother, who she frequently went to for advice.
“It was such a fundamentally unmooring event for me," she said. "I've never been so lost as I was when she passed."
Clinton, who worked at McKinsey & Company and Avenue Capital Group after earning degrees from Stanford and Oxford, has recently taken a larger role as the vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, which works with initiatives involving climate change, economic development, global health, and empowering women. She and her father recently visited multiple African countries to help educate the local populations about life-saving technologies like a powder mix that creates drinkable water.
She says she dedicated herself to working for the family’s foundation after consulting her grandmother for advice.
“She had strong ideas about what I should do with the opportunities I had been given,’’ Clinton said. “I realized that as much as I tried not to care about the things my parents cared about, I did care about them. Which was frustrating, in some ways. My grandmother, in her wizened way, just said, 'Yes, I've been waiting for you to come to this realization.'"
In addition to becoming more involved in the foundation, Clinton also took a job as a special correspondent for NBC and even looked at potentially working for other non-profits, but said she didn’t find one where she could be more effective than in the Clinton Foundation. Now she is focused on starting a family and pursuing the work her parents started.
“Work really, really hard, and in a way that makes an impact," she said about her focus. “I was ready to answer that calling and be the person may grandmother had always known I was.”
Good to know someone as accomplished and brilliant as she plans to run for office. :thud:
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WashPost (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/wp/2013/10/03/chelsea-clintons-baby-plans-topic-a-for-bill-and-hillary/):
Did Chelsea Clinton’s disclosure in Glamour that she and Marc Mezvinsky have long planned “to make 2014 the Year of the Baby” have you squirming with an uncomfortable sense of TMI? Well, give her a break: Her procreation future has long been Topic A for the Clintons, the only safe and relatable bit of banter this jet-set family has to share (everyone loves babies!) — and, of course, the media can’t stop asking them about it.
◾ “If I could have my wishes, I would like to live to see my own grandchildren.” — Bill, at a AIDS conference in Vienna, July 2010.
◾“Hillary wanted this marriage because she wants to be a grandmother more than she wanted to be president.” — Bill, on “The Late Show with David Letterman,” Sept. 2010.
◾“I love babies, so you know, maybe I’ll have more in my life some day.” — Hillary, ABC interview, Jan. 2011.
◾ “I would like to have a happy wife and she won’t be unless she’s a grandmother..” — Bill at Davos, January 2011.
◾ “No pressure, because I don’t want to be one of those kinds of mothers. But obviously, someday, I’d love it.” — Hillary, Harper’s Bazaar, March 2011.
◾ “Well, that’s really not up to me, but I would like to have that title. I will certainly tell you that’s a title I would be proud to have” — Hillary, ABC interview, April 2012.
◾“[We] try to build a better world for—if she were here , she would say—the grandchildren she hopes to have.” — Chelsea, at a Vital Voices gala, June 2012.
◾ “My goal is to live to be a grandfather.” — Bill, CBS interview, Sept. 2013.
:baghead:
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She's actively seeking too much air time not to be prepping for a political run - despite her utter lack of intelligence, experience or any other quality.
Chelsea Clinton talks ‘pressure’ to have kids
Page Six Team (http://pagesix.com/2013/10/09/chelsea-clinton-talks-pressure-to-have-kids/)
October 9, 2013 | 4:28pm
Chelsea Clinton admits to talk show host Rachael Ray that her political parents, Bill and Hillary Clinton, are pressuring her to have a child.
In an appearance on “Rachael Ray” airing Friday, Clinton admits her parents have expressed “completely unapologetic” pressure, while the family of her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, is letting the couple plan children on their own time.
“My husband has 10 brothers and sisters, so we have 18, almost 19, nieces and nephews, so there’s not pressure from that side of the family,” Chelsea said. “But from my parents there is completely unapologetic pressure. In private and in public. If one of my parents were sitting here, they would tell you without blinking an eye that it would make them the happiest thing on earth if I were to make them grandparents, and they would say it so effusively, and I would feel a little bit of pressure.”
Chelsea talked to Ray about her work with the Clinton Foundation’s Alliance for a Healthier Generation, as well as her life before Mezvinsky. When asked whether or not her first kiss was at the White House, the former first daughter admitted it was “in the boy who was going to become my boyfriend’s basement. [Huh?]
“It was when I was living in the White House. I lived there from the ages of 12 until 20, so I would hope that somewhere in that time I would have had that right of passage,” Chelsea admitted. “But it was not actually in the White House.”
Right of passage? :laugh:
Spelling and grammar are optional.
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More from the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. diary, in which it turns out the Kennedys behaved *surprise!* boorishly after JFK Jr.'s death.
Kennedys feuded before bodies were recovered from JFK Jr.’s flight
By Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein
NY Post (http://nypost.com/2013/11/03/rfk-jr-diary-kennedy-family-feuded-before-bodies-were-recovered-in-jfk-jr-crash/)
November 3, 2013 | 4:09am
Environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. kept secret diaries that were found by his wife, Mary, who committed suicide last year in the midst of a contentious divorce. The Post, which was provided copies of the journals by a source, previously reported how the volumes detailed RFK’s “lust demons” while chronicling his sexual conquests with 37 women. Now, newly revealed entries show the family’s reaction to JFK Jr.’s death in 1999.
The tragic death of John F. Kennedy Jr. was marked by deep sorrow — and intense family bickering over the funerals before the bodies were even recovered, according to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s secret diary.
The journal’s entries in the aftermath of the July 16, 1999, plane crash that killed Kennedy, 38, wife Carolyn Bessette, 33, and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette, 34, provide a rare eyewitness account of the intensely private scene at the Kennedy compound and the petty, tense squabbling over whether Carolyn deserved the royal Kennedy treatment.
Kennedy reports on a heated meeting in New York City, three days after the crash, during which other Kennedy family members tell Ann Freeman, Carolyn Bessette’s grieving mother, that JFK Jr. would be buried in the family plot in Brookline, Mass., and “that they could do with Carolyn as they pleased.”
The heart-wrenching drama of JFK Jr.’s death was one of many private family moments Kennedy chronicled in thick, red journals reviewed by The Post.
In mid-July 1999, the family was coming together at their Hyannis Port, Mass., retreat for the wedding of RFK Jr.’s sister Rory Kennedy, the youngest child of assassinated Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.
RFK Jr.’s wife had visited JFK Jr. and Bessette a week earlier and Bessette told her that her husband was “so depressed” because he was fighting with his sister, Caroline, over furniture at the Martha’s Vineyard home that once belonged to their mother and had been left to them when Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died in 1994. JFK Jr. was in the process of buying out his sister’s share in the Red Gate Farm estate.
Kennedy notes that “John confided to me also about how hurt he was by Caroline’s actions.” (Last spring, Caroline Kennedy, who is about to be sworn in as the US ambassador to Japan, put part of the estate on the market for $45 million.)
Kennedy also mentions JFK Jr.’s struggles with George magazine, which he co-founded, and the uproar caused when he invited Hustler publisher Larry Flynt to join his table at that year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Sen. Ted Kennedy had written nephew John a “disappointed letter” about the decision and “John was hurt by that because his family is so important.”
Kennedy doesn’t say anything about the marital troubles between John and Carolyn, strife that largely came to light after their deaths.
“Mary and I resolved we will go see them this weekend and spend a lot of time with them,” RFK Jr., now 59, wrote of his cousin, who was seven years his junior.
The couple stopped by JFK Jr.’s house in Hyannis Port before the wedding rehearsal dinner the next night, at 6 p.m., but he wasn’t there.
They went back at 9, 10 and 11:30 that night, Kennedy writes. A friend and the housekeeper were there and had prepared dinner expecting to eat together, but John and Carolyn were nowhere to be found.
“I wasn’t worried at all because anything can happen with John,” he writes.
But at 3 a.m., Kennedy writes, he was awakened by his sister Kerry, who said their cousin’s plane was missing.
“I knew then that John was dead,” he writes.
He looked over to the porch light burning at his cousin’s house and felt empty and sad.
The next day, Sen. Ted Kennedy announced Rory’s wedding had been postponed, as the press gathered at the compound.
“The water was 68 degrees so some people had hope they might still be alive but I had none,” Kennedy writes.
The bickering over the bodies began the next day, July 18, before they were even recovered.
The Bessette family was “very upset” about where the trio would be buried, with the girls’ mother preferring a plot in Greenwich, Conn., close to her home.
“Ann wants them close by and is terrified that the K family might try to spirit them to Brookline,” Kennedy writes.
The Holyhood Cemetery in Brookline is the resting place of Joseph and Rose Kennedy, the family patriarch and matriarch.
After more frantic phone calls, Kennedy says a meeting in New York City was arranged with Ann Freeman and Caroline Kennedy. Instead, Kennedy sent her husband, Ed Schlossberg, along with Vicky Reggie, Ted Kennedy’s wife, RFK Jr. notes.
“All the Bessette family knows that Ed hated Carolyn and did everything in his power to make her life miserable and . . . he bullied, bullied, bullied the shattered grieving mother,” he writes.
The relationship between Carolyn Bessette and her sister-in-law and brother-in law had long been frosty. By one account, Caroline Kennedy criticized Carolyn for being late to her own wedding in 1996.
The bodies were recovered on July 21, all still in seat belts.
In the end, the burial fight proved moot. The bodies were cremated, the remains placed in “Tiffany blue” cardboard boxes, and a burial at sea was planned.
The next day, July 22, Kennedy and other family members, including his uncle Ted, got into three vans, with a police escort, for the trip to Woods Hole, Mass. There they boarded a Navy cutter and rendezvoused with the destroyer USS Briscoe a mile off the coast. The ship took them out 20 miles off Gay Head, Mass., about a mile from the crash site.
“The water had more jellyfish in it than anyone had ever seen. When they let go of the ashes, the plume erupted and settled in the water and passed by in the green current like a ghost. We tossed flowers onto the ghosts. Some of the girls tossed letters from a packet they’d assembled from John’s and Carolyn’s friends. It was a civil violation but the Coast Guard let it go,” Kennedy writes.
He notes that the Navy band “played mournful music and we all cried like babies.”
The next day, July 23, Ted Kennedy delivered the eulogy for his nephew at the funeral at St. Thomas More Church on the Upper East Side. At the reception afterward, the senator led a choir in three songs “and danced his silly Teddy dances and sang loudly and beautifully and made everyone . . . love him,” RFK Jr. writes.
But when the choir sang a mournful song to conclude, the senator scolded the group and said a livelier number was needed.
“They closed with ‘Happy Days,’ ” Kennedy notes.
RFK Jr. did a brief reading for his cousin the next day at a service for Lauren Bessette in Greenwich, Conn. Kennedy says he had been “trying to get through as a good soldier and making only positive comments and thoughts about Ed Schlossberg.”
But he recounted that his cousin Caroline’s husband was behaving like a dictator. At one point, he refused to allow RFK Jr. to deliver a eulogy for John and Carolyn at the St. Thomas More service.
“Kennedys don’t eulogize non-Kennedys,” Schlossberg told Carolyn’s sister, Lisa, RFK Jr. writes.
Lisa angrily responded, “Ed, do you make up these rules as you go along?” before slamming down the phone, Kennedy recalls.
A few weeks later, Carole Radziwill, the wife of JFK Jr.’s cousin and best friend, Anthony Radziwill, called to relate more of Schlossberg’s bad behavior.
“She says she wants to start an ‘I hate Ed Club.’ There would be many, many members. John & Carolyn would have certainly applied,” he writes.
On July 28, 1999, Kennedy learned that his cousin left him $250,000 in his will.
“I cried. I’ve lost such a good friend,” he writes.
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Seems Caroline and her brother were not as close as people were led to believe.
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Seems Caroline and her brother were not as close as people were led to believe.
None of the PR about that dysfunctional gaggle ought be believed.
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What a catch he is!
John Edwards moves on from Rielle Hunter with much younger woman
Disgraced Democrat John Edwards was spotted enjoying a lunch date with his reported new girlfriend — 35-year-old single mom Danielle King.
The 60-year-old attorney, who is said to have kicked baby mama Rielle Hunter to the curb over her recent tell-all book about their steamy, extramarital affair, was seen leaving upscale restaurant Panzanella, near his home in Chapel Hill, NC, on Oct. 18.
According to the National Enquirer magazine, he and the pretty blonde have been secretly dating for about a year.
King, who is a bit more than half Edwards’ age, wore a figure-hugging gray dress and heels for the liaison, while Edwards kept it casual in a polo shirt and jeans.
The new love interest works as a clinical coordinator at Duke University’s Cancer Care Research Program, the Enquirer said. King is said to have gotten close to Edwards and his two young children, and has become a fixture at the family’s idyllic, rural mansion.
King has even posted a picture of herself and Edwards’ son Jack on her Facebook profile page on the teen’s birthday.
“Happy Birthday, bud. I love you so so so so so much,” she wrote in the caption. “Thank you for being you and making my world, and everyone else’s, a better place.”
Although they are living together, the two arrived at the Italian eatery separately and were careful not to get too touchy-feely while enjoying their meal. Onlookers said the two were “very smiley” and “engrossed in conversation” during lunch.
“They gazed into each other’s eyes as if they were the only two people on the planet,” one witness told the magazine.
Afterwards, Edwards bid Danielle goodbye and popped by a nearby supermarket to stock up on groceries.
The apparent romance suggests that his scandalous relationship with Hunter, who ruined his political career when their affair emerged after she gave birth to his daughter Frances Quinn, is firmly in the past.
Edwards, a former Democratic vice-presidential candidate, reportedly paid his paramour Hunter to live in a separate Chapel Hill home while he was running for office in 2008. When his wife, Elizabeth, died in 2010 after a battle with breast cancer, Edwards had Hunter move into his family home.
Their relationship ended after her book about the torrid affair. But Hunter had second thoughts after publishing the tome.
“Instead of apologizing when I should have, I went on to hurt more people by writing a book,” she wrote in a blog post.
NY Post (http://nypost.com/2013/11/08/sleazo-john-edwards-has-a-new-girlfriend/)
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Breck girl will never change. He will soon dump this one too.
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Page Six (http://pagesix.com/2013/11/09/van-zandt-will-back-christie-for-president-if-hillary-isnt-running/)
Rocker Steven Van Zandt would vote for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for president — if Hillary Rodham Clinton isn’t running.
“I wouldn’t rule it out,” he told us last week. “I like him a lot, but Hillary also is gonna make a great president . . . If he waited eight years, I think he’d walk in with no problem.”
The E Street Band guitarist thinks Clinton can get things done.
“I think she’s very experienced,” he said. “It’s a very difficult time to be in the White House.”
:pondering:
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Breck girl will never change. He will soon dump this one too.
I'm not getting why this is even news. So he had and dumped another girlfriend. Is the guy supposed to be celibate the rest of his life? :shrug:
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Here's a pretty scathing one about Caroline Kennedy (whom I have particularly loathed since she publicly dissed First Lady Laura Bush years ago) courtesy of the National Enquirer. :laugh:
EXCLUSIVE-CAROLINE KENNEDY DARK SECRETS (http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/exclusive-caroline-kennedy-dark-secrets)
(http://www.nationalenquirer.com/sites/nationalenquirer.com/files/imagecache/node_page_image/article_images/caroline_stry.jpg)
JOHN F. KENNEDY’s daughter CAROLINE has the image of a dignified lawyer and an all-American princess. But behind that mask lurks a greedy phony who’s shamefully hawking her family’s mementos to the highest bidder!
That is the shocking accusation made by insiders who insist that the heiress’ staggering $278 million fortune isn’t enough to stop her from peddling historic items many feel should be in museums.
A Kennedy family insider told The ENQUIRER: “Clearly Caroline’s greed knows no bounds. She has
infuriated family and friends. Frankly, they feel like she’s cashing in on the Kennedy family’s terrible tragedies and selling out Camelot.”
Just two years after her mom Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died of cancer in 1994, Caroline put the former first lady’s personal possessions on the block, netting a whopping $34.5 million, says a source.
Now on the eve of the 50th anniversary of her father’s Nov. 22, 1963, assassination, she’s selling the land around her mom’s Martha’s Vineyard getaway for a staggering $45 million!
The 55-year-old’s blatant cash-grab has led one source to fume: “She’s a shameless fake and huckster.”
Meanwhile, the Kennedy family insider told The ENQUIRER: “Her mother must be spinning in her grave. Jackie valued her privacy above all. Now her most personal items are in the hands of strangers to gawk at and pass around.
“It seems that Caroline doesn’t care at all about her family’s legacy and place in history.
“She has coldheartedly taken all the memorabilia and historic artifacts and sold them like a tacky garage sale. But this garage sale has raked in tens of millions of dollars. It’s just plain greed!”
Many believe she should be putting items in a museum where the American people can see them instead of turning the historic treasures into cold cash, says a source.
“But everything is winding up as trophies for wealthy private collectors,” the insider notes.
“Caroline is held up as the perfect Kennedy, untouched by the many scandals of her cousins and uncles, and she plays into that image big-time.
“But she’s living a lie.”
Caroline’s first yard sale auction following her mom’s death netted $34.5 million, according to the “New York Post.”
Windfalls included a $100 hat box selling for $31,625, a $150 foot stool going for $33,350 and a $900 lamp fetching $48,875.
And two of JFK’s beloved rocking chairs sold for nearly $900,000.
Shamelessly, Caroline even sold the doors from Jackie’s White House dressing room, complete with their hinges, says the newspaper.
The auction, which took place with JFK Jr.’s reluctant consent, later sickened her brother, who died in a 1999 plane crash. The gold-rush left him wracked with guilt, revealed another source.
“The whole sale process is causing him a lot of anxiety,” a source said at the time of the original sales.
John just couldn’t get used to the idea of peddling family possessions to the highest bidder, says the source.
But that didn’t stop his sister.
She reportedly started tracking down all the memorabilia she could get her hands on. “Evidently $34.5 million wasn’t enough for her,” charges a businessman who owns a large Kennedy collection.
In 2005, Caroline auctioned off “old magazines, wicker baskets, a doorstop, chipped jars, a pair of tarnished candlesticks” and a sugar bowl that fetched an outrageous $7,200.
Her aunt, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, felt Caroline was selling items that belonged to her own parents and grandparents. So JFK’s sister bid on the stuff to prevent it from going to strangers. Caroline claimed some of the auction proceeds would go to charity, yet she never “disclosed how much, if any, went there,” says a source.
And she is also accused of cashing in on her famous name by publishing several books, filled with other people’s work – like a collection of poems which she claimed were her mother’s favorites.
“Another book contained 13 essays by other writers, but with her name on the book jacket,” says a source. “To claim she’s an author under those circumstances is just a lie.”
But Caroline reportedly raked in $4 million for the books. Further adding to the furor, she even sold off recorded interviews her mother gave after JFK’s assassination, says the source.
“Jackie ordered the tapes kept secret until 50 years after her death, but Caroline sold them only 17 years after her mother’s death,” the source notes.
Now, the mother of three grown kids is under fire for using her name and connections to nab an appointment as U.S. Ambassador to Japan.
But one outraged source slammed Caroline as a “profit-minded serial holder of non-jobs.” Despite her law degree from Columbia University, she was never a practicing attorney. She even let her law license lapse twice. She’s more into dabbling than hard work, critics charge.
“Caroline is the best-known living member of America’s most famous political family, but she isn’t the kind of power-player other ambassadors were,” charges Clyde Prestowitz, president of the Economic Strategy Institute.
“She has no prior experience in government or business.”
And as The ENQUIRER has reported, her 27-year marriage to Ed Schlossberg, 68, is on the rocks. But she’s putting on a show of togetherness for the sake of her diplomatic post, says a source. Schlossberg was dead set against her foreign adventure, but Caroline took it and doomed her marriage.
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Usually, I have no problem with anyone disposing of their own property - they're just things, after all - however they choose, but not when it means going against other family members who might have some right to object. When you have no marketable skills, I guess you have to sell the furniture to fund your lifestyle!
What disturbs me most about this woman is being handed an important diplomatic post witihout a shred of experience or relevant knowledge, just her family name and kissing up to Obama. Of course, there's nothing new in that practice. Her Hitler-loving grandfather was ambassador to England, after all.
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The thing that bothered me was that the Kennedy's claim to stand for helping out the underclass. With all of Caroline's hundreds of millions she already has, I wonder how much of that money went to charity?
Diana's sales of her belongings were donated.
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What the heck, Weiner's moved from politics to celebrity, so here's a snippet from Page Six (http://pagesix.com/2013/12/04/sightings-1587/).
Sightings: Anthony Weiner and wife Huma Abedin laughing loudly while shopping with son Jordan at the Union Square Whole Foods, where a spy says, “It was almost as if Weiner was trying to be audibly happy so everyone could hear” . . .
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Former AG, governor and CNN personality sighting:
De Blasio staffer ‘shacking up with ex-boss Spitzer’
By Frank Rosario
December 22, 2013 | 9:05pm
NY Post (http://pagesix.com/2013/12/22/de-blasio-staffer-shacking-up-with-ex-boss-spitzer/)
Bill de Blasio’s spokeswoman is shacking up with her married former boss — Eliot Spitzer.
Lis Smith, 31, who was hired by the mayor-elect in September as his communications director, has been hosting the hooker-happy former governor at her Soho pad, The Post has learned.
In an embarrassment to de Blasio on the eve of his Jan. 1 inauguration, his flack was caught twice spending the night with the tainted, 54-year-old Spitzer at her Thompson Street apartment building last week.
The ex-gov showed up late in the evening, once taking her for a romantic dinner and both times slipping out of her building at dawn, a Post reporter observed.
On Wednesday, Spitzer pulled up in a cab a couple doors down from Smith’s five-story walkup at around 10 p.m., wearing jeans, sneakers, a white hoodie and a grin as he walked to the building and rang the bell.
He was buzzed in — and didn’t emerge until 5:45 a.m. With bags under his eyes, he stopped briefly on Smith’s stoop to look at a newspaper that had been delivered before bolting through the predawn darkness to catch a cab near Prince Street.
Smith, a tall, dark-haired beauty, emerged a little after 10 a.m. smiling and looking fresh in a hot-pink coat.
On Thursday night, Spitzer showed up again, looking dapper in a long black overcoat and dress shoes as he walked to her door from Prince Street at around 10 p.m.
He went in and emerged an hour later with Smith, both of them darting about 20 feet into Le Pescadeux restaurant on the ground floor of her building.
Seated at a back table, the two held hands as they enjoyed a candlelit dinner.
The manager of the cozy French eatery described them as regulars who “have had almost everything on the menu by now. They come here that often.”
“The first time I saw Spitzer, I didn’t know if he was Eliot Spitzer or Anthony Weiner. Those two are like the same exact guy,” the manager said.
After leaving the eatery at around 12:30 a.m., Smith gave Spitzer a flirtatious look over her shoulder before the couple disappeared back into her walkup.
Spitzer took off early in the morning. Smith left hours later at 11, chatting on her cellphone.
Spitzer didn’t comment. His spokeswoman, Lisa Linden, didn’t deny his relationship with Smith.
“Lis Smith is a friend of Eliot’s, and he holds her in high regard,” Linden said. Smith didn’t return requests for comment.
Smith, a Bronxville native, was hired by Spitzer as a spokeswoman in July during his failed primary run for comptroller against Scott Stringer.
She was paid $30,000 according to a report filed with the Campaign Finance Board.
A former “rapid-response specialist’’ for President Obama’s campaign, she had been famous for sparking Twitter wars with political adversaries.
Her hiring by Spitzer came at the same time sources revealed to The Post that his wife, Silda, wanted a divorce and while he was angrily dodging questions about a rumored new mistress. Page Six had earlier reported that Spitzer moved out of his and Silda’s Fifth Avenue apartment.
Also in July, Smith was roundly criticized when the Spitzer camp tweeted a shot of him on the campaign trail, wearing the same tie he had worn when he resigned in disgrace as governor in 2008.
He stepped down after being exposed as “Client 9” of the Emperors Club VIP, a high-priced hooker ring.
Smith joined Team de Blasio in September, during the mayoral primary, and still works for him. It is not clear whether she will follow him to City Hall.
The Dartmouth grad apparently has a thing for bad boys. She dated former Missouri state Sen. Jeff Smith from 2005 to 2009, before he was locked up in a federal pen for obstruction after a probe of the state’s 2004 election.
Meanwhile, her family seems to approve of Spitzer. When Spitzer’s CNN show was canceled in July 2011, Smith’s mom — travel writer and retired lawyer Adrienne Smith — tweeted, “Sorry Spitzer’s gig ending on CNN. Most intelligent commentary on TV. Even better than Rachel [Maddow]. Hope he finds another home.’’ Her daughter retweeted the comment, with the response, “You tell em, Mom.”
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In an embarrassment to de Blasio on the eve of his Jan. 1 inauguration, his flack was caught twice spending the night with the tainted, 54-year-old Spitzer at her Thompson Street apartment building last week.
Embarrassment? For any of these people? Why?
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They're all beyond embarrassment. I'm reminded of Jeremiah 6:15.
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Sorry, this is just kind of strange.
Aloha! Oprah celebrates Christmas in Hawaii with longtime love Stedman, best friend Gayle and her kids
By Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2529293/Oprah-celebrates-Christmas-Hawaii-longtime-love-Stedman-best-friend-Gayle-kids.html) Reporter
PUBLISHED: 16:56 EST, 25 December 2013 | UPDATED: 10:22 EST, 26 December 2013
The former queen of daytime Oprah celebrated Christmas with her two favorite people - longtime boyfriend Stedman Graham and best friend Gayle King.
Oprah and Gayle, friends since 1976, have long laughed on rumors that they were lovers and Stedman clearly relishes both women's company.
King was able to get away from her busy job in New York at CBS to join her billionaire best friend on the island getaway, along with her two children Kirby and William.
Winfrey bought a hilltop home in Maui in 2003 with some of her billions and over time has parceled together a massive property. She now farms some of the 780-acre estate which has gorgeous views.
She jetted to the island paradise after visiting South Africa, where she has a school for girls. She stopped off in Paris on her way.
'Stopped in Paris to break up that loooong trip from S.Africa. Love this tree of lights at the George V hotel,' she said from France.
Oprah, who has no children of her own, is called 'Momma Oprah' by girls at her Leadership Academy and is close to Gayle's children.
Gayle divorced the kids' father in 1993.
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I hope you are all appropriately ashamed. It is this sort of suffering your racism has caused Oprah.
Winfrey bought a hilltop home in Maui in 2003 with some of her billions and over time has parceled together a massive property. She now farms some of the 780-acre estate which has gorgeous views.
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Madonna: Forgive me for using N-word
By Associated Press
Jan. 18, 2014
Madonna apologized Saturday for using a racial slur on Instagram to refer to her white son, seeking forgiveness a day after calling those who criticized her language “haters.”
On Friday night, the singer posted a picture of her 13-year-old son, Rocco, boxing and included the comment, “No one messes with Dirty Soap! Mama said knock you out!” She then added a variation of the N-word.
She quickly deleted the comment when outraged Instagram users berated her for the use of the word, and was initially defiant. But in a statement to The Associated Press on Saturday, a contrite Madonna said: “Forgive me.”
“I am sorry if I offended anyone with my use of the N word on Instagram. It was not meant as a racial slur. I am not a racist. There’s no way to defend the use of the word. It was all about intention,” she said. “It was used as a term of endearment toward my son who is white. I appreciate that it’s a provocative word and I apologize if it gave people the wrong impression.”
Besides Rocco, she has three other children, including Lourdes, David and Mercy. Mercy and David are black, adopted from the African nation of Malawi.
This is the second time this year that Madonna has offended people on Instagram. Earlier this month, she posted a photo of Rocco and his two young friends holding up bottles of liquor; she defended the post as a joke.
“No one was drinking we were just having fun! Calm down and get a sense of humor! Don’t start the year off with judgement!” she responded on Instagram.
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Such a fine Citizen.....
:whistle:
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Alec Baldwin says his 5-month-old daughter was randomly selected for TSA pat-down
The actor fumed on Twitter about the incident that occurred when he was traveling back to New York with his family from the Bahamas.
By Zayda Rivera / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Monday, January 27, 2014, 5:20 PM
The TSA has found itself on Alec Baldwin's bad side.
"Flying from Nassau, Bahamas 2 NY," the 55-year-old actor tweeted Monday. "TSA 'random selects' my 5 month old daughter 4 a pat down."
As obscure as that may sound, Baldwin reassured his followers that, "I am not kidding. #travelinginUSisadisgrace"
The "30 Rock" star has been vacationing in the Bahamas with his baby girl, Carmen, and wife Hilaria Baldwin.
On Friday, in a much lighter mood, he tweeted a photo of his ladies in front of a pool and palm trees. ...
Read on (http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/alec-baldwin-5-month-old-daughter-selected-tsa-pat-article-1.1593109#ixzz2riuSu4iO)
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This is both pathetic and reprehensible.
Frail Ethel Kennedy attends daughter’s drugged driving trial
By Laurel Babcock and Bob Fredericks, NY Post (http://nypost.com/2014/02/24/frail-kennedy-matriarch-attends-daughters-drugged-driving-trial/)
February 24, 2014 | 9:33am
A frail Ethel Kennedy showed up at the Westchester County courthouse this morning to support her daughter Kerry Kennedy on the first day of her trial on drugged driving charges.
Ethel Kennedy, the 85-year-old widow of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was in a wheelchair and accompanied by an unidentified man and woman when she entered the courtroom shortly after 9 a.m.
Kerry Kennedy had hoped to avoid a trial, but her bid to have the case tossed failed last week after a judge denied her motion to have the case dropped because she supposedly took a sleeping pill by accident.
Even if Kennedy – the ex-wife of Gov. Andrew Cuomo – accidentally drugged herself with a sleeping pill, she broke the law if she kept driving after feeling the effects, prosecutors had argued.
Kennedy’s defense team had argued that since prosecutors admit they have no evidence that she intentionally took the sleeping pill Zolpidem instead of thyroid medicine that the charges should be dropped.
Kennedy, 54, was charged with drugged driving in 2012 after her car hit a tractor trailer on a highway in Westchester.
During jury selection, Acting Supreme Court Justice Robert Neary did not allow defense lawyers to ask potential jurors about their political affiliations, but said they can ask if they have any “strong feelings” about the Kennedy family.
In addition to character witnesses, the defense plans to call a Massachusetts pharmacologist, Dr. David Benjamin.
The prosecution’s witness list includes Elizabeth Stratton as an expert in Zolpidem.
Kennedy is also expected to testify.
Meanwhile, Robert F. “Bobby’’ Kennedy Jr., 60, asked for compassion for his misunderstood sister, a lawyer and professional human-rights activist.
“Kerry’s been instrumental in freeing political prisoners and dissidents from around the globe from imprisonment and torture,” Bobby told The Post’s Andrea Peyser.
He argued that political agitators all over the world could be locked up and tortured if his sister is convicted in Westchester County for being hell on wheels.
Africans might be tormented or killed for being gay, he claimed.
Character witnesses? She either drove under the influence or she didn't.
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RFK Jr. goes to bat for sister ahead of trial
By Andrea Peyser (http://nypost.com/2014/02/23/rfk-jr-goes-to-bat-for-sister-kerry-ahead-of-drugged-driving-trial/)
February 23, 2014 | 11:10pm
You’ve been warned: The fate of the planet hangs in the balance if Kerry Kennedy is convicted of drugged driving in a New York trial that gets under way Monday.
Robert F. “Bobby’’ Kennedy Jr., 60, called me the other day to plead for compassion for his misunderstood sister, a lawyer and professional human-rights activist born Mary Kerry Kennedy.
“Kerry’s been instrumental in freeing political prisoners and dissidents from around the globe from imprisonment and torture,” Bobby told me.
He argued that political agitators all over the world could be locked up and tortured if his sister, 54, is convicted in Westchester County for being hell on wheels. Africans might be tormented or killed for being gay.
If convicted of driving while ability impaired by drugs — a misdemeanor — she fears she’ll be barred from entering countries like Canada, New Zealand and Australia, and thus be unable to perform her important work.
Like her brother, Kerry is the child of slain Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Their uncle was President John F. Kennedy. Kerry is also the ex-wife of Gov. Cuomo.
Last month, Kerry was on her way to meet her brother, a lawyer and environmental activist; their documentary filmmaker sister Rory, 45; and Bobby’s actress gal pal, Cheryl Hines, 48, at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah when she made an abrupt, globe-trotting U-turn.
Kerry received an urgent call from South African social-rights activist Desmond Tutu, who asked her to fly to Africa immediately. At Kerry’s request, the retired Anglican bishop and Nobel Peace Prize winner had set up a meeting between Kerry and the president of the African nation of Uganda, who supposedly was about to sign into law the so-called “Kill the Gays” bill.
So Kerry instead boarded a plane at JFK Airport and high-tailed it to Uganda’s capital city of Kampala, where, the story goes, she succeeded in saving the gays.
“You’ve changed my mind. We can’t go on executing people because they were born that way,” Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni told Kerry, according to a friend of hers.
Well, that’s one version of the story.
“She has freed hundreds of political prisoners from Uganda to Nigeria to Kenya and Mexico because she has access because of her name,” Bobby enthused, adding, “That doesn’t mean she’s above the law.”
Is Bobby loyal? Or delusional?
I haven’t a clue what this world-saving business has to do with the case of a privileged woman and a highway smashup. I do know that Kerry could have hurt or killed someone, even herself, when she got behind the wheel of her silver 2008 Lexus SUV on the morning of July 13, 2012, allegedly while under the influence of the sleeping pill Ambien. She did, in fact, crash the vehicle into a tractor-trailer truck on Interstate 684 near her home in the tony town of Bedford and then continued driving.
A highway patrolman finally found her slumped over her vehicle’s steering wheel, unable to walk or see straight.
Luckily, no one was injured.
Kerry initially told an officer that she might have mistakenly taken Ambien instead of her thyroid medication. Then, four days later, she stood outside the tiny Town of North Castle Justice Court in Armonk — the case has since moved to roomier quarters in White Plains — and announced that her doctors believed she suffered a “complex partial seizure” at the time of the wreck, caused by an earlier head injury.
Wrong.
Toxicology test results revealed that Kerry had ingested zolpidem tartrate, the generic term for Ambien. Her lawyers now contend that she innocently mixed up her pills.
Kerry is president of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. But how effective is she at righting planetary wrongs?
It turns out that Uganda’s gays never faced certain death. By the time an anti-gay bill had passed through the country’s legislative body in December, lawmakers had removed execution as punishment for certain homosexual acts and replaced it with penalties up to life in prison, still pretty harsh.
When Kerry and members of her crew met with President Museveni on Jan. 18, he told the activists he would not sign a “fascist” anti-gay bill into law.
Then he changed his mind. Museveni said through a spokesman on Feb. 14 that he intended to sign the bill “to protect Ugandans from social deviants.”
President Obama condemned the measure.
If convicted, Kerry could be sentenced to up to a year in jail, but a legal source said she’d likely be ordered by a judge to perform community service.
Kerry plans to testify in her own defense at trial, giving observers a glimpse into the mind of a globe-trotting do-gooder.
One who can’t own up to doing anything wrong.
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Celebrity bits from Cindy Adams
Oprah dishes on her friendship with Gayle
By Cindy Adams, NY Post
March 12, 2014 | 11:44pm
Oprah: “I want to say officially how proud I am of my friend Gayle King.
“Back a lifetime ago, 1976, Baltimore. We were both on a local TV station. She was a production assistant. I was an anchor. We became friends, especially after a big snow storm. When she couldn’t go out, get home and didn’t have enough clothes, I said, ‘OK, you can have my underwear.’ But then I added, ‘And don’t return it.’
“When time came and things happened to me, I asked her to quit her job and come to my new Oprah magazine to help me. But the truth is, the whole time I felt guilty taking her away from TV because I know how much she loved it.
“And now she’s doing so well, and I’m thrilled for her. Mostly because at least she can have her own underwear.”
Alec’s naughty
More about America’s favorite pinup, Alec Baldwin: Berner High in Massapequa, LI, he ran for senior class president. Night before, he went into the school cafeteria with his father and hung a huge banner in bold letters: “S-E-X. Students Elect Xander (Alec’s nickname).” He won.
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8888crybaby
Johnny Weir splits with "husband," Victor Voronov (http://pagesix.com/2014/03/19/johnny-weir-splits-with-husband-victor-voronov/).
... Weir and Voronov were in court for domestic violence charges March 4, but the charges were dismissed.
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I was wondering why we had a State Department.
Fergie goes for serious leather look as she lands in Washington for State Department event... but remains quiet about X Factor judge rumours
By James Leyfield , Daily Mail UK (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2585127/Fergie-goes-leather-look-ahead-State-Department-event.html)
PUBLISHED: 06:43 EST, 20 March 2014 | UPDATED: 06:44 EST, 20 March 2014
She's recently been linked to one of the judging spots on The X Factor.
But Fergie had other work on her mind as she landed in Washington DC ahead of an event at the State Department looking very stylish in a leather jacket and leather-look trousers. ...
The star is in Washington for the launch of the Institute on Violence Against Women on Thursday heading at the State Department – which is responsible for international relations of the US - as she is a global ambassador for the Avon Foundation for Women. ...
Violence against women is serious business so it's important to wear serious leather. That way, people know you're really serious about it.
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8888crybaby
Johnny Weir splits with "husband," Victor Voronov (http://pagesix.com/2014/03/19/johnny-weir-splits-with-husband-victor-voronov/).
But... but... the idea that male-on-male sexual relationships are more violent is just right-wing, anti-gay propaganda! Didn't you get the memo? Pssh...
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But... but... the idea that male-on-male sexual relationships are more violent is just right-wing, anti-gay propaganda! Didn't you get the memo? Pssh...
Weir and Voronov were in court for domestic violence charges March 4, but the charges were dismissed.
boo, hoo hoo.
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The Weir-Voronov soap opera gets, well, soapier. Or something.
Johnny Weir and Victor Voronov’s divorce has already gone to the dogs.
The ice skater-turned-Olympic commentator is alleging his soon-to-be ex-husband beat Weir’s Japanese chin, Tema, TMZ reports.
Custody of the pooch is already a point of contention in the couple’s heated split: Weir claims that Tema is his, while Voronov regards the pint-sized canine as “the family dog.” But Weir has fired back in the legal battle, accusing Voronov of “[striking] the dog with force on occasion when we were married.” He also says that upon returning to the couple’s former home to pick up some items, Tema was in a bag with Voronov, crying and clawing in an attempt to escape.
Weir’s affection for his pet is no secret. His Instagram account features several snapshots where Weir dotes on the dog. ...
[lots of photos of silly looking dog here] ...
The dispute over Tema is the latest installment in a split that’s played out in the media and has included allegations of domestic violence, threats to release nude photographs and destroyed Birkin handbags.
More at NY Post (http://pagesix.com/2014/03/26/johnny-weir-victor-voronov-beat-my-dog/)
Oh no she didn't!!
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Madonna wears Islamic garb
By Bryan Hood
NY Post (http://pagesix.com/2014/06/25/madonna-wears-islamic-garb/?_ga=1.266789262.1244658742.1370464830)
June 25, 2014 | 10:48am
Madonna, no stranger to shock, is at it again, this time posting a picture of herself in a niqab on Instagram Tuesday.
(http://instagram.com/p/pob3PEGEew/embed/#)
In the photo, only the 55-year-old’s piercing blue eyes can be seen through a gold-adorned headscarf. Frequently confused with a burqa, the former only covers the face, while the latter covers the whole body.
“Its that kind of day! #unapologeticbitch,” she wrote alongside the image.
As expected, the photo sparked debate online, but not just because the Material Girl was wearing the often-controversial garment: Lady Gaga fans rushed to credit their idol with co-opting the symbol first.
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Last year she posted a picture of herself wearing a chain-mail mask to the social networking site.
(http://instagram.com/p/bSUnZBGEQP/embed/#)
This is just the latest example of a celebrity clumsily appropriating another culture. Earlier this week, Khloé Kardashian was criticized for wearing a Native American war bonnet.
“It’s absolutely terrible that they have no conscience to discontinue to do such things,” Cliff Matias, cultural director of the Redhawk Native American Arts Council, told Page Six.
:osama:
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Bill and Hillary are the Hamptons’ ‘It’ couple this weekend
By Emily Smith, NY Post (http://pagesix.com/2014/08/08/bill-and-hillary-are-the-hamptons-it-couple-this-weekend/?_ga=1.263569676.1244658742.1370464830)
August 8, 2014 | 9:27pm
Hillary and Bill Clinton will be the toast of the Hamptons this weekend as they move into their $100,000 Amagansett August rental.
Saturday, the couple, along with daughter Chelsea, will be fêted at the Water Mill home of former Wall Street exec Joan Hornig and her investment banker husband George.
Tickets range from $5,000 to $50,000 for a couple who would receive co-chair status. Proceeds will go to the Clinton Foundation. [In other words, directly into the bank accounts of Bill, Hillary and Chelsea]
The former first couple has locked up a property at 44 Broadview Road for three weeks this month.
But it doesn’t appear to be much of a relaxing stay — Hillary is also planning to promote her book “Hard Choices” with an Aug. 16 signing at BookHampton in East Hampton.
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Shriver had secret lover before Arnie’s affair was exposed
By Tara Palmeri
September 1, 2014 | 10:57pm
NY Post (http://pagesix.com/2014/09/01/maria-shrivers-secret-lover-before-schwarzenegger-affair-surfaced/?_ga=1.127854861.1244658742.1370464830)
Arnold Schwarzenegger may have shagged the maid — but wife Maria Shriver is no June Cleaver.
The Kennedy heiress was sleeping with her husband’s lead campaign strategist well before Schwarzenegger’s old affair with their housekeeper came to light, campaign staffers and other sources told The Post.
And after years of playing the betrayed wife, Shriver, 58, recently trotted out her longtime lover, Matthew Dowd, 53, as if he were a new fling, sources said.
Shriver stepped out with Dowd, now an ABC analyst, for the first time publicly last month at cousin Bobby Kennedy’s wedding.
“Maria likes to make it appear that she’s the victim, but she’s not,” a source said. “The [idea] that they started dating recently is ridiculous.’’
In May 2011, Schwarzenegger, 67, publicly admitted bedding family housekeeper Mildred Beana years earlier and fathering her son, now 16.
But Shriver, who didn’t separate from Schwarzenegger until news of his affair broke, latched onto Dowd in 2006, sources said. At the time, the twice-divorced Dowd was working on her hubby’s gubernatorial re-election campaign in California, sources said.
When Schwarzenegger was away, Shriver and Dowd would flaunt their affair in front of staffers, sources said, taking long walks together and spending alone time after meetings.
“There was a lot of flirtation,” a campaign staffer said. “They frequently spent time alone, and Arnold was rarely, if ever, around when they were together. She had a unique banter with [Dowd] and lit up when he was around. He was comfortable poking fun at her, and she would slap him teasingly.”
When Schwarzenegger caught on to the affair, Dowd was pushed out of his inner circle, sources said.
But the fights continued on the campaign trail, sources said.
“They were having blowouts in public over Matthew. Yelling and crying. Total chaos,” another campaign staffer said. “I was like, ‘How are we going to keep this from getting out?’ ”
Staffers had to choose — Team Maria or Team Arnold, sources said.
“There was no way to straddle the line,” a source said.
Dowd, in a direct-message tweet to The Post on Monday, denied he and Shriver had been involved at the time.
“There was no affair,’’ he said. “We were good friends.”
But Schwarzenegger’s staffers were told Dowd was the enemy and he was not allowed at the inaguration, an inaugural-committee staffer said.
In public, Schwarzenegger and Shriver remained a couple — but she continued seeing Dowd during her husband’s second term, a source said.
While Schwarzenegger was in Sacramento, Shriver went on getaways with Dowd, the source said.
She flew to New York in 2007 to stay at the Four Seasons and see Dowd, a source said. And they gallivanted around Santa Monica, Calif., and stayed at a hotel, the source said.
“She referred to him as one of her closest friends. The governor knew about it the whole time,” the source said.
In 2010, when he was booked for ABC’s “This Week,” on which Dowd often appeared, Schwarzenegger asked for a separate green room so they wouldn’t cross paths, a network insider said.
And Dowd bragged about bedding a Kennedy, sources said.
After too many drinks at a wedding in 2011, Dowd announced he was staying with Shriver at the Montage Hotel, where she lived during her separation with Schwarzenegger, a witness said.
When stories emerged in 2011 about Schwarzenegger’s love child, ex-staffers were told by a top aide to the governor to stay mum on Shriver’s affair.
“He did not want the dirty laundry out there,” a campaign staffer said.
Despite filing their papers nearly three years ago, the two have yet to finalize a divorce. A source said it’s being settled “amicably.”
A lawyer for Schwarzenegger declined to comment.
A rep for Shriver did not return a request for comment.
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Ms. Rihanna Goes to Washington
By Suzy Byrne
Yahoo Celebrity (https://celebrity.yahoo.com/blogs/celeb-news/ms-rihanna-goes-to-washington-133848283.html) We now know how Rihanna spends her Thursday nights.
The Barbadian beauty, who we always assumed was out partying on Thursdays, revealed that she's a Gladiator at heart during a visit to the White House on Monday. The 26-year-old songstress documented her visit to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on her newly reactivated Instagram page – and her snapshots had a Scandal-esque theme.
Let's take a look back at her day, Instacram style…
When Ri-Ri showed up outside the Obama family's digs, she was having a very Olivia Pope moment. (Great hair? Check. Great outfit? Uh-huh. Great handbag? Got it.) She then used a – gasp – payphone to place a call inside.
"CYRUS!!! LET ME IN!!" she wrote, tagging it "#DayAtTheWhiteHouse."
She then kicked up a heel as she pretended to get her flirt on with Olivia's presidential squeeze.
"Fitz, darling..." she wrote.
While holding an impromptu press conference, she channeled another member of Olivia Pope & Associates.
"#heyAbby," she wrote.
She even compared her entourage to Olivia's, writing, "West Wing Posse!! We wanna be O.P.A. so bad!!! #DayAtTheWhiteHouse."
And she capped off her day with a street pose, writing, "The new America!!! #islandtingz #DayAtTheWhiteHouse." Kerry Washington, who plays Olivia, was amused by Rihanna's antics, tweeting that the singer and her friends were, "True #gladiators." Tony Goldwyn, who plays Fitz, tweeted to Rihanna, "I'll put in a word w the boss!"
Rihanna is in the District for The Concert for Valor, a show honoring America's veterans and their families, which airs live from the National Mall tonight. Other celeb participants will include Bruce Springsteen, Carrie Underwood, Dave Grohl, Jennifer Hudson, and Oprah.
I don't know what all that "gladiator" and Olivia Pope crap means, because I don't watch insipid television, but is anyone else sickened by this? The idiot boy president isn't even there, and celebrities still just drop by for photo sessions. (Click on the link (https://celebrity.yahoo.com/blogs/celeb-news/ms-rihanna-goes-to-washington-133848283.html) for the photos). What the ... **nononono*
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Ms. Rihanna Goes to Washington
By Suzy Byrne
Yahoo Celebrity (https://celebrity.yahoo.com/blogs/celeb-news/ms-rihanna-goes-to-washington-133848283.html) I don't know what all that "gladiator" and Olivia Pope crap means, because I don't watch insipid television, but is anyone else sickened by this? The idiot boy president isn't even there, and celebrities still just drop by for photo sessions. (Click on the link (https://celebrity.yahoo.com/blogs/celeb-news/ms-rihanna-goes-to-washington-133848283.html) for the photos). What the ... **nononono*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Pope
“Olivia Carolyn Pope is a fictional character portrayed by Kerry Washington, created by Shonda Rhimes and partially based on Judy Smith for the political drama television series Scandal. Pope is a Washington, D.C.-based crisis manager who runs her own firm, Pope & Associates, that specializes in political situations. The character has become a widely-watched fashion and style trendsetter.”
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The character has become a widely-watched fashion and style trendsetter
Ah, then that explains why I don't care. I DO care that Obama has turned the White House into some sort of prop for his celebrity friends.
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Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett to sing for Hillary
By Emily Smith
NY Post (http://pagesix.com/2015/06/09/lady-gaga-and-tony-bennett-to-sing-for-hillary/?_ga=1.190769835.1244658742.1370464830)
June 9, 2015 | 10:09pm
Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett will serenade Hillary Clinton at a fundraiser for the presidential candidate at Manhattan’s Plaza Hotel.
Tickets for the June 27 event are $2,700 a pop with a limited number of $1,000 tickets. But the devoted few who raise $50,000 get blessed with host status, a photo with Clinton (and possibly Gaga and Bennett) and an invite to a VIP after-party.
A source said, “They’re not sure if it’ll be a seated affair or if people will be standing — it’s a pricey night to be standing.”
Gaga has long supported Clinton, calling for her to run for president and blasting Tim Gunn for criticizing her pantsuits.
Gaga said in 2011, “I think Hillary Clinton has more important things to worry about than her hemline.”
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Like they say, even bad publicity is better than no publicity at all.
Item #1: Chelsea hobnobs with noted skank from Hilton familyFormer First Daughter Chelsea Clinton looks pretty in pink as she attends Nicky Hilton's wedding to banking heir James Rothschild at Kensington Palace
Story and photos (unfortunately) at Daily Mail. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3156785/Former-Daughter-Chelsea-Clinton-looks-pretty-pink-attends-Nicky-Hilton-s-wedding-banking-heir-James-Rothschild-Kensington-Palace.html)
Item #2: Chelsea's parentage is being questioned. Who's-yer-daddy? Not Bill? Might be Webb? What a surprise.Chelsea Clinton has “secretly undergone a DNA test,” and it looks like former President Bill Clinton might not be her biological father.
That’s according to a National Enquirer report released Thursday, which says that Hillary’s former law partner Webb Hubble might be the father...
More at Sun Times (http://national.suntimes.com/national-world-news/7/72/1439202/bill-clinton-may-not-be-chelsea-clintons-biological-father)
Item #3: Hillary wants Chelsea to breed again in time for the election. Shaking babies, kissing hands, and all that.The REAL Reason They Want Chelsea Clinton To Have Another Baby!
Published on: July 6, 2015
HILLARY CLINTON is scheming to kiss one special baby on the campaign trail – with a carefully timed new grandchild from daughter Chelsea!
“She really needs to soften her image,” a campaign insider told The National ENQUIRER. “Some photographs of the doting grandmother with Chelsea’s brand new baby should do the trick!” ...
National Enquirer (http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/real-reason-they-want-chelsea-clinton-have-another-baby)
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Item #1: Chelsea hobnobs with noted skank
Ah, sweet. Visiting Dad again. No "Cat's in the Cradle" for her.
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Former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton looks pretty in pink as she attends Nicky Hilton's wedding to banking heir James Rothschild at Kensington Palace
Cue those theremins…
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George Clooney's wife represents some interesting people.
Amal Clooney's chambers in last-ditch legal bid to save life of hated son of Colonel Gaddafi who was sentenced to death in Libya last week
* Saif Gaddafi was condemned last week for crimes against Libyan people
* Amal Clooney's legal chambers say he should be put on trial in the Hague
* She wants case heard by International Criminal Court – where there is no death penalty
By Robert Verkaik for The Mail on Sunday
Published: 16:00 EST, 1 August 2015 | Updated: 05:22 EST, 2 August 2015
Amal Clooney – the barrister and glamorous wife of Hollywood actor George Clooney – has made an 11th-hour bid to save the lives of the son of Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi and his hated spy chief.
Saif Gaddafi and the former intelligence boss Abdullah al-Senussi were sentenced to death in a Tripoli court last week for crimes against the Libyan people. Mrs Clooney’s legal chambers represent both Gaddafi and al-Senussi, and have argued that they should be put on trial in the Hague.
She has played a leading role in the bid for the spy chief to have his case heard by judges from the International Criminal Court – where there is no death penalty.
Last night her London chambers Doughty Street described the Libya trial as a travesty of justice and called on the United Nations to halt the executions. Gaddafi and al-Senussi have been told they will be killed by firing squad.
Lead counsel Ben Emmerson QC – speaking on behalf of the legal team acting in the case – told The Mail on Sunday that Mrs Clooney was one of three lawyers working for al-Senussi and that her Doughty Street colleague John Jones QC had been appointed to act for Gaddafi.
Mr Emmerson said the two cases were closely linked as legal arguments centred on the failure of Libyan courts to hold a fair trial.
He said: ‘The trial has been conducted in an atmosphere of extreme fear, insecurity and intimidation in which judicial officers and defence lawyers have been threatened and physically attacked.’
He added: ‘As his international lawyers, we have been repeatedly denied access to him [al-Senussi] – this is an outrage and reveals the true depravity of the Libyan justice system.
'It has descended to the lowest levels imaginable. We call on the Security Council and the whole international community to end this grave injustice and take all steps to overturn the death sentence immediately and uphold international human rights standards.’
In a separate statement, Mr Jones said: ‘It’s a complete show trial, a farce. This trial is effectively being run by militia.’
More than 30 associates of Colonel Gaddafi were tried last week for suppressing peaceful protests during the 2011 uprisings which deposed the dictator.
Saif Gaddafi was not in court, but has previously appeared via video link. However Mr Jones said the link had worked on only three occasions, leaving him in the dark about the proceedings. ‘They [Tripoli prosecutors] are relying on confessions from defendants extracted by torture. It was condemned by Libya’s own ministry of justice as illegal.’ ...
Read the rest at Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3182483/Amal-Clooney-ditch-legal-bid-save-life-hated-son-Colonel-Gadafi-sentenced-death-Libya-week.html)
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So more than one Brady boob has a deflation issue.
Gisele dons a burqa to secretly fix her ‘deflated’ boobs
By Yaron Steinbuch and Isabel Vincent
NY Post (http://pagesix.com/2015/07/29/gisele-dons-a-burqa-to-secretly-fix-her-deflated-boobs/)
July 29, 2015 | 6:00am
This woman in a burqa was not heading to any prayer services.
Supermodel Gisele Bundchen and her kid sister hid under traditional Muslim wear — during the holy month of Ramadan — so they could get secret plastic surgery in Paris, The Post has learned.
The Brazilian stunner orchestrated the cloak-and-dagger mission so she could sneak into the swank International Clinique du Parc Monceau for work on her boobs and eyes, sources said.
A dead giveaway was the footwear — Muslim women are forbidden from wearing open-toed shoes.
A source said she was concerned that her breasts had sagged after having two children — and the surgery was a 35th-birthday and post-retirement present to herself.
Gisele and sister Rafaela were picked up by Bundchen’s longtime chauffeur at the Bristol Hotel and driven to the clinic on July 15, sources said. The photo below shows Gisele with the driver before she donned the burqa.
The next day, after the two surgeries, the trusty driver — who has worked for Gisele since at least 2010 — took the two women back to the hotel, where they packed up their belongings. He then drove them to the exclusive Les Sources de Caudalie spa, where Bundchen recovered for five days before leaving Paris.
The former Victoria’s Secret Angel, who made $47 million last year as the world’s highest-paid model, according to Forbes, faced a chump-change tab of about $11,000 for her surgeries.
On Friday, Bundchen was photographed in sunglasses as she and Rafaela strolled through Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris on their way back to the United States.
Gone was the burqa — which has actually been banned in France since 2010.
Bundchen, who had vowed to never undergo plastic surgery, announced her retirement from the runway in April, telling the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper that she had “learned to listen to her body.”
She said she’d devote her time to other projects off the catwalk.
“Automatically, my body tells me if what I do is worth it, and it asked to stop,” she said. “I respect my body; it’s a privilege to be able to stop.”
Her reps didn’t respond to requests for comment on Tuesday.
(https://nyppagesix.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/ffn_image_51809887_ffn_set_60096099-e1438135768582.jpg?w=300&h=693)
Followup story: Gisele a laughingstock in Brazil for trying to hide boob job (http://nypost.com/2015/08/02/brazilians-mad-at-gisele-for-trying-to-hide-boob-job-its-laughable/).
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(http://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13001267_1371129286246622_2981264097852235407_n.jpg?oh=fabdce3ffb84ae6579d688330c1413f7&oe=57B68441)
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Dreyfuss has previously called former vice president Dick Cheney "the most despicable man in history," beating out Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Genghis Khan, and Pol Pot for the title.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/richard-dreyfuss-trumps-celebrity-supporters-whores
5.31.2016
Paul Bois
Actor Richard Dreyfuss believes celebrity supporters of presidential candidate Donald Trump are "whores."
In a Twitter rant over the Memorial Day weekend, the 68-year-old actor spewed an illiterate rainbow of colorful insults, calling the real-estate mogul "a small dicked pr*ck" and a "manifestly unqualified racist" who had "whores" for celebrity supporters.
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If Hollywood suddenly vaporized into nothing, along with all of the socialist progressive actors, the world would be a much better place.
Hey Richard. Go sink your head in Bill Kristol's kool aid.
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Chelsea Clinton gives birth to a baby boy, her second child
By Dan Merica, CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/18/politics/chelsea-clinton-son-aidan-clinton-mezvinsky/index.html)
Updated 12:30 PM ET, Sat June 18, 2016CNN)Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of Hillary and Bill Clinton, gave birth to a son on Saturday, according to her Twitter and Facebook accounts.
"Marc and I are overwhelmed with gratitude and love as we celebrate the birth of our son, Aidan Clinton Mezvinsky," the former first daughter tweeted on Saturday.
This is the second child for Clinton and husband Marc Mezvinsky. She gave birth to Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky in September 2014.
The birth makes Hillary and former President Bill Clinton grandparents two times over. Hillary Clinton regularly mentions her granddaughter Charlotte at political events and is often asked about the baby when she works the rope line after events, with people asking for updates on Charlotte's progress with walking and talking.
Charlotte, though, has not made an appearance on the campaign trail, in part because Clinton wants to give the child some semblance of privacy.
"Until it happened to me, I just could not understand the impact," Clinton said this month about being a grandparent. "It is truly like falling in love all over again. There is nothing like it."
She added, "It's transformational and until you did it, it is hard to know. And it has for me been an absolutely life changing experience."
Chelsea Clinton married Mezvinsky, the son of two former members of Congress, in 2010. Ever since their daughter's nuptials, Bill and Hillary Clinton have applied good-natured public pressure on her to make them grandparents.
In April 2012, Hillary Clinton told ABC it wasn't "really up to" her whether she would ever earn the grandma title, but added, "I would like to have that title. ... I think I'd be pretty good."
Chelsea Clinton has regularly said that her parents were "unapologetic" in their pleas for grandchildren. "(They) are not shy about saying that in public and private," she told ET in 2013.
On Saturday Bill and Hillary Clinton issued an effusive statement about the latest family addition.
"We are overjoyed to be grandparents again with the arrival of our grandson, Aidan Clinton Mezvinsky, born on Saturday, June 18, 2016," the couple said.
"We are all over the moon as Chelsea and Marc welcome Charlotte's little brother to the world and grateful for our many blessings. Chelsea and Aidan are both doing well and enjoying this very special time together."
Not confirmed yet whether the little tyke has been named to the board of the Clinton Foundation.
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Lindsay Lohan blesses Twitter with her opinions about Brexit (http://mashable.com/2016/06/23/brexit-lindsay-lohan/?utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed#aMhABfEJKEqK)
(here's a hint: she's against it)
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Lindsay Lohan blesses Twitter with her opinions about Brexit (http://mashable.com/2016/06/23/brexit-lindsay-lohan/?utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed#aMhABfEJKEqK)
(here's a hint: she's against it)
:silly: Would it affect her drug supply?
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Saw this on Facebook. This is the actress from the Tom Cruise "Top Gun" movie:
Kelly McGillis
· June 18 at 12:07pm · Edneyville, NC ·
I came home last night around 9:00 after attending a lecture by theologian Robin Meyers. The final conclusion of which was about loving others. 'Every single other.' When I arrived home on top of my mountain I notice the downstairs bathroom light was on (you can see it from the street). I didn't recall leaving it on but I was in there before I left brushing my teeth so I thought maybe I'd left it on. There weren't any cars around. I began collecting the bird feeders to bring them in for the night (we have hungry bears).
When I put my key in the front door it was unlocked. I thought it was strange but I made up the story that maybe I had left it unlocked just as I had left the bathroom light on. Upon entering the house I notice a pair of girls pink sandals and a black larger pair. I thought that maybe one of daughter was here because on of them has a key. Called out hello several times. I was trying to get rid of the stuff in my hand to better assess what was going on when a stranger, a woman, came barreling down the hallway and began yelling at me. I asked her who she is and why she was in my house and she said 'you know why you've been stalking me in Twitter.' Not true.
At that moment I got worried that there may be someone else in the house with house with her. We have quite a few guns and lots of ammo and that's when I started to panic. Thinking that if they have one of them I could be shot. I ran out the front door and called 911. She ran out after me and began punching and scratching my trying to grab the phone out of my hand. I began screaming as loud as I could hoping someone somewhere might hear me. I still had my car keys in my hand so I set off the car alarm. That distracted her enough to throw the cell and try to deal with the keys. More fighting ensued. I got the cell phone back and dialed 911 again. More fighting. And she once again had the cell phone.
I finally broke away, got in the truck and drove off trying to find a neighbor to call 911. There was no one around since it was Friday night, so I chased someone in a car, kept flashing my lights and honking the horn. They finally pulled over and she made the 911 call for me. A truly good Samaritan. Dispatch told me to wait there for there for someone to arrive.
Too shorten this ever long story. She was apprehended. I'm alright. Scratched and bruise. I feel very thankful it turned out well. But who I feel heartache for is the little girl that was with her. Mental illness takes many hostages. I don't know her name...but I would like to asked that you pray for her and her mother. On a lighter note...my cell phone was thrown in the street and run over by my pick up. Thanks to the Otter case it still is in good shape. Also I have RayBan glasses frames and the were ripped from my face and stomped on I don't know how many times. They are still wearable. It always a good day when you can find the positive in a negative situation.