Commencement Chaos: Speaking Gig Open at UCLA!
Let’s see….UC Merced got Michelle Obama, and UCLA gets actor James Franco. Well, not any more. Looks like the handsome, successful actor got bounced out of the primo commencement speaking gig June 12 by some students who resented the fact that he just graduated, and hasn’t really done anything with his degree in creative writing. Franco started at the Westwood campus in ’96, dropped out and just recently went...
Jay Date
NBC didn’t waste any time announcing the start date of what’s now being called “The Jay Leno Show,” although that title could change. He’ll be on at 10 starting Sept. 14. Leno went out with a bang after 17 years in the Tonight Show chair, having the grace to seat Conan O’Brien as his last guest and making a plea to the audience to support him. Conan, in his first show, also took time to pay tribute...
The Perils of Public Transportation
Dial “T” for transport theft. Kevin Bacon gets jacked in a subway station. A brazen thief came up to him while he was waiting for a train at a 53rd and 7th Ave. stop, and ripped off his Blackberry, presumably replete with numbers for wife Kyra Sedgwick and many others from whom he’s separated by only six degrees. All in broad daylight, well, during the day, in the dank lighting of the underground station, where Bacon...
Kiefer: Meet Me at the Bar!
It was the big question on the first day of TV upfronts: would Kiefer Sutherland show up at Fox’s big kickoff to the week? Not only did the 24 star take center stage at the presentation, he punched through any illusions of regret about his latest run-in with the law, after a bit of a tease. Saying that this could be one of his last chances to talk to the crowd of advertisers and media buyers (going to jail? scheduled end date?),...
Beauty and the Media Beast
Stop the presses! Miss California gets to keep her crown. Now get we get Carrie Prejean off the stage, please? I’m kind of sick of this Sarah Palin in-the-making. On the other hand, I have to admire the tons of free publicity she’s achieved–for herself and for the beauty pageant, a rather icky relick of a bygone era. Funny how Donald Trump took about five days to “decide,” milking this thing for all it...
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