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...wives (including a stripper and a Playboy bunny), three children (not all by people he was married to), plus trouble with alcohol (DUI) and cocaine (possession, rehab). "The beauty of playing Frasier and being Kelsey at the same time was that they did not relate," Grammer says. "I was scandal fodder throughout all those years because I played such a contrary role--uptight, intellectual, inhibited Frasier vs. indulgent, wild ... expressive Kelsey, let's just say." He chuckles at his inspired euphemism...
...Foley Damage Assessment - So Far With its finger pointing and mishandling of the scandal, the Republican leadership has given already disaffected voters another reason to throw it out of power
...celebrity playbook for navigating a scandal is one word long: repent. But apologies are for lapses of character, not revelations of it, and sensing that they were being asked to apologize for their beliefs as much as their timing, the Chicks decided not to back down. "Natalie knows we could have totally convinced her to apologize," says Maguire. "But the fact is, any one of us could have said what she said." Their demure response to the bans and threats--one of which arrived with the date, time and method of Maines' planned assassination--was to appear nude...
...lawmakers. "He has that wonderful quality of being quite likable and unpretentious. And he would work those members assiduously." In fact, he was credited with so effectively defending the National Security Agency's no-warrant wiretapping program after it was exposed in December that he helped turn a simmering scandal into a political win for the Administration--to a degree that President George W. Bush might have hoped for another assist when he nominated Hayden to replace Porter Goss as CIA director. "In personal appearance, [Hayden] kind of invites you to underestimate him," says a former national-security official...
...RESIGNED. Franco Carraro, 66, Italian football federation president, amid a growing match-fixing scandal; in Rome. Carraro is under investigation along with some 40 other officials and referees and four Serie A football clubs, including Juventus and AC Milan. On May 4, Italian newspapers sparked the scandal by publishing telephone taps of Juventus director Luciano Moggi discussing referee assignments for club matches with a refereeing official. Juventus's board of directors, including Moggi, resigned en masse last week...