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...judge; this is not a jury trial. But O'Donnell has a double agenda: to win the case and to charm, amuse and bulldoze the largest audience she has had since her show went off the air. Nonetheless, she took direction well and bore up under a stern cross-examination, never sniping or exploding. Briefly, she dabbed her eyes--less Betty Rizzo, more Camille. It was a Tony-worthy, possibly career-saving performance...
...year through virtually half the nightclubs in New York City (where she couldn't even light up a cigarette without tabloids making a huge fuss). Those rumors of a fling with the balding 32-year-old Limp Bizkit singer Fred Durst were pretty shocking too. (Durst went on Howard Stern and gallantly described Spears' pubic region to millions of listeners.) Add to all that the legitimate anxiety over her musical staying power (will anyone still buy Britney records now that she's outgrown the plaid skirts and kneesocks?). And throw in all the other stresses and strains of being...
Thomson isn’t the only Bush functionary with a soft streak. When Tom Ridge, the head of the Homeland Security Department, was asked, “Are you a happy fellow? Often times you look very stern in your pictures,” his feelings seemed genuinely hurt. “My family still loves me,” he retorted, “my three Labrador retrievers always seem to be happy to see me regardless of what anybody says about my picture and life is good.” (If you are feeling underloved Secretary Ridge...
Anyone famous here?" yells Melrose Larry Green, as he walks toward our sidewalk table at Los Angeles' Urth Caffe. Will Ferrell prepares for the inevitable embarrassing encounter with the professional annoyer and Howard Stern regular. But Green, who talks to almost everyone else at the restaurant, passes Ferrell right by. After Green finally leaves, Ferrell pretends to call his publicist to scream at him, "What are you doing wrong? Did I wave at him? No. But I shouldn't have...
...David Stern, the commissioner of basketball, said he should play. Lakers’ coach Phil Jackson said so. His teammates said...