TERRY GROSS: So you think they might just pull the show?
DAVID BIANCULLI: Well, even Jay Leno has said, you know, I wouldn’t mind going back to my old slot at “Tonight.”
GROSS: Whoa.
(Soundbite of laughter)
BIANCULLI: Yeah, isn’t that a big…
GROSS: Tell that to Conan O’Brien.
BIANCULLI: Yeah, exactly, exactly. That is such a big whoa. And, you know, if you thought that his leaving “The Tonight Show” and then sort of bringing it to primetime under another name was a little bit disingenuous or not being a team player, what about that admission?
[via NPR's "Fresh Air," Dec. 29, 2009: "TV 2009: David Bianculli On the Best...And the Rest"
There’s just no way that anyone in the audience at the Tonys tonight didn’t instinctively go—“Doooooogie!”—when the ceremony’s fabulously hilarious host Neil Patrick Harris strolled to the mic.
At first glance, I honestly thought this read “Looking More Appalling Now.”
Great news, everybody!
“Eco-friendly actor Leonardo DiCaprio has added his name to a new campaign to banish junk mail. The superstar has signed a petition demanding the US government acts to allow citizens to opt out of unwanted post. Dubbed ‘Do Not Mail’, the campaign is the brainchild of international environmental group ForestEthics.” – Ireland Online
Thank God someone’s finally doing something about this issue—I’m constantly hounded through the mail by all these CauseHead actors, and it’s really such a waste of environmental resources. For instance, this weekend, I got yet another horribly vague and unconvincing piece of direct mail from an “actor and environmentalist,” upon which I of course immediately spilled coffee and I—oh. Oh dear. Hmm.
Leo tells me he’s working with “America’s most effective environmental action group.” Hey, maybe sending two pounds of paper pulp to my house is more environmentally effective than writing me an email, what the hell do I know? I’m not an actor or anything. Fucking polar bears. Should you care to check out the rest of Mr. DiCaprio’s missive and his horrifying signature, it’s after the jump. read more…
Patrick Swayze’s doctor is going around telling people that reports of the actor’s impending death (like, in a month) from pancreatic cancer are “absolutely untrue,” and that he’s “optimistic” about Swayze’s chances. Yes, statistics do show that the disease’s 5% survival rate is considerably improved if you’ve appeared on camera with Jerry Orbach, Keanu Reeves and Blythe Danner.
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