Friday, January 19, 2007

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  • D-List Breakfast: Don't forget to set your DVRs, the hilarious Kathy Griffin is on "The View" today!!! She and Rosie are going to turn that show into the two-broad fun-fest that it should really be. Kathy, who will soon be guest-starring on "Ugly Betty," is in town because tonight she's performing at Carnegie Hall (guess who's going!) (KG.net)
  • Mo' Bad Hed: "Mo. Parents Believe Son Was Sexually Abused": Gee, you can't pull anything over on these two (unless you're e-mailing their foundation from your abductor's computer). I thought a 41-year-old pizza guy just liked having young boys around to play videogames with. God, I hope this kid is getting proper help. I'm sorry to say it to our Parents of the Year, but parading him on Oprah just doesn't seem wise to me. Can't the state intervene or something? (AP)
  • He Said, She Said: The glazed-eyed former wife of former New Jersey governor James E. McGreevey is writing a memoir. Dina Matos McGreevey's "Silent Partner" is scheduled to be published this spring. "'I've had a lot of requests for interviews and appearances, but thought it best for my daughter [Jacqueline] and myself to stay out of the public maelstrom,"' Dina said. ''But two years have passed, and still I am the subject of much speculation as to the nature of my relationship with my husband. Enough is enough.'' Now this is going to be good ... I just hope Jim can pull himself away from planning his wedding to his boyfriend of two days long enough to read it. (PRN)
  • Something's Fishy: This explains all of those drag bars in Southeast Washington. (Reuters)
  • Ms. Wrong: That interstate lezzie divorce/child custody battle is back in the headlines again. One of them pulled an Anne Heche and now all hell has broken loose. Don't these broads know they're supposed to stay together forever? (Advocate)
  • LoveWrecked: I love that ABC Family produces these supposedly wholesome movies for parents to watch with their children that are just brimming over with steamy sexual innuendo featuring barely legal actresses (Amanda Bynes). Founder Pat Robertson must be so proud, but with dreamy Chris Carmack steering her ship, at least it's heterosexual statutory rape, huh? (ABCF)
  • Church of the Poison Mind: A minister who disclosed that he was gay before Atlanta's oldest Lutheran church hired him as its pastor could now be defrocked for announcing he has a partner. Haven't these people learned anything from the Roman Catholics? Find a child: Rape, Rinse, Repent Repeat. (AP)
  • American Idol: Tennis champ Serena Williams is still a force to be reckoned with. (AP)
  • Too Little, Too Late? After repeatedly lying about it, I'm pleased to hear that "Grey's Anatomy" star Isaiah Washington has finally issued an apology for referring to his costar T.R. Knight as a "little faggot" and for related actions at the recent Golden Globe awards. It's disturbing that it had to come to this -- GLAAD and the network brass all but threatening to end Washington's career -- to get the message across, but I guess it's better late than never. Read the complete statement here. Read the L.A. Times' take on it here.
  • RIP: Actor Ron Carey, who played the hyperambitious and lovably -- if not unjustifiably -- cocky Police Officer Carl Levitt on the long-running sitcom "Barney Miller," died Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 71. When "BM" originally ran, I hated it. Years later, though, my brother Terence got me to watch it in reruns and I came to realize just how brilliant it often was. Carey was a big part of that. May he rest in peace. (NYT)
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