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David Letterman is known for being a late night legend, but Letterman actually has as a film filmography — OK, he has two movies on his résumé, including this "comedy."
at least it was better than when he hosted the Oscars >> Posted 01.07.13 by Chris -
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David Letterman became everyone's cranky grandfather when he berated Justin Bieber for getting another tattoo and mispronouncing the Sistine Chapel on last night's Late Show. He also proved he's got quite a grip, causing the Biebs to wince in pain. While Letterman was quick to ask "Canadian high school?", [shameless plug from the Canuck on our staff] the U.N. Education index ranks Canada's educational system #6 while the US comes in at #20.
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Meanwhile on The Tonight Show, Matthew McConaughey talked to Jay Leno about getting manscaped to play a male stripper in the upcoming Magic Mike. McConaughey described getting waxed by a polite Russian woman. "She's pouring this glue and stuff all over you, and you're sitting there and you're giggling, and all the sudden she lays something on you . . .and it hurts! It does hurt!…" We're sure the pain will be worth it once Magic Mike opens.
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A very noticeably pregnant Snooki took a scary tumble this week. The paparazzi captured the expectant mom falling down while filming the sixth season of Jersey Shore in Seaside.The likely cause of the fall? Snooki's six-inch platform sandals. At least she's true to her word. Back in March, Snooki promised "to wear heels through [the pregnancy]. I'm 24, not 50." Until she delivers, perhaps she should stick to that motorized scooter. Oh, and photogs: If you see a pregnant woman fall, put down the camera and help her!
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And because it wouldn't be celebrity news without mentioning the Kardashian clan, Khloe Kardashian responded to Kris Humphries' allegation that mom Kris Jenner masterminded Kim's sex tape. "That is just disgusting and disturbing, and probably his fantasy!" Kris also alleges that Kris made Kim re-shoot the sex tape because the first take wasn't good enough.
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Miley Cyrus gave the paparazzi an eyeful when she bent over wearing a pair of incredibly short shorts while shopping. After noticing the reveal, she tied a shirt around her waist. Next time Miley, just (ahem) turn the other cheek.
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Today is finally the day that Facebook goes public — one of the biggest IPOs ever. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rung the NASDAQ opening bell from the social network's California headquarters. Some water cooler points about the company going public:
— Zuckerberg is expected to pocket $20B personally;
— Because he owns 2.3 percent of Facebook, Bono will surpass Paul McCartney to becoming to world's richest rock star;
— This IPO creates a thousand new millionaires;
— With a valuation of $104B, Facebook is worth more than Disney, Kraft, and Amazon;
— Apparently money heals all wounds because Eduardo Saverin congratulated Zuckerberg over Facebook about the company going public. He should, the IPO is expected to make Saverin $3B.
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In his first appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman in 13 years, Conan O'Brien talked about Jay Leno — an arch nemesis for both hosts (it was Leno who took the Tonight Show away from both Letterman and O'Brien). "I was delighted by everything that happened, except you losing your job," Letterman said about the debacle a few years back when Leno replaced O'Brien on the late-night talk show. "The only consolation I took during that period was that you were happy," O'Brien said.
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Betty White received her own Friars Club Roast on Wednesday, and if you thought the club, which is known for their no-holds-barred roasts, was going to go easy on the 90-year old, you were wrong.
The comedian Jeff Ross said the roast was organized as a lunch “because we didn’t think she’d make it till dinner.” “She’s so old, the color white is named after her,” Ross said, but he might have crossed the line when he added, “I’m looking forward to your next appearance — in that vase above your mantel.” The joke received a loud groan from the crowd. Joy Behar, Regis Philbin, Valerie Bertinelli, Valerie Harper, Liza Minnelli, and Larry King all attended the event with Barbara Walters as the M.C. “She’s so old, she thinks I’m jailbait,” said King, who is 78.
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And in is-it-1993? news, Jenny McCarthy announced she's posing for Playboy at the age of 39.
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Transgendered pageant queen Jenna Talackova held a press conference with her attorney Gloria Allred to fire back against Donald Trump and the organizers of the Miss Universe pageant. The group had initially disqualified Talackova from the competition, though they made a statement earlier this week allowing her to participate. Allred said the pageant did not go far enough and needed to eliminate the rule that only allows "naturally-born women" to participate. She went on to say that Talackova "did not ask Mr. Trump to prove that he is a naturally-born man, or to see the photos of his birth, to view his anatomy, to prove that he was male." Trump, as always, kept things classy by calling TMZ Live and saying that, if she were to see them, Allred would be very impressed by his genitals.
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Keith Olbermann admitted he screwed up with Current TV — almost — last night when he was a guest on The Late Show with David Letterman. "It's my fault that it didn't succeed, in the sense that I didn't think the whole thing through," Olbermann said. He then continued, "If you buy a $10 million chandelier, you should have a house to put it in." Letterman, reminding us of why his contract was extended through 2014 and paving the way for him to top Johnny Carson's late night run, then quipped "You're the chandelier?"
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Continuing to ride high after her Super Bowl halftime show, Madonna's MDNA sold 359,000 units — making it her eighth number-one on the Billboard Top 200 album chart and her fifth consecutive studio album to top the charts.
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Dan Harmon, creator of NBC's Community, has apologized for playing an angry, profanity-filled rant that Chevy Chase left on his voicemail in front of an audience at an L.A. comedy club. Harmon described his decision to play the message as a "dumb, unclassy, inconsiderate move."
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New mom Hilary Duff tweeted a pic of her two-week-old son Luca yesterday, and it has to be one of the most profoundly cute pictures to hit Twitter in awhile.
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A clip from next week's episode of Glee has been released online and it features Darren Criss and Matt Bomer singing a duet of "Somebody That I Used To Know." Bomer is playing the brother to Criss's Blaine, and reportedly scored the guest star gig by making a suggestion to series co-creator Ryan Murphy that he use a duet of the Gotye song. Basically we'll just use any excuse to watch a video with Matt Bomer in it.
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Supermodel Gisele Bundchen and New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady top Forbes' "World's Highest-Paid Celebrity Couples" list, earning $76 million between May 2010 and May 2011 and unseating Jay-Z and Beyonce from last year's top spot (they earned $72 million). Rounding out the top 5 are Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt ($50 million), David and Victoria Beckham ($45 million), and Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart ($40 million).
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Jennifer Garner is pregnant again as she and hubby Ben Affleck are expecting child number three to go along with daughters Violet, 5, and Seraphina, 2.
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David Letterman returned to The Late Show for the first time since receiving a death threat on an extremist web site and joked about it, telling the audience he was a little late coming out because he was backstage "talking to the guy from CBS. We were going through the CBS life-insurance policy to see if I was covered for jihad.
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A juror in the Casey Anthony trial has spoken about his ordeal to People under the condition of complete anonymity. While Anthony "seems like a horrible person," he claimed "the prosecutors did not give us enough evidence to convict." The juror added that the trial "has ruined my life," and that "I live in fear that someone will find me. I Google my name every day to see if anyone has figured out who I am."
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Megan Fox is having the large Marilyn Monroe tattoo removed from her forearm now that she's learned Monroe suffered from personality disorders and was bipolar. She told the Italian magazine Amica, "I do not want to attract this kind of negative energy in my life."
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Octomom Nadya Suleman shows off her gruesome scars and stretch marks, nearly three years after giving birth to octuplets via C-section.
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As Bravo execs huddled at Adrienne Maloof's mansion to discuss what to do about the new season of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills in the wake of Russell Armstrong's suicide, wife Taylor Armstrong has asked the network to carefully edit the show's video footage, which includes multiple marriage counseling sessions with a psychiatrist.
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A jihadist has made a death threat against David Letterman, urging followers to "cut the tongue of the lowly Jew and shut it forever." The Late Show host — who's a Christian — had apparently mocked the death of accused terrorist leader Ilyas Kashmiri, who was killed by a U.S. airstrike in Pakistan in June.
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Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino and Pauly D have shot back at Abercrombie and Fitch after the retailer offered to to pay Sitch not to wear their clothes. Sorrentino mocked the company's 10% stock price drop on Twitter after a bad earnings report, and Pauly D noted the company's raging hypocrisy in a tweet that included a picture of a Fitch t-shirt with the cast's catchphrase "G.T.L." (Gym, Tan, Laundry).
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47-year-old David Cross, perhaps best known for playing Dr. Tobias Fünke on Arrested Development, is engaged to 28-year-old Amber Tamblyn, star of the two Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants movies. The couple have been dating since 2009.
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Designer Michael Kors married longtime lover Lance LePere on Tuesday in Southhampton, NY. Kors announced plans to marry LePere days after same-sex marriage became legal in New York in July.
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44-year-old Salma Hayek is on the cover of the September Allure and comes out against plastic surgery, saying "it's not wrinkled-looking, but it's not beautiful." When asked what part of her body looked better 10 years ago, Hayek responded: "My boobs. They're not bad, by the way. I'm not complaining about them." A slideshow of the photo shoot argues that there's been very little slippage the past decade.
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It all ends July 15, and the promotional tour is well under way. The Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 cast is making the rounds at talk shows this week, and some interesting tidbits are coming from the interviews. From David Letterman making Emma Watson uncomfortable with his interrogation of her drinking experiences, to Kathie Lee Gifford apparently suggesting that she never learned how to read, some of these interviews are quite entertaining. There's bound to be more to come this week, but these two are probably our favorites so far.
Watch the interviews >> Posted 07.12.11 by Mandy -
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Sarah Palin has obtained a new restraining order 19 year-old Shawn Christy, who, according to the legal docs, has phoned Palin's house calling her a "slut or whore," and threatened to rape daughter Bristol Palin. Christy has been stalking Palin since 2009 with email and phone messages, and at least one letter containing a receipt of recent gun purchase.
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Must love dogs? Since splitting with Rene Zellewger, it's rumored Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Aniston may be hooking back up. "A source" tells People, "Jen always had a soft spot for Bradley, and she thinks he is very attractive and charming. Jen appreciates that Bradley is low-key, loves dogs and is focused on his movie career."
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David Hasselhoff has gone public — in a big way — with his romance to factory worker, aspiring model, and Pamela Anderson look-a-like Hayley Roberts as The Hoff couldn't keep his hands or his lips off of her.
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Cristina Ricci has called Robert Pattinson a good kisser, but a bad cold during filming of Water For Elephants made it an intensely unpleasant experience for Reese Witherspoon. Witherspoon said, "Rob possibly had the most hideous horrible cold of any co-star I've ever had to do a love scene with ever in my entire life. He was literally snorting and snotting through every second of it — and it was not appealing. I'm talking green, infectious, disgusting — I'm not kidding!
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Gwyneth Paltrow recently made waves looking exceedingly good in a tiny blue bikini, and the star said her slim physique it's not an accident, or genes, or "fairy dust." "The reason that I can be 38 and have two kids and wear a bikini is because I work my [expletive] ass off," she says.
In the May issue of Self magazine, Paltrow describes her workout: "I do 45 minutes of cardio five days a week, because I like to eat. I also try for 45 minutes of muscular structure work, which is toning, realigning and lengthening."
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After spending time together at Disneyworld, Courteney Cox and David Arquette went their separate ways and shared private moments with talk show hosts. Arquette again went on Howard Stern's show and said, "Listen, I tried to f*** her, and she doesn't even want me." Cox went on Late Night and told David Letterman, "He hit (on me) pretty hard, and I said, 'You know, you don't have the Fast Pass right now. Not to that ride!'"
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CBS reporter Lara Logan, beaten and sexually assulted in Egypt last week, got a call from President Obama yesterday to express good wishes for her recovery, as more details of the attack begin to emerge. For her part, Logan says she wants to return to work. That's more than can be said for fellow journalist Nir Rosen, whose tasteless tweets about Logan's ordeal forced him from his position as an NYU fellow.
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Jessica Alba has been nominated for three Razzie Awards, for her work in The Killer Inside Me, Little Fockers, and Valentine's Day, but baby-making may keep her off next year's list as she's announced she's pregnant with her second child.
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David Letterman admits he was "duped" into believing Lindsay Lohan would appear via satellite on his show tonight, then issued what we believe to be the world's least-sincere apology, saying, "I hope I didn't embarass you, Lindsay, and your family."
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Lohan was also not amused by Charlie Sheen's advice to her, telling Dan Patrick LiLo needs to "work on her impulse control." Lohan doesn't believe she has self-control problems. Meanwhile, Sheen says he has never shown up drunk or high on the set of Two and a Half Men, but admits to sometimes not getting much sleep the night before. The hit show is set to resume production February 28. Rehab for Sheen set to resume sometime in March.
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Actor Len Lesser, who played Uncle Leo on Seinfeld, died yesterday at 88.
Posted 02.17.11 by reelz -
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After being beaten and raped while covering the protests in Egypt, CBS correspondent Lara Logan will leave the hospital today. Fellow journalist Nir Rosen is under heavy fire for tweeting that it "would have been funny if it happened to Anderson Cooper," and suggesting the sexual assault was allowed to happen because "Lara Logan had to outdo Anderson."
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RadarOnline.com has put a big crack in Lady Gaga's story that she lived in the egg for 72 hours before Sunday's Grammy Awards, noting that the hard-shelled reproductive body only had 30 minutes worth of oxygen.
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After suffering at the hands of David Letterman's Top 10 List — last week's "Top Ten Signs that Lohan Is Out of Control" included "Friends worry that her shoplifting is getting in the way of her drinking." — Lindsay Lohan will deliver Dave's Top 10 List on tomorrow's show, via satellite feed from Hollywood.
UPDATE: Looks like the joke is on Dave. Lohan's appearance on the late night show was apparently a prank perpetrated by one of Lohan's "friends."
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Channing Tatum's most recent movie — The Eagle — bombed at the box office last weekend, but that's unlikely to dent the sex symbol's status as he's featured in the March GQ — often shirtless — and says he's not ashamed of his stripper past.
Posted 02.16.11 by reelz