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Josh Brolin will give good "W" when he hosts SNL this weekend.
Brolin, who plays President George W. Bush in Oliver Stone's new film, W, says to "expect a lot of fun and some surprising moments," reports People.
John McCain, Barack Obama and Sarah Palin have not made any appearances this season, but Brolin hints that someone else may steal the show
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NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel courtesy NBC Photo
The White House has taken issue with NBC's editing of an interview with President George W. Bush about a recent speech at Israel's Knesset.In the speech, Bush mentioned the president of Iran, and then said: "Some will believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals..."When asked by NBC News correspondent Richard Engel if that was a shot at Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, Bush's reply in the interview was, "You know, my policies haven't changed, but evidently the political calendar has...And when, you know, a leader of Iran says that they want to destroy Israel, you've got to take those words seriously."Aides to the president accuse NBC of misrepresenting Bush when it was editing out this passage from his reply: "People need to read the speech. You didn't get it exactly right, either. What I said was that we need to take the words of people seriously."NBC said the full, unedited interview has been available all along on its web site and that the Whit...
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Is it just us, or does anyone else think that the lengths our political figures are willing to go to in order to win some love from the American people is getting to the point of sheer ridiculousness? They've been on late shows, SNL, The Daily Show, Colbert Report, even The View. We get it — you guys (and gal) are hip and cool. But if you happened to be watching TV last night, you may have noticed that all the current heavy hitters were appearing in some really odd places. First, President Bush showed up on the hit game show, Deal or No Deal, delivering a thank you message to a soldier contestant as well as poking fun at his low approval rating: But the icing on the cake had to be when we saw Hillary, Barack and McCain air a message on WWE Raw the night before the Pennsylvania Democratic primary. Their wrestling jokes were so cringe-worthy, we could barely make it through to McCain’s bit: Your take: How do you feel about our politicians making so many TV appearances, namel...
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President George W. Bush by TassPhoto/WireImage.com
President George W. Bush will sit down for an exclusive interview with ABC News on Friday. Senior White House correspondent Martha Raddatz will interview the president from his ranch in Crawford, Texas. The interview is expected to cover hot-button issues such as the state of the economy, the upcoming presdential election, and the president's decision this week to halt the withdrawal of troops from Iraq after July. — J.R. Whalen
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Craig Ferguson is officially sworn in as a U.S. citizen. Photo by Monty Brinton/CBS
Hey, Craig Ferguson, you've just become a U.S. citizen! Now what are you going to do? "As soon as I became an American, I thought, 'You know what is going to happen,'" Ferguson told his Late Late Show audience Monday night. "'I am going to get jury duty, or the CIA is going to get in touch and get me to assassinate a foreign [head of] state or something like that.' Something boring."Well, not quite. Ferguson, who became a citizen last Friday, on April 26 will be performing at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, where he'll sit at the head table with President and Mrs. Bush and crack wise for the 2,800 journalists, congressmen and smattering of celebrities who attend. "Does he know I can't be kicked out now?" Ferguson wondered about the president. — Mickey O'Connor
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Provided he can secure financing, Oliver Stone hopes to begin production on Bush — a look at our current president — as early as the spring in order to release the film by the fall election, says the Reporter. Josh Brolin is attached to play Dubya, and Stanley Weiser (Wall Street, Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story) penned the script.... Tim Meadows and Gillian Vigman (Sons & Daughters) have joined the cast of They Came from Upstairs, the alien-invasion comedy starring Ashley Tisdale.... Penélope Cruz will voice Juarez, a guinea pig, in G-Force, a live-action/CG pic about a group of animal commandos who work for a government agency.
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Charles Gibson by Steve Fenn/ABC
Apparently not at all discouraged by the fact that he didn't get to not ask J.Lo point-blank about her pregnancy, ABC Newsman Charles Gibson is forging ahead and will conduct an exclusive interview with President George Bush and First Lady Laura Bush at Camp David, just days before Thanksgiving/the tryptophan sets in. The sitdown will cover such topics as the war in Iraq, the turmoil in Pakistan, the economy and rising gas prices. (Off-limits, however, is any Grey's talk; GWB is a Gizzie 'shipper.)Portions of the Q&A will air Nov. 20 on World News and Nightline, and Nov. 21 on Good Morning America.
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The Peacock's definition of "civil war" has W. up in arms. As explained by Matt Lauer during Monday's Today, NBC News has elected to defy the Bush administration's druthers and classify the current conflict in Iraq as a civil war. "For months now, the White House has rejected claims that the situation has deteriorated into a civil war, and for the most part, news organizations like [ours] have hesitated to characterize it as such," said Lauer. "But after careful consideration, NBC News has decided a change in terminology is warranted."Responding to NBC News' decision, a spokesperson for the National Security Council tells Variety that while the conditions in Iraq are serious, neither President Bush nor Iraqi President Nuri Al-Maliki believe it is a civil war. What's more, both leaders also insist Pam and Kid are simply "on a break."
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