Barack Obama, Oprah
The first family is having a holiday guest over to the White House: Oprah Winfrey.
Christmas at the White House: An Oprah Primetime Special, will air Sunday...
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Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama sure knows her Brady Bunch trivia.
Obama named all six Brady Bunch children — as well as Cousin Oliver — in under ten seconds when she appeared on The Jay Leno Show...
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Michelle Obama, The Tonight Show
Michelle Obama will appear on The Jay Leno Show Friday, NBC announced.
Set to appear via satellite, the first lady will participate ...
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Pele
Rio de Janeiro will host the 2016 Summer Olympics, marking the first time ever South America has been awarded the Games.
Rio beat Madrid in the final round of voting at the International Olympic Committee session Friday in Copenhagen.
Chicago, buoyed by support from President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey and other celebrities, was eliminated ...
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Michelle Obama
Huge Disney stars Miley Cyrus, the Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato got the crowds dancing and singing at the Kids' Inaugural concert in Washington, D.C., but it was Michelle Obama who really pumped up the audience — many of whom were military families invited to attend the concert for free.
"Barack and I are so thankful for the military sacrifice that helps make our nation safe," she told the audience on the eve of her husband's presidential inauguration...
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Maya Rudolph
The ridiculously overworked Tina Fey may be MIA from Saturday Night Live this weekend, but in keeping with the recent returns of Chris Parnell and Will Ferrell, another familiar alumnus is expected to put in an appearance.
Though unconfirmed by NBC, sources tell TVGuide.com that Maya Rudolph will revisit her old stomping grounds this Saturday night, primarily to ...
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Tina Fey by Heidi Gutman/NBC Photo; Maya Rudolph by Dana Edelson/NBC Universal Photo
Saturday Night Live executive producer Lorne Michaels hopes to lure back Maya Rudolph to play Michelle Obama, and also has an answer to whether Tina Fey will play Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin: Maybe. "There have been discussions," Michaels said Thursday, when asked about the possibility of Fey returning. "They're ongoing."Given that Michaels also exec-produces Fey's 30 Rock, she shouldn't be hard to lock in.The Not Ready for Primetime Players read through a possible Palin skit Wednesday for Saturday's season premiere, hosted by Michael Phelps. The show's Casey Wilson handled Palin duties in the read-through, which helps the show narrow down sketches for show night.But Michaels said he worried the Palin skit might need updating after Palin's first major interview with ABC's Charles Gibson. And of course, no sketch is guaranteed to air. "If you're not doing what just happened... then it's not going to work," he said.Phelps, for his part, says he's ready to go live. "I'm more nervous doing ...
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Michelle Obama by Amy Sussman/Getty Images
Does anyone have Ellen Cleghorn's number?While everyone waits to see if 30 Rocker Tina Fey will moonlight on Saturday Night Live as Sen. John McCain's VP pick, Sarah Palin, the long-running sketch show has a bigger — and perhaps longer-term — gap to fill.Conventional wisdom says that if super-busy Fey can't make time to channel the governor of Alaska, the likes of Kristen Wiig could ably slip on some character glasses and step in. Easy 'nuff. (Just make sure there's a prop baby squirming in the background at all times, even if the scene takes place at, say, midnight.)Elsewhere on the two tickets, you have Darrell Hammond as McCain, Fred Armisen as Barack, and probably Jason Sudeikis as Biden. Amy Poehler, though pregnant, is a spot-on Cindy McCain.But finding someone on the current ensemble to send up Barack Obama's wife, Michelle, is a bigger row to hoe. Kenan Thompson in drag? So not going to happen. Maya Rudolph? Long gone.The buzz over at SNL is that the show really ...
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Could it be that supermodel-turned-mogul Tyra Banks is letting all that power go to her head? Guess that depends on who dreamed up the theme of this Harper's Bazaar photo shoot, in which the supermodel puts on her political gear to live out her presidential fantasies as she pretends to be Michelle Obama – complete with a model to play the part of Barack – in the Oval office. Check out the video to see the supermodel in action and to find out what her KMFA secret-service codename stands for.
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A graphic used by Fox News Channel during a conversation about Michelle Obama has stirred up controversy.It referred to Obama as "Obama's baby mama."The graphic ran during an interview with conservative columnist Michelle Malkin about whether press coverage of the wife of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has been unfair.Salon.com columnist Joan Walsh took issue with the graphic. "Are they racist, or just clueless?" she wrote. "Isn't there racism even in their cluelessness, if somebody didn't know what 'baby mama' means, but used it anyway? Even at Fox, won't somebody have to apologize?"On her blog, Malkin, who never actually spoke the phrase on the air, responded to the controversy: "I don’t know if the caption writer was making a lame attempt to be hip, clueless about the original etymology of the phrase, or both. But I do know that it was Michelle Obama herself who referred to Barack as her "baby’s daddy" and has used the phrase "baby daddy" to describe Ba...
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