Question: I'm sure you don't have time to watch Entertainment Tonight regularly, but has there been a change of management there lately? It's usually 100 percent fluff, but the Aug. 14 edition featured a liberal-bashing film beating up Michael Moore (starring Bill O'Reilly, Jon Voight and Kelsey Grammer, some of the few Hollywood Republicans), then a campaign rally song by Big and Rich, an interview with Elizabeth Hasselbeck, then another attack on John Edwards by his mistress' sister. The next day's show featured an implication that Hillary Clinton was still running for president and two celebs at a party: Rob Lowe sitting on the fence and Robert Davi supporting McCain. This seems like a lot of pro-GOP stories for an entertainment show. Is ET pushing a political agenda nowadays?
Answer: No change of management as far as I know, and it doesn't surprise me that the show is finding as many celebrity angles as possible on the most buzzed-about presidential election in years. The fact tha ...
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Angelina Jolie by George Pimentel/ WireImage.com
Angelina Jolie's lawyers reportedly have identified and are about to give a beat-down to some sad sack who has been posing as her personal assistant, and even used a dummy e-mail account to dupe Entertainment Tonight into errantly reporting that Angie and Brad's twins were born last Sunday. "This is a fake. A scam on the media and the public," reads a letter from Jolie's lawyers to media outlets, warning them of the chicanery.(I will now ignore the email I just got from JoliesAssistant@yahoo.com saying she'll be guest-starring on Ugly Betty.)Sources tell the AP that ET was warned by Jolie's camp that it was about to run with a story based on a phony source, though the infotainment show on Wednesday claimed it did not get wind of the scam until after. "Entertainment Tonight takes this very seriously and is, of course, concerned that the show may have been victimized by someone allegedly posing as a member of Ms. Jolie's team," says a statement from the program. "We are actively inves...
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Heath Ledger by Serge Thomann/ WireImage.com
Though they both promoted the airing of a video allegedly showing Heath Ledger using drugs, Entertainment Tonight and sister show The Insider have elected not to broadcast the incendiary clip. "Out of respect for Heath Ledger's family, [we] have decided not to run the... video which has been circulating in the world media," the infotainment mags said in a joint statement.Meanwhile, Michelle Williams — Ledger's ex-fiancée, and the mother of his 2-year-old daughter — is lashing out against Us Weekly, which in its new cover story posits that the actress once tried to take Ledger to rehab, only to have him refuse. "Much of the tabloid reporting is inaccurate," says the onetime couple's publicist. "This fabricated story of Michelle Williams attempting to bring Heath Ledger to rehab is just one lie among many. The speculation is heinous. Let this family grieve privately."Related:• Ledger's Final Film Might Be Completed• NYPD Has "Absolutely No" Plans to Interview ...
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Brothers & Sisters by Justin Stephens/ABC
Brothers & Sisters creator Jon Robin Baitz has inked a two-year, seven-figure deal with ABC Studios to stay on as the an executive producer for the Sunday serial and develop new projects.... Also per Variety, Mark Steines has signed a multiyear deal to continue coanchoring Entertainment Tonight/applying Kiehls twice daily to Mary Hart's legs.... Hairspray producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have landed a lucrative production deal at CBS to produce movies and miniseries for the tube.
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Mark Steines leads the Gold Rush.
Survivor exec producer Mark Burnett has finally found a way to give away more than a million dollars without the mandatory starvation diet. This time, instead of making people sweat and backstab on a tropical island, he's partnered with AOL in a new online competition called Gold Rush. For seven straight weeks starting Sept. 13, you can head over to aol.com/goldrush to compete in pop-culture challenges, some which lead to clues found in various commercials, magazines and CBS shows.
"It's like The Da Vinci Code," explains Entertainment Toni
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Melissa Anderson, 10.5: Apocalypse
If you thought NBC's 10.5 pushed the envelope when it came to heaping natural disaster upon natural disaster, you ain't seen nothin' yet. The new 10.5: Apocalypse (May 21 and 23 at 9 pm/ET) picks up immediately after the harrowing events of the original and continues the devastation, threatening to split the North American continent right down the middle if super-seismologist Kim Delaney and her team of FEMA heroes can't find a way to glue God's green earth back together. Playing first lady to "President" Beau Bridges in the sequel is Melissa Anderson, who has come a long way — 25 years, in fact — from her Little House on the Prairie days.
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Suddenly, I feel kinda bad about all the Joey jokes I made. Yesterday Matt LeBlanc filed for divorce from his wife of three years, Entertainment Tonight reports. Irreconcilable differences are said to have done in the union of the former Friend and his missus. Y'know, on second thought, I don't feel bad after all. Joey really blew.
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Suddenly, I feel kinda bad about all the Joey jokes I made. Yesterday Matt LeBlanc filed for divorce from his wife of three years, Entertainment Tonight reports. Irreconcilable differences are said to have done in the union of the former Friend and his missus. Y'know, on second thought, I don't feel bad after all. Joey really blew.
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Suddenly, I feel kinda bad about all the Joey jokes I made. Yesterday Matt LeBlanc filed for divorce from his wife of three years, Entertainment Tonight reports. Irreconcilable differences are said to have done in the union of the former Friend and his missus. Y'know, on second thought, I don't feel bad after all. Joey really blew.
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Mary Hart, Entertainment Tonight
She lost her virginity to Eddie Murphy — her Entertainment Tonight virginity, that is. It's been nearly a quarter century since Mary Hart joined the show and scored that first celebrity chat (Murphy was still a regular on Saturday Night Live). And since then, she says, "it seems like I've interviewed the world." Though she'll never forget her first, these are the ones Hart recalls most vividly.
FRANK SINATRA — Sept. 12, 1988"That interview was long in coming. You know his reluctance about being interviewed and his attitude toward the media — he was tough as nails, he intimidated everyone. I'd flown to Atlantic City and I sat and waited and waited for him. The longer I
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