MICHAEL DOUGLAS TALKS ABOUT HIS THROAT CANCER BATTLE ON DAVID LETTERMAN!
DANCING WITH THE STARS SEASON 11 CAST ANNOUNCED MONDAY NIGHT IN HOLLYWOOD!
Former L.A. Laker and Boston Celtic NBA star and champion Rick Fox is the early Vegas favorite with Jennifer Grey of Dirty Dancing fame with Patrick Swayze a close second. Who’s your pick?
Rick Fox, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, David Hasselhoff, Michael Bolton, Kurt Warner, Kyle Massey, Brandy, Margaret Cho, Jennifer Grey, Florence Henderson, Audrina Patridge and Bristol Palin.
STEVE JOBS INTRODUCES THE ALL NEW APPLE TV MEDIA STREAMER SEPTEMBER 1, 2010!
JIMMY FALLON MAY HAVE JUST HOSTED THE “BEST EMMYS EVER”! GOOD RATINGS TOO!
Final Nielsen numbers show Sunday night’s Jimmy Fallon-hosted telecast was up from last year’s Neil Patrick Harris-led revival. The three-hour show averaged 13.5 million, NBC said, the most since 2006.
Pretty good, since Sunday night’s show aired during, rather than after, summer vacation, and, for the first time in recent memory, went out live on the West Coast.
Fallon gpt great reviews from all over! “As a white-tuxedoed, wandering minstrel, Fallon played perfect host…,” judged the Los Angeles Times, which also praised the Late Night host for his “surprisingly good Green Day.”
“Fallon brought an energy to last night’s awards show that’s long been missing,” enthused Media Life. The “Born to Run” opener with the cast of Glee, Jon Hamm, Tina Fey and Fallon on lead Bruce Springsteen guitar rocked, most everyone agreed including US magazine. New York Magazine even asked the musical question, “Were These the Best Emmys Ever?”
MAD MEN, MODERN FAMILY, AND TOP CHEF TAKE HOME EMMYS IN NIGHT OF UPSETS!
Mad Men was named Outstanding Drama Series for the third year in a row, showing the upset-craving upstarts, the vampires, the likable serial killers and drug dealers—and Lost—who was boss at the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards.
ABC had plenty to celebrate Sunday night. Modern Family, the network’s one true breakout hit last season, made a nice, fat splash tonight, winning Outstanding Comedy Series and establishing itself as a viable contender in multiple categories for years to come.
In addition to earning a half-dozen Emmys, the most for a broadcast-network series, the very award-worthy ensemble lent itself to one of the show’s funniest sketches, a play on a network’s idea of how to spice up a show’s plotline. (Hint: It involved George Clooney, lots of George Clooney.)
On his first try, Eric Stonestreet earned the win for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy, while Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd shared honors for comedy series writing to take Modern Familiy’s Emmy tally to six (including last week’s Creative Arts wins). It helped power the Alphabet net to 18 total wins, second only to perennial leader HBO’s 25.
Going from ABC back to AMC, the men of Breaking Bad with Bryan Cranston—once perenially overlooked for his comedic skills in Malcolm in the Middle—winning his third straight Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama and Aaron Paul snagging his first for Supporting Actor as Cranston’s right-hand meth cooker.
Mad Men mastermind Matthew Weiner made it three straight wins for Writing for a Drama Series, this time sharing the honor with coscribe Erin Levy. They helped push Mad Men’s total to four, and AMC’s overall tally to six.
Kyra Sedgwick finally made it happen in the Lead Actress in a Drama category, her fifth nomination the charm for her role as a sticky-sweet-sounding but tough-as-nails detective on The Closer.
A Big Bang was felt during the first third of the three-hour-plus show (which was handily split up into comedy, drama and movie/miniseries) when Jim Parsons upset, among others, two-time champ Alec Baldwin and Tony Shaloub in his final season as Monk in the race for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy.
Parsons thanked creator Chuck Lorre, his costars, God, et al. for everything. “You are wonderful people, you’re so talented, you’re such darn hard workers…You’re more motivating than I could mention—but I just did,” he said, his Sheldon twang totally audible.
Edie Falco returned to the winners’ circle, scoring her fourth lead actress Emmy overall but first in the comedy section for her acerbic, drug-addicted titular role in Showtime’s Nurse Jackie.
“This is just the most ridiculous thing that has ever happened in the history of this lovely awards show. I’m not funny!” the former Sopranos star insisted. She can protest all she wants, but she is now officially the only actress in history to win both lead acting Emmys for comedy and drama.
Falco’s win tonight also gave Showtime—premium cable’s ugly stepsister for years—a record seven wins for primetime series. Psst, that’s more than HBO ever got in one year for its primetime series.
But though Showtime gained some ground, when you include Creative Arts categories, HBO couldn’t help but raise the roof after Temple Grandin (Outstanding TV Movie), The Pacific (Outstanding Miniseries) and other premium productions had amassed another eight trophies tonight for a network-leading total of 25 Emmys.
Claire Danes picked up her first Emmy for playing Temple Grandin, an autistic woman whose work with animals ultimately led to improved slaughterhouse conditions across the U.S.
Another big, momentous first was Top Chef’s win for Outstanding Reality Competition series, a category that’s been dominated by The Amazing Race for the past seven years.
George Clooney showed up to become the fourth recipient of the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award. “It’s important to remember how much good can get done, because we live in such strange times because bad behavior suck up all the attention in the press, I’ve offered to go to the south Sudan and have a wardrobe malfunction, but the consensus was that, I’m 49 and it would just be upsetting and kind of sad,” he joked. “When a disaster happens, everyone wants to help…The hard part is seven months later, five years later…and honestly, we fail at that. That’s the facts. I fail at that.
“Here’s where we let some very bright person here in the room, or at home watching, figure out how to keep that spotlight burning on these heartbreaking situations long after the camera goes away. That would be an impressive accomplishment. Thank you.”
Other Oscar winners moonlighting as an Emmy winners tonight were Al Pacino, named Lead Actor in a TV Movie/Miniseries for embodying Dr. Kevorkian in You Don’t Know Jack, and Tom Hanks, who as a producer accepted the Outstanding Miniseries Emmy for The Pacific.
And speaking of Fallon, the Late Night host did a wonderful job hosting the Emmys, from the opening number featuring the cast of Glee, Betty White, Tina Fey, Jon Hamm, etc. set to “Born to Run” to his three-song tribute to “shows we’ve lost this year,” Law & Order, Lost and 24.
“I thank the Academy for allowing a gay man to host the Emmys two years in a row,” offered last year’s stellar host, Neil Patrick Harris.
Drama Series: Mad Men
Comedy Series: Modern Family
Acting
Lead Actor in a Drama Series: Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Lead Actress in a Drama Series: Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer
Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
Lead Actress in a Comedy Series: Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad
Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Archie Panjabi, The Good Wife
Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series: Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family
Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series: Jane Lynch, Glee
Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie: Al Pacino, You Don’t Know Jack
Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie: Claire Danes, Temple Grandin
Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie: David Strathairn, Temple Grandin
Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie: Julia Ormond, Temple Grandin
Directing
Drama Series: Steve Shill, Dexter
Comedy Series: Ryan Murphy, Glee
Variety, Music or Comedy Special: Bucky Gunts, Vancouver 2010: XXI Olympic Winter Games
Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special: Mick Jackson, Temple Grandin
Writing
Drama Series: Matthew Weiner and Erin Levy, Mad Men
Comedy Series: Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd, Modern Family
Variety, Music or Comedy Special: 63rd Annual Tony Awards
Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special: Adam Mazer, You Don’t Know Jack
Made for Television Movie: Temple Grandin
Miniseries: The Pacific
Reality Competition Program: Top Chef
Variety, Music or Comedy Series: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Bob Hope Humanitarian Award: George Clooney
RED CARPET FASHION REVIEW: SEE WHAT THE STARS WERE WEARING FOR THE EMMYS!
PARIS HILTON’S LAS VEGAS COCAINE ARREST EXCUSE: “I THOUGHT THE COCAINE WAS GUM!”
Las Vegas police released their report Monday on what transpired that ended with Hilton briefly jailed on a felony drug possession count.
Her 34-year-old beau, Cy Waits, was pulled over on shortly after midnight Friday after a motorcycle cop smelled pot coming from the couple’s Cadillac Escalade. Hilton, 29, asked the officer to accompany her into the nearby Wynn Hotel so she could use the restroom. The officer agreed, due in part to assure her saftety, since a crowd had begun to gather, and to continue the investigation.
Once inside a Wynn security holding room, Hilton asked if she could put on lip balm, and as she went to open her purse, a “small bindle of what the officer believed to be cocaine in a clear baggy” fell into the policeman’s hand, per the report. Police said it was about 0.8 grams of the drug, enough to warrant a felony charge.
At that point, the socialite told him that the purse was not hers and that she borrowed it from a friend. As she later reiterated to her hairstylist, Hilton also told police that the cocaine wasn’t hers but she acknowledged that most of the other contents—including $1,300 cash, credit cards, half of a broken tablet of Albuterol for which she had a prescription—were hers.
When asked who the did belong to, Hilton supposedly told him “she had not seen it, but now thought it was gum.” That excuse didn’t wash with the officer who read the celebutante her Miranda rights and took her into custody.
As for Waits, who just days before was hailed a hero after subduing a knife-wielding intruder last week at Hilton’s home, he was fired from his job as head of nightclub operations for Wynn and Encore properties and faces a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
A spokesman for the Clark County District Attorney’s Office says that Hilton’s count carries a minimum term of one year and a maximum term of four years, along with a $5,000 fine. However, the spokesman adds, “the court could sentence her to a term of probation, rather than prison time.”
Hilton has not commented on the arrest aside from a tweet thanking fans for their support. Her lawyer, David Chesnoff, previously cautioned people “not to rush to judgment.”
Hilton’s arraignment is scheduled for October 27.
THE LAST EXORCISM SCARES UP A BOX-OFFICE TOPPING $21 MILLION THIS PAST WEEKEND!
The Last Exorcism was produced for a reported $1.8 million. The horror flick made an estimated $21.3 million. It opened at No. 1. Takers cost a reported $32 million. The heist flick made $21 million. It just missed No. 1. More than half of Takers’ audience was young women.
• Julia Roberts’ Eat Pray Love ($7 million) hasn’t done anything flashy. But after three weekends of hanging in there, it has matched its reported $60 million budget.
• In its second weekend, Jennfer Aniston’s The Switch ($4.7 million; $16.5 million overall) didn’t take a dive, but it didn’t climb, either.
But What happened to Avatar at the weekend box office? For starters, the Oscar-winning James Cameron blockbuster became the first movie to ever top $750 million domestically.
In its 3-D and IMAX 3-D rerelease, the film posted the weekend’s fifth-highest reported per-screen average. Everybody from prognosticators to the competition expected Avatar to gross something in the neighborhood of $15 million because it was, well, Avatar. In the end, it grossed $4 million.
1. The Last Exorcism, $21.3 million
2. Takers, $21 million
3. The Expendables, $9.5 million
4. Eat Pray Love, $7 million
5. The Other Guys, $6.6 million
6. Vampires Suck, $5.3 million
7. Inception, $5.1 million
8. Nanny McPhee Returns, $4.7 million
9. The Switch, $4.66 million
10. Piranha 3D, $4.3 million
BEATLES FAN FLUSHES $14,740 DOWN JOHN LENNON’S TOILET IN LIVERPOOL AUCTION!
Well, somebody was flush with cash. At least judging by the fact that John Lennon’s toilet brought considerable loot at an auction in Liverpool, England, according to a report from Reuters.
Hauling in $14,740 from an unknown buyer, about 10 times the pre-auction estimate, the blue-and-white porcelain throne had been removed from Lennon’s home in Berkshire back in the late ’60s.
SLASH OF GUNS & ROSES’ FAME FILES FOR DIVORCE FROM WIFE OF NINE YEARS!
Slash has filed for divorce from wife Perla Ferrar after nine years of marriage. The Guns N’ Roses guitarist, whose real name is Saul Hudson, cited irreconcilable differences for the split, and per a petition filed today in L.A. Superior Court, he is seeking joint physical and legal custody of the couple’s two sons, 8-year-old London and 4-year-old Cash.
“From his perspective, the split is amicable,” the rocker’s rep, Kristen Foster, said. The 45-year-old guitar hero and the 35-year-old Ferrar exchanged vows in Hawaii back in October 2001 and he would often bring the wife and kids to various movie premieres and other events. They separated on July 15.
One of my radio show listeners needs your help! Valerie called me today to tell me her daughter Veronica had just been diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer. This news comes just 7 weeks after Veronica and her husband lost their baby girl, Cadence Liberty Johnson.
Valerie and her daughter were looking for donations of old cell phones …and ink cartridges as a way to raise money in the big medical expenses they were going to be facing in this fight. If you can help in any way, here’s Valerie’s cell phone number 626-991-7070, or you can go to her facebook page that’s been set up Support Veronica McConnell-Johnson…The page is above, the link is below. I Thank You in advance for anything you can do personally and on Valerie and her daughter’s behalf!
In an on-air discussion of asking for help for Veronica McConnell-Johnson above, one mother who lost her daughter to cancer last year told me about a great organization she didn’t find out about until after her daughter had passed. This site is dedicated to victims of a health crisis. If you need help, or want to help, it’s CaringBridge.org Click on the link at the bottom of the picture of their site.
WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE TODAY? TAKE A CLOSE LOOK AT THE LITTLE FACE!
YOU CAN HELP THIS LITTLE GUY, AND DOGS, CATS, AND PETS EVERYWHERE WITH THE CLICK OF A BUTTON BELOW, THROUGH THE SPCA! YOU’LL HELP SAVE THEIR LIVES!
The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily so they can meet their quota of getting free food donated every day to abused and neglected animals. It takes less than a minute (about 15 seconds) to go to their site and click on the purple box ‘fund food for animals for free’. This doesn’t cost you a thing.
Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food to abandoned/neglected animals in exchange for advertising.
Here’s the web site! Please pass it along to people you know. You just might save the life of a little guy just like the one pictured above!
A LISTENER CALL FROM THE MOTHER OF A MARINE FIGHTER PILOT RECENTLY TOLD ME ABOUT HOW YOU CAN ADOPT A SOLDIER OVERSEAS AND SEND THEM A CARE PACKAGE ONCE A MONTH. FOR DETAILS, JUST CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW!
Gunnar and Matthew Nelson, stopped by Charlie’s new radio partner studios, Black Card Radio in Burbank, where Charlie’s national syndicated radio show is now recorded and distributed to the U.S., Canada, and internationally!
The Nelson twins are in the Guinness Book of World Records being part of 3 straight generations of a family who had #1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 Record Charts. Their grandfather Ozzie Nelson, had a #1 hit in the 30′s as a big band singer, their Dad Rick Nelson, not only had a number one song, but also in the same week that happened, had the #1 TV show, and #1 movie for another Guiness record, and the Nelson twins themselves had a #1 record with their 1990 hit “(Can’t Live Without Your) Love & Affection!
They’re currently on a year-long national tour with a tribute to their dad, “Ricky Nelson Remembered”, as well as their CD “Like Father, Like Sons” where they’ve recorded a dozen of their dad’s hits, as well as the bonus track, “Just Once More”!
“Fans of Matthew and Gunnar, and their dad Rick Nelson, will get chills as the twins literally channel their father’s voice and phrasing in this tribute to their Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame father with a CD full of his hits! The sound similarity of their voices with their dad’s original recordings is striking!” – Charlie Tuna
