Hollywood agent Warren Cowan, who represented stars such as Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant and Elizabeth Taylor, has died aged 87.

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Bill O' Reilly finally responds to his old "Inside Edition" tape that surfaced the web all over youtube...go here to see his response...

http://www.yahoo.com/s/881392

Yep, that's it, Bill says he'll sell a copy if you're interested. So Bill is definitely flattered it has landed all over the web. He must be proud of his temper and likes being a big jerk.

Being an asshole can make you a famous person! Hey, it worked for Bill.

See the video below for the uncensored version where Bill goes nuts!

Kev

Popcorn Panel: Baby Mama

National Post  Published: Friday, May 02, 2008

Filmmaking is a collaborative art, so why isn't film reviewing? Each week in this space, experts, artists and paying movie customers come together to take apart a recent release. It's salty. It's full of hot air. It's the Popcorn Panel.

This week's panel - Alison Broverman is a writer who was wearing dark-rimmed glasses long before anyone had heard of Tina Fey. - Rebecca Kohler is a Toronto -based stand-up comic and was proud winner of the Citizenship Award two years running (1984, 1985). Can she borrow five bucks? Come on, she really needs it. - Brittany Huntman is a radio DJ in Atlanta, Ga., who has donated her eggs in the name of science (and money).

This week's film Baby Mama

Alison I think Baby Mama would have been a much better film if Tina Fey had written it herself. All the elements are there -- Fey and Amy Poehler are so great together, the premise is promising, and the supporting cast is good. But it all falls flat into cliches. And I'm a bit unsettled by the implicit "everybody gets a baby and then life is awesome" message.

Brittany I was a little disappointed that it was one of those flicks where all of the funny parts are in the trailer. Still, Fey is so funny and quirky. The cameos from Maura Tierney and Sigourney Weaver were worthwhile and believable -- my experience in the infertility industry is that people do tend to be incredibly encouraging and reassuring toward your life choices.

Alison Yeah, Fey is making the transition to film nicely -- her range isn't the broadest, but she's so good at what she does. Weaver's cameo was hilarious but Tierney only got a couple of good moments and they were over way too soon.

Rebecca Tina Fey plays an excellent Tina Fey, but without Amy Poehler this movie would have fallen flat on its face. Weaver's self-satisfied surrogate-mother-pimp got some of my biggest laughs. I agree with Alison about the end: Would it really be good news if you found out you were pregnant by a man you'd only dated for a month? Brittany I disagree with you about Fey. Without her, Poehler's jokes are just potty humour. But Alison, do you really want a stern lecture on values at the end of a comedy? I don't go to see movies like this one for realistic plotlines. I like that it worked out in the end!

Alison It's not the happy ending that bugged me so much as the predictability of the story. I would have liked to see some more original choices in the script. And it made me mad that Angie's (Poehler) emotionally abusive ex showed up at the end, trying to make good.

Rebecca Movies like this are always formulaic. If you want a happy ending in this kind of story, you can't ask for originality. Look at the recent, similar tales Juno and Knocked Up. North Americans don't like facing truths in film; at least not when they want to sell tickets.

Brittany Is this a good time to bring up the intense crush I developed on Rob (Greg Kinnear)? Not especially nuanced, but lovable and dependable. The developing relationship between Kate (Fey) and Rob was believable and endearing.

Rebecca Kinnear got my vote too. I'm waiting for my Rob as we speak; I need someone to move my couch. I liked it a lot more than a few of my male friends did. Was it because it wasn't the greatest movie, or because of the subject matter: Single woman wants a baby!

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There's Just No News Today

There's just no news today. The President was cloistered all alone in The Oval Office, so there are no news reports of any shenanigans or misbehaviors on his part. Plus, there were no terrorist attacks in either Europe or the Middle-East. And, sadly, there were no new juicy sex scandals involving government officials, ranging from senators to governors to mayors and city council members.

Private businesses simply closed their doors to all journalists yesterday, no access. Reportedly, most major corporations have agreed to institute a new nationwide rule: if any employee talks to a journalist, his or her job is in jeopardy. So, needless to say, there were no corporate whistle-blowers, neither yesterday nor today.

And, for the first time in decades, there were no news stories about celebrities. Perez Hilton didn't post a single gossip item today, not a one. Celebrity thingees were going so slow, that it's rumored Perez took the day off to do some whale impersonations with his bestest buddy Jason "Gummi Bear" Davis (Perez is still trying to get over the loss of his "kissy-kissy" John Mayer) ) at a Malibu beach. Lately, there have been so many unflattering articles about celebrities, ranging from the A-list to D-list celebrities, that public relations representatives would not give interviews with any of their clients yesterday or today. Now there was one celebrity report that was released yesterday, which at first looked as though it might turn out to be a good news story for today. Avant News released the findings of a large-scale, empirically-based study of the trajectory of celebrities and celebrity-hood, which reached the conclusion that in recent years there has been a remarkable rise in short-term celebrity status among citizens from all walks of life.

"For the first time, according to our projections," Dr. K. Phillip Townsend, a statistician at Rutgers University in New Jersey (many might remember Dr. Townsend from his three-week appearance on Fox TV's Tenured and Untamed last spring), said, "America now has more celebrities than fans." That trend, which determined that the current celebrity-to-fan ratio (CTFR) is 52:48, is due to multiple factors, including the proliferation of venues for reality television, politics, sporting events, and tabloid news outlets, but even more to do with a substantial "lowering of the bar" that is required for the elevation of an ordinary person to celebrity status, according to Dr. Townsend.

"Fans tend to be fiercely loyal to a given celebrity for a period ranging from thirty seconds up to four days," co-author Dr. Griffith said. "At that point, either the celebrity is deposed by a new, bigger, brighter celebrity, or the fan's attention span is simply unable to sustain further interest. Either way, the fan moves on and the celebrity is left out in the cold."

Hoping to wrench a real, headline-grabbing news story out of this research report, entertainment news executives and news anchors made lightning-fast searches to track down one of those "ordinary people" who had suddenly achieved celebrity status and notoriety, hoping to land a blockbuster interview about the experience of newly-found fame, celebrity-hood and notoriety. Finally, they found who they initially thought was the perfect candidate, a Mr. Rupert Ioderm.

Rupert, an unemployed temporary worker, had achieved brief celebrity status yesterday evening during his appearance on Dancing With the Unemployed Temporary Workers on The Lifestyle Television Channel. Mr. Ioderm said that he has been very painfully affected by what he calls "post-crawl depression", referring to the euphoria that an ephemeral celebrity experiences upon seeing his or her name briefly appear in the news crawl at the bottom of the television screen, only to disappear and never appear there again.

"When I saw my name flickering by with the headline 'Ioderm Wins Dancing With Temps Round 1, Chokes in Runoff', I thought I'd finally found my calling," Mr. Ioderm said. "To be famous for having had my name appear in the crawl. Life feels so empty and meaningless now. The crawl is gone. The crawl is gone away."

So Rupert Ioderm is really old news, not News for Now, News for Today. He's just one more example of "Just No News Today." However, Mr. Ioderm will be appearing next month on Losers in the News and on Dancing with the Temps: A Retrospective, both of which will air on The E-Network. Now, if reporters (maybe like from Gawker or TMZ) can just manage to catch up with him quickly enough, maybe he'll be news then. We'll just have to wait and see.

But for now, while the bulk of our print and TV news is usually chock-full of local crimes, stupid celebrity news, just pain old silly stories, weather, sports, and consumer information (with randomly partisan narcissistic pundits giving their smarty-pants spins about government, elections and economic issues...Hello, Andrew Sullivan...), today there was absolutely nothing to report. There was just No News Today.

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This Ryan Adams post has a purpose...almost. You can listen to a clip of a new Ryan song over here on Esopus. It's called "A Song In The News" and, well, "Writing The Hits" is better if you ask me.

If so inclined, click over to The Superficial for more shots of Ryan grabbing Mandy's cans in a comic book store.

N.E.R.D. have just released the new video for their track 'Everyone Nose' [Website - TheLostGirl’s Blog]. This is the first video we have seen that is taken from the bands' 'Seeing Sounds' record.

The promo is a very contemporary indie affair. Lots of cool people getting doped up in the ladies bathroom and what-not.

The clip features cameos from LINDSAY LOHAN (what the hell is she doing in there) and da-man KANYE-SEY WEST.

The video isn't pushing by buttons, given all it could be... but I still love the song, even after playing it to death and I'll always love PHARRELL.

Sing along with the lyrics boys and girls...

A hundred dollar bills look – at you look at you (x4)
Because... all the girls standing in the line for the Bathroom!
All the girls standing in the line for the Bathroom!
All the girls standing in the,
All the girls standing in the,
All the girls standing in the line for the Bathroom!

P.S. Sorry about the shitty link to the weird site at the top of the video - I hate when people do that it is so desperate and tacky. If I find a better video I'll swap them out.

Some candid Making the Video type footage can be found in the clip below, click to watch.

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