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Elisabeth Hasselbeck ripped off a woman by plagiarizing her disease material — so claims Susan Hassett, who fired off a letter to “The View” host just before suing her.
TMZ obtained the letter — in which Susan claims she sent Elisabeth a book called “Living with Celiac Disease” back in April of ‘08. Thirteen months later, Susan says Hasselbeck published the same book with a new title: “The G Free Diet-A Gluten Free Survival Guide.”
Susan compares chapters and lines. Here are some highlights.
Susan’s Book Chapter 1: What is Celiac Disease?
Hasselbeck Chapter 2: What is Celiac Disease?
Susan’s tips: “Shop in the outer isles of the supermarket.”
Hasselbeck’s tips: “Food in the outer isles of the supermarket.”
And the comparisons go on and on.
Hasselbeck recently discovered she’s long suffered from celiac disease, an autoimmune disorder linked to gluten proteins found in wheat, barley and rye. The disease can cause, among other things, chronic diarrhea and fatigue.
source: Falmouth woman sues Elisabeth Hasselbeck over book [boston herald]
Legendary CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite, 92, long known as the “Most Trusted Man in America,” is gravely ill, according to multiple CBS News sources and published reports.
According to Mediabistro’s blog, TVNewser, the network began updating his obituary more than a week ago; a CBS News executive had no comment to TVNewser on the reports of Cronkite’s failing health.
One of the most recognized and honored journalists in America, Walter Cronkite anchored the “CBS Evening News” for 19 years, when he was replaced by Dan Rather.
Cronkite remained a special correspondent for the network through the years.
The St. Joseph, Mo., native got his start as a battlefield correspondent during World War II for the United Press. In 1950 he came to CBS radio as a Washington correspondent.
Cronkite jumped into the fledgling TV news world in 1962 when he was named anchor of the 15-minute “CBS Evening News,” which became the first 30-minute network newscast the following year with Cronkite at the anchor desk.
From the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. to publicly questioning U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War to the landing of the first man on the moon, Cronkite was known for a tell-it-like-it-is reporting style that was often tinged with genuine emotion.
Thought of as the dean of broadcast journalism, Cronkite’s style has long been the hallmark of television reporting. A journalism school at Arizona State University was named for him, and a number of industry awards are in his name, too.
In addition to leading the “Evening News” to perpetual first-place ratings, Cronkite gave the country one of the best-known catchphrases in TV history with his nightly sign-off, “And that’s the way it is…”
TVNewser quotes Cronkite speaking on his own mortality from a 2006 interview:
“When you get to be 89, you have to think about it a little bit. It doesn’t prey on me, and it doesn’t keep me awake nights. Occasionally, when I’m upset about something else, I think, ‘My gosh, I don’t know if I should do this or that because I’m not sure I’ll be here that long to enjoy it.’”
source: Legendary CBS journalist Walter Cronkite reportedly gravely ill [chicago sun times]
This is a fast-paced quiz show that puts contestants in a seriously high-pressure situation-they’re on a roller coaster. Scream if you know the answer!
Here’s a video that features a kid freaking out on a roller coaster attempting to answer a couple simple questions for the new Cartoon Network show called BrainRush.
Pretty funny… but I don’t see this being funny for very long. Unless someone pukes or urinates, it’s going to get old fast.
Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton are being replaced by reality-TV couple Jon and Kate Gosselin on covers of celebrity weeklies — and they can’t stand it.
“Lindsay and Paris hate not being on the covers of weeklies. That’s why Lindsay has been causing so much havoc and pulling these antics. And why Paris had a big blow- up with Doug [Reinhardt].”
The married stars of “Jon & Kate Plus 8″ on TLC have been garnering attention from all the glossies, which have seen circulation boosts from their alleged infidelities and family struggles.
Oh my God! Anything to get and keep her name in the press, right? Sarah Palin was more than a little bit miffed that David Letterman poked fun at her and her daughter in a recent “Top Ten” spot on his show.
He joked that she was a “slut” and said that her daughter (presumably Bristol) was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez during a recent Yankees game. Palin took that to heart and unleashed her fury on him via a new website, FireDavidLetterman.com, aimed at removing Letterman from the CBS show.
Now, Palin’s supporters are gearing up for their next line of offense: They’ll be boycotting his show. Oh noes! What’s a funny man to do?!?? I think he’s going to relish in the controversy that obviously she won’t let die already.
He apologized and the Palins lashed out at him because of the fact that it was their 14-year-old daughter, Willow, who was actually at the baseball game, not Bristol as previously thought. It was still funny, though.
The people behind the website are organizing a rally outside of the Ed Sullivan theater on June 16th at 4:30pm to protest the taping of the show.
If they’d only let it go already. I’m a woman and I could care less. He did it for the sake of amusement, it’s done, he can’t go back and take it all back. But even if he could, would you want him to?
Late Show’ host David Letterman apologized to Sarah Palin on Thursday and admitted the jokes about the GOP star and her daughter were in “poor taste,” but again denied he was ever talking about the former VP hopeful’s 14-year-old child.
Palin, in turn, appeared on NBC’s ‘Today’ show on Friday and asserted Letterman now has to “apologize to young women” the world over for his gaffe.
As you may have heard, Letterman’s Top Ten List on Monday, titled “Highlights of Sarah Palin’s Trip” to New York City, joked that there was “an awkward moment” for Palin when she attended a Yankees game when,
“during the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by (Yankee third baseman) Alex Rodriguez.”
The joke seemed to refer to Palin’s 18-year-old daughter Bristol, an unwed mother. But it was 14-year-old daughter Willow, not Bristol, who had been at the game.
“I would never, never make jokes about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl. I don’t think it’s funny. I would never think it was funny.
I’m not necessarily proud of these jokes. We do stuff all the time and our objective here is to get a laugh, and thank God we don’t have to go to the Hague and the World Court to defend them. It’s a joke and that’s all it’s supposed to be.”
Palin told ‘Today’ she thought it was “a degrading comment about a young woman. And I would hope that people would star really rising up and not accepting this.” Adding, “it’s no wonder girls have such low self-esteem in America when a comedian can make a remark like this.”
source: Palin: Letterman owes apology to young women [MSNBC]
What gets “The Hills” star Audrina Patridge going? Apparently, an enormous Teriyaki Six Dollar Burger from Carl’s Jr. Yeah, I’m not buying that either.
Following in the fast-food footsteps of Paris Hilton and Padma Lakshmi, who previously steamed up screens for the chain, is Patridge (set to star in her own TV series) and her sexy and suggestive new Carl’s Jr. ad campaign.
And boy does she put The ‘Bu in Burger — working a skimpy gold bikini, a SoCal tan and a bombshell ‘do, all while consuming a burger almost the size of her head.
The sure-to-be controversial commercial will premiere on June 24, coinciding with the burger’s release. Both will have mouths watering.
So, has Audrina dethroned Paris and Padma to become the reigning burger queen?
The producers of ‘I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here‘ are slamming reports that Heidi and Spencer Pratt were tortured on the ‘Survivor’-esque show.
TMZ reported over the weekend that Heidi was rushed to the hospital after “convulsively throwing up” on the set, according to some cast members, and her condition was the result of NBC’s to attempt to punish the pair for their earlier decision to leave the show.
A statement from ITV Studios, which produces the series, calls the reports untrue.
“ITV has been producing this format around the world for many years and the health of the celeb participants are of the utmost importance.”
A medic and a doctor are present at the location at all times for all participants. All allegations of the celebrities being deprived of food and water are completely untrue.”
Heidi and Spencer opted to stay on the show, and unnamed cast members claimed that the network kept the couple in a dark room for a full day and night, giving them only rice, water and beans.
Reportedly, NBC’s Exec VP of Alternative Programming Paul Telegdy told Ryan Seacrest about holding Heidi and Spencer in isolation, saying, “…They are now going to be examined, and their value system utterly deconstructed …These people really are going to bare their souls.”
David Carradine has been found dead in a Bangkok, Thailand, hotel, according to his personal manager, Chuck Binder.
Binder said Thursday that the death is being investigated but could provide no other details, however the BBC reports,
Thai police told the BBC the 72-year-old was found by a hotel maid sitting in a wardrobe with a rope around his neck and genitals on Thursday morning.
An apparent suicide.
Carradine’s death was “shocking and sad. He was full of life, always wanting to work … a great person,” Binder said, according to People magazine.
Modern audiences may best know him as “Bill” in Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” films. He earned a 2005 Golden Globe nomination for his role in the second movie in the two-part saga. iReport: Share memories of David Carradine
His career included more than 100 feature films, two dozen television movies and theater work, according to the Internet Movie Database.
Should we be shocked by the condition he was found… or should we have expected it?
Veteran reporter Ann Curry has anchored NBC’s ‘Dateline’ and ‘Nightly News,’ but her professionalism is no match for the magnetic power of Brad Pitt. In a ‘Today’ show interview, Curry could barely keep her hands to herself, going so far as to grab the actor’s chin.
The two spoke at the Cannes Film Festival where Pitt is promoting his latest film, ‘Inglourious Basterds,’ in a segment that aired during Wednesday’s ‘Today’ show. Curry took a momentary break from pawing the star to discuss how lucky she is to stand in such close proximity to his internationally appreciated hotness.
“Women who watch the ‘Today’ show are really envious of me right now because I get to stand here in Cannes talking to you,” Curry told Pitt, and asked how he would respond to his female fans.
If Jimmy Kimmel still has a job at ABC on Wednesday, he is either a very lucky or very deft comedian, or he has great blackmail photos of the network executives.
At Tuesday afternoon’s upfront presentation in New York, Mr. Kimmel, the host of ABC’s late night talk show “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” delivered a withering, blistering monologue that took direct aim at ABC, its potential advertisers and his NBC late-night rival, Jay Leno. The assembled advertisers received his performance with a mixture of uneasy laughs and the occasional gasp.
Bouncing onto the stage at just after 4 p.m., Mr. Kimmel self-deprecatingly declared, “All of ABC’s late night comedy talent is assembled here on one stage.” After rattling off a few statistics about the affluence of his viewers, he then admitted that he’d made all the numbers up. (He said so in a more obscene way.)
Then, in a “Jerry Maguire”-like moment of clarity, Mr. Kimmel said,
“Everything you’re going to hear this week is nonsense. Let’s get real here. Let’s get Dr. Phil-real here. These new fall shows? We’re going to cancel about 90 percent of them. Maybe more.”
If ABC is so confident in its new fall shows, he asked, why is it announcing them at the same time it announces the midseason shows that will replace those fall shows? “This show ‘Shark Tank’ has the word tank right in the title,” he said.
To the ABC advertisers, Mr. Kimmel said,
“Every year we lie to you and every year you come back for more. You don’t need an upfront. You need therapy. We completely lie to you, and then you pass those lies onto your clients.”
Mr. Kimmel then took a verbal swing at his own network, reminding the audience that ABC had attempted to hire away Mr. Leno when his tenure ended at NBC’s “Tonight Show.” But, according Mr. Kimmel, NBC said it would not give up Mr. Leno, “even if we have to destroy our own network to keep him.”
By devoting its entire 10 p.m. lineup, Monday through Friday, to Mr. Leno, Mr. Kimmel said NBC is “giving Jay’s viewers exactly what they want. An early-bird special.”
By deciding on their fall schedule in April, Mr. Kimmel said, “NBC got such a head start, they’ve already had time to cancel half their schedule.”
Mr. Kimmel also aimed a couple of zingers at Fox. That network’s action series “24,” he said, was “a head butt away from cancellation.” Next season, he said, Jack Bauer would have a new sidekick “played by Kiefer Sutherland’s probation officer.”
Returning to ABC’s advertisers, Mr. Kimmel said, “Next year on ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ your product could kill Dr. Izzie. It just depends on how much you want to pay.”
In closing, Mr. Kimmel said, “I think all our shows are going to work this year. I really do.” He paused. “I don’t, really.”
Before departing the stage, he said: “The important thing to remember is: who cares, it’s not your money.”
On last night’s episode of “The Colbert Report”, Stephen Colbert talked about how Barack Obama shunned National Prayer Day. Obama decided to pray in private, which sparked outrage.
To compensate for Obama’s “bad attitude”, Stephen got his own Prayer Day together. And it wasn’t complete without his prayer pep squad, “the Danciples”.
Little did he (or the network) know, but the girl on the furthest right in the video wasn’t wearing any undies as she kicked her leg in the air.
