Is It Real, Or Is It Saturday Night Live?!

We Mourn The Passing Of New Year's Eve Celebration Icon And "American Bandstand's" Dick Clark. RIP.

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Mark Anthony And Jennifer Lopez Have Split. Yep, The Lizard And The 'Ho. Watch Video.

For You WWF Or WWE Fans, Watch "The Ultimate Warrior" Expose Rival "Hulk Hogan".

Breaking News: One Of My Favorite Movie Actors, James Arness (Marshall Matt Dillon Of "Gunsmoke" Fame) Has Died. May His Soul Rest In Peace.

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Breaking News: WWF And WWE Star (And Slim Jim Spokesman), "Macho Man" Randy Savage Dies In Heart Attack Induced Car Accident. RIP. OOOOOHH YYYEEEAAAH!

Read more from our friends at TMZ, and remembering the Macho Man.

"Mark" Of Facebook Fame Gets "Zuckerberg"ed By Jesse Eisenberg On Saturday Night Live (SNL). Watch Video.

Dang: Oprah Winfrey's Surprise Has Nothing To Do With Girlfriend Gayle. Oh, Well, Maybe, Next Time!

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Senate Smackdown.

Senate smackdown
Connecticut GOP candidate has kind of a shady background, but she’s cleaned it up
By RICH LOWRY

The presumptive Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate from Connecticut is an inspiring business success who battled adversity and the competition to build an internationally recognized brand.

She is also a shlock merchant of the first order.

In this one Senate race, Connecticut could be mistaken for Louisiana. The sitting senator, Chris Dodd, is retiring in a cloud of scandal. The Democrat vying to replace him, Richard Blumenthal, is a lifetime politico with a habit of lying about his record in Vietnam. The Republican, Linda McMahon, is the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, which is to the popular culture what the BP spill is to the Gulf of Mexico - a relentless gusher of pollution.

If decency means nothing, McMahon is the businesswoman par excellence. With her husband, Vince, she grew WWE into a billion-dollar business. The company had to fend off fierce competition in the mid-1990s, when its future looked precarious. The McMahons prevailed on the back of those timeless entrepreneurial values of shrewdness, determination and risk-taking.

Plus, they had no standards. Linda became head of the company when Vince got indicted in a steroids scandal (most charges were dropped; he was found not guilty on another). And the WWE vanquished its competition when it entered the “attitude era,” the repulsiveness of which made steroid-abusing hulks merely pretending to do violence to one another seem like the good ol’ innocent days.

The WWE blends elements from Jerry Springer, the Victoria’s Secret fashion show, Ultimate Fighting and soap opera. Except it makes all of those forms of entertainment seem elevated by comparison. The best that can be said for it is that it represents the American id, although that’s a rather stinging commentary on the nation’s psyche.

The McMahons wrote versions of themselves into the plots of their wrestling opera buffa. The twisted, aggrieved masculinity represented by the “Mr. McMahon” character played by Vince should launch a thousand feminist Ph.D. dissertations.

Mr. McMahon makes one female wrestler crawl on all fours and bark like a dog for betraying him, before urging her to strip for her sins. The fake TV announcer has an apt comment: “This is utter humiliation. This is as bad as last week!”

In another episode, Mr. McMahon has his leather-skirt-wearing daughter - his real daughter, playing herself - dragged from the ring kicking and screaming by security. In yet another, he chokes her with a pipe. The animating spirit of all this is Hustler, without crossing over into pornography.

Linda McMahon says that she was primarily involved in the business, not the creative, side of the enterprise. She apparently had no idea what unbelievable dreck her husband, the creative genius of the family, was staging every week. Linda herself appeared in the some of the skits, although - in her defense - in a relatively restrained role that only saw her kick men in the groin once or twice.

She can’t deny any foreknowledge of the pipe-choking incident, since she participated in the skit. Asked whether she’s proud of that charming moment in “sports entertainment” history, her campaign spokesman repeatedly refuses to answer. All he’ll say is that there are “parts of the program that she likes more than others.” We’ll have to guess whether she, say, liked the episodes with the insulting depictions of a mentally handicapped man more or less.

There was a time when association with something so vulgar would have foreclosed the possibility of public office. But we’ve come a long way since Harry Truman was looked down upon for being a haberdasher. Judgment and discretion aren’t what they used to be in business, entertainment or politics, where profits, ratings and success tend to trump all other values.

The WWE has been taking the more rancid video clips off the Web, and a couple of years ago it toned down its content to make it all PG-rated. If that represents a twinge of conscience, it’s welcome, if belated.

As I Predicted On This Blog, Dr. Conrad Murray Catches Manslaughter Charge As Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal". Watch Video.

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Paul Anka Co-Wrote Micheal Jackson's "This Is It" As "I Never Heard" Heard Here Sung A Year Ago By Tne Singer Safire. Listen.

First listen to Michael Jackson:



Then listen to Safire:



Are you a Michael Jackson fan? Then watch "This Is It" movie trailer below:

POTUS Barack Obama Does David Letterman, Reveals To Some That He Was Black When He Won Election Last Year. Watch Video.

Watch Singer Kanye West Make An Arse Of Himself At The VMA Awards Show, Promoting Beyonce' Over Taylor Swift Who Won The Award.

Watch Kanye West below:



Watch Beyonce's class act below:

No Surprise Here, As Michael Jackson's Death Is Ruled A "Homcide" By Los Angeles Coroner; "Smooth Criminal", Dr. Conrad Murray's Arrest Forthcoming!

Update: ABC news is reporting that an arrest is imminent.

Stay tuned for further developments, particularly the arrest of Dr. Murray.

Oh, BTW, here's the affidavit for a warrant that spells it out.

Please check out our friends at TMZ for more.

Michael Jackson To Be Buried At The Holly Terrace In The Great Mausoleum At Glendale Forest Lawn Memorial Park On His Birthday, Saturday August 29.

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Betcha You Did Not Know Michael Jackson Has A 25 Year Old Child. Heee, Heee, Heee!

A Little Entertainment News: Seth McFarlane Is So FUNNY (Sometimes In A Morbid Sense) That He Needs A Psychiatrist -- In A GOOD (Ha, Ha) Sense. Watch.

Breaking Michael Jackson News: Mom Katherine Gets Custody, Debbie Rowe Gets Visitation, Plus Psychologist For Children!

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Read more from TMZ, where you'll get this nugget:

TMZ has learned Debbie Rowe has settled her custody issues over Michael Jackson's children and it doesn't involve a single penny ... but it does involve a shrink.

Sources tell us, Rowe has agreed that Katherine Jackson will be the guardian of Michael's children, subject to the judge's approval.

Rowe will get visitation of the two children she had with Michael.

But here's what's interesting -- Rowe wants and will get a psychologist who will visit the children and help them adjust to her being in their lives on a meaningful basis.

Rowe will maintain her parental rights. We're told the agreement does not specify the amount of visitation.

The agreement says Rowe has no parental rights to Blanket, Jackson's youngest child.

Stay tuned.

Boogie Down, Wedding Style. Watch Video.

TMZ Reports From Los Angeles Police: "[Michael] Jackson's Death 'Almost Certainly' A Homicide." "Smooth Criminal" Dr. Conrad Murray, Where Are You?

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I can NOW add crime and punishment as labels for posts concerning Michael Jackson.

Oh, btw: millions of dollars recovered so far for the estate.

Stay tuned for me (Thanks to our friends at TMZ).