Craig Kilborn is set to return to television after six years off the air since he hosted The Late Late Show on CBS. Craig Ferguson took over the show that follows Dave Letterman, after he elected not to extend his contract, although there were rumblings of a breakdown in the negotiations. The new show “The Kilborn File,” (boring name) debuts Monday June 28th on Fox at 7p in NYC. The show will have opinions about current events and pop culture and have a ‘power panel’ that will discuss issues of the day. Yawn. Some are saying that the show will resemble his first talk show effort The Daily Show, which later went to super smart and funny Jon Stewart. Kilborn who is no comparison to Stewart, and has a history of being rude, offensive and not very funny, better get his act together if he plans on going the distance with the new venture. After six years of basically crying his eyes out, look for Craig to be smarter and humble.
Craig Kilborn Runs to Fox
Elliot Spitzer Gets Energized
Who says getting caught with your pants down is a bad thing? Not only is it not a bad thing, it’s the only thing that excites and refreshes a career. How many newly inducted Hollywood starlets have a sex tape? I lost count. Even Marv Albert got his sportscasters career back eventually after pleading guilty to assault and battery charges after biting down hard 15 times on a woman’s back. That’s right, I said biting down hard. So, it comes as no surprise that disgraced Governor Elliot Spitzer is about to co-host a prime time CNN program with Kathleen Parker, after cheating on his wife with a hot young prostitute multiple times. Spitzer said recently that he’s grateful to CNN honcho Jon Klein for giving him the opportunity. I bet Jon Klein is grateful that Spitzer accepted, being that CNN’s rating have been lagging for some time. See, one hand washes the other. Reminds me of what Russian Comic Yakov Smirnoff used to say, “AH, America, Vat a Country!”
US President Barack Obama at G8 Summit
United States President Barack Obama walks along a path after posing for the leader’s group photo at the Summit in Huntsville, Ontario Canada. Walking along with our President is President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The G8 Summit has brought together leaders from the top economic countries in the world to discuss the global economy. Of course, the key issue on the agenda is how to improve growth. Other issues expected to be discussed include Global warming and petroleum use. Some say that the summit may see a confrontation between Obama and the new UK Prime Minister David Cameron over the BP oil Spill because BP is a vital company for the UK with one in six pensioners deriving income from their stock. It should be interesting.
Daytime Emmy’s Honoring Dick Clark
Television icon, Dick Clark will finally be honored Sunday night at the 37th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards, live from Las Vegas for the very first time. Hosting this year is adored showbiz veteran and daytime talk show host, Regis Philbin. Clark, the American Bandstand host and producer will be honored for his pioneering efforts and for creating a successful formula of programming that kept him in the living rooms of America for almost half of a century. He also recognized early on the value of a brand and went on to create a franchise with “The Dick Clark Show” and “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin Eve,” just to name a few. Following in his successful footsteps is his protégé radio and TV personality Ryan Seacrest, who took over for the newly named “Dick Clarks New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest.” Catch The Daytime Emmy’s airing live on CBS from the The Las Vegas Hilton Sunday night at 9p.
Katy Perry Mobbed By Fans
Katy Perry gets mobbed in London while out and about promoting her new summer album ‘Teenage Dream.’ The new album with her smash single “California Gurls” featuring Snoop Dog, hits stores August 24th. The awesome entertainer is engaged to funny hot shot movie actor, Russell Brand. Now this is a power couple.
Matt Damon Talking ‘Zoo’
Oscar winner Matt Damon is considering doing 20th Century Fox’s “We Bought a Zoo,” with Oscar winner Cameron Crow, set for release late next year, according to Variety. Zoo is the story of a widowed father, a young family, a broken down zoo and the wild animals that change their lives forever. The father buys the zoo and along with his children and a few other look to make a fresh start and re-open the zoo. Damon and Crow both won Oscars for Best Original Screenplays, ‘Good Will Hunting’ and ‘Almost Famous,’ respectively.
Tickled Pink By wowOwow.com
Women rejoice, there’s a very cool website online and it’s a whole a lot of wow. It‘s called www.wowOwow.com and it’s a free daily internet website created, run and written by some of the most accomplished and interesting women around. These women are Lesley Stahl, Peggy Noonan, Liz Smith, Joni Evans, Mary Wells, Sheila Nevins, Joan Juliet Buck, Whoopi Goldberg, Julia Reed, Joan Ganz Cooney, Judith Martin, Candice Bergen, Lily Tomlin, Jane Wagner, Cynthia McFadden and Marlo Thomas. Many of them have known each other for a long time through their travels in the literary world, media and show business, and found themselves in a mutual admiration society. So now they have brought their wealth of information, conversations and tough topics to the web. These are fascinating and modern women who want to bring everyday conservations to the forefront and basically have an open discussion or ‘The Conversation’ as they so call it. It’s cool and interesting and you should check it out.
Melissa Etheridge Rocks the Hard Rock
Melissa Etheridge wowed the crowd last night at the Grammy sponsored concert at Hard Rock Café in Times Square. Melissa story- told while guitar strumming us down memory lane from her dropping out of the Berkeley School of Music to her dream of making it big in Hollywood. She played some of her classics like ‘Ain’t It Heavy’ and ‘Come to My Window,’ which gave her two Grammy’s and she played her current hit ‘Fearless Love.’ Etheridge, who has been nominated fifteen times for a Grammy, won an Academy Award much to her surprise, for the original song ‘I Need to Wake Up,’ from Al Gore’s Documentary, ‘An Inconvenient Truth.’ Twenty-seven million albums worldwide and almost fourteen million in the US alone, Melissa is still humble and true to herself. Plus, she plays a mean guitar.
One-on-One with Kid Rock and McEnroe
The Punch Bowl, owned by Madonna’s ex Guy Ritchie, catered to the likes of what looked like a guy’s night out in London the other night for Kid Rock and John McEnroe. The former number 1 ranked professional tennis player is also a passionate rock guitarist, so this duet is no surprise. Plus John is married to one of the best female rock and roll musicians ever, Patty Smyth, so there you go.
Kingdom Come for Jay Z and Eminem
Jay Z is right, in New York there’s nothing he can’t do. Even when the City shot down his request to be allowed to perform on the Ed Sullivan Theatre’s marquee, just as Sir Paul McCartney did last summer during a taping of Dave Letterman’s show, Jay Z hip-hopped right around it. Instead, the King of NY along with Eminem took his performance to the 13 story- high roof of the theatre and proceeded to rock the concrete jungle to its core with a mini-concert.They did this as a prerequisite of what’s to come in September when Jay Z and Eminem make history by performing two concerts together, one at Yankee Stadium and the other at Detroit Stadium, representing each man’s home town. The three song performance will air on Letterman’s show this Friday. He ran this town last night.