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Barbara Walters Retiring? Here's What I Said On TV About That

Jill Niccolini interviewed me for the Fox 5 News at 10 last night about the report that Barbara Walters is supposedly retiring next year. I'm not sure which sound bites they used--after the interview, I went off to see Tom Hanks in a play---but above is a photo of me telling Jill stuff like:

Count All the Hilarious Ways Bernard Goldberg Contradicts Himself in Just One O'Reilly Factor Segment

Yesterday, rather than discuss the Supreme Court hearing that demonstrates just how out of touch conservatives are from the rest of America, the gang at Bill O'Reilly's Retirement-Home Fist-Shaking Hour took up the news that mattered most to their audience: the hurt feelings of denim enthusiast and ... More >>

THE MAN INSIDE HIM

David Cross discusses Arrested Development’s return with Michael Cera

Staten Island's NRA Flare: Council Senselessly Votes For Putting Armed Guards In Schools

When Wayne LaPierre spoke to the world in the wake of Newtown, viewers and media folk alike gawked at the NRA chieftain's worldview. Twitter was abuzz with anger as LaPierre proposed fighting guns with guns, swiftly condemning video games and the rest of Society for the violence at hand. Not to ment ... More >>

Q&A: Master Chef Contestant Suzy Singh on Being An Asian-American Female Chef, Part 1

Suzy Singh has an unlikely culinary background. The Punjabi-Sikh chef was a neural engineer before she traded her lab coat for a chef's apron and enrolled in Le Cordon Bleu, Chicago. Before she completed her studies, Fox TV's Master Chef picked her up for its second season. Shortly after the nation ... More >>

Sarah Palin Bumped By Fox News Last Night

You'd think the last Republican Vice Presidential candidate would be a good person to speak about the current Republican National Convention, especially since she's on the channel's payroll anyway. But Sarah Palin was bumped from her Fox TV appearances last night, as the lady herself admitted on he ... More >>

Scientology Wins a Major Award Again! Galaxy Press Vindicated!

Last June, we told you about how proudly Scientology crowed in its press releases that it had won "Telly Awards" for some of its DVDs. We went on to explain that it's kind of difficult not to win a Telly, which gives away thousands of awards to up to about a quarter of the businesses that bother t ... More >>

AUDIO: "Touch Me," Creepy Scientology Goon Repeatedly Tells Protester

"Touch me" the man says again and again. "Touch me." In what should go down as one of the most skin-crawling audio tapes in recent Scientology history, we hear a church operative repeatedly challenge protester David Love to provoke an incident so that Love can find himself in a world of legal hurt ... More >>

Scientology Nation of Islam Charter School to be Exorcised from the Earth Forever and Ever

What we've learned from years of reporting on Scientology is that if you don't watch carefully, it will get its tentacles into your school district or worm its way into your local city council chambers or somehow use one of its "secular" front groups to fool some other group of chuckleheads who don' ... More >>

WHAT'S COOKIN'?

The cast of Bob's Burgers 
kicks off its second season

Occupy Oakland Protesters Arrested; Cain Endorses Gingrich; More Details In Greg Kelly Case

Chaos broke out in Oakland Saturday, after Occupy protesters tried to take over the vacant Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, in what they called "Move-in Day," a plan to turn a vacant building "social center, convergence center and headquarters." Hundreds of people were arrested, and three police o ... More >>

Ray Kelly Won't Comment On Son, Won't Resign; Bonanno Crime-Family Members Arrested; Twitter Protested

More on the Kelly family's various travails this morning. First, NY1 reports that Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Friday he does not have any plans to resign over his involvement in the anti-Muslim film The Third Jihad. "I don't think there was any ill intent here, but it should not have been sho ... More >>

Is Nothing Sacred? Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah, Sullied, in Joyful Noise

September Jobs Numbers Disappoint; Solyndra Loan Controversy; Cuomo to Pledge State Contracts

American employers added jobs in September, but not nearly enough to spur optimism. The New York Times reports there was a net growth of 103,000 jobs last month. Interestingly, "about a third of the jobs added by the private sector last month were actually 45,000 Verizon workers who had been on str ... More >>

Alex Stupak to Do Even More Mexican; April Bloomfield Goes to France

​Alex Stupak has confirmed that he will open a second location of Empellon, in the space currently occupied by Counter. [Eater] April Bloomfield on her first-ever trip to Paris and Lyon: "I wasn't expecting it to be so peasant-like, so that was a nice surprise, and Paris is not as anal as I ... More >>

American Idol Season 10, Elimination Recap: Casey Abrams Speaks In Tongues, Hulk Hogan Speaks With His Fists

Casey Abrams, in the jaws of a shark. Photo by Michael Becker / FOX. ​A pretty goddamn dramatic results show! First off, a few dozen comments-section psychopaths must have lost their minds when Thia Megia turned up in the bottom three. But Thia didn't lose, which is good for me, since whipping ... More >>

New Season of Kitchen Nightmares Now Seeking Masochists

Can smell fear, bacon.​The last season of Kitchen Nightmares ended in May, and its producers are wasting no time in finding the show's next crop of sacrificial lambs.

American Idol Season 9: Top 9 Results--Redux: Andrew Garcia and Katie Stevens Say Goodnight

Bye, KatieMichael Becker / FOX​ "Carmina Burana" is supposed to signal just how intense they wish the show would be tonight. Yes, there are two people getting kicked off, but otherwise there's a performance from Season 7's serial false-starting nanny Brooke White, and Adam Lambert--who was ne ... More >>

American Idol Season 9: Top 10 Results

Diddy, please never let that white suit go. Photo by Michael Becker / FOX. ​Are the results shows always this bad? This padded out with product placements and movie tie-ins and Seacrest/Cowell banter that seems one barb away from a loogie to the face? Just kidding--I know they're always this b ... More >>

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Is Ratings Revolution for ABC

What a bathtub has to do with school lunch, we're not entirely sure.​Even if a bunch of schoolkids didn't care for his cooking, plenty of viewers seem to want to eat up what Jamie Oliver's serving on TV: Variety reports that Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution lured 7.5 million viewers to ABC when ... More >>

5 Things Conan O'Brien Can Do Besides Fight/Accept the Jay Leno Putsch

​The Jay Leno-Conan O'Brien thing is all over the place, with Leno being invited to move his underwatched show from 10 to 11 p.m. and Tonight Show host O'Brien, facing a later start and feeling the squeeze, reportedly in talks with Fox. Should O'Brien jump ship? Or sit tight, and pick up whate ... More >>

Andrew W.K. Was the First Actual Human in Last Night's Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special. But Was It Really Him?

Morgan Spurlock's nerd-awaited Simpsons 20th anniversary special aired last night. Highlights: Dr. Ruth praising Marge and Homer's sex life, a visit to an actual Duff Brewery in Argentina (who currently have a pending copyright-infringement lawsuit from FOX), and the third-hardest working man in N ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Food World Celebrities Talk Shop; Fox Holds Auditions for New Gordon Ramsay Show

Our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Word of Mouth: Online Media and The Future of Food Writing Housing Works Used Bookstore Cafe January 7 Housing Works is known for its intimate concerts and eclectic selection of use ... More >>

Under the Toque: A16 Pastry Chef to Follow Nate Appleman; Could New York Have Finally Lured Animal?

​ Jane Tseng, the pastry chef at A16 and SPQR in San Francisco, is allegedly following in Nate Appleman's footsteps and heading for New York to take over as pastry chef at Keith McNally's upcoming Pulino's Bar and Pizzeria. [Eater] Michael Ronis, the founding chef of the Carmine's chain and V ... More >>

The Acorn Tapes

Jerry Nadler, the nine-term congressman from Manhattan's West Side, stands up for the Constitution

Post Whoops Up Yet Another Public Nude Scene, Ending in Arrest

​The newly nude-crazed New York Post, official promoters of the High Line nude controversy, got such a lot of mileage out of that nude subway shoot by Zach Hyman last week that they decided to record Hyman's similar escapade in the Arms and Armor Room at the Met Museum. They even enlisted phot ... More >>

Rightbloggers Mourn Michael Jackson's Death -- As Good News for Obama, Ahmadinejad

It was no surprise to most of us when the death of Michael Jackson on Thursday took over the news, both mainstream and citizen varieties, and even the internet. Americans are suckers for celebrities, and the unexpected demise of one of the world's most famous entertainers was bound to obsess us. ... More >>

American Idol Top 3 Results: The Live-Blog

CR: Ray Mickshaw / FOXL-R: Danny Gokey, Adam Lambert, Kris Allen. The exhilarating moment of truth (for this week, anyway) has finally come. Will Douchebag Gokey's backroom-of-a-bar performances last night earn him the well-deserved boot? Will Kris Allen's Beautiful Bubble finally burst? Will Adam ... More >>

Rightbloggers Pee Their Pants Over 4/27 -- Never Forget!

Everyone's still pissed off about that government flyover in New York today; even the Mayor is bitching about it. We still think it was a top-secret mission on which the fate of the free world depended, about which our heroic leader, for national security reasons, cannot inform us, and that it show ... More >>

American Idol Top 7: Adam Lambert Still Gay, Deja Vu as Quentin Tarantino Re-Visits Karaoke Idol

Ray Mickshaw / Fox Something is oddly familiar this week, with a special appearance by that highest musicological expert in all the land, film director Quentin Tarantino. He's the guest for Movie Music theme night, something that also happened five years ago. I am not an obsessive cataloger of Amer ... More >>

Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: Last Vegas's "I'm Bad"

Last week's prediction: Kiss My Ass. Five guys with stage-names chasing the wobbly dream of '80s hard rock superstardom, Last Vegas bear the all important 2009 Mötley Crüe cosign, which will surely come in handy when soliciting Guitar Center endorsements. World historical developments have cons ... More >>

Seth Green on Obama, "South Park" Cracking on His Show, Etc.

Photo by Kwaku Alston. Like the vast, vast majority of Hollywood, Seth Green is excited to see former President George W. Bush exit the national stage. "I think we've all been encouraged over the last eight years to not participate," said Green just prior to his appearance at last week's New Yor ... More >>

Death Cab for Cutie's Narrow Stairs

The sound of settling

Made of Honor: Total Autopilot

Patrick Dempsey is Hollywood's Great Chickenshit

Now Hiring: Rich Families, Stadium Opportunists, Fox

Oh, the Humanity

Three apocalyptic discs of hillbilly-heavy doom-and-gloom

Screen Gems

Tivo alerts, anchors aweigh: Favorite moments from the year when TV went topsy-turvy

The Katrina Bunch: A Storm Lifts Two Anchors and Drops Them in a Sunnier Spot

Pilot Trouble

A season in hell: A critic's guide to what not to watch in the new fall lineup

The War Scores

Surprise: career soldiers back the war, athletes dislike the press, and the media don't matter

Bush, Whacked

Believe it or not, a slew of swanky downtown shops are getting political

The Art of Dying

Now it’s time to say goodbye—here’s how to kill your prime-time idols in six easy steps

Guided by Voices

Freaks and mystiques: Not just another drama about a girl who talks to stuffed animals

Friedman's Complaint

Times to Foxnews.com Columnist: Go Away

Idol Minds

We Go Together

Outside the Frozen Zone

Police, Demonstrators Gear Up for Anti-WEF Protests

On Edge

Aggressive Skaters Have to Choose Between a Living and a Life

World War Free

It's the 'News,' the 'Post,' and Some Swedish Guys in the First Skirmish of a Global Journalism Battle

Money Porn

Welcome to the Sweepstakes Era. Wanna Play?

Darndest Things