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Good Morning America

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2012

    Anthony Bourdain Attacks Paula Deen Again; Daniel Boulud Sues Buffalo Restaurant

    Anthony Bourdain was fine form this week -- back to attacking his favorite target, Paula Deen. On Tuesday, he appeared on ABC's Good Morning America and went at Deen again, calling her decision to cook fattening food while hiding her diabetes "in excruciatingly bad taste, unconscionable, and cynical ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2012

    New Teachers Union Ad Attacking Mayor Starts Today

    Watch out, Mr. Mayor! The United Federation of Teachers is launching an ad campaign today that attacks Mike Bloomberg -- who has loudly criticized the union at a handful of public appearances this year. At his State of the City speech earlier this month, the mayor went after the UFT for insisting on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2011

    Woman Who Bragged About Using Match.com to Get Guys to Buy Her Dinner Brags Some More

    video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo playerRemember Jessica Sporty? She is the enterprising Murray Hill twentysomething written about in November by Business Insider, which first published her name, after which it was picked up by various media outlets (us included); then changed it to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2011

    Ted Allen Makes Pretentious Foodie Bullshit

    Ted Allen is certainly a skilled cook, given that he hosts Chopped and was the culinary expert on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. But his true culinary specialties are "stupid, over-elaborate, fancy-ass" meals, as his recent appearance on the Onion News Network can attest.

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2011

    Mountain Lion, Grizzly Bear, and Monkey Remain on the Loose in Zanesville, Ohio

    ​Terry Thompson, who owned a wildlife preserve in Zanesville, Ohio, set free 50-some animals, including lions, tigers, cheetahs, wolves, giraffes, camels, and bears, before, investigators believe, he committed suicide. His body was found on Tuesday evening after police went to the preserve to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    'Batmanning' Is the New, More Dangerous Planking

    "Batmanning" joins planking, horsemaning, and stocking as the newest silly trend that will irritate everyone. It looks especially dangerous, though. What if they fall on their heads?

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2011

    Here's Something Else To Do Before The Summer Ends: Attend A Free Concert Put On By A Morning Chat Show

    Idol runner-up Lauren Alaina at Central Park this morning.​Yesterday my wonderful colleague Jen Doll penned a list of 11 things to do in NYC before the summer ends, and I'd like to add one item to her list: Catch one of the outdoor concerts put on by the national morning shows. This morning I ... More >>

  • Music

    July 13, 2011

    Hot Music for Long Nights

    Celebrating the summer with live, sweaty shows

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    Parents of Some Teens Now Think It's Cool for Them to Have Sex at Home

    Jim and Cindy would not approve.​Today in yucko parenting trends reported by Good Morning America: some parents are letting their teenagers have sex at home! This is because the home is a presumably safer environment, where there are condoms, and it's clean, and...parents are around? Plus, kid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    GMA Won't Pay Botox Mom Now That Botox Mom Is a Liar

    ​Ethics are a fascinating thing. While it was okay for ABC News to pay $10,000 for a story -- or, more specifically, to pay $10,000 as a licensing fee for photos given part-and-parcel with an "exclusive" Good Morning America interview with Kerry Campbell, or "Botox Mom" -- it is not okay to pa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    TSA Pat-Down of 6-Year-Old Girl to Be Reviewed

    After public outcry over this video of a 6-year-old girl receiving a thorough pat-down from a TSA agent, which we posted yesterday (gleaning more than 100 comments), the TSA and Congress are promising to look at their policies for screening small children, reports the Washington Post.

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    Chris Brown Goes Into A Violent Rage!

    ​TMZ has the story that Chris Brown, who's on probation for the felony beating of Rihanna, is up to his old tricks, though at least it's just objects that he's beating now. Here's what went down: On this morning's Good Morning America, Robin Roberts kept asking Chris about the Rihanna situat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    Brooklyn Man Lunges at Today Show Hosts; Hoda Kotb Safe

    ​A man hurdled a set of barricades during a live broadcast of this morning's Today Show, the Post reports. Meredith Vieira, Al Roker, and Willie Geist were discussing upcoming guest Mackenzie Phillips when a 33-year-old Brooklyn man screamed, "I'm God's gift to music" while trying to storm the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2011

    Jared Loughner Mugshot Released

    Authorities have released the mugshot of Arizona shooter Jared Lee Loughner, which is now being tweeted by the media, including Good Morning America and others. Presented without comment. via​

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2010

    But Really, Is It Okay for Men to Cry?: A Retrospective

    ​Following House Speaker-designate John Boehner's Sir-Weeps-a-Lot moment on 60 Minutes recently, along with the salty, flowing waves of 2010 man-tears (including Charlie Rangel's please don't censure me sobs and Chris Brown's spontaneous waterworks at a Michael Jackson tribute), the Today Show ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2010

    Prince Chunk, Ultimate Fat Cat, is Dead

    Before the Smoking Baby and Hiccup Girl we had Prince Chunk, a 44-pound orphan cat who garnered wary laughs and some love from Good Morning America, Live with Regis and Kelly, New York tabloids and People magazine. Now he's dead at the age of "about 10."

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    Spider Man: The Musical Sounds Like This (Video)

    ​The U2-scored, Julie Taymor-directed Spider Man musical, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, debuted some set stuff, some costume stuff, some interviews, and some other stuff today on Good Morning America. They also debuted their lead actor singing a song from the forthcoming musical. And how does ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    World's Oldest Dog Appears on Good Morning America

    ​Chichi (aka Uncle Chichi or "Cheech"), the West Village poodle who is possibly the oldest dog in the world, has recovered from his illness and appeared with his owners today on morning blah-fest Good Morning America. He seemed to be doing pretty well for a dog who may be as old as 24, which i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2010

    Drake Will Never Play Outdoors For Free in This Town Again: Central Park Show Next Week Cancelled

    Here we go again. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​To say that Drake's June 15th free, outdoor show at the South Street Seaport was cancelled would be an understatement--more like dissolved into a lawless riot. The cops eventually broke that show and the twenty-plus thousand people who came to see it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    Debrahlee Lorenzana Story Goes Global, Viral, Crazy

    CBS​Ex Citibanker Debrahlee Lorenzana has been all over the national and local news, starting with last week's issue of the Voice and, most recently, hitting the TV morning show circuit, including appearances on Today and Good Morning America this morning -- despite her current employer JPMorg ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2010

    Rudy Giuliani: "I do remember September 11"

    ​Former White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said it without too much blowback months ago on Fox, and columnist Michael Goodwin rolled it out largely unnoticed last week in the New York Post. It wasn't until Rudy Giuliani decided to use the fantasy-world talking point about the Bush administrat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2010

    Giuliani Criticizes Obama for Allowing Crotch-Bomber "Domestic Attack" When Bush Had None (um, 9/11?)

    Rudolph Giuliani went on Good Morning America and announced that "we had no domestic attacks under Bush. We've had one under Obama," seeming to forget the World Trade Center attacks that made him America's Mayor in 2001. Interviewer George Stephanopoulos did not correct him at the time. Cue Darry ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2009

    GLAAD Backs GMA For Dropping Adam Lambert

    ​Let's do a quick recap: Adam Lambert indulged in gay shenanigans on his now legendary American Music Awards performance. Everyone I knew was loving it, but not Good Morning America, which promptly canceled Lambert's scheduled appearance. Gay activists were furious, especially since the show w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    Adam Lambert Outrage Strategy Working, Gets Him Bounced from GMA

    ​That Adam Lambert AMA phoney-baloney outrage thing is working! Good Morning America has cancelled the free Hudson Theatre performance they were going to sponsor. "Given his controversial American Music Awards performance," says a GMA spokesperson (referring, we assume, to the rather perfunc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2009

    Remember Them? Richard Heene, Brooke Hundley Back in News

    ​Oh thank God: the wacky Richard and Mayumi Heene, who raised their boys to be anti-pussifcation and sent a balloon up to prank the world, may not see jail time after all. According to the Daily News, Richard will plead out to attempting to influence a public servant, and Mayumi to a lesser c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2009

    The Office, World's Fattest Cat Implicated in David Letterman Staffer Sex Scandal

    ​A lawyer for Robert Joe Halderman, the guy arrested for blackmailing David Letterman over his affairs with staffers, told Good Morning America yesterday that his client is innocent -- or, rather, "did not have the intent required by the statute" on which he was charged. Sources claim Halderma ... More >>

  • Music

    September 8, 2009

    The Tentative Return of Whitney Houston

    Not a disaster, but not exactly a triumph, either

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2009

    Whitney Houston Can Still Dominate Central Park, If Not the Charts

    I Look To You, the post-crack-allegations, post-Bobby, post-reality-TV "comeback album" by Whitney Houston, is out today, and she's in Central Park at the moment, packing em in for Good Morning America. The crowd there seems split between surprise at the crowd Whitney still draws ("On line for Whi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2009

    Steve Harvey Joins GMA as Relationship Counsellor

    ​ABC's Good Morning America has increased its credibility by hiring comedian Steve Harvey to dispense relationship advice. Since achieving national attention as an expert dispenser of swear words and homey anecdotes in the movie The Original Kings of Comedy, Harvey has become a cuddly sitcom a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2009

    Evil George Soros Gives $35 Million to New York Schoolchildren

    ​Conservatives have become very interested lately in George Soros' finances, as $5 million of them have been pledged to sponsor advertising in favor of health care reform (or, as Born Again Redneck calls it, "ObamugabeCare"). Soros may have decided to take advantage of the attention, and has ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    YouTube Wedding Dance Video Ends in Tragedy

    ​YouTube can be a path to celebrity, but also a path to bitterness and regret, as we are seeing in the case of Kevin Heinz and Jillian Peterson, whose bright idea to turn their wedding march into a dance routine to Chris Brown's "Forever" has made them internet celebrities. But these innocen ... More >>

  • Music

    June 10, 2009

    Are You There, God? It's Me, Regina Spektor

    The downtown ingénue takes on bigger audiences and weightier issues

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2009

    Bristol Palin Becomes Abstinence Spokesperson

    Bristol Palin has reemerged as a spokesperson for abstinence. The famously knocked-up daughter of GOP Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin said on today's Good Morning America that "regardless of what I did personally, I just think that abstinence is the only way that you can effectively, 100 pe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2009

    I'm Playing Match Game Live! Again

    Ben Lerman I'm getting out my best Brett Somers hair and my curliest Charles Nelson Reilly merkin because it's time for another Match Game Live!, the funsy game show put on by host Bern Lerman for a crowd of panting people, some of whom become wildly lucky enough to get dragged into the action. It ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2009

    Fiancee Defends Markoff, Leaves Up Guest Book, Drawing Unpleasant Remarks

    Megan McAllister, fiancee of alleged Craigslist killer Philip Markoff, maintains her intended's innocence as a "beautiful person" who "could not hurt a fly" in an email to Good Morning America. Police are leaking that Markoff was trying to pay off his gambling debts with the robberies. McAllister ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2009

    I'm Gonna Be On Match Game Live!

    I just got a press release saying I'm a celebrity panelist on a live game show, so I guess it's really happening. In fact, I'm pulling together my best Brett Somers wig and Charles Nelson Reilly pants suit (or vice versa) as we speak! Here's the release:

  • Music

    March 11, 2009

    No U2 Schadenfreude, Baby

    A mediocre album from this band is bad news whether you're a lover or a hater

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2009

    U2 Does Show at Fordham, Ends Occupation of New York

    The outdoor U2 "Good Morning America" show at Fordham -- for which we provided exclusive technical set-up coverage -- occurred very early this morning to a packed quad. The Post has professional pics and video; Brooklyn Vegan has fuzzier but very heartfelt snaps, and the setlist: "Get On Your Boots, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2009

    Exclusive Photos of Set-Up for Tomorrow's Bronx U2 Concert

    Our intrepid correspondent John DeSio tried to get press passes to tomorrow's U2 concert at Fordham, which is open only to Fordham students and staff, but the power of Runnin' Scared apparently does not extend that far up in the Bronx. So he took some pictures of workmen setting up for the show. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2008

    The Yule Log Returns

    Our intrepid correspondent John DeSio tried to get press passes to tomorrow's U2 concert at Fordham, which is open only to Fordham students and staff, but the power of Runnin' Scared apparently does not extend that far up in the Bronx. So he took some pictures of workmen setting up for the show. ... More >>

  • People

    September 25, 2007

    Minding Mencia

    Sure, Carlos is a hack, but is that a reason to hate him?

  • Art

    October 10, 2006

    States of Flux

    Sure, Carlos is a hack, but is that a reason to hate him?

  • NYC Life

    July 25, 2006

    Friday 8/4

    Sure, Carlos is a hack, but is that a reason to hate him?

  • Columns

    July 5, 2005

    NY Mirror

    Sure, Carlos is a hack, but is that a reason to hate him?

  • News

    June 22, 2004

    Mauling Michael Moore

    The attack on Fahrenheit 9/11: Fox lays back while ABC and NBC pile on

  • News

    April 20, 2004

    Say What?

    The attack on Fahrenheit 9/11: Fox lays back while ABC and NBC pile on

  • News

    January 20, 2004

    One Mind. Two Million Voters.

    Russell Simmons and Doug Banks Launch Ambitious Voter Registration Drive

  • Columns

    July 24, 2001

    NY Mirror

    Russell Simmons and Doug Banks Launch Ambitious Voter Registration Drive

  • Columns

    November 10, 1998

    NY Mirror

    ''Most high-minded of all was Madonna, a spiritual lady who wears her heart on her jewel-encrusted sari sleeve.''

  • Columns

    September 8, 1998

    NY Mirror

    ''Most high-minded of all was Madonna, a spiritual lady who wears her heart on her jewel-encrusted sari sleeve.''

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