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Rod Stewart Addresses The Old Rumor That He Did 17 Sailors

If you never heard it, you're a liar. It was the old tale that in the sexually explosive 1970s, rocker Rod Stewart got on his knees and serviced a procession of servicemen, getting so satiated he eventually had to be rushed to the hospital to have his stomach pumped. Some people have called that a ... More >>

Scientology's Concentration Camp: Where Can Miscavige Put "The Hole" Now?

As we wait for the next development in the Church of Scientology's lawsuit against its former employee, Debbie Cook, we continue to think about something the church told ABC for its recent Nightline story on the case... "In a letter to ABC News, a lawyer for the Church of Scientology flat out denie ... More >>

Scientology Counterattack: Commenters of the Week!

There's been so much enturbulation in the underground bunker lately, it's been hell on the cats, who just want to catch up on their sleep. So we installed one of those kitty hi-rises this week and it was an instant hit. The little carnivores are remaining more calm in their tiny carpeted condos whil ... More >>

Nightline's Scientology "Exclusive": What was Exclusive About It, Exactly?

I had a strange and powerful case of déjà vu last night while watching Nightline's interview with Debbie Cook as she talked about being held in "the Hole" at Scientology's international base in California, where executives who fall out of favor with church leader David Miscavige are sent to rot in ... More >>

Newt Gingrich Dumped His Wife, Then Gave Family Values Speech

He barely waited 48 hours to do so! Republicans are always so anxious to flaunt their hypocrisies in public. This happened in 1999 when presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich called his second wife, Marianne, to drop her into the abyss and/or ask for an open marriage.

Escaped Flight Attendant is Following Me on Twitter

​I was on Nightline last night, talking about the allure of Steven Slater, the gay flight attendant who, fed up with an unruly passenger, gave an impassioned speech over the loud speaker, then went out through the escape hatch. With a twinkle, I said that Slater is a formidable personage for ... More >>

Bros Icing Bros: Dear New York Media, Smirnoff Would Like To Thank You For Selling This Stupid Drinking Game

​Have you heard of the once-legendary and now-kinda-dead urban terrorism drinking game Bros Icing Bros? It involves the fermented sugarpiss known as Smirnoff Ice, your friends, and casual alcoholism. For a while, it was all the alcoholic hipster-rage, and then, last anyone had heard, the websi ... More >>

Frankies Get Their Time in the Nightline Spotlight

The Frankies have gotten the Nightline treatment, appearing as the subject of a short profile on last night's show. In between overbearing snippets of Italian opera, Franks Falcinelli and Castronovo demonstrate how to make a tomato and avocado salad ("very simple, very fresh, there you have it.") ... More >>

Jesse James Grasps Pathetically for 'Most Hated Man in the World' Crown

​Just as he'd pretty much fallen off our radars, Jesse James is back, this time demanding our attention by dubbing himself "the world's most hated man." ABC's Nightline interview with James is set to air on Tuesday; early teasers show the self-professed sex addict mourning oh-so-woefully tha ... More >>

Beard Awards Media and Journalism Finalists Are Announced

The man himself.​The James Beard Foundation is announcing its James Beard Awards finalists via Twitter this morning. The list of chefs has just started rolling out (currently, regional finalists are being named), but the list of final nominees for the foundation's Media and Journalism Awards a ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​Kennedy Airport. Twitpic via sawyerlex. War on Christmas season swung into full effect. In a holiday spirit, the Staten Island D.A. tried shame on shoplifters. A GOP Congressman moved to read a pro-Christmas resolution into the House record. Andrea Peyser denounced the godless Bloomingdales ... More >>

Go To Prison, Get A Nightline Puff Piece? Does Ted Koppel Know About This?

​Here's a challenge: try to imagine a major network television news program -- one with a long, storied reputation for hard-hitting journalism -- assigning a reporter to follow around OJ Simpson's current love interest (whoever that might be), in order to drum up sympathy for how difficult lif ... More >>

Crime Beat: SEC Renews Vow to Take Acquitted Bear Stearns Duo Tannin and Cioffi to Civil Court -- Shades of O.J. and Scrushy!

Hedge fun: Matthew Tannin and wife Joyce were all smiles after his acquittal last month on criminal charges. The Bear Stearns hedge funders Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, found not guilty last month of fraud in the only major criminal prosecution even indirectly related to Wall Street's meltdown ... More >>

Crime Beat: SEC Renews Vow to Take Acquitted Bear Stearns Duo Tannin and Cioffi to Civil Court -- Shades of O.J. and Scrushy!

Hedge fun: Matthew Tannin and wife Joyce were all smiles after his acquittal last month on criminal charges. The Bear Stearns hedge funders Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, found not guilty last month of fraud in the only major criminal prosecution even indirectly related to Wall Street's meltdown ... More >>

Rich Con's and Wife's Heartbreaking Story on Nightline

​"Once the toast of Birmingham, Alabama, worth some $300 million," wealthy televangelist and HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy was accused of fraud and convicted (not of the fraud, but of bribery on an earlier charge) and had to pay $2.8 billion to shareholders and go to prison. ABC's Nightline ... More >>

Daniel Humm Makes Carving a Turkey Actually Look Like Fun

Turkey carving almost always seems like the final humiliation visited upon the poor bird -- all of the hacking, sawing, and stabbing do little to either honor its memory or whet appetites (except, perhaps, for destruction).

Martha Denies Feud with Rachael, Wishes Her "Yum-O" Thanksgiving

​Martha Stewart is backtracking on comments made about Rachael Ray on Nightline last week. After appearing on Ray's show, then having Ray on the Martha Stewart Show to teach her how to bake (and, apparently, taunt her about not being invited to P. Diddy's birthday party), Stewart went on Night ... More >>

Martha Stewart Serves Rachael Ray Some Humble Pie, and Rachael Ray Eats It

​ Following Rachael Ray's hilariously uncomfortable stint on her show last week, Martha Stewart will appear on Frontline this evening to further criticize her erstwhile guest, whom Stewart was last seen schooling on pie dough and taunting with her invite to Puffy's birthday party.

Ted Willams' frozen head: Alcor responds

​ Alcor Life Extension Foundation, the company involved in yesterday's story about the misadventures of Ted Williams' frozen head, responds: October 2, 2009: The Alcor Life Extension Foundation denies the outrageous allegations against it that have appeared in the media this week. Alcor espe ... More >>

Frank Bruni: On Food Blogs, Restaurants He Would Have Liked to Review, and Advice for Sifton

Soo-Jeong Kang​ Frank Bruni's last review for the Times came out yesterday, and today marks the official launch of his new memoir, Born Round. (Check out our review of the book.) Bruni has been promoting the book everywhere from Nightline to the New Yorker, but he was nice enough to make time ... More >>

Frank Bruni Is Just Like Us, Likes Choco Taco

Frank Bruni will make his first post-Times critic TV appearance on Nightline tomorrow night, where he'll discuss his memoir, Born Round, and demonstrate his ability to slum it like the rest of us at a Mister Softee truck with the "original ice cream taco."

Tonight, 'Nightline' Hops on the Butchers-as-Rock-Stars Bandwagon

marvin L/flickr​Nightline is airing a piece tonight titled (on its website) "Butchers: New Rock Stars of the Culinary World." With any luck, this will mark the swan song of this particular trend piece, which has already been covered in New York, the Times, and just about every other publicatio ... More >>

Federal Judge: Give Plan B to 17-Year-Olds

Good news, youngsters. A judge in Brooklyn has ruled that if a 17-year-old girl thinks she may be knocked up, she should have Plan B, the so-called morning after pill, without going through the hassle of obtaining a prescription. Federal Judge Edward Korman gave the FDA 30 days to revise its regs so ... More >>

Expectedly, Obama Kills on Leno

"In Washington, it's a little like American Idol except everyone's Simon Cowell" is pretty good. So's the Special Olympics joke, which his opponents would probably praise as "politically incorrect" if it were being delivered by, say, Mel Gibson. So fuck those PC dorks. Obama explains his socialist ... More >>

Niece of Scientology Leader to Speak Out on Nightline

Nat Hentoff's Greatest Hits

Excerpts from his first 50 years at the Voice

Congress and the Disappeared

Still waiting for our representatives—and presidential candidates—to address criminal U.S. kidnappings

Ghost Prisons, Ghost Courtrooms

From CIA secret prisons, 14 "high-level" terror suspects are at Gitmo. Where are all the others?

The Ultimate Spiderweb

NSA whistle-blower wants to tell congress, but they don't have clearance to hear

New Series Examines Current Iraq Quagmire While Avoiding Partisan Politics

Morning Report 6/30/05
Psst! There's a War Going On.

Flyovereasy

Smart Christian kids and freaky pop pervs rock red states

Unquiet Riot

Media come out slugging after the NBA brawl in Detroit, throw in sucker punches, 'moral' lessons

Disappearing Prisoners

Are they dead? Are they alive? Where is the media? Does anybody out there care?

Declarations of Independence

Since the reign of King George III, resistance has been our legacy—and to this day still is

The War According to Sinclair

D.C.'s Second Massive Antiwar March—Populist Enough for the Heartland

College Kids and Powerpuff Girls for Peace Join Forces with Church Ladies in the Nation's Capitol

Smoke Signals

Koppel Says Yes to Military Censorship in Iraq

Letters

Adrift in No Man’s Land

Stupid Network Tricks

ABC Wants to Dump 'Nightline' for Letterman. Laughing?

Protester Non Grata

'Nightline' Spikes a Segment About Peaceful Protesters

Abandoning the Constitution to Military Tribunals

Terrors of a Subway Rider

Notes From the Underground

Anthrax as AIDS

The Agent Is Different, but the Anxiety Is Essentially the Same

Horoscope

Act of Contrition

Kosovo— Was There Another Way?

Only a Dream— a Nonviolent Army?

Cheerleaders For Violence

India Ink