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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Sunday, January 17, 2010 - 2:55 pm
If Betty White didn't already hold the title, Rue McClanahan would be my queen. I hope she recovers quickly and fully, and I look forward to seeing her light up the screen again some time soon.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Sunday, January 17, 2010 - 8:14 pm
Yay for Drew Barrymore winning a Golden Globe! She is so darned cute!
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Monday, January 18, 2010 - 7:51 am
...and she portrayed Little Edie perfectly spot on.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Monday, January 18, 2010 - 1:23 pm
some video of Leno a few years back: link
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, January 18, 2010 - 1:36 pm
LOL! That was apparently as genuine as Leno's everyman act. And here's Howard Stern warning Conan about Leno back in 2006: youtube
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Monday, January 18, 2010 - 1:58 pm
HA! I hope they play that Leno clip on all the gossip shows today.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Monday, January 18, 2010 - 2:39 pm
Doesn't really change my opinion of Leno. At the time Leno's intention may have been to leave. At the time NBC's intention was to allow Leno to leave. NBC changed their mind and offered Leno a new show. He's a workaholic. Of course he's going to take it. Now they are changing their mind and offering him the tonight show back! I still blame NBC for trying to be too greedy, making deals too far in advance. Unless Leno has blackmail pictures of the NBC execs, he isn't running the network. NBC is. If they wanted to retain Conan and let Leno go, they would have. I blame NBC.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, January 18, 2010 - 11:59 pm
LOL! Letterman responds to Leno and Ebersol: youtube
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 9:11 am
The actor who played Kenickie in Grease is being treated at a California hospital after a fall. According to World Entertainment News Network: Jeff Conaway was admitted to a hospital on Monday after suffering a brain haemorrhage in a freak fall. The 59-year-old actor tumbled down the stairs of his California home and was taken to a Los Angeles medical facility by ambulance. He suffered a broken hip, a broken arm, a fractured neck and a brain hemorrhage in the accident and is set to undergo surgery, girlfriend Vikki Lizzi tells TMZ.com. Conaway most recently appeared on Celebrity Rehab in 2008 in a bid to conquer his drink and drug demons. Conaway's character was the boyfriend of Stockard Channing's Rizzo in the 1978 movie version of Grease. He played the lead, Danny Zuko, on stage.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 9:23 am
Annie, that's horrible. Poor Jeff! 
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 9:36 am
Horrible but totally unsurprising, given his condition, actions and prior brain damage, as well as physical damage and addictions.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 11:31 am
Sad but true, Sea. Basically, it was just a matter of time.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 2:59 pm
NBC Universal President and CEO Jeff Zucker made an appearance on "Charlie Rose" Monday, and after lots of hammering from Rose, admitted that the network has clearly made some mistakes with their late night lineup. Did NBC make the right decision in 2004, when they promised Conan O’Brien the “Tonight Show” seat in order to keep him from packing up for another network? Yes, Zucker said, and he has no regrets about that decision. Trying to keep Jay Leno by giving him his own prime-time show, on the other hand – definitely not the smartest move, said Zucker. “We were trying to keep both of our talent in house,” Zucker told Rose in the interview. “Obviously, in hindsight, perfect information leads you to the conclusion that it was a mistake. It’s the sign of a leader to step and when something’s not working, have the guts to reverse it and not let the mistake linger. Really, that’s what we’ve tried to do. We’ve tried to correct something that didn’t work.” Yet trying to correct that mistake has led NBC into an even bigger mess. O’Brien said last week that he wouldn’t follow the "Tonight Show” if NBC pushed it back half an hour to accommodate "The Jay Leno Show” at 11:35, but NBC hasn’t budged from their proposed lineup, and as a result is still working through negotiations to settle O’Brien’s contract with the network. While Zucker said he feels “terrible” that O’Brien won’t be sticking around at NBC, at the end of the day, it’s all about the bottom line. “None of this is personal. These were business decisions. We’re talking about moving back a program a half-hour, a program that wasn’t making money for NBC. But the heap of scorn that has been put on this is completely out of whack,” Zucker said. The scorn has gotten so strong that some are even lobbing death threats at Zucker. “It’s been unfortunate,” he said. “But, Charlie, a little perspective here as well, on the magnitude of what’s happening in Haiti. People calling me names in the big scheme of things and people delivering death threats of a program moving back a half-hour is really out of context.” Zucker added, “We would have liked for Conan to stay. It wasn’t perfect for Jay, he was going to do a half-hour; [and] it wasn’t perfect for Jimmy, he would’ve moved back to 1 o'clock a.m. We didn’t have enough room and time to make everyone happy.” Posted by: CNN.com writer Breeanna Hare Filed under: television i think that is basically the bottom line. Jay could be as bossy and demanding as he wants but if it wasn't a good business decision they wouldn't listen to him.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 3:24 pm
Well of course Zucker is trying to keep himself and Leno looking good in this: it is, in his words, a business decision to cover his demanding, petty star's ass--and his own--when they have failed miserably. The fact is that the idea of a 10 PM show was terrible, and virtually everyone knew it, from the beginning. But the additional fact is that NBC didn't start with that: they first offered Leno a deal for specials, and a deal for a Bravo show, and a deal for a half hour show at 8. And he turned all of those down. He wanted an hour in prime time, no matter how he tries to spin it now. And Zucker, who has been an abomination at the top, and who will almost certainly be relived of his duties when the deal with Comcast is closed, went along with Leno. And all of this avoids the obvious truth that Zucker never allowed Conan to build an audience in the way NBC did with Leno. But really, I watch the Colbert Report when Conan is on, anyhow. And, if I still feel like watching TV at midnight, it's Jimmy Kimmel.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 3:38 pm
I love Colbert, Tish. He's da bomb! He's really the only late-night blabber that I like. I haven't much patience for the rest of them.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 5:28 pm
Spin can go either way. We won't really ever know the full, true story.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 5:42 pm
apparently they finally have a deal. Conan gets 32 million and the final sticking point, his staff get 7.5 million.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 6:08 pm
not bad for 7 months work.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 6:42 pm
the 32 million sounds impressive but that only is if he doesnt work for someone else. For example if Fox hires him for 15 million through the end of the contract he had with NBC then NBC has to pay him 17 million. It is actually in Conan's interest, if he wants to really screw with NBC, to take a job with comedy central at minimum wage and have NBC pay him.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 7:09 pm
i wouldn't turn down 32M or heck even 7.5 million! LOL
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 7:18 pm
if they'd bought out Leno it allegedly would have cost ~$80 million. So I guess they got a comparative bargain
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 7:36 pm
And Conan can't take two or more of his "bits" with him. (Don't watch Conan so don't remember what I heard.) NBC owns them.
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Allietex
Member
08-16-2002
| Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 9:07 pm
Susan Boyle appeared on Opyra today. She seems much more at ease being interviewed than she did earlier. She sang the song from her album, What I was Born to Be and I loved her performance.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 12:36 am
Colin Fergusen was hysterical tonight about this whole thing. I've never watched him before, but he was pretty good.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 7:23 am
Here`s a snippet of Susan Boyle on Oprah: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mb6HUiLaLM
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