Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Sideshow: Larry King, Ending A 25-Year Run Of His Show

CNN talker Larry King told the world on Tuesday that he will retire this fall from his nightly show after 25 years.
"It's time to hang up my night braces," King said through ... Twitter!

King, 76, said that he felt no pressure from CNN before the end of Larry King. He said that he began to think about stepping down as his 25-week anniversary ended this month, after an interview with LeBron James, Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, and President Obama. He said he would do random events on CNN.
Dow, BFF environment

Intrepid people in magazines and the Internet ANIMALnewyork.com Gawker.com reported that a new, sharp series of the environment through their own CNN in J. Crew guy Anderson Cooper could be undermined - slightly - by a corporate sponsor.

Print ads during magnetic for the weekly series "The one simple thing," notes - in the small print - this show, organized by the Dow ".

Now we all know, Dow is the BFF of the environment, although the company is not always happy environment.
Dow has been criticized for buying the Union Carbide after the 1984 gas disaster at a Union Carbide in Bhopal, India. Considered the world's worst industrial disasters in the world, it killed over 10,000 people.

In another case, Economic Times on Monday reported that the Indian government accused Dow bribing Indian officials to expedite permits for the sale of pesticides banned brands in the U.S. and other countries.

Thus, cooperation - a corporate interaction, or conflict of interest?

Neither CNN, nor Dow was commented at the press time.
Opening of the new Depp film
Director Gore Verbinski on Tuesday gave the USA Today to see his latest collaboration with Johnny Depp: animated comedy Rango. Starring Depp as an imitator of movie stars, who happens to be a chameleon. "He's in his terrarium and became friends with inanimate objects there, and calls them each by name, Gore said." When we meet him he was in the process of dressing up to play with them. "
Love? This is the battlefield. . .
Carrie Prejean, 23, dethroned Miss California contest queen turned Glenn Beck Jan political sage, and anti-gay marriage activist, will marry Oakland Raiders defender Kyle Boller, 29, on Friday in San Diego.

In less happy news, Mel Gibson at least pleased to hear that his ex-GF of one year, Oksana Grigorieva, publicly accused him of not giving her enough child support for their infant daughter, Lucia. His lawyer says TMZ, in addition to buying her house and car, Mel gave Oksana "tens of thousands of dollars to support her, and Lucia in recent months."

Mel said that was violated, that Oksana would not let him see their child in a Father's Day.

Unique n "part
Rob Lowe is joining the writers: Publisher Henry Holt and Co. said Brothers and Sisters star wrote memoirs, stories that I just tell my friends. The book, in mid-career meditation on his four decades as an actor, "should be in May next year. . . . "American Pie" sex symbol, Chris Klein will be arraigned in Lalaland court on July 9 on charges of DUI. Klein, who earlier drunken driving arrest, is worth at least 3 days in jail and up to the proposal in the event of conviction. . . . It seems Tom Cruise has allowed his wife Katie Holmes out of the house: "She signed a contract with Costar with Guy Pearce in the thriller Fear not the ghost of darkness.... There can never overestimate the cultural significance of Kim Kardashian. Madame Tussauds knows. New York branch of the museum announced that builds a wax effigy C-Lister. "This is one of the greatest honors ever, and I am very thrilled and excited," Kim blogs in response to the exciting honor.... Joe Jackson said he no longer needs the $ 15 000 plus a monthly stipend was paid to the estate of his son, Michael Jackson.
No madness in the method of the method
Hip-hop king Method Man (Clifford Smith), on Monday pleaded guilty to tax evasion and writes $ 40,000 check on the spot to bring your account up to date, after due totaling $ 106,000.

The former Wu-Tang Clan Kung Fu master who lives on Staten Island, NY, was arrested in October for failing to pay state and personal income tax. He was sentenced to a conditional discharge, which means that the arrest would be lifted if he is out of trouble.

Heidi: 'Runway' more is better
Heidi Klum says that her favorite project, tailoring the reality show Project Runway will go from 60 minutes to 90-minute format when it returns July 29 on Lifetime.

"We have always done to get a few complaints from people that they would like to see a little more," says the supermodel. This season will be presented a lot of tears - and ambulance visits during the three contestants, Klum adds.