Newsgasm: Is Kanye the New Tom Cruise? - 
by B-Side
- Get your DVRs ready. There's another Katrina telethon tonight, and this time, it's on all the networks. C'mon Kanye. You've got at least five times the audience. Give us something good! [AP]
- ABC announces that the network will air all of its primetime telecast in Spanish. WASPy Diane Sawyer en Español? Sounds like Must-See TV to me. [AP]
- Survivor winner Richard Hatch has been indicted for tax evasion and fraudulently using charitable donations for personal expenses. This probably all could have been avoided had he not insisted on walking naked around the IRS auditor. [Hollywood Reporter]
- Two months later, The New York Times finally has an analysis of Dancing With The Stars. [New York Times]
- Meanwhile, from the Fox rip-off department, we have the lineup for Celebrities on Ice. Among the future skaters are Deborah Gibson, Dave Coulier, Todd Bridges, and Kristy Swanson. As for the professionals, none other than Nancy Kerrigan will return to the spotlight for the big extravaganza. Todd Bridges is so taking her down with a lead pipe. [E! Online via Yahoo]
- Football won big last night while The OC and Reunion premiered to decent, if not spectacular numbers. The bad news for The OC: it was down nearly 19% from last year's premiere. The good news for Reunion: it retained 98% of its lead-in audience. And the best news for Les Moonves: CBS beat them both. [Mediaweek via Yahoo]
Comments
bad call. damn, what's up with the kanye hate-mongering here?
Posted by: tom | September 9, 2005 11:27 PM(#1 of 8)
Kanye hate mongering??? I read it as liking what he said...
Anyway, tell me someone is going to recap the dumb Fashion Rocks concert afterward! Lisa Marie Presley was so bad with Billy Idol it warrants SNARK! Send her the Rosie DVD.
Posted by: Fuzzbait | September 10, 2005 1:27 AM(#2 of 8)
Haven't seen war of the worlds
Did go out and bought Kanye's new CD after I heard his comment.
Posted by: curly | September 10, 2005 3:40 AM(#3 of 8)
Fuzzbait, you read it as liking what Kanye said? Have you been keeping up with this site at all? They make an ass out of Cruise as a matter of course.
Posted by: Angie | September 10, 2005 7:59 AM(#4 of 8)
Okay,I see your point. The headline does compare Kanye to the whacko, and I am sorry. I was going by the, "Give us something good" remark. Take everything I type with a grain of salt--I've got a newborn and am sleep deprived. I swore Giada was talking to me in her recap.... :)
Posted by: Fuzzbait | September 10, 2005 4:48 PM(#5 of 8)
i've definitely had enough of kanye. what's up with his cheeks? storing nuts for the winter?
Posted by: Geraldo | September 10, 2005 5:47 PM(#6 of 8)
Kanye knows that controversy gets you in the news. People who had never heard of him or his music are now curious about his music and are listening to it. It's sad that he had to politicize a charity event and then profit from it.
Posted by: jones | September 10, 2005 8:14 PM(#7 of 8)
wow, he couldn't have been an emotional man who saw the horror and just snapped momentarily?
it was, and will be, a horrific time. bad timing choice? sure. did he lie?
tom cruise is just an ass.
Posted by: brownstocking | September 11, 2005 7:30 PM(#8 of 8)