Sideshow: Anchor suspended for Chelsea remark
MSNBC anchor David Shuster has been temporarily suspended after making a tasteless remark Thursday about Chelsea Clinton's role in Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
MSNBC anchor
David Shuster
has been temporarily suspended after making a tasteless remark Thursday about
Chelsea Clinton
's role in
Hillary Clinton
's presidential campaign.
"Doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?" Shuster said. A Clinton rep yesterday called the comment "beneath contempt" and suggested that Clinton might not take part in any debate televised on MSNBC.
During his suspension, Shuster is banned from any NBC newscast except to offer an apology, which he has done. An MSNBC spokesman said the network offered "sincere regrets to the Clintons about the remarks."
Shuster told the Associated Press he had tried to reach Clinton to apologize.
Taking some rehab time
Pat O'Brien has "entered a rehabilitation facility for treatment," says a statement from his celebrity news show,
The Insider
. "O'Brien and his doctors felt this is the best course for maintaining his sobriety," said the statement. The statement then stated that "there will be no further statement."
Pat, who spent 20 years covering sports for CBS before landing in GossipLand, has long struggled with alcohol abuse. In March 2005, he entered rehab after a string of sexually explicit voice mails he left for an unidentified woman hit the airwaves.
Amy's Grammy drama
"Rehab" super-chanteuse
Amy Winehouse
will not appear in person at the Grammys - but
not
because she couldn't get a visa.
The Londoner yesterday successfully appealed the U.S. Embassy's decision not to grant her a visa. But Amy still will not fly to L.A. "due to the logistics involved," according to her people.
Which means that the singer, who nabbed six Grammy nods for her CD
Back to Black
, might return to her previously announced plan to perform at the show live via satellite from London.
A story and headline about the Grammys in The Inquirer's Sunday Arts & Entertainment section, which was preprinted, report the visa denial, but not the successful appeal.
WGA to end strike?
Is the writers' strike really over? Will the nation's TV and screenwriters finally dust off their metaphors and metonymies, symbols and similes and get back to work? Yes, report anon entertainment industry insiders who say the WGA has been offered a sweet contract by the studios. Guild members will meet today in New York and L.A. to ponder the offer.
Radnor prodigy on NPR
Radnor Middle School seventh grader
Dakyung "Daniel" Song
, 12, a pianist who has won the Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist award, will perform on National Public Radio's
From the Top
today at 12:30 p.m. on WRTI (90.1 FM).
