Sideshow: Colbert's late-night bow a ratings wow
The super-mega-hyperbolic hype the media gave the premiere of Stephen Colbert's debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert seems to have paid off. David Letterman's successor led all late-night talk shows Tuesday. The show, feat
Folks tune in for Colbert
The super-mega-hyperbolic hype the media gave the premiere of Stephen Colbert's debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert seems to have paid off. David Letterman's successor led all late-night talk shows Tuesday. The show, featuring George Clooney and presidential candidate Jeb Bush, attracted 6.6 million viewers, according to Nielsen. That's more than double the number who watched Jimmy Fallon's The Tonight Show, at No. 2 with 2.92 mil. Jimmy Kimmel Live! (1.75 mil), The Late Late Show with James Corden (1.3 mil) and Late Night with Seth Meyers (1 mil) round out the top five.
Want Caitlyn behind bars?
Does that rabid sick species The Media want Caitlyn Jenner to end up in jail? Jenner, you see, may be prosecuted on charges of causing a fatal car crash Feb. 7 on the Pacific Coast Highway.
"The media wants that picture, don't they?" Jenner said on NBC's Today.
Prosecutors have yet to decide whether to charge Jenner, accused of driving at an unsafe speed.
Jail is "the worst-case scenario. . . . The men's county jail," said the transwoman. "It is an enormous problem that they would put transwomen in a men's county jail."
Meanwhile, Life & Style Weekly reports Jenner has hired a crisis-management consultant to minimize negative P.R. from the criminal case.
De Niro backs Hilary Clinton
It's election time, and celebs left and right are bloviating about their White House faves. Even the press-shy Robert De Niro is getting in on the act. The Taxi Driver star says he backs Hillary Clinton - and not just because she's a woman. "It would be important" to have a woman president, De Niro tells Elle. "Almost more important is that [Clinton] is who she is. . . . She's as qualified or more qualified than anybody else. And [she has] paid her dues. Period."
Gossip petits fours
The mildly pornographic and celebrated Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, featuring a bevy of babes including Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Behati Prinsloo, and Kate Grigorieva, returns to CBS Dec. 8, the network says. . . . Tom Cruise and Doug Liman, director of Cruise pic Edge of Tomorrow, are developing sci-fi action pic Luna Park, says Variety. . . . The Who is postponing the first four dates on its 50th anniversary tour as Roger Daltrey recovers from an "unspecified virus." . . . Bon Jovi's concerts in China next week have been canceled for "unforeseen reasons."
Spidey gender politics
Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield is tired of superheroes who stick to traditional gender roles. "I'm excited to get to the point where . . . we can have a pansexual Spider-Man," he tells alt-news outlet .Mic.
In 2013, Garfield told Entertainment Weekly he had pitched the idea of a non-straight Spider-Man to producers. "What are we so scared of? Why are we so, 'No, it has to be this way, a man and a woman,' " he tells .Mic.
"We're scared of things that aren't us. Love is love. Skin is skin. Flesh is flesh. We're all wrapped in the same thing. I have no preference."
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