Friday, February 15, 2008
Jane Fonda Gets in Trouble at the Today Show
‘Today’ show apologizes for Jane Fonda’s use of vulgar slang on the air
By Associated Press | Thursday, February 14, 2008
NEW YORK - NBC News is apologizing again — this time for Jane Fonda.
The 70-year-old actress used a vulgar slang term on the "Today" show Thursday while talking about the play "The Vagina Monologues." Fonda is appearing in a 10th-anniversary performance and was on "Today" with author Eve Ensler.
Fonda told co-host Meredith Vieira that she was asked to perform a monologue with a slang term for vagina as the title — and Fonda used the term itself on the air in explaining why she said "no."
"I said, ’I don’t think so, I’ve got enough problems,’" Fonda said.
About 10 minutes later, Vieira told viewers that Fonda had used a word from the play that normally isn’t used on television.
"It was a slip and obviously she apologizes and so do we," Vieira said. "We would do nothing to offend the audience, so please accept that apology."
"Today" moved quickly to silence the word and cover up Fonda’s face with a still photo when the show was aired in the Midwest, Mountain and West Coast feeds.
It’s been a month’s worth of apologies for NBC News, owned by General Electric Co. MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews said he was sorry for suggesting that the reason Hillary Clinton was a presidential candidate was because of her husband’s infidelities. MSNBC correspondent David Shuster was suspended for two weeks for saying the Clintons had "pimped out" daughter Chelsea for presidential campaigning.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Drivers report seeing belly dancer shimmying across I-880
From Silicon Valley
Drivers report seeing belly dancer shimmying across I-880
By Leslie Griffy
Mercury News
01/30/2008 11:39:11 AM PST
Nothing beats a shimmy and shake to stop traffic.
When commuters spotted a woman in a belly dancing getup getting her groove on with a road sign, they called 911. It's more than you might expect to see along the side of Interstate 880 in San Leandro on a Monday afternoon.
The first call described a woman belly dancing along the right side of the road at 3:07 p.m. A minute later, drivers reported that she was using a light pole as a dancing prop and then a highway sign for a pole dance.
It wasn't until she ran across the interstate that things got nasty, CHP officer Oscar Johnson said. The woman in a black halter top and black pants began screaming obscenities at drivers who nearly hit her as she dangerously shimmied across the highway, he said.
By the time officers arrived at the scene, the woman had ducked into the brush near a homeless encampment and run away, Johnson said.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Clinton looks for votes, gets marriage proposal
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Voters ask a lot of the nation's White House hopefuls, but Democrat Hillary Clinton looked particularly taken aback by a request from one attendee at a Friday campaign event in the Los Angeles area.
"Hillary, marry me, baby," a man yelled at the New York senator as she finished her economic address and prepared to take questions.
The crowd erupted in laughter, and Clinton looked genuinely shocked as she turned to face the questioner.
"That is certainly the kindest offer I've had in a while," Clinton said to loud cheers.
But she added immediately, "I'd probably be arrested."
Clinton visited delegate-rich California — one of the more than two dozen states to vote February 5 — to lay her economic stimulus package.
The shouted proposal was markedly friendlier than an incident in New Hampshire Monday, when a man yelled at her to "Iron my shirt."
"Ah, the remnants of sexism — alive and well," Clinton responded then.
– CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
Monday, January 7, 2008
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Santa in g-string gets DUI charge
better kept wrapped.
A man in a Santa hat was arrested Sunday night for investigation of
drunken driving after he was spotted outside Grauman's Chinese Theater
in Hollywood wearing a wig, a red lace camisole and a purple G-string,
police said.
"We are pretty sure this is not the Santa Claus," Deputy Chief Ken Garner said.
The suspect was booked into jail after his blood-alcohol level
measured just above the state's legal limit of .08, police said. He
was later released on $5,000 bail.
The man, who is 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 280 pounds, also wore
black leg warmers and black shoes. His car was towed to an impound
yard, police said.
