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• A Men’s Health writer somewhere must be psyched about Gerard Butler’s inability to hold his tongue. On Jennifer Aniston: “Yeah, I trimmed her bush”. (Celebitchy)
• Rebecca Gayheart and Eric Dane reveal baby Billie Beatrice Dane. (Us Weekly)
• Robert Pattinson on sex scenes: “Yeah, I enjoy it. I’m a man. It’s part of the job.” (Daily Star)
• In another stunningly deluded shrewd career move, Heidi Montag hires her psychic as her manager. (People)
• Apparently Jessica Simpson had “game,” and John Mayer took it from her. (Us Weekly)
• Ugly Betty? Nope, Pretty Betty. (Huffington Post)
• More excellent Betty news! Betty White is confirmed to host SNL on May 8th. (PopEater)
• Kate Gosselin’s hair looks decent, will be back to hideous tomorrow. (Radar Online)
• Molly Ringwald hasn’t just been jazzercising, she’s been jazzing… um, she’s a jazz musician, and she’s recorded an album. (Contact Music News)
• In you-don’t-want-to-know-but-I’m-telling-you-anyway news, Khloe and Lamar call their iChat “iBoning”. (E! Online)
• Charlie Sheen’s domestic abuse defense strategy: that crazy lady made it all up. (Radar Online)
• Lars and the Real Girl comes to life. Except the girl is still made-up. (Metro UK)
• Bonus link for Thursday: Coco in a tanning bed! (The Superficial)

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Last night’s Will Ferrell-hosted SNL season closer was a perfect freak-storm of cameos (Tom Hanks, Anne Hathaway, Norm McDonald, Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler) and nostalgia. The play-by-play, post-jump.

Will Ferrell couldn’t host SNL without getting around to Celebrity Jeopardy, though they pulled out two serious stops for this one: Tom Hanks as Tom Hanks, Norm McDonald as Burt Reynolds, and Darrell Hammond as Sean Connery, which is why we’re here. Certainly not as great as of the CJ’s of the past. Then again, I’m not sure who thought of it, but whoever did, genius: there was nothing more fun on TV this week (sorry, Lost) than watching Tom Hanks try to maneuver through plastic dry cleaning wrap.

Ferrell’s opening monologue was essentially one giant “fuck you” to the Tony voting committee and Broadway, who – if they have any brains about them at all – will give themselves national exposure by handing Ferrell a Tony for his solo show on Broadway (and subsequent HBO special). He’s competing against Liza Minnelli. Somewhere, Brian Friel is not laughing. The joke about theater people’s pompous self-seriousness is (especially in New York) ridiculously funny. And sadly: resonant. Unfortunately, outside of New York, it might not take.

Speaking of the Bush show, the cold open was Ferrell doing Dubya, of course – when’s that going to get old for him? Will it? – and Hammond as Cheney. Again, Ferrell trying to push home the Tony win. Some of the late night ladies at Jezebel didn’t like it; personally, I enjoyed. Anything with the words “face shooting” in it gets a chortle, here, but I’m a cheap date. You?

Clearly the favorite amongst the cast who came close to breaking character a bunch of times. Watch Jason Sudeikis try to handle this without laughing, especially around the five-minute mark. Jokes about speed, Bill Hader getting some strangeness in – something about a green Swatch – Maya Rudolph coming in and making complete, absolute, arbitrary nonsense. It was wonderful.

Finally: the cameo-laden finale. Spoiler: it’s Ferrell doing “Goodnight Saigon.” Kinda fitting. That band has Anne Hathaway, Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss, Amy Poehler, musical guests Green Day, and Paul Rudd in it. Again, this one sits squarely on the shoulders of its stars, not the writing.

Oh yeah: Green Day was the musical guest and played some stuff off their new album, but when’s a band gonna come on SNL and not do that? Remember when SNL musical performances used to be mildly interesting? Green Day should’ve come out dressed as 14 year-olds, played “Basketcase,” broke some shit, and left. Memo to Lorne Michael: think dynamic. Also, question for Lorne Michaels: Did you burn through your entire Rolodex to pull this one off? Probably. Did it help that you had one of your best and brightest alumni hosted? Naturally. But you can’t pull a glued audience simply based on the potential promise of cameos and only half-decent writing that your ace(s)-in-the-hole can walk circles around. You’re gonna run out of ringers, eventually.

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Have you seen Wanda Sykes’ performance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner? She made a Rush Limbaugh/Oxycontin joke! And Barack Obama giggled at it like a true COMMUNIST. Now the conservative punditry is pissed, naturally.

Fresh from their latest round of conniptions and hissy-fits over Obama saying that “empathy” would be an ideal characteristic for his upcoming nomination to the Supreme Court, because Jesus hates empathy you see, conservatives are predictably aghast at Sykes’ jokes and that Obama dared to enjoy them. Here’s a sampling of commentary:

The UK Telegraph’s Toby Harnden…

There’s not much room for differing interpretations of what Sykes said. She called Limbaugh a terrorist and a traitor, suggested that he be tortured and wished him dead.

What was his crime? Hoping that Obama’s policies – which he views as socialist – will fail.

That’s way, way beyond reasoned debate or comedy and Obama’s reaction to it was astonishing.

Imagine if a comedian “joked” that Obama was a terrorist who was guilty of treason and should be tortured and allowed to die. There would justifiably be an outcry.

And Obama laughing when someone wishes Limbaugh dead? Hard to take from the man who promised a new era of civility and elevated debate in Washington.

Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds…

YUKKING IT UP. “I hope his kidneys fail. As classy as we’ve come to expect.

Pat Buchanan on MSNBC…

I think that shot, which was really over the top… and I think it shook up some of the people in there, just said, ooh… they’re talking about it, and I think it’s gonna be all over the TV Monday with the radio talk shows and things like that, and it’s gonna hurt the dinner, and it’s gonna underscore that point that these people are all sort of laughing their heads off at the Republicans and conservatives. It’s not fun for all, it’s just a bunch of insiders going up to the outsiders in a crude way. I don’t think the lady helped herself with that one, and I think it’ll be very controversial.

And naturally the wingnuts over at the bastion of intelligentsia that is Free Republic had lots to say, this coming from “Las Vegas Ron”…

The good news is that stuff like this takes its toll, and not on the objects of attack. I don’t know if Obama realizes it, but he is generating racial tension.

After reading how his pick to lead the US Forest Service had no previous USFS background, a fellow commented, “Why do I expect he’s black?”

I thought it was in poor taste, but then, sure enough – the pick is a black man known for supporting fellow minorities.

Picking a trashy black lesbian to do bitter stand-up that will be replayed on TV doesn’t help the President. In fact, it makes him look like what he is – a bitter racist whose chief qualification, in his mind even, seems to be “I’m Black. I’m Cool.”

And having the adoring press there laughing reminds folks that the people who bring them ‘news’ are firmly in Obama’s hip pocket…or even further in his shorts.

I watched about half of her performance. The word I kept thinking was, “Ghetto”. And I doubt I’m the only one.

A month ago, I made a joke about needing to be on the receiving end of some income redistribution. The salesman smiled and replied, “We’re the wrong skin color – all we’re allowed to do is give.” I was shocked because I had never had a salesman say something like that in front of me. But I think a lot of folks are starting to feel like this is a BLACK Administration – no whites need apply. And that is very bad for racial harmony.

Even some liberals were offended, like Deadline Hollywood’s Nikki Finke…

I’ve been to the White House Correspondents Dinner. And, if history is any judge, then comedians asked to perform there seem to do best when they joke with gentle jibes rather than go for the jugular. Someone should have reminded Wanda Sykes about that before tonight. Because not since Don Imus roughed up Bill Clinton at the annual event has a comedian been so mean-spirited.

And Matt Drudge has been running this headline and photo most of the day…

To all of this I say…IT’S A FREAKING ROAST PEOPLE! The humor is supposed to be below the belt. In my mind this isn’t even nearly as bad as Colbert’s evisceration of Bush in 2006. Not even close. But just wait until tomorrow when the chattering classes get back into full swing. It’ll be insane! And I’ll be listening to Limbaugh’s show while hitting refresh on Michelle Malkin’s blog every fifteen minutes or so. It’ll be so grand!

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Gwen Stefani and her hubby Gavin Rossdale got in some quality family time with their two sons, 2-year old Kingston and 7-month old Zuma, at a Beverly Hills park on Sunday. The 39-year old No Doubt artist and the 43-year old Bush rocker admitted that they would like a daughter but the singing couple has said that they are both too tired to even think about having another child at the moment. Gavin has said that “Well that would seem logical, but then again, so would sleep! A bit of selfish time would be nice.” When you have a wife as hot as Gwen, you would want some selfish time too.

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Barack Obama hit the beach in Hawaii

Barack Obama hit the beach in Hawaii with his family for the holidays. And who else would follow him the most at this time of the year, well no prizes for guessing – it’s the paparazzi of course.

I think this picture of Obama shows that he is taking his physical exercises very seriously after what happened to out going US President Bush when on a visit to Iraq a journalist threw a pair of shoes at Bush. Obama just wanted to show to the world that he is smarter and also working harder on his agility so that the next time round when he visits Iraq and Afghanistan he doesn’t get caught in the fire of some local showing his ire over the US involvement in destroying that country in the name of ‘War on Terrorism’.

I must say that Obama has some good abs there to show, may be he is well on his path to shaking a leg on some big ticket Hollywood red carpet.

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