Jay Leno Took a Fifty Percent Pay Cut
NBC has confirmed to the Wall Street Journal that it cut late-night star Jay Leno’s salary by fifty percent as part of an attempt to control spending. Read More
Late Night
Michelle Obama on The Late Show: I’m Not Watching the RNC
Michelle Obama was on The Late Show with David Letterman tonight (unembeddable video of the full episode is here, and Ms. Obama comes onstage in the third segment, around 15:30). Read More
Lohan Out! Lindsay Not Set to Appear on ‘Letterman’ After All
We were excited when we received yesterday’s press release, announcing that Lindsay would be appearing on The Late Show with David Letterman to deliver a Top Ten list. Would she wear “That Dress”? Today’s press release, though, is a bit disappointing. Says a spokesperson for Letterman’s production company, Worldwide Pants:
“Lindsay Lohan will not Read More
Craig Ferguson, Meet Cornel West
Tonight, while Jimmy Fallon reads Tweets, Craig Ferguson will kick off Black History Month with guests Cornel West and George Clinton. The Late Late Show host has always placed great emphasis on his immigrant status, and the show is intended — at least in part — as a sort of civics lesson on Read More
Clijsters Clings On and Verdasco Surges Back (Video)
If you took Kim Clijsters aside before the match and told her she’d lose seven of her service games and that her unforced error to winners ratio was 43:25, she probably wouldn’t like her chances. But Clijsters managed to hold on, and defeated the even shakier Sam Stosur tonight, 6-4, 5-7, 6-3. Clijsters now has Read More
Letterman Blackmailer Receives Emmy Nod
Robert “Joe” Halderman, the man currently serving a six-month sentence for trying to extort $2 million from David Letterman, was nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy this afternoon. He was one of the four producers who worked on the 48 Hours segment “American Girl, Italian Nightmare,” which concerns the Amanda Knox trial. The segment Read More
