Big Apple Idolatry

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Big Apple Idolatry: Bushnell Settles Sex Score, Paul Rudd’s Lucky Strike, and Baldwin’s Beef Fetish

- Fresh off his Broadway run in Chicago, Usher will be kicking his feet up in one of those swivel pods on the third season of The Voice. He and Shakira will be taking over for Christina Aguilera and Cee-Lo Green, who are vacating their judges’ chairs on NBC’s hit music contest. Of coorse, Usher has an ace card up his sleeve to win over any waffling young talent. It’s two words, and rhymes with Bustin Tweezer. Read More

Watching George in the Jungle

On the cover of this morning’s Observer, Felix Gillette writes about George Stephanopoulous’s uneasy transition to morning television–including this particularly awkward interview with pop royalty Cyndia Lauper and Lady Gaga last week.

The awkwardness starts around the six-minute mark when Lady Gaga starts talking about condoms, and Mr. Stephanopoulos starts looking for Robin Roberts Read More

GMA Anchor Gets in Height Battle With Michelle Obama

As the “Special Guest Host” at the Jackie Robinson Foundation Annual Awards Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria on Monday night, Bill Cosby put the benefit’s guests through a gentle ribbing. “I would like all of the scholars to just say hello,” Mr. Cosby said to the packed ballroom. “And I would like the people responsible for Read More

GMA Anchor in $2.6 M. Deal

If you want an idea how rough it can be to enter the luxury-apartment market in Manhattan, consider the case of Good Morning America co-anchor Robin Roberts.

She was hardly slumming it in her former digs at the same West End Avenue rental tower that fellow television host Kelly Ripa once called home—though Ms. Ripa, Read More