Rosie O'Donnell on "The Rosie O'Donnell Show."
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The View to a Kill
Date: Saturday, May 26, 2007It seems to be easy to always be able to fill that “What’s going on with Celebrities?” quota. Joe Francis is still in jail and will soon be taking a flight on Con Air. Actor Tom Sizemore will soon be joining Joe in Prison very soon.
The biggest whopper for the week was obviously Rosie O’Donnell and Elisabeth Hasselbeck going at it with a verbal smackdown all on live television. I’ll save that one for last. Needless to say, if “looks” could kill, we would have that on The View this week.
More importantly, I don’t have to bring up Paris this week.
Angeline Jolie taking a break off acting
And I use the word “acting” very loosely there.
She will be wrapping up her committed projects (one of them being the upcoming Clint Eastwood thriller “The Changeling”) and then she’s going to be a full time mommy for her for a bit. Not really a surprise there when she and Brad have been getting together a future soccer team of kids together.
Part of the reasoning from her is that she wants to dedicate herself to being a mom for a bit and focus on the children and a lot of it also seems to be from so many tabloids out and about continually stalking her, Pitt and the “family”. This is going to give her an opportunity to fade to the shadows for a bit instead of the glaring spotlight.
"I'm working this summer. I'm in Prague for a few months, then I take two months off, then I work for two months," she told reporters at Cannes. "And then I take a year off."
"My kids are healthy. I have a lot I want to do in this world. Before I do, I wanna do a lot of things as a woman, as a mom, and that's my focus. At the end of the day, I'm gonna be dead...and what people say about me is gonna be what I accomplished and what I did in my life and how my children are."
It's a sentiment that appears to have rubbed off on partner Pitt, who told Curry in a separate interview that, as far as his livelihood is concerned, "it's just not enough anymore to say that 'it's entertainment and enjoyment.' "
I guess no “Tomb Raider 3” for a while…
GGW Joe Francis awaiting a trip on ConAir
Jerry Bruckheimer, eat your heart out?
I said last week the inmate transportation system is lousy when going by road and I was right. Sometimes, it takes weeks for an inmate to get to a city within their own state of arrest, let alone going across the country. Francis was set to appear in federal court in Nevada on his tax evasion charges in the midst of already serving time in Florida.
The catch is he never made it.
He’s stuck in Oklahoma.
Francis is now expected to take a flight on the inmate transport flight Con Air in the next few days to Reno, Nevada where he will face down the IRS.
While all this is going on, his lawyer has pleaded “Not Guilty” and “Rediculous” in LA Superior Court to yet another impending indictment for Francis. This is coming from an 18 year old’s complaint last January about Francis touching her breasts, buttocks and inner thighs at a birthday party in Hollywood, even after she asked him repeatedly to stop.
Once Francis tends to his legal issues in Reno, he's due to be shipped back to Bay County, Florida, to face trial on separate felony counts involving filming minors in sexual situations and smuggling contraband into prison in April.
Meanwhile, Francis is also scheduled to return to Los Angeles on June 26 for a pretrial hearing in the groping case. If convicted of that charge, he faces a maximum of six months in jail and a $2,000 fine.
Man, this guy is all over the place in our Justice System. He’s libel to being shipped back and forth across the country many times before this is all over and it might not be over for a long time after that. He’s facing 10 years in Jail for the IRS evasion charges.
David “Bud” Faustino facing charges over some illegal Bud
You may remember “Married…with Children” and little David “Bud Bundy” Faustino. The actor (again, I use that loosely) is facing a year in jail for carrying a gram of marijuana on his possession in Florida.
The whole accounting of how he was busted is strange.
Faustino was arrested on May 12 for having a fight with his future ex-wife in the middle of an intersection at 2 in the morning.
According to the arrest report, officers observed Faustino trying to climb out of the driver's side window of a silver two-door car, which was stopped in the middle of the street. Bud Bundy's soon-to-be former missus, Andrea Elmer Faustino, was actually driving the car, and it looked as though he took a swing at her after he finally was able to extricate himself from the vehicle (through the door, this time).
Faustino then began yelling profanities at her, after which an officer ordered him to place his hands on the vehicle, detecting a whiff of alcohol in the process. The actor was busted for disorderly intoxication, and a subsequent search of his person turned up the bag of pot. He was taken to Volusia County Branch Jail and released later that day.
Andrea, who is not facing any charges, told authorities that Faustino didn't hit her and was only moving to shut the door when the cops saw him stick his arm out.
Faustino, whose most recent credit is the stoner caper Puff, Puff, Pass, filed for divorce in February after nearly three years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split.
Puff, Puff, Pass??
Not only is that some acting stretch, it seems accurate enough for him.
Tom Sizemore is going away for a long time most likely.
Joe Francis may be all over the justice system these days but he might be able to wrangle out of his Tax Evasion charges by settling with them. (it means no 10 years in jail)
Tom Sizemore is another story entirely.
We may not be seeing him for a very long time.
He was already convicted in 2005 for possession of crystal meth; however, the judge agreed to suspend the actor's 16-month prison sentence if he stayed clean. When convicted of this back then, A tearful Sizemore swore to Los Angeles Superior Judge Paula Adele Mabrey that he would clean up his act and entered rehab. His probation was reinstated and extended for another three years.
That probation has been violated now.
The trouble-prone actor pleaded not guilty Tuesday in a Bakersfield, California, court to five felony drug counts stemming from a crystal meth-fueled arrest earlier this month—charges that could land the Saving Private Ryan star behind bars for a long time. Sizemore was charged with transportation of methamphetamine, possession of methamphetamine and three counts of possessing a controlled substance without the proper prescriptions, according to Kern County Deputy District Attorney Cynthia Zimmer.
Sizemore and fellow actor Jason Salcido, in town on a movie shoot, were arrested May 8 as they attempted to check in to the Four Points Sheraton Hotel. After being informed that their reservation wasn't in the system, Salcedo allegedly challenged the front desk clerk to a fight.
Hotel staff consequently called the cops, who found the duo outside holed up in a car.
A search of the 2004 Ford Mustang turned up two bags of crystal meth and accompanying paraphernalia, including a pipe in the possession of Salcedo, and three drugs for which Sizemore did not have a prescription: Vicodin, Klonopin and Valium.
He faces up to six years in prison if convicted on all counts.
He will also have to serve the 16 month prison sentence since he violated the first probation before serving the separate 5 counts of drug sentence.
This guy is going away for a while…
O’Donnell and Hasselbeck going at each other on The View
Rosie may have announced her leaving (much to the praise of a lot of people) but it didn’t stop her from going at it with newly sitting co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck (wife of the football player). Things got heated, gloves were pulled off and verbal punches ensued.
Of course, the network obviously knew this would happen by putting the Republican minded Hasselbeck in place of Rosie.
I have to believe this was on purpose.
Here’s how it went down:
From E!’s Coverage
It all started when Joy Behar, inspired by recent comments made by Al Gore and Jimmy Carter, started reading a list she'd made of reasons why President George W. Bush should be removed from office (the last being "he can't pronounce the word nuclear").
"I listened to you yesterday," Behar told Hasselbeck as the former Survivor contestant simultaneously offered up her own take on the administration, but the sound of mingling voices continued to prevail.
Once the words "the enemy is in Iraq" crept out of Hasselbeck's mouth, however, O'Donnell chimed in as well, asking Hasselbeck whether Iraq ever attacked this country.
"No, I'm saying al Qaeda," Hasselbeck clarified.
First, as Behar tried to keep the two from interviewing, rather than just chatting with, each other, O'Donnell said that this was why she wasn't going to engage in this debate:
"Here's how it gets spun in the media: Rosie—big, fat, lesbian, loud Rosie—attacks innocent, pure, Christian Elisabeth. I'm not doing it!"
"I just don't understand why it's my fault if people spin words that you put out there or phrases that suggest things," Hasselbeck said. "And I gave you an opportunity two days ago to clarify the statement that got you in trouble on all those things."
O'Donnell pointed out that Hasselbeck never publicly defended her when certain media pundits suggested that she had called U.S. troops "terrorists" during a previous debate about the war in Iraq.
(On Monday's show, O'Donnell asked Hasselbeck whether she believed the media hype, and her generally more soft-spoken—for The View—cohost encouraged O'Donnell to clarify what she meant.)
"Do you believe that I think our troops are terrorists? And you would not even look me in the face, Elisabeth, and say, 'No, Rosie,' " O'Donnell continued.
"Because you are an adult and I am certainly not going to be the person for you to explain your thoughts," Hasselbeck retorted. "You are an adult and I am certainly not going to be the person to explain your thoughts. They're your thoughts! Defend your own insinuations!"
"And I am not poor little Elisabeth," she added.
"That's why I'm not going to fight with you anymore, because it's absurd, so for three weeks you can say all the Republican crap you want," O'Donnell said.
"It's a lot easier to fight someone like Donald Trump, isn't it, because he's obnoxious," Hasselbeck suggested.
"I never fought him—he fought me," O'Donnell said. "I told a fact about him, he didn't like it."
Then, after Behar and guest cohost Sheri Shepard pretended to get up and bring the show to a close, the name-calling started.
"I asked you if you believed what the Republican pundits were saying—you said nothing, and that's cowardly," O'Donnell said accusingly.
"Do not call me a coward," Hasselbeck told her as the TV feed switched to a split screen to show each woman's reaction. "Because, number one, I sit here every single day, open my heart and tell people what I believe…It was not cowardly, it was honest."
"Is there no commercial in this show?!" Behar exclaimed as the 10-minute dustup neared its bitter end.
"I'll tell you what's cowardly," Hasselbeck continued. "Asking a rhetorical question? That is cowardly."
According to Hasselbeck, despite the fact that this exchange led to what must have been a tremendously uncomfortable commercial break, it most likely will not result in an irreparable rift.
"I honestly think, I believe that we are mature women who can resolve this," the 29-year-old pregnant mother of one told Extra. "I hope we can. I would hope that a disagreement or a heated debate wouldn't be the end of a relationship...This happens all the time with people…to not address something that was obviously starting to bug us would be a disservice to ourselves."
Apparently, just a day after this verbal smack down proceeded over the air waves on Wednesday…All the posters of Elisabeth Hasselbeck in the network studio were vandalized. Most people believe it was one of O’Donnell’s long time writers who did this but ABC is investigating over it.
There’s also increased speculation that Rosie may be out the door then the scheduled exit date three weeks from now. She’s been hinting about it on her blog in answers to her fans after the confrontation.
ABC disagrees with that early exit strategy though…According to them, she’ll be back on The View, Tuesday, as scheduled.
I’m pretty sure a lot of people will be watching it Tuesday to see what Hasselbeck and O’Donnell do next.
Meanwhile, ABC enjoys the high ratings.
No Paris News this week. What a relief. That’s going to do it for this edition of Superficial Slobber. Talk to you later.
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