Everyone who has been laughing at the idea of Fran Drescher taking over Hillary Clinton's Senate seat for the state of New York, you can stop laughing now. It's not that wild an idea, not when you consider that Fred Grandy -- Gopher from The Love Boat -- was a Congressman from Iowa, and pro wrestler Jesse Ventura was the Governor of Minnesota, and there's a really good chance that Saturday Night Live alum Al Franken (remember Stuart Smalley?) has won the Senate seat for Minnesota, too. (They're still recounting the votes!)
Oh, and let's not forget the Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger from the great state of California. In other words, why not Senator Fran Drescher!
If you stop to try to figure out time travel plots from TV shows and movies - whether it's Back to the Future, Star Trek, or Frequency - it can really give you a headache. So many things about time travel just don't make sense, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't make for a fantastic plot device.
I've been thinking about that since Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles started. The show is supposed to take place after T2, though it's been a while since I've seen that flick (or the original for that matter) and I'm not sure if everything goes together and makes sense or not (T3 seems to be ignored, at least for now). But Todd Seavey is doing an extensive examination of the show and has come up with some interesting observations.
Maria Shriver is leaving television news, and it's all Anna Nicole Smith's fault.
The ex-NBC newswoman and wife of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says that TV coverage of the death of Anna Nicole Smith (and all of the other stories that came from her death) led her to quit TV news forever. She made the comments during a speech at the Conference For Women. She says that watching the nonstop coverage made her realize that TV news had changed and she no longer wanted to be a part of it. She has plenty to do as First Lady anyway.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger partnered with MTV's Pimp My Ride to turn a 65 Chevy Impala into an environmentally friendlier version of itself for Earth Day.
Jay Leno has been getting some heat for refusing to have Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides on his show after having Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on many times, and now he's getting a, um, different kind of heat from another person in the race...porn star Mary Carey.
The buxom woman wants equal time on Leno's show, but Leno hasn't made any comment about it yet. Carey says that she is a very popular search term on the web, so that proves her popularity. Of course, how many of those people are in California? She says "our polling results have shown my name to be more recognizable than any other candidate in the race." I doubt her name is more known than Ahnuld's, but feel free to laugh like Beavis and Butthead when you read the words "polling results." Heh heh heh heh heh.
She ran for Governor in 2003, but this year she got her teeth replaced and got new breast implants.
Remember when politics hit an all-time low Arnold Schwarzenegger went on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to announce his candidacy for California governor? That was all fine and dandy, but he made a return visit to the show last night, ahead of the November 7th election, and it has his opponent pretty pissed off. California State Treasurer Phil Angelides says he has also requested time on The Tonight Show but has not heard back from producers. So now, a California congressman filed a complaint with the FCC claiming that NBC is not fulfilling the equal time statute of the Federal Communications Act that requires television and radio media to give candidates equal time. NBC says Schwarzenegger's appearance doesn't fall under the political statute since his appearance does not qualify as a news interview.
After Schwarzenegger made his candidacy announcement in 2003, Leno had all 135 gubernatorial candidates on the show and they each had 10 seconds to say what they stand for. They had to yell it at the same time.
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new year brings a new law to California that punishes overzealous paparazzi (is there any other kind?). Arnold
Schwarzenegger proposed the law, after numerous reports this year that people like Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett
Johanssen, Paris Hilton, and Lindsey Lohan were being run off the road by photographers. The governator himself was
even run off the road by photographers. The new law prohibits photographers and videographers from assaulting anyone in
an attempt to get a photo. That includes the subject of the photo and the general public, which is usually forcefully
pushed aside when a celebrity is walking down the street. If convicted, paparazzi will have to pay triple damages and
give up any money made off the photos. The law also allows publishers who buy and print the photos to also be liable.
The Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney started off the new year by putting out a call to all celebrities to contact
his office when they are assaulted by paparazzi.
Everyone who has been laughing at the idea of Fran Drescher taking over Hillary Clinton's Senate seat for the state of New York, you can stop laughing now. It's not that wild an idea, not when you consider that Fred Grandy -- Gopher from The Love Boat -- was a Congressman from Iowa, and pro wrestler Jesse Ventura was the Governor of Minnesota, and there's a really good chance that Saturday Night Live alum Al Franken (remember Stuart Smalley?) has won the Senate seat for Minnesota, too. (They're still recounting the votes!)
If you stop to try to figure out time travel plots from TV shows and movies - whether it's Back to the Future, Star Trek, or Frequency - it can really give you a headache. So many things about time travel just don't make sense, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't make for a fantastic plot device.
Maria Shriver is leaving television news, and it's all Anna Nicole Smith's fault.
Jay Leno has been getting some heat for refusing to have Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides on his show after having Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on many times, and now he's getting a, um, different kind of heat from another person in the race...porn star Mary Carey.
Remember when 
The
new year brings a new law to California that punishes overzealous paparazzi (is there any other kind?). Arnold
Schwarzenegger proposed the law, after numerous reports this year that people like Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett
Johanssen, Paris Hilton, and Lindsey Lohan were being run off the road by photographers. The governator himself was
even run off the road by photographers. The new law prohibits photographers and videographers from assaulting anyone in
an attempt to get a photo. That includes the subject of the photo and the general public, which is usually forcefully
pushed aside when a celebrity is walking down the street. If convicted, paparazzi will have to pay triple damages and
give up any money made off the photos. The law also allows publishers who buy and print the photos to also be liable.
The Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney started off the new year by putting out a call to all celebrities to contact
his office when they are assaulted by paparazzi.
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