● Rosie O'Donnell announced yesterday on her show that she is engaged to her girlfriend since September, Michelle Rounds, and that the two will say "I Do" in front of their families this Christmas. [LAT]
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Kanye West let the world know this week how he envisions his funeral. But he isn’t the only celeb dealing with thoughts of mortality. During a round table interview with several celebrities, legendary suspender-clad talk show host Larry King, age 78, announced he wants to be cryogenically frozen.
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This morning on The View, Bill O'Reilly did a wonderful thing. His opinions about the so-called "Ground Zero mosque" pissed off Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg to the point where they felt the need to remove themselves from the set and his presence, in front of a live studio audience. Barbara Walters immediately called her co-hosts out for their thin skin, but the reality is, great drama makes for great TV. Behar and Goldberg did everyone a favor, including Bill O'Reilly, who gets to keep his reputation as a hot-headed button-pusher. What made this so special, as you're about to see, is that it's usually the guests who storm out of interviews, not the hosts. At any rate, the whole thing reminded us of some other memorable moments in TV Walk-off history. Check them out, after the jump.
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Tonight, a nearly eight-times divorced septuagenarian will join forces with a twee singing sensation with lips like an angel and hair like a chic lesbian in an effort to fight the biggest environmental disaster in U.S. history. We are talking, of course, about Larry King and Justin Bieber. This evening on CNN, King will host a star-studded, two-hour telethon called "Disaster in the Gulf: How You Can Help." Other celebs talking with Larry, in the flesh or via satellite, include everyone from Kathy Griffin to Pete Wentz to Robert Redfor to Alyssa Milano. Given that the last time Larry hauled out the celebs to talk about a tragedy in the gulf made for one of the greatest TV moments ever, we can only hope that tonight's fundraiser will not only raise a ton of money and awareness but also some ruckus.
more● Playboy's photo essay about the evolution of the breast is the very definition of Not Safe For Work, though it is also objectively intriguing. So maybe you could explain it to your boss that way? [Playboy] ● Tiffani Thiessen, better known as Kelly Kapowski, had a baby, but the real story here is that Thiessen is married to a man—a clean, normal, probably perfectly respectable one—that will go his entire life being compared to Zack Morris. It's not fair. [People] ● Devo is streaming its new album for a bunch of cats, winning the internet. [Ustream]
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Last night on Larry King Live, rapper, producer and sometimes actor T.I. sat down for his first post-penitentiary interview and boy was it a doozy. T.I., who was sentenced to a year and a day of jail time last fall following an arrest for attempting to illegally purchase firearms, revealed to King the devastating emotional trauma that led to his reckless behavior: "My best friend had died in my arms. It caused a state of depression and paranoia. My judgment was jaded and I felt my life was in danger," the rapper explained. "At the time, when I felt the need to have these things, I never took into consideration the legalities." The friend T.I. referred to was Philant Johnson, who was shot dead in 2006 after an altercation at a Cincinnati nightclub.
more● Larry King had his first divorce in 1962, or when JFK was president. Now, he's on to the next one, announcing divorce number eight. [TMZ] ● This chart, showing how many songs a musician must sell on iTunes to make minimum wage, tell us something we already knew: your boyfriend in a band is poor. [Village Voice] ● Miracle of the day: Croatian 13-year-old awakes from 24-hour coma speaking fluent German, but no Croatian. [Telegraph]
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All the telltale signs were there. The glint of crazy in her eye. The Sarah Palin fandom. The miscategorization of Michelle Obama and Sonia Sotomayor as granola-munching, ganja-smoking liberals. That initial ominous crease in her brow. Her cautious stern tone. Still, somehow we thought that when Carrie Prejean was going to have a sit-down with Larry King to try to shed a little light on the house of horrors that some neurologists would call her brain, we'd learn a thing or two. Instead all we got was an uppity equine neighing on about, "Oh woe is me! Why is the world so unfair! Why am I unable to understand the English language, Larry King! I'm so angry even though you're switching topics, I'm going to make a total shitshow of myself on national television and create a scene because Regina George was modeled in my image and buy my effing book okay? LOL."
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