"Howard (Stern) brought up the SNL thing and asked him about what kind of money (Darryl Hammond might) be making. Artie said he thinks that Darrell could be making like $20,000 per episode or something like that. Howard asked him how many episodes they do every year. He said that they do 20 per year and it was an interesting question to ask. He asked Darrell if it's close to what Artie had estimated. Darrell wasn't talking about that stuff though." (Marksfriggin)
"THE former presidential front-runner, John McCain, may drop out of the 2008 race by September if his fundraising dries up and his poll ratings continue to drop, according to Republican insiders. The speculation, vigorously denied by McCain’s camp, is sweeping Republican circles after a disastrous few weeks in which the principled Arizona senator has clashed with the party’s conservative base on immigration and also alienated independent voters by backing President George W Bush’s troop surge in Iraq." (SundayTimes via HuffPo)
"Brett Ratner is set to direct 'Playboy,' the Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment film about the life of Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner. Brian Grazer is producing, and John Hoffman is writing the screenplay.Grazer optioned Hefner's life rights several years ago. The producer's '8 Mile' scribe Scott Silver tried it as a musical, and Oliver Stone developed several drafts. Making a film of Hefner's long life as icon of the sexual revolution has proven difficult, but Ratner and Hoffman found a way to do it that pleased Grazer and the 81-year-old Hefner, who approved the take late last week in a meeting at the Playboy Mansion." (Variety via NYMag)
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"Madonna has spent more than ($11.9 million US) buying her sixth London property. The American singer and her husband Guy Ritchie last week signed a contract on the 10-bedroom Georgian townhouse in London's Marylebone. The couple paid almost twice the ($6.1 US) Mr Davies spent when he bought the property in August last year, even though he has not refurbished it.The house has six floors and includes a vaulted artist's studio which adjoins the garden wall of the family's main home. A source said: 'Madonna has been a very shrewd investor in property - this is her fourth in the area. She knows the prices are significantly lower than in Mayfair but that the area is coming up. She has said she'd like to buy the whole street.'" (ThisisLondon)
"FRESHMAN Gov. Spitzer was the big loser and veteran legislative leaders the big winners as the disastrously unproductive legislative session came to an end Friday, senior officials agree. Spitzer, who pledged to 'change everything on Day One,' looked like the proverbial deer in the headlights after his two most important final initiatives - congestion pricing in New York City and campaign-finance reform - were summarily rejected by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) and Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno (R-Rensselaer), respectively." (NYPost)
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