Catholic Priest Pleads Guilty For Stalking Conan O'Brien



Our first reaction upon hearing the news was: Oh (Exaggerated cough suggesting feigned detachment), Reverend is Tripping. Then we thought: That copper-mop-top; the endearingly pasty pallor (Won't someone fetch him a robust multivitamin?); that irresistible gift of the Irish blarney; the thoroughly untaxing rhetoric, delivered nightly; that pixie-ish flair. How could one fault a freak-of-the-week for wanting more than one's nightly network allocation of the man called ... Conan?



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Man-stalking, still, is an odd avocation that has a unfortunate rate of incidence, we cannot fail to note, among the thin herd of late-night talk show hosts. What is it about the late night talkers that makes one's inner animale leap out -- like a jaguar from the underbrush -- and engage,while the talkers graze, in deliberate, mammalian, man-stalking? David Letterman, also, was a victim of continuous manstalking. Now, even more disturbingly, this, from someone who, presumably, ought to have his inner-animale on furious lockdown. From The Hollywood Reporter:

"The Roman Catholic priest accused of stalking NBC talk-show host Conan O'Brien has pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct.

"The Rev. David Ajemian admitted to the offense -- sending letters and DVDs to O'Brien's home and business.

"Ajemian was arrested in New York City last year while trying to enter a taping of O'Brien's show, despite being warned to stay away by NBC security personnel.

"Prosecutors say Ajemian began sending letters to O'Brien in September 2006. He has been placed on leave by the Boston Archdiocese."

The scariest incidence of celebrity man-stalking, however, did not involve a late night chatter. "King of Hollywood" Steven Spielberg was stalked once by a man who carried about him a goddam "rape kit."

*The Corsair shudders*