A Little of the Old In and Out

In: According to NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell on the Chris Matthews Show on Sunday, Hillary has let it be known in the Senate cloak room that she wants the Kerry Veep slot. Now, if only she had a strong military background, pull in the Southwest and was a prisoner of war in Korea. Then she'd be idea. Oh, and if only she were a Republican.

Out: Alexandra Robbins. She is following up her best selling expose of Skull and Bones with Pledged: an expose of sororities in general. If only she had been tapped as a Bonesman, none of this vitriol would be streaming out of the presses.


In: In an odd flash of anger, Ebert and pony boy Roeper unleashed some of their own vitriol on Hollywood on their tv show last week:

Roeper: "(The Soprano's) is better than more than 50% of the feature movies we review here."

Ebert: " --When you say more than 50%?"

Roeper: "Probably more like 75%"

Ebert: (stares angrily into the camera) "Yeah."

What the fuck?!

(*shivering* sips Cutty Sark) Ahh, the pause that refreshes!

Out: Was Dick Clarke's 60 Minutes chat with Leslie Stahl an infomercial? Well, I notes that it would have problems with the right on Saturday, but not this particular set of problems. For one, Clarke's career was pretty much down the drains because he falsely predicted that the next terror war would be cyber, rather than the old fashioned variety. But does that make 60 Mins last night and infomercial? Matt Drudge seems to think so:

"60 MINUTES pro Lesley Stahl is said to have been aware of the conflict before the program aired.

[CBSNEWS.COM did add a disclaimer to its Internet coverage of the book over the weekend: "Against All Enemies," which is being published Monday by FREE PRESS, a subsidiary of SIMON & SCHUSTER. Both CBSNews.com and SIMON & SCHUSTER are units of VIACOM." And CBS RADIO did carry a disclaimer in its news coverage of the book.]

" ... Earlier this year, it was Stahl who also profiled another author on 60 MINUTES -- for another book owned by VIACOMCBS -- without any disclaimer!

"'The Price of Loyalty' by former Treasury Secretary, turned Bush critic, Paul O'Neill was financed, produced and released [and rolled-out at CBSNEWS] by VIACOM's SIMON & SCHUSTER.

"Coming in future weeks, best-selling author Bob Woodward is set to release his PLAN OF ATTACK, a fresh look at the Bush White House.

"Will the Woodward VIACOMSIMON&SCHUSTER product debut on: VIACOMSIMON&SCHUSTERCBS's 60 MINUTES?

[EDITOR'S NOTE: STAHL'S INTERVIEW WITH CLARKE WAS THE TOP-RATED SHOW OF SUNDAY NIGHT WITH 11.9 RATING/19 SHARE.]

Hey, Drudgie poo, do you think you can you tone it down with the all caps, please? I had a long night of drinking. Thanks much.

In: Big Knickers ... huh? ... no, Sir, I am not a racist, I said Big Knickers, not ... oh, never mind.

Anyhoo: as Kylie Minogue notes in Blender via Ananova, thongs are out, and big knickers are in, ostensibly to cover up all those buttock implants going around:

"Kylie told Blender: 'Big knickers are back. Women want comfort again. And I don't mean the sort of underwear our grandmothers wore.

"'It'll be more French and sexy, but definitely bigger. The G-string is last year's thing. The thong is gone! The flossing has finished!'"

Out: Airheaded but sexy older woman Deborah Norville got spanked by Howie Kurtz on Reliable Sources on Sunday. No, not like that, get your minds out of the gutter.

Apparently, Norville's gang on her new MSNBC talkfest (stinkfest?) mistook an Onion story for a real news story and ran with it. Embarassingly, Norville's peeps denied that they had gotten it wrong, telling Howard Kurtz when he asked for comment that they were in on the joke, meant the story as a spoof and simply forget to credit the Onion. Riiiight. When we want a sexy older woman, we'll go with Old Hag.

In: Doing things naked. Last week we noted Darryl Hannah and Carmen Electra, suspiciously close to upcoming projects, admitted that they like to jog and play drums, respectively -- in the buff!

Add Alanis Morrisette's name to the bunch. She notes that she likes to walk around naked:

"The singer who appeared naked in video Thank U, said: "I walk around naked all the time. I'm a leave-the-bathroom-door-open nudist, which is sometimes disconcerting for my friends."

"She says even her parents share her habit of discarding their clothes at home. She added: 'We all walked around naked when it was appropriate, there wasn't a lot of shame to it.'

"She says her parents were on the 'periphery of hippiedom' although she herself didn't totally embrace the hippie lifestyle, says the Daily Record."

Oh yeah, she just happens to have So-Called Chaos coming out on May 17 on Maverick Records, but that's just a coincidence, peeps.

fin

(we'll always be together; together in electric dreams)