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By Kyle Buchanan Whatever intern is tasked with explaining current events to Barbara Walters failed miserably today, as she misunderstood the growing controversy about a perceived-to-be-racist Post cartoon in the most hilarious way possible. The View [ABC]

By Kyle Buchanan In other View news, somnolent guest Patricia Arquette revealed just how Sacha Baron Cohen crashed the Medium set for his upcoming film Bruno: he pretended to be Ben Silverman's cousin. Also, Elisabeth Hasselbeck's pirate shirt sprung a flower today. It's springtime! The View [ABC]

By Kyle Buchanan Admit it: at times, when the fantasy of a live, Fox News-sponsored hatefuck with Elisabeth Hasselbeck simply won't do, your thoughts turn to The View's resident sexual lioness (when Barbara Walters isn't there), Joy Behar. The View [ABC]

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By McCluskey and Miller All Access" Grammy Special [9 PM, CBS] - Katie Couric interviews past and present Grammy nominees including Lil' Wayne, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift and Justin Timberlake. If that wasn't enough youth culture for you, there are also appearances by Jonas Brothers, Carrie Underwood, Ne-Yo, K...

By Kyle Buchanan Today on The View, the ladies bowed their heads as if at church to soberly listen to the tape of Christian Bale's DP-excoriating rant (though Elisabeth Hasselbeck cracked up during Bale's angry, "da-da-da-da" moment). Afterwards, though, they were mostly sympathetic—Whoopi Goldber...

By Kyle Buchanan Kudos, truly, to the producers of this insane segment (which we would mistake for an interlude from Queer as Folk but for the presence of a black person). We imagine the decision to anoint Shepherd as the program's new exercise guinea pig likely came down to a process of elimination; after a...

By Kyle Buchanan This is how ingrained Barbara Walters's reign of passive-aggression has become on The View: her tone-deaf (but well-meaning) attempt to draw a comparison between the Obamas and the Cosbys finally provokes Sherri Shepherd to snap. The View [ABC]

By Seth Still, the noted flat-Earther is far from a flat-chester, and she admirably did her best to keep things under control as The Biggest Loser trainer Jillian Michaels commanded her to bounce up and down. Seeing the potential for disaster (things on set are still skittish since the time Andy D...

By Kyle Buchanan And quite unlike Australian Simon Baker, whose native accent was tamped down lest a besotted Barbara Walters hurl herself at the TV screen. Still, familiarity has never hurt this genre before, so why should it now? There's room enough for both shows, plus Fox's own reality spin, Moment of...

By Kyle Buchanan It all began when Barbara Walters brought up Bush's final press conference and dubbed it unusually introspective. This didn't sit quite right with Elisabeth Hasselbeck, the Bush BFF who invaded the Oval Office over the weekend, had a 15-minute conversation with the president about dog...

By Kyle Buchanan 9:05: Tom Brokaw, sounding more like Barbara Walters every year. 8:29: Eva Mendes (who's clearly been buying turquoise necklaces from Tuba City jewelry shop owner Whoopi Goldberg) brings out HFPA president Jorge Camara, who is introduced to weirdly specific Cuban music.

By STV · Jeremy Piven SushiGate worsened this week with his ill-conceived visit to The View and rumors of a lawsuit. Meanwhile, his aggrieved Speed the Plow producers shocked the Broadway establishment by casting Terry Bradshaw in Piven's old role.

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By Kyle Buchanan Cognizant of the fact that they had landed a big fish, the ladies of The View were respectful to a fault today (even Barbara Walters!), though Elisabeth prefaced each and every question to Cruise with such slobbering, near-sexual praise you would have thought they'd dug up Ronald Reagan....

By Kyle Buchanan We've spilled a lot of e-ink about how Walters has spent every single day in '09 coming up with new, increasingly overt ways to insult her cohosts, so imagine our delight when she said that her perennial New Year's resolution was to "be nicer" ("THAT'S your New Year's resolution?" said a du...

By Kyle Buchanan On Monday, a jealous Walters promptly chastised the studio audience for shouting compliments to Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, scolding, "When you see a group of people, you don't look at one of them and say, 'We love you.'" Then, as Sherri Shepherd related both of her brief encounters wit...

By Kyle Buchanan With rumors flying about how much time Patrick Swayze had left after his pancreatic cancer diagnosis, the actor sat down with Barbara Walters to come clean. The interview will air tonight in the ABC special Patrick Swayze: The Truth, and Swayze begins by noting how long he's lasted so far:

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By Kyle Buchanan newVideoPlayer("/View_Pivengate.flv", 506, 423,"");Last night, Jeremy Piven sent a very late text message to Sherri Shepherd—and for once, it didn't say "Come to my room - whoever responds first gets me for the night." The View [ABC]

By Kyle Buchanan Shepherd recounted the story today to her cohosts on The View—including a bored, openly contemptuous Barbara Walters. As Shepherd tells it, she upgraded with her miles, landing her and her hyper three-year-old son Jeffrey in a seat right next to the Entourage star. Sadly, Piven was not a f...

By Seth · Barbara Walters Recalls Riding In The Bus With Her Emotionally Retarded Surrogate Daughter, Rosie · JC Chasez: 'Chace Crawford Is Not My Bum-Junkie' · All The ऌs Have Been Crossed And The ऱs Dotted · Katie Holmes Poised To Make Her Broadway Escape In 'All My Sons' Revival

By Kyle Buchanan The inter-host squabbling has become so heated on The View that there's little a celebrity guest can do to keep up (short of revealing dramatic, semi-incestuous childhood memories), so it's no surprise that producers have been scheduling more and more all-"Hot Topic" editions, as the...

By STV 3. Lisa Ling, 4:34:18 (Boston Marathon, 2002) — Cost her View co-host and compulsive marathon-better Barbara Walters $1,200 when she couldn't finish under 4:30. 4. Katie Holmes, 5:29:58 (New York City Marathon, 2007) — If she finished at all. We're not so sure.

By Kyle Buchanan For all too long, Sherri Shepherd has stayed relatively quiet on The View, keeping a low profile (except for the occasional blow-up at Bill Maher) and generally avoiding the sort of "flat earth" gaffes that would draw the pity spotlight away from her cohost Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Today, t...

By Kyle Buchanan Looks like that cooling-off period didn't take! On today's episode of The View, outnumbered McCain booster Elisabeth Hasselbeck finally let out the pent-up rage she'd so coolly kept under wraps during yesterday's Bill Maher appearance, lashing out at Whoopi Goldberg for voicing ske...

By Kyle Buchanan “Elisabeth feels she can’t win at The View, but she’s been told by friends at FOX News that they’d find a spot for her without hesitation.” Photo Credit: AP] Elisabeth Hasselbeck Leaving “The View” For FOX News Anchor Seat [PopCrunch]

By Kyle Buchanan Following John McCain's tough appearance on The View last week, members of the McCain family are finally taking their gloves off. First, wife Cindy complained at a fundraiser that Whoopi & Co. had "picked our bones clean," and now potential First Daughter Meghan McCain has waded into...

By Kyle Buchanan Congratulations are in order for Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi, who married Saturday night in an intimate ceremony held on the grounds of their California home. The brides both wore Zac Posen and exchanged handwritten vows promising to love each other "in sickness and in health, fo...

By Mark Graham · The answer is probably no, but that didn't stop Seth Green from stumping Barbara Walters with what will surely go down as one of the slyest Lost resets you'll ever see worked into a talk show appearance. Also? We sincerely hope that someone breaks out the webcam when Elisabeth Hasselbeck g...

By Seth · Among the amazing revelations in this Lou Ferrigno interview: CBS changed Bruce Banner's name to David because they thought Bruce "sounded too gayish." [USA Today] · Blinded By Thongs is now what we plan on calling that band we've been meaning to start since high school. [The Smoking Gun]

By Seth A visit from Uncle Regis is always a happy occasion for the ladies of The View, but things turned uncharacteristically ugly when, in a discussion about their slim Daytime Emmy chances, Barbara Walters suggested that since "we're just so happy, and since we have"—gesturing to Whoopi Gol...

By Seth If you've not yet noticed, the media has been clogged with even more Barbara Walters than usual lately, the 78-year-old TV journalist and delightfully addled View ring referee doing overtime to plug her new memoir, Audition. (Defamer videographer and foremost Waltersologist Molly Mc...

By Seth A torrent of emotion flooded Harpo studios today: Raw! Real! Emotion! as Barbara Walters laid herself open for all to see on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah, having gotten the distinct whiff of platelet-deficient blood, went directly in for the kill, insisting the 78-year-old sexual diar...

By Seth After three-and-a-half years of wardrobe-sharing bliss, standing side-by-side through the good times (the Branded Wedding of the Century, brought to you by 1-800-Flowers, Smirnoff Ice, and the Portugal Tourism Board) and the bad (her Barbara Walters-issued View death warrant), E...

By Molly Friedman As much as we adore Barbara Walters til death does us part, it's hard to ignore her incapability to express more than one stoic expression on The View these days. And Melanie Griffith's less-than-stellar career of late hasn't been helped by what the Times refers to as "much-speculated-up...

By Molly Friedman While we certainly hope that the ladies of The View are ladylike when it comes to using the ladies' rooms at other lady celebrities' houses [Ed. Note - That's a lot of ladies!], the same can't be said for the men who man Barbara Walters' camera crew. In this clip, Walters politely told the story...

By Seth She first reminded Barbara Walters of the time he, a huge Barbara fan, approached Walters on an airplane. (It turns out she was cordial, which seemed to take even Barbara by surprise.) But it's Shannon's startling impression of her father's death-rattle wishes--at once macabre, hilario...

By Seth Since her first 10 Most Fascinating People special, a hodgepodge of politicos, celebrities, and persons of note that included everyone from the Archduke Ferdinand to Sarah Bernhardt, Barbara Walters annual compendium of the year's most spellbinding personalities has only grown mo...

By Seth If it's strike carnage you seek, look no further than today's episode of The View: Stripped of its guild-member producers pumping meaningful dialogue into their earpieces, a Hot Topics segment on the writers strike forced the hosts to explain the labor impasse using their own, barely c...

By Mark · Defamer videographer Molly goes deep inside slow news day victim Barbara Walters' beef with her TMZ TV tormentors, stringing together the show's speech-impediment-based attack and Walters' subsequent Airing of the Grievances on today's The View. Enjoy the feud while it lasts!

By Mark On today's show, Hillary Clinton put in her time, performing admirably in the face of Barbara Walters' line of questioning about her "polarizing" nature (it's times like these we most miss Rosie, who would've just blurted out, "Let's not sugarcoat it, Babs. Does it bother you when people...

By Seth View nurturer Barbara Walters quietly pulled Anne Heche aside before an audience of several million today to explain how she knew all along that her marriage to Coley Laffoon would end up in heartbreak: It's because Heche "is all heart, and I don't think you always think with your head," s...

By Seth · Howard K. Stern serves Rita Cosby with a $60 mil lawsuit. · Today on Oprah: balls. · David Letterman swats Paris Hilton around like he was a feral barn cat. · Surrogate Rosie mom Barbara Walters--a closet stallophobic--steers her away from KY.

By Seth When Rosie O'Donnell joined Roseanne Barr on the stage of a New York comedy club last night, she stunned audiences when she abandoned her regular prop-comedy act involving a cardboard standee of Elisabeth Hasselbeck and a black Sharpee with which to scrawl Hitler moustaches. Instead sh...

By Seth As our review copy of Rosie O'Donnell's memoir appears to have gotten lost in the mail, we've had to settle for the modest trickle of leaks available in press coverage, where so far we've learned of Donald Trump's molluskan qualities and of childhood tea parties in which the self-exiled f...

By Mark Since we found CNN.com's promotion of the world-shaking news that Whoopi Goldberg would fill the Rosie O'Donnell-shaped indentation on The View's couch a little too subtle, we've proposed a better way for them to assure that eyeballs will be more effectively directed to the most import...

By Seth There's just over a month to go until Star Jones's return to TV, a full year after an ugly power play saw her squeezed out of her co-host chair at The View and publicly shamed by daytime potentate Barbara Walters. Of course, the pudgy, pampered Star of yore is virtually unrecognizable from th...

By Seth In today's episode: Sean Penn; Mark Wahlberg; Ben Affleck; Ralph Fiennes; James Woods; Jessica Biel; Courtney Love; Randy Johnson; Jessica Simpson and Jewel; Stanley Tucci and Maura Tierney; Patrick Dempsey and Michelle Monaghan; Paula Abdul and Tony Schiena; Danny Bonaduce; Scot...

By Mark Of course, with all things being equal, the simplest explanation is often the best one, and so we must reject the impossibly complicated Risk Assessment/Supply/Demand/Effect Theory in favor of Donald Trump's far more straightforward "Eat Me" explanation, as it seems likely that ABC...

By Seth On "The View" on Monday, O'Donnell asked Walters, Joy Behar and Elizabeth Haselbeck: "You want to hear what a 61-year-old businessman did today? He sent Barbara . . ." Walters interrupted: "But this is for me to say. This was sent for me, it was not sent to you." O'Donnell: "Go ahead, you say it." Wa...

By Seth Reynolds: I have not. I haven't spoken to anyone from the show. I sometimes get e-mails from Elisabeth Hasselbeck, but that's because we had a very personal relationship. [...] TVGuide.com: But are you surprised at the direction it's taken?

By Seth There's something that feels almost too right about the return of Court TV's prodigal, legal-analyst daughter to wrest control of the cable network from the clutches of their currently reigning evil queen, Nancy Grace. And while on the surface Star appears virtually unrecognizable fr...

By Seth In reaction to Barbara Walters saying that Trump is lying about remarks she made during a phone conversation they had last week, Trump responds, "Barbara lied, as she knows very well. She will have to live with herself. She admits to phoning me. Isn't it obvious to everybody that if she phoned...

By Seth God bless us, every one! [Rosie's Blog]ICYMI: Rosie Vs. Donald, Part III: Rosie Strikes Back [BWE]Trump Rips on Rosie [TMZ]Donald Trump Succeeds In Making Rosie O'Donnell Loads More Likeable [Gawker]Previously: All Donald Trump Wants For Christmas Is For His Lawyers To Stick Their Ha...

By Seth Of the many blue chip brand names to which Star Jones has suctioned herself over the years, she was perhaps best known for her symbiotic, co-whoring arrangement with Payless Shoe Source. Alas, since Barbara Walters callously ejected her from The View by medieval catapult, Jones' celebr...

By Seth · On Larry King Live last night, Jones stuck by her right "tell the truth" about being fired, having felt audiences might have seen through Barbara Walters' plan of telling the world she was leaving her job at The View for an exciting opportunity to become Payless Shoe Source's first Celeb...

By Seth Walters said ABC network chiefs had decided last fall not to renew Reynolds' contract because its research showed that Reynolds' dramatic weight loss and 2004 wedding to banker Al Reynolds had turned viewers off. Reynolds had been criticized for a Web site that promoted companies that d...

By Mark Other memorable celebs: Megan Mulally, Cuba Gooding Jr, John Voight, Donatella Versace, Adrien Brody, Willem DaFoe, Ludacris, Stephen Dorff, Samuel Jackson, Naomi Watts, Chris Tucker, Dave Chapelle, Matt Dillon, Jamie Foxx, Kate Bosworth, Jennifer Esposito, Mischa Barton, Hele...