David Arquette refused to take any pain medication following his car crash in Los Angeles over fears the pills would hamper his battle to stay sober.
The actor was left bruised and bleeding after he swerved his Cadillac into oncoming traffic in West Hollywood and collided with another vehicle on Friday (04Mar11). He was taken to hospital to receive treatment for his injuries, but took to his Twitter.com page to assure fans he wasn't seriously hurt.
The Scream star, who spent much of January (11) in rehab in a bid to kick his alcohol addiction, has now admitted he wouldn't let doctors prescribe him any pain pills as he doesn't want anything to interfere with his quest to quit drinking.
He has also told fans he was on the way to the airport at the time of the crash to fly to Las Vegas to attend a restaurant opening - but has now cancelled the trip.
In a series of posts on his Twitter.com page, he writes, "I was on my way to catch a plane to Vegas to help my buddy Stevie D open his restaurant The Sugar Factory. So sad I'm going to miss it but glad to be alive for a rain check. Refused all pain medication - may the record state - still sober! It was a miracle the woman I hit was uninjured - thank God!"
Arquette has also admitted he wasn't wearing a seatbelt at the time of the incident, and urged other road users to always buckle up. He adds, "Remember to wear your seatbelt - wish I was."
David Arquette refused to take any pain medication following his car crash in Los Angeles over fears the pills would hamper his battle to stay sober.
The actor was left bruised and bleeding after he swerved his Cadillac into oncoming traffic in West Hollywood and collided with another vehicle on Friday (04Mar11). He was taken to hospital to receive treatment for his injuries, but took to his Twitter.com page to assure fans he wasn't seriously hurt.
The Scream star, who spent much of January (11) in rehab in a bid to kick his alcohol addiction, has now admitted he wouldn't let doctors prescribe him any pain pills as he doesn't want anything to interfere with his quest to quit drinking.
He has also told fans he was on the way to the airport at the time of the crash to fly to Las Vegas to attend a restaurant opening - but has now cancelled the trip.
In a series of posts on his Twitter.com page, he writes, "I was on my way to catch a plane to Vegas to help my buddy Stevie D open his restaurant The Sugar Factory. So sad I'm going to miss it but glad to be alive for a rain check. Refused all pain medication - may the record state - still sober! It was a miracle the woman I hit was uninjured - thank God!"
Arquette has also admitted he wasn't wearing a seatbelt at the time of the incident, and urged other road users to always buckle up. He adds, "Remember to wear your seatbelt - wish I was."
The Season 10 premiere of"American Idol" is less than a week away and to make the days go by a bit faster, Zap2it decided to take a stroll down memory lane and re-evaluate the previous nine seasons.
Each day leading up to the premiere on Wednesday, Jan. 19, we will post a retrospective on each season. We're breaking it down into four categories: Best Performance, Worst Performance, Most Underrated Idol and most Overrated Idol. At the end, we will decide how the season stacks up against the rest, rating it as great, good, or not-so-good.
We've looked back at Season 1 (yay Kelly!), Season 2 (aww, Clay and Ruben!), the black hole that was Season 3, one of our favorite Top 2 in Season 4, and Soul Patrol-ed Season 5. Yesterday, we took a look back at beatboxin' Season 6 and now, it's time to revisit The Battle of the Davids that was Season 7.
The Season 10 premiere of"American Idol" is less than a week away and to make the days go by a bit faster, Zap2it decided to take a stroll down memory lane and re-evaluate the previous nine seasons.
Each day leading up to the premiere on Wednesday, Jan. 19, we will post a retrospective on each season. We're breaking it down into four categories: Best Performance, Worst Performance, Most Underrated Idol and most Overrated Idol. At the end, we will decide how the season stacks up against the rest, rating it as great, good, or not-so-good.
We've looked back at Season 1 (yay Kelly!), Season 2 (aww, Clay and Ruben!), the black hole that was Season 3, one of our favorite Top 2 in Season 4, and Soul Patrol-ed Season 5. Yesterday, we took a look back at beatboxin' Season 6 and now, it's time to revisit The Battle of the Davids that was Season 7.
In the 1950s and '60s the Nelsons were one of the most popular families on television, but on Tuesday the last surviving castmember of "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," David Nelson, died at the age of 74. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Nelson passed away in his Century City, California, home after battling complications from colon cancer.
In an age before reality TV, Nelson was one of the first true reality stars. Appearing alongside his actual family in the long-running sitcom that starred his parents, Ozzie and Harriet, and younger brother and future music/film star Ricky, David Nelson got his start on the radio in 1949 with the original incarnation of the sitcom, which his parents had launched five years earlier.
The show made the transition to television in 1952, beginning a quirky run as a program that Time.com described as blurring "the line between fact and fiction." At one point during the series' time on the air, David and Ricky's actual wives were brought on to play their fictional spouses. In another twist, David's character was sent off to college and joined a fraternity at the same time he did those things in real life. And, as he would for most of his younger brother's life, David played something of a second banana to Ricky on the program, letting him have the best laugh lines and contenting himself with being a part of the family ensemble.
If anything, "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" has been lampooned and criticized over the years for depicting a family that was almost too perfect, creating a suburban ideal that few families, even the Nelson's themselves, could ever hope to achieve.
David Nelson appeared in a string of films during the show's heyday, including "Peyton Place," "The Big Circus" and "Day of the Outlaw," and continued to act sporadically when "Ozzie and Harriet" ended its record TV run in 1966. He was last seen on the big screen playing the father of Traci Lords' character, Wanda, in director John Waters' 1950s spoof film "Cry-Baby" in 1990.
Surviving David are his wife, five children and seven grandkids. Brother Ricky died in a plane crash on New Year's Eve in 1985.
In the 1950s and '60s the Nelsons were one of the most popular families on television, but on Tuesday the last surviving castmember of "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," David Nelson, died at the age of 74. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Nelson passed away in his Century City, California, home after battling complications from colon cancer.
In an age before reality TV, Nelson was one of the first true reality stars. Appearing alongside his actual family in the long-running sitcom that starred his parents, Ozzie and Harriet, and younger brother and future music/film star Ricky, David Nelson got his start on the radio in 1949 with the original incarnation of the sitcom, which his parents had launched five years earlier.
The show made the transition to television in 1952, beginning a quirky run as a program that Time.com described as blurring "the line between fact and fiction." At one point during the series' time on the air, David and Ricky's actual wives were brought on to play their fictional spouses. In another twist, David's character was sent off to college and joined a fraternity at the same time he did those things in real life. And, as he would for most of his younger brother's life, David played something of a second banana to Ricky on the program, letting him have the best laugh lines and contenting himself with being a part of the family ensemble.
If anything, "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" has been lampooned and criticized over the years for depicting a family that was almost too perfect, creating a suburban ideal that few families, even the Nelson's themselves, could ever hope to achieve.
David Nelson appeared in a string of films during the show's heyday, including "Peyton Place," "The Big Circus" and "Day of the Outlaw," and continued to act sporadically when "Ozzie and Harriet" ended its record TV run in 1966. He was last seen on the big screen playing the father of Traci Lords' character, Wanda, in director John Waters' 1950s spoof film "Cry-Baby" in 1990.
Surviving David are his wife, five children and seven grandkids. Brother Ricky died in a plane crash on New Year's Eve in 1985.
Former teen heartthrob David Cassidy was arrested for DUI in Fort Pierce, Florida, on Wednesday night after a highway patrolman spotted the ‘Partridge Family’ star weaving between lanes and nearly hitting another car.
According to a Florida Highway Patrol report, the 60-year-old Cassidy told the officer he’d had a glass of wine at lunch and that he also experienced prescription medication and hydrocodone in his program.
When the trooper approached the automobile, he “could smell a slight odor of an unknown alcoholic beverage come from the defendant’s mouth,” based on the report. A half-empty bottle of Woodford Reserve Kentucky Bourbon was spotted in the automobile.
Cops pulled over the former ‘Partridge Family’ star final night following observing him weaving between lanes and almost hitting another automobile. The trooper who stopped him observed a boozy aroma across the onetime teen idol and spotted a half-empty bottle of bourbon in the automobile, which . . . yeah, that’s pretty a lot going to obtain you arrested, proper there. He blew a 0.139 and 0.14 on the breathalyzer.
After Cassidy, described in the report as “unsteady on his feet,” failed several sobriety tests he was arrested and charged with DUI, failure to preserve a single lane and having an open container. The arrest occurred at 8PM, but he was not released on bond until 3:22AM Thursday.
Cassidy’s rep denies the police account, declaring that the actor was not drinking and experienced only taken a pain pill for his back earlier within the day. The actor, who says he was returning from a funeral at the time of the arrest, plans to battle the DUI charges.
“He would never jeopardize anybody on the road and he wouldn’t have been driving experienced he not had to go to a funeral,” Jo-Ann Geffen tells TMZ. “He’s by no means been arrested in his life before for anything.”
Former teen heartthrob David Cassidy was arrested for DUI in Fort Pierce, Florida, on Wednesday night after a highway patrolman spotted the ‘Partridge Family’ star weaving between lanes and nearly hitting another car.
According to a Florida Highway Patrol report, the 60-year-old Cassidy told the officer he’d had a glass of wine at lunch and that he also experienced prescription medication and hydrocodone in his program.
When the trooper approached the automobile, he “could smell a slight odor of an unknown alcoholic beverage come from the defendant’s mouth,” based on the report. A half-empty bottle of Woodford Reserve Kentucky Bourbon was spotted in the automobile.
Cops pulled over the former ‘Partridge Family’ star final night following observing him weaving between lanes and almost hitting another automobile. The trooper who stopped him observed a boozy aroma across the onetime teen idol and spotted a half-empty bottle of bourbon in the automobile, which . . . yeah, that’s pretty a lot going to obtain you arrested, proper there. He blew a 0.139 and 0.14 on the breathalyzer.
After Cassidy, described in the report as “unsteady on his feet,” failed several sobriety tests he was arrested and charged with DUI, failure to preserve a single lane and having an open container. The arrest occurred at 8PM, but he was not released on bond until 3:22AM Thursday.
Cassidy’s rep denies the police account, declaring that the actor was not drinking and experienced only taken a pain pill for his back earlier within the day. The actor, who says he was returning from a funeral at the time of the arrest, plans to battle the DUI charges.
“He would never jeopardize anybody on the road and he wouldn’t have been driving experienced he not had to go to a funeral,” Jo-Ann Geffen tells TMZ. “He’s by no means been arrested in his life before for anything.”
David Carr is about to go into a still-in-question game at quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, a shocking development for the former number one overall draft pick who was ground to a pulp behind a terrible offensive line with the expansion Houston Texans, lost all confidence in himself, was run out of town, and has been an obscure backup elsewhere ever since. And yet here he is, subbing for Alex Smith, a number one overall pick himself, with Smith having an atrocious game in which he more or less dribbled the ball to the Eagles defense as if he were a point guard.
David Carr, whose career was thought to effectively be over by now, now gets his shot at redeeming himself and perhaps even resurrecting his career in front of a national television audience. It’s part of a pattern that’s played out this season, after the once-incarcerated Michael Vick took the reins at quarterback in Philadelphia earlier this season. Vick’s career too was thought to be over, and his reputation as a human being might indeed still be, but he showed that he’s capable of resuming his career at quarterback after many had written him off. And in yet another intertwined second act, Vick’s recent injury has given a second chance to Kevin Kolb, who lost the starting job to Vick after Kolb’s concussion earlier this season.
Kolb was widely expected to get a starting QB job back at some point, whether it be by merit or trade or simply after Vick had retired. But David Carr getting another shot, on national television, as the last best hope of a proud yet winless team to resurrect their season, is nothing short of astonishing.
David Carr is about to go into a still-in-question game at quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, a shocking development for the former number one overall draft pick who was ground to a pulp behind a terrible offensive line with the expansion Houston Texans, lost all confidence in himself, was run out of town, and has been an obscure backup elsewhere ever since. And yet here he is, subbing for Alex Smith, a number one overall pick himself, with Smith having an atrocious game in which he more or less dribbled the ball to the Eagles defense as if he were a point guard.
David Carr, whose career was thought to effectively be over by now, now gets his shot at redeeming himself and perhaps even resurrecting his career in front of a national television audience. It’s part of a pattern that’s played out this season, after the once-incarcerated Michael Vick took the reins at quarterback in Philadelphia earlier this season. Vick’s career too was thought to be over, and his reputation as a human being might indeed still be, but he showed that he’s capable of resuming his career at quarterback after many had written him off. And in yet another intertwined second act, Vick’s recent injury has given a second chance to Kevin Kolb, who lost the starting job to Vick after Kolb’s concussion earlier this season.
Kolb was widely expected to get a starting QB job back at some point, whether it be by merit or trade or simply after Vick had retired. But David Carr getting another shot, on national television, as the last best hope of a proud yet winless team to resurrect their season, is nothing short of astonishing.
Fox's Glee and ABC's Modern Family brought popular mainstream series back to the Emmys Sunday night at the 62d annual prime-time prize party at L.A.'s Nokia Theatre. Between them, they snagged five Emmys, and Modern Family was named best comedy series.
AMC's Mad Men won its third consecutive Emmy as television's best drama series.
Counting the so-called Creative Arts Emmys handed out Aug. 21, Family took six Emmys and Glee, four.
Still, there was no denying HBO, which received 24 Emmys overall. HBO's Temple Grandin gobbled up five awards, including best made-for-TV movie. David Strathairn and Julia Ormond were named best supporting actor and actress in a movie or mini, and Claire Danes received the Emmy for lead actress.
She played Grandin, a livestock expert who has autism - a Ph.D. who travels constantly to bring dignity and understanding to those with the condition. Grandin herself stood up and waved to the rest of the audience as Danes and Strathairn accepted their Emmys. Then she hugged executive producer Emily Gerson Saines onstage when the film won the best-movie prize and got her mother to stand up in the audience.
Mick Jackson, the movie's director, also got an Emmy.
In the network sweepstakes, ABC was second with 18. Fox had 11, CBS had 10, and NBC had eight.
For the first time, the Emmy show was divided into five segments - comedy, reality, drama, variety, and movies and miniseries - with clips from each genre summarizing the past TV season's highlights. The structure allowed lots of the big Emmys to come out much earlier in the evening than usual and was one factor making the show itself unusually entertaining.
Comedy came first. Jim Parsons, geek of the week from CBS's The Big Bang Theory, and Edie Falco (Showtime's Nurse Jackie) won as best lead actor and actress in a comedy series. They were the only two to break the perfecta of Glee and Modern Family.
Family executive producers Steve Levitan and Christopher Lloyd won for best comedy writing, and Eric Stonestreet, who plays the show's outgoing gay father, won for supporting actor in a comedy series.
Glee's Jane Lynch was probably the surest winner among all the nominees. "Outlandish," she said, accepting the Emmy for best supporting actress in a comedy series. Glee executive producer Ryan Murphy (best comedy director) said he created the show to stress the importance of arts education: "I would like to dedicate this to all my teachers who taught me how to sing and finger paint."
Kyra Sedgwick , a completely illogical choice in a strong category, was named best actress in a drama for TNT's The Closer. On the other hand, Bryan Cranston won his third straight well-deserved Emmy as best lead actor in a drama for his work as chemistry-teacher-turned-meth-dealer Walter White in AMC's Breaking Bad. It is a character and a performance for the ages.
Aaron Paul, as deserving as Cranston or any actor who has ever won an Emmy, surprisingly took the statuette as best supporting actor in a drama, playing White's low-wattage young accomplice.
Archie Panjabi, who plays the mysterious and hard-driving private eye in CBS's The Good Wife, was quite a shock herself, besting a field of even worthier winners, as best supporting actress in a drama.
HBO's The Pacific was named best miniseries. Producer Tom Hanks accepted the award. Al Pacino was named best lead actor in a movie or mini for his portrayal of Dr. Jack Kevorkian in HBO's You Don't Know Jack. Kevorkian, also in the audience, waved to one and all.
Matthew Weiner and Erin Levy won as best writers in a drama series for AMC's Mad Men. Dexter's Steve Shill took the Emmy for best drama director for his work on the Showtime series.
The Emmy show opened as fun and exciting as it ever has, with a taped package featuring host Jimmy Fallon rounding up some of the kids from Glee and setting out to form a show choir.
By the time they were through and the tape had morphed into live performance, stars from all across television, including Mad Men's Jon Hamm, Lost's Jorge Garcia, and 30 Rock's Tina Fey had helped Fallon channel Bruce Springsteen singing "Born to Run."
Even Project Runway's Tim Gunn (styling) and American Idol's Randy Jackson (guitar) got in on the action.
Taped packages throughout the show kept the entertainment rolling. The highlight: actors and actresses from Modern Family fighting over who would get to do the smoochies with George Clooney.
He won the special Bob Hope Humanitarian Award for his work producing charity TV shows supporting, among others, victims of the Haiti earthquake and the Indonesian tsunami.
Of course, Betty White was everywhere, as Hamm's dancing teacher in the opening, acknowledged as best guest actress in a comedy for hosting Saturday Night Live and doing promos for her coming TV appearance, in Community, and feature film, You Again.
Fallon was an energetic host, mimicking rock stars, singing his own little ditties, telling jokes, although his efforts to include comments from the public via Twitter fell flat.
"NBC asked the host of a late night show in New York to come to Los Angeles to host a different show," he said after the opening. "What could possibly go wrong?"
And the camera turned to Conan O'Brien, bumped from the big network after Jay Leno's prime-time show bombed. O'Brien's defunct late-night show was up for best comedy, musical or variety program, but Jon Stewart's Daily Show won for the eighth year in a row.
Shock of shocks: The Amazing Race did not win its eighth straight Emmy as best reality competition show. Bravo's Top Chef won the prize.
Much of the pre-Emmy talk centered on Glee, Modern Family, and The Good Wife, freshman broadcast series that were successes with wide audiences, compared with the niche cable series, such as Mad Men or FX's Damages, that have been dominating the awards in recent years.
Among them, Glee led in nominations with 19, but picked up only two Emmys (for sound mixing and for Neil Patrick Harris as guest actor in a comedy) at the Creative Arts Awards Aug. 21. Family had 14 nominations but cashed in on three Creative Arts Emmys (casting, picture editing, and another for sound mixing).
With nine noms, The Good Wife was shut out at the earlier ceremony, where The Pacific, as HBO miniseries usually do, led the pack in the early going with seven Emmys among its 24 total nominations. (John Adams, which won a record 13 statuettes in 2008, had only 23 nominations.)
Decked out in the usual glorious garb, the troops started to arrive at the Nokia Theatre near downtown L.A. about two hours before the show began at 5 p.m. (8 p.m. EDT).
"I feel like a peacock," said Mad Men's January Jones, who looked more like a mermaid in a sea-blue dress complete with a train, and figured she'd be ahead even if she didn't win the best dramatic actress Emmy. "As little as I need to walk in this dress will be fine," she said.
Most of the gals also sported major baubles, on loan from jewelers looking for some on-air plugs. Danes said her ring was worth a cool $2 million.
Fox's Glee and ABC's Modern Family brought popular mainstream series back to the Emmys Sunday night at the 62d annual prime-time prize party at L.A.'s Nokia Theatre. Between them, they snagged five Emmys, and Modern Family was named best comedy series.
AMC's Mad Men won its third consecutive Emmy as television's best drama series.
Counting the so-called Creative Arts Emmys handed out Aug. 21, Family took six Emmys and Glee, four.
Still, there was no denying HBO, which received 24 Emmys overall. HBO's Temple Grandin gobbled up five awards, including best made-for-TV movie. David Strathairn and Julia Ormond were named best supporting actor and actress in a movie or mini, and Claire Danes received the Emmy for lead actress.
She played Grandin, a livestock expert who has autism - a Ph.D. who travels constantly to bring dignity and understanding to those with the condition. Grandin herself stood up and waved to the rest of the audience as Danes and Strathairn accepted their Emmys. Then she hugged executive producer Emily Gerson Saines onstage when the film won the best-movie prize and got her mother to stand up in the audience.
Mick Jackson, the movie's director, also got an Emmy.
In the network sweepstakes, ABC was second with 18. Fox had 11, CBS had 10, and NBC had eight.
For the first time, the Emmy show was divided into five segments - comedy, reality, drama, variety, and movies and miniseries - with clips from each genre summarizing the past TV season's highlights. The structure allowed lots of the big Emmys to come out much earlier in the evening than usual and was one factor making the show itself unusually entertaining.
Comedy came first. Jim Parsons, geek of the week from CBS's The Big Bang Theory, and Edie Falco (Showtime's Nurse Jackie) won as best lead actor and actress in a comedy series. They were the only two to break the perfecta of Glee and Modern Family.
Family executive producers Steve Levitan and Christopher Lloyd won for best comedy writing, and Eric Stonestreet, who plays the show's outgoing gay father, won for supporting actor in a comedy series.
Glee's Jane Lynch was probably the surest winner among all the nominees. "Outlandish," she said, accepting the Emmy for best supporting actress in a comedy series. Glee executive producer Ryan Murphy (best comedy director) said he created the show to stress the importance of arts education: "I would like to dedicate this to all my teachers who taught me how to sing and finger paint."
Kyra Sedgwick , a completely illogical choice in a strong category, was named best actress in a drama for TNT's The Closer. On the other hand, Bryan Cranston won his third straight well-deserved Emmy as best lead actor in a drama for his work as chemistry-teacher-turned-meth-dealer Walter White in AMC's Breaking Bad. It is a character and a performance for the ages.
Aaron Paul, as deserving as Cranston or any actor who has ever won an Emmy, surprisingly took the statuette as best supporting actor in a drama, playing White's low-wattage young accomplice.
Archie Panjabi, who plays the mysterious and hard-driving private eye in CBS's The Good Wife, was quite a shock herself, besting a field of even worthier winners, as best supporting actress in a drama.
HBO's The Pacific was named best miniseries. Producer Tom Hanks accepted the award. Al Pacino was named best lead actor in a movie or mini for his portrayal of Dr. Jack Kevorkian in HBO's You Don't Know Jack. Kevorkian, also in the audience, waved to one and all.
Matthew Weiner and Erin Levy won as best writers in a drama series for AMC's Mad Men. Dexter's Steve Shill took the Emmy for best drama director for his work on the Showtime series.
The Emmy show opened as fun and exciting as it ever has, with a taped package featuring host Jimmy Fallon rounding up some of the kids from Glee and setting out to form a show choir.
By the time they were through and the tape had morphed into live performance, stars from all across television, including Mad Men's Jon Hamm, Lost's Jorge Garcia, and 30 Rock's Tina Fey had helped Fallon channel Bruce Springsteen singing "Born to Run."
Even Project Runway's Tim Gunn (styling) and American Idol's Randy Jackson (guitar) got in on the action.
Taped packages throughout the show kept the entertainment rolling. The highlight: actors and actresses from Modern Family fighting over who would get to do the smoochies with George Clooney.
He won the special Bob Hope Humanitarian Award for his work producing charity TV shows supporting, among others, victims of the Haiti earthquake and the Indonesian tsunami.
Of course, Betty White was everywhere, as Hamm's dancing teacher in the opening, acknowledged as best guest actress in a comedy for hosting Saturday Night Live and doing promos for her coming TV appearance, in Community, and feature film, You Again.
Fallon was an energetic host, mimicking rock stars, singing his own little ditties, telling jokes, although his efforts to include comments from the public via Twitter fell flat.
"NBC asked the host of a late night show in New York to come to Los Angeles to host a different show," he said after the opening. "What could possibly go wrong?"
And the camera turned to Conan O'Brien, bumped from the big network after Jay Leno's prime-time show bombed. O'Brien's defunct late-night show was up for best comedy, musical or variety program, but Jon Stewart's Daily Show won for the eighth year in a row.
Shock of shocks: The Amazing Race did not win its eighth straight Emmy as best reality competition show. Bravo's Top Chef won the prize.
Much of the pre-Emmy talk centered on Glee, Modern Family, and The Good Wife, freshman broadcast series that were successes with wide audiences, compared with the niche cable series, such as Mad Men or FX's Damages, that have been dominating the awards in recent years.
Among them, Glee led in nominations with 19, but picked up only two Emmys (for sound mixing and for Neil Patrick Harris as guest actor in a comedy) at the Creative Arts Awards Aug. 21. Family had 14 nominations but cashed in on three Creative Arts Emmys (casting, picture editing, and another for sound mixing).
With nine noms, The Good Wife was shut out at the earlier ceremony, where The Pacific, as HBO miniseries usually do, led the pack in the early going with seven Emmys among its 24 total nominations. (John Adams, which won a record 13 statuettes in 2008, had only 23 nominations.)
Decked out in the usual glorious garb, the troops started to arrive at the Nokia Theatre near downtown L.A. about two hours before the show began at 5 p.m. (8 p.m. EDT).
"I feel like a peacock," said Mad Men's January Jones, who looked more like a mermaid in a sea-blue dress complete with a train, and figured she'd be ahead even if she didn't win the best dramatic actress Emmy. "As little as I need to walk in this dress will be fine," she said.
Most of the gals also sported major baubles, on loan from jewelers looking for some on-air plugs. Danes said her ring was worth a cool $2 million.
Gen. David Petraeus, who replaced ousted Gen. Stanley McChrystal, is a widely respected officer who wrote the Army's counterinsurgency manual and helped craft US policy in Afghanistan.
Washington
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top US military commander in Afghanistan until today, has been dismissed from his post by President Obama. Will that affect the operations of American troops on the ground?
It doesn’t look as if it will, at least for now.
In announcing the McChrystal firing, Obama emphasized that he remains committed to the current strategy, which calls for a bump-up in US personnel in Afghanistan this year. And Central Command chief Gen. David Petraeus – the man Obama picked to replace McChrystal – literally wrote the manual on counterinsurgency techniques which US commanders in Afghanistan have been following.
IN PICTURES: Controversial American generals
Petraeus was a surprise choice, in the sense that as head of a combatant command he was McChrystal’s boss, and thus the Afghanistan job represents something of a demotion.
But as the general widely credited for turning around the dire situation in Iraq, he is respected by lawmakers of both parties. His presence in Kabul may allow the Obama team in Washington to put the McChrystal incident behind it more quickly than it would have otherwise.
“The Petraeus choice is an awfully good move,” says William Martel, a security studies expert at Tufts University’s Fletcher School.
McChrystal’s firing was done quickly – the general had a few minutes with Obama in the morning, then left prior to the beginning of the monthly White House meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan policy. In announcing the move Obama stressed that it stemmed only from the general’s behavior in speaking too loosely to a reporter from Rolling Stone magazine, and not from any differences in policy.
Obama said he remained in “full agreement” with McChrystal’s approach to fighting the difficult Afghan conflict.
Winning hearts and minds
McChrystal, a former chief of Special Operations Command, did not get the Afghanistan post in the first place by being a conventional general. Instead, he emphasized a counterinsurgency doctrine that holds among other things that the strategically crucial high ground in the war is the hearts and minds of the Afghan people as much as the mountain ridges along the border with Pakistan.
McChrystal calls his approach “population-centric.” Among other things, it involves less use of close air support to bolster US ground troops when they take fire. This has reduced Afghan civilian casualties, but increased worries among junior officers about the risks they and their patrols must take.
“A year ago, close air support was a leading cause of civilian casualties, and we focused on that. And today it’s down, and Afghans see that,” said McChrystal at a June 10 roundtable discussion on the war.
Gen. David Petraeus, who replaced ousted Gen. Stanley McChrystal, is a widely respected officer who wrote the Army's counterinsurgency manual and helped craft US policy in Afghanistan.
Washington
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top US military commander in Afghanistan until today, has been dismissed from his post by President Obama. Will that affect the operations of American troops on the ground?
It doesn’t look as if it will, at least for now.
In announcing the McChrystal firing, Obama emphasized that he remains committed to the current strategy, which calls for a bump-up in US personnel in Afghanistan this year. And Central Command chief Gen. David Petraeus – the man Obama picked to replace McChrystal – literally wrote the manual on counterinsurgency techniques which US commanders in Afghanistan have been following.
IN PICTURES: Controversial American generals
Petraeus was a surprise choice, in the sense that as head of a combatant command he was McChrystal’s boss, and thus the Afghanistan job represents something of a demotion.
But as the general widely credited for turning around the dire situation in Iraq, he is respected by lawmakers of both parties. His presence in Kabul may allow the Obama team in Washington to put the McChrystal incident behind it more quickly than it would have otherwise.
“The Petraeus choice is an awfully good move,” says William Martel, a security studies expert at Tufts University’s Fletcher School.
McChrystal’s firing was done quickly – the general had a few minutes with Obama in the morning, then left prior to the beginning of the monthly White House meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan policy. In announcing the move Obama stressed that it stemmed only from the general’s behavior in speaking too loosely to a reporter from Rolling Stone magazine, and not from any differences in policy.
Obama said he remained in “full agreement” with McChrystal’s approach to fighting the difficult Afghan conflict.
Winning hearts and minds
McChrystal, a former chief of Special Operations Command, did not get the Afghanistan post in the first place by being a conventional general. Instead, he emphasized a counterinsurgency doctrine that holds among other things that the strategically crucial high ground in the war is the hearts and minds of the Afghan people as much as the mountain ridges along the border with Pakistan.
McChrystal calls his approach “population-centric.” Among other things, it involves less use of close air support to bolster US ground troops when they take fire. This has reduced Afghan civilian casualties, but increased worries among junior officers about the risks they and their patrols must take.
“A year ago, close air support was a leading cause of civilian casualties, and we focused on that. And today it’s down, and Afghans see that,” said McChrystal at a June 10 roundtable discussion on the war.
Laurie David and Al Gore are not having an affair despite a tabloid report, a rep for David tells UsMagazine.com.
"This is completely and totally untrue," her rep tells Us.
Star magazine reports the two have been romantically involved for two years. They worked together on the 2007 Oscar-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, which David produced. Neither of their reps were called before Star published the story, the source adds.
A source close to David, who split from Seinfeld creator and Curb Your Enthusiasm star Larry David in 2007, adds, "As far as I know, they haven't even spoken in two years. I have no idea where this came from."
David, 52, told the Huffington Post, "It's a total fabrication. I adore both Al and Tipper. I look at them both as family. And I have happily been in a serious relationship since my divorce."
Gore, 62, announced his split from his wife of 40 years, Tipper, on June 1, calling it, "a mutual and mutually supportive decision that we have made together following a process of long and careful consideration"
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A source close to the Gore family told the Huffington Post, "Al and Tipper are still very close and spending together time this summer with their family."
Laurie David and Al Gore are not having an affair despite a tabloid report, a rep for David tells UsMagazine.com.
"This is completely and totally untrue," her rep tells Us.
Star magazine reports the two have been romantically involved for two years. They worked together on the 2007 Oscar-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, which David produced. Neither of their reps were called before Star published the story, the source adds.
A source close to David, who split from Seinfeld creator and Curb Your Enthusiasm star Larry David in 2007, adds, "As far as I know, they haven't even spoken in two years. I have no idea where this came from."
David, 52, told the Huffington Post, "It's a total fabrication. I adore both Al and Tipper. I look at them both as family. And I have happily been in a serious relationship since my divorce."
Gore, 62, announced his split from his wife of 40 years, Tipper, on June 1, calling it, "a mutual and mutually supportive decision that we have made together following a process of long and careful consideration"
PHOTOS: More shocking celeb splits
A source close to the Gore family told the Huffington Post, "Al and Tipper are still very close and spending together time this summer with their family."
Boston, MA - The New England Patriots bolstered the receiving corp yesterday with the signing of wide receiver David Patten.
David Patten signed with his former team after 5 seasons with other teams including the Cleveland Browns and New Orleans Saints. David Patten did not play in the NFL in 2009. David Patten comes back to the Patriots after playing for the Patriots in 2001-2004 while winning three Superbowls.
David Patten's career stats for the Patriots include 54 regular-season games, starting 44, 165 pass receptions for 2,513 yards and 16 touchdowns. He played in six playoff games, catching 15 passes, with two touchdowns.
Separately Vince Wilfork was given the franchise tag by the New England Patriots earlier in the week but Rober Kraft has expressed optimism that a deal can be done. At the NFL Scouting Combine he stated that a long term deal for Wilfork is a top priority for the Patriots.
Boston, MA - The New England Patriots bolstered the receiving corp yesterday with the signing of wide receiver David Patten.
David Patten signed with his former team after 5 seasons with other teams including the Cleveland Browns and New Orleans Saints. David Patten did not play in the NFL in 2009. David Patten comes back to the Patriots after playing for the Patriots in 2001-2004 while winning three Superbowls.
David Patten's career stats for the Patriots include 54 regular-season games, starting 44, 165 pass receptions for 2,513 yards and 16 touchdowns. He played in six playoff games, catching 15 passes, with two touchdowns.
Separately Vince Wilfork was given the franchise tag by the New England Patriots earlier in the week but Rober Kraft has expressed optimism that a deal can be done. At the NFL Scouting Combine he stated that a long term deal for Wilfork is a top priority for the Patriots.