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Palin & Hasselbeck To Co-Host Fox News Morning Show!
Jezebel HQ has intercepted a secret memo from Fox News, outlining what we already realized was inevitable: Sarah Palin and Elisabeth Hasselbeck will be hosting a talk show. Mavericks In The Morning will air at 9 am, directly after Fox and Friends and will be patterned after the popular fourth "yenta" hour of the Today Show with Kathie Lee and Hoda. In fact, the dynamic duo will be on Hannity & Colmes tonight so that the network execs can see if their chemistry plays well with Fox's "base". After the jump, the tentative schedule for the first week of Mavericks In The Morning, including two very special guests who will travel an extra long way to appear on the show. More » -
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Kathie Lee And Hoda's 4th Hour Of Today Is So Bad It's (Almost) Good
If you're around a TV at 10 AM with nothing to do, you should be watching the fourth hour of Today with Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford, if only to marvel at how Kathie Lee has turned Hoda, a world-traveled, Peabody-award-winning journalist, into a fellow yenta. That fourth hour is a vacuous space, filled with Hoda and Kathie Lee's theater reviews, occasional dancing, segments on bloating and how to make sandwiches. I think it's eclipsed The View as my new favorite hour of mid-morning television, kitsch-wise. Above is a reel of some of Kathie's and Hoda's best moments from this week.
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It's Official: The Today Show Is Making Me Crazy
Today was the last straw: I officially hate the Today show. I know it's in the category of "morning television," but I always tune in, hoping against hope, that I'll see, you know, the news. But after the missing women and harmed kids stories, they move right along to "When should I throw stuff in my fridge away?" and the earth-shattering suggestion that if you think your pet is sick, you should see a vet. Then there's a "concert" on the plaza. And for the last few months, a horrible feeling has been building and accumulating inside of me, and if I don't let it out, I'll burst: The absolute worst part of the show is the "reporter" known as Ann Curry. More » -
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Kid Who Makes Burgers Is A Ham
This morning, during the mind-numbing final hour of Today with Kathie Lee and Hoda, there was an award-winning hamburger chef, 12-year-old Joey Yarwick. He was such a pistol! He has a bright future ahead of him, and he has plans to be a chef in Paris when he grows up. (BTW, what kind of child knows what Brie cubes are?) You can find Joey's burger recipe here. Check him out in the clip above.
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Dr. Ruth Freaks Out Kathie Lee And Hoda With Masturbation Discussion
Jezebel fave and OG sex educator Dr. Ruth turns 80 tomorrow, and she stopped by Today this morning to talk to Hoda and Kathie Lee, rolling her r's around words like "orgasm," "erection," "sperm." But it was when she talked about how important it is for women to masturbate that really freaked out the prim and proper Kathie Lee and Hoda (who, BTW, modeled her Spanx for the cameras about 30 minutes prior to this). Then the ladies brought out a birthday cake for the good doctor, and helped her blow out all 80 candles. She's the cutest! Clip above.
Earlier: Dr. Ruth Personally Advises Us On Period Sex More » -
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Heather "Dooce" Armstrong Makes Kathie Lee Uncomfortable
Talk about ice queens on the Today show: This morning, Heather B. Armstrong met with Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford to talk about her award-winning, groundbreaking blog Dooce — is it just me or doesn't it seem a bit unfair to call it a "Mom Blog"? — and sat on the couch with her arms crossed the entire time, looking cold. (In temperature, not in spirit.) Maybe she was simply preparing herself for Kathie Lee's line of questioning. About three minutes into the interview, Kathie Lee admitted that she has "mixed emotions" about Armstrong's chosen line of work, then quickly changed the subject to tease the show's next segment about home decorating. Clip above.
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Yesterday was Kathie Lee Gifford's first day hosting the fourth hour of the Today show, and the reviews are in! In the New York Times, Alessandra Stanley writes: "For many women Ms. Gifford is the embodiment of female fortitude with a frivolous streak — and that is actually what the fourth hour of Today is all about." Ugh, really? Meanwhile, Tom Shales of the Washington Post says that the show was "bland, vapid and innocuous fluff, no substance whatever," like "The View for dummies" and a "windy, dithery mess with virtually no portents of improvements to come." He sums it up thusly: "The thought of dropping in on [Kathie Lee and Hoda Kotb] again to see what they're up to — either today, tomorrow or as long as the Earth continues to twirl — is not a pleasant one." [NY Times, WaPo]
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Lindsay's New Role: Cokehead?
- A fight broke out on the set of Pharrell's new video a few hours before Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson showed up. Oh, and the N.E.R.D. song, "Everybody Nose," is about girls waiting on line for a club bathroom to do coke. [Page Six]
- Hey, guess who is making a cameo appearance in that video about cocaine? Your girl Lindsay! Classy. [Perez Hilton]
- Contrary to earlier reports, a source says Lindsay's album is on track to be released this fall. [People]
- As previously reported, Anne Hathaway's boyfriend, Italian property developer Raffaelo Follieri, was arrested for trying to pass a bad check for $250,000. [People]
- Also as previously reported: Naomi Campbell was arrested after a kerfluffle at Heathrow's Terminal 5, after a dispute involving a missing piece of luggage. Since Terminal 5 opened last week, more than 28,000 bags have been separated from their owners. Naomi is out on bail and must report to the police station in late May. [Yahoo News]
- There's some new strain of medical marijuana people are calling "Tom Cruise Purple" and guess whose lawyers are investigating? Spoil sport. [Rush & Molloy]
- A fight broke out on the set of Pharrell's new video a few hours before Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson showed up. Oh, and the N.E.R.D. song, "Everybody Nose," is about girls waiting on line for a club bathroom to do coke. [Page Six]
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In today's Washington Post, Robin Givhan goes off on the fourth hour of The Today Show. She calls the female-oriented hour "excruciating" and "soul-sapping" and "enough to make one gag." The content, (weight loss, makeovers and recipes) Givhan says, "harks back to another era — a time when, say, the idea of a woman being a serious contender for the White House was unthinkable." She says the fourth hour "is like a parody of what people who don't read women's magazines think defines them." And if all that were not bad enough, here comes the news that Kathie Lee Gifford has joined the show. Look, maybe a lot of us aren't home watching TV at 10 a.m. but seriously: Is this what American women want? [Washington Post, Today]
