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Patrick Gottsch, who dedicated his life to promoting and growing the rural and western way of life, died on Saturday, May 18, at the Fort Worth Stockyards. He was 70 and no cause was given.

Gottsch founded The Cowboy Channel in 2017, which became the Official Network of ProRodeo. Since Tuesday, The Cowboy Channel has been broadcasting a nightly 30-minute special on Gottsch’s life and career, with a one-hour telecast planned on Friday evening.

Yellowstone and 1883 creator Taylor Sheridan issued a statement.

“Patrick Gottsch was a pioneer and visionary in every sense of the word. He created a central entertainment and information outlet that became an essential tool in the lives of all who work in agriculture and live in rural America. He brought horsemanship into the living rooms of America through exposure to clinicians such as Clinton Anderson, Chris Cox, and Ken McNabb. He was a tireless and stalwart protector...

It may come as a surprise to some that Mel Gibson is indeed still working. Not only that, but one of his recent thrillers — 2022's "On the Line" — was ranked one of the three most-watched films on Netflix in the last week. It seems that despite his ... controversies ... Gibson is still able to draw an audience.

For those too young to remember, Gibson was arrested in Los Angeles for driving under the influence. Upon his arrest, Gibson unleashed a drunken tirade that included several sexist and antisemitic remarks that were leaked to the public by TMZ. Gibson's antisemitic comments only calcified what many critics had theorized about the filmmaker when he made "The Passion of the Christ" in 2004, a film that was accused of leaning into antisemitic stereotypes. Gibson publicly apologized for the comments, went into recovery, and has been clean ever since. In 2010, however, Gibson was recorded making threatening,...

All week long, a culture war has been raging around country star Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town,” a turgid power ballad wrapped around an unsubtle warning to protesters and other outsiders: “Try that in a small town, see how far you make it down the road.” To many observers, that sounds uncomfortably close to the kind of threat that the Klan used to issue to civil rights activists, and that modern-day racists continue to spout today. The music video, which juxtaposes stock footage of Canadian protesters...

Craig Carton, a New York sports media personality who was rehired by Wfan three years ago after his gambling addiction landed him in prison for fraud, is leaving the radio station to focus on his deal with Fox Sports.

Addressing listeners of the Audacy-owned station Thursday afternoon, Carton said, “Today is a happy day and a very sad day for me.” His decision to leave at the end of June came down to lifestyle and his family, he explained. “It has nothing to do with anybody here,” he said. “It has everything to do with me and my personal life, and the opportunity that I have with Fox Sports to do a show on Fox Sports 1.”

Fox Sports set a deal with Carton last fall, with a morning show launching on FS1. The contract is reportedly worth multiple millions.

Carton, who rose to fame as co-host, alongside former NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason,...

MSNBC is sending a morning anchor to late night in order to expand its biggest A.M. franchise.

The NBCUniversal-backed cable news outlet intends to shift Stephanie Ruhle from her mid-morning role to its late-night program, “The 11th Hour” as part of a bid to expand one of its key programs, ‘Morning Joe,” according to three people familiar with the plans. The expected maneuvers, which MSNBC would not confirm Wednesday night, were previously reported by Axios.

The moves are driven by a desire to give MSNBC viewers more of the pillars of the schedule, which at present are three hours of “Joe” and two hours of Nicolle Wallace’s late afternoon program, “Deadline: The White House.” MSNBC is working to figure out a way to replace the linchpin of its primetime lineup, “The Rachel Maddow Show,” as its host is moving on to tackle a broader content production agreement...

Donald Trump continued to claim that the circumstances surrounding the 2001 death of aide to Joe Scarborough were clouded in suspicion, even as the woman’s husband has pleaded with Twitter to take down the president’s tweets spreading the conspiracy theories.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Trump said that “a lot of people suggest” that Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, was somehow responsible for the woman’s death, even though a coroner’s investigation found that she had an undiagnosed heart condition and fell and hit her head at work. The woman, Lori Klausutis, worked at Scarborough’s Florida office when he was a congressman.

“It is certainly a very suspicious situation and very sad,” Trump said.

The New York Times published a letter on Tuesday from Klausutis’ widower, Timothy Klausutis, to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Klausutis asked Dorsey to delete the president’s tweets in which he...

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany deflected questions of why Donald Trump has been tweeting conspiracy theories about the 2001 death of an aide to Joe Scarborough by trying to cast blame on the Morning Joe co-host himself.

The widower of the aide, Timothy Klausutis, sent a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey last week, asking the platform to remove the tweets. His wife, Lori, died in 2001 when she was serving as a staff member to Scarborough, who was then a congressman from Florida.

The coroner ruled her death accidental, but Trump has tweeted that it is a “cold case.” In the letter, Timothy Klausutis wrote that the “president of the United States has taken something that does not belong to him — the memory of my dead wife — and perverted it for perceived political gain.”

Trump’s tweets had inferred that Scarborough was involved in Klausutis’s death.

At Tuesday’s White House press briefing,...

Syd Mead, a visual effects artist and American industrial designer who helped imagine the futuristic look of science fiction classics like “Blade Runner” and “Aliens,” has died. He was 86.

A representative with the Art Directors Guild, which was meant to honor Mead in February with the William Cameron Menzies Award, told TheWrap that Mead died on Monday in Pasadena, California due to complications from lymphoma cancer, for which he had been undergoing treatment for the past year.

Mead was known as a “visual futurist” whose concept art and architectural background served as the basis for Ridley Scott’s classic sci-fi, as well as other films such as “2010,” “Tron” and “Star Trek: The Motion Picture.” More recently, Mead served as a consultant on the films “Tomorrowland,” “Elysium” and “Blade Runner 2049.”

He specifically worked...

Sue Lyon, the actress who at age 14 starred as the title character in Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of “Lolita,” died Thursday in Los Angeles. She was 73.

Lyon had been in failing health for some time, her friend Phil Syracopoulos told The New York Times.

Born Suellyn Lyon in 1946 in Iowa, Lyon’s family moved to Los Angeles when she was a small child. As a teenager, she began acting in small television roles, including an appearance on “The Loretta Young Show” that brought her to Kubrick’s attention. She was subsequently cast in “Lolita” at 14 in part because the filmmakers aged the character up from 12, as in Vladimir Nabokov’s novel. Upon release, Lyon was catapulted to stardom, and she won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer — Female for her performance, which had her acting alongside James Mason, Shelley Winters, and Peter Sellers, some of the era’s biggest stars.

Don Imus, a foul-mouthed pioneer of the shock-jock radio format, died Friday at the age of 79. His family said his wife and one of his sons were by his side at the Baylor Scott and White Medical Center in College Station, Texas, according to ABC News, but neither they nor his publicist revealed a cause of death. He had been hospitalized on Tuesday.

As the cowboy-hat-wearing, pistol-toting host of the popular Imus in the Morning syndicated radio show for nearly five decades, Imus found ways to offend all walks of life.

Shortly after the new broke that Don Imus, the host of the long-running radio show “Imus in the Morning,” had died on Friday morning at the age of 79, media figures and celebrities took to social media to share their condolences.

“Shocking news on the passing of my friend, Don Imus. He will long be remembered as one of the true giants in the history of radio. My thoughts and prayers to Deirdre and Wyatt. God speed,” wrote Mike Francesca on Twitter.

“Morning Joe obviously owes its format to Don Imus,” MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, who replaced Imus at the network, which simulcasted his program, wrote on Twitter. “No one else could have gotten away with that much talk on cable news. Thanks for everything, Don, and Godspeed.”

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Don Imus, the controversial American radio host, has died at the age of 79. The family released a statement saying, “Deirdre, his wife of 25 years, and his son Wyatt, 21, were at his side, and his son Lt. Zachary Don Cates is returning from military service overseas.” He had the show Imus in the […]

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Controversial talk radio host Don Imus, whose popular show was simulcast on MSNBC and Fox Business for more than a decade, has died at the age of 79.

Imus passed away on Friday in College Station, Texas after being hospitalized on Christmas Eve, according to our sister site Variety.

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Starting his radio career back in 1968, Imus hosted a daily...

Don Imus, the broadcast provocateur who was a staple of morning drive-time radio for decades, died on Friday in College Station, Texas, after being hospitalized on Christmas Eve. He was 79.

Imus retired from his nationally syndicated “Imus in the Morning” radio show in March 2018. He told CBS News at the time he was suffering from emphysema.

Imus was known to fans as the “I-Man” who prided himself on speaking his mind about politics, pop culture and other hot topics.

But Imus faced a barrage of criticism and lost CBS’ radio group as his national platform in 2007 after he made racially disparaging comments about members of Rutgers University’s women’s basketball team. Imus jokingly referred to members of the team as being “nappy-headed hos.” He later met with some of the players and apologized in person.

At his peak in the 1990s and early 2000s, Imus’ two-hour daily radio show was simulcast live on MSNBC.

Don Imus, one of the iconic radio morning DJs in New York radio history, died today this at Baylor Scott and White Medical Center in College Station, TX. He was 79 and had been being hospitalized there since Christmas Eve.

For many years, Imus was a towering presence in New York, where he started in 1971 after being hired away from Cleveland, where it was clear he was onto something big. In his heyday, he spearheaded Wnbc and was a thorn in the side of Howard Stern, who put his reminiscences of the bitterness between them in the autobiographical 1997 film Private Parts. Imus defined the “shock jock” period, where certain irascible personalities flourished on the air.

Imus developed a coterie of characters he played, including the Right Reverend Billy Sol Hargus, Blind Mississippi White Boy, Pig Feets Dupree, Senator Edward Kennedy, Scott Muni and others. Imus appealed to the right audience, and...

By Fred Blosser

Oliver Stone’s “Talk Radio” (1988) has been released by Twilight Time in a Blu-ray limited edition of 3,000 copies. In a short supplemental feature ported over to the Blu-ray from a previous Universal Home Video DVD edition, Stone comments that he was intrigued by the “new phenomenon” of confrontational call-in programming that began to dominate commercial radio in the late 1980s. Stone’s protagonist, Barry Champlain (Eric Bogosian), hosts a popular late-night talk show in Dallas. From his perch, Barry relentlessly provokes, cajoles, and insults the lonely misfits, troubled neurotics, and dangerous neo-Nazis who compulsively phone in to his telephone feed. When an executive from a big radio network turns up at the station one night, Champlain learns that his manager Dan has brokered a deal for national syndication without his knowledge. (Dan is played by Alec Baldwin. See if your kids or your younger siblings realize...

Morning Joe co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski envision possibly four more years of Trump in 2020 — just not Donald Trump.

“Ivanka Trump Is going to run for president,” Brzezinski declared during an on-stage conversation with editor David Remnick on opening night of the New Yorker Festival.

Remnick did a double-take, asking them to explain the theory. “He’s got this obsession with positioning her,” Brzezinski said. “You can pull up her Instagram and she’s got these carefully composed sizzle reels, ,,, She’s going to all of the companies–” Scarborough interjected, “Giving speeches in front of the presidential seal.” He added, “When her advisors announced that she was giving up her businesses and they were asked if that meant she could run for office and they wouldn’t answer. They all just laughed.”

Later in the nearly two-hour conversation, Scarborough offered another potential rationale for Donald Trump not running for re-election.

Don Imus, 78, has successfully defended an age discrimination lawsuit brought by Warner Wolf, 80.

Wolf, a sports broadcaster once known for his catchphrase "Let's go to the videotape," filed his complaint in New York in February alleging that radio legend Imus routinely made inappropriate comments about his age and wouldn't give him a new contract after Wolf moved to Florida. Wolf says he was replaced with a sportscaster decades younger even after he began contributing remotely, agreed to reduce his salary and got confirmation that a new employment agreement was on its way. Wolf further claimed ...

Michelle Wolf deserves the Nobel Peace Price for her performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner, CNN commentator Ana Navarro insisted this morning.

Wolf, at Saturday’s event, accomplishing what “nobody else has been able to do: get Trump supporters to actually go on TV and defend women from being skewered and offended for their looks,” the Republican talking head insisted to New Day co-anchor Alisyn Camerota.

“I have sat here now for I don’t know how many months, hearing people tell me that I should take it as a joke when Donald Trump goes after Elizabeth Warren, Mika Brzezinski, Carly Fiorina – we could go through the entire morning with me telling you the women whose looks he has gone after,” Navarro said.

“It’s supposed to not be serious when the President of the United States, or candidate Trump did it. But it’s supposed to be dead...

One of the biggest stories in the world of night time talk shows over the past week was the simmering feud between Jimmy Kimmel and Sean Hannity that spilled over from their respective shows onto Twitter. But the spat, which began when Hannity expressed outrage over Kimmel making fun of Melania Trump’s accent, came to a close this week when Kimmel issued an apology for the whole thing and Hannity declared on Monday that he too would back down.

Hannity also, in his comments about the feud on his show Monday night, invited Kimmel to appear on his Fox News show to have a “serious discussion.” On Tuesday, during Kimmel’s first show after Hannity issued the invitation, did not acknowledge that invitation or even refer to Hannity at any point during the show. “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” tapes around the same time that Hannity airs, so Kimmel wouldn’t have been able to respond on Monday night.

Kimmel also has not tweeted about Hannity since issuing the apology on Sunday morning.

Also Read: Hannity Invites Kimmel to His Show, Threatens to Air More 'Lowlights' if 'Unfair Attacks' Continue

On Monday, Hannity spent the last segment of his show answering the apology, which he said felt “forced,” before inviting Kimmel on his show.

“I wanna extend an invitation. You wanna come on this show, I’ll promise no name-calling, no anger, no rehashing of the Twitter fight,” Hannity said. “We wanna have a serious discussion, we can talk about the president, his policies, healthcare, comedy, political correctness, any boycotts, how I’ve supported Bill Maher, Howard Stern, Don Imus, Opie and Anthony, people I disagree with vehemently. What I bet is you’ll actually agree with me on a lot more issues than you think.”

For those who haven’t been keeping up, this whole conflict was inspired by Kimmel’s jokes from his show on April 2, in which he made fun of Melania Trump’s pronunciation of “this and that” when she was reading a children’s book out loud at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll. On April 4, Hannity spent a chunk of his show berating Kimmel for the joke, calling him “despicable” and an “a– clown.”

Also Read: Fox News Cuts Sean Hannity Tirade Against Jimmy Kimmel From Online Broadcast

Kimmel came back at Hannity during his own monologue the next day, and then the whole thing continued with barbs on their shows and a long exchange of really mean tweets at each other. Hannity dredged up an old clip from Kimmel’s days on the Comedy Central’s “The Man Show,” and Kimmel took shots at how Hannity has been trailing Rachel Maddow in the ratings. And Kimmel caught a lot of flack for a tweet in which he said, “Don’t worry – just keep tweeting – you’ll get back on top! (or does Trump prefer you on bottom?),” a comment that a lot of founds found homophobic.

It was the outcry over that tweet that sparked Kimmel to try to end the feud, and below is the apology he tweeted on Sunday:

“While I admit I did have fun with our back and forth, after some thought, I realize that the level of vitriol from all sides (mine and me included) does nothing good for anyone and, in fact, is harmful to our country. Even in 2018, the vile attacks against my wife and wishes for death on my infant son are shocking and I encourage those who made them to give their words and actions thought. I, too, will give my words more thought and recognize my role in inciting their hatefulness. By lampooning Sean Hannity’s deference to the president, I most certainly did not intend to belittle or upset members of the gay community and to those who took offense, I apologize. I will take Sean Hannity at his word that he was genuinely offended by what I believed and still believe to be a harmless and silly aside referencing our First Lady’s accent. Mrs. Trump almost certainly has enough to worry about without being used as a prop to increase TV ratings. I am hopeful that Sean Hannity will learn from this too and continue his newly-found advocacy for women, immigrants and First Ladies and that he will triumph in his heroic battle against sexual harassment and perversion.”

Also Read: Jimmy Kimmel on Trump Twitter Tirade after Cohen Raid: 'Witch Hunt Is the New Maga' (Video)

After Hannity responded to Kimmel’s apology on Monday, he also issued a threat that they have more old unflattering footage of Kimmel to air if he tries to re-up their feud or take more shots at Donald Trump’s family.

“Unfair attacks, there needs to be an end to them. There’s no shortage, by the way, of comedic material out there. Jimmy, if you do want to start up again, I promise I’ll punch back even harder,” Hannity said. “My producers spent all weekend compiling a lot of your highlights, or lowlights, in your career. They don’t make you look too good. So instead of airing them, we’ll put ‘em in storage, and we have more important pressing issues like what’s happening in Syria and the gassing of women and children.”

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Sean Hannity addressed his feud with Jimmy Kimmel Monday night, responding to the late-night host’s recent apology with an invitation to appear on Fox News and a threat to step up his attacks on Kimmel if the conflict continued.

In a monologue at the end of his show, Hannity read a statement that Kimmel issued Sunday apologizing for potentially offensive language used during the to hosts’ heated Twitter exchange last week. “It appears to be more of a forced corporate Disney apology directed more toward the Lgbtq community rather than about Kimmel’s comments about the First Lady,” Hannity said. “But honestly that’s ultimately up to you to decide here. I believe everyone should accept apologies. That’s how I was raised. That’s what my religion teaches me. And I’m going to assume he’s sincere. But from my perspective, I do kind of enjoy a good fight,...

Over the years, Andy Cohen has found a way to pull scoop after scoop of juicy celebrity revelations out of his famous guests with his signature Plead the Fifth game — and now it’s time for him to dish the dirt.

People and Entertainment Weekly‘s Editorial Director Jess Cagle turned the tables on the Watch What Happens Live host, and as expected, Cohen, 48, didn’t hold back — or plead the fifth!

First up? Naming one celebrity he’s hooked up with that people don’t know about.

“I made out with Jonathan Groff once,” he revealed. “That was in front of my apartment building.

In a tweet on Monday night, Gop nominee Donald Trump told supporters not to buy a "boring" new biography about him, Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power, which went on sale Tuesday. "The @WashingtonPost quickly put together a hit job book on me- comprised of copies of some of their inaccurate stories. Don't buy, boring!" he wrote. An interesting directive, given Trump sat down with Washington Post reporters - two of whom, Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher, are authors of the book - for 20 hours' worth of interviews. Trump's questionable business deals, his figurative shaking...

In a tweet on Monday night, Gop nominee Donald Trump told supporters not to buy a "boring" new biography about him, Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power, which went on sale Tuesday. "The @WashingtonPost quickly put together a hit job book on me- comprised of copies of some of their inaccurate stories. Don't buy, boring!" he wrote. An interesting directive, given Trump sat down with Washington Post reporters - two of whom, Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher, are authors of the book - for 20 hours' worth of interviews. Trump's questionable business deals, his figurative shaking...

The election clock is ticking. By March 15, enough delegates will be awarded that we should know the presumptive presidential nominees - and much to the dismay of many Republican Party elders, the Gop candidate will likely be Donald Trump. The front-runner's controversial rhetoric and policy proposals have divided Republicans, with many taking up the #NeverTrump cause. But in his Super Tuesday victory speech last night, Trump, who won seven of 11 states on the day with the most delegates at stake, vowed to unite the Republican party and lead it to victory in November. "We're going to be a unified party,...

The election clock is ticking. By March 15, enough delegates will be awarded that we should know the presumptive presidential nominees - and much to the dismay of many Republican Party elders, the Gop candidate will likely be Donald Trump. The front-runner's controversial rhetoric and policy proposals have divided Republicans, with many taking up the #NeverTrump cause. But in his Super Tuesday victory speech last night, Trump, who won seven of 11 states on the day with the most delegates at stake, vowed to unite the Republican party and lead it to victory in November. "We're going to be a unified party,...

Fox Business Network is shaking up its lineup, moving Maria Bartiromo to early mornings among a series of changes, TheWrap has learned. Bartiromo will host from 6am-9 a.m. Et, replacing the simulcast of Don Imus’ radio show. She’ll be followed by Stuart Varney from 9 a.m.-noon Et. Also Read: Fox Business Canceling 'The Independents' Hosted by 'Kennedy' (Exclusive) Neil Cavuto will move from primetime to hosting an afternoon show at noon Eastern titled “Cavuto Coast to Coast.” He’ll continue to host his Fox News show at 4 p.m. Et. Trish Regan, who joined the network from Bloomberg in March,...

Fox Business Network issued an apology Friday for comments made by frequent O'Reilly Factor guest Bernard McGuirk about Apple CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday morning's edition of Imus in the Morning. McGuirk, who serves as an executive producer for Don Imus' radio show, which is simulcast by Fox Business each morning, called Cook a "bigot" over an op-ed he published in opposition to Indiana's "religious freedom" law.

Kiss's Gene Simmons — a face-paint enthusiast who is often on the same ideological wavelength as Don Imus — has struck again. In an interview he did with SongFacts back in late July, he said, "I'm the guy who says 'Jump!' when there's a guy on top of a building who says, 'That's it, I can't take it anymore, I'm going to jump.'" In the wake of Robin Williams's death, his comments have attracted considerably more attention, and he issued an apology on Facebook yesterday. "I was wrong and in the spur of the moment made remarks that in hindsight were made without regard for those who truly suffer the struggles of depression," Simmons wrote. Let's hope that in the future, he'll censor himself before a famous person dies.

Martin Bashir has resigned from MSNBC after the drum beat failed to die down after he apologized on air for having suggested, on air, that someone might defecate in Sarah Palin’s mouth. “Upon further reflection, and after meeting with the president of MSNBC, I have tendered my resignation,” Bashir said in an email first posted by Mediaite today. “It is my sincere hope that all of my colleagues, at this special network, will be allowed to focus on the issues that matter without the distraction of myself or my ill-judged comments.” Meanwhile, MSNBC president Phil Griffin, whose weeks-long silence on the subject of Bashir has been deafening, said today in a statement: “Martin Bashir resigned today, effective immediately. I understand his decision and I thank him for three great years with MSNBC. Martin is a good man and respected colleague — we wish him only the best.” Before this morning’s news,...

MSNBC‘s joint announcement today with Alec Baldwin’s camp that they had mutually decided to end Baldwin’s Up Late interview show leaves the cable news network with just one on-air talent headache: Martin Bashir, whose apology for graphic comments he made about Sarah Palin hasn’t ended chatter as to whether he should be punished. Related: Alec Baldwin Won’t Be ‘Up Late’ On MSNBC Anymore This past weekend, Palin, a Fox News analyst, said in an interview with Fox News Sunday that MSNBC was guilty of “executive hypocrisy” in not disciplining Bashir for his “vile, evil comments.” Following Bashir’s on-air apology, the network — which fired Don Imus in 2007 for referring to members of the Rutgers women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed hos” and suspended David Shuster for two weeks in 2008 for suggesting that Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign had “pimped out” daughter Chelsea by having her...

Basketball coach Vivian Stringer is maybe most famous outside the sports world for her role as a spokeswoman during the Don Imus scandal, when the former radio host made racist and sexist remarks about Stringer’s players. But there’s much more to Stringer’s career and life — maybe too much even for Coach, the new Espn documentary about her.

The film kicks off a new series called Nine for IX: Nine documentaries airing over nine weeks for the 40th anniversary of Title IX. We spoke with the doc’s director, Bess Kargman, about working with Stringer — and Coach’s producer,...

He was Howard Stern's crazy grandfather, Don Imus's hip cousin, and Wolfman Jack's uber role model. He was the first reporter to hang out with the Beatles when mere mortals weren't allowed within a mile of them, Charles Mingus dug him so much that they improvised a talking/jam together the likes of which has never been equaled in jazz, and he had such a quibble with movie Dr. Strangelove that Stanley Kubrick's mother -- his Mother -- demanded that Stanley go talk to him about it (and after that Kubrick became his friend and begged him to be the voice of Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he turned down). Shel Silverstein, the hippest kid-poet this side of Alice, looked up to him like a guru. Andy Kaufman called him a true comic genius. And, oh, along the way he authored a collection of...

During his show this morning, Don Imus spoke to Fox News Chief White House Correspondent Ed Henry, who recently had a testy exchange with White House Press Secretary Jay Carney over the impact of the sequester. Imus immediately donned the hat of media critic, deeming Fox News the fairest of them all — questioning Henry on the relationship between the network and the Obama administration.

(Dick Cavett, above.)

(Note: This article is currently appearing in Venice Magazine. Talking with Dick Cavett was one of the true pleasures of my time doing these printed Q&A's, as I was getting to conduct an interview with one of the all-time great interviewers, about doing interviews. Below are the highlights of our talk.)

by Terry Keefe

During the varied runs of his television talk show, Dick Cavett arguably conducted in-depth interviews better than anyone in the media before or since.

From 1968 to 1975 on ABC, and then later from 1977 to 1982 on PBS, “The Dick Cavett Show” hosted a literal who’s who of both America and the world. The guest list included Marlon Brando, Woody Allen, Groucho Marx, John Lennon, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Noel Coward, Salvador Dali, Mel Brooks, Katherine Hepburn, and Ingmar Bergman, to name just a few.

The show was unique in its time,...

July 22: Actor Orson Bean ("Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman") is 84. Actress Louise Fletcher is 78. Singer Chuck Jackson is 75. Actor Terence Stamp is 74. Game show host Alex Trebek is 72. Singer George Clinton is 71. Singer-actor Bobby Sherman is 69. Actor Danny Glover is 66. Writer-director Paul Schrader is 66. Singer Don Henley is 65. Actor-comedian-director Albert Brooks is 65. Composer Alan Menken ("Little Mermaid," "Little Shop of Horrors") is 63. Musician Al Di Meola is 58. Actor Willem Dafoe is 57. Singer Keith Sweat is 51. Singer Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls is 49. Actor-comedian David Spade is 48. Actor John Leguizamo is 48. Bassist Pat Badger of Extreme is 45. Actor Rhys Ifans is 45. Musician Daniel Jones (Savage Garden) is 39. Singer Rufus Wainwright is 39. Actress Franka Potente ("The Bourne Identity") is 38. Actress Selena Gomez is 20.

July 23: Actress Gloria DeHaven is 87. Radio personality Don Imus is 72. Country singer Tony Joe White is 69. Actor Larry Manetti ("Magnum, P.I.") is 65. Singer David Essex is 65. Singer...

On Fox Business Network on Monday, host Don Imus called out liberal columnist Sally Kohn for expressing skepticism that a story Imus read in the Drudge Report was true. When a producer pointed out that Drudge only linked to a news services wire story, Kohn said if she did not express skepticism over the Drudge headline she could later be accused of validating a misleading story.

'All these articles talk about how I've changed and I'm like, 'Good, I hope I've changed,' ' Stern says about his bad-boy reputation.

By Gil Kaufman

Howard Stern

Photo: MTV News

Settle down, America.

Regardless of what you think of segments like "Hottest Chick with the Oldest Dude" or the "Tiger Woods Mistress Beauty Pageant," new "America's Got Talent" judge Howard Stern is not going to bring his X-rated antics to prime-time television.

Stern starts his run as a judge on the popular reality competition show on Monday (May 14) night and before viewing even one minute of his family-hour act some critics have already decided he's going to turn the 8 p.m. hour into a non-stop cavalcade of strippers, four-letter words and bathroom humor.

If you've listened at all to Stern's SiriusXM radio show over the past six months, the original radio rebel has made it clear that he...

Between the Trayvon Martin tragedy and the recent spate of high-profile hate crimes, there has been plenty to keep those of us who care about civil rights busy in the Obama era. But it's always refreshing when fellow advocates for equality and justice call attention to those major civil rights battles often overlooked by the mainstream media. The kinds of meaningful, substantive battles that can change lives and make the world a better place for future generations. Obviously when most of us think "meaningful," "substantive" and "civil rights," we think The Bachelor.

When I first read that a class-action suit had been filed against the masterminds behind the reality TV juggernauts The Bachelor&The Bachelorette for casting discrimination, I assumed I was reading a headline from The Onion. But after realizing that the reports were not in fact a joke (even though I think this lawsuit is) I was speechless.

If you thought you had to wait for Jurassic Park 4 to see some good dinosaur-on-dinosaur violence, you're in luck. As former rock star and current gun-nut Ted Nugent enjoys his third consecutive day of relevance, pre-Nugent talk radio star Don Imus has weighed in, however briefly. In response to Nugent's assertion that, if President Obama is reelected, he will be "dead or in jail" by this time next year, Imus said "Ted Nugent should be be put in jail forever."...

When Don Imus utterred his infamous “nappy-headed hos” comment in 2007, it cost him a radio and TV gig. Now Rush Limbaugh’s detractors are hoping the country’s No. 1 talk-radio host had his Imus moment when he called reproductive-rights activist Sandra Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute,” prompting advertisers to flee. So far, though, Limbaugh’s opponents have been disappointed, and an analysis of the math – a very tricky proposition in itself – suggests their goal of running Limbaugh off the air will fall short. How much ad revenue Limbaugh’s radio show takes in is

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In the wake of the Rush Limbaugh/ Sandra Fluke controversy (and Maher himself having fallen under similar scrutiny last year) on Friday night's "Real Time," Bill Maher argued that without outrageous comments by media figures, we'd all be a nation of bland, "Mitt Romneys."

Echoing his recent New York Times op-ed, Maher joked that "If it weren't for throwing conniption fits, we wouldn't get any exercise at all. Cting the recent scandals of Tracy Morgan, Don Imus, Gilbert Gottfried and Ashton Kutcher, he offered a solution to the public outcry:

"Here's a crazy idea: if you see or hear something you don't like in the media, just go on with your life!"

Maher briefly commented directly on his and Limbaugh's gaffes, saying that he finds the conservative talk show host "obnoxious" but is able to co-exist with him by not listening to his program. He also hypothesized that humans pay...

In the wake of the Rush Limbaugh/ Sandra Fluke controversy (and Maher himself having fallen under similar scrutiny last year) on Friday night's "Real Time," Bill Maher argued that without outrageous comments by media figures, we'd all be a nation of bland, "Mitt Romneys."

Echoing his recent New York Times op-ed, Maher joked that "If it weren't for throwing conniption fits, we wouldn't get any exercise at all. Cting the recent scandals of Tracy Morgan, Don Imus, Gilbert Gottfried and Ashton Kutcher, he offered a solution to the public outcry:

"Here's a crazy idea: if you see or hear something you don't like in the media, just go on with your life!"

Maher briefly commented directly on his and Limbaugh's gaffes, saying that he finds the conservative talk show host "obnoxious" but is able to co-exist with him by not listening to his program. He also hypothesized that humans pay...

Thursday morning on Fox Business News, White House reporter Ed Henry spoke with Don Imus about his heated exchange with President Obama during his press conference Tuesday. "I think my relationship with the President has gotten so chilly, that it’s almost reached the level of what it’s like when you go to Cavuto’s house for a summer cookout," Henry snarked.

If there's one way that Fox Business Network has completely eclipsed Fox News, it's in the intra-network smack talk. Sure, Glenn Beck still appears on The O'Reilly Factor to banter with Bill from time to time, but he's not even on that channel anymore. And, tour dates aside, those two have never matched the joshing that goes on between Fbn's Neil Cavuto and Don Imus. Last night, during Cavuto's Super Tuesday coverage, Imus called in to discuss one of his favorite topics; how much Cavuto's show sucks.

James Carville spoke to Fox Business Network's Don Imus on Tuesday morning about the state of the presidential race, and how Republicans are allegedly, desperately seeking his advice. “I’m out there speaking to [Republicans] and talking to them and they’re just like flinching,” Carville snarked. “‘God, what are we going to do, Mr. Carville?!’ I’m like, ‘I don’t know, why ask me.’”...

Today is the South Carolina Republican primary, which means Neil Cavuto will be manning the ship at Fox News for most of the day. As usual when such events happen, Don Imus stops by to give his piece, which usually somehow becomes a conversation about how much Imus would rather not be talking to Cavuto. This was no different! Except for Imus's take on Newt Gingrich, who he compared to early 2011 meme Charlie Sheen.

Fox Business Network played an Imus In The Morning highlight reel on Monday, which included a clip of Don Imus talking to Republican strategist Mary Matalin about the 2012 election and primary season. In a wonderfully dated reference, he first made Matalin talk with a Herman Cain impersonator, before moving on to who the nominee for the Republicans was going to be.

And now for today's most pleasant conversation about the most unpleasant topic imaginable. Yesterday morning, Don Imus welcomed Bob Beckel to the radio show and, while the conversation started off on politics, quickly strayed to their shared experiences with alcohol and drug abuse. With the holidays coming, Beckel noted that it was a particularly difficult time for people trying to sober up, while for veterans like he and Imus, the only challenge was dealing with how "obnoxious" drunk people are.

Donald Trump phoned in to Don Imus' Fox Business Network show on Friday morning, and he lit into Michele Bachmann for her decision to skip his Dec. 27 debate. "You know who I'm very disappointed in? Michele Bachmann. She's come up to see me four times. Four times. She'd call me, she'd ask me for advice, she said I should be her Vice Presidential... you know... if she wins, she'd like to think about me for the Vice Presidency, all of these things," Trump said.