 Feisty rapper Ludacris has made peace with Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively, bringing an end to one of the great showbiz feuds of the last decade.In an exclusive interview the controversial rapper confirmed he confronted the conservative television host at a recent event and extended the hip hop hand of friendship. "The first thing I said to him was, 'I want to meet the guy who has had so much to say about me, but knows absolutely nothing about me'," Ludacris told RadarOnline.com."I identified that I wanted to speak to him when I saw his name on the guest list. I looked at what table he was on, and I walked my a** straight to that table. "He wasn't expecting to see me, at all. The look on his face when he saw me approaching... priceless."
And in the most unlikely pairing, Ludacris said the foes even teamed up for a recent charity event, which was kept secret.In 2002, when Pepsi announced Ludacris as one of its spokespeople, O'Reilly demanded a boycott against the company for hiring someone who "disrespects women, encourages drug use and encouraged violence." Pepsi immediately fired Ludacris. O'Reilly continued to condemn the rapper for years, calling him "vile" and a "thug" rapper.
Of the peace-brokering, Ludacris said: "The conversation we had was confidential, however, let's just say it was a good conversation and good came out of it. "From there, we came to a common ground. To be honest with you, we came together and did an event for charity - as crazy as it sounds. Perhaps everything happens for a reason "I prayed since the very first moment that Bill said something about me on television that I would be able to meet him in person. "It took about seven years for that to happen, but it finally happened. And the joy that came over me, well, it was outstanding." Ludacris’ new album The Battle of the Sexes has spawned the hit single How Low, which has gone platinum. source: RadarOnline.com
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 After tonight's broadcast and after looting our hotel mini-bars, we're going to try to brave the blizzard and fly east to home and hearth, and to do laundry well into next week. Before we leave this thoroughly polite country, the polite thing to do is leave behind a thank-you note. Thank you, Canada: For being such good hosts. For your unfailing courtesy. For your (mostly) beautiful weather. For scheduling no more than 60 percent of your float plane departures at the exact moment when I was trying to say something on television. For not seeming to mind the occasional (or constant) good-natured mimicry of your accents. For your unique TV commercials -- for companies like Tim Hortons -- which made us laugh and cry. For securing this massive event without choking security, and without publicly displaying a single automatic weapon. For having the best garment design and logo-wear of the games -- you've made wearing your name a cool thing to do. For the sportsmanship we saw most of your athletes display. For not honking your horns. I didn't hear one car horn in 15 days -- which also means none of my fellow New Yorkers rented cars while visiting. For making us aware of how many of you have been watching NBC all these years. For having the good taste to have an anchorman named Brian Williams on your CTV network, who turns out to be such a nice guy. For the body scans at the airport which make pat-downs and cavity searches unnecessary. For designing those really cool LED Olympic rings in the harbor, which turned to gold when your athletes won one. For always saying nice things about the United States...when you know we're listening. For sharing Joannie Rochette with us. For reminding some of us we used to be a more civil society. Mostly, for welcoming the world with such ease and making lasting friends with all of us. This totally made me laugh, and cry. You're welcome, World. Source
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This was too hilarious not to post here: This. Is. Awesome.
Ladies and gentlemen, seek no further; we have our defining moment for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games:For those of you too lazy to click the link, it’s hunky Dutch speedskater Sven Kramer coming off a gold-medal-winning performance to be greeted by an NBC reporter getting up in his grill and asking him the routine talking head questions like “where are you from” and “do you think you did well” and so on.
And he looks her in the eye and responds “Are you stupid?“Source(Heh heh heh, I bet THAT'S something NBC never airs... okay, going back to screaming WTF at the Austrian ski jumping coach.)
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In a move that couldn't possibly be more fitting, Rachel Maddow will be the featured speaker at Smith College, an all-women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts. Maddow splits her time between Noho (as Northampton is nicknamed) and NYC. Smith's commencement will be on May 16th, 2010. Watch the reactions of the students when President Carol Christ announces the news: HuffPo is my official source but I was one of the many receiving the news in person
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Weatherman freaks out during "Snowpocolypse"Put down the PCP Jim Kosek of Accuweather.com. Yes, Washington, D.C. got a lot of snow. Yes, it was bad. No, it did not warrant this psychotic episode. Snow-rceSome might argue that this isn't "celeb" news, but hey, the guy is on TV, and by using Jersey Shore logic, that makes him a celeb, no? :-P Plus, it's Saturday night and it's slow and this is good for a laugh, so humour me?
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 The National Enquirer says Cooper and his boyfriend will adopt a baby. Even crazier than that, the National Enquirer is talking about Cooper's boyfriend on the front page. Even your mom is gonna see that at the grocery store! It seems like the media coming out process is nearly complete for Anderson. On the front cover of the new Enquirer — which gives top billing to the latest heinous revelation in the John Edwards saga: he beat his cancer-stricken wife — is a headline that matter-of-factly refers to " Anderson Cooper & boyfriend." Unlike when Page Six made a veiled reference to his relationship with Benjamin Maisani, this story is putting it out there in every supermarket checkout and news stand in America. However, much like the NY Post story about his big butch firehouse of love, it seems this story is just an excuse to discuss the details of Coop's personal life. The Enquirer doesn't even address whether or not Cooper is in the closet, they just run with the very correct assumption that he is gay and in a relationship with Maisani. Now it's not just going to be the New York media types and the gays who are hip to the story, but the Enquirer's very middle-American, straight, and older readership — the same people who watch him on CNN. After saving one on national television, Anderson is said to be bringing home a Haitian orphan of his own and will raise it with Maisani. Cooper's transformation into Madonna is complete!
Anyway, the friend says that the baby will be moving in with the couple in the fire house and this may keep Anderson from flying all over the world with his prissy parka to cover stories. Still gay bar co-owner Maisani is "totally capable of keeping things under control while Anderson is away." If this is true, then good on Anderson. There are hundreds of thousands of kids who need a home, and one with two, attractive, wealthy, homosexual gentleman is better than most. It seems like a big move for the anchor, who is reticent to talk about his personal life in public at all, to make such a bold move after so much hubbub has been made about his coverage in Haiti. After all, he always says he wants to cover the news, not be it. Rescuing a kid from the rubble was definitely news, and taking one home for good would be another valid news story. Then everyone would really start looking in Cooper's personal life. After this much attention why don't you just come out and address the issue once and for all, Anderson, so that we can stop talking about it and fixate on something else. You want to raise your child in a home that prizes honesty, integrity, and forthrightness, don't you? Source -- gawker.com/5463561/anderson-coopers-casually-outed-in-haitian-adoption-tale Aww...that's cute! posted by GossipGander
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ORLANDO, Fla. – A judge has ruled that talk show host Nancy Grace can be videotaped while answering questions in a Florida wrongful death lawsuit. But lawyers representing Melinda Duckett's family can't share the recording with "any third party" or disclose any portion of the testimony without the federal magistrate's permission. Grace's lawyers wanted to bar the videotaping to spare Grace embarrassment. Duckett's family is suing the host of HLN, formerly CNN Headline News. They blame her for inflicting emotional distress on the 21-year-old Florida mother during an appearance on her talk show in 2006 after her son Trenton went missing.
Grace accused Duckett of hiding something. Duckett shot and killed herself the day the taped interview was scheduled to broadcast.sauce
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We were covering another story when we heard shots being fired. We ran toward the sound and found a store being looted. Two Haitian police officers were occasionally firing into the air to try to keep order, but that only worked for a few moments, then the looting would begin again. They were stealing boxes of candles. An American businessman named Tony who owns two stores nearby barricaded one street to keep looters away. He had armed the two Haitian police with automatic weapons, and they were assisting him, but they were not able to control anything beyond their barricade. It quickly became a free-for-all. Young men began fighting one another for the stolen items. A number of young men had knives, and planks of wood, screwdrivers and rocks. They were using their improvised weapons to threaten and injure others who had stolen items from the store. The robbers were now being robbed. One group of looters whipped another man with a leather belt. They punched him as well, and they stole the sack of goods he'd just stolen. I was in the midst of the melee with Charlie Moore, my producer, Neil Hallsworth my cameraman, Vlad Duthiers, my translator, and there was a still photographer from Getty Images with us, photojournalist Jonathan Torgovnik. As things got really out of control, I saw a looter on the roof of the store they'd broken into throw what I think was part of a concrete block into the crowd. It hit a small boy in the head. I saw him collapse. More chunks of concrete were being thrown at the looters on the roof. The injured boy couldn't get up. He'd try and then collapse again. Blood was pouring from his head. He was conscious but had no control over his body. I was afraid someone on the roof would see him lying there and throw another cinder block piece onto him. I was afraid he'd get killed. No one seemed to be helping him. I ran to where he was struggling, and picked him up off the ground. I brought him to a spot about a hundred feet away. I could feel his warm blood on my arms. I stood him up, but he was clearly unable to walk. He wiped his bloody face, and I tried to reassure him. He had no idea where he was, and he clearly couldn't walk, so I picked him up again and handed him over to someone behind that makeshift barricade. Tony, the American businessman, gave the boy a wet towel. He was then taken away by someone else. We don't know what happened to him.
The video & pictures @ the source are pretty graphic so don't click if you're easily grossed out.
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Larry King 2-Hour Special Guest List
 The guest list is coming together for tomorrow's 8pmET Larry King Live special "Haiti: How You Can Help?" : Ashley Judd
Ben Stiller
Benicio Del Toro
Charles Barkley
Christian Slater
Ryan Seacrest
Kobe Bryant
Mick Jagger
Jared Leto
Seal
John Mayer
Queen Rania
Tommy LaSorda
Will.i.Am
Molly Sims
Colin Powell
Ringo Starr
Scarlett Johansson
Snoop Dogg
Susan Sarandon
Jeff Probst
Tea Leoni
Russell Simmons
Sarah Ferguson
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Brian Williams to Speak at Notre Dame Commencement
 Brian Williams will be the main commencement speaker at the Univerity of Notre Dame on May 15. He'll also receive an honorary degree. "Mr. Williams is one of this country's most respected and trusted journalists, and we are absolutely delighted that he has accepted our invitation," said Notre Dame's president, Rev. John I. Jenkins, on the school's website. "He has tremendous insight into the current state of our world, and I know his perspectives will be of great interest to our graduating Class of 2010." Williams will be the third NBCer to address Notre Dame graduates. Tom Brokaw was commencement speaker in 1993, and the late Tim Russert spoke in 2002. 2
CNN's Sanjay Gupta, Doctor First
 Dr. Sanjay Gupta, once in line to be the nation's Surgeon General, is instead on the front lines of helping the wounded in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. Gupta, a neurosurgeon by trade, was one of the first CNN personnel on the ground in Haiti, and as we found out in an interview this afternoon, he's a doctor first. This was best evidenced yesterday when he treated a 15-day old baby suffering from a head wound, whose mother died in the earthquake; a clip that was played several times on CNN Thursday:
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Erica Hill Joins Weekday CBS 'Early Show', Leaves Anderson Cooper
 First on TVNewser: Erica Hill will join the CBS "Early Show" as the program's news anchor, the network will announce. She will start on Monday. Hill has been an anchor for the Saturday edition of "The Early Show" since 2008. She will continue to co-host that program with Chris Wragge and will also contribute to other CBS News broadcasts. 5
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Anderson Cooper Reportssource
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