IMG girl Sasha Pivovarova.Photo: Courtesy of Prada

Hilarious shenanigans — from the Beastie Boys breaking into Chuck Eddy’s hotel room, to the Rolling Stones’ 15-foot inflatable onstage penis, to Dylan’s conversion to Christianity — have always been part of rock and roll. So have attempted shenanigans whose outcomes range from lame to disastrous. After the jump, we've compiled ten rock and roll stunts that proved even less impressive than Pete Wentz's journey to Antarctic ignominy.

10. Jamiroquai Break Six Underwhelming World Records (2007)
Jamiroquai should have walked away from a mid-air performance that broke six world records much cooler than when they’d taken off. But not only are these honors (including highest gig ever and fastest gig ever) the least demanding world records ever set, they’ll be broken as soon as we finish remastering our secret tapes of John Glenn’s crazy-ill Orbit Freestyle Sessionz.

9. David Bowie & Mick Jagger Dance Together in the Streets (1985)
David Bowie and Mick Jagger teaming up on a remake of Martha and the Vandellas’ ‘Dancing in the Street’ for Live Aid: two rock legends, uniting on a classic for a good cause. Unfortunately, the song apparently triggered involuntary jazz hands, greatly undermining Bowie and Jagger’s reputations.

8. 50 Cent and Kanye West Stage September Showdown (2007)
Kanye West and 50 Cent stirred up a media frenzy and a grip of extra record sales during their completely staged 2007 competition to outsell each other. (West fessed up to the plan in GQ.) The craptacular thing about this stunt is that it made fans out to be a bunch of tools. The awesome thing about this stunt is that it made the media out to be a bunch of bigger tools.

7. Jack White gets Wedded to Pretense (2005)
Marrying a model definitely helps to establish your status as a rock icon. Marrying a model in a canoe at the spot where the Rio Negro, the Solimones and the Amazon rivers meet, in a ceremony presided over by a native shaman implies a disturbing willingness to transform from likably grungy Michigan-born outsider to Dr. Mystic Crazypants Ph.D.

6. Krist Novoselic Eats Bass (1992)
Nirvana’s appearance at the 1992 MTV Music Video Awards looked like it was going to be a mythic rock performance on par with the guitar-smashing greatness of The Who — until Krist Novoselic decided to try to catch his bass guitar after lobbing it into the air. Unfortunately, it hit him directly in the grill.

5. Prince Becomes TAFKAP (1993)
In 1993, Prince changed his name to a rune, forcing music lovers everywhere to start referring to him using annoying acronyms, hand gestures, and strained nicknames. It was all an attempt to get back at his record label; years later he would try a different tack to greater effect, pseudonymously inventing Napster.

4. U2 Trapped in Lemon (1997)
When U2 decided to go ironic with their Popmart tour, they literally found themselves stuck inside of a 40-foot, malfunctioning, mechanical lemon multiple times. Bootleg video footage of the ironic lemon that was, ironically, a lemon, is widely circulated among cultural studies graduate students.

3. Michael Jackson Enshrines Himself (1995)
Michael Jackson’s HIStory album was accompanied by one of the greatest hubris-inspired promotional campaigns of all time: erecting giant statues of the singer all over Europe and releasing a 4-minute video of screaming fans in Budapest. Fun fact: Three of those statues have since seized control of Central Asian nations.

2. Madonna Publishes Sex (1992)
Simply put, Madonna’s tireless stunts (which also include crucifying herself, kissing Britney, and acting) strike a crucial blow for civil rights by consistently reminding us that being stupidly outrageous is not just for men.

1. Woodstock Burns the Motherfucker Down (1999)
Remember the mayhem that closed down Woodstock ‘99? Limp Bizkit performed “Break Stuff,” and fans broke stuff. The Red Hot Chili Peppers played Jimi Hendrix’s “Fire,” and the same mooks used candles that had been distributed for a peace vigil to set fire to everything in sight. The upshot? Thousands of future crimes were prevented when the Chili Peppers followed “Fire” with a tune called “Stop Getting in Bar Fights and Date-Raping People, You Morons.”
—Tammy Oler

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Will Arnett, Congestion-Pricing Vigilante

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To View Kota Ezawa's Art, You'll Need an Allen Wrench

Kota Ezawa’s NEW! ($2.99/ea), (2007).Courtesy of Murray Guy

Our Carla Bruni Watch Continues: She's Wearing Purple!

Carla is the center of attention at the royal ball. Random aside: Apparently they still wear those robes.Photo: Getty Images

Sarah Brown hosted a luncheon for Bruni with 120 influential women, which is a lot of estrogen in one room. Bruni emerged unscathed in a violet coat and belted cashmere sweater with flannel trousers underneath. Sarah Brown's jacket isn't exactly our favorite. Photo: Getty Images

See that guy in the background on the left? See how happy he is? Don't bright purple dresses make you feel that way? And check out that box pleat on the coat. Love.Photo: Getty Images

This is a silk muslin bustier gown with "mille feuille" ruffles from the knee down. We adore her accessories, especially the shawl, which has notes of boho and hipster. We're not sure if the bouquet is part of some grand royal British tradition we don't know about, but it's a rather brilliant accessory. We're tempted to start carrying them about town after sunset and see if they catch on.Photo: Getty Images

Carla Bruni charms U.K. with fashion diplomacy [Telegraph]
The style of Carla Bruni, First Lady of France [Times]
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Will Everything Come Up Tony for ‘Gypsy’?

Photo illustration: Sara Krulwich /The New York Times/Redux; Courtesy of The American Theater Wing

The question is made more complicated by the fact that this year, bizarrely, has been ruled by the straight play on Broadway. By our count, only twelve musicals will be eligible for Tony Awards this year, and only four of those are revivals. So that means the competition for acting awards, as well as the big prize, is much thinner than in most years. (Meanwhile, the Tonys for straight plays are going to be brutal this year.) So can Gypsy get the sweep — Revival, Actress, and Featured Actor and Actress? We think it probably can.

Best Revival of a Musical
The only contenders for this award — unless we're missing something — are Gypsy, Grease, South Pacific, and Sunday in the Park With George. The only real contenders are Gypsy and Sunday, but it seems pretty likely that Patti and the power of Gypsy will blow the well-regarded but not star-studded Sunday revival out of the water.

Best Leading Actress in a Musical
LuPone benefits from the fact that the two most showy performances in musicals this year — other than hers — come from writer/actors, Lin-Manuel Miranda of In the Heights and Stew of Passing Strange. LuPone's competition should include Kelly O'Hara of the upcoming South Pacific revival; Jenna Russell of Sunday in the Park; and Faith Prince in A Catered Affair. Prince is always a threat, but this award was LuPone's the day she took the role.

Best Featured Actor in a Musical
This one's a tougher call, as showy comedic performances always have a chance to walk away with this award. Who might beat Gaines? Perhaps one of the seafolk of The Little Mermaid, or one of the chameleons that back up Stew in Passing Strange? Or, biggest of all, Harvey Fierstein in A Catered Affair?

Best Featured Actress in a Musical
This winner could come out of nowhere; perhaps there's an actress in Cry-Baby or In the Heights who might rise from obscurity and dance away with this award. Or it could go to a star as a sop to an otherwise ignored show — say, Megan Mullally or Sutton Foster from Young Frankenstein. But given how Tony voters love Benanti — this would be her third nomination already — we sure like her chances.

Earlier: Laura Benanti on Stripping in ‘Gypsy’ and Her Delighted Husband
‘Gypsy’: Ben Brantley Eats His Hat

Related: Jeremy McCarter reviews Gypsy in New York.

See Patti LuPone, Boyd Gaines, Laura Benanti and other at our complete coverage of last night's opening of Gypsy.

‘SNL’ Star Kenan Thompson Improvs His Way Out of a Potty Predicament

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'SNL' Star in Pot Stop [Smoking Gun]

Zia Ziprin of Girls Love Shoes on Vintage Kicks and Rationalizing $700 Heels

Zia with her bounty — her glorious, glorious bounty.Photo: Melissa Hom

What was the first designer shoe you bought?
Charles Jourdan, when I was 16. I actually have shoes from when I was 14 in my archives. I have cork six-inch platforms that I wore. I’ve been dressing up since I can remember! I used to steal my mom’s high heels and wear them out and put them in my bag when I was leaving. Before I was allowed to.

Is the $700 pair of shoes worth it?
Because I’m a shoe designer, I know the amount of work and the costs — I just finished making my first collection and I stood there and watched every shoe being made in the factory. Each shoe is completely made by hand. One shoe literally takes eight hours of a person's time, from cutting the patterns to gluing everything. For well-made, expensive shoes, I think it makes perfect sense, so to me — it's art.

Do you always wear heels?
Not always, but yeah, in general I do. Depending on the weather. Right now I’m suffering because I’m living in my boots.

What’s the best pair of shoes that you have, the pair that you would never part with?
We have an I. Miller that was on the cover of Vogue in 1952. They were custom made for the model. That’s something I would never part with. It’s just sort of a red snakeskin Mary Jane with a buckle.

It's Friday! Let's run a pic of Zia and her puppies! Photo: Melissa Hom

We're interviewing you as a trendsetter, so we have to ask: What trends do you adore? Floral appliqués and pastels. I think platforms are still going to be in. I’m doing wedges for my own line.

What look can you not stand seeing on the street?
I think those rubber things are really atrocious — Crocs. But I heard that they’re recycled, so if they’re good for the environment...

What’s flying off the shelves right now?
Right now we’re selling flat slouchy boots more than anything else. Other than those, there's not one particular style that sells more than others — except, you know, sexy pumps.

What's going to be big for spring?
Now shoes are really getting a lot of attention — more than ever in many, many years. Designers are getting very creative with shoes, so a lot of decorations — decorated flats, decorated wedges, embellishments like flowers and architectural shapes. The shoes are the showpiece of the outfit right now.

Who’s your favorite designer?
My favorite designer is Martin Margiela. I love Christian Dior; again, his clothes are extreme. They represent such extreme style and you might not be able to wear them every day, but the quality and workmanship is amazing. Also, Alexander McQueen.

And who do you actually wear the most?
Vintage, and I wear my own pieces.

Where do you shop?
Marmalade on Ludlow, and Leelush, which is right next door to our store. Also Alice Roi, Project 8, Seven boutique and Edon Manor — it’s a shoe shop in Tribeca. And Maria Luisa in Paris.

What can't you live without?
At the moment it’s probably my bag, which I wear all the time. I have it in five colors. Black, brown, beige, white, and gray. They're by Patricia Lukosezk.

Sean Connery Would Like to Kill James Bond

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"I used to want to be Robin before Chris O'Donnell destroyed my dream." —Drake Bell on his superhero-sidekick fantasy [USA Today]

"I'm not sure I can sing 'Holiday' or 'Like A Virgin' ever again. I just can't — unless somebody paid me like $30 million or something. [Like if] some Russian guy wants me to come to the wedding he's going to have to a 17-year-old, you know it." —Madonna, a true altruist [People]

"I think if they were going to do a film of The Hills they would basically film it like we do the show and they would just edit it into a movie. It would be like a really long episode." —The Hills star Lauren Conrad on all the painstaking effort MTV would put into a film adaptation [Cinemablend]

"I have paid that kind of money for ringside seats for famous events, you know, and I think paying five grand to have a prime ringside seat to the dance of the century was a good deal." — Silent magic man Teller on losing $5,000 betting on his partner, Penn Jillette, who lost on Dancing with the Stars [AP via Yahoo]

Activists shout at a demonostration

A screenshot of 'Fitna'

Jan Peter Balkenende

French Animators Reveal the Dangers of Office-Based Paper Engineering

The Economy: Comparing Clinton, McCain, and Obama

Photo Illustration: Everett Bogue; Photos:Getty Images

• Paul Krugman summarizes the speeches. McCain was the anti-maverick, opposing any increased regulation of securities firms or aid to troubled homeowners. Clinton's proposals on mortgage restructuring showed "a strong progressive sensibility." And Obama earned points on broader regulation, but was, overall, too cautious. [NYT]

• Jane Sasseen breaks down each candidate's central positions: Clinton has focused on helping the unemployed and working class, Obama has argued for more regulation, and McCain has dismissed expanding the government's role. [Business Week]

• Ezra Klein calls McCain's approach "straight talk from a guy who doesn't know what he's talking about." As for Clinton, she shapes her image as the competent manager, while Obama paints himself as an inspirational leader that can change the culture. [American Prospect]

• Jim Geraghty thinks Obama pretends his bailout plan isn't actually a bailout because the idea is highly unpopular with voters. [Campaign Spot/National Review]

• Noam Scheiber characterizes Obama's plan as "prudent and intuitive-sounding," though not especially innovative, with the most interesting passage being the criticism of the Clinton administration's deregulation efforts. [Stump/New Republic]

• An editorial highlights what the candidates (and President Bush) agree upon: "government-facilitated loan modifications for subprime borrowers" in some form. [WP]

• Andrew Leonard calls Obama's speech an "eloquent, nuanced, smart defense of" Wall Street regulation, while McCain's speech was "designed to make him look like he understood what was going on," and Clinton's promised "a boatload of quick fixes." Only Clinton and Obama understand that the country is facing a crisis, he writes. [How the World Works/Salon]

• Jeanne Cummings believes a challenge for all the candidates is not only showing that they have the right plan to solve the crisis, but also proving that they aren't indebted to the financial industries they seek to reform. [Politico]

• Gerald McEntee questions Obama's truthfulness on the subprime issue: His economic adviser, Austan Goolsbee, defended subprime loans a year ago in the Times, and Obama has taken more money from such lenders than any other candidate. [HuffPo]

• But Christopher Cooper writes that while the Clinton and Obama campaigns are sniping about ties to subprime-mortgage lenders, both candidates have received about the same amount in donations from them. [Horserace/CBS News]

• Perry Bacon Jr. reports that Clinton, speaking about McCain's economic plan and referring to her own campaign ad, said, "It seems like if the phone were ringing, he would just let it ring and ring and ring." Bacon points out that there's probably no financial situation that would require an emergency 3 a.m. phone call. [Trail/WP] —Dan Amira

For a complete and regularly updated guide to presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John McCain — from First Love to Most Embarrassing Gaffe — read the 2008 Electopedia.

Laura Benanti on Stripping in ‘Gypsy’ and Her Delighted Husband

Photo: Joan Marcus

Laura Benanti made her Broadway debut at 19 years old playing Maria in The Sound of Music and has been one of New York audiences' favorite things ever since. Ten years later, she's been nominated for two Tonys (Swing!, Into the Woods), starred in Nine and The Wedding Singer, and now takes a turn as Louise in Gypsy that's being praised left and right. Benanti spoke with Vulture about stage moms, stripping, and facing off against Patti LuPone.

What was it like getting used to doing striptease?
Ugh. I’m still getting used to it. The hardest part is at the end when I reveal, you know, more than I would on a beach. My husband loves it, though our friends joke that he’s just looking into the audience, getting ready to punch people. For Gypsy and for Louise, I think it really is sexuality as a weapon, and a way of satisfying the need for attention. But there has to be a little bit of anger. I think for any stripper there’s got to be a little anger there — the whole, you-can-look-but-don’t-touch power. How can there not be?

What is it like doing that scene at the end, where you’re facing off with Patti LuPone?
Oh, God. (A) it’s so exhausting, and (b) it was really hard for me to get there. My husband is sitting next to me right now and he’s going to laugh and say that I’m a liar, but I’m not a big yeller. He just went, "Uh-huh." But I’m really not in nature. My place that I go to when I feel something is the hurt place, so I’m quick to cry. Every single night I struggle not to cry. I mean literally at one point my whole body shakes. I just will myself not to cry and pull it together.

What’s the craziest thing that’s happened onstage?
One time as I was saying “I’m pretty, I’m a pretty girl,” the curtain came down on my head. They were having technical problems, and I grabbed the curtain and threw it behind me and kept doing it, and the audience was like, "What the hell is going on?" And then we ended up having to wait for like fifteen minutes and pick up right where we took off. We had to start on, “Mama, I’m pretty.” We were joking I should’ve said, "Mama, I really am pretty. I swear."

Mama Rose is really the stage mother of all stage mothers. You’ve been performing since you were young; what was your mom like?
Well, I wasn’t allowed to have any professional experience until I was almost 18 years old. Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, "No, you’re going to be normal, you’re going to go to school, you’re going to get good grades, you’re going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year." So when I was a senior in high school I did a production at the Paper Mill and after that, my first professional job was The Sound of Music on Broadway. It was a huge shift.

And you had just started at NYU then?
I’d gone to NYU for two weeks. I talked to the dean and he was like, "Look, you’re clearly talented enough to have work, and you’re coming to school for this. Why don’t you go do it and see if you like it? If you don’t like it, come back and study something else. And if you do like it and you keep working, then you just saved yourself a hundred thousand bucks."
—Lori Fradkin

Related: Let Me Be Entertained

At Least Someone on Wall Street Is Thinking About Horticulture

FINANCE
•Wall Street banks are "eating up" $32.9 billion a day in emergency loans from the Fed. Yum! [NYP]
• Seventy-five-year-old Julian Robertson is "one Wall Street titan with strong convictions about horticulture." [Fortune]
• Speaking of trimming hedges, despite the economic climate, not as many hedge funds are closing this year compared to years past. [DealBook/NYT]

MEDIA
• The New York Times did not plagiarize Newsweek in that Argentina story, an editor says. It's just that they both saw Buenos Aires as "a throbbing hothouse of cool." [NYO]
• Reporters from CBS and NBC were on the Bosnia trip with Hillary Clinton. So why was it Sinbad who busted Hillary Clinton's fib? [Feed]
• The Atlantic stole publisher Jay Rauf from Wired, and Wired stole publisher Chris Mitchell from Details. [WWD]

LAW
• Bear Stearns exec Douglas Sharon tried to jump ship to Morgan Stanley, but a court said he needs to give a 90-day notice before resigning. Um, but whom does he give notice to? [NYT]
• Grammy nominated Remy Ma was convicted of a 2007 shooting. She faces up to 25 years in the clinker. [NYT]
• Speaking of hip-hoppers, here's one NYU law-school grad who went on to become a rapper. His new record is aptly called Law and Order. [Legal Blog Watch]

Meet the New Girl: Liu Wen

Photo: Imaxtree

Three Playwrights on Inspiration: Drunk Girls, Damon Albarn, and Definitely Not Jonathan Safran Foer

Left: Moses; Right: Bock.Photo: Patrick McMullan

Meanwhile, Adam Bock, whose play The Drunken City opened this week at Playwrights Horizons, says his show was inspired by the drunk, shrieking B&T girls that descend on his Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, whom he rather inexplicably claims to be fond of. "Drunk girls are funny," he said. "I love them. They come to New York and it's kind of magical, like going into the Forest of Arden in Midsummer Night's Dream. The lights are sparkling and there's all these cars going by and you don't know who you're going to meet. Of course they get excited and loud."

Speaking of excited and loud, that's how we got when we saw the long-dormant Nicky Silver, whose new play, Three Changes, also opens at Playwrights, in late August. His show's title, he told us, is inspired by a song by Blur frontman turned opera writer Damon Albarn, whom Silver worships. "He's very beautiful, a real genius," he said. "His journey from composer of disposable pop tunes to opera is the longest artistic journey I'm aware of. I have about 3,000 of his recordings on my iPod. I once found a dealer of his bootlegs in Moscow and he wouldn't take money because it's illegal. So I had to send him 300 American NHL hockey playing cards, which he was obsessed with." —Tim Murphy

Cheryl Burke's New Dancing Endeavor

Clooney to Zellweger: Talk About the Kiss

Kate Bosworth Gets Drunk, Makes Style.com Nervous

Sturgess and Bosworth: sober?Photo: Getty Images

[S]hould we expect ateliers across town to be closing up shop early, the better to let Bosworth-favored designers like the Proenza boys take in a screening? Further: Given the Bosworth connection, and given that she plays a card-counting MIT applied mathematics major, should we be expecting a sexy brainiac theme at the September shows? Or perhaps—inasmuch as the movie is set in Vegas, with the principal action at the blackjack tables—we should clear our calendars for some casino-flavored benefits, and punch up our own card-counting skills?

Oh Style.com, don't worry your pretty little head about those things! Just get used to getting black-out drunk on Grey Goose. The actress told People she got so wasted when she shot her love scene with British hottie Jim Sturgess she couldn't even remember it. Apparently they're good friends and needed to get past the awkwardness. Sturgess told People, "It was brilliant for about half and an hour. As we continued to drink...it just became sloppy and messy. I couldn't stand up at one point."

Hey, fashion designers love Amy Winehouse. The bottle's a natural next muse.

Forever 21 [Style.com]
Kate Bosworth Blacks Out Her Steamy 21 Love Scene [People]

NYU Is Officially a Terrible Place to Attend College

Photo: Getty Images

NYU Falls in Eyes of Hopefuls [NYP]

Myers' Guru Not All the Raj with Hindus

Live-Blogging Barack Obama on ‘The View’

11:23: Joy: "I understand you are related to Brad Pitt?" Bats lashes.
Obama (modestly): "Well, he got the better-looking side of the gene pool."
Barbara: "I shouldn't say this, but we think you are very sexy-looking." Ew. No, Barbara, no, you shouldn't have said that. Whoopi is mortified.

11:25: "Let's get serious now," Barbara says, and asks a decent question someone has written for her. "When Don Imus was fired for his comments about the Rutgers team, you said, 'Nobody on my staff would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anyone in any ethnic group.'"

11:26: Obama starts out by saying the reverend is retired, then goes on about his church and how he's been going for twenty years and didn't have a research team on Reverend Wright and says that basically the reverend was a victim of his own ignorance and that the church is "a wonderful, welcoming place.… If you went, you would feel right at home." Whoopi looks skeptical. "You would see people talking about Jesus and mercy and sin and—"
Elizabeth: "And forgiveness!" She is such a teacher's pet. Whoopi rolls her eyes practically.

11:28: Barbara realizes he hasn't actually answered her question and tries to pull an answer out of him, but Elizabeth interrupts to gush about how awesome his speech at the Democratic National Convention was and how This Republican was ready to vote for him. "When you talked about One America, it captivated so many, and you transcended party lines," she says. Blah blah blah blah. Ew, this is embarrassing.
Obama: "It was a pretty good speech." Laughter! Ha-ha; he's so charming. Elizabeth finally gets to some point about Reverend Wright and Obama goes into his speech again, which is, by the way, the same speech as he gave in Philadelphia, and the camera pans out, and it's clear no one cares what he is saying because everyone is staring at his big brown eyes. Except Joy, who looks like maybe she is thinking about whether or not it's okay for her to have bread at lunch.

11:35(ish we had to rewind the DVR): Commercials for a domestic-abuse program, local news, and tampons.

11:39: Whoopi rouses herself and asks Obama, if he becomes president, what three things will he do first. He says he will call in the joint chiefs of staff and the whole security apparatus and tell them to begin a withdrawal from Iraq. This is a bold-faced lie. The first thing he would do is roll around on that crazy rug on the floor of the Oval Office. Wouldn't anyone? The second thing he says he will do is give every American health care. Everyone in the audience claps, like, yay! We can get our goiters removed!

11:40: Okay, she probably doesn't know she is doing it, but Barbara is looking straight at his crotch.

11:42: Then Obama starts talking about the energy crisis, which he will totally solve also on his first day in office. Everyone nods like they know what the hell he is talking about until he finishes. He looks like he is going to add a fourth thing, but then Joy comes to life and asks a question. They had John Kerry on, she says, and she had said to him that it's going to be a lot of pressure. "Will you be able to withstand the pressure machine?" she had asked. And he said yes. "And then he got Swift-boated, and, as you can see, he is not president," she finished.
Obama: "I had noticed that, yes." Swoon! He's so funny. Anyway, so her question is, Can he deal with it? The answer is, Duh. "I'm skinny, but I'm tough," he says. Swoon again!

11:46: So then Barbara asks if Michelle will sit in on cabinet meetings. Obama says no. "She doesn't have a burning desire to do that," he explains.
Whoopi: "You know what I have a burning desire to do right now?"
WHAT. OH, NO.
Thankfully, it's just a commercial break. Swiffers, Kotex, Band-Aids, Ferro Rochers, Clearblue Easy, Caduet for high cholesterol.

11:49: And we're back. Sherri tells Obama his speech changed her life; she was for Hillary, but now she's not, and she wants to leave The View to campaign for him!
Oh, but not really.
So then she asks about how the campaign has gotten dirty. Obama says he doesn't think it's dirty per se, but that it is contentious because he and Hillary Clinton both have passionate supporters who sometimes say things they shouldn't (cough, Samantha Power, cough). "Let's face it: The media loves it when people say crazy things."
That's true; we do. As does everyone — don't even get us started. "What I'm convinced of," Obama says, "is that, when this is all over, the Democrats will come together behind a nominee they can be proud of, in the same way that I believe that after I beat John McCain" — here he is interrupted by WILD APPLAUSE (because people love it when candidates say crazy shit) that goes on for a while. "And after I beat John McCain," he tries to continue. But then he either forgets what he was going to say, or more likely whatever the point was.
And, anyway, Elizabeth has a question she is dying to ask about the economy and, more importantly, her taxes, because apparently she is going broke supporting the other classes. He indicates that his plan on that front will be to make everyone happy. Yay! Applause.
Then it's time for another set of commercials (the Olive Garden, deli meats). And sad: Obama must go. Wild applause!
Fin

Totals :
Swoons: 6 at the home of Daily Intel, 478 in the studio audience
Funny jokes made by Obama: 3
Questions asked: 5
Questions answered: approximately 2 1/2
Wild applause at the littlest thing: 5

Ryan, what's up, this is Jason Preston calling. Umm, I'm calling on behalf of, I guess the column or whatever in Gawker.com, I guess you sent something in saying you saw me on the street today with a whole bunch of shit.

First of all, I just had my gym bag, that's all I had, a little, small, little Louis Vuitton gym bag.

And number two, my boots, they are $2,0000 fucking [unintelligible brand] boots, brah.

And three, as in the words of Lil' Kim, you should get your facts straight or Shut Up, Bitch, because you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

Wow. Our voice mailbox is so jealous.

Source: The Cut - New York Magazine's Fashion Blog | 28 Mar 2008 | 3:55 pm

Celine Sidelined by Sore Throat

Celine Dion's heart may go on, but her show won't. The ever-fragile Canadian chanteuse has been forced to postpone several concerts in Australia due to a throat infection, her reps have...

Source: E! Online - Top Stories | 28 Mar 2008 | 3:45 pm

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