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Rosie and The Donald at war

Rosie O’Donnell and Donald Trump are at war.

The trouble started this past Wednesday when Rosie openly called Trump a “snake-oil salesman” following Tuesday’s announcement that he would not fire Miss USA Tara Conner. The war continued on Thursday when O’Donnell made more comments on the View and went on to post her thoughts on her blog.

“What a fun night of viewing,” O’Donnell said on the air about the TV news coverage of her feud with the star of The Apprentice.

Trump fired back in his own so eloquent way in a segment on ET The Insider:

Trump plans to sue her for questioning his financial situation as she had stated on her blog that Trump had been near bankruptcy in the early 90’s. As you hopefully saw when you watched the video, Trump threatened to have some men woo O’Donnell’s companion, Kelli Carpenter. O’Donnell stated on Fridays “The View” “I brought Kelli here today. I was afraid to leave her at home, in case someone with a comb-over came over and stole her from me.”

I’m beginning to think that Barbara Walters made a big mistake in hiring Rosie for The View. Last week she offended the Chinese and this week she’s gunning for Trump. Who will she set her sights on next week I wonder?

Neverending link, neverending advertising

by Tricia

A website named the neverending link has come up with an interesting advertising concept.

They’ve created a site where each line in an ongoing story is made up of a link to another website or online store.

It makes for an interesting read. It’s kind of like one of those memes or forum topics where someone starts a story with a sentence and the next person that comes along adds in another line and so on and so on until you have several very interesting paragraphs of story text. It’s exactly like that but it’s made up of links.

The first 500 words used in this ongoing advertisement are free, then the next 500 words cost .50 cents a word and so on, and so on.

If you’re interested go and see the site now as I’d say the words are still in the lower price range right now, but as the site gets more popular the price per word will increase. Even if you only have a blog or simple website it might be worth trying this out as form of advertising.

This race is for the dogs

by Tricia

Britney Spears voted worst dog owner 2006 Who comes up with these things?

Apparently Oprah Winfrey is top dawg when it comes to caring for her pets, where as Britney Spears is the worlds worst dog owner according to an online vote by readers of The New York Dog and The Hollywood Dog magazines.

”She once had three Chihuahuas . . . and never left home without at least one of them on her arm,” the magazines’ editor said. “As soon as she met K-Fed and had kids they [the dogs] disappeared.”

Paris Hilton hasn’t improved much. She was last years “worst” winner, and this year she moved up to second worst for “treating her dogs like accessories.”

Winfrey, the owner of five dogs, was voted this year’s best celebrity dog owner. The talk-show host replaced 2005 winner Joss Stone, and beat off competition from Tori Spelling and Nicollette Sheridan.

11th annual Satellite Awards

by Tricia

The 11th Anniversary Satellite awards were held on December 17th.

These awards are judged by the International Press Academy which is composed of accredited domestic and foreign journalists. The awards honor film and television productions in more than 30 different categories.

Dreamgirls – picked up three awards with Jennifer Hudson earning an award for Actress in a supporting role. Dreamgirls Director Bill Condon tied with Flags of Our fathers director Clint Eastwood for Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical.

Here’s a list of the award winners:

Actress in a Supporting Role – Jennifer Hudson
Helen Mirren – Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama, for The Queen
Meryl Streep- Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical for The Devil Wears Prada
Peter Morgan – Screenplay, Original, for The Queen
Judy Davis – Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for A Little Thing Called Murder
Bill Nighy – Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for Gideon’s Daughter
Kyra Sedgwick – Actress in a Series, Drama, for The Closer
Hugh Laurie – Actor in a Series, Drama, for House

The Departed – Motion Picture, Drama
Volver – Motion Picture, Foreign Language
Miniseries To the Ends of the Earth
Motion Picture Made for Television A Little Thing Called Murder
Television Series, Drama House
Television Series, Comedy or Musical Ugly Betty

For a complete list of Satellite Award winners, visit www.pressacademy.com.

Rupert Everett quits Reality program

by Tricia

British actor Rupert Everett walked out of a celebrity version of reality TV show The Apprentice after just one day, because he hated being treated like a Big Brother contestant.

The 47-year-old star couldn’t stand the intrusiveness of the cameras and microphones on Celebrity Apprentice, a show created for British charity Comic Relief.

He says, “It is just so different from doing a feature film. I went in with good intentions but I just could not cope with the Big Brother mentality.”

Everett was one of ten celebrities, including Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole, to take part in the show, which will be aired in Britain in March 2007.

Rosie and The Donald at war

Neverending link, neverending advertising

This race is for the dogs

11th annual Satellite Awards

Rupert Everett quits Reality program

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