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Oscar Jitters | Caine and Quincy’s Blowout Party | Motolla Label-less Bratton: No Threats to L.A. But Orange Is Good Los Angeles’ new police chief, Bill Bratton, told me last night that the City of Angels has received no specific terrorist threats. In fact, Bratton plans on going to the …

Waksal’s Secret Visitor |Keanu’s Funds |Good and Bad Nemo |Flatley Goes to Russia |Radio Delight Martha Stewart’s Pal Hasa Secret Visitor Sam Waksal, waiting to see how much jail time he’ll get in the ImClone scandal, is having a regular visitor. No, it’s not indicted entertaining queen Martha Stewart. Associates …

Some day, travel agents may become as antiquated as in-flight meals in coach class. Thanks to Internet travel sites likeOrbitz,Travelocity andExpedia and cuts on commission by the airlines, travel agents have had to reinvent themselves to survive — or go out of business completely. “It’s a very tough time for …

Dear Viewers, This morning everyone, at the media center site outside the courthouse, was talking about one thing: the odor. There is a foul–choking–odor that has encompassed the entire area. We smelled this last week. It is incredibly bad and some have said they feel like the odor will cause …

50 Unloads 800,000 |Dateline‘s Supermarket Sweet Rapper 50 Cent Unloads 800,000 Who is the rapper named 50 Cent? Will we remember him in 2005? Not likely. But last week he sold 800,000 copies of his album, Get Rich or Die Tryin’. That brings his two-week total to 1.6 million, if …

Senator Obama has raised about twice the money John McCain has and that huge paid advertising advantage is helping Obama big time: 35 million people saw his infomercial Wednesday night. McCain was on “Larry King” — maybe 3 million people saw that. McCain could have been on “The Factor” and …

Farewell, Levi Stubbs | Madonna Stole Home | Billy Vs. Boss For Obama | Singers March On New York | Bronfman’s Stock Nearing Worthless Farewell, Levi Stubbs Arguably the greatest of all the lead singers of Motown groups, and perhaps all vocal groups of the rock era, Levi Stubbs has …

Well, I hope Senator Obama doesn not “hate” FOX News, but I think it is fair to say he doesn’t flip over us. That is fine, Senator. Here’s what isn’t: Blasting those who simply challenge you — challenge you on numbers that don’t add up and programs whose costs don’t …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Car Trouble We’ve told you the CEOs of the Big Three automakers came to Washington to plead for a federal bailout — but they didn’t fly commercial. ABC News online reports General Motors’ Rick Wagoner, Alan Mulally of Ford and Chrysler’s Robert …

Herat Province, Afghanistan – A Taliban sentry fired the first shots shortly after 2:30 a.m. as Afghan Commandos and U.S. Special Operations Command troops surrounded the compound at Aziz Abad. Though the Marine Special Operations Team had employed a daring deception to achieve surprise, they were heavily engaged by AK-47 …