April 11, 2006

First Up: It’s official: Katie Couric will leave The Today Show to anchor The CBS Evening News.  Meredith Vieria will leave the The View and take her place.  And, if Star Jones loses any more weight, she has a shot at hosting Monster-Fest on AMC.
Item 2:  The Rolling Stones performed in China for the first time in their career.  According to concertgoers, an hour after the show, they wanted to see them again.
Item 3: 

Super-Model Naomi Campbell, charged (again) with assault after throwing her cell phone at her maid, claims (again) that the whole incident was a misunderstanding.  The maid disagrees, and says the last thing Naomi said to her was, “It’s for you.”

Item 4: 

According to the Los Angeles Times, there is growing concern that U2 lead singer Bono could go blind because he always wears sunglasses.  Doctors say he already has trouble seeing things on the right.

Item 5: Dateline--Mexico City, Mexico A 1,500 year-old- pyramid was discovered in the capital city.  In a related story, political scientists in the US discovered a 63-year-old pyramid scam called Social Security.
Item 6: Dateline--Israel Sharon Stone declared, “I would kiss just about anybody for peace in The Middle East.”  I think she’s sincere.  She’s always been pro Middle East.  During the interrogation scene in Basic Instinct, she showed off her Sinai Peninsula and her Gaza Strip.  In fact, I got a tingle in my Golan Heights.