Larry King has quite an admirer. And it’s not because of his suspenders.
Osama Bin Laden “is a Larry King fan,” Peter Bergen, author of the new book “The Osama bin Laden I Know,” told the New York Daily News. Bergen, a CNN analyst, said the al-Qaeda leader is a “news junkie. He’s not living in a cave – he’s living somewhere with more amenities. His most recent statements show a Talmudic attention to the news.”
So, maybe King will shout out in that gravelly tone on his next show: “Our next caller, Osama, from Pakistan!”
Mariska Hargitay’s pregnancy will not be written into the scripts of “Law & Order: Special; Victims Unit.”
Hargitay, 42, who plays NYPD Detective Olivia Benson on the NBC series, revealed the news on her blog, saying “the producers have decided not to make Olivia pregnant, so I won’t be in a few episodes.” The first child for Hargitay and husband Peter Hermann will be a boy, the New York Post reported this week.
Jessica Simpson is not over her estranged husband Nick Lachey. Star magazine reports Simpson called Lachey during an NFL playoff game on Jan. 15. He ignored the first call but answered the second, saying it was a bad time. A source told Star: “She asked what he was doing. Nick told her: ‘It doesn’t matter what I’m doing! Just stop calling me!”‘
Does Paul McCartney want to be Abraham Lincoln?
A British council told the former Beatle he must remove a log cabin on his estate in East Sussex. McCartney wanted to keep the two-bedroom lodge to maintain his privacy, but the Rother District Council’s planning committee ruled against him. McCartney will appeal, his reps told the London Evening-Standard.
Eva Longoria and Jamie Foxx have denied rumors of romance between the two at Mary J. Blige’s after-party for the Golden Globes.
Longoria long has been dating San Antonio Spurs player Tony Parker. Foxx, 38, dismissed the reported hugging and hand-holding with the “Desperate Housewives” star, who also appeared in his video for his “Unpredictable” hit single.
“I told Tony I would look after her,” said Foxx, who admitted he was still looking for a date to the March 5 Academy Awards.
Woody Allen has signed a contract on a townhouse on East 70th Street off Park Avenue, the New York Daily News reports. The property was listed at $25 million, but sources told the news the “Match Point” director got the price dropped to just more than $20 million. A year ago, Allen sold his East 92nd Street townhouse for $25 million.
– Compiled by Greg Henry from wire and Internet reports
Pot for arthritis made Turner “silly”
Kathleen Turner admitted rheumatoid arthritis caused her so much pain she resorted to smoking marijuana. Quoted by contactmusic.com, Turner, 51, afflicted for 10 years, said, “I tried pot just recently because people say it takes away the pain too, but all it did was make me dumb and silly, so I didn’t try that again.” We don’t think she was smoking anything when this pic was taken.
