The defense wrapped up its testimony yesterday in the Michael Jackson child molestation and conspriacy case with Chris Tucker, and the rebuttal phase of the trial began. Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville ruled this morning that jurors could view a police interview videotape with Jackson’s teenage accuser during which the …

Thumper’s observation about the frozen lake is one of my favorite lines from any movie, and the great 1942 Disney film from which it comes, Bambi, freshly digitally restored, is now available on DVD and will be given a special theatrical showing by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and …

I haven’t mentioned London’s super cool Playlist Club — the free digital music club, where You – Are – The – DJ — in a while, and for that I hang my head. Our friends at the Playlist Club are holding a special session on June 1, 2005 in the …

Comedian-actor Chris Tucker wrapped up his testimony for the defense in the Michael Jackson trial today and the defense then rested its case shortly after 11 am PT after calling 50 witnesses over a surprisingly short 15-day period. Tucker ran through his experiences with Jackson’s accuser and his family, whom …

I am happy and honored to be appearing live and via podcast on the Subject 2 Discussion show, on LVRocks.com out of Las Vegas, tonight at 6:15 pm PT/9:15 pm ET with Shaun Daily, former Clinton/Gore 96 National Steering Committee member and interview dude extraordinaire. Shaun’s blog for the show …

Just kidding: Bo will be on tour with American Idol all summer regardless of what happens tonight. Nonetheless, the most narowly defined reality show yet is coming to CBS beginning July 11, Rock Star: INXS, which will be hosted by former Jane’s Addiction and Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist and …

On the stand in the Michael Jackson trial yesterday, Jay Leno — the penultimate defense witness, preceding actor Chris Tucker — contradicted previous defense assertions that Jackson’s accuser and his family had asked him for money when the boy was suffering from cancer and receiving chemotherapy treatment in 2000. “I …

Comedic actor, director, and voice-over great Howard Morris — who died Saturday at the age of 85 — had his hands all over some of television’s finest shows over a 50-year career. Morris was an indispensable cast member — along with Carl Reiner, Imogene Coca, and Louis Nye — of …

Yesterday in Los Angeles, Superior Court Judge Larry P. Fidler ruled that prosecutors can introduce evidence in Phil Spector’s upcoming murder trial suggesting a long “history of threatening women” before he was charged with killing actress Lana Clarkson in his Alhambra home over two years ago. Deputy District Attorney Doug …

Drinking, passengering and smoking were a near-deadly combination for Jeff Foran, 38. After a night of heavy drinking last Saturday, May 21, Foran asked his buddy Jerry Glenn Nelson, 44, to perform designated driver duties and the pair was driving eastbound at about 60 mph on Arkanas 234 near the …