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Dennis Miller to pop off on Fox News
Dennis Miller is about to land where he should have been all the time — on Fox News.
The cranky comedian has become increasingly caustic and political over the years, and now we hear he’ll be popping off on Fox’s “Hannity & Colmes” come fall.
Miller was fresh and funny when he launched his career on “Saturday Night Live” in 1985. He was terrific on “Weekend Update.” But that was pretty much the peak of his funniness. His syndicated late-night talker “The Dennis Miller Show” was fairly dull, and his HBO show, “Dennis Miller Live,” went from dull to semi-funny to simply weary.
Now he’s going to “weigh in on news and politics,” according to Fox news, beginning Sept. 13. I’m pretty sure I can skip that segment.
J.R. and who?
If you follow these things, you’ve probably heard the news that J-Lo has backed out of the big-screen version of “Dallas”
Jennifer Lopez seemed like the wrong choice to play J.R.’s drunken bride Sue Ellen anyway. It’s hard to picture J-Lo being dominated by anybody, especially J.R. as played by John Travolta.
No word on who will replace Lopez in this pivotal role, but they need to look for a fading beauty queen who can slur her words. Hollywood is bound to be heavily populated by such women.
With the exception of Travolta, none of the cast is officially signed, but I have trouble with the other names that are floating around for principal roles. Luke Wilson as brother Bobby Ewing? I don’t think so. Shirley MacLaine as sweet Miss Ellie? Maybe, but isn’t she getting a little old, even for a “Dallas” movie?
For those of you who missed the “Who Shot J.R.” phenomenon entirely, “Dallas” was a mega-hit primetime soap that ran on CBS from 1978 to 1991.
Exciting reality TV news!
Just kidding … “Urgent” e-mail press release from WE lets us know that a new reality series called “Hair Trauma” will air on Wednesdays at 9 p.m. this fall. Mark your calendars (and alert your follicles) for Oct. 11.
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By Hal
August 15, 2006 8:55 AM | Link to this
“Hair Trauma� on WE starting 10/11? Yuck! Viewers would do better to buy the season 1 DVDs of WE's cancelled "McLeod's Daughters" being released the week before. MD fans (mostly female) were up in arms, and down on the network, over the cancellaton after season 3 in favor of "degrading" shows like “Hair Trauma�, but to no avail.
By Jim Nelson
August 8, 2006 4:16 PM | Link to this
Diane Holloway lazy? Now, that is a real joke!! As far as her remarks about Dennis Miller moving to Fox - who cares that he worked for them previously. No one on regularly scheduled TV programming wants him, since he is poison to a ratings system. Even his HBO specials are low rated, since he has completely allowed his political views to substitute for geniune comedy. A lot of personalities state their political view, but Dennis is like a Ann Coulter - and we are better off with both of them being on Fox where fair and balanced is a complete forest.
By Pat Doyle
August 7, 2006 4:33 PM | Link to this
A fitting funeral: maybe he and Joe Lieberman can co-host.
By N
August 7, 2006 11:36 AM | Link to this
Ms Holloway,
Your personal political views are clouding your ability to report the real story. Big surprise for someone who "writes" for the Statesman. Right?
Perhaps you could exhibit to the reading audience that you aren't as lazy as you profess to be by actually contacting the office of Dennis Miller and asking for his response to the question of why he is returning to the FOX News channel after lambasting it for the last two years. Apparently unbeknownst to you, Mr. Miller is simply repeating a gig he had with FOX two years ago.
But then again, you're pretty sure you can skip that segment.
Nathan Cliett
By Susan
August 7, 2006 10:45 AM | Link to this
Sharon Stone would be a perfect Sue Ellen.