Be Kind to Lawyers Day is Tuesday, April 8th — insert laugh track here. With apologies to our gal pals and a coupla other folks who pass muster — Shelly Steinbach, are you listening? — we think this new holiday will go over pretty much like lead balloons. Probably good for some joke fodder on Leno and Letterman, tho, and parfait for Colbert. No doubt Hallmark will eventually produce cards for this one. Everyone has a holiday, or so it seems.
A crusader we admire, Thor Halvorssen, wrote a piece on the Fox News Web site about celebrities, Chavez and Venezuela that we think bears a read; check it out. Sean Penn. Rhymes with nut. We think Thor will one day become an ambassador, if not a senator. We applaud his work at the humanrightsfoundation.org. He may be the youngest person out there — he's just 32 — making the biggest impact on these issues. This is a person to watch — elegant and a genius thinker with the tenacity of a pitbull.
Chelsea Clinton: MORE candid by the day. Have ya noticed? Nothing to lose so she's going for it for Mommy. Monday in North Carolina, she (politely) slammed the Bush administration and once again refused to answer the Bill and Monica question. Speaking of: What is Monica doing these days? And wonder who she is supporting in this election? Be a good get to chase her down TMZ-style and ask. Be funnier still if she turned up at a Hillary rally with Bill on the stump.
Barbara Walters sure seemed "Obamacized" on "The View." Babs was dazzled by his star-power, and she herself is a star-maker. Elisabeth was probably watching the interview and dying deep down to dub him a socialist. We think she has big stones to represent, yo, for the cute conservatives chicks. Whoopi has been oddly restrained and thoughtful, we must add — not the lightening rod that some predicted.
If you were to, say, … cut off Madonna's head and Photoshop out the breasts, those arms of hers would look much like those of a 110-pound high school wrestler, no? Or a bantam weight boxer. Fierce but not exactly girlie.
— Andrea Billups, The Washington Times
