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Michael's Dermatologist: "To The Best Of My Knowledge, I'm Not The Father"

Tracie — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:00:00 EDT

This morning, GMA aired an interview with Dr. Arnold Klein, Michael Jackson's dermatologist (for whom Debbie Rowe once worked). He told Diane Sawyer, "To the best of my knowledge, I'm not the father" of Prince and Paris.

Since Jackson's death, it's been rumored that Dr. Klein — sort of a cross between Larry Flynt and Harvey Pekar — was the sperm donor for his two oldest children. It was a strange way to phrase a denial of those rumors. Klein also told Sawyer that he'd been aware of some of the drugs that Michael was taking, but not to the extent that was later discovered. Klein, who treated Jackson for Lupus and Vitiligo, also remarked on how unhappy he was with plastic surgeons who continued to work on Jackson's face and didn't know when to stop

Salma Hayek's Breasts Designated As New U.N. Ambassadors To Starving Children

Kyle Buchanan — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:22:53 EST

Though her stint on 30 Rock has been drubbed throughout the blogosphere, Salma Hayek's campaign to win over television viewers has just taken a startling new turn: breastfeeding strangers on camera.

In Africa with Diane Sawyer for Nightline, Hayek met a one-year-old who'd been born on the same day as her own daughter Valentina and was so moved by the coincidental bond that she popped out a breast and offered it to the grateful, suckling child. Adults who were born on the same day as Valentina will probably not be as lucky. (Also: Hey, Salma Hayek actually does speak English in a clear and natural manner! If only she could take a tip from real-life Salma's diction instead of hopelessly enunciating her 30 Rock dialogue as though she were a Grammy-addled Whitney Houston.)

Salma Hayek Breastfed An African Baby On Nightline [Videogum]

Jeremy Piven Fishes For Redemption With Diane Sawyer

Kyle Buchanan — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:02:25 EST

Maybe Jeremy Piven isn't off the mercury—after all, his attempt to justify his recent behavior to Good Morning America was oilier than a soy sauce-slathered eel roll.

And the dodges. So dodgy! Check out this masterful response, after Diane Sawyer brings up the fact that Piven's play-quitting "mercury poisoning" didn't prevent him from hitting the clubs at night: "Let's be really clear: David Mamet is one of the greatest American playwrights." OK then? Strangely, things get even worse from there, as Piven condescends to Sawyer's questions with baleful eyebrows, slowed-down "I'll explain this for the stupids" talking, and such frequent, pointed use of Sawyer's own name that we started taking bets on when he'd call her "glib." Still, kudos to GMA for deciding that when Sawyer read a pull quote about mercury poisoning, one of the interns should mock up a graphic featuring a golden, rotating fish. Delicious (but dangerous!). [GMA]

Diane Keaton Says 'Fucking' On GMA! Are You Not Entertained?

Seth — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:49:09 EST

The Mad Money morning show tour made another stop at GMA today, but unlike the zonked-yet-consummately-ladylike presence of Katie Holmes, an animated Diane Keaton seemed in full command of her mental faculties, if somewhat lacking in the ladylike department.

During an inspired riff in which she coveted Diane Sawyer ripe, pillowy lips, the iconic screen comedienne lamented how scoring such a genetic good fortune would have allowed her the luxury of not having "to work on my fucking personality." However many millions the slip ends up costing ABC in FCC fines, however, we'd argue was worth it, for it really required something as potent as an f-bomb dropped by a toilet-mouthed showbiz veteran in a turtleneck to finally dispel the stubborn whiff of brainwashing hanging around the studio since yesterday's broadcast.

The Mel Gibson Redemption Tour: Part I: Monsters And Drunkards

Mark — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:35:44 EDT

Knowing that Diane Sawyer's "get" of Mel Gibson for the first televised stop on his Official "Hey, Me And The Jews Are Totally Cool Now" Redemption Tour will be a ratings bonanza, ABC News has already started chumming the media's shark tank with sound-bitable morsels from the coming interview on its website (which, apparently, is so bursting with the supplicating goodness that only a recently humiliated Hollywood superstar can deliver that it must be spread over two days). The first such quote features Gibson's obligatory dismissal of his anti-Semitic tirade as the devil-juice-fueled ramblings of a monster, pretty much in those exact words:

Sawyer asked Gibson what caused his comments on the night of his arrest.
Diane Sawyer: "What did you think it was?"

Mel Gibson: "Me? It was just the stupid rambling of a drunkard, you know and ... what I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said. So, this is the last thing I want to be is that kind of monster," Gibson said.

ABCNews.com promises more excerpts later on today, which may or may not include the actor's explanation of how alcohol gave him the peculiar power to identify his arresting officer as a member of the war-mongering tribe whose bar mitzvahs his desperate, damage-controlling publicist has long ago committed him to attend.

Mel Gibson Speaks Out [ABC News]
Previously: Jewish Community Not Counting 'Apocalypto' Screenings Towards Mel Gibson's Public Apology Commitments [Defamer]