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‘Desperate’ To Fill A Hole?

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Saturday’s Daily News contained a Dan Gross article on page 2 about Teri Hatcher and her love for Philadelphia. Apparently, Teri Hatcher loves Philadelphia! It was written about in a magazine! This is the biggest thing to happen here since independence!

Gross writes:

For a cover story in the current American Way magazine, the “Desperate Housewives” star chose Our Town as her favorite place to visit. She gushes about sights, restaurants and nightlife to the magazine, which is found on American Airlines flights and online at americanwaymag.com.

We began to think something was fishy when we read how she replied when asked about dancing in town. Hatcher says, “Philadelphia primarily has a lounge and a hip-hop scene, but there are a couple of great dance scenes too,” and called Tommy Up’s Mojito parties “the best.” Nothing against Tommy’s party, but we had to question the level of detail in her description of the event. [...]

Tommy Up, who was in Maui last night when reached by phone, saw the story on a plane and was thrilled, sending out an e-mail to his mailing list that he’s going to “go to LA and make out with her and make babies.”

Coming later this week, an article about Dean Cain, and how he expressed his love for Philadelphia in Delta Sky.

Dan Gross | If Teri ’s desperate, it’s for Philly [DN]
Desperate for a getaway? [American Way]

‘World News Tonight’ Hits The News Like A Linebacker

Dear World News Tonight:

I appreciate the esposé into the name Neveah, the fastest-growing name in the United States since we started keeping track of these things. I was surprised that it is now a more popular name than Melissa or even Amy. (Those are both better names, people! Sigh.) I admit, I tuned in with just two minutes to go in your broadcast so I could catch Jeopardy, but I don’t know if this was the best use of two minutes of your 22-minute broadcast.

But I’ve come up with a short list of some stories that might’ve replaced that ‘Neveah’ story for approximately 9 percent of your broadcast. Perhaps you covered all of these; I’m not sure. (As I said, I was watching a Tivo’ed Simpsons beforehand.) Anyway, here goes: The possible war with Iran, the genocide in Darfur, the general uneasiness of the NSA, Network neutrality on the Internet, he incredible cuteness of puppies, the current whereabouts of Yakov Smirnoff (he graduated from Penn earlier this week!) and, finally, a feature on me. I’m not really all that interesting of a guy, but I have long hair and I’m going to get it cut soon. Isn’t that worthy of a story?

Anyway, just wanted to send this along. Thanks.

And, seriously, people named their kid Neveah because the lead singer of P.O.D. did so?

Related:
Mazel Tov, Eel 8. Refinnej [Gawker]
Why Wasn’t This on the NYT’s Front Page? [Freakonomics]

Stop the presses!

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Powerball Drawing Tonight [6 ABC]