Blabbermouth.net - White Plains, NY, USA - MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx has denied that the band has signed a $100-million-plus mega-deal with the giant Live Nation entertainment conglomerate.

"MÖTLEY CRÜE has not signed any deals," Nikki said in a statement. "Any information reported to the contrary is false and misleading."

The news of a supposed MÖTLEY CRÜE/Live Nation deal was reported earlier today by Robin Leach via his blog "Vegas Luxe Life with Robin Leach". The alleged deal was to cover three albums and three world tours, including no less than 169 concert dates as part of the first global journey.

"We'll actually have been together for 37 years

The Carpetbagger Report - USA - Many of us have come to enjoy MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann’s ‘Special Comments,” not only because they tend to highlight the outrages of the Bush administration in stark and powerful terms, but also because Olbermann has a tendency to say things no one else in television news is willing to say. When Olbermann gets into high dudgeon about torture, Iraq, or telecom immunity, it gives voice to a perspective that broadcast audiences simply never hear.

But last night, Olbermann went in a slightly different direction — he challenged Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in a surprisingly forceful way.

The impetus for Olbermann’s outrage was

Reality TV World - Mansfield, MA, USA - Elisabeth Hasselbeck apparently thinks there's more behind David Hernandez's American Idol seventh-season ouster than just a lack of home viewer votes for the former male stripper.

"My mind went, 'You know what?  This is a conspiracy," said Hasselbeck during Thursday morning's live The View broadcast on ABC.  "American Idol maybe didn't want to deal with the fact that he had this shady -- so-called -- past and they blocked all of his phone calls of people voting for him.'"

Hasselbeck's fellow The View co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar weren't necessarily buying what the former Survivor: The Australian Outback castaway was selling.

"They

Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park, NJ, USA - After being surrounded by the dramatic heavyweight stars of the Oscars, Jon Stewart will play host again, this time amid a bevy of comedians.

Stewart will host the second biannual "Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Benefit for Autism Education" on April 13 at the Beacon Theater in New York. The show will air live on Comedy Central at 8 p.m.

The night will feature stand-up routines, sketches and short films from a gluttony of comic talent, including Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert, Sarah Silverman and Amy Poehler.

It's the second such benefit and was