Teri Hatcher Tells Too Much and more

[Entertainment Week]
Lois Lane is lonely but loud this week, the music industry may be fixed, literary and Kerry Rickard tells you why breeding licenses are a great idea.
Okay, so the Oscars are over and Brokeback Mountain didn’t win Best Picture, proving once again that awards ceremonies are completely fixed. The dresses are the biggest surprise of the evening. But you really don’t care by now, anyway.

Television

Teri Hatcher really wants us to know what’s going on for her this week. Us Weekly is announcing the Desperate Housewives star’s failed attempts to get warm and fuzzy with George Clooney, Oscar-winning bachelor smoothie extraordinaire.

Well, actually, Us Weekly quotes a source who said there may indeed have been some fuzzy, during which both parties were probably warm, but this was apparently not enough to get Clooney to hang out with Hatcher and her 8-year-old daughter. It’s not like George has ever hidden his inability to commit.

Then Hatcher enlightened Glamour about her Botox and collagen use. Although claiming to have let nature take its course over the last year or so, Hatcher is known to have been desperate to avoid any and all signs of aging. Small wonder – at 41, she looks far sexier than she did as Superman’s Lois Lane. Her career (and paycheque) seems to prove it’s paying off.

Finally, April’s Vanity Fair issue features a vamped-up Teri, wrapped up in a white sweater and thong, spread on the cover with the caption “This is something I’ve tried to hide my whole life. I haven’t tried to kill myself, but I’ve certainly thought about it.” According to Vanity, “this” refers to Teri’s sexual abuse at the hands of her uncle, Richard Stone.

Hatcher came forward in 2002 and went to prosecutors after she learned that another victim of her uncle, a 14-year-old girl, committed suicide. Stone, then 64, was convicted on four counts of molestation and sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Music

My faith in the music industry has been entirely shattered. Earlier this week, a lawsuit was filed by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer claiming that Entercom Communications Corp., an American company which owns more than 100 radio stations, is receiving gifts and cash from record companies in order to play certain songs.

Emails and memos from Entercom executives referring to the bribes (or “payolas”) have been subpoenaed by Spitzer, and contain quotes such as “These [pay-offs] are not optional. They come from corporate and generate millions of dollars for Entercom."

And a message from a program director at Buffalo’s WKSE to Columbia Records in 2003: "Do you need help on Jessica (Simpson) this week? ... if you don't need help I certainly don't need to play it."

For shame! You mean we, the radio-listening public, aren’t picking the tunes? The record charts are false? (Well, it’s one explanation of how Eiffel 65 got as far as they did.) Next they’ll be telling me that wrestling is fixed, too…

Britney’s breeding again. As Weekly Scoop reports, the timing is bad: delinquent husband K-Fed has been caught with another woman – you know, the other woman we all suspected he was dating all along? Possibly the one “PopoZão!" is about? (Because last I checked, Brit isn’t Brazilian.)

Dear Britney: I told you to stop having babies in order to solve your marriage problems last time, you silly girl! Why don’t these people have to get breeding licenses?! Isn’t the whole point of a dog license or a driving license to prove that you can be responsible and take ownership for something without harming other people? Shouldn’t your child be held up to the same standards as your Chihuahua?

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