Sample lyrics:
I’ll be there for you
When the rain starts to pour
I’ll be there for you
Like I’ve been there before
I’ll be there for you
‘Cause you’re there for me, too

  She’s everywhere. She’s everywhere. 

  Former Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin opens up to Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity at 9 tonight during another stop on her news media blitz to promote her memoir “Going Rogue.”

Hannity asks some questions that probably reflect his own opinions on President Obama and other issues. But Palin handles herself well and looks good.
She is what she is and some people love her for that.

Here are some of her comments which were released by Fox News Channel today:

ON WHETHER SHE THINKS FORT HOOD WAS AN ACT OF TERRORISM
“ I certainly do, and I think that there were massive warning flags that were missed all over the place, and I think that it was quite unfortunate that, to me, it was a fear of being politically incorrect to not—I am going to use the word—profile this guy, profile in the sense of finding out what his radical beliefs were.”

“Now, because I used the word profile, I am going to get clobbered tomorrow morning.  The liberals, their heads are just going to be spinning.  They’re going to say she is radical, she is extreme.”

“But I say profiling in the context of doing whatever we can to save innocent American lives, I’m all for it, then.”

ON THE ROLE SHE WOULD LIKE TO PLAY IN THE FUTURE
“I want to help those worthy causes like special needs, making sure that our world is a more welcoming world for the most special ones. Don’t know if necessarily that means running for higher office, but you know, my life is in God’s hands, and I’m seeking that path that he would have me on.”

“You’re going to hear a lot from me.  So, you know, the haters are going to have a whole lot of material.  Tina Fey, she may have a whole lot of material coming up.”

ON WHERE SHE’LL BE IN 2012

“I do not know.  I wish that I could predict and – and prepare for what’s going to happen in four years.”

ON HER WORST CAMPAIGN MOMENTS

“[M]y personal e-mails being hacked and then being broadcast around the world.”

ON THE NEWSWEEK COVER PHOTO OF HER
“It was just—just another little shot.”

“But in the grand scheme of things, of course, things like that really don’t amount to a hill of beans, when there are many things that are going wrong, something’s going right, but something’s going wrong in our country that people want to hear about and talk about.” 

“I think that the American people, they’re tiring of the tabloidization of some people, like me.  And they want to get to the issues.”

ON THE LETTERMAN ATTACK AND WHETHER SHE WILL GO ON HIS SHOW
“[I]t’s sexist and it’s—it exploits an innocent child and—and I don’t think it’s cool.  I don’t think it’s funny.”

“I’m not out for vindication.  But I’m thinking practically, economically, in—in terms of David Letterman is that I don’t want to boost his ratings.  So, no, I have no desire to.”

ON CAMPAIGNING WITH MCCAIN
“And 95 percent, though, of the campaign was absolutely amazing, awesome, invigorating, energizing.” 

“And unfortunately, you know, not enough pages available in a book to get to describe all of that, but about the 5 percent of the conflict is in the book.”

ON PRESIDENT OBAMA’S “GIFTS”
“As a person, I think he’s very charismatic, quite articulate.  Very,very talented as a politician”

“I’d like to see him put all of those God-given talents that he’s so full of to better use for America.”

ON WHETHER SHE THINKS PRESIDENT OBAMA’S “RADICAL”
“I will not hesitate to say that his associates have been extremely radical and we see that then in some of the appointments he has made.”

ON WHETHER SHE THINKS PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS A PRE-9/11 MENTALITY
“There are some actions that are being taken today that would make someone assume that that is what is that mentality is.”

ON OBAMA’S POSITION ABOUT TALKING TO AHMADINEJAD
“I do believe that [President Obama] has evolved from that position that he took as a candidate, and he realizes now you cannot make such a promise, not when you’re dealing with these mad men, who do want to destroy America and wipe like Israel off the face of the earth.”

“[T]here are other countries that we need to start putting pressure on, like Russia, and make sure that Russia is recognizing too that we’re not going to put up with those threats of this Iranian regime that is so threatening and so controlling.”

ON THE UNITED STATES’ RELATIONSHIP WITH CHINA
“Well, we have to start cleaning up our own house here in America and not so much—well, it’s going to be twofold—but we can’t just look at China and blame them for some kind of trade imbalance.  It’s also our fault, because we had spent so much money.”

ON THE KATIE COURIC QUESTIONS AND HOW SHE WOULD ANSWER THEM DIFFERENTLY
“She asked about what I read, and I read—I read Newsmax and the Frontiersman and Wall Street Journal and everything online.  I absorb the news via many, many sources.”

ON HOW SHE WOULD REACH OUT TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE A TINA FEY-LIKE “CARICATURE IMAGE” OF HER
“They need to start by reading my book and not believing the tabloidization or the mainstream media that wants to portray me as something that I am not.”

“Read the book, my own words, and then judge me by that.  Judge me by record.  Judge me by my accomplishments as a mayor and a city manager and an oil regulator and a governor, and then if they still hate me, well, so be it.”

ON THE BIGGEST FOREIGN POLICY CHALLENGE FACING THE COUNTRY

“Fighting the war on terror, still.”

ON WHETHER SHE WORRIES ABOUT HER SON IN THE MILITARY SERVING UNDER PRESIDENT OBAMA

“I want to make sure that my son and that every soldier, that every member of our military is equipped to the fullest, and has a commander in chief who is fully, fully committed to their mission.”

This sounds like my kind of show:

Jason Lee, who starred for four seasons on “My Name Is Earl,” has been cast in the lead role of the TNT pilot “Delta Blues.”

He will play Dwight Hendricks, a Memphis police officer who lives with his mother and moonlights as an Elvis impersonator.  But is it a drama or a comedy?

The pilot comes from George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures and Warner Horizon Television.

It will be directed by Emmy® nominee Clark Johnson (“The Shield”) from a script by Liz M. Garcia (“Cold Case”) and actor Joshua Harto (“The Dark Knight”)

“Jason Lee is the ideal choice to bring the compelling, off-kilter Dwight Hendricks to life,” said Michael Wright, executive vice president, head of programming for TNT, TBS and Turner Classic Movies (TCM).  “With extraordinary talent in front of and behind the camera, along with an outstanding script, “Delta Blues” is shaping up to be a hugely entertaining show and a great fit with our lineup of original dramas.”

Lee’s career includes two Golden Globe nominations and two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for his starring role as Earl Hickey on the hit comedy series “My Name Is Earl.”

Ken Ober, who may be best remembered as host of the 1980s MTV game show “Remote Control,” was found dead in his apartment Sunday. He was 52.

  The cause of death has not been disclosed yet. Ober reportedly had complained of headaches and flu-like symptoms on Saturday night.

  Ober was an actor, comic and producer. In adition to guest appearances on TV shows he helped produce TV show such as “Mind of Mencia” and “The New Adventures of Old Christine.”

  I had a chance to interview Ober in the 1980s when the third season of “Remote Control” was taped on location in Orlando at the Disney Studios.  He hosted five seasons of the trivia game show beginning in 1987.  He also hosted three more game shows including a revived version of “Make Me Laugh” in 1997.

Contestants in lounge chairs were asked pop-culture questions from categories such as “Dead or Canadian?” The show featured early appearances by comedians Adam Sandler, Denis Leary and Colin Quinn. It was one of the early departures from the MTV music video format.

Ober, who was born Ken Oberding in Massachusetts, is survived by his parents and a brother.

Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly will sit down with Lou Dobbs in a primetime and cable exclusive interview tonight at 8.

The interview will cover Dobbs’ resignation, career and views on immigration. There has been speculation that Dobbs might join Fox News. However, Fox officials say there have been no disccussions with Dobbs about future employment.

Dobbs resigned from CNN last week.

Sure, it’s fun to go shopping at a great record store, but sometimes you just like to watch.

“What’s In My Bag?” is a series of videos in which musicians, celebrities and regular Joes and Joanies show off their purchases at Amoeba Records, the indie record store mecca in Hollywood, which also has stores in San Francisco and Berkeley.

Yep - record shopping porn. Be careful watching at work.

Anyway, assuming you want to peak in the shopping bags of Dave Grohl, Rosanna Arquette or Leslie Hall, head over to the store’s site and get an eyeful.

Here’s one of my favorites, featuring DJ Lance of the coolest kids’ show around, “Yo Gabba Gabba.” He’s not only a sartorial wonder but he knows his wax, too.

Lou Dobbs’ exit from CNN has made at least three media watchdog groups happy. 

The National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC), Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) and Media Matters have joined nearly a dozen other groups who celebrated his departure, including the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the Hispanic Institute, America’s Voice, the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO) and Presente.org, an online advocacy group that had founded its own BastaDobbs.com campaign.

The Hispanic Media Coalition accuses Dobbs of anti-Hispanic hate speech and wants him off the radio, too.

Dobbs, known for his rants against illegal aliens, was often accused of making outrageous and inaccurate statements. He also accused the president of being a socialist and a fascist, and played in the Birther conspiracy with claims Obama is ineligible to be president because he wasn’t born in the United States.

According to FAIR, “since 2003, Dobbs regularly used his CNN platform to issue misleading and alarmist warnings about the threats posed by undocumented immigrants.”

In a FAIR statement, the organization noted:

Dobbs has spoken of an “army of invaders” scheming to reannex parts of the southwestern U.S. to Mexico (3/31/06), claimed that “illegal alien smugglers and drug traffickers are on the verge of ruining some of our national treasures” (11/19/03) and declared that “the invasion of illegal aliens is threatening the health of many Americans” (4/14/05).

Repeated segments on Dobbs’ show were devoted to “illegal aliens” getting free medical care (10/1/03), putting their children in schools (10/2/03), committing sex crimes (10/30/03), getting breaks on college tuition (10/22/03), clogging up the federal prison system (11/4/03) and “flooding across our borders in some cases carrying dangerous diseases” (11/20/03). More recently, Dobbs (3/9/09) promoted a misleading report that suggested hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants would get jobs due to the government stimulus program.

Dobbs was challenged by CBS host Lesley Stahl (5/6/07) about his erroneous suggestion (4/14/05) that immigrants were causing an alarming increase in leprosy in the United States. Dobbs’ remarkable response—“If we reported it, it’s a fact”—was just as incorrect as his original reporting (which, it turned out, was based on inaccurate numbers peddled by a far-right anti-immigrant activist—FAIR Action Alert, 5/11/07).

Lesley takes on Dobbs

Not only did Taylor Swift bring home the awards, she brought in the viewers. The Wednesday telecast of the CMA Awards was the highest-rated in four years with nearly 17 million viewers.

ABC ranked No. 1 in all six half-hours of the night in both total viewers and adults 18-49, according to Nielsen Media Research. It was a clean sweep on the night, as the network also took top honors across all key adults, men and women demographics (18-34/18-49/25-54), as well as registering as the top-rated broadcaster with teens 12-17 and kids 2-11. 

He’ll always be Frasier to us.

ABC has canceled the low-rated freshman comedy “Hank.” And Fox has officially pulled the plug on the sci-fi drama “Dollhouse.”

“Hank,” starring former “Cheers” and “Frasier” star Kelsey Grammer, has ceased production and will be replaced beginning next week by a combination of comedy repeats and holiday specials. Ten episodes have been produced, and five were aired. Grammer starred as a laid-off corporate executive who can’t find work and has to spend more time with his wife and kids. It ranked 67 in the Nielsens for the season.

Also canceled is the second-season drama “Dollhouse,” which was put on hiatus for the November sweeps. It had aired on Friday nights on Fox.

Other series that have been canceled so far this season are “Eastwick” on ABC, “Trauma” on NBC and “The Beautiful Life” on The CW.

ABC has a double bill of musical talent on Thanksgiving night when Beyonce Knowles and Paul McCartney are featured in back-to-back one-hour specials at 9 and 10 p.m. The specials will include interviews and exclusive concert footage.

The McCartney special will include McCartney’s July performance at Citi Field, in Queens, N.Y., the new home of the New York Mets. The special will also feature footage from the original 1965 Beatles concert at Shea Stadium in New York. In an interview, McCartney talks about his emotional journey from the early days in the Beatles to returning 45 years later to the stage where the group made its mark at the height of Beatlemania.

Singer-songwriter Beyonce Knowles performs her biggest hits in a never-before-seen performance made during her “I Am… Tour” tour this summer at the Encore Theater at the Wynn Las Vegas.

Beyonce also shares how she started as a 9-year-old singer and went on to join the girl group Destiny’s Child. She is a seven-time Grammy award-winning singer now who heads a business empire.

Orphan
Genre: Horror/Bad Seed
Directed by: Jaume Collet-Serra
Run time: 123 minutes
Rating: R
Format: Blu-Ray

The Lowdown: From “The Bad Seed” to “The Good Son,” evil children have been a mainstay of horror for decades.

Some incarnations are truly scary, such “The Children,” a recent Ghost House Underground release, or the 1978 cult classic “Who Can Kill a Child?”

Others, like “Children of the Corn” or “Village of the Damned,” not so much.

“Orphan,” the latest genre offering from Jaume Collet-Serra, the *cough cough* mastermind behind the tepid “House of Wax” remake, tries mightily to bring something different to the game.

And granted, the big twist would have been a worthy payoff if 1) it wasn’t so rushed and 2) the creative forces had the stones to go really dark and end it appropriately.

When I say the twist is rushed, I’m not kidding. Collet-Serra packs so much information in the final 20 minutes that it’s like watching an entire movie on Red Bull. The big reveal is accelerated to the point of ridiculousness with a random phone call arriving just in the nick of time to allow the heroine to act heroic.

That sucks because I really liked the unexpected explanation offered and the one good scene where the reveal sinks in is truly chilling.

Unfortunately, too much of “Orphan” plays off the same clichéd evil child axioms: There’s the requisite tragedy that sets the stage for an adoption. The adopted daughter, Esther, is insufferably creepy to the point that no sane person would willingly take her into their home. The parents’ concern for their other children borders on nonexistent. One parent turns on the other way too easily, siding with the child he hardly knows. And the obligatory scenes where the other children are menaced plays like a greatest hits of previous killer kid cuts.

It’s worth a rental on a slow night, but only if you keep your expectations low.

The Stuff You Care About:
Hot chicks – Vera Farmiga, hot or not? Discuss.
Nudity – No.
Gore – Mild.
Drug use – No.
Bad Guys/Killers – Evil kid alert.
Buy/Rent – Rent it.
Blu-Ray Bonus Features – Exclusive feature: “Mama’s Little Devils: Bad Seeds and Evil Children.” Additional features: Deleted scenes, including a glad-they-cut-it “chilling” alternate ending.
On the Web – http://orphan-movie.warnerbros.com/
Release Date – Oct. 27, 2009

Back in the late 1970s, when I was becoming a teen and Stephen King was becoming a dark fantasy legend, he and I began a relationship that has never really flagged. It started because I picked up my sister’s copy of ‘Salem’s Lot. That was quickly followed by Carrie, The Shining and then, let us all pause in reverence, The Stand.

That era of King is worth mentioning because King’s new novel, Under the Dome, finds him back in epic fantasy mode, before all the short story collections and Misery and long series like The Dark Tower. It’s a mode that suits him, allowing for two things he does exceptionally well: the big “what if?” scenario and the small details that make his characters so real.

The latter is a gift for which King does not get enough credit (and why I still remember things like the fact Trashcan Man burned Old Lady Semple’s pension check). It’s the reason “Under the Dome” is both a crazy-good thriller and moving, because by the time bad things start happening (and they do, often) you’re involved because you have come to know the characters so well.

The cast is so huge it requires an index in the front of book, and — at 1,000 pages — King spends plenty of time with many of them. You’ll want to pay attention, too, because bit players become major players in unexpected ways.

The premise is this: the residents of a small Maine town called Chester’s Mill wake one day to find the entire town has been encased inside a force field. The blood flows early as people slam into the invisible barrier and the dome’s weird energy causes electrical gadgets to explode.

The questions throughout the book are: who put the dome there? Why? Will it ever go away? As temperatures rise and plants and animals begin dying (there are obvious environmental themes here), the answers to these questions become imperative.
But King is more interested in how the town’s residents react under stress. The line between heroes and villains is clearly defined. This is especially true of the main villain, “Big” Jim Rennie, a town selectmen who uses the crisis to make a power grab, and his “police force” of wayward young men (including his murderous son).

But King also humanizes them. For example, there’s a whole section in which Rennie reveals his love of women’s basketball and how one player in particular influenced his thinking. That’s not what you expect from a stock villain.

His heroes — led by a former Army captain, a newspaper publisher and a physician’s assistant — are flawed, and King gradually gives us background information about each that will end up becoming very important in the end.

As usual, no one does crazy like King. In the same vein as the legendary Trashcan Man, “Dome” has The Chef, a drug lab operator and Jesus freak who, like Trash before him, sets in motion apocalyptic events through the use of explosive devices. King’s also sly about the references, and alert readers will notice a certain crow who shows up to observe what’s happening.

The novel already has drawn comparisons to “The Stand,” but that’s not quite right. It’s more like a really good episode of “Lost,” or a “Lord of the Flies” with adults rather than children. It’s also an affirmation that King remains one of his generation’s greatest storytellers.

Just a wild thought: NBC ought to tap into its cable holdings for ideas.

Here are 10 shows—whose reruns NBC Universal already owns—that would be better than “The Jay Leno Show”:

• “Burn Notice”
• “Eureka”
• “Royal Pains”
• “Monk”
• “Psych”
• “In Plain Sight”
• “The 4400”
• “Stargate”
• “Dance Your ##### Off”
• “Bad Girls Club”

Apparently no one (other than executives at NBC and its affiliate stations) has faith that Jay Leno’s new 10 p.m. talk show is going to make it.

I like Jay. I like his jokes and his gags. He’s a trouper and a nice guy. But, I’m sorry, his new show is old hat.

It’s tired. And at this point “clunker” has become part of any media reference to it. 

What is wrong with programmers at the Mother Network?  They can’t produce anything as good as the fun dramas and reality shows that are being created by NBC Universal-owned cable networks USA, SyFy, Oxygen and Bravo. Well, maybe not Bravo, home of “Housewives of Orange County,” New Jersey and Atlanta.

But then, something a little different like “Housewives of Burbank” might work.

NBC could get a bigger audience at 10 p.m. by airing first- and second-season reruns of “Monk” and “Battlestar Galactica,” which millions of people haven’t seen because the cable universe is more narrow than broadcast’s. NBC could even air reruns of early “Law & Order” episodes and get a bigger audience.

Maybe NBC Unversal should consider getting its cable sisters to come up something with original for the peacock network.

World War II has never looked as vivid as it does on “WWII in HD,” the first-ever World War II documentary presented in full, immersive HD color.

Interviews with war veterans and thousands of hours of rare color footage were gathered from a two-year worldwide search.

The series tells the story of the war through the eyes of 12 Americans who lived it. It’s narrated by Emmy Award winner Gary Sinise and voiced by Justin Bartha, Rob Corddry, Tim DeKay, Mark Hefti, James Kyson Lee, Ron Livingston, LL Cool J, Rob Lowe, Josh Lucas, Jason Ritter, Amy Smart and Steve Zahn.

With a merging of genres, it’s a war documentary mixed with a feature film and a television drama series. “Everything is in-the-moment. The battles are as real as they can be, creating a visceral experience,” stated Frederic Lumiere, producer and director of WWII in HD. “This is presented as a billion-dollar Hollywood epic but better, because it’s real. We see what they saw, and we hear the soldiers’ thoughts through the voices of Hollywood’s top talents as their stories develop.”

“The contemporary interviews with the veterans are each treated like a scene in a film,” Lumiere said. “The aim is to keep the viewer captivated.”

The 10-hour series will premiere over five consecutive nights, Sunday through Thursday, from 9 to 11 p.m. on History Channel. To view the trailer for “WWII in HD,” visit History.com.

The Tournament
Genre: Action
Directed by: Scott Mann
Run time: 95 minutes
Rating: R
Format: DVD

The Lowdown: A tight, taunt, bloody head-exploding good thriller, “The Tournament” takes the low-budget, older 1997 release “Mean Guns” premise and adds a mostly A-and-B-plus cast.

“The Tournament” spins on a solid but unlikely storyline: Every seven years, 30 of the world’s greatest assassins are gathered in an unsuspecting city somewhere on the globe and given 24 hours to off one another. The last remaining assassin gets $10 million and everyone who bet on that person gets considerably more.

“Mean Guns” featured genre heroes Ice-T and Christopher Lambert, who are no stranger to good, B-grade action flicks.

“The Tournament” has Robert Carlyle, Ving Rhames and Kelly Hu, plus a colorful turn by Ian Somerhalder as a reckless Texas killer.

Hu is hot, Rhames does his best Marsellus Wallace going medieval and Carlyle plays a drunk priest who gets mistaken for an assassin.

There’s enough exploding bodies, blown-off appendages and splattered blood to satisfy gorehounds. And action fans will enjoy the way director Scott Mann handles the pace and keeps the plot hurtling forward.

This one is unexpectedly good.

The Stuff You Care About:
Hot chicks – Who’s hot? Kelly Hu, that’s who.
Nudity – Brief.
Gore – Yes.
Drug use – No.
Bad Guys/Killers – They’re all killers.
Buy/Rent – Rent it.
Release Date – Oct. 20, 2009