THE LEFT COAST REPORT
A Political Look at Hollywood

After calling Fox News, "The O'Reilly Factor," Rush Limbaugh, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post "a strong conservative media" that "no one can dispute," Barbra Streisand on her Web site praised so-called "prestigious TV network anchors like Walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, Bill Moyers and Jim Lehrer," who, in her opinion, "carefully tow [sic]-the-line to present the news in a balanced manner."

Her Highness of Malibu then described the bunch as "real journalists who objectively present the news in order to allow the audience to make up their own minds."

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Makes you wonder how Babs would describe Al Jazeera.

Following the infamous "wardrobe malfunction" with Janet Jackson during the Super Bowl half-time show, but before the complaints to the FCC started pouring in, Justin Timberlake's take was: "That was fun. It was quick, slick, to the point. We love giving y'all something to talk about."

Timberlake probably wishes that instead he had performed the act with Michael Jackson.

While musing about a role in a musical play, Britney Spears chirped to BBC, "I would rather start out somewhere small - like London or England."

I guess she means as opposed to somewhere big such as Beijing or China.

When she broke her eyewear during a luncheon, Calista Flockhart remarked, "I can't eat without my sunglasses."

The Left Coast Report wonders if, with certain designer shades, food objects appear punier than they actually are.

Angelina Jolie's Adoption of Faiths

After the election, Angelina Jolie talked about having lost her confidence in Americans.

"In the past, I was able to tell people, ‘Trust me, that's not the American people -- they're great.' But I can't say that now because the majority voted to support what is going on, and it's heartbreaking for me that I can't defend the people I love in America," Jolie complained.

The actress is well known for shilling for United Nations. Unfortunately, the news about Kofi Annan's oil-for-food fiasco doesn't seem to have pierced her entourage.

Jolie is seeking to adopt siblings for her son Maddox, whom she adopted in Cambodia two years ago. Because of her humanitarian efforts, government officials have granted her citizenship there.

Her adoption criteria apparently include finding children from each of the main faiths. "I have a Buddhist son, and I'd like a Christian and Muslim child, too," the actress explained. "But it's complicated because I'm not married, and a lot of countries won't let me adopt."

The Left Coast Report hears that Jolie has received a letter from an older Muslim seeking to be adopted: Saddam Hussein.

Anna Nicole Smith Loses More Than Pounds

Anna Nicole Smith might have a litigious year ahead of her. It all has to do with her late husband J. Howard Marshall's will.

The pinup model married Marshall in 1994. He was 89 years old and died within less than a year.

In 2002, a federal court in California gave Smith more than $88 million from Marshall's estate. But she couldn't get the money because of legal challenges brought by his family.

After almost nine years of litigation, the Circuit Court ruled that Smith was never entitled to any assets from the Marshall family beyond the $7 million she received during her marriage, so she has no place to go but up to the Supreme Court.

"Anna Nicole would never have had to work another day in her life if she had listened to her husband's advice and not frittered away the money that he gave her for her future," said Pierce Marshall, her stepson.

Norm Clarke of the Las Vegas Review Journal was with Smith on New Year's Eve and reported that she was getting "hot around the collar" in her "pink Cinderella grown." She is quoted as saying "the judges were so paid off."

Smith's lawyer, Howard K. Stern, indicated that he was prepared to take the case to the highest court.

The Left Coast Report suspects that, for Anna Nicole Smith, many on the Supreme Court are not just those who sit on the highest bench in the land, they're also potential dates.

Martha Stewart Loses to Fellow Prisoners

Are there that many domestic divas in our federal prison system?

People magazine reports that Martha Stewart was part of a team that competed in a Christmas decoration contest at "Camp Cupcake" in Alderson, W.Va.

Teams of prisoners were given $25 worth of glitter, ribbons, construction paper and glue.  The theme: "Peace on Earth."

Stewart's group lost to a team of inmates who out-decorated the Duchess of Decor.

The Democrat diva's team used a lovely flock of folded paper cranes suspended from the ceiling.

The Left Coast Report is pleased that political incorrectness won the day: The winning team featured a Nativity scene.

Michael Moore Goes 'Sicko'

Looks as if Michael Moore has a new target for one of his alleged documentaries: America's health-care system.

Yes, he is taking out the sharp knives and attacking the same health care system that luckily survived the attempts of a certain first lady to give it a DMV makeover and is still the envy of the world.

Moore is calling his project "Sicko." He says that "being screwed by your [health-care provider] and ill-served by pharmaceutical companies is the shared American experience."

Several drug companies have told their employees to be on the lookout for Moore and his patented ambush interviews and to send any inquirers to each company's communications department. Big names such as Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca have acknowledged such communications to employees.

They might have played right into the hands of Moore, though. The New York Post quoted a "civil liberties expert" as saying that instructing workers not to answer such questions was "an intimidation move rather than a sound legal move. If an employee discloses unlawful activities by his employer, there are whistleblower statutes that protect them. So, while a company can ask its employees not to talk to Moore, there is little they can really do about it."

The Left Coast Report says, judging by his track record, Moore will probably have the drug companies in a conspiracy with the Saudis, Bill O'Reilly and Oliver Stone to foment mass hysteria about the heartbreak of boogie fever.