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Rosie: I Wanted to 'Gay Up' Price Is Right James Hirsen
THE LEFT COAST
REPORT
Headlines (Scroll down for complete stories): 1. Rod Stewart Is Peeved About Profanity There was one prominent celebrity at Al Gore's Live Earth who focused on a different kind of environmental contamination. Veteran rocker Rod Stewart was appalled at the profane language that polluted the global festivities. Comedian Chris Rock's vile vernacular at the London venue necessitated U.K. TV and radio personality Jonathan Ross to issue an apology to the viewing audience. Story Continues Below
"I listened to people 'effing' and 'blinding' during the Live Earth Concert last weekend and it just sounded so cheap," Stewart remarked. The lewd, crude language prompted Stewart to promise his audience that he'll personally pay up if he curses while performing. "If you hear me swear on stage I'll give you all a tenner [10 British pounds]," the legendary singer pledged. 2. Tony Soprano Meets Real Tough Guys James Gandolfini visited the gathering of the Television Critics Association to plug his new documentary, "Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq." The film is Gandolfini's first post-"Sopranos" project and features the actor interviewing ten wounded soldiers who served in Iraq. Responding to the question of why his first production would deal with military service in the Iraq war, Gandolfini answered in vintage Tony style. "I was playing this tough guy on TV and I wanted to meet a few real ones," Gandolfini said. "Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq" debuts Sunday, September 9 on HBO. 3. Rosie: I Wanted to 'Gay Up' Price Is Right Rosie O'Donnell recently let it be known why she was passed by when it came to being the new host of "The Price Is Right" game show. It had been reported that the reason Rosie was not picked to replace the venerable outgoing host Bob Barker was because she would not agree to move her family from New York City to Los Angeles. But O'Donnell explained that the real reason she didn't get "The Price Is Right" gig was that "in the end, they turned me down because CBS thought I was too controversial, which wouldn't have been the case." "I just wanted to 'gay it up,'" O'Donnell shared. "I wasn't going to give away a TV set and rant, 'So you can watch George Bush and Dick Cheney lie to America on it!'" Rosie claimed that she was going to substitute Broadway chorus guys for the famous female models and also planned to give the set a makeover. Despite the host-duty rebuff, Rosie will still be appearing on the little screen. She's headed back to FX's "Nip/Tuck" show and will appear in several episodes of the series as a recurring character with a lot of money, a desire for surgery aplenty and a crush on one of "Nip/Tuck"'s docs. For the public's digital well-being, perhaps FX can schedule a Rosie O-ectomy. 4. Barbra Streisand's Energy Excesses Barbra Streisand has done a lot of sermonizing on the environment over the years. Who could ever forget the way the crooner coached Californians to save energy by using clotheslines to dry their laundry? Interestingly, though, when it comes to her own energy consumption, it turns out that the "Funny Girl" is quite the energy hypocrite. Babs is currently in Europe on what is being referred to as the most expensive concert tour of all time. The singer-actress-Dem activist had to cancel the first leg of her European tour because of what the press reported as "absurd ticket prices." In Italy, protesters asked that Streisand be barred from using a 24,000-seat stadium in Rome. At a venue in Manchester, England, Streisand traveled in a limo accompanied by her 13 tractor-trailer trucks. Behind the stage that was blanketed with roses were five furnished suites, 60 tables and 120 bath towels. To get to her next concert stop Streisand was transported via private jet. Imagine what Babs will demand the next time she comes out of retirement. 5. Atheist Love Affair Atheism is one of today's trendiest movements. Secular stalwarts Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris penned some best-selling books on the subject. Now Jonathan Miller, a knighted neurologist, humorist and scholar, has launched a cinematic attack on the religious beliefs of Americans. Miller's three-part documentary, "A Brief History of Disbelief," aired in the U.K. in 2004 and is coming to PBS stations in the U.S. this summer. "When we first made it, it was inconceivable that it would be broadcast in the United States," Miller told TVGuide.com. "I think the success of Christopher Hitchens' 'God Is Not Great' and Richard Dawkins' 'The God Delusion' shows that things have slightly changed. I don't know why, but something has happened to usher in a certain hospitality to controversy on this subject." Apparently, sections of the documentary try to make the case that our nation's founders, including George Washington and James Madison, were anti-religious agnostics who created the much-lauded secular progressive notion of "Separation of Church and State" (which, incidentally, is not contained in the Constitution) because they viewed the world as Miller does. Miller lumps radical Islamists together with evangelical Christians, describing the events of Sept. 11 as "the most powerful expression of religious fanaticism" of our time. "The World Trade Center attacks are one of the reasons I thought it was important to do it [the documentary]," Miller said. "I just thought it was a good place to begin, because of the impact fanatical religion has on our world. I suppose the most dangerous right now is Islam, but fanatic Christianity has also done a great deal of damage to people," Miller added. "Not to mention the current war in Iraq and Afghanistan and the idea of bringing democracy to these countries has this sort of Christian conviction behind it." Meanwhile HBO host Bill Maher is jumping on the religion-bashing bandwagon with a yet-to-be-named documentary feature, which will most likely allow Maher to wax contemptibly on faith. Lionsgate will distribute Maher's flick. The basic premise of the ungodly books and films is that theism is less rational than atheism. But the truth is, it takes a lot of faith to be an atheist. — Atheists must believe that something came from nothing. Atheists accept on faith that in the beginning there was nothing, and then there was something. Even Steven Hawking and friends are convinced that prior to the Big Bang, there was no time and no space. Nothing. And now there's lots of something. — Atheists must believe that life came from non-life. Atheists accept on faith that once, when conditions were just right, something inanimate became animate. — Atheists must believe that human beings have no free will. Atheists accept on faith that by serendipity primordial slime eventually developed into human beings with mental abilities but no free will and who act in accordance with biochemical reactions in their cerebral cortexes. In the cold atheist universe, there is no way to account for the transcendent ideals that make life worth living — dignity, steadfastness, courage, love and hope. Editor's Notes:
The Left Coast Report is put together by James L. Hirsen and the staff of NewsMax — The Left Coast Report Archives Get your FREE copy of James Hirsen's new book 'Hollywood Nation' — Click Here Now.
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