Larry King has two interesting guests tonight: The main guest is JetBlue CEO Dave Barger, who will discuss his airline's changes as higher costs hit the airline industry. And more humorously, writer-director Adam McKay will also be on, to discuss the Paris Hilton response ad on Funny or Die. The ad was shot in the Hamptons--and Paris apparently memorized the entire script!......

Barack Obama appeared on Larry King Live last night and topic number 1 was the New Yorker cover. You can read the transcript here, but Obama said, "I know it was the "New Yorker's" attempt at satire. I don't think they were entirely successful with it. But you know what, it's a cartoon, Larry, and that's why we've got the First Amendment. And I think the American people are probably spending a little more time......

As rumors about Katie Couric leaving the CBS Evening News early next year continue to simmer, the Daily News offers one suggestion from a network (CBS? CNN?) "insider": "Take Katie off the 'Evening News,' let her to do Larry King, and then let [Anderson] Cooper anchor" the CBS Evening News. Of course, the suggestion for Couric to take over Larry King's talk show seems to have come from Couric herself, during a chat she, her......

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal suggested CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric may leave the network "well before her contract expires in 2011" and as soon as early next year. Why would CBS ditch their $15-million/year star? Reasons range from overall belt-tightening and disappointed about the program's poor ratings and Couric's apparent inability to bring in those female viewers. CBS issued a statement--"We are very proud of the 'CBS Evening News,' particularly our political coverage,......

Snoop Dogg, in town shooting BET interviews last week, was caught green-handed with the drug he claimed to give up at age 30: pot. The rapper was busted outside of hotspot Lotus last Wednesday for marijuana possession, and was issued a desk appearance ticket. The Post reports that didn't stop Snoop from partying the very next night, with his 25-strong posse, at Serafina and the tapas lounge Lollipop (somewhere in between they ordered 15 pizzas,......

Hillary Clinton's February flop continued today as voters in Virginia, Maryland and D.C. turned out for Barack Obama by nearly two-to-one margins (in D.C. he won by 75% to 24%). According to exit polls, Obama not only did well with young voters, blacks and independents but, surprisingly, with certain demographics Clinton's been counting on: senior citizens, women and blue collar voters. Polls suggest 49% of those who voted for Obama were white and voters over......

On November 25, 2006, groom-to-be Sean Bell and his friends were leaving the Kalua nightclub in Queens when undercover police confronted them. In the confusion that ensued (the police thinking the men were armed or were going to the car to retrieve a gun, uncertainty over whether the police identified themselves leading Bell and his friends to think they were being carjacked) five undercover cops fired 50 times at Bell's car. His friends Joseph......

Switcharoo at CBS 2 This week, veteran anchors Jim Rosenfield and Dana Tyler, who were anchoring at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m., switched newscasts with Chris Wragge and Kristine Johnson, who were anchoring the noon and 5 p.m. We think that moving younger talent to the higher profile 11 p.m. newscast is probably an attempt to get some younger viewers. Channel 2 has been the least stable of the local newscasts over the past ten......

The search is already on to replace Rosie O'Donnell on The View. Rumors are that Rosanne Barr may be first choice to fill the seat. Though Barr was on "Larry King Live" recently and said that she was "not looking for the job," on KVVU-TV in Las Vegas Monday, she seemed to have a change of heart. She told the station, "I'd love it. Yeah, definitely. I think I would do a real good job,"......

A look at some noteworthy television this week: Drive (Sunday and Monday, 8:00 p.m., WNYW 5) Sunday has the two hour debut of Drive crossing the starting line. The show is a drama that follows the participants of an illegal cross country road race who aren't like those you would find in The Cannonball Run. One of the forces behind the show is Tim Minear who has worked on shows like Firefly and Wonderfalls, which......

After some rumors that the Reverend Al Sharpton hated Senator and presidential hopeful Barack Obama, Sharpton says they had a nice phone call yesterday. Sharpton, who just last week told Fox News he believed that Obama's campaign floated the story that he was jealous of the Senator, now says, "We had a good conversation. He said he's got a lot of respect for me and what I've done. We agreed to keep in touch."......

Taking a break from Anna Nicole Smith coverage, Larry King interviewed former mayor Rudy Giuliani who finally admitted that he's running for president. In fact, King asked Giuliani three times if he's running (we don't know if that's because King's so old, he's hard of hearing and forgets). During the interview, Giuliani actually criticized the Bush administration, and gave what his strategy would have been to go into Iraq. From the NY Times:His comments more......

Just after her son died, and just after her new baby girl was born, it has been announced that Anna Nicole Smith has now died at age 39. She had been at the Seminole Hard Rock Cafe Hotel and Casino, where she collapsed in a room. The police say there was no child in the room, but there was a personal nurse with her. Her bodyguard had performed CPR; apparently a paramedic said Smith was......

Here is part two of our semi-chronological look back at the top stories this past year (here is part one): Queens Blackout The Blackout of 2003, as irritating as it was, happened to the whole city, could be blamed on other states and didn't last too long. When parts of Queens lost power in July, Con Ed wrote it off as an isolated event affecting only a few thousands customers. But as Queens spent days......

The Department of Education will start to close five struggling high schools beginning next September. The schools are Urban Peace Academy and School for the Physical City in Manhattan and Samuel J. Tilden, South Shore, and the embattled Lafayette in Brooklyn. The DOE attributed the closings to, as the Daily News put it, "dismal graduation rates, consistently low test scores and lackluster demand." The NY Times notes that four of the high schools were "run......

The fiancee of Sean Bell officially changed her surname to "Bell". Nicole Paultre was supposed to marry Bell on November 25, but Bell was killed when police opened fire on him and two friends after his bachelor party. Paultre revealed that a civil court judge signed an order for Paultre to change her name to Nicole Paultre Bell in an exclusive interview with Essence.com. ESSENCE: How does it feel to suddenly become the face......

Last night, Larry King spoke to the Reverend Al Sharpton and Nicole Paultre. Paultre is the fiancee of Sean Bell, who was killed in a barrage of police bullets outside a Queens club hours before his wedding, and this marked her first television appearance. She was remarkably calm and poised for most of the interview, though very emotional when describing how she found out that Bell, the father of her two children, was dead. But......

Tonight, Nicole Paultre, the fiancee of Sean Bell who was killed by police fire two weeks ago, will appear on Larry King Live with the Reverend Al Sharpton. Paultre has only spoken publicly once before, during the Egypt & Ashy radio show. CNN is accepting questions from people that are emailed to the show. Questions continue to be raised about the investigation. The police identified Jean Nelson as the "fourth man" seen near Bell's car;......

Set your DVRs for Late Night with Conan O'Brien on Halloween night! His show will be a rebroadcast of a May 2006 show, but it will be completely redone with skeletons. Yes - Conan will appear as a skeleton, as will the band and guests Larry King, Omar Epps, and Sheila Kelley. This almost sounds like an excuse just to show Larry King as a skeleton, but Sheila Kelley is doing one of her pole-dancing......

-- Drat! We missed the strangely beautiful Dance of the Giglio this weekend in Williamsburg. -- Gawker outs A.O. Scott as a terrorist -- he loves movies, but hates freedom! -- Faso beats Spitzer! [In a 5k race, by 14 seconds.] -- Advice from a prospective Miss Korea NYC: "In a Korean deli or cleaners, say Ahn nyoung ha se yo. That means hello. They’ll give you a discount." Does this work at nail......

- Nancy Grace lies about the murder of her fiance - Two day bank robbing spree ended, and the Post calls her the "Black Eye Bandit" - Hoopsters, on guard - there may be a Basketball City downtown! - Pataki makes an appearance to prove he's not at death's door - City jails will get video surveillance in order to make sure guards aren't excessively abusing inmates - Just like an LES tenement that......

Yesterday, Oprah Winfrey admitted she made a mistake (gasp!) and took James Frey and his publisher, Nan A. Talese, to task for making her look foolish on her show. Yes, Oprah defended the readers' right to know if something peddled as truth is false, but mainly, Oprah was ashamed that she had embarrassed herself by defending A Million Little Pieces. [You can order the tape and/or transcript that amazing hour of televsion here.] Gothamist then......

So, Howard Stern is on the air - if you happen to get Siruis satellite. Is anyone listening right now? We saw him on Larry King Live, where he explained why his daughter quit the off-Broadway show she was going to be nude in (Stern's claim - the producer betrayed his daughter by saying he wasn't going to publicize Howard Stern's daughter would be naked on stage) and who his best and worst interviews were......

Gothamist could not have been the first to think of "The X-Presidents" cartoons on Saturday Night Live when we saw the press conference where President Bush announced that his daddy and President Clinton would help raise funds for tsunami relief. Of course, a more power tableau was during the Clinton Presidential Library opening, because President Carter was also present, but in this instance, President Bush is calling upon ex-Presidents to fight for a good......

Stanely Kowalski, Johnny Strabler, Terry Malloy, Vito Corleone, Colonel Kurtz, Dr. Moreau... Marlon Brando died today in Los Angeles. All obituaries, articles, and remembrances will mention his acting style and strange behaviors (kissing Larry King?). The best thing to do is appreciate the great moments he's given us. Besides his truly iconic known leading roles, Gothamist recommends seeing Guys & Dolls (Frank Sinatra's in it too), The Freshman (a classic, if only about wide-eyed NYU......

Gothamist is digging the look at the differences in politcal ass-kissing between our Mayor and our Governor differ by Jennifer Steinhauer in the NY Times today. Steinhauer describes the Bush administration as an "exhaust fan" that is pushing Bloomberg away while drawing Pataki in. Clearly, Bloomberg has the better end of the deal. There are a number of examples of Pataki supporting Bush, working the Republican party speaking circuit, while Bloomberg is happy to stay......

A few readers have emailed the team at Ask Gothamist privately asking that their questions and requests for advice be kept anonymous. We are glad to comply, and figured a set policy on protecting the identities of our readers was worth broadcasting to the Gothamist community at large. Ask Gothamist never includes the email address of those who write us in our responses and, when asked, will gladly change all names in order to shield......

You can see some of Katie Couric's interview with the over-imaginative Jayson Blair on the Today show website, but a more in-depth interview will air tonight on Dateline. Gothamist watched the Today show segment and found the tableau of confusion on Blair's face when he couldn't one of his lies, Couric saying "It was in the book," then Blair getting up to check his book and saying, "Oh, yeah..." the "made us laugh and cry"......

Even though Gothamist finds Bobby Flay irritating in the extreme, we do wish him and Stephanie March well. The NY chef tells the Post about his proposal to the former Law & Order Special Victims Unit A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot (way to self–promote, Bobby). Flay did one of those public proposals: At center ice of Rockefeller Center, which would be cute if it weren't Bobby Flay (blech). As a chaser, reader Janelle let us know that......

Ack! Who is crazier, Larry King or Heather Mills? I can't decide! The Sun Newspaper Online - UK's biggest selling newspaper......