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Tom Tancredo to Fans: Write Congress to Help Dog the Bounty Hunter By Jon Shanks Sep 27, 2006 US Congressman from Colorado Tom Tancredo made a tough statement when Duane Chapman was arrested to try and assist the popular reality TV star Dog the Bounty Hunter. Now the Congressman is asking for fans help. Tancredo appeared with Rita Crosby on Tuesday's show and pleaded with fans of Chapman to write their representatives to get the Dog unleashed from his legal troubles. *** Right now, Chapman is facing extradition back to Mexico for a 2003 incident. Rita Crosby gives a synopsis...

CBS News, which is remaking its evening news and news magazines in the wake of the Dan Rather scandal, may be turning to an unusual source for help — MTV. According to knowledgable sources, among the alternatives CBS boss Les Moonves is considering is moving MTV entertainment chief Brian Graden to head CBS News. Graden, 42, is considered one of the most imaginative executives in parent company Viacom, and has developed some of the most popular series on cable, including MTV's "Laguna Beach," "The Osbournes," "Pimp My Ride," "Jackass" and...

OZZY Osbourne's former partner in crime last night branded the star a hypocrite for having a go at the thieves who ransacked his mansion. For while the rock legend made his millions by breaking into the charts, his earliest paydays came from breaking into shops, factories and innocent families' homes. Ozzy blasted the burglars who stole wife Sharon's £2million gem collection this week, but his old mate Paschal Donoghue told us: "He should remember he started out on the wrong side of the law." The break-ins led to the Black Sabbath singer serving six weeks in Birmingham's tough Winson Green...

Days after confounding fans with a so-called "special announcement" that fell short of expectations, organizers have confirmed that Black Sabbath will headline Ozzfest 2004. The timing of the announcement comes as more of a surprise than the news it contained, since, for weeks, assumptions were high that the legendary metal quartet was on board for the trek. Last week, Ozzfest.com promised a big announcement on Friday, though visitors to the site were met with a message about an unsigned-band contest instead of the news that Ozzy Osbourne himself first hinted at in a radio interview in early April (see "It's...

Ozzy Osbourne Named Earth's Ambassador to Aliens Ozzy Osbourne has been named the nation's favourite ambassador to welcome aliens to planet Earth.The bat-eating rocker pipped Tony Blair and TV presenters Ant and Dec as the face people want to represent them to alien life. The poll of 1,000 Internet users was carried out following the discovery of signs of water on Mars.George W Bush and Jordan came level in the Yahoo! News survey - with just 9% of the votes.Osbourne, the 55-year-old former lead singer with Black Sabbath, who is still recovering from a near fatal fall from a...

Story Number: NNS040311-11 Release Date: 3/12/2004 2:58:00 AM By Journalist 1st Class Daniel J. Calderon, Commander, Navy Region Hawaii Public Affairs PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (NNS) -- Rocker Ozzy Osbourne and his wife Sharon brought the their MTV reality show, "The Osbournes," to the Navy March 9, when they visited and toured the USS Missouri (BB 63) Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. “The concierge desk called this morning and asked if we could give a special tour,” said Same Lowe, director of visitor operations at Missouri. “At first, they couldn’t tell us who or even if the people were coming.” By...

Sep 10, 4:23 PM EDT Sharon Says She Left Ozzy for Short Time NEW YORK (AP) -- Sharon Osbourne said she briefly left her husband, Ozzy, around the time their teenage son, Jack, entered rehab this spring. Sharon Osbourne, shown at the MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles, in this May 31, 2003, file photo, said she briefly left her husband, Ozzy, around the time their teenage son, Jack, entered rehab. The Osbourne matriarch told Barbara Walters in an interview for ABC's ``20/20.'' that while the family was waiting for a bed to become available for Jack at a treatment...

"Drugs are everywhere. We are not winning the war on drugs" Ozzy Osbourne is to become an anti drugs campaigner. The singer, who is known to have been a user of drugs during his rock career, is taking up the cause after his son Jack admitted trying to kill himself when he was high. Jack nearly died four times taking OxyContin, which Ozzy describes as 'hillbilly heroin'. The 17 year old recently checked into a rehabilitation clinic for drug abuse. Black Sabbath star Ozzy said he was shocked his son got hooked on hard drugs so quickly and Ozzy...

<p>The conservative commentator James Hirsen, a columnist for Newsmax.com and a regular on Fox News and "The Sean Hannity Show," once played keyboards for the touring Temptations. At the time he was the only white face in the group.</p> <p>His hiring, he says, was "no affirmative action decision. I really had to be funky, or I lost the gig."</p>

<p>FORMER playmate Anna Nicole Smith has no problem getting naked on her new show - but E! producers are still trying to figure out if they can show it.</p> <p>The buxom blonde who's known for her uninhibited and wide-eyed approach to life, stars in a new reality sitcom "The Anna Nicole Show," debuting this Sunday at 10 p.m.</p>

Toward the end of the Clinton administration, pundits got themselves into a tizzy over the fact that the U.S. government was giving what amounted to tax write-offs to television networks for incorporating anti-drug messages into their programming. The policy died at the hands of the hypocritical media establishment, which has no problem with the government forcing tobacco companies to fund multimillion-dollar ad campaigns against their own legal products, but sees, in the words of the New York Times, "the possibility of censorship and state-sponsored propaganda" in an anti-drug scene in a drama about an emergency room. Such absurdity only highlights...

Quayle Likes Ozzy - and NewsMaxWASHINGTON - Ten years after then Vice President Dan Quayle criticized TV's "Murphy Brown," he once again commented on a fictional TV character from a social standpoint, this time with a more favorable assessment. Asked about the attention the White House Correspondents Dinner showered on the controversial Ozzy Osbourne last weekend, Quayle told a National Press Club audience today that he thought "The Osbournes" was "good entertainment." And as for Osbourne's values, a yardstick that had led him to criticize "Murphy Brown" scriptwriters for making light of giving birth out of wedlock? "Obviously, there's an...

WASHINGTON IS OFTEN a frivolous town, a fact demonstrated once again by the ritual of self-mockery performed by President Bush and the media pandemonium over the presence of ghoulish rock star Ozzy Osbourne in the nation's capital. The occasion was the annual White House Correspondents' dinner last Saturday, a once staid event that's now become caught up in Washington's--or at least the press corps's--raging infatuation with Hollywood celebrities. Journalists pride themselves on being coolly unimpressed with political leaders, an attitude captured by the old adage of reporters that the only way to look at politicians is down. But when a...

Daddy's Little Girl, Kelly OsbourneInterview By Chauncé Hayden The Cleavers, the Bradys, the Cosbys...and now the Osbournes. It's the next generation of family-oriented sitcoms, a reality-based comedy that follows the lives of Ozzy Osbourne and his family. There's no script, the situations are real, the family is normal...well, sort of. Okay, not even close, but the show which airs Tuesday's at 10:30pm on MTV is more entertaining than anything else currently on television. In fact ratings for "The Osbournes" have been so good, the show's turned MTV and every magazine cover into a virtual Ozzfest. Each week over 4...

Ozzy Osbourne has bitten the head off a bat, defecated in a woman's handbag, and snorted a line of ants off the ground - but the rocker was utterly disgusted at the idea of meeting Russell Yates, the husband of convicted child killer Andrea Yates. While shadowing Osbourne for an upcoming story in Blender magazine, writer Adrian Deevoy accompanied him to a "Today" show taping, where Deevoy met Yates in the green room. Yates yammered about what a big Osbourne fan he was, sang several Black Sabbath songs, and talked excitedly about getting a picture with the rocker. But when...