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At a March 3, 2002 Presidential Gala at Ford’s Theater, in Washington, President George W. Bush was seated in the front row. When emcee Kelsey Grammer introduced blind musician Stevie Wonder, the president smiled and raised his right hand in a perfunctory wave. It was clear to those seated nearby that his gesture was intended for Grammer, one of Hollywood’s few unabashed Republicans. Nevertheless, the Washington Post published a story the following day implying that Bush had waved at Stevie Wonder, saying, “The Prez is such a dolt, he waves at blind folks,” and Democrats all across the country repeated...

Los Angeles For anyone who has ever been on a movie set, the commotion inside Warner Brothers Studio 15 will be familiar: serious-faced actors and actresses quietly rehearsing their lines; the director of photography huddled with his assistants around two high-definition screens inside a small black tent reviewing the last scenes; extras lounging around the set trying both to stay out of the way and to get noticed; carpenters busily working to construct the set for the next scene; a frazzled first assistant director guzzling Red Bull and yelling instructions to anyone who will listen. "Rolling," he shouts. Others throughout...

The comedy director who gave us such immortal movie lines as “Oh stewardess, I speak jive” and “Don’t call me Shirley” is now leveling his sights at documentary filmmaker Michael Moore. David Zucker, the director and writer who helped create “Airplane!” and “The Naked Gun” franchise has called on Hollywood’s tiny but tightly knit Republican A-list crowd to help him make a broad yet unusually right-leaning political satire titled “An American Carol.” The low-budget indie co-stars Emmy winner Kelsey Grammer with Oscar-winner Jon Voight, cinema icon Dennis Hopper, model-heiress Paris Hilton and frequent Zucker stooge Leslie Nielsen in minor roles....

By INAE OH DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Updated Tuesday, June 3rd 2008, 8:51 AM Kelsey Grammar suffered a heart attack on Saturday. Actor Kelsey Grammer suffered a minor heart attack Saturday while paddle boarding with his wife Camille, his publicist has confirmed. The actor, 53, is "resting comfortably" at a hospital nearby the couple's home in Hawaii. Grammer is best known for his roles on TV comedy classics, "Cheers" and "Frasier." He was hoping to reprise his television star status with the series "Back To You," but last month told the Associated Press that Fox decided to abruptly cancel the...

A man convicted in a string of murders, including the rape and slaying of actor Kelsey Grammer's sister in 1975, has waived his parole hearing. Freddie Lee Glenn, 50, ...is serving life sentences for three murders in 1975. One victim was Karen Grammer, 18, who was raped and stabbed by men trying to rob a restaurant where she worked. She was waiting outside for her boyfriend to finish work when Glenn and another man grabbed her because they thought she could identify them. In 1976, he was sentenced to die in the gas chamber, but his death sentence was later...

Kelsey Grammer is to confront the man who raped and murdered his sister in an attempt to prevent the killer's release from prison. The star of TV's Frasier will come face to face with Freddie Glenn at a parole hearing in January. Grammer will tell the parole board of the anguish he has suffered since his sister Karen was killed in 1975. The 18-year-old student was abducted, raped and her throat was slashed. Grammer, 20 at the time, had to identify the body.

Kelsey Grammer to Run for Office? LAST UPDATE: 4/25/2006 12:45:06 PM Actor Kelsey Grammer has decided to follow in the footsteps of Arnold Schwarzenegger and run for public office. The star and long-term Republican insists his willingness to discuss his troubled past - which includes alcohol and cocaine addictions - will disarm his opponents. He says, "It's a notion I have about the future - to run for office, to do the world some good. "Well the idea that we can do the world some good is a little nuts, the world tends to take care of itself. "My frankness...

Frasier star Kelsey Grammer has hinted he may join fellow Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger in swapping acting for politics. The 48-year old, who films the final series of his Emmy-winning sitcom this year, told reporters on America's Fox News that he hoped he would get a chance to give something back to his country. Grammer admitted that he harbors ambitions to run for the US state from California when he finally retires from his acting career. He said: "If you have the good fortune to become wealthy doing what you love to do, what happens is you now have an obligation...

At the news on the hour, it was reported that "Kelsey Grammer might run for US Senate from California" and that "his party affiliation is uncertain."

At Saturday's White House Correspondents Association dinner, actors Kelsey Grammer, Jason Priestley, Robert Duvall and Ron Silver all told CNSNews.com reporter Marc Morano how they disagreed with Michael Moore's anti-Bush rant at the Academy Awards and wish their fellow celebrities would refrain from making comments about politics. Priestley, Morano relayed, “lamented the excessive coverage of anti-war celebrities by what he termed the 'liberal media.'” And, Morano learned, “CNN's Bob Franken did not like Fox News's use of the phrase 'we' when covering the U.S. armed forces during the war.” An excerpt from Morano's April 28 story about what the actors...

Filed at 5:12 p.m. ET LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Actor Kelsey Grammer, a rare Republican supporter among Hollywood's liberal elite, was in the audience Saturday as President Bush raised money for would-be GOP governor Bill Simon. In an interview, the ``Frasier'' star called himself a ``big fan'' of the president, saying, ``I think he makes a lot of sense and he's had some clarity when it was very important.'' ``The thing I most respond to in the political arena is people that actually don't play politics, and I think President Bush comes from a place that is sincere,'' Grammer said....