Daily Scoop for week of 9/21

Posted by sue | As Heard On The Show, Daily Scoop | Wednesday 23 September 2009 5:54 am

Leno launch. NBC’s weeknight Jay Leno Show started strong Monday with 18.4 million viewers, but by the time the TV season kicked in a week later, it had lost more than two-thirds of that crowd: only 5.8 million tuned in. The first-week average was 11.9 million.

“The Wizard of Oz” celebrates it’s 70th birthday this year with a new, digitally mastered DVD release on September 29. (yep, next Tuesday)

The first posthumous release of a new Michael Jackson song, “This Is It,” is scheduled for October 12.

The wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is writing a book about her life’s experience.

Joining the next cast of “Celebrity Fit Club” on VH1 in February: Kevin Federline, who has really packed on the pounds since splitting with Britney.

Former Charlie’s Angele Jaclyn Smith sent out Tweets and Facebook announcements saying that the rumor she had shot herself in Honduras was not true. She’s fine.

Catherine Zeta-Jones is spending her fall on the Broadway stage in a production of “A Little Night Music.”

Ellen DeGeneres did her O magazine shoot last Saturday.

Emma Watson is using the break from her Hermione character in the Harry Potter films to attend Brown University and to create a line of fair trade clothes.

Dan Brown’s new book has already passed the 2 million copy mark.

John Travolta made his first public statement acknowledging Jett had autism.

If you’re seeking a new gig, you should know that interviewers deem a firm handshake more crucial than a job seeker’s outfit or appearance, the Journal of Applied Psychology notes.

On the set of the second “Sex and the City” movie, the buzz is all about the feud between Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Catrell. Neither is speaking to the other.

According to Cosmopolitan magazine if a man closes his eyes for a full second or two while talking to you, chances are, he’s not telling the truth.

Friends say that following the Tony Romo breakup and the loss of her dog to a coyote attack, Jessica
Simpson is not doing very well these days. Tony didn’t do that well himself last Sunday against the Giants.

Harrison Ford hasn’t ruled out a 5th Indiana Jones movie, but he says, “We’re waiting on a script.”

David Hasselhoff’s people are saying that Sunday’s incident had nothing to do with David being drunk… but instead, he was suffering from “an ear infection.” Right.

A Los Angeles pharmacist told Anna Nicole Smith’s internist that the drugs the internist prescribed to the model after her son died were “pharmaceutical suicide,” according to unsealed documents written by state officials. Smith’s doctors were warned about prescription drugs by three pharmacists.

If you like the new Fox show “Glee,” good news: the network has ordered a full season’s worth of shows. If you haven’t seen it yet, you must.

13.3 million people watched the Emmy’s on Sunday, that’s more than last year.

A recent study found that cursing eases pain by triggering the part of the brain associated with aggressiveness, when we’re on the warpath, we block out aches. So next time you stub you toe, feel free to swear yourself better, unless you stub your toe on a church pew.

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