courtney hazlett, we have a lot to cover. >> yes, and details in the stories.ch we will tell you about is rapper the game who has 580,000 twitter followers, and richard, when you have that many twitter followers not even a good idea to joke to flood the sheriff's department with phone calls. a tweet went out from the game saying that any aspiring interns for the game should call a specific number, and that number happened to correspond with the sheriff's department in california, and within minutes they were deluged with calls, and people wanting to be the intern, but they didn't know what happened. they could not take care of business as normal and slowed down substantially. it caused huge problems. the sheriff's department said that the needless phone calls interfered with the ability of sheriff desk personnel to answer the 911 calls, and we don't know how many people needed help but could not get through the overwhelmed phone lines. what happened is unclear at first. first he said that the account was hacked. this then he changed the story to say that a frie

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let's get the scoop today from the pop culture columnist courtney hazlett, and what is going on hereith the h movie about osama bin laden? >> well, it is made by kathryn bigelow and you might recognize the name from the "hurt locker." well, the chairman of the homeland security is asking for investigation of what kind of facts the producers may have gotten from the government about this film? i will summarize the white house's response for you, and they said, it is ridiculous that we would have passed along classified information and of course we won't do that and if we are presented with pointed questions that we can confirm the truth or not or set somebody straight, that is one thing, but we are not passing along secrets here, and that is basically what is being alleged. >> and this is coming from congressman peter king from new york. >> and yes, that is right. this movie curiously, and this is something that people should know is in the works for years and not something that came about the same time that osama bin laden was captured, but it has been in the works for quite some tim

let's get the scoop from pop columnist courtney hazlett, and i wanted to see the "smurfs" and i did noted to see it because it was tying with "cowboys and aliens" and people thought it was the bigger movie, but both movies will gross $36.2 million and now some late results coming in showing that the "cowboys and aliens" might finish $100,000 to $400,000 ahead, but that is a dead heat so that shows a dearth of programming for families. as good as harry potter was it was not a kid movie and intense and i cried like nancy kerrigan when i watched it and i was like "smurfs" not so much. >> and what is going on with mister rogers? >> well, the next generation and beginninging in the fall of 2012 daniel tigers neighborhood and this is the next generation of mr. rogers' characters and daniel tiger is a young tiger in an animated series unlike the live mr. rogers series that you are seeing there, and he is going to be the tiger son of daniel's striped tiger and if you watched mr. rogers running from 1968 to 2001, you know who daniel tiger is, and at any rate maybe because i'm from pittsburgh and

let's get the scoop from courtney hazlett.ff with linda evangelista who has a baby with salma hayek's current husband. >> that's francois henri pinot and she's asking for a whopping $46,000 per month, not every year, per month. >> at least it's not per day. >> way to look at bright side. i enjoy that. she says she needs this so that she can have around-the-clock nanny care which adds up to about $80,000 per year. security, $175,000 a year. you know, when you are the son of a man worth more than $11 billion, i do on some level understand the security risks that go along with that. you don't want your son to get kidnapped, of course, and new york can be a scary place, but i think what a lot of people are really having a hard time wrapping their brain around, an astronomical some. >> it would be record breaking. >> record, record breaking settlement. the judge did shoot down a vacation allowance for 7,500 a month so that's not going to happen but there's expected to be a decision in this next month. >> okay. and dallas 2.0, "dall

let's get the scoop from today.com pop columnist courtney hazlett. >>> "the help" opens in theaters anddnesday? a little unusual for a movie to open on thursday, hear a lot about thursday night midnight releases with movies like harry potter, and the big scoop is this is the first unofficial oscar event. it opened last night at a theater in los angeles at the academy of motion pictures and arts and sciences theater, and the whole point here is to get it out in front of those academy viewers. some of the performances that are ellie being lauded in this film are those of avila davis and octavia spencer. >> i said this weekend i'm sitting next to two oscar winners and people really enjoyed their performances. >> you're probably right. >> and this is a fan one. chad ochocinco has gone to the patriots, and when you get a new job and have you to move, one of the questions people ask, well, where are you going to live? well, he announced he doesn't have a place to live yet and he's actually going to stay with a fan. >> he's a millionaire. he can find a place. he wants to stay with a fan. >> th

t" last action flick of the summer, and we have jason momoa who is the star of the clip, and courtney hazlett violent and gory -- >> sexy and dangerous. >> is this a dream come true for you? >> yes, it is a big fantasy since i was a child. >> it is not a re-make, and it is a re-imaged version of what we saw 30 years ago. >> yes. >> how is that different? >> well, it is honoring the fans who have looked at the material of eight decades and really, and bringing it alive. >> tell me a little bit about the training, because again, half of the movie if not all of the movie, you are shirtless and you have five shirts on now, but -- >> covering up. >> but the training is ridiculous and you ate boiled chickens every two hours? >> yes. >> and you would bend over shivering from pain. >> yes. >> and and the eating six hours a day and learn how to properly fall in hand-to-hand combat and lifting weights and cardio and you would never voluntarily put yourself through that much torture. >> tell me about how the storyline goes, because with action we expect the kicking butt, but there is a good story as wel

courtney hazlett has the day off so we will get the scoop from lola okinaki.teve jobs' buy lodgele ka father is speaking out about the adoption of steve jobs. >> well, his biological father is an 80-year-old syrian owner of a casino, and he had a baby with joanne simpson, then girlfriend, and her father did not approve of the wedding, because he was syrian, and unknown to steve jobs' biological father, she gave the baby up for adoption. >> and then they ended up together, because her father died shortly thereafter, and if they had held on for a few months steve jobs' last name would be jindali right now. >> and this is interesting, because steve jobs said he has never met his son and his pride would not call him, because he does not want steve jobs to think he wants his money. >> well, he wants to reach out to him especially hearing about the health problems, but he does not want him to feel like he is taking advantage of him with the syrian pride, so he is hoping that steve jobs reaches out to him, and he would like to have coffee with him and meet him. >> th

let's get the scoop from today.com courtney hazlett. >> well, just when you thought that we are done jennifer lopez and marc anthony, we are not done talking about them. jennifer lopez is on the front cover of "vanity fair" and it is interesting that she did this interview prior to the july 15th announcement, but she dropped some hints that are quite telling especially in retrospect. she does a lot of talking about how much she needs to work on actually loving herself and being able to make decisions based on loving herself, and here is one of the quotes that she pulls, that she says in the magazine, and she says, sometimes we don't realize that we are compromising ourselves to understand that a person is not good for you, or that person is not treating you in the right way, and i love myself enough to walk away from that now. >> and treating you in the right way? it makes you question. >> it raises a lot of questions. people have been e-mailing me all day asking pointed questions about what does that mean? not treating you the right way? and i think that knowing what i know about th

let's get the scoop from pop culture scoop columnist filling in for courtney hazlett, and let's talkingthe apes." >> well, they are grossing $73 million and they are doing well. >> well, it is one of the best movies i have seen in a long time, but what could give it competition? "the help"? >> well, "final destination" will give it competition, but "the help" made $5 million wednesday and predicted to make $20 million this weekend and you have to know there were so many fans of the book, and there were so much controversy with black maids and i went in with trepidation, and it was amazing. emma stone is in everything, and holds her own. >> i interviewed viola and octavia and one of the things that the viola said is that the character of the maid here a had more depth than lawyers and doctors she played so when people say she degrade herself for the role, it was an insult, because she thought this out very well for her career. she was fantastic. >> she said something similar to me when i wrote about her. she is a smart woman and very amazing. i predict an oscar nomination. >> that is not

courtney hazlett is off today so let's get the scoop from bradley jacobs. off with this "real housewives," decided to go on with the show. >> the show will go on. it's going to premiere monday, which is labor day, less than three weeks after russell armstrong killed himself, so it's kind of controversial, but bravo says they have been re-editing the episodes. >> re-editing, will they take him out of the episodes? >> it's not possible. he owes an intricate part of the show, and -- and one of the plot lines of this coming season is his breakup with his wife taylor who is one of the housewives, so you can't take him out entirely, but they -- bravo did say that they are going to be running psa for suicide prevention. >> yeah. >> i expect it to be handled well, and they also reinterviewed all the women just yesterday to get -- to get their reaction and i'm sure you'll see those peppered in. >> wow, it is incredible to see them handle this, and it will be interesting to see how they handle it. >> a real challenge programming-wise. >> let's go here and talk about

courtney hazlett has the scoop coming up. first some things we thought you should make.ohnny dupuis has won a party nod for miss misgovernor since reconstruction. he's first african-american mayor of hattiesburg and faces the current lieutenant governor in the general election. he's considered the underdog and when it comes to campaign ads, doesn't get much better than this one. check out this texas republican running for congress. >> i've been talking to these guys forever, and they still do not listen. unbelievable. >> that was roger williams, a former secretary of state of in texas. interesting company there. those are things that we just thought you should know. [ male announcer ] it's simple physics... a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with art