CAREER IMPACT: POSITIVE That fall, Barr's landmark ABC sitcom returned for a third Emmy-nominated season, bolder and better than ever.
ROSIE QUITS THE VIEW O'Donnell's reign over The View ended exactly the way it should have: in a split-screen shout-off with conservative cohost Elisabeth Hasselbeck. The impassioned, uncomfortable, please-go-to-commercial-now tiff embodied everything that made O'Donnell's stay on the chatfest so riveting. For nine ratings-boosting months, the former Queen of Nice unveiled a new TV persona — now with 50 percent more liberal outrage! She feuded with The Donald, criticized national institutions from the White House to American Idol, openly discussed her gay marriage, and even held a hungover Danny DeVito on her lap.
CAREER IMPACT: POSITIVE After the blowup, O'Donnell — who had already given notice — quit three weeks early. The ongoing and intense speculation over her next move demonstrates that even an angry Rosie is an in-demand Rosie.
COURTNEY LOVE'S BABY SHOCKER Choosing a favorite Courtney Love scandal moment is kind of like picking your favorite Beatles record: So...many... choices! Must...stay...focused! But there is one moment Love-ologists find universally shocking. After a 1992 Vanity Fair article suggested she was knowingly using heroin while pregnant, Love denied it, insisting that she sought medical help and quit as soon as she found out. Three years later, she told Barbara Walters she only used in the first month of pregnancy.
CAREER IMPACT: MINOR On April 12, 1994 — four days after her husband, Kurt Cobain, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound — Love's band Hole released their most successful album to date, Live Through This. Today, Frances Bean is a healthy 15-year-old, but her mom (who hasn't released a new album since 2004) gets more attention for her yo-yo-ing weight than her music career.
The legendary Luciano Pavarotti passed away on September 6, 5 am, at home in Modena, Italy. The opera tenor singer had pancreatic cancer since July 2006. After a surgical operation, he was reported to be in the mend but retired from making public appearances. Pavarotti took a turn for the worst when he was admitted into hospital this summer. There were press releases to forewarn the public of the imminient fatality of his illness.
During the 1988 Democratic convention in Atlanta, Rob Lowe picked up two gals (ages 22 and 16) at a club, invited them back to his hotel, and videotaped the romp. Naturally, the home movie leaked out — and grainy footage of the Brat Packer in action made the tabloid-TV rounds. The underage girl's mom sued Lowe, but it was settled out of court, and no charges were filed. (He agreed to perform 20 hours of community service.)
CAREER IMPACT: MINOR After a brief rehab stint for alcohol addiction in 1990, the star went on to wink at the incident in his work, including the 1999 West Wing pilot — in which his character, a presidential aide, unwittingly sleeps with a hooker. As Lowe noted in 2000, ''At the height of my downfall, I was still making a million bucks a picture.''
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Most Middle Eastern countries recognize the following Islamic law: "After having sexual relations with a lamb, it is a mortal sin to eat its flesh."On Nov. 14, 2006, Fox announced a two-part interview with O.J. Simpson, tied to th
e release of If I Did It, a fictional tell-all that HarperCollins exec Judith Regan gave Simpson a hefty fee to write — about the hypothetical details of how the ex-football great might have killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Within the week, a wave of protests from Fox affiliates, the victims' families, and a disgusted public drove News Corp. (parent company of Fox and HarperCollins) to cancel the bizarre endeavor.
CAREER IMPACT: MAJOR Regan was fired on Dec. 15. Meanwhile, a judge awarded the book rights to Goldman's family to help satisfy their $33.5 million civil-suit decision against Simpson, and on Aug. 14, Beaufort Books announced a deal with the family to publish the totally made-up tale: It's due out Oct. 3.
Amid unceasing pressure from his party's leaders, the 62-year-old Idaho senator said he feared fallout from the scandal would not allow him to "devote 100 per cent of the time and effort" to his job.
Craig, who now denies any inappropriate activity, indicated he will seek legal advice to determine whether he has recourse to appeal his conviction.
"I have little control over what people choose to believe, but clearly my name is important to me," Craig said at a news conference in Boise, where he was surrounded by family members, including his wife, Suzanne.
"To Idahoans I represent, to my staff, my Senate colleagues but most importantly to my wife and my family, I apologize for what I have caused. I am deeply sorry."
Craig pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after being caught in a June 11 police sting while using a men's room at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. According to police reports, Craig tried to initiate a sexual encounter with an undercover officer sitting in adjoining toilet stall.
The senator slid his foot under the stall partition to touch the officer's foot, then swept his hand under the stall. The signals are commonly used by men's seeking sex in public bathrooms, police say.
Craig compounded the situation after his arrest when he produced a business card identifying himself as a senator and - in an apparent bid to intimidate the police officer - remarked, "What do you think about that?"
Craig, who was first elected in 1990, did not disclose his arrest or conviction to his family or Republican colleagues until a newspaper on Capitol Hill reported the incident last Tuesday.
In the days following, Craig said his actions were misconstrued and that he only pleaded guilty keep the story quiet. He also revealed that an Idaho newspaper had been investigating longstanding rumour about his sexual preferences and behaviour.
"I am not gay. I never have been gay," he said at a news conference last week.
The careers of several other U.S. politicians -- notably former president Bill Clinton and Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy - have survived sex-related scandals.
Political analysts say the scandal involving Craig was magnified because he was convicted of a crime and kept silent about the incident.
"It is a truly remarkable thing that politicians get in trouble this way all the time -- thinking they can keep quiet negative information about themselves," said Cal Jillson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
"But with so much scrutiny on top level politicians, it was bound to come out ... It's fairly clear to people that he did enough that he thought he needed to plead guilty."
The controversy has demoralized Republicans in Washington because Craig's resignation follows closely on the heels of several other sex and corruption scandals in the past two years.
n September 2006, Florida Rep. Mark Foley resigned after it was revealed he sent dozens of sexually explicit instant messages to 16-year-old Capitol Hill staffers.
This July, Louisiana Sen. David Vitter publicly apologized for committing a "very serious sin" after reports he was a client of the so-called D.C. Madam and regularly frequented a New Orleans brothel.
The sex scandals have come hand in glove with high-profile corruption cases.
Former California Rep. Randall 'Duke' Cunningham was sent to jail in 2006 for accepting a $2.4-million bribe from defence contractors.
Republican "super lobbyist" Jack Abramoff got five years in prison in a fraud and corruption case that also landed Ohio Republican congressman Bob Ney a 30-month sentence.
Earlier this summer, White House aide Scooter Libby was found guilty of perjury and, just last month, FBI agents raided the home of veteran Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens as part of a corruption investigation.
Craig's critics accused him of hypocrisy because, throughout his career, he has cast himself as a family-values conservative and has supported a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.
"The thing that caused him a great deal of trouble was that he is a conservative Republican and has raged against homosexuality," said Cal Jillson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. "And yet here he is caught up in what looks like a gay sex scandal."
After reports of Craig's conviction surfaced, the Idaho senator showed no plans of resigning and said he would decide next month whether to seek re-election.
But Republican leaders, fearing the impact another prolonged scandal would have on voters in the 2008 election, applied enormous pressure in recent days on the senator to quit. It was reported the Republican National Committee intended to publicly call for Craig's resignation if the senator refused to voluntarily step down.
Craig "made a difficult decision, but the right one," said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.
U.S. President George W. Bush telephoned Craig following the resignation. Bush believes "Senator Craig made the right decision for himself, for his family, his constituents and the United States Senate," said White House spokesman Scott Stanzel.
It's expected Idaho Gov. Butch Otter, a Republican, will name another Republican to replace Craig until the next election, preserving the party's current 49 Senate seats.
An audio tape of Craig's post-arrest interview with the police revealed the senator accused the undercover officer of entrapment.
Like Shakira, Noelia is a singer that goes by a single name.
KATE MOSS LOSES GIGS OVER DRUG DRAMA In September 2005, in what some might call a career ''high,'' the waify supermodel was featured on the front page of Britain's Daily Mirror allegedly snorting cocaine. Moss' extremely lucrative fashion contracts (including H&M, Chanel, and Burberry) quickly disappeared as sponsors reacted with shock — shock! — at the spectre of drug use invading the fashion industry. (Due to lack of evidence, Moss was not charged.)
CAREER IMPACT: MINOR Following a public apology and a rehab stint, Moss reestablished a few of her old deals, and inked a number of new ones. She has also recently debuted a well-received clothing line for London's trendy Topshop.
On Sept. 7, 2001, one month after signing a $100 million record deal with Arista, Houston shocked audiences at the Michael Jackson 30th Anniversary Celebration concert with her alarmingly gaunt appearance. Speculation was rampant: Was Houston — whose prior studio album had sold a disappointing 2.8 million — anorexic? On drugs? In 2002, the singer sat down with Diane Sawyer and admitted to past drug use, but declared: ''Crack is wack.''
CAREER IMPACT: MINOR This episode was one among Houston's many career setbacks, including being fired from an Oscar performance in 2000, and a weird 2005 reality show with husband Bobby Brown. Today the singer — who arrived looking glam and healthy at a pre-Grammy party in February, and who filed for divorce from Brown last year — is recording a new album with Clive Davis.
25. MADONNA PUSHES HER OWN BUTTONS
Her Madgesty's hyphenate could easily read ''singer/actress/pisser-offer of the powers that be.'' And on the massively successful Blond Ambition tour in 1990, Madonna's antic — including simulated masturbation on stage — angered Pope John Paul II and the Vatican, who publicly condemned the singer's unholy performance. On the Canadian leg of the tour, Toronto police even threatened to arrest the Material Girl for indecency. In response, she cheerfully included ''the fascist state of Toronto'' in her preshow prayers (as captured in the 1991 tour doc Truth or Dare) — and refused to alter a thing.
CAREER IMPACT: POSITIVE The papal disapprobation only enhanced her taboo-taunting persona. The same year, she released a greatest-hits collection, as well as a little single called ''Vogue.''
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