Posts with tag "60 Minutes"

Lance Armstong Feuding With '60 Minutes' Over Doping Allegation

Posted May 21st 2011 at 01:22 PM by Christine Fenno

In a report to air on Sunday's '60 Minutes,' a Lance Armstrong teammate says he witnessed the seven-time Tour de France champ use EPO, an illicit performance-boosting drug. "I saw it in his refrigerator," Tyler Hamilton tells journalist Scott Pelley. "I saw him inject it, more than one time." The 39-year-old cancer survivor has always denied steroid use, but the allegations remain under ...

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'Taxi' Actress Marilu Henner Has Super-Rare Autobiographical Memory Ability

Posted Dec 20th 2010 at 11:02 AM by Zach Dionne

'Taxi' star Marilu Henner was featured on Sunday's '60 Minutes' for a reason entirely separate from her celebrity status: The actress, 58, has an ultra-rare ability called "superior autobiographical memory," a status scientists have only designated to a minuscule handful of people around the world. In short, Henner can remember almost every day of her life vividly and accurately. "A day 10 ...

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Anderson Cooper's Drinking Buddy: Lady Gaga?

Posted Nov 28th 2010 at 09:04 AM by Christine Fenno

His '60 Minutes' interview with Lady Gaga won't air until the night of the 2011 Grammy Awards, but Anderson Cooper isn't holding back about one of the most memorable moments of their recent sit-down. Or maybe he's happy that he remembers it at all! Cooper told The Insider that when he hung out with the Grammy-winning provacateur in England to shoot their Q&A, she had her own ideas about how ...

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Did Anderson Go Easy on Eminem on '60 Minutes'?

Posted Oct 12th 2010 at 08:35 AM by Rob Shuter

Is Anderson Cooper being a tad two-faced by slamming the "gay" slur by Vince Vaughn in 'The Dilemma,' but at the same time seemingly letting Eminem breeze through an interview last week for '60 Minutes'? Sources in the TV industry and at Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) certainly think so. "It was very bad timing for Anderson to cause such a fuss about the ['Dilemma'] ...

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Andy Rooney Wishes He Understood Justin Bieber

Posted May 10th 2010 at 10:17 AM by Marc Schneider

Andy Rooney has a handle on music legends like Ella Fitzgerald as well as younger stars nearing retirement age, but bring up singin' whippersnappers like Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga, and his 91-year-old head gets filled with confused crickets. The '60 Minutes' writer-humorist began his weekly rant on Sunday innocently enough, with an observation that as a "dead center, average American," he ...

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Revealed! Meredith Vieira's Naked News

Posted Oct 7th 2009 at 02:00 PM by PopEater Staff

With friends like Al Roker, who needs enemies... In response to David Letterman's scandal over at CBS, NBC has revealed its own sexy past involving 'Today' show co-anchor Meredith Vieira. Jay Leno, the host of 'The Jay Leno Show', played a series of clips showing Vieira's early days in broadcasting. He ended with the most revealing -- a fully-exposed (photoshopped, of course) still of the ...