For all her aplomb and telegenic charm, Palin still had the hunted look and defensive crouch she wore in television interviews with Katie Couric and Charles Gibson last year. And it would seem that the pain of those tongue-tied encounters was not exorcised by writing “Going Rogue: An American Life,” a tell-all book that blamed the McCain staff for the way it “handled” her on the trail.

When Winfrey pressed Palin about why she would not mention the names of newspapers or magazines she read when Couric asked her to, Palin said she found the CBS anchor’s persistence “annoying.”

Underwood, who yesterday spoke to reporters during a conference call, will star next month in a holiday special, and she just released her second consecutive chart-topping album, “Play On.”

As it happens, three finalists from this past season of top-rated US television show “American Idol,” a reality singing competition, are about to release their own albums.

Bacall, 85, starred in more than 30 films but never won an Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, coming closest with a nomination for “The Mirror Has Two Faces”.

The screen siren earned movie immortality with her husky voice, sultry gaze and curt retorts in films like “Dark Passage,” and her 1944 debut opposite Humphrey Bogart in “To Have and Have Not” launched one of the most electric on- and off-screen pairings in cinema history.

‘He was the one that was administering,’ Janet Jackson said about Houston-based physician Dr. Conrad Murray. ‘I think he is responsible.’

Murray, who was hired to treat Michael Jackson in the months before Jackson died on June 25 of a drug overdose, is currently a target in the manslaughter investigation of the ‘Thriller’ singer’s death.

Set in a small town, the untitled ensemble comedy revolves around a disparate group of people who find a unique way to exercise their creativity by making episodes of their favourite show after its end.

Janet Glass said he had been ill for several months and passed away in hospital surrounded by members of his family.

Not even a recent screening of “Paranormal Activity,” the low-budget horror of the moment could do it, which was a disappointment.

“I really wanted to be scared ? I like to be scared. But I wasn’t,” she recalls.

She’s equally fearless when it comes to tackling the media firestorm that has accompanied her newfound stardom.

Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush star in the period drama, which recently began shooting in England.

The film is based on the relationship between King George VI (Firth) and speech therapist Lionel Logue (Rush), who helped the accidental monarch lose his stammer and lead Britain through World War II. Bonham Carter will play the king’s consort, Queen Elizabeth, who became the Queen Mother upon her husband’s early death in 1952.

Neither had I, until I began this collection by the indefatigably curious journalist Malcolm Gladwell. The familiar jacket design, with its tiny graphic on a spare background, reminds us that Gladwell has become a brand. He is the author of the mega-best sellers “The Tipping Point,” “Blink” and “Outliers”; a popular speaker on the Dilbert circuit; and a prolific contributor to The New Yorker, where the 19 articles in “What the Dog Saw” were originally published.

This volume includes prequels to those books and other examples of Gladwell’s stock in trade: counterintuitive findings from little-known experts.

The second-year judge said she plans on spending down time in December with the newest addition to “Idol.”

“I’m hoping the chemistry with Ellen will be great — and a great start to the season,” she said at the Media and Money conference in New York on Friday.