Controversy: May 2008 Archives

Oh, this is amusing.

A photo of Isaiah Washington, in character as Dr. Preston Burke, was flashed to on a recent episode of "Grey's Anatomy" and apparently the actor - fired after the show's second season - is none too pleased.

Here is a statement from his rep via Towleroad.com: "Isaiah has no plans to go back to Grey's Anatomy ... That being said, we were more than a little surprised that ABC used his likeness in a promo for the show, and indeed advanced his character's storyline. Mr. Washington's attorney has contacted the Screen Actors Guild and ABC as to the appropriateness of that action."

Seeing as Isiash's "Grey's" follow-up, "Bionic Woman" was short-lived, I'd think he'd be happy to have any prime-time exposure.

Star Jones may have been low-profile in regards to her split from Al Reynolds but she blasted Barbara Walters Wednesday over what Babs wrote about Star in her new book "Audition: A Memoir."

Barbara writes in the book that she knew about Star's secret gastric bypass surgery long before she admitted it to the public. She said she and the rest of panelists on "The View" lied to keep it a secret because Star clearly didn't want to talk about it.

"She decided to have a gastric bypass operation, but then she decided not to tell anybody," Walters said in an interview this week on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." "Then we had to lie on the set every day because she said it was portion control and Pilates. Well, we knew it wasn't portion control and Pilates."

In the book, Barbara wrote of Star's stormy departure from "The View" : "I still feel it might have been easier for her to find a new position if she had left the program in the graceful way we had suggested."

Star had this to say: "It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters, in the sunset of her life, is reduced to publicly branding herself as an adulterer, humiliating an innocent family with accounts of her illicit affair and speaking negatively against me all for the sake of selling a book," she told Us Magazine. "It speaks to her true character."

Star was referring to an affair Walters had with a married senator during the 1970s.

My take: Star is a troubled and angry woman who would like us to believe she is taking the high road in her various controveries. There doesn't seem to be anything authentic or honest about her and my feeling is that Barbara wrote nothing but the truth.

I make no secret of this: I think Jim McGreevey and Dana Matos McGreevey are vile people. But that doesn't mean I don't find it entertaining to watch these two completely obnoxious people tear each other down in public. So their divorce trial (yeas, really, they are not yet divorced) should be a blast!

This dysfunctional pair, who have not lived together in the 3.5 years since McGreevey proclaimed himself to be "a gay American" and resigned as governor of New Jersey, were both in court Tuesday to finally begin to end their marriage.

The petty pair took different routes entering court: ''It's a beautiful day,'' Jim McGreevey said as he entered alone through the back entrance of the courthouse. Dina Matos McGreevey had no comment when she arrived with her lawyer through the front courthouse entrance.

The trial will be closed to the media initially because the judge will be hearing testimony on the custody of their 6 year old daughter. In addition to custody, the other issues to be decided involve alimony, and child support, and whether McGreevey, now openly gay, committed fraud by marrying a woman.