NEW YORK — David Letterman says the scandal surrounding his workplace dalliances initially “knocked him down” and left him depressed, but that now he’s putting the pieces of his life back together. During a guest shot on Friday’s “Live! With Regis and Kelly,” the CBS late-night star said his behavior was stupid and reckless, and that it hurt his family and himself.
In the same moment Deputy Ian Michael Deutch was gunned down in the parking lot of a Pahrump casino, his killer was stopped dead by four shots fired by a six-year veteran of the Nye County Sheriff’s Office.
BURBANK, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger would love to run for president – if he could. California’s actor-turned-governor was born in Austria and the U.S. Constitution prevents foreign-born citizens from holding the nation’s top job. Jay Leno asked Schwarzenegger on “The Tonight Show” Thursday if he would make a White House run if the law was changed. Schwarzenegger replied, “Without any doubt.”
LONDON — The next time Stephen Quake is prescribed a drug, he says he won’t worry about having a bad reaction. The Stanford University professor will simply consult his genome to see if there are any warning signs in his DNA.
NEW YORK — In his first post-“Tonight” show interview, Conan O’Brien said that if he had been in Jay Leno’s shoes, he would not have taken back the show less than a year after publicly handing it off to someone else. “That’s me, you know,” O’Brien told Steve Kroft of “60 Minutes” in an interview to be broadcast Sunday, excerpts of which were released Thursday by CBS. “Everyone’s got their own way … of doing things.”
When did Las Vegas stop being America’s top playground? Try swallowing this: We didn’t even crack the Top 10 of America’s Fun Cities. We’re No. 26, one spot behind the beer-and-brats metropolis of Milwaukee, according to Portfolio.com .
Coronado baseball coach Dave Padilla had a simple motivational message for his players Thursday: “We’re back in the hunt.”