Today’s positive collision between pop culture and politics is brought to you by Nick Jonas.
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This member of the Jonai is scheduled testify today before the Senate Homeland and Government Affairs Committee on behalf of diabetes research. He was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes three years ago and works with the Juvenile Disease Research Foundation.
Nick also met with President Barack Obama yesterday.
For today’s charitable collision between pop culture and politics, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation gave $1 million to help refugees in Pakistan.
This donation celebrates Angelina’s eight-year relationship with the UN Refugee Agency. If you can’t get enough of the Ange, make sure to watch her tonight on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360.
Current TV journalists, Laura Ling (Lisa Ling’s sister) and Euna Lee, have been sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in North Korea. Watch this emotional video for the back story. Can’t Oprah do something about this?!
For today’s collision between pop culture and politics, watch President Obama give pointers to SNL on how to make their impersonations bigger and better.
For this morning’s collision between pop culture and politics, check out Wanda Sykes’ roast of President Obama at this weekend’s White House Correspondents Dinner.
Could Rod Blagojevich be going from I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here to The Best Little Whorehouse In Nevada?
Bunny Ranch pimp Dennis Hof is offering him an apprenticeship, according to the NY Post. As part of HBO’s show, Cathouse, Blagojevich “would assist with hiring ladies in addition to facilitating with training and proper disciplinary action.” Hof is offering him a “handsome amount of money” and says that the former governor’s willpower would be challenged daily as the hookers try to bribe him to get finer rooms or a better work schedule.
Well, at least selling a Nevada whorehouse seat is legal.
Rod Blagojevich is not a celebrity, so get him out of LA!
A federal judge ruled this week that Blagojevich cannot travel to Costa Rica to participate in the NBC reality show, I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here, but that didn’t stop the former Illinois governor from filming a promo in Los Angeles yesterday.
Click here to watch the video of Blagojevich being strapped into a harness and suspended in air in front of a big green screen to simulate a parachute jump, while wind machines blows through his big head of hair.
Attention reality tv producers! Rod Blagojevich is looking for a j-o-b now that a judge won’t let him participate in NBC’s I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here.
A federal judge has refused to modify the terms of former Governor Rod Blagojevich’s bail to allow him to participate in NBC’s upcoming reality series, I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!
U.S. District Judge James Zagel explained in court today that, among other reasons, Blagoveich needs to remain in the country to help his attorneys formulate a strategy for his defense. Of course, if this judge were really interested in justice, he’d make Blagojevich appear on the show, which would require him to share screen time with Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag.
For today’s collision between pop culture and politics, House actor Kal Penn has a new job in Washington.
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House fans said goodbye to Penn’s character, Dr. Kutner, last night in a shocking suicide plot. Now, Penn is taking a break from acting and heading to Washington to work as associate director in the White House Office of Public Liaison. He describes the job as follows:
“What the OPL does is similar in a sense to what I was doing on the campaign in that they try to take the administration itself out of Washington. So they go into communities across the country, continue the sorts of dialogue that people had started during the campaign and basically assure that a bunch of different citizens’ views about their elected officials, about the government, are all happening and working effectively…Two of the communities that I’m sort of going to be the point person for are the arts and Asian-American folks.”
For this morning’s collision between pop culture and politics, Dennis Quaid and Julianne Moore may be portraying Bill and Hillary Clinton in an upcoming HBO film, The Special Relationship.
Although the film is in the early stages, Variety reports that it’s about the “unique and sometimes turbulent” political relationship between Tony Blair and President Clinton. It also will mark the directorial debut for Peter Morgan, who wrote the screenplay for Frost/Nixon.
For today’s collision between pop culture and politics, check out President Barack Obama on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.
PS: Don’t make cracks about the Special Olympics at work today. It could result in a disability harassment or discrimination lawsuit. The President should have known better.
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