David Benioff must be the luckiest career dude on earth. Besides being a successful writer, he can call actress Amanda Peet
Wifey. In case you don't hate this guy yet: His professional schedule happens to coincide with Amanda's newborn miracle's sleep cycle. One of his friends calls him Douche Bag Hasselhoff. "I'm a night writer," Benioff revealed to NBC's Natalie Morales. Benioff's current projects include "Wolverine", the prequel to "X-Men" movies and his latest novel "City of Thieves", apparently inspired by the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York -- you should consume more such news!
Saturday, June 14, 2008
The Night Douche
Thursday, May 22, 2008
No Links - Just Headlines
It’s official: Twins on board for Jolie
Boston Herald, United States - May 14, 2008
Apparently, Ang didn’t go into an interview with “Today” show gal Natalie Morales thinking she’d spill the baby beans. But her “Kung Fu Panda” co-star Jack ...
Angelina Jolie: 'I love being pregnant' MSNBC
Angelina's Due Date Revealed: Aug. 19 E! Online
Angelina admits, I'm expecting twins Melbourne Herald Sun
Digital Spy - RTE.ie
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Lawyer: K-Fed’s relationship with Britney ‘improved’
MSNBC - May 12, 2008
“The kids are doing great,” Kaplan told TODAY’s Natalie Morales Monday in New York. “They are able to have a normal live — as normal as that can be. ...
The HeldenFiles - Wedding Bell Blues
Akron Beacon Journal, OH - May 16, 2008
Black and Jolie did a joint interview with NBC's Natalie Morales in Cannes to promote the animated movie Kung Fu Panda. Morales brought up baby business ...
NBC Turns to Government for Salvaged Car Fix
Business Media Institute, VA - May 12, 2008
... accident it ends up in a junkyard, but many wrecks are actually patched back together and resold to unsuspecting consumers,” Natalie Morales reported. ...
Spitzer Strollop Surfaces in Subcompact
TMZ.com, CA - May 15, 2008
The pair were doing an interview with "Today's" Natalie Morales when Black said, "You're gonna have as many as [the] Brady Bunch when you have these. ...
Another ‘Idol’ top 10er making name for himself
MSNBC - Apr 28, 2008
Phil Stacey told TODAY’s Ann Curry and Natalie Morales on Monday. One year ago, Stacey was eliminated from Season 6 of “Idol” after making it to the final ...
Life's beautiful!
Thursday, April 10, 2008
We owe
"Now I already knew heart disease was the number one killer of women... But I didn't know it claims more lives each year than cancer, chronic lower respiratory diseases, accidents, [marijuana,] and diabetes combined. [...] Too often we women tend to worry and pay attention to everyone else, but unless we're crawling in pain, we don't take the time to take care of ourselves. [...] We owe it to ourselves and to [...] Ms. Universe in front of me and professional supermodel Helena Christiansen [...] to walk the runway wearing red, along with celebrities"
~Natalie Morales, iVillage.com
Monday, April 07, 2008
The bold NBC morning show
A lesson in history? Check out the chart, screw the Fed (back), and read Mises.
'Today' Teaches History, Shows Light at End of Recession Tunnel
NBC morning show assumes economy is in recession, compares current conditions to 1973, 1987 and 2001.
Though economists are less than certain, a U.S. economy in recession is a foregone conclusion for many in the media. The April 3 NBC “Today” show offered a light at the end of an economic tunnel, however. [...] Natalie Morales declared recessions and booms are “all part of a never-ending economic cycle” and told viewers not to panic “because it’s psychologically driven.”
“In the last 50 years the U.S. economy has recovered from six recessions and after each there were periods of great booms,” Morales reported. “So, many experts say to really understand what’s going on and perhaps to benefit in the long run, you need to take a lesson from history.” [...] Morales began with the 1973 recession, spurred in large part by rocketing oil and gasoline prices as a result of the OPEC embargo against the United States.
“Government spending on the Vietnam War coupled with rising unemployment created a slump. America was in a recession,” Morales said. “Inflation doubled in 1972 to more than 6 percent and reached an all-time high (11.04 percent) the following year.”
Morales didn’t provide context to explain how current conditions compared to the recessionary conditions in the early ‘70s. Unemployment was 4.8 percent in February 2008, compared to 6.5 percent in January 1972 and a high of 9.1 percent in March 1975.
Inflation in 2007 was
But, Morales said optimistically, “Just six months after its lowest point, the economy saw growth in the double digits. Suddenly people were buying again.”
“By the mid-1980s things started to really boom. Big hair, big clothes and big bank accounts were in,” she said, setting up for the stock market crash – a drop of more than 500 points – on Oct. 19, 1987.
Much like today, when the media seem eager to declare the economy in a recession or even a depression, fears of economic turmoil were prevalent in 1987. But optimism won out. “Despite fears of another depression,” Morales noted, “the market rallied immediately after the crash, regaining nearly 300 points by the end of that week.”
Source: BusinessAndMedia.org
NBC is on your side, you big dummy!
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
The MILF Replacement: A blonde granny
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Friday, March 07, 2008
The expanding MILF
Surprise! Natalie Morales is pregnant
TODAY anchor is expecting her second child in mid-September
Today Show correspondent Natalie Morales, 35, has announced that she and husband Joe Rhodes are currently expecting their second child, due to arrive on September 16th.
We’re really excited. It’s truly a blessing.
The new baby will join big brother Joseph "Josh" Steven, 4, and Natalie says that he is excited.
He’s excited to be a big brother. He says he’ll share all his toys . . . he says that now!
Continue reading to read how Natalie knew she was pregnant, and their struggle to conceive.
Natalie states that she knew she was pregnant when she started craving cheeseburgers, the same food she craved while pregnant before. A day later, she was buying a bag of oranges and knew she had to be pregnant.
How amazing that your body knows what it has to do! We are so perfect in that way. We are so made to have children.
The pregnancy was the best news for the couple, as they have been trying to get pregnant for awhile.
When I found out I was pregnant, it was the best news I’d gotten all year. We had been trying for a long time. Most people think you can just decide to have a child, but it just doesn’t work that way.
This will be the second baby for the Today family as Giada De Laurentiis is due to give birth to her first child -- a daughter -- next month.
Source: Celebrity-babies.com
Monday, February 25, 2008
Natalie does Norway
Last royal stop was in Oslo at the royal palace, where Natalie Morales and the rest of us spent a day in the life with the Crown Prince of Norway, Haakon. The Nordic monarchies are very down to earth, but they don't come much more real than Prince Haakon. Here's a monarchy that's 1,000 years old, with all the traditions and trappings that that brings. Yet the crown prince managed to marry for love; he chose a woman who had a colourful past and an illegitimate 3- year-old son. Not your regular royal marriage, but the couple now have two more children and seem blissfully happy...and incredibly busy. Moving with the [one world] times is essential if a monarchy is to stay relevant, he says.
The day began with a cabinet meeting in the palace. Prince Haakon and the King were both in ceremonial uniform, Cameraman Brian Prentke and soundman David Moodie were wearing suits (now there's a rare sight), and they were having trouble keeping up with the prince as he followed a hectic program of meetings, greetings and discussions, a reception for a charity for the hard of hearing, a long sit-down interview with Natalie in his office, then off to a lengthy briefing by the Foreign Minister and experts on his forthcoming trip as a UN Development ambassador to Burundi in Central Africa. By this point he was at ease with us and invited Natalie to take part in the meeting. The trip sounded challenging; there's a lot to do, said the prince, but there are positive signs. Alleviating poverty, he said, is the only way we will have peace and he's ready to do whatever it takes. “What we're trying to achieve, the bottom line is that [serfs] are able to live dignified lives, " he told Natalie. The day ended with yet another appearance at a university prize-giving ceremony and then back to the palace, where the royal family hosted an evening [orgie] in full regalia.
Read the whole article at MSNBC
A Today at the ski resort
It's 8 a.m. on Thursday, and a lonely ski lift runs lazy circles around the base of Lincoln Peak. Skiing, it seems, has taken a backseat to celebrity. And for the several hundred Vermonters crowded at the base of Sugarbush Ski Resort, today is all about "Today." [...] The "Today Show" is the most-watched morning program in the history of television. On Thursday morning, Vermonters vied for pixels on the six million television sets tuned in across the nation. [...] Natalie Morales has co-anchored the program since 2006. "What I love about this is everybody is so proud of their state and so welcoming," Morales said. "We've just enjoyed every minute of it."
Source: Timesargus.com
We are all ONE ... comfortably
This comedian and actress had flown to New York from Los Angeles one recent morning for a whirl of publicity about her various projects, including the third special of the hit television franchise “Mo’Nique’s F.A.T. Chance,” and had just finished a “Today” interview with the correspondent Natalie Morales. “Oh, baby, we can get lunch in the room,” Mo’Nique said, her smoky voice at once caressing and no-nonsense. “We need to be comfortable,” she added, making comfort sound as exciting as a spa vacation with naughty bubble baths and Champagne. [...] “I’m on a mission of love, a mission of acceptance, a mission of being nonjudgmental, a mission of happiness,” she said as she put her feet up. “That’s a lot of mission, huh? I was [am] just a fat woman talking about being a fat woman and how I embraced it and how I loved it."
Source: NewYorkTimes
VS. 
I see dead breasts
Not all cancers are created equal: Breast cancer is special! Even pink-sporting baseball players know that this type of cancer deserves more attention than e.g. prostate cancer.
"Hoda Kotb wears a pink ring embossed with one word: “Forward.” Forward, explains the co-host of the NBC-TV “Today” show’s late-morning segment, is also a word she writes daily in a personal journal to remind herself of the direction in life she chooses to take. Kotb, 43, was diagnosed with breast cancer in February 2007, underwent a procedure to remove three lumps from her breast and reconstructive surgery during an eight-hour operation. [...] Kotb loves doing the “Today” show and describes the cast and crew as one big family. She co-hosts the fourth hour with Ann Curry and Natalie Morales.
In the New York City-based show’s typical fashion, she’s often outside on the plaza at Rockefeller Center. One time last fall, some circus acts were performing there when a woman in the audience got Kotb’s attention and wanted to discuss her own breast cancer experience. That is an example of the instant bond that forms between survivors, she says. Kotb expects to use humor and talk about her personal experiences as she discusses breast cancer before a large audience at the RiverCenter in about two weeks."
Source: QCtimes
Monday, February 18, 2008
Amy Sutherland
"This morning, February 12th, NBC's Today Show included an interview that left me speechless. The teaser heading they used was 'Training your mate.'
"NBC anchor Natalie Morales interviewed Amy Sutherland, author of a new book titled What Shamu Taught Me About Love and Marriage. Ms. Sutherland is an animal trainer who has used her expertise in training animals to 'train' [to pussy-whip] her husband (who was not present for the interview) and suggests that [even fugly] women [like herself] can learn these 'methods.' She declared: 'If you can train a fish, you can train a husband. [biatch]'
Tomorrow, Natalie Morales is going to interview Tom Leykis ... not.
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
The Groundbreaking Latina
People en Español may have named her one of 2007's "Most Beautiful People," but Natalie Morales is more than just a pretty face. She's fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, blogs for MSNBC, runs marathons and has a full-time hosting gig on Today (7 am/ET, NBC). Recently, Morales chatted with us about the show and Latinos on television.
TV Guide: How has life changed since Today added that fourth hour?
Natalie Morales: At the time, I thought "Oh, it's only one hour — no big deal." But [it's] really like adding 10 hours to the week, because you spend more time preparing. When I go home, I'm like "What hit me? Oh yeah, that extra hour." But I enjoy every minute of it.
[...]
TV Guide: Of all the celebrities you've interviewed, who was the coolest?
Morales: Paul McCartney! He was the most nerve-racking, too. [But] he was so gracious and wonderful, he made me feel at home right away…. He picked up his guitar and strummed a couple of tunes. It was amazing… a career high. And he is the cutest Beatle.
TV Guide: Given your background, do you think TV pays enough attention to Latino issues?
Morales: I was just honored by Catalina magazine for being a groundbreaking Latina, and I'm sitting there thinking, "What have I done that's so groundbreaking?" [But] if you scan through the TV, you're not seeing a lot of us on the air. People often say to me in disbelief, "Oh, you're Hispanic? I would have never guessed." And I say, "What do you mean? What is a Hispanic to you?" So I constantly want to remind people not to be judgmental or have a certain view of what we're supposed to look like.
Read the whole interview at TVGuide.com Don't waste time reading FT.com!
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