'Tonight” host Jay Leno might want to consider wearing referee stripes on tonight's show when Ann Coulter and George Carlin are his guests.
Coulter, the acid-tongued conservative, and Carlin, the quick-witted, antiestablishment comedian, were booked at separate times for the NBC late-nighter, a spokeswoman said Monday.
But the duo's meeting could produce serious fireworks for “Tonight,” which usually limits its political fodder to Leno's bipartisan monologue jokes.
Coulter, author of “Godless: The Church of Liberalism,” has drawn fire for attacking the four New Jersey widows who pushed for a commission to investigate the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attacks in which their husbands died.
Pageant hopefuls in Hollywood
The road to Miss America will go through Hollywood this year. Whether it leads to Las Vegas remains to be seen.
The pageant will tape a seven-episode documentary series “Finding Miss America” in Los Angeles from Sept. 5 to 13, the Miss America Organization announced Monday.
The series, which is to air on Country Music Television for a week preceding the pageant finals in January, will show the 52 women in preliminary competition and give viewers a chance to choose which ones advance to the top 15 for a shot at becoming Miss America 2007.
Pageant officials still aren't saying where or when the next crowning will be held. Other cities have expressed an interest in hosting Miss America, pageant CEO Art McMaster said. He is awaiting, he added, a final proposal from Las Vegas, which hosted the last one.
Politics get personal
A member of the Minutemen group and a family of illegal immigrants are paired in a reality series aimed at giving people a chance to see life from a different perspective.
The episode of the FX series “30 Days,” from “Super Size Me” documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, is scheduled to air Aug. 2. The series debuts July 26 with an episode in which the filmmaker tests life inside a county jail in Virginia.
Short takes
Former “Wonder Years” star Danica McKellar will star in a Lifetime movie called “Inspector Mom” that will then launch a series of 10 “webisodes” (episodes available for viewing on the Internet). Each webisode will feature a new case; another movie is also in the cards.
The folks at Animal Planet must be wagging their tails over “Dancing Pet Stars,” a one-hour special at 8 p.m. June 24. Hosted by Mario Lopez of “Saved by the Bell” fame, the show assembles dancing clips from the network's animal-tricks show “Pet Stars” and ranks the top 20 hoofers.
Ratings for Sunday's Tony Awards climbed 20 percent compared with last year, to 7.8 million total viewers, according to early figures from Nielsen Media Research; that's the biggest Tony audience since 2003.
VH1 is on the hunt for the next Eminem. “Egotrip Presents the White Rapper Show” is a comedic reality series that will test the rap skills and cultural know-how of 12 white contestants with dreams of hip-hop superstardom. White rapper Michael “MC Serch” Berrin will host.
– COMPILED BY LISA SULLIVAN
FROM NEWS SERVICE REPORTS
