KERRY Katona’s dumped husband Mark Croft today spills his venom over her romance with a Royal Marine she met at a fitness camp.

In an astonishing interview with the News of the World, the ex-taxi driver portrays himself as the blameless VICTIM in their squalid on-off marriage.

Layabout Croft - who romped with lapdancers behind Kerry’s back in Majorca only last year blasts the former Iceland TV ads star for falling for “Popeye” - his nickname for muscular fitness instructor Kevin Green. …
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Race fans reluctant to utilize public transportation. The potential of empty seats during a flagging economy. A sketchy weather forecast for Saturday. Making sure there is extra tissue paper in Danica’s restroom.

Chris Powell already had a lot to worry about in preparation for NASCAR weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where he is president. …
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Maile Ohye does a PowerPoint presentation at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara Tuesday Mar. 2, 2010. In Silicon Valley, presentations have become the latest sport and a weird form of entertainment.

Here’s a surefire recipe for boredom. Take one technical talk. Add PowerPoint slides. …
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Nick Kent spent the 1970s hanging out with every major band the decade threw up - and, amazingly, can still remember some of it. With a new autobiography out, the writer raised in Cardiff tells JAMES McCARTHY what it was like to live life alongside some of music’s most outrageous characters, like Led Zeppelin, The Sex Pistols and Keith Richards

NICK Kent spent two days taking drugs non-stop with Rolling Stone Keith Richards and was once nearly beaten to death by Sid Vicious. …
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DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - The Grammy Museum hosted comedian Bob Newhart before a sold out audience on March 9.

The program started with a slide show of Newhart’s life followed by an interview by Robert Santelli, the museum’s executive director.

They discussed his 50 years in show business. …
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Bo-Peep, from Fukuoka, Japan, is ready to rock 2010 by playing what they hope will be their best show. Spinner spoke with lead guitarist and singer Mika Yoshimura and drummer Ryoko Nakano as they riffed on their biggest vices, a near-death experience and the varying reactions of music audiences in Japan, the US and the UK. …
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NFL.

It’s Christmas Eve for football junkies and front offices alike as the Free Agency is ready to kick off in a matter of hours. This year was supposed to be comprised of little activity and only a few big name players donning new uniforms with the failure of the NFL to reach a new collective bargaining agreement. …
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I most certainly won’t be the first to pen a gushing obit to WCCO’s Darcy Pohland… and I surely won’t be the last.

Neither first, nor last, matters much to me.

Darcy was a human measuring stick, though she never asked to be, nor most likely ever wanted to be.

Fact be told, she was. …
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Hollyweird’’s biggest night, and all that jazz.

As your political columnist, what do the Academy Award nominated films and performances tell us about the Zeitgeist, circa early 2010?

First of all, though much has been written about the fact that academy officials last year, freakend out about lower television ratings and the fact that a majority of the nominated films are ones that a majority of Americans haven’t seen, expanded the Best Picture category from 5 to 10 this year. …
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In a scathing forum address to all writers, Spoof editor Mark Lowton came down hard on all veteran writers about the volume of emails and “PM’s” he’s received about persons known simply as “MW Chuy.”

In his omnipotent capacity as owner, administrator, inventor, originator, I.T. dude, and sometimes editor of the Spoof, Lowton declared that effective midnight March 7, all Spoof writers will be instructed to use only “One” writer’s name per IP Address and not the 15 or so like a certain writer is doing. …
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Will Charlie Sheen wind up being sued for breach of contract if he’s broken a morals clause in his “Two and a Half Men” series agreement? Will he have the book thrown at him in Colorado, where he faces charges stemming from a Christmas Day arrest for assault in Aspen involving his wife, Brooke Mueller? …
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Zone,’ and the radio icon offered “The Insider” his uncensored thoughts about new “Idol” judge Ellen DeGeneres and the changes he says he’d make to the show if he ended up joining it next season.

“I read in the paper that they want to give me $100 million to judge a karaoke contest, and that seems like pretty good pay for something as dumb as that,” Stern said of the rumors that he’s received offers to be part of next season’s “Idol. …
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Aaron Ruben, who was a producer, writer and director for some of the most popular television comedies of the 1960s and ’70s, notably “The Andy Griffith Show,” “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.” and “Sanford and Son,” died Saturday at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 95. Sid Caesar, tapped a rich vein of television gold when, in 1960, he shifted location to the mythical small town of Mayberry, N. …
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Publisher Hill & Wang, a part of the MacMillain group, is carving out a niche for itself as the top publisher of comic book biographies and histories. Beginning with Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon’s 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation, Hill & Wang has brought together cartoonists with insight and talent to tell the life stories of Ernesto Guevara and Leon Trotsky, and to explain the vagaries of the Vietnam War. …
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