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A roundup of Friday morning's arts and entertainment headlines: Tired celebrity feud of the week: Jennifer Aniston versus Bill O'Reilly. Here's Round 3. ( People ) News Corp. is planning a national news service for your iPad and cellphone. ( Los Angeles Times ) Daniel Craig is sitting by the phone, waiting for James Bond's call. ( Los Angeles Times ) Locks of Elvis' hair are going up for auction. ( USA Today ) A slump in Nintendo's Wii sales is hurting the video game industry.

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said his wife of 43 years had been “disgusted” by the allegations of sexual harassment made against him and described the complaints as erroneous, but he did not address the substance of the accusations during a radio appearance Monday night. Earlier on Monday, an acquaintance of Cain, Sharon Bialek, publicly accused Cain of grabbing her during a 1997 car ride and making unwanted sexual advances toward her. In his interview with Fox Radio host Bill O'Reilly, Cain once again blasted the media for reporting on what he described as a distraction and sought to turn some of the blame on rival Rick Perry (who has said his team had nothing to do with the revelations)

In a no-frills studio in Fox News' Manhattan headquarters, Bill O'Reilly was wrangling with a guest, as usual. This time it wasn't a liberal foe but conservative strategist Dick Morris, who was hammering the Justice Department for hiring a group of lawyers -- dubbed the "Al Qaeda Seven" by the right-wing advocacy group Keep America Safe -- that had represented terrorism suspects in private practice. But O'Reilly didn't buy Morris' argument that the lawyers' past work made them a security risk.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the Republican candidate who may have the most to gain if Herman Cain tumbles in the polls, did not rush to his rival's defense Monday night during a radio interview - instead stating that scrutiny of Cain's record was to be expected given his frontrunner status in national polls. Perry spoke to Fox New host Bill O'Reilly hours after Illinois native Sharon Bialek appeared with attorney Gloria Allred to accuse Cain of making unwanted sexual advances as she sought his help for a job in 1997.    "Any time that you rise to the top of the polls, any time that you appear that you are going to be an individual of substance that those on the left are concerned about, you're going to get whacked," Perry told O'Reilly when asked whether the scrutiny of Herman Cain served as a cautionary tale.

Super Bowl Sunday will feature more than one marquee matchup in 2011. A Fox News spokeswoman and the White House each confirm that Bill O'Reilly, host of the Fox News Channel's top-rated prime-time show, will interview President Obama as part of the Fox network's pregame show before the NFL championship game on Feb. 6. The news was first posted by the Drudge Report. It won't be the first time Obama has sat down with "The Factor" host. During the 2008 presidential campaign, O'Reilly interviewed the then-Democratic nominee in York, Pa., on the final night of the Republican National Convention.

What a refreshing ray of sunshine on a cloudy day it was to read Michael Kinsley's March 2 commentary, "It Takes a Snob to Know One," on [Fox News talk-show host] Bill O'Reilly. Finally some truth. O'Reilly exploits the anger and frustration in the country masterfully. He, like every other right-wing media personality, is nothing but a rabble-rouser and should be labeled such. Recently one rabble-rouser host was bemoaning our education system in this country, attributing all the ills to liberal policies.

Jon Stewart showed up alone for his showdown Wednesday afternoon with Bill O'Reilly. "Stewart, S-T-E-W-A-R-T," he told the security guard in the lobby of Fox News' midtown Manhattan headquarters. "I'm here to get crushed by O'Reilly." In fact, what unfolded over the next 40 minutes was a vigorous, policy-laden debate between two of television's most popular figures who hail from increasingly polarized political worlds. Their discussion careened between talk of tort reform, global warming and the trials of the 9/11 terrorists.

Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, the nation's top-rated cable news host and an insistent advocate for personal responsibility and self-control, was accused of sexual harassment in a lawsuit filed Wednesday by a producer on his show who says O'Reilly repeatedly pressured her to engage in phone sex and frightened her with lewd "monologues."

'Vampirism' just doesn't add up It was pretty jarring, to say the least, to be hit in the face by Michael Tolkin's angry anti-right, anti-God rant ["This Vampirism Is Made in America," Dec. 20]. What a pitiful attempt at political allegory. Who needs to hear such a hateful existentialist tirade, especially at this time of the year? I do not appreciate Tolkin's half-baked brand of allegorical logic either, and I was not at all surprised to learn that he coauthored the screenplay for the film "Nine."

Barry McCAFFREY was angrily shouting in the hallways at Fox News Channel. McCaffrey, the Gulf War general who served as President Clinton's drug czar, had been invited to discuss America's war on illegal drugs for the 1996 premiere of "The O'Reilly Report," a Fox talk show hosted by Bill O'Reilly.

It's a time-honored strategy in politics: When bad news strikes, hit the airwaves, tell your story - and hope that it sticks and limits the damage. But for that strategy to work the story has to be consistent. Herman Cain was anything but in a series of interviews Monday, leaving some to wonder if another shoe in the burgeoning sexual harassment scandal is going to drop. Cain started the day by not talking about the subject at all during a forum at the American Enterprise Institute, saying he wanted to stick to the topic at hand, his "9-9-9" tax plan.

Completing a swift rise and fall from TV stardom, controversial host Glenn Beck will lose his once-popular Fox News show later this year, the network announced Wednesday. Beck's 5 p.m. program, which earned scorn from liberals for its attacks on President Obama as well as its devotion to sometimes-obscure right-wing thinkers, was a top cable draw in 2009 and a signpost for the populist "tea party" movement in last year's midterm elections, which dealt a ballot-box rebuke to the White House.

The heartburn that a prospective Donald Trump presidential bid gives to other Republican candidates will now be delivered on a weekly basis. The bombastic real estate mogul will now be joining the morning show "Fox and Friends" every Monday, the program announced. "The Donald now makes his voice loud and clear every Monday on Fox," asserts a promo, which was first reported by Mediaite, a news media website. Lately, Trump has been loud and clear on the you-can't-kill-it-no-matter-how-hard-you-try matter of President Obama's origins, producing his own birth certificate and daring the president to do the same.

In an interview with Bill O'Reilly, President Obama said Sunday that he's confident a new Egyptian government would continue to be a partner of the United States, and he again called on President Hosni Mubarak to allow for an orderly transition to a new representative government. "Egypt is not going to go back to what it was," Obama said during the interview on Fox's Super Bowl pregame telecast. "The Egyptian people want freedom, they want free and fair elections, they want a representative government, they want a responsive government.

Super Bowl Sunday will feature more than one marquee matchup in 2011. A Fox News spokeswoman and the White House each confirm that Bill O'Reilly, host of the Fox News Channel's top-rated prime-time show, will interview President Obama as part of the Fox network's pregame show before the NFL championship game on Feb. 6. The news was first posted by the Drudge Report. It won't be the first time Obama has sat down with "The Factor" host. During the 2008 presidential campaign, O'Reilly interviewed the then-Democratic nominee in York, Pa., on the final night of the Republican National Convention.

A roundup of Friday morning's arts and entertainment headlines: Tired celebrity feud of the week: Jennifer Aniston versus Bill O'Reilly. Here's Round 3. ( People ) News Corp. is planning a national news service for your iPad and cellphone. ( Los Angeles Times ) Daniel Craig is sitting by the phone, waiting for James Bond's call. ( Los Angeles Times ) Locks of Elvis' hair are going up for auction. ( USA Today ) A slump in Nintendo's Wii sales is hurting the video game industry.

Lawyers for Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly announced a settlement late Thursday in a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by producer Andrea Mackris, hours before a scheduled court showdown over audiotapes believed to be at the heart of the case. Terms were not disclosed in the settlement to resolve both Mackris' claim against O'Reilly and a preemptive action he had filed against her, claiming extortion. O'Reilly, the nation's No.

In an interview with Bill O'Reilly, President Obama said Sunday that he's confident a new Egyptian government would continue to be a partner of the United States, and he again called on President Hosni Mubarak to allow for an orderly transition to a new representative government. "Egypt is not going to go back to what it was," Obama said during the interview on Fox's Super Bowl pregame telecast. "The Egyptian people want freedom, they want free and fair elections, they want a representative government, they want a responsive government.

Are we really supposed to believe those who claim to be quitting to spend more time with their families? CNN's Campbell Brown sure doesn't — and she hasn't asked her viewers to either. On May 18, when Brown announced she was stepping down from the news program she has hosted at 8 p.m. on weeknights since February 2008, she was singularly frank. "I could have said that I am stepping down to spend more time with my children (which I truly want to do)," Brown said. "Or that I am leaving to pursue other opportunities (which I also truly want to do)

Fox keeps moving right Jon Stewart's likening Bill O'Reilly to the "thinnest kid at fat camp" for his attempts at appearing moderate alongside Glenn Beck hits the nail squarely on the head. ["At No One's Beck & Call," March 21.] That Fox can continue to find people even further on the rabid right to tell its listeners what to think is no surprise. Fox remains the station for people who want to listen only to commentators who provide support for their own conspiratorial, half-baked views on American political issues, and to whom any hint of moderation or compromise is just one step away from Godless Communism.