BACK TALK: Breaking and entering ... a new doorway to fame?

Letterman gets vandalized, Regis and Kelly deal with hairy backs and Roseanne announces her intent to run for president!

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BACK TALK: Breaking and entering … a new doorway to fame?

POSTED: Friday, July 15, 2011, 2:00 PM

Filed Under: TV

Christopher Seybert dishes on the week's best and worst moments in daytime talk.

Everyone Wants a Piece of Letterman

We’ve all heard the idiom “Lightning doesn’t strike twice,” but is that really true? If David Letterman’s week means anything, then that saying is the furthest thing from the truth. On Sunday night, Jimmy Whittemore, an intoxicated 22-year-old, broke into the Ed Sullivan Theater where Late Show with David Letterman is taped and caused $5,000 worth of damages. Whittemore was arrested and charged with burglary in the third degree and criminal mischief in the second degree. Letterman joked Monday that Jay Leno had an alibi, but did he have one on Wednesday?A

And if that wasn't enough, the Ed Sullivan Theater was host to another crime scene Wednesday night when 42-year-old Alvin Moore used a newspaper stand to break into the studio’s lobby, causing $1,500 in damages. A coincidence? A sign of the apocalypse? A taste of karma for Dave being in Oprah’s dog house for so long? Nope, Moore was admittedly just an attention-seeker looking for his 15 minutes. Wouldn’t sleeping with a Kardashian have been a lot easier?

Nothing More Whack than a Hairy Back

This was "Fix My Man" week on Live! with Regis and Kelly. Wives wrote in about their husbands’ unfavorable characteristics in hopes that hosts would be able to fix them. Monday’s show started out with a bang when Sarah Harris Kreisler and Jessica Leitman wanted their husbands’ excessively hairy backs waxed.

Owner of Completely Bare and the newest New York Housewife Cindy Barshop was called in to do the honors. And she thought getting along with Ramona Singer was a chore ... After a few minutes of waxing, both men reappeared with backs as smooth as a baby’s ass. Let’s just hope, for everyone’s sake, they stay that way!

Roseanne ODs on Nuts

When you think of Roseanne Barr, you think of a larger-than-life, wacky comedienne who has an opinion on everything, but until her appearance on The View Thursday we had no idea just how nuts she is. Barr was on to promote her new reality show (who doesn’t have one?) Roseanne’s Nuts which chronicles her life on her macadamia nut farm in Hawaii.

Although she was dressed like a complete nut, she did have some interesting things to say … like how she wants to make a run for the president of the United States and the prime minister of Israel. Her platform? Scrap the current government, legalize marijuana and forgive all student loans. She definitely has my vote!

(christopher.seybert@citypaper.net)

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