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Top Ten Surprises In Dan Rather's Interview with Saddam Hussein 10. Saddam's responses to American charges were mainly of the "your momma's so fat" variety 9. The good laugh they shared at how wimpy the French are 8. Saddam kept calling Dan "Wolf" 7. The palpable sexual tension 6. Not only do they get CBS in Iraq, Saddam loves "Becker" 5. If the United States invades, Saddam would like us to do it in March, after the Baghdad tulip show 4. Entire interview was Saddam demonstrating a low-impact aerobic workout 3. Saddam fell for it every time Dan yelled, "Incoming!"...

Operation "Win One for the Gipper" Update Just inside Iraq- Operation "Win One for the Gipper" is off and running. Tom Daschel and Natalie Maines have surrendered to United States Marines and are being sent to Gitmo for Animal Abuse Conseling. Senators Robert Byrd and Hillary Clinton have resigned their seanate seats Bird to go into private pratice. Hillary will take over Susan Sarandon's role in the Oxygen Channel's new series "Bitches of Dune." The remaining two Dixie Chicks are rethinking their positions. Janeane Garofalo had fallen off the wagon and was last reported squatting in a crack house off...

Details are emerging about David Letterman's top-secret Christmas visits with American troops in Afghanistan, PEOPLE reports. While in Kandahar on Christmas Eve, the "Late Show" host, 55, handed out 2,500 blue shirts bearing the slogan "Late Show Afghanistan -- 12/24/02-12/25/02" (in yellow stitching) to an appreciative audience in uniform. Another 2,500 shirts were sent to the Bagram Air Base, where Letterman, who was traveling with his show regulars Biff Henderson and Paul Shaffer, was scheduled to appear on Christmas Day but didn't because the air strip was closed. Instead, Dave spent more time in Kandahar and visited troops in...

Legendary singer-song writer Warren Zevon, recently diagnosed with operable lung cancer, will make what could be his farewell performance on tonight's (Wed, Oct 30) episode of the CBS Late Show with David Letterman. The Late Show website lists Zevon as tonight's only guest. In addition, radio host Howard Stern reported that the entire episode will be a tribute to the rocker. Zevon, one of rock music's wittiest and most original songwriters, received the cancer diagnosis in August. His representatives made the announcement that the cancer was untreatable last month. The author of such hits as "Werewolves of London," "Poor, Poor,...

Making his first public statement about ABC's failed bid to lure David Letterman from CBS, the Walt Disney Company's chairman, Michael D. Eisner, suggested that his deputies had become overoptimistic on their chances of snaring Mr. Letterman. Though he had his own doubts, he said, the confidence of Disney and ABC executives persuaded him that the network had a real shot. Mr. Eisner made the comments yesterday on "American Morning," the CNN program with Paula Zahn as its host. When Ms. Zahn asked Mr. Eisner how close his network had come to hiring Mr. Letterman, Mr. Eisner said: "Well, it...

Letterman to stay at CBS 3/11/2002 6:37:04 PM LOS ANGELES, March 11 (Reuters) - Late-night television host David Letterman announced during the taping of his show on Monday that he has renewed his contract with CBS for five years rather than jump to rival network ABC. The decision puts to rest a week of rampant speculation that the second-ranked late-night TV host would switch networks for a third time, thus displacing ABC News veteran Ted Koppel and his 22-year-old program quot;Nightline.quot; quot;Dave has announced that he's staying with CBS. He announced it on the show tonight,quot; said Rob Burnett, the...