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Amy Schumer has been forced to change her infant son’s name as she thought it sounded like “genital,” she revealed. The 38-year-old comic gave birth to son Gene on May 5 last year. Schumer and her husband, Chris Fischer, 40, gave him the middle name Attell in honor of fellow comic and close friend Dave Attell. However, speaking on her podcast “3 Girls, 1 Keith,” Schumer told her co-hosts Rachel Feinstein, Bridget Everett and Keith Robinson: “Do you guys know that Gene, our baby’s name, is officially changed? It’s now Gene David Fischer. It was Gene Attell Fischer, but we...

Eddie Murphy did not like losing the Academy Award for best supporting actor to Alan Arkin last night. He split the show — exit stage left! — as soon Arkin’s name was announced. Murphy didn’t stay to see Jennifer Hudson win best supporting actress in "Dreamgirls" or his fellow castmates Hudson, Beyonce, Keith Robinson and Anoki Noni Rose perform the show’s nominated songs in a stellar staging by "Dreamgirls" director/writer Bill Condon, who wasn't an Oscar nominee. That may have been the problem with "Dreamgirls" all along, as I’ve suggested before: Much as the movie depends on a song called...

The media reports about an incident aboard an AirTran flight from Atlanta to Houston on November 17 sound pretty innocent. At least until you get the rest of the story and learn that the "group" on the plane that were so disruptive were Muslim men! And another passenger confirms the details of the seeming effort to test the defenses of the flight crew. We will talk to Dr. Keith Robinson, one of the passengers on the AirTran flight, on the Steve Gill Show on Thursday! Here is more about Keith. (at site) http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/faa-to-investigate-cell-202143.html http://espositosmusings.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/air-tran-flight-297-incident1.pdf (Keith Robinson, Chaplain that is credited...