Matt Lauer's most questionable on-screen moments

In light of the sexual assault and sexual harassment allegations directed at former Today show anchor Matt Lauer, many of the morning show icon's on-screen moments are now being reviewed through a much darker lens. Lauer was fired from his post at NBC in November 2017 after 20 years with the network. Given these awkward, cringe-worthy segments, it now seems surprising that his career survived for so long.
Madge wasn't amused, telling Lauer, "At the end of the day, what is the relevance of Aretha Franklin? What was the relevance of Frank Sinatra? You know, what is the relevance of all artists? Do we have to fit into an age group and appeal to a specific audience to have relevance? It's absurd. It's disrespectful and it's absurd."

He followed by asking if she feels threatened by younger pop stars Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, adding that Madonna is the age of Spears' and Aguilera's parents.

"Great," said Madonna, "and you know what? One day Britney Spears will be the age of her parents… It's an absurd thing to say and there's no point to it."

Lauer then asked the Queen of Pop, "Why are you still famous?"

It's safe to say that after this segment, Madonna probably started tuning into Good Morning America instead of Today.

Charlie Sheen sues tabloid over Corey Haim rape allegations

The former Two and a Half Men star is suing over recent allegations.

According to Entertainment Tonight, Charlie Sheen filed a defamation and false light lawsuit against the National Enquirer, as well as the tabloid's editor-in-chief Dylan Howard and actor Dominick Brascia, on Friday, Dec. 8, 2017.

As Nicki Swift previously reported, the gossip rag published an article last month accusing Sheen of raping the late Corey Haim while the two were filming Lucas in 1986. At the time of the alleged incident, Sheen would have been 19, while Haim was 13.

The piece detailed "dozens" of sources, including Brascia, who was friends with Haim. He went on record saying, "[Haim] told me they smoked pot and had sex. He said they had anal sex. Haim said after it happened, Sheen became very cold and rejected him. When Corey wanted to fool around again, Charlie was not interested."

Sheen later categorically denied the disturbing allegations.

ET obtained court documents in which Sheen's attorney claimed that Howard decided to run the story "because of a personal vendetta that arose after he was unable to be the first to break the story that Mr. Sheen was HIV positive." The actor's lawyers also accused Brascia of not being a "reliable source nor credible." The legal team went on to state that "Haim's own mother has publicly and categorically denied that any sort of sexual rendezvous occurred" between her son and Sheen.

Sheen himself released a statement to TMZ after filing the lawsuit. "In my nearly 35 years as a celebrated entertainer, I have been nothing shy of a forthright, noble and valiant courier of the truth," the 52-year-old said. "Consistently admitting and owning a laundry list of shortcomings, wrongdoings and indiscretions this traveler hath traveled — however, every man has a breaking point."

"These radically groundless and unfounded allegations end now," Sheen continued. "I now take a passionate stand against those who wish to even entertain the sick and twisted lies against me. GAME OVER."

While we wait for more news as Sheen's lawsuit moves forward, read more about Haim and other child stars who met tragic fates.

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This Old Photo Of Selena Gomez's Mom Made Me Do A Damn Double Take

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Donald Trump : Drug czar nominee, Rep. Marino, withdrawing his name from consideration

Tom Marino, President Donald Trump's candidate to be the country's medication despot, is pulling back from thought following reports that he assumed a key part in debilitating the national government's power to prevent organizations from conveying opioids.

Marino "has educated me that he is pulling back his name from thought as medication dictator," Trump tweeted Tuesday. "Tom is a fine man and an extraordinary Congressman!"

Trump's declaration comes a day after the president raised the likelihood of nixing the assignment following reports by The Washington Post and CBS News. The reports itemized the Pennsylvania official's association in creating a 2016 law, marked by President Barack Obama, that debilitated the Drug Enforcement Administration's power to check opioid conveyance.

Met on Tuesday by Fox News Radio's Brian Kilmeade, Trump said Marino revealed to him that "if there's even a discernment that he has an irreconcilable circumstance ... he doesn't need anything to do with" the activity. Trump did not state when he and the congressman talked.

"He felt constrained. He feels firmly about the opioid issue and the medication issue and Tom Marino stated, 'Look, I'll take a pass,'" Trump included.

Trump had told correspondents amid a news gathering in the White House Rose Garden on Monday that he will look "nearly" at the news reports. He included: "On the off chance that I believe it's 1 percent negative to doing what we need to do, I will roll out an improvement," he said.

Democrats had approached Trump to pull back the assignment. Marino couldn't instantly be achieved Tuesday for input.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Marino's choice was the "right choice."

Majority rule Sen. Joe Manchin, whose home territory of West Virginia has been among the hardest-hit by the opioid pandemic, respected the news.

"We require a medication dictator who has seen these staggering impacts and who is enthusiastic about closure this opioid pestilence," Manchin said Tuesday.

Manchin had reprimanded the Obama organization for neglecting to "sound the caution on how hurtful that bill would be for our endeavors to successfully battle the opioid plague," which kills an expected 142 individuals per day across the country.

In a letter to Trump, Manchin called the opioid emergency "the greatest general wellbeing emergency since HIV/AIDS," and stated, "we require somebody driving the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy who trusts we should ensure our kin, not the pharmaceutical business."

The Post revealed Sunday that the medication business worked off camera with lobbyists and key individuals from Congress, including Marino, pouring more than a million dollars into their race crusades. The real medication wholesalers influenced the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Justice Department to consent to the business neighborly law, which undermined endeavors to limit the stream of agony pills that have prompted a huge number of passings.

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the bill's lead Senate support, shielded the measure Monday, calling affirmations that he or Marino "contrived" with sedate organizations "absolutely silly." Hatch, a 40-year veteran of the Senate, said he was "no patsy" of the medication business.

The dialect influencing DEA implementation expert was proposed by DEA and the Justice Department, Hatch stated, including that the offices could have attempted to stop the bill whenever — or suggested that Obama veto the measure.

"How about we not imagine that DEA, the two places of Congress and the Obama White House all in some way or another shriveled under Representative Marino's terrible impacts," Hatch said.

A White House commission gathered by Trump and drove by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has approached Trump to pronounce a national crisis to help manage the developing opioid emergency. An underlying report from the commission in July noticed that the inexact 142 passings every day from medicate overdoses mean the loss of life is "equivalent to September eleventh like clockwork."

Trump has said he will formally proclaim the opioid emergency a "national crisis" yet so far has not done as such. He said Monday he will make the assignment one week from now.

Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said Monday she will acquaint enactment with annul the 2016 law.

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