Flying the Coop Is the bloom finally off Anderson Cooper's rose? The reviews of his two hour-interview with Angelina Jolie are in, and they're not good.... Even Gawker, which fell for Cooper like I fell for Miss Ferens in 4th grade, thought that the Coop was kind of boring with Jolie, and that the whole two hours felt like a Sally Struthers ad.

("When I was in Africa...." "No, when I was in Africa.....")



Jolie and Cooper:
What's wrong with this picture?

What was clear from the interview was that Jolie dictated its terms; in exchange for giving CNN her first interview, she would get to talk almost entirely about Africa. Good for her and Africa, bad for CNN. Anderson, you couldn't have slipped in just one question about Jennifer Aniston? Aside from the fact that it made for dull television, wasn't there a time when CNN was above that kind of horsetrading? Or at least a little less naked about it?

The good news for Cooper: His book is #4 on the NYT bestseller list......  ¶ 8:45 AM