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Writers like [Arthur]  Miller and Gunter Grass, "who set themselves up as moralists and public scolds, are more vulnerable to criticism based on their own behavior," wrote Morris Dickstein, who teaches English at the City University of New York Graduate Center, in an e-mail message this week. "But the truth is that very few great artists were admirable people. At heart they're killers who'll do anything to get the work done." -- Jason Zinoman, Theater, The New York Times,  August 30, 2007

Learn what other people think about the Notorious J.G.

Keith Olberman handicaps O'Reilly and Garofalo

Playboy: When a caller mentioned you on The O’Reilly Factor, O’Reilly sicced Fox security on the person. Paranoid?

Olberman: That may have been the moment when he segued from journalist with some influence to public hilarity. People started to laugh at him. He thinks he has his own police.

Playboy: He’d probably like to throw a punch at you.

Olberman: We’re both big – he’s six-foot-four, and I’m almost as tall – but I’m betting he has no physical courage. Every confrontation he’s had has been with small people. Think about. Al Franken. Janeane Garofalo, who could stand under a coffee table. Maybe Janeane  should sit on Al’s shoulders and beat the shit out of Bill.

[Olberman seems to have a fetish about Garofalo duking it out with right-wingers. He once suggested Garofalo take on Robert Novak AKA “The Prince of Darkness,” an old man who once fell in a shower.] 

The dumb and vicious celebrity. -- Bernard Goldberg

...a fashion victim with big-time roots. -- Pat O'Brien, Entertainment Tonight

Artie mocks Janeane Garofalo

Upon hearing Janeane Garofalo is joining the cast of 24, a sequence from the Comedy Central roast of William Shatner came to mind.

Artie Lange, best known for his appearances on The Howard Stern Show, turned the focus to another comedian sitting on the stage, Lisa Lampanelli.

"Lisa, you're an overweight, annoying female comic," Lange said. "You're seven horrible movies away from being Janeane Garofalo."

Ouch. But Lange didn't stop there: "A lot of people might say, 'Why hit Janeane? She's not here to defend herself.' The answer is simple. I've met Janeane Garofalo and she's a (bleeping bleep)."

Fill in those bleeps with the worst profanities you can think of, and you'll be in the ball park.

Lange had better ease up on Garofalo now, though. There's no question who will emerge if Artie Lange and Jack Bauer are locked in a room.

-- Jam ShowBiz