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  • John Mellencamp Smokes On Letterman Despite Past Heart Attack, Says ‘Smoking Is My Strong Suit’

    John Mellencamp certainly doesn’t let a heart attack stop him from smoking his cigarettes.

    On Monday’s Late Night With David Letterman, the rocker smoked throughout his chat with the late night host.

    After sharing tales of their respective heart attacks, John Mellencamp said smoking is his thing.

    “Here’s the way it plays out, Dave,” he said of his smoking habit. “I’m only good at about three or four things and smoking is my strong suit. My body is so polluted that anything — now, I’m not a doctor, you know that, right? I’m not a doctor — So I figure, my body is so polluted now that nothing can live in there. Cancer can go in there and go, ‘I’m not going in there!’ There’s gotta be somebody else better to go into and destroy.”

    “I’m gonna keep smoking and I’m good at it,” John Mellencamp added. “I’ve written a couple of good songs, I’m kind of good on stage, and I have a good first kiss. Other than that, I’m not worth a s–t. I’m useless!”

    Earlier in the interview, John Mellencamp had difficulties remembering the location of his 1994 heart attack, but did remember being told he’d had one.

    “I didn’t feel well, I was on tour, and I went back to Bloomington, where they have real doctors,” the Indiana native recalled to Letterman, who is also hails from Indiana. “The guy looked at me and he said, ‘You’ve had a heart attack.’ I went nuts… I called him everything in the book… He said, ‘John, you can say whatever you want to me or act any way you want, but a first-year medical student can tell you you’ve had a heart attack.’”

    “They’d been telling me for years to get on cholesterol medicine and I would go, ‘Am I alright now?’ And they’d go, ‘Yeah.’ And so, I’d think, ‘Well I’m alright now…’” said John Mellencamp. “But if I would’ve done what they had told me to do in the first place… My arms hurt, both arms hurt, and I was more grouchy than normal. I was more bitchy than normal.”

  • Emily Blunt Says She ‘Saved’ Meryl Streep’s Life While Working on ‘Into the Woods’

    Emily Blunt Says She ‘Saved’ Meryl Streep’s Life While Working on ‘Into the Woods’

    Emily Blunt is a life-saver … literally.

    While visiting the Late Show With David Letterman on Tuesday, the 31-year-old shared how she saved Meryl Streep, her Into the Woods, from taking a nasty fall on set.

    “I did save her life,” exclaimed Blunt, who was pregnant at the time of the accident. “We were rehearsing a scene where she’s playing the Witch and she’s supposed to jump on the table with a cape and everything. And I just saw this thing happen in slow motion. You know when you see something awful happen and it’s like the sound cuts out? Meryl Streep’s foot got caught in her cape and we just slowly stared to watch her topple head first towards the concrete floor.”

    “Rob Marshall [director] and James Corden froze, didn’t move,” she marveled. “And the pregnant woman caught her…so she owes me, big time.”

    The much-anticipated movie adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning musical, which will be directed by Rob Marchall, is the second film on which the actresses have worked together. They teamed up in 2006’s The Devil Wears Prada and Blunt joked about their characters’ sparring matches in the film.

    “Yeah, she tormented me in that [Devil Wears Prada] and now she’s tormenting me in this movie,” said Blunt, who plays the baker’s wife in the film-version of the musical. “She’s the Witch that has cast a horrible spell on our house. So I just said this is it we couldn’t have any other dynamic now. You just have to hate me.”

    Blunt told Letterman she thinks the roles need to be reversed in their next on-screen matchup to even out the score.

    “Well she owes me. That’s why I think at some point I should play the Queen of Versailles and she could be my lonely dressmaker…” she said. “I mentioned it to her and her response was ‘dream on.’”

    Blunt went on to share her real thoughts on the legendary actress.

    “She’s so amazing it’s, like, annoying at this point.”

  • Jennifer Lawrence Steals the Show on ‘Letterman’ by Singing — or Trying to Sing

    Jennifer Lawrence stopped by the Late Show With David Letterman on Wednesday to promote The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 and gave the world a treat — sort of.

    The Kentucky native stole the show by singing with Letterman in a rendition of Have a Holly Jolly Christmas.

    The song came about after Lawrence shared about having to face her fear of singing in public while filming the highly anticipated movie. In the film, her character, Katniss Everdeen, sings The Hanging Tree to a Capitol cameraman, bringing him to tears.

    “I do not like singing in front of other people, that’s like my biggest fear,” she told Letterman. “I cried on set that day. I’m scarred from my childhood.”

    The 24-year-old actress, who recently said she’ll never join Twitter, admits that singing is not her forte. She told Letterman that since she was eight years old, she possessed a “tone-deaf Amy Winehouse” voice that her parents made fun, all the while telling her how great she sounded.

    “I have a Southern mother that used to tell me I was amazing at everything and I could do everything, but I can’t,” she said. “I had this tone-deaf-Amy-Winehouse voice and I sang in front of the school when I was eight, because I thought I could.”

    After filming both installments of Mockingjay at the same time, she took some needed time off. However, Lawrence admits that too much time off was not necessarily a good thing.

    “I took some time off. I lost my mind. It was awful,” she said. “I don’t even know how crazy I went.”

  • Tina Fey Owes Alec Baldwin For Some Parenting Skills She Learned While Working With the Actor on ’30 Rock’

    Tina Fey owes Alec Baldwin.

    The This Is Where I Leave You actress told David Letterman Friday that working with Baldwin really prepared her for the challenges of motherhood.

    “I feel like I try to use some techniques I learned working with Alec,” Fey said on her appearance on Late Night With David Letterman.

    Fey said what she learned from Baldwin is particularly handy in dealing with her three-year-old daughter, Penelope. The 30 Rock alum and husband Jeff Richmond also have an older, nine-year-old daughter, Alice.

    “She starts preschool in a couple weeks, which I think is gonna be real interesting,” Fey said of Penelope. “Once I finally got her into preschool, and it was a done deal, I was like, ‘Hey, let me tell you some stuff about her. She is not potty-trained, she’s allergic to nuts, and she bites. So, I gotta go!’ It’s the preschool hat trick! She thinks she’s [potty-trained] so that’s good. She likes to wear underpants, and then it all goes wrong.”

    Penelope may need to work on her potty-training skills, but Fey says her little one has other talents.

    “I feel like she’s a very smart little one,” the SNL alum told Letterman. “She just is very willful. We have this little library that we go to in our neighborhood and on Sundays they have a thing where they put out toys. They put out like, a dollhouse, and all these little cars and toys, and she loves it. But, it only goes until like 11 a.m. I see the clock ticking and I go, ‘Alright, I gotta start planning how we’re gonna get outta here… how we’re gonna get out of here alive.’”

    Fey said she uses the same psychology she used on her 56-year-old 30 Rock co-star.

    “I feel like I try to use some techniques I learned working with Alec,” she admitted. “It’s like, I’m gonna present the idea that we might leave now, but make [her] think it’s her idea. It would work better with Alec than with the baby.”

    In the end, Fey just picked up the stubborn little girl and carried her out of the library, kicking and screaming all the way.

  • David Letterman Announces Retirement

    The announcement is sad but true.

    David Letterman will be retiring from hosting Late Night With David Letterman. The somewhat surprising news was announced during a taping of his show today.

    The final episode of Late Night will air sometime in 2015.

    “I just want to reiterate my thanks for the support from the network, all of the people who have worked here, all of the people in the theater, all the people on the staff, everybody at home, thank you very much,” the 66-year-old said after breaking the news to his audience.

    Letterman is the longest serving late night host in television history.

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    Celebrity fans broadcasted their thoughts to Twitter in response to Letterman’s decision to leave Late Night.

    Witty writer and actress Lena Dunham dedicated three tweets to Letterman. As usual, they were fairly entertaining.

    It’s believed that the longtime host made the decision to leave so he could spend more quality time with his family.

    Jimmy Fallon recently took over Jay Leno’s hosting spot on the Tonight Show after he finally decided to retire. While we’re all digging Fallon’s goofy antics, it’s hard to imagine someone else filling in for Letterman.

    Who do you think Letterman will choose to fill his late night shoes? Does Jimmy Kimmel have a shot at the gig?

    Leave your comments below and stay turned for more updates on who will be chosen for the coveted spot.

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