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Oct 23 2007 12:00am EDT

Idle Chatter: Glenn Beck, Al Gore, Oprah...

-CNN's Glenn Beck is pleased to see "people who hate America" losing their homes in California's forest fire. [HuffPo]

-CBS has canceled Viva Laughlin, which Alessandra Stanley called possibly "the worst show in the history of television." [Variety]

-Speaking of cranky critics, the Post's Linda Stasi really needs a vacation. Or a new beat. [NYP]

-Al Gore, Nora Roberts and Cormac McCarthy were all winners at last night's Quill Awards. [Reuters]

-American Heritage, which folded in April, is getting revived. [NYP]

-An employee at Oprah Winfrey's school in South Africa has been accused of sexual abuse. [Times of London]


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