Those of you who hate portly polemicist Michael Moore will enjoy this clip of the filmmaker from last night's "Larry King Live," where he is briefly rendered speechless by CNN's medical person Sanjay Gupta. We're not huge fans of the blustery Bolshevik, but we're going to have to agree with chesty media-watcher Rachel Sklar on this one: "Dr. Sanjay Gupta is a dick."

Usually we think of blustery big man Michael Moore as the Republican party's best weapon, but there's something about him going off on "The Situation Room'"s Wolf Blitzer that puts a happy feeling in our hearts.

Tubby peacenik Michael Moore took to the airwaves this morning to decry the media's coverage of Iraq in the run-up to the war. Lighting into "Good Morning America" anchor Chris Cuomo, the ample activist blamed ABC and the other networks for failing to ask the tough questions. A visibly annoyed Cuomo pulled the "my anchor got blowed up" card in defense. It's a nice bit of television: Whether you come down on the side of Moore or the side of the media, it allows you to dislike both of them equally.
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AIIIEEE! I almost forgot the gossip roundup! How did you survive all day without it?! Dear god—you probably had to actually do work! I'm SO sorry!
· Hustler's Larry Flynt is looking for video footage of First Twin Barbara Bush at one of Yale's notorious naked parties. [Page Six]
· Playwright Neil LaBute: "I think of myself as a misogynist. But maybe I'm not because if I were one really, I'd write shitty parts for women." Documentarian Michael Moore: "In fourth grade, my school newspaper got shut down, the ACLU filed suit when I was 18, and I ratted on my school board to the prosecutor at 19." [Cindy Adams]
· Smoking ban irony: the city of New York will make $20 million this year off of tobacco investments. [NY Daily News]

· Novelist Michael Crichton is paying $31 million to get out of his fourth marriage. [Page Six]
· Hot new risque skinny dipping spot: the pool room at the Four Seasons. [Page Six]
· A new Web site, RevoketheOscar.com, claims Michael Moore's film, Bowling for Columbine, is riddled with "invented facts, fabricated events, [and] staged scenes" and should be disqualified as a documentary on the grounds that it is "fiction." [Page Six]
· Cindy Adams offers random bits of trivia: Hugh Grant got rejected by "As the World Turns;" Alice Cooper loves golf; Nine Inch Nails lead singer Trent Reznor uses the name "Steve Austin" when he stays in hotels; and John Le Carre taught Latin at Eton under his real name, David Cornwell. [Cindy Adams]
· OH MY GOD! Carol Channing is getting maaarrriiiiieeeeed! [Liz Smith]
· Brad Pitt's new wax statue at Madame Tussaud's has a "squeezable bottom." Madonna has flooded file sharing services with decoy files for new album "American Life." When users download the files, they get what sounds like her voice, demanding, "What the fuck do you think you're doing?" [NY Daily News]

More from Radar magazine (launching April 22nd). Gossip items from an article titled, "Monsters, Inc":
· Documentarian Michael Moore: Fabricated a scene in Bowling for Columbine in which a hapless bank teller hands him a gun, in exchange for opening a bank account, telling her that the standard practice of getting a coupon for a gun store and waiting for a background check wouldn't work for the film.
· Designer Jill Stuart: Sued by consultant Beth Blake, who alleged Stuart's husband offered her $10,000 to engage in a sexual relationship with Stuart, which would be just the thing to "put a little sex and sizzle into the collection." "I'll give you a pill," he said. "You'll never know what happened!"
· Producer Scott Rudin: After work, underlings must stick around to clean his office—known as "The Dungeon"—extracting his nail clippings from the carpet and "resetting" each chintzy power bauble on his desk (like the glass horse head must face the window at a 45-degree angle.)

· Did CNN turn up the "boos" during Michael Moore's Oscar speech?
· Dead rock stars club [via Muxway]

Comedian Dennis Miller on Michael Moore's Oscar speech: "He's going to wake up every day for the rest of his life, and he's going to tell us how he hates everything about this country except his right to hate it. And then we say that we love it and he's going to tell us what naive sheep we are and that he's the true patriot because he hates it and he sees all the problems in it. Yeah, right, Mike. You know something, if my yawn got any bigger they'd have to assign it a hurricane name, okay? Michael Moore simultaneously represents everything I detest in a human being and everything I feel obligated to defend in an American. Quite simply, it is that stupid moron's right to be that utterly, completely wrong."
Take that, you whining oaf [Buzzmachine]

Media Notes' Howard Kurtz reports that FOX News' outdoor news ticker displayed the following yesterday: "War protester auditions here today...Thanks for coming!" And: "How do you keep a war protester in suspense? Ignore them." And: "Attention protesters: The Michael Moore Fan Club meets Thursday at a phone booth at Sixth Avenue and 50th Street."
Embedded and taking flak [WaPo via 601am]

Last week we reported that MTV Europe had banned certain videos from their playlist because they contained references to war—in particular the System of a Down video, "Boom," directed by Michael Moore. Journalist Bill Werde followed up on the story for Rolling Stone in an article that didn't make it to publication. He reports on his blog that the decision to cut the video wasn't an issue of programming directors being concerned about content, but about the ad sales department being concerned that it would offend one of their major advertisers—the U.S. Army.
Media drops the 'Boom!' [Werde.org]

In case you missed Michael Moore's speech last night at the Oscars, A.O. Scott chronicles the events: "...Michael Moore, who won for best documentary for Bowling for Columbine, asked the four other nominees in his category to come up on stage with him. 'They are here in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction, and we live in fictitious times,' Mr. Moore said. more »

· "Porcine provocateur" Michael Moore (Page Six's description, but we kinda like it) is whining that he's not going to win an Oscar because the whole thing is rigged. Expect an "investigative documentary" about it next year. [Page Six]
· Paris Hilton's version of her catfight with ex-90210 actress Shannen Doherty: "She got really mad when I said, 'You're just jealous of me because you have a show on SciFi Channel and I have one on Fox!' She kept saying, 'Let's go outside and fight!' but that's so trashy. I said no." [Page Six]
· "Young dude with spiked hair in different colors" to "elderly gent on a Washington Square Park bench": "What's the matter, old timer, never done nothing wild in your life?" The geezer nods: "Yep. Got stoned once and had sex with a parrot. I was just wondering if you were my kid." [Cindy Adams]
· Liz Smith Comment of the Month: "It is fitting that the planned celebration of Liza and David Gest's first anniversary has been canceled. Nobody who has seen the revitalized Liza over the past year could possibly prefer a party to this remarkable legend's health, peace of mind and the promise of many more productive years to come." [Liz Smith]
· James Gandolfini's war with HBO is coming to a close as both sides withdraw their lawsuits. [NY Daily News]

· Michael Moore horrifies Londoners by saying that people on the hijacked September 11th planes were "scaredy cats because they were mostly white." [Page Six]
· Viacom honchos Sumner Redstone and Mel Karmazin are trying to collect $200 million from insurance companies for ad revenue forfeited during 9/11 coverage. [Page Six]
· Jamie Lynn Sigler, a.k.a., Meadow Soprano, gets engaged to her manager [Page Six]
· The National Post's Larry Krotz says Graydon Carter was acting like the editor of a big glossy even at 25. [Page Six]
· Blind item: 60-something year-old CEO of NYSE-listed company throws holiday party at the Helmsley Carlton complete with Christmas coke'n'whores. [Page Six]
· Corcoran exec Wendy Sarasohn started a petition to get soap opera actress Robin Strasser back on "One Life to Live." [Cindy Adams]
· Fur is back. Nicole Miller spotted at a movie premier in full-length rabbit. [Cindy Adams]
· Paul Alexander and Angelica Torn are developing a play based on the life of Sylvia Plath. [Liz Smith]
· David Bouley is selling the Mohawk Electric Building at Hudson and Duane to architect Joseph Pell Lombardi; and DeNiro and Naomi Campbell rumored to have a rendezvous for old time's sake. [NY Daily News]