BY DAVE DAVIES OF THE DAILY NEWS “She’s a publicity whore!” yelled Chris Hill, a pro-war veteran who led a group of about 20 hecklers calling themselves “The Gathering of the Eagles,” many with tattoos, denim vests and sunglasses. “You’re disrespecting your son’s honor!” Hill shouted at Sheehan, referring to her son Casey, who died in Iraq. “I hope he’s going to heaven, because you’re sure not!” “Yes, my son Casey died in George Bush’s illegal and immoral war,” she said to the crowd, as some of the hecklers blew air horns to try to drown her out. “They don’t […]

[Executive Producer James L.] Brooks’ anxiety over leaked plot spoilers represents an obsession with quality control that included 2 1/2 years’ worth of rewrites before the Simpsons brain trust even arrived at a suitably madcap story outline. “The other day somebody guessed we did 100 drafts, and I would say it took us 70 before it began to look like we didn’t give a damn!” says Brooks, ensconced in his bungalow on the 20th Century Fox lot. “It was daunting because we were very concerned about this passionate Simpsons subculture. We had to get past the white knuckles because this […]

“As Street talked about fighting an “attitude” that kills, he could have been referring to his own. With months to go before ending a 30-year government career, the mayor must wake up some mornings wondering how he will be remembered. No politician wants to go down in history as having done nothing because he didn’t bother to tell anyone what he did and why. No one wants to be recalled as weird, uncaring, or clueless because of where he doesn’t go, what he doesn’t say and the company he doesn’t keep. At this point, Street can’t do much to get […]

This is quite awesome.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Inconspicuous Consumption is a new weekly Phawker feature by mystery columnist ALLAN SMITHEE. According to Wikipedia, “Alan Smithee is a pseudonym used between 1968 and 1999 by Hollywood film directors who wanted to be dissociated from a film for which they no longer wanted credit. It was used when the director could prove to the satisfaction of a panel of members of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) and Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers that the film had been wrested from his or her creative control. The director was also required to keep the reason for […]

BY LARRY EICHEL INQUIRER SENIOR WRITER Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan is in Philadelphia today and expected to announce that she’s going to run next year against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.). Two weeks ago, Sheehan said that she would challenge Pelosi unless the speaker moved to oust President Bush via the impeachment route. Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004, gave Pelosi a deadline of yesterday to take action, yesterday being the day Sheehan arrived in Washington after a 13-day caravan and walking tour from her war protest site near Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas. Pelosi […]

THIS JUST IN FROM THE DN’s JOE SIXPACK: Yards Brewing, the city’s only production brewery, is breaking up. Founder and co-owner Tom Kehoe is splitting with his partners, Bill and Nancy Barton, and will move the 13-year-old brewery to a new, to-be-chosen location. No interruption in production is expected.The Bartons will keep Yards? brewing facility in Kensington and begin producing a new brand. I’ll have details in Tuesday’s Daily News.

A team of computer security consultants say they have found a flaw in Apple’s wildly popular iPhone that allows them to take control of the device. The researchers, working for Independent Security Evaluators, a company that tests its clients’ computer security by hacking it, said that they could take control of iPhones through a Wi-Fi connection or by tricking users into going to a Web site that contains malicious code. The hack, the first reported, allowed them to tap the wealth of personal information the phones contain. Although Apple built considerable security measures into its device, said Charles A. Miller, […]

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has been really going after the Democrats as of late, slamming Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., for saying that kindergartners should receive “age appropriate” sex education (LINK) (even though Romney supported “age appropriate” sex education in the Bay State when he was governor — read more about that HERE), implying Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., holds Marxist positions” (LINK) . And now our friends at TMZ.com have a photograph (LINK) of the governor posing for a picture with a supporter’s sign that reads: “No to Obama Osama and Chelsea’s Moma (sic).” [via POLITICAL PUNCH] FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: […]