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Fox News
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
The Quiz #419 - Out Of The Frying Pan, Into The Fire
How well do you know your mascots from your ascots? Take The Quiz. Play. Share. Listen with Board-certified internist, addictionologist, Dr. Drew Pinsky. Broke Biden
Boston Globe
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Robert Pinsky bids farewell to BU after 36 years, with a poetry party
Yes, after some 36 years teaching at Boston University, the former three-term U.S. Poet Laureate is going out in style: with a public poetry-filled If you're reading this, you're invited to the free party, which features Pinsky's reading, signing, a book sale, a reception with food and drink, and screening of ' Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Retiring with a public poetry party feels on-brand for Pinsky, who's long aimed to break poetry free of ivory towers and get it into the hands of every human. Advertisement Born in 1940 in New Jersey, Pinsky taught at Wellesley College and UC Berkeley, before landing at BU in 1986. He served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1998-2000, and was named BU's William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor in 2015. Advertisement I called Pinsky, 84, to talk reflections and retirement. Q: So May 1 is your retirement party. A: May 1 is the big occasion. I'm still trying to understand how I feel about retiring. It's not completely clear to me. I remember, at one extreme, the literary critic that way. But it does seem to make sense given the number. I'll be 85 in October. Q: Is age the main reason you decided to retire? A: The number tells me: better now than waiting. I've always loved talking to students. But I've always felt a little out of place in faculty meetings, official emails, and [the like]. I'm more aware of my emotion about not being a teacher than I am about leaving an institution. Q: Have you felt reflective lately? Have you been looking back on BU highlights? A: I did memorable things at BU. BU now has Also, BU has become a home for I taught a — a Massive Open Online Course, ' Advertisement So those are institutional memories, which are in third place behind my family and my books. And my friendships — I remember when Louise Glück told me ' Q: Speaking of your work, what will you read at your retirement party? A: I'll read from my latest book, ' live in the present moment , that Buddhist cliche. I try, but it's lonesome in the present moment. I tend to live in the past. On the other hand, we have to pay attention to the present. Q: Are world events inspiring your writing now? A: Always. My second book, ' Q: Looking back on BU highlights, you helped launch a few poets. A: Yes. What wonderful students I've had. Three former MFA students read in our final Q: Your retirement party will screen 'Favorite Poems Project,' which you started as U.S. Poet Laureate. Advertisement A: They told me, 'Everybody has a project.' So I had a modest idea — a former student was teaching in D.C. I thought his students could ask tourists: 'Do you [know] any lines of poetry by heart?' We got a good response, so it became a video project. Then we had Q: You A: When I got to Rutgers, I auditioned for the jazz band. The guy who auditioned me said, 'We'll let you in — but you haven't practiced enough.' That was a symptom: I was playing music less and getting more obsessed with Emily Dickinson and William Butler Yeats. I was rapidly giving up on myself as a musician. My fantasies now had to do with making poems. Q: What did it feel like to be named U.S. Poet Laureate? How did you find out? A: It must've been a phone call. But from childhood, I grew up skeptical of honors and prizes. Maybe it had to do with my parents; I don't know. I mean, I'm very honored and glad to have been Poet Laureate. But 'laureate' is a questionable word. If you look at the list of the English Poets Laureate, most of them are, kind of, not very good. Advertisement Or not as good as the poets who didn't get it — like William Blake. Also, the full title is 'Poet Laureate, Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.' Really, to be consulted is much greater than to be laureled. The Library of Congress is the greatest house of memory. Whereas 'laureate' — people just like the sound. We Americans are covertly suckers for things that sound British and royal. Originally, the laureate was a servant of one family at the apex of a famously obnoxious class system. So I appreciate the honor. I don't mean to be stupid about it. I hope it's not mere perversity in me that I'm reluctant to just embrace the title as an entirely great thing. Maybe it goes back to my attitude toward 'A' in school. Anybody who's gone to school knows that sometimes 'A' means a lot, and sometimes 'A' doesn't mean much at all. Q: True. A: So I'm glad I got an 'A' from the Library of Congress and the people who make that selection… I think about Interview was edited and condensed. Lauren Daley can be reached at ldaley33@ Follow her on Twitter Advertisement Lauren Daley can be reached at
Fox News
28-04-2025
- Fox News
Dr Drew says drug-addicted psychotic stalker threatened to kill his wife and children
Dr. Drew Pinsky's alleged stalker threatened to kill his wife and children before being thwarted by local police. The addiction specialist spoke to Fox News Digital about his experience as an object of psychotic stalking, which is also explored in Monday's episode of "Hollywood Demons." While Dr. Drew never came face-to-face with his stalker, the man allegedly threatened his family with violence and used small claims court to harass him. There were a few close calls as the man's stalking behavior escalated, and he began to appear in person at places Dr. Drew might be. "When I was at radio one night – I was in the building, but somebody else drove out he thought was me. And he jumped on the hood of their car and started screaming wildly at them about me," the longtime host of "Loveline" told Fox News Digital. "And he's had a couple of small claims actions against me in Santa Monica that were insane … delusional. That I'd put … an implant in his tooth. It forced him to have erections. It was crazy stuff. I threw it away the first couple of times. I couldn't believe that the court would be serious about it, and I finally called the court when the third sort of summons came, and I went, 'What, do you make me come in?' They went, 'Oh, yeah, you have to. You have to come in. You're summoned.' And had I come in, I would have been face to face with this guy. And who knows what might have happened then." Even though his kids were being "actively threatened" by the stalker, Dr. Drew and his wife kept the information to themselves. The TV personality actually credited his wife with solving the whole case. "It was funny when the media was reporting on it, they said I had a cybersecurity specialist," he recalled. "That's my wife who did it all on her own, and she had what I consider to be her proudest moment." Pinsky's wife, Susan, gathered the entire digital footprint the stalker had created and presented it to the local police: "She laid out everything she had uncovered. It's a long story. I mean, first the guy was stalking me on MySpace, then through the courts, and then sort of kind of around in person, around the radio station and then this elaborate website that had all kinds of threats and stuff that we found." Dr. Drew recalled his wife telling the Pasadena police officer, "You see, he says he's going to come to our house. He has a map. He's going to kill my children and eat them in front of me. You need to get this guy. Do you understand?" "She goes, 'I'm not afraid to die. If you don't get him, I will. I'm not afraid to die.' And the cops are like, 'Calm down, Mrs. Pinsky. We got this.' But it was still her proudest moment, in my opinion." At the time, Pinsky had a "pretty clean sense" the stalker suffered from "amphetamine-induced psychosis." "L.A. has a very effective department within the DEA of prosecuting stalkers. And I was with that team and I said, 'Look, this is psychotic stalking, and this is a meth addict. Get him treatment for his meth addiction. He'll have to go away. He'll have to be in treatment for a long period of time.' And he went into a dual diagnosis program for two years." "And guess what? He was better afterward, a lot better. And he's not been re-stalking; treatment works." Monday's "Hollywood Demons" episode also touched on some other celebrities who have been stalked: Justin Bieber, Sandra Bullock and Ashanti. Ashanti's alleged stalker sent messages to the musician's mother. "Some of the messages were about just wanting to be with me and meant to be together," she recalled during the episode. "So he was sending lewd photos," Ashanti revealed. "It makes you feel a little scared. This is like another line being crossed." The R&B singer's stalker was convicted twice on charges of stalking and harassing Ashanti and her family. Bieber has had multiple stalkers, including a New Mexico man and his nephew who plotted to murder and castrate the pop singer in 2013. The plan began after a man in prison attempted to contact Bieber with no response. He then recruited his nephew and another man to drive to the "Love Yourself" singer's home and castrate him with garden shears before murdering him, according to reports. Bullock hid in her closet after a man, who had been stalking her for days in 2014, successfully broke into her home. "The fact that Joshua Corbett actually scaled a wall, made it through security, came into the house really shows potential for serious consequences," Dr. Drew said during the episode. Corbett, who believed Bullock was his wife, carried a notebook that featured photos of the actress along with poems he had written and a love letter. "The fact that Joshua Corbett actually believed he was married to Sandra, that's erotomania." Erotomania is a mental health condition that occurs when someone has a delusional belief that a person is intensely in love with them without any evidence to prove it. "On one hand, he claims he's married to Sandra Bullock, on the other hand, he's going to violently sexually violate her," Dr. Drew said. "This is like Unabomber stuff. This is severe psychosis. It's delusional. But this really shows that when adulation or adoration flips into 'I want to be with that person' or 'I believe that person wants to be with me,' we're in big trouble."
Yahoo
13-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
L.A. Times Owner Laughs Off Comments By Drew Pinsky About 'Disgusting' Way Paper Covered Him In 2021; Reporters Angry He 'Kept Quiet' During 'Unfair Attacks'
Los Angeles Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong is once again in hot water with his newsroom after he appeared on Dr. Drew Pinsky's podcast and didn't defend the past work of one of his reporters. During a 90-minute discussion Tuesday that encompassed Mayor Karen Bass, the wildfires and their mutual admiration for RFK Jr's nomination for Health Secretary, Pinsky brought up on Ask Dr. Drew how the Times' covered his 2021 nomination to the commission that oversees L.A.'s Homeless Services Authority. Pinsky claimed that Times reporter Jaclyn Cosgrove never contacted him at the time, and called their coverage of him 'disgusting.' More from Deadline Los Angeles Times Offers Voluntary Buyouts To Employees With Two Or More Years Of Tenure List Of Hollywood & Media Layoffs In 2024: From Paramount To Warner Bros Discovery To CNN "Disappointing": Kamala Harris Comments On Washington Post And Los Angeles Times Decisions To Not Endorse Soon-Shiong appeared to laugh off his comments about Cosgrove, who uses they/them pronouns, and said this in response, 'I think you're right. You know, the unfairness of …and that was supposed to be a news report rather than opinion … and that's what I also think is wrong about media here. You have to be fair. And that's all you ask, right? Fair and honest. And to call you on some of these things.' Pinsky's comments about Cosgrove and the 'terrible article' begin at 28:56. On Wednesday, members of the L.A. Times Guild Unit Council sent this letter to Soon-Shiong. 'In 2021 our colleague Jaclyn Cosgrove was tasked with writing articles about the nomination of Dr. Drew Pinsky to the commission that oversees the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. Those articles quoted Pinsky extensively, as you can see from the stories.' 'Following their publication, Pinsky and podcast host Adam Carolla repeatedly attacked Cosgrove on Carolla's show. Carolla called Cosgrove a 'fucking coward' and the two launched various other insults at Cosgrove. The attacks led to a barrage of harassment from Pinsky's followers. As Cosgrove explained in an email to the company at the time: 'I've been called a bitch, a coward, a liar, a chicken shit, a liar and … I'm probably forgetting some. Cosgrove reported the harassment to several people at the company including Jeff Glasser, Shelby Grad, John Canalis and HR.' 'Yesterday, you went on Pinsky's show, Ask Dr. Drew, and Pinsky again raised the articles. He said he 'had been waiting for this for a long time' and again named Cosgrove. He said falsely that Cosgrove never called him for comment. He called the reporting 'disgusting' and said he had called Cosgrove and told them to 'do your damn job.'' The unit council's letter went on to say that 'Pinsky's false comments, and your apparent support for them, invite further harassment of our colleague … We are asking for a public statement making it clear that Pinsky's comments were false and for the company to offer its support for Cosgrove, who was doing their job as a journalist for the Los Angeles Times. The owner of the Los Angeles Times should not support – or keep quiet during – unfair attacks on his own employee.' A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Times also released this to Deadline: 'On his show Ask Dr. Drew, Dr. Drew Pinsky asserted that the Los Angeles Times had published a story about his nomination to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority in 2021 without calling him or asking him any questions, and suggested that the reporting was not fair. That is not accurate. The Times did interview him for the story, and he was quoted extensively in the published article. We encourage anyone who is concerned about the fairness of the story to read it themself.' You can find the original Cosgrove article that was titled 'Dr. Drew eyed for homeless commission, angering advocates who wonder: Is this a joke' here. The spokesman also forwarded Deadline's request for comment to Soon-Shiong and we will update this story if and when we hear from him. In October, the paper made national news — while some of its own staffers quit — after Soon-Shiong informed his editorial board that the Time would be making no endorsement in the presidential race. The Times had endorsed a candidate in each cycle since 2008 and, according to CJR, was planning to endorse Kamala Harris until the owner nixed the practice. Soon-Shiong referenced that decision during Pinsky's podcast on Tuesday. 'I mean the decisions we made in regard to the non-endorsement on Kamala, nobody's called me on that but made assumptions and then you make assumptions and then you make opinions based on your assumptions, and then you just keep them going. And then you call that news … We've got to stop that.' 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