Here is a news article: Goldie Hawn and Amy Schumer brought some good laughs to the 2017 Golden Globes.

 The two actresses play a mother and daughter in the upcoming action-comedy film Snatched, which sees them embarking on a hijinks-filled trip to South America. They offered a sneak peek of their comedic chemistry onstage at the Golden Globes while presenting the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy.

 "So, in our new movie, Amy and I play mother and daughter," Hawn, 71, told the audience.

 "Yeah, I play the daughter," joked Schumer, 35. "Although I read for both parts."

 "You did?" Hawn asked, giggling her trademark Goldie Hawn giggle.

 "Yes, I did," Schumer said. ||||| Viola Davis' Heartfelt Speech About Meryl Streep

 Viola Davis' speech about Meryl Streep, this year's Cecil B. DeMille Award recipient, was the perfect introduction. She began with a charming story about the time Streep schooled her on how to make apple pie and collard greens. Then, she seamlessly segued into an tribute to the Florence Foster Jenkins star's talent. But, the most moving part of the speech was listening to Davis talk about how much Streep meant to her as both a person and actress. "You make me proud to be an artist. You make me feel that what I have in me — my body, my face, my age — is enough. You encapsulate that great Emile Zola quote that, if you ask me as an artist what I came into this world to do, I, an artist, would say, I came to live out loud," said Davis, bringing tears to eyes everywhere and setting the stage for the main event. ||||| She still can’t shake it off. Jimmy Fallon poked fun at Mariah Carey’s New Year’s Eve performance drama while hosting the 2017 Golden Globes on Sunday, January 8. See what he had to say in the video above!

 As viewers saw earlier in the night, the Saturday Night Live alum, 42, had to ad-lib a few lines when the teleprompter failed during his opening monologue. Later on in the show, he joked that he and the pop diva had spoken on the phone, and that she told him that Dick Clark Productions was behind the mishap.

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 "I just got off the phone with Mariah Carey and she thinks that Dick Clark Productions sabotaged my monologue,” Fallon quipped to the crowd.

 As previously reported, Carey and her team claimed that the company sabotaged the Grammy winner during her Saturday, December 31, set due to a faulty earpiece. Because of the technical error, the Mariah’s World star did not sing as prerecorded vocals for her hits “Emotions” and “We Belong Together” played.

 “This is the album version," she admitted before leaving the stage. "It just don't get any better."

 Dick Clark Productions denied Carey’s allegations that its staff sabotaged the superstar for ratings. “In very rare instances there are of course technical errors that can occur with live television; however, an initial investigation has indicated that DCP had no involvement in the challenges associated with Ms. Carey’s New Year’s Eve performance,” the company told Us Weekly in a statement on January 1. “We want to be clear that we have the utmost respect for Ms. Carey as an artist and acknowledge her tremendous accomplishments in the industry."

 On Sunday afternoon, Carey addressed the drama in an audio clip released on Twitter and Instagram. “I haven’t really addressed the situation of what happened on New Year’s Eve and in time, I will,” she says in the nearly two-minute clip. “But for now, I want everyone to know that I came to New Year’s Eve in New York in great spirits and was looking forward to a celebratory moment with the world. It’s a shame that we were put into the hands of a production team with technical issues that chose to capitalize on circumstances beyond our control.”

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  ||||| Actor Hugh Laurie made jokes alluding to President-elect Donald Trump Donald TrumpSenate takes first step toward repealing ObamaCare Michelle Obama: Last days as first lady surprisingly emotional Mexico's president: We will not pay for the wall MORE as he accepted his Golden Globe award on Sunday night.

 “I’ll be able to say I won this at the last-ever Golden Globes,” Laurie said. “I don’t mean to be gloomy; it’s just that it has the words ‘Hollywood,’ ‘Foreign,’ and ‘Press’ in the title.”

 “I also think to some Republicans even the word ‘association’ is slightly sketchy,” Laurie added.

 Laurie, best known for his role on the television show “House,” won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in the mini-series “The Night Manager.” Laurie said he accepted the award “on behalf of psychopathic billionaires everywhere.”

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 Laurie’s comments came after Golden Globes host Jimmy Fallon roasted Trump in his opening monologue. Fallon joked that the Golden Globes was one of the only places left that “honored the popular vote” and compared Trump to “Game of Thrones” villain King Joffrey.

 During his campaign, Trump pushed for stricter immigration policies and repeatedly called the media "dishonest" in its coverage of him. ||||| Jimmy Fallon stayed true to his word that Donald Trump jokes would be aplenty at the Golden Globes.

 The late night funnyman jumped right into jabs at the soon-to-be President-elect including comparing him to the evil King Joffrey from “Game of Thrones,” and poking fun at Trump's rumored close relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

 While Fallon tried his best to make a few jokes unrelated to the presidency, not many of them landed.

 Here's a look at some of the funniest lines of the night:

 Jimmy Fallon gets political in Golden Globes monologue

 Jimmy Fallon wasted no time making jokes about Donald Trump. (HANDOUT/REUTERS)

 - "Jeff Bezos is here — he actually arrived yesterday, but no one was around to sign for him," Fallon quipped when discussing the numerous nominations Amazon original series received.

 - "'Game of Thrones' is nominated tonight, the show has so many plot twists and shocking moments, some wondered what would have happened if King Joffrey had lived. Well in 12 days we're going to find out," the late night host said, comparing the President-elect to the evil TV character.

 - Fallon noted that "Manchester by the Sea" was the only thing in 2016 more depressing than the year itself.

 Golden Globes 2017: Stars shimmer on the red carpet

 - Instead of the boring reference to Ernst & Young for being the accounting firm taking care of the ballots, the "Saturday Night Live" alum called the film "Ernst & Young & Putin" — joking that Russia could have hacked this election, too.

 Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds remembered at Golden Globes

 -"Of course we all know Matt Damon's greatest acting role was telling Ben Affleck he liked "Batman vs. Superman," Fallon said, mocking the notably terrible film.

 - Another one of Fallon's early jokes addressed Mariah Carey's disastrous New Year's Eve performance. "I just got off the phone with Mariah Carey. She thinks Dick Clark Productions tried to sabotage my monologue," he said.

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 The 74th annual Golden Globe Awards had one big winner this year — "La La Land."

 The musical led the Globes' feature film awards with seven nominations, and then won every single one of them, including Best Actor and Best Actress honors for its stars, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling —breaking the Golden Globes record for most awards won by one film.

 Here were some of the evening's biggest moments.

 An epic opening number

 NBC via Getty Images Jimmy Fallon performs in the opening sequence for the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards.

 Jimmy Fallon kicked off the night's ceremony, broadcast live from the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel, with a pre-taped star-studded musical sequence that spoofed the opening of "La La Land."

 Fallon was joined by his fellow "Saturday Night Live" alum Tina Fey, his pal Justin Timberlake and many of the night's nominees including Ryan Reynolds, Nicole Kidman, Sarah Paulson, Amy Adams, John Travolta and the "Stranger Things" kids (including Barb!) in the dazzling musical intro.

 The number, which found the Hollywood A-listers breaking out in song and dance also found Fallon and Timberlake romantically slow-dancing together.

 It was the 42-year-old "Tonight Show" host's first time emceeing the famously fun ceremony, which honors the best in film and television, as chosen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

 Fallon's failing Teleprompters

 NBC via Reuters Host Jimmy Fallon presents during the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards show on Jan. 8, 2017.

 Fallon's opening monologue didn't go quite as well as the musical number. Within seconds of him walking onstage, the funny man burst out laughing, informing viewers his Teleprompter wasn't functioning properly. But he quickly recovered, making several cracks about the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

 "As always, the ballots for tonight's Golden Globes were carefully tabulated by the accounting firm of Ernst and Young and Putin," he quipped.

 "The People v. O.J." nab early awards

 Getty Images Executive Producer Nina Jacobson accepts the award for Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for TV for ""The People v. O.J. Simpson": American Crime Story" during the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards.

 After its sweep of the 2016 Emmy Awards, "The People v. O.J. Simpson," which led the Globe's TV nominations with five nods, started the night off big with wins for both lead actress Sarah Paulson and the miniseries itself (Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television).

 Getty Images Sarah Paulson accepts her award for Best Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for TV for her role in "The People v. O.J.: American Crime Story."

 Following her Emmy win months ago, Paulson's first-ever Golden Globe toasted her now-famous portrayal of former Los Angeles County prosecutor Marcia Clark.

 Paulson thanked "the remarkable" Clark in her acceptance speech. "You are an inspiration to me," she said. "If I could live with a fraction of your wit, integrity, and your unapologetic fierceness, I would be on the road to doing it right."

 "La La Land" hits all the right notes

 NBC via Reuters Ryan Gosling holds his award for Best Actor, Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for "La La Land" during the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards.

 But it was "La La Land" that was music to the foreign press's ears.

 Ryan Gosling accepted the award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy by paying tribute to his real-life love, Eva Mendes. "While I was singing and dancing and playing piano and having one of the best experiences I’ve ever had on a film, my lady was raising our daughter, pregnant with our second, and trying to help her brother fight his battle with cancer," Gosling said.

 "If she hadn’t taken all that on so that I could have this experience, it would surely be someone else up her other than me today. Sweetheart, thank you," he continued before dedicating the award to the memory of Mendes' brother, Juan Carlos.

 Later, Gosling's co-star Emma Stone won in her category, and immediately thanked her mother, Gosling and others. "This is a film for dreamers," she said. "Hope and creativity are two of the most important things in the world."

 Director Damien Chazelle also picked up a Best Director's award and a Best Screenplay award.

 A win for Affleck (Casey, that is)

 Getty Images Casey Affleck accepts the award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for his role in "Manchester by the Sea."

 Casey Affleck won his first Globe in the Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama category for his riveting work in "Manchester By The Sea."

 No Globes for Portman (or Ryder)

 In one of the night's most surprising upsets, French actress Isabelle Huppert ("Elle") beat two-time Globe winner Natalie Portman for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama. Portman's performance as Jackie Kennedy in "Jackie" has been wowing critics for months, and the actress, currently pregnant with her second child, was considered a lock-in by many.

 Portman's "Black Swan" co-star, Winona Ryder, was a buzzed-about contender for a Best Actress in a Television Drama for her role in Netflix's "Stranger Things," but she was bested by "The Crown" star Claire Foy.

 A first-time win for Tracee Ellis Ross

 Reuters Actress Tracee Ellis Ross holds the award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy for "Black-ish" during the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards.

 Tracee Ellis Ross, one of the night's many first-time nominees, nabbed her first Golden Globe in the Best Actress in a TV Comedy category for her portrayal of Dr. Rainbow Johnson on "Black-ish," and became the first black actress to win in the category since Debbie Allen's 1983 win for "Fame."

 Ross, daughter of pop music superstar Diana Ross, dedicated the award to "all of the women of color and colorful people whose stories, ideas, thoughts are not always considered worthy."

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 It's Brad!

 HANDOUT / Reuters Brad Pitt presents during the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards show on Jan. 8, 2017.

 Brad Pitt stepped out from the wings to introduce the motion picture "Moonlight," nominated for six awards. The A-lister, who recently separated from his wife, Angelina Jolie, amid child abuse allegations, was cheered wildly by his peers.

 Metz and more first-time nominees

 AP Chrissy Metz arrives at the 74th annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017.

 Chrissy Metz was one of the night's many breakout stars with her first-ever Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress on NBC's "This Is Us." In fact, the actress's category consisted entirely of first-timers, including her co-star, Mandy Moore, Olivia Colman (“The Night Manager”), Lena Headey (“Game of Thrones”), and Thandie Newton (“Westworld”).

 In the end, Colman took home the Globe.

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 Robots, royals and more drama

 The Best TV Drama category heated up with exciting and diverse new shows. First-time contenders included HBO's spooky robot drama "Westworld," NBC's family ensemble "This Is Us," Netflix's royal series "The Crown," and its retro sci-fi thriller "Stranger Things" Whom do they face off against? HBO's critically acclaimed dragon drama "Game of Thrones."

 "The Crown" nabbed the award.

 Amy and Goldie, together

 Getty Images Amy Schumer (L) and Goldie Hawn onstage during the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 8, 2017.

 When funny ladies and "Snatched" co-stars Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn presented the award for Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical to Gosling, they brought down the house with their hilarious schtick.

 "In our new movie, Amy and I play mother and daughter,” said Hawn.

 “I play the daughter,” interjected Schumer. “Although I read for both parts.”

 Hawn, who said she left her glasses at home, repeatedly flubbed words on the Teleprompter. "Best Motion Picture Comedy or Mystical," Hawn said, squinting.

 "Musical," Schumer corrected her.

 "The nominees of five of the most tainted men," Hawn tried again.

 “It’s talented. Kurt, do you have her glasses?” Schumer asked looking into the audience for Hawn's longtime beau, Kurt Russell.

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 And the Cecil B. Demille Award goes to ... Meryl!

 Handout / Getty Images Meryl Streep accepts Cecil B. DeMille Award during the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 8, 2017.

 Viola Davis presented her former co-star Meryl Streep, nominated for her 30th (!) Golden Globe for her performance in "Florence Foster Jenkins," with the night's most prestigious award for her outstanding body of work. (The actress holds the record for most Globe wins with a whopping eight awards.)

 Streep accepted the award with an impassioned speech about the divisive presidential election and its outcome, and called on the press to be vigilant in its political reporting. She concluded tearfully, "As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once, 'Take your broken heart and make it into art.'"

 Victory for Viola

 Davis nabbed her own award for her role in "Fences," an adaption of a 1983 August Wilson play. The actress thanked her husband, Julius Tennon, and their young daughter, Genesis, before thanking her father, Dan Davis, whose life, she said, shared similarities with the main character of "Fences."

 In memoriam

 Speaking of Princess Leia, the ceremony honored the late mother-daughter duo Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher with a brief film reel featuring some of their most iconic films including "Singing in the Rain" and, of course, "Star Wars." ||||| Here Are the 12 Best & Worst Moments at the 2017 Golden Globes

 Even without the peerless co-hosting talents of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler -- we'll miss 'em stewarding Hollywood's drunkest awards show always -- plenty of memories were made at Sunday night's (Jan. 8) Golden Globes, both good and bad. (Many of both types featured the Globes' new host, Jimmy Fallon.) Here are the moments that should be inspiring the most extended buzzes and brutal hangovers tomorrow morning.

 BEST MOMENTS

 Billy Bob Thorton vs. Bob Odenkirk

 Never lacking for misanthropic style, Billy Bob Thorton used his surprise win for Best Actor in a Comedy Series as an opportunity to settle a puzzling fictional score with vanquished co-nominee Bob Odenkirk: "Bob and I have had a feud since the 1940s when we did a movie with Van Johnson -- remember that, Bob? And we've had a little thing ever since. So, there you go, bud." Made as much sense as Billy Bob's indoor sunglasses, and was just as amusing.

 Donald Glover's Migos Shout-Out

 "Not for being in the show, but for making 'Bad and Boujee.' That’s the best song…ever.” How quickly we forget about "Black Beatles" -- but still, close enough.

 Denzel Washington, Having a Moment

 And we hadn't even gotten to Meryl Streep's speech yet.

 ?ulia Louis-Dreyfuss

 Not a bad look with the hair pick and glasses, but most memorable was just JLD's presented-without-comment DJ impression -- a faux-scratch here, a knob twiddle there, and a perpetually undistractable facial expression.

 "Fantasia Day"

 Without Tina and Amy, nothing more reliable at the Golden Globes than Kristen Wiig and a worthy comedic partner shaming all other pre-award banter with a routine that's confusing, unpredictable and at least mostly hilarious. Her and Steve Carrell did the legacy proud this year with their tragic remembrances of the first time they ever saw an animated movie; Wiig while her three dogs were being put down, and Carrell just before his parents got divorced: "I never saw my father again after that day… Fantasia day…”

 Barb in the opening musical number

 But only if we all agree that this is the last time, and we're all gonna let it go after this.

 Brian Tyree Henry and Keith Stanfield, beaming

 Tough for Donald Glover to top his Migos moment, but although his speech for Best Actor in a Comedy was damn strong, the emotional heavy lifting was done in the crowd, where Glover's two Atlanta co-stars were shown clutching each other like a couple of tearfully proud parents. A moment of true poignance, even more so because now we can look forward to the possibility of it somehow being integrated into an upcoming season two episode.

 Meryl's speech

 Meryl Streep's anti-Trump speech at The Golden Globes touches on protecting journalists RT @goldenglobes: pic.twitter.com/FTubRjDN5T — Dan Rather (@DanRather) January 9, 2017

 Raw, heartfelt, necessary and earned -- and for us in the press, more ennobling than we sometimes deserve.

 WORST MOMENTS

 Take that, Mariah Carey

 Jimmy Fallon experienced a monitor mishap of his own to begin the live portion of his Golden Globes hosting, so he deflected any potential virality to a predecessor who'll forever have him trumped, Mariah Carey: "She thinks that Dick Clark Productions sabotaged my monologue." Took him until the next time he was out to come up with that zinger, too.

 "Hidden Fences," not once but twice

 To be fair, Hidden Fences does sound like a pretty good movie title. But, uh, still not a particularly good look for Michael Keaton, Jenna Bush, or anyone.

 Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn's forgotten-glasses schtick

 Is the best we can do for this duo a series of never-funny jokes about misreading the teleprompter? Between this and the "Formation" video remake, it's like Amy and Goldie think they have to try way harder than they actually do to be funny and awesome together.

 The doubly aggressive play-off music

 Questlove def feels bad about pumping in the play 'em off music like producers are in his ear like "BLAST IT" and he's like "guys be nice!" — Jeff McDev (@JeffMcDev) January 9, 2017

 Yeah, we all want to get out of here and go to sleep, but this is just getting insulting. ||||| Presenting the Golden Globe for best animated film brought up some painful memories for Kristen Wiig and Steve Carell.

 The hilarious duo —and Despicable Me voice actors — had the audience in stitches from the get-go, with Carell greeting the audience, “Good evening peers and regular people.”

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 Wiig then made a quip about her new short hairdo, saying that in addition to collaborating with Carell for the animated series, the two “also get our haircut together.”

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 But the pair really found their groove when Wiig asked Carell if he could remember the first animated movie he ever saw.

 “I do actually, very well. Kind of a big deal, I was 6 years old and my dad took me to see Fantasia,” he began.

 “It was astounding. The music, the spectacle of the whole thing. It was kind of a life-changing experience,” he continued.

 “And as we were leaving the theater, there standing in the lobby was my mom — and that was the moment that she told my dad that she wanted a divorce,” he said, wiping an imaginary tear from his eye.

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 “I never saw my father again after that day. Fantasia day,” he added, feigning heartbreak.

 Changing the subject, Carell then asked Wiig about the first animated movie she saw as a kid.

 “Bambi,” Wiig answered. “March 14, 1981: It was the same day we had to put our dogs down,” she said, staring off sadly into the distance.

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 “My grandpa thought it’d be fun to go to the movie and take our minds off of it,” Wiig added, breaking character with a smile for the first time. “Also, that was the last day I saw my grandpa,” she added. “And I didn’t speak for two years.”

 After the nominees for the award appeared onscreen, Carell and Wiig were seen hugging it out onstage.

 And for the record, Zootopia took home the Golden Globe. ||||| Well, another Golden Globes have come and gone. We’re a little older and a little wiser and we probably have a better idea of who’s going to win the Oscars. And we have a few Jimmy Fallon jokes to quote in the morning. Here are some of his best moments from the show:

 Fallon’s buzzed-about, pre-recorded opening number included a guest-rapped verse from Millie Bobby Brown and a Justin Timberlake-backed dance routine, but he held something back for the monologue, peppering his cold open with lines establishing the Globes as “one of the few places left where America still honors the popular vote.”

 A brief teleprompter mishap gave Fallon room to riff on Mariah Carey’s New Year’s Eve woes …

 Fallon also worked in a Sting impression before bringing in the singer to present a Globe, to the consternation of some on Twitter …

 Only took a half hour for @jimmyfallon to bust out a Sting impression, sending Vegas odd makers into a tizzy for missing the over/under — Glazer (@GlazedTweets) January 9, 2017

 Fallon’s Sting impression was hardly the most verbally dextrous moment his hosting stint: That would go to his introduction of Michael Keaton, which went a little something like this …

 Also, if you were able to keep a dry eye during Fallon’s heartfelt tribute to Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, you were definitely in the minority.

 “Hollywood has been around for over a hundred years. Five generations built this industry. It’s a big industry and sometimes we forget that it’s actually a community, a community of families. This past year we lost so many legends and icons but a few weeks ago we lost a mother and a daughter within just a couple of days. It was a terrible loss that we all felt so tonight we’d like to pay tribute to Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds.”

 Oh, and then he turned Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain’s presenting stint into a riff on a riff on Cypress Hill’s “Insane in the Brain.”

 So those of you waiting at home to see if Fallon would pay tribute to an early-’90s hip-hop group … you can collect your winnings tomorrow in the office. |||||
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– There was no shortage of memorable moments at the 74th annual Golden Globes, from Ryan Gosling thanking his partner, Eva Mendes, for handling their family life at home while he was filming his movie La La Land, to Meryl Streep revealing how one recent moment (a moment related to President-elect Donald Trump) "kind of broke my heart." Some other notable quotes and happenings at the Globes: Streep wasn't the only one to call attention to No. 45. Hugh Laurie also jumped on the anti-Trump allusion train, hinting that this may be the last Golden Globes show because of the new administration's distrust of celebrities and noting he was accepting his best supporting actor award for The Night Manager "on behalf of psychopathic billionaires everywhere," the Hill reports. Fallon himself noted, per Mediaite, that "many people [had been] wondering what it would be like if King Joffrey [from Game of Thrones] had lived. Well, in 12 days we're gonna find out." He also announced the night's votes had been tabulated by the "accounting firm of Ernst, Young, and Putin" and told the crowd that the Globes are "one of the few places left where America still honors the popular vote," People reports. The night's host couldn't resist a callback to the show's opening teleprompter issues, incorporating the ongoing Mariah Carey New Year's Eve saga to make his point. "I just got off the phone with Mariah Carey and she thinks that Dick Clark Productions sabotaged my monologue," he said, per Us Weekly. The New York Daily News recaps some of Fallon's other zingers. Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn appeared as the "Golden Globes comedy duo we never knew we needed," per E! Online, to present the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical, or Comedy. Hawn turned on the loopiness while Schumer played the straight one, with Goldie using the word "mystical" instead of "musical" and announcing the "nominees of the five most tainted men" instead of the five most "talented" ones. "Kurt, do you have her glasses?" Schumer asked Hawn's partner, Kurt Russell, who was sitting in the audience. Two other comedians also made an impact at the awards show, but their turn was more of the "hilariously dark" version, per People. Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig presented the award for best animated feature, but not before they revealed the first animated movies they had seen as kids. "As we were leaving the theater, there standing in the lobby was my mom—and that was the moment that she told my dad that she wanted a divorce," Carell said of his (supposed) Fantasia experience. "March 14, 1981: It was the same day we had to put our dogs down," Wiig recalled of her first alleged viewing of Bambi. Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, and Today.com offer their own takes on the best and worst moments of the show. (There was also a pretty hot kiss between Ryan Reynolds and Andrew Garfield.)


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It's a fact of life in Washington that what one party considers a principled stand, the opposition considers pigheadedness. Compromise? That's the other guy's problem.

 But when former President Bill Clinton took the stage at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, he portrayed President Barack Obama as a pragmatic compromiser who has been stymied at every turn by Republicans. There was no mention of the role that the president and the Democrats have played in grinding compromise to a halt on some of the most important issues facing the country.

 That was among the lines by the former president and others Wednesday that either cherry-picked facts or mischaracterized the opposition. A look at some of them:

 CLINTON: "When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. ...Unfortunately, the faction that now dominates the Republican Party doesn't see it that way. They think government is the enemy and compromise is weakness. One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation."

 THE FACTS: From Clinton's speech, voters would have no idea that the inflexibility of both parties is to blame for much of the gridlock. Right from the beginning Obama brought in as his first chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, a man known for his getting his way, not for getting along.

 One of the more high-profile examples of a deal that fell apart was the outline of a proposed "grand bargain" budget agreement between Obama and House Speaker John Boehner in 2011.

 The deal would have required compromise from both sides. It slashed domestic spending more than most Democrats wanted and would have raised some taxes, which most Republicans oppose.

 Boehner couldn't sell the plan to tea party factions in the House or to other conservative activists. And Obama found himself accused of going too far by some Democratic leaders. The deal died before it ever even came up for a vote.

 In another instance, Obama appointed a bipartisan group, known as the Simpsons-Bowles Commission, to recommend ways to fix major fiscal problems like Social Security and Medicare. The commission issued its recommendations but fell three votes short of formally endorsing them. And Obama mostly walked away from the report. He later incorporated some of the less contentious proposals from the report into legislation he supported.

 But that ensured the tough compromises would not get made.

 The problem with compromising in Washington is that there are few true moderates left in either party. The notion that Republicans are the only ones standing in the way of compromise is inaccurate.

 ___

 CLINTON: Clinton suggested that Obama's health care law is keeping health care costs in check.

 "For the last two years, health care spending has grown under 4 percent, for the first time in 50 years. So, are we all better off because President Obama fought for it and passed it? You bet we are."

 THE FACTS: That's wishful thinking at best. The nation's total health care tab has been growing at historically low rates, but most experts attribute that to continued uncertainty over the economy, not to Obama's health care law.

 Two of the main cost-control measures in Obama's law _ a powerful board to keep Medicare spending manageable and a tax on high cost health insurance plans _ have yet to take effect.

 Under the law, Medicare has launched dozens of experiments aimed at providing quality care for lower cost, but most of those are still in their infancy and measurable results have yet to be obtained. Former administration officials say the law deserves at least part of the credit for easing health care inflation, but even they acknowledge that the lackluster economy is playing a major role.

 Meanwhile, people insured through the workplace by and large have seen little relief from rising premiums and cost shifts. According to the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, the average premium for job-based family coverage rose from $13,375 in 2009 when Obama took office to $15,073 in 2011. During the same period, the average share paid by employees rose from $3,515 to $4,129.

 While those premium increases cannot be blamed on the health care law _ as Republicans try to do _ neither can Democrats claim credit for breaking the back of health care inflation.

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 CLINTON: "I know many Americans are still angry and frustrated with the economy. ... I experienced the same thing in 1994 and early 1995. Our policies were working but most people didn't feel it yet. By 1996, the economy was roaring, halfway through the longest peacetime expansion in American history."

 THE FACTS: Clinton is counting on voters to recall the 1990s wistfully and to cast a vote for Obama in hopes of replicating those days in a second term. But Clinton leaves out the abrupt downward turn the economy took near the end of his own second term and the role his policies played in the setting the stage for the historic financial meltdown of 2008.

 While the economy and markets experienced a record expansion for most of the rest of Clinton's two-term presidency, at the start of 2000, there were troubling signs. Then-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned in February 2000 that "we are entering a period of considerable turbulence in financial markets."

 Sure enough, the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite stock index and the Dow Jones industrial average both peaked in March 2000. The bursting of the high-tech bubble dragged down the economy and markets through the rest of the year. From September 2000 to January 2001 when Clinton left office, the Nasdaq dropped 46 percent. Even now, in 2012, the Nasdaq has not returned to its 2000 peak. By March 2001, the economy toppled into recession.

 Also, as president, Clinton supported the 1999 repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, a law dating back to the Great Depression that separated banking from high-risk financial speculation. Robert Rubin, who had been Clinton's first treasury secretary, helped broker the final deal on Capitol Hill that enabled the repeal legislation to pass. Some financial historians say the repeal of the law paved the way for banks to invest in risky investments like mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations that played a role in the 2008 financial meltdown.

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 CLINTON: "Their campaign pollster said, `We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers.' Now that is true. I couldn't have said it better myself _ I just hope you remember that every time you see the ad."

 THE FACTS: Clinton, who famously finger-wagged a denial on national television about his sexual relationship with intern Monica Lewinsky and was subsequently impeached in the House on a perjury charge, has had his own uncomfortable moments over telling the truth. "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky," Clinton told television viewers. Later, after he was forced to testify to a grand jury, Clinton said his statements were "legally accurate" but also allowed that he "misled people, including even my wife."

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 Associated Press writer Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar contributed to this report. ||||| Former U.S. President Bill Clinton addresses the second session of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, September 5, 2012.

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 CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton made a more comprehensive case for President Barack Obama's re-election in 49 minutes on Wednesday than the rest of the speakers at the Democratic Convention could muster in the 11-1/2 hours that preceded him.

 In a detailed and passionate endorsement of his former rival, Clinton amplified the central argument of Obama's campaign: that voters face a choice between Democratic policies that lead to broad prosperity or Republican policies that benefit the wealthy at the expense of everyone else.

 But he didn't stop there.

 Frequently veering from his prepared remarks, Clinton tackled important topics that have been largely absent from this tightly scripted convention.

 He praised Obama's 2009 stimulus, his expansion of college aid, and his efforts to boost renewable energy. He explained how Obama's healthcare law would benefit ordinary Americans, and warned that Republican healthcare cuts would hurt the poorest and most vulnerable members of society. He argued that Republicans would deepen the country's fiscal woes and prevent more people from voting.

 He unraveled Republican attacks on Medicare spending and welfare that have been deemed misleading by independent fact-checkers and warned that proposed Republican cuts to healthcare would hurt the poor and disabled, not just the middle class.

 And he tackled a question that initially flummoxed Obama aides when Republicans pressed it last weekend: Are Americans better off than they were four years ago?

 "The answer is yes," Clinton said. "But too many people are not feeling it yet."

 A MODEL FOR OTHER DEMOCRATS

 Clinton's arguments are sure to be a template for other Democrats during the two months leading to the November 6 election, said Samuel Popkin, author of "The Candidate: What it Takes to Win - and Hold - the White House."

 "He did a better job of messaging Obama than the Obama people have done," said Popkin, a professor at the University of California-San Diego.

 Though Clinton is rarely concise, Democrats and Republicans alike say he has few equals when it comes to explaining complicated subjects.

 "It was what we needed to put things in plain English so people understand," said Florida delegate Kevin Muth.

 Obama has had less success on that front.

 Economists say his 2009 stimulus created millions of jobs, but most voters view it as a failure. Polls show that most Americans like many aspects of his 2010 healthcare law, but they don't like the overall package.

 And his overhaul of financial regulations won him many enemies on Wall Street, but gained little traction among the general public.

 Republicans used this complexity to their advantage as they portrayed the stimulus as a green-energy boondoggle and turned "read the bill" into a rallying cry against the complicated health-care overhaul.

 Obama's Republican rival for the presidency, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, has steered clear of specifics on the campaign trail and explained his proposals to cut spending and simplify the tax code only in broad strokes.

 Clinton argued that while the details may not be known, Romney's policies would either balloon the national debt, shift more of the tax burden to the middle class or hollow out programs such as child nutrition and transportation.

 Otherwise, the math doesn't add up, he said.

 "I'm just a country boy from Arkansas and I came from a place where people thought two and two equals four," Clinton told the delegates.

 Many of the convention's speakers have focused on a handful of topics, such as reproductive rights and amnesty for the children of illegal immigrants, that appeal to important elements of the Democratic base.

 Clinton aimed for a wider audience.

 By tackling the entirety of Obama's record and Romney's proposals, Clinton sought to win independent voters who are still unsure whether they will see improvement if they give Obama another four years in office.

 "Bill Clinton is the cleanup hitter and is aiming at the center of the electorate," said Hunter College political-science professor Andrew Polsky.

 (Additional reporting by John Whitesides; Editing by David Lindsey and Alden Bentley) ||||| (CNN) -- The second night of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, featured speeches by Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, as well as Elizabeth Warren, candidate for the U.S. Senate. The following contributors offered their assessments.

 Analysis: Clinton speech hit Obama's marks

 Alan Brinkley: Clinton was not only charismatic, but serious

 It has always been remarkable, I think, how Bill Clinton can bring a crowd alive, and that's what he did on Wednesday night. It was a speech full of wonky policy issues, the things he likes so well. But after so many months of paid advertisements playing ugly criticisms of the opposition, Clinton was not only charismatic, but serious.

 For years now, conventions have been carefully organized for television without any real energy or excitement, one of the reasons that so few people are watching them anymore. But Clinton turned the convention into a real conversation about policy, about politics, and about the future.

 His viewers might not agree with much of what he says, but his speech was still an event of the campaign. I wonder whether President Obama, who can give a pretty good speech himself, feels that Clinton has overtaken him. I wonder if Clinton's speech will lead to a more honest way of arguing about ideas and policy. I doubt it. But it might help at least some people to think about serious things.

 Alan Brinkley is the Allan Nevins professor of history at Columbia University.

 John Avlon: Our most talented politician makes Obama's case

 Bill Clinton's speech reminded many Americans why he remains our country's most beloved and naturally talented politician, for all his faults.

 On Wednesday night, he cut through the predictable partisan spin by making a credible and compelling case for Barack Obama's re-election -- better, frankly, than the president has made himself to date.

 Full disclosure: I was a Clinton kid. I was a freshman in college in 1992, and Bubba's campaign inspired the sense that there was a third way, between the far right and far left, that could actually solve problems instead of simply demagoguing them. He was my sub-generation's JFK, and he inspired my unapologetic centrist politics.

 Bill Clinton can talk policy without putting anyone to sleep. That means communicating a love of ideas that can be put into action. And so in Wednesday night's speech he offered a seminar in how to contrast constructively; putting forward stats that resonate with common-sense values.

 Case in point: Clinton's analysis of health care reform, and even the comparative deficit and debt plans, resonates on Main Street because he talks in terms of values and respects the intelligence of the American people. He surgically skewered the alternative Republican plans as well. In the process, he reminded us that good policy can be good politics, connecting with humor to the head and heart.

 Opinion: Bill Clinton, the reverse Clint Eastwood?

 Some of the unrelenting Clinton nostalgia from baby boomers stems from the fact that he reminds them of when they were younger than today, and possibly wealthier and more influential than they might be now. But the fact that Bill and Hillary Clinton are today apparently the most admired Democrats among Republicans -- who once made hating them a cottage industry, as they do with the Obamas today -- is ironic and sadly hilarious, a reminder of how shallow and unprincipled poisonous hyperpartisanship always ultimately is.

 If Bill Clinton were constitutionally eligible for another term, he would win. If swing voters all listened to Wednesday night's speech, I believe Barack Obama would win this election.

 But Clinton's speech Wednesday night was both a seminar and a reminder of why we should love civic debates, as a matter of style and substance, focused on policy as well as politics. Write this line down: "Democracy ... does not have to be a blood sport; it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the human interest." Remember it and aspire to it, taking heart amid all the heat, to persevere in the belief that something at least a little bit better can always be within our reach.

 John Avlon is a CNN contributor and senior political columnist for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. He is co-editor of the book "Deadline Artists: America's Greatest Newspaper Columns." He is a regular contributor to "Erin Burnett OutFront" and is a member of the OutFront Political Strike Team. For more political analysis, tune in to "Erin Burnett OutFront" at 7 ET weeknights.

 Maria Cardona: Clinton answers the 'better off' question with resounding 'Yes!'

 President Clinton's speech, delivered in his unique, well, Clintonesque manner, crystallized the choice this election. He spelled out in the way only he can why Republicans seem to have a visceral reaction to President Obama and how that has kept them from putting the interests of the nation before their politics. And he did it with emotion that was rational, passionate and pragmatic.

 He spoke directly to those disaffected swing voters who are disenchanted with the pace of the change they voted for in 2008, by explaining that it was not Obama who changed or who didn't work to deliver, it was the Republicans who kowtowed to their extreme wings and put the goal of defeating the president before any commitment to solving the big problems facing this nation.

 He set the record straight on Medicare and on GOP fabrications about Obama's stance on welfare reform, and he unequivocally answered the question of whether we are better off today than when Obama took office: The answer was a resounding yes. Clinton's credibility and history with a similar economic situation (though Clinton said that no president could have fixed the damage Obama was handed in just four years) made him the right messenger to the right audience at the right time for Obama. He delivered and he delivered big.

 Other notable speeches? Elizabeth Warren, Cristina Saralegui -- the Latina Oprah Winfrey -- and of course Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University law student smeared by Rush Limbaugh for speaking out for contraception coverage. They spoke to critical audiences within the Democratic Party: progressives who see Warren as a champion and crusader for consumer protection against a Wall Street run amok; progressive and independent women for whom Fluke embodies concern about politicians making decisions about their bodies, their families and their lives; and Latinos for whom Saralegui is an icon. She was introduced by a compelling "Dreamer," Benita Veliz, underscoring the importance of immigration reform.

 All three women spoke eloquently and from the heart about the only candidate in the race they said would fight for middle-class families, women, Latinos, Dreamers. One who would uphold the ideals of fairness, opportunity, hard work and compassion that reflect a country where everyone has the chance to achieve the American dream.

 Maria Cardona is a Democratic strategist, a principal at the Dewey Square Group, a former senior adviser to Hillary Clinton and former communications director for the Democratic National Committee.

 Gergen: Now it's up to Obama

 Ana Navarro: Sweet justice for the man from Hope, Arkansas

 On Wednesday night, Bill Clinton showed us what a political comeback looks like. In 2008, during the Democrat primary, he went from being the "first black president" to being accused of racism.

 I know Bill Clinton, and when I saw him shortly after the election, he was deeply hurt. He thought Obama and the media had been terribly unfair to Hillary and to him.

 Tonight, the man who was marginalized in 2008 came to the rescue of the man who marginalized him. And he did it in classic Clinton style: long, didactic, funny and very damn good.

 I am a Republican, but I love a good political speech regardless of who gives it. Clinton was at the top of his game. He started with a bipartisan preamble, even giving credit to Presidents Bush 41 and 43. Then he went on to teach a master lesson on a partisan attack.

 It says a lot about how Clinton is perceived and how Joe Biden is perceived that the former president got a night as the headliner all to his own, while the sitting vice president did not.

 This night was sweet justice for the man from Hope, Arkansas. In 2000, Al Gore wanted to be his own man and couldn't keep Clinton far enough away. Today, Barack Obama wants to be Bill Clinton's heir and cannot keep him close enough. However, this does create a problem for Obama. He now needs to top Clinton's speech, and Bill set the bar quite high.

 Ana Navarro, a Republican strategist and commentator, served as national Hispanic campaign chairwoman for John McCain in 2008 and national Hispanic co-chair for Jon Huntsman's 2012 campaign.

 Ruben Navarrette: A great storyteller, but you have to read between the lines

 Bubba is back. And, from the sound of it, he never left.

 Bill Clinton did Wednesday what he needed to do for Barack Obama. With a speech that was substantive and entertaining, the Democrats' Great Communicator energized the party's base. He laid out the narrative of the Obama presidency, better than anyone in this administration -- including the president himself -- has been able to do in the last three and a half years. He recited and refuted some of the more damning criticisms that Republicans lodged against Obama last week at their convention. And he assured the American people that he -- to continue a familiar theme from the Clinton years -- felt their pain and understood their worry over a fragile economy.

 This being a Clinton speech, there were great lines. The former president pointed out that Obama had appointed to his cabinet people who had supported Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primary. "Heck," Clinton said, "he even appointed Hillary."

 And this being a Clinton speech, there were also half-truths. For instance, you remember when GOP vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan was criticized by the left for blaming Obama for not acting on the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles plan for debt reduction, without revealing the little detail about how he himself didn't support it. Clinton called the Simpson-Bowles commission a "balanced approach" but didn't mention that Obama had failed to heed its recommendations.

 As someone who writes a lot about immigration, I heard one other line that jumped out at me: "If you think the president was right to open the doors of American opportunity to young immigrants brought here as children who want to go to college or serve in the military," Clinton said, "You should vote for Barack Obama."

 He was referring to Obama's announcement several weeks ago that the Department of Homeland Security would take applications from young illegal immigrants who are interested in two years of temporary "deferred action" to keep them from being deported.

 Again, Clinton left out one detail that suggests he is the last person who should talk about deporting anyone.

 Immigration attorneys tell me that when they're fighting a deportation order against an individual, they first must overcome the legacy of the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. That law, which was authored by a Republican -- Texas Rep. Lamar Smith -- makes it easier for the federal government to deport illegal immigrants and harder to fight their removals. And who signed that terrible bill into law?

 Yep, Bill Clinton. The former president is a great storyteller, as we all know. But, whether he is defending Obama or himself, you have to read between the lines.

 Ruben Navarrette is a CNN contributor and a nationally syndicated columnist with the Washington Post Writers Group.

 Memorable lines from the speeches

 Joanne Bamberger: Reaching voters at the 'ragged edge of the middle class'

 Elizabeth Warren was a great choice for the party faithful to introduce former president Bill Clinton. In the telling of her personal story of pulling herself up by her own bootstraps, as well as her reluctance to take on the bigger political struggle of running for Senate, she was able to connect the crowd with a message that is central to the Democrats' message: that the country has been built on the backs of middle-class people who struggle every day, not the supposed "job creators," a la Bain Capital.

 Warren also used her story of creating the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau to remind voters that the system is rigged through the tax code for the wealthy. Using a "calling it like she sees it" approach, she reminded the crowd that there's a big difference for the country between celebrating the success of those who do the hard work of everyday life, and those who funnel money into offshore accounts, something most families can't even fathom.

 The themes of the night were inclusion and partnership for Clinton, who used his speech to help map out the clear difference between the two parties, as he reiterated that Republicans aren't reluctant to eat their own if they deviate one small inch from their party line.

 One doesn't have to have experienced living at the "ragged edge of the middle class" to have empathy for those who have. Both Warren and Clinton did have moments in their lives when they were at those ragged edges, and that's what makes them powerful voices for their party to reach those voters who are still at that edge.

 Joanne Bamberger is the author of "Mothers of Intention: How Women and Social Media are Revolutionizing Politics in America."

 Obama to speak after Clinton's forceful endorsement

 Roland Martin: President Clinton gives the GOP hell for one night

 In sports, every coach desires a big game player who, no matter the game or the conditions or the opponent, will show up and deliver in the clutch.

 In politics, President Bill Clinton is such a player.

 The Time Warner Arena was constantly on fire Wednesday, each speaker giving the next a hard act to follow. But when the 42nd president of the United States took to the stage, there was no doubt that he still has it.

 Every major applause line, Clinton hit. And he didn't do so by offering up a lofty speech. It was homespun, down-home. The audience ate it up.

 For the GOP, it had to be painful to see a former president back on the big stage delivering a big speech for an incumbent president facing a tough re-election campaign.

 President Clinton gave the GOP hell for eight years. Wednesday night, he gave them hell for one more night.

 Roland Martin is a syndicated columnist and author of "The First: President Barack Obama's Road to the White House." He is a commentator for the TV One cable network and host/managing editor of its Sunday morning news show, "Washington Watch with Roland Martin."

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 The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the authors. ||||| Bubba is back — off script but on message, according to TV pundits of all stripes.

 Former President Bill Clinton’s nearly 50-minute speech Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte was praised by panelists and reporters on all three major cable-news networks.

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 “I’ve been watching this former president of the United States going back to 1992 when I was CNN’s White House correspondent, and I have to tell you, this may be the best speech I have ever heard Bill Clinton deliver over all of these years, and I listened to so many of his speeches during his eight years as president,” CNN’s Wolf Blitzer said.

 “Affable. Effective. As a Democrat it doesn’t get any better,” MSNBC’s Ed Schultz said. “I’m sitting here and I’m giddy. This is exactly what [President] Barack Obama needed.”

 GOP political adviser Steve Schmidt said Clinton’s political prowess is unmatched on either side of the isle.

 “I wish to God as a Republican we had someone on our side who had the ability to do that,” Schmidt said on MSNBC. “We don’t. It would be great if we did.”

 Fox News’ Brit Hume raved, “I’ve always said if I were ever in trouble and if I were guilty, especially if I were guilty, I would want Bill Clinton there to defend me. Nobody does it better. He’s the most talented politician I ever covered and the most charming man I’ve ever met. And no one in my view can mount an argument more effectively than he can.”

 Then Hume tempered his praise.

 “That doesn’t mean everything he said was true,” he said, later adding, “It was a little self-indulgent, and it was about 30 percent too long.”

 GOP commentator Alex Castellanos said on CNN that Clinton’s speech may have sealed Obama’s reelection.

 “Lock the doors, you don’t have to come back tomorrow. This convention is done. This will be the moment that probably reelected Barack Obama,” he said. “Bill Clinton saved the Democratic Party once. It was going too far left, he came in as the new Democrat and took it to the center. He did it again tonight.” |||||
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– Bill Clinton gave one of the finest speeches of either convention—and of his career—in Charlotte last night, making the case for Obama more effectively than the Obama campaign has managed most of the time, pundits say. He won praise from Democrats and Republicans alike, although fact-checkers found plenty to take issue with. Clinton's "detailed and passionate endorsement" made a more comprehensive case for Obama's re-election in 49 minutes than the rest of the DNC speakers could manage in the previous 11 hours, writes Andy Sullivan at Reuters. Clinton explained tough topics and dismantled Republican arguments masterfully, writes Sullivan, who calls Clinton "Obama's most valuable weapon." "This will be the moment that probably re-elected Barack Obama," GOP commentator Alex Castellanos tells CNN. "Bill Clinton saved the Democratic Party once. It was going too far left, he came in as the new Democrat and took it to the center. He did it again tonight," he says. There was even praise from Fox, notes Politico. "Nobody does it better," gushed Brit Hume. "He’s the most talented politician I ever covered and the most charming man I’ve ever met. And no one in my view can mount an argument more effectively than he can." He added, however, that the speech was "self-indulgent" and about half an hour too long. The fact-checkers at the AP were among the few not swooning for Bill. Clinton "cherry-picked facts or mischaracterized the opposition" several times, they declare. Among other things, he ignored the Democratic contribution to political gridlock and credited ObamaCare instead of the poor economy with keeping health care costs down.


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Alan Thicke Sons Go to War with His Wife To Protect the Estate

 Alan Thicke's Sons Fighting to Protect Estate from His Wife

 Breaking News

 Alan Thicke's sons -- Robin and Brennan -- believe their dad's third wife is making moves to get more of his estate than she deserves, and they're taking action to nip it in the bud.

 The sons, with attorney Alex Weingarten, have filed legal docs in Alan's probate case, claiming his widow, Tanya Callau, is greedy and overreaching to get a bigger piece of the pie than their dad intended in his will. In the docs they say she threatened to go to tabloids if her demands are not met.

 They don't mention a specific dollar amount she's allegedly trying to get.

 According to the docs ... Alan got rich and famous long before meeting Callau, and they signed a prenup when they wed in 2005. The sons say she's threatening to challenge the prenup.

 The sons say Tanya also wants more because she claims to have given up her own career to support Alan and help raise his youngest son, Carter.

 According to docs ... the boys say their dad left Tanya 25 percent of his personal effects, 40 percent of his remaining estate, a $500k life insurance policy and said she could live at the ranch.

 Robin and Brennan want a judge to enforce the will and the prenup. ||||| The actor's children say they have no choice but to protect their father's legacy from the "avarice and overreaching" of his third wife.

 America's dearly departed favorite dad Alan Thicke is at the center of what is shaping up to be a dramatic family fight, as his two oldest sons are taking his wife to court over his estate.

 Brennan and Robin Thicke are co-trustees of Thicke's living trust. They say they've been left with no choice but to file a petition in order to "honor the memory of their father, protect his legacy, and prevent his testamentary intentions from being undermined by avarice and overreaching of his third wife, Tanya Callau."

 Thicke died suddenly in December at age 69, after his aorta ruptured while playing hockey with his son Carter.

 The older sons claim their father acquired the vast majority of his wealth long before meeting Callau, who signed a prenuptial agreement ahead of their 2005 marriage.

 In the trust, Thicke left each of his three children equal shares of a Carpinteria ranch, 75 percent of his personal effects and 60 percent of his remaining estate, according to the petition. He left Callau the ranch's furnishings, 25 percent of his personal effects, a $500,000 life insurance policy, all of his death benefits from pensions and union memberships and 40 percent of his remaining estate. He also provided that she could live at the ranch, as long as she paid for its expenses and maintained the property.

 Now, Thicke's sons claim Callau is insisting that the prenup she signed is invalid.

 According to the petition filed Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Thicke updated his trust from time to time, and the most recent iteration was signed in February 2016. It designated his brother Todd as the trustee, and left the estate in the hands of his children if Todd declined the role — which he did. Brennan and Robin say Callau made no complaints about the prenuptial agreement or the estate plan at that time.

 "Now that Alan is dead, Tanya claims there are numerous problems with the Trust and the Prenuptial Agreement," writes attorney Alex Weingarten in the petition. "Tanya asserts that there is no chance the 'Prenup' could withstand legal challenge and that she has very significant community rights in the Trust’s assets and rights of reimbursement with respect to improvements to the Ranch. Tanya also claims 'Marvin rights' asserting that she had to forgo opportunities to pursue and advance her own career in order to support Alan and be his companion and partner, including raising Carter."

 Weingarten also claims Thicke's wife has "threatened to make her claims fodder for 'tabloid publicity' unless the Co-Trustees agreed to participate in a mediation and succumb to her demands."

 The Thickes are asking the court for instructions concerning the extent to which the Trust's property is the actor's separate property and whether Callau's challenge to the prenup is barred because she waived her community property rights when signing it.

 "My clients made every effort to resolve this without the need for going to court," Weingarten tells The Hollywood Reporter. "The only thing they care about is protecting the legacy of their father and honoring his intentions. That is exactly what we are going to do."

 The widow's attorney Adam Streisand sent THR a statement Tuesday evening. "Tanya Thicke has never threatened to take private family matters public and she never has," he says. "It is clear that Alan’s sons have chosen this distasteful public smear tactic to bully Tanya, by stirring up the tabloid media, filing a bogus lawsuit, and refusing family mediation. Tanya is still grieving the death of her beloved husband and out of respect for Alan’s memory intends to handle his son’s false statements privately."

 May 16, 6:00 p.m. Updated with a statement from Tanya Callau Thicke's attorney. |||||
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– Alan Thicke's kids are fighting with his third wife over the late actor's estate. Robin Thicke and brother Brennan, the oldest of Thicke's three sons, say that Tanya Callau—who wed Thicke in 2005—is threatening them with bad publicity unless they give her more of Thicke's estate. Thicke left much of his estate to his three children, but Callau still inherited a significant amount (the Hollywood Reporter has the exact breakdown) and was allowed to continue living on his Carpinteria, Calif., ranch. Thicke's sons say their father acquired most of his wealth before meeting Callau, and that she signed a prenup prior to marrying Thicke. They also say she had no issues with the prenup or the estate plan the last time Thicke updated his trust, in February 2016. (He died in December.) But now, Thicke's sons claim, Callau is claiming the prenup is invalid and there are problems with the trust. Per a petition the brothers filed in a Los Angeles court this week, the brothers say Callau also claims she has community rights to more of Thicke's assets, she should be reimbursed for any improvements she makes to the ranch while living there, and that she took a step back from her own career to support Thicke and help raise his youngest son. The brothers' attorney says in the filing that Callau has "threatened to make her claims fodder for 'tabloid publicity' unless the Co-Trustees agreed to participate in a mediation and succumb to her demands," leading the brothers to ask a court to enforce the prenup and Thicke's will, TMZ reports. Callau's rep says in a statement, "Tanya Thicke has never threatened to take private family matters public."


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Chris Brown will return to jail for a month after being arrested on Friday for violating his probation. On Monday (March 17), a judge cited his "inability to stay out of trouble" as grounds to keep him locked up until April 23.

 Brown, 25, was arrested on Friday based on a warrant issued by probation officials and held without bail until Monday. Though authorities have not yet revealed the cause of the alleged probation violation, TMZ has reported that the singer was kicked out of a Malibu rehab center for violating unspecified "internal rules."

 Brown was ordered to spend 90 days in a residential facility in November for anger-management issues after an incident in which he threw a rock through his mother's car window before being discharged from a rehab facility. Brown spent two weeks in a rehab facility in early October after he was arrested in Washington, D.C., for allegedly assaulting a 20-year-old man. He's due back in court on April 17, when a judge will determine whether he committed criminal assault in that incident.

 Late last month, the Malibu rehab facility revealed in court documents that the singer suffered from PTSD and bi-polar disorder.

 According to TMZ, Brown was thrown out of the Malibu rehab facility for breaking three rules, including one which allegedly applied only to him and which required him to stay at least two feet away from other women at the rehab.

 Brown allegedly violated that rule by touching the elbows and hands of a woman, as well as leaving the facility last week on an unauthorized outing and initially refusing to take a random drug test upon his return. (The tests were reportedly negative, but the initial refusal violated the rehab's rules.) He also reportedly acted out during a rehab group session by making harsh comments.

 The judge in Brown's probation violation case, Superior Court James R. Brandlin, revoked Brown's probation in December, but turned down a prosecutor's request in February to jail the singer again because of the D.C. assault case. Brandlin said at the time that Brown appeared to be making progress in rehab and a probation officer seconded that emotion during by presenting a favorable report during a court hearing on February 28.

 Brown was slated to finish his probation in August, but with a reported 750 hours of community labor left to complete and possible additional penalties for not completing rehab it's likely his probation could be extended once again. ||||| Chris Brown You Got Too Close to Our Women So We Booted You from Rehab

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 was thrown out of the Malibu rehab facility Friday for violating 3 internal rules ... including a special rule imposed specifically on him --Sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ ... the rehab facility imposed the 2-foot rule because of thecase -- specifically, that he beat her. The people who run the facility imposed the highly unusual rule, and we're told Chris violated it by touching elbows and hands with a woman.As for the 2 other violations, we're told Chris left the facility last week on an authorized outing, but when he returned he was told to submit to a random drug test and he refused. Our sources say he later took the test and the results were negative, but the initial refusal was a violation of rules.And the third violation ... the facility claims Chris made a mockery of rehab during a group session with some harsh comments.Our sources say Chris was also in some sort of sexual encounter with a woman at the facility at the beginning of the month, but for some reason that is not part of the basis for booting him.TMZ broke the story ... Chris was arrested Friday because he violated the order of the judge in thecase ... the judge required him to stay in rehab for anger management until mid-April, when his Washington D.C. assault case ran its course.He's currently being held in jail without bail. His lawyer,, will appear in court Monday with Brown in an attempt to get him freed. We're guessing Geragos will ask for house arrest until the D.C. trial. |||||
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– Chris Brown was kicked out of a Malibu rehab facility last week, and TMZ says it knows why. First off, he violated a rule specifically imposed on him because he assaulted Rihanna: to keep at least two feet away from all women (he touched a woman's hands and elbows). The other violations? He went on an unauthorized outing last week and refused a drug test when he returned, and disrespected a group-rehab session by making "harsh comments." Now, because rehab was a mandatory part of his probation in the Rihanna case, the singer is back in jail—and MTV reports that a judge today ordered him to stay there for a month due to his "inability to stay out of trouble."


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– To mark her move to a new studio, Chelsea Handler last night … got naked in a shower with Sandra Bullock. Bullock took the opportunity to slap Handler around a bit, give her some career advice, and chide her for peeing in the shower. "We don't make pee pee in showers anymore," Bullock informed her. "We make pee pee in the potty." But, the Sun reports, Handler later revealed that Bullock didn't go totally nude for the sketch, and only Handler was "really naked." Handler had earlier expressed her excitement that the new studio includes a shower in her office, the New York Daily News reports. "I’m most excited about having a shower in my office, so that I no longer have to shower downstairs and then walk by the audience lineup in a robe," Handler said. "Yeah, I’m not joking, that’s what happened." Later on the last night's episode of Chelsea Lately, Jennifer Aniston appeared and actually teared up a bit while talking about her engagement to Justin Theroux, the Sun adds. "I just got verklempt," Jen said. Handler is apparently a Theroux fan—she called him "the greatest guy ever." (She also teased Aniston about showing her nipples, noting, "Every time Jen comes on the show there's always something when her nipples are very, very pronounced.")

Chelsea Handler on her new studio: 'I’m most excited about having a shower in my office' so I never have to walk semi-nude past my guests again Late-night talk and comedy host moves to new quarters that once served Jack Benny and Conan O'Brien

 What Chelsea Handler loves most about the new set for her late-night show is that she doesn’t have to parade partially nude past her guests anymore.

 “I’m most excited about having a shower in my office, so that I no longer have to shower downstairs and then walk by the audience lineup in a robe,” says the “Chelsea Lately” host. “Yeah, I’m not joking, that’s what happened.

 “The audience would be lined up outside, and I would go downstairs to this industrial-like shower, put my hair up in a, like, a towel ponytail and a robe, and then walk out past them — while people would ask me to sign books. So we’re going to be avoiding that.”

 The comedy talk show, which airs weeknights at 11 p.m. on E!, makes its big move Monday from a small studio in Santa Monica to the larger Stage 1 at Universal Studios.

 Stage 1 was built for “The Jack Benny Show” in 1962, and was also home to the doomed “Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien.” But Handler says she isn’t worried her show will meet the same fate.

 “I'm not superstitious at all, I’m not a Russian,” cracks the comedian.

 Besides a private shower, the new studio has another advantage.

 “We have so much more space now that we’re going to be able to have Chuy enter on elephants and different kinds of animals,” Handler says of her oft-abused sidekick, Chuy Bravo.

 And what does Bravo think about the set upgrade? “Chuy can’t speak English, so I don’t even know if he knows about the move,” Handler quips.

 The new set can accommodate 200 audience members, up from 75. But the show hopes to maintain an intimate vibe.

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 “Conan has a great intimate audience and he is about 200,” Handler says. “My whole shtick is my audience, so I actually really want them more involved in the show, as cheesy as that may sound. We think of really funny ways to get them involved.

 “Recently, for instance, we picked people out of the crowd and then just had them choose, out of three male [‘Chelsea Lately’] writers, whom they want to have sex with the least, and put them in order,” Handler explains. “I want my audience in there. I’m a standup comedian, so I need people.”

 Handler, 37, has hosted “Chelsea Lately” since 2007. It’s the most-watched cable late-night talk show among women age 18-34

 Her close pal Jennifer Aniston appears on the show Monday, the first guest in the new digs.

 “She’s a friend, and she’s a good friend, so she was nice enough to say yes,” Handler says. “And of course, she’s obviously the best person you can get. So she’s just an email away.

 “We’re friends, so it’ll be a nice, relaxing conversation,” adds Handler. “My idea is I want all these great girls to be on the first couple of weeks to christen the stage and to kind of give me their blessing.”

 Other names this week include Fergie on Tuesday, Miley Cyrus on Wednesday and Christina Aguilera Thursday.

 “I like to have a home for people just to have a lot of fun,” Handler says of welcoming guests. “Everybody looks good on the show when they come on, and has a great sense of humor about themselves. I have no problem being the butt of the jokes, and everybody comes off looking hilariously funny.”

 The new, state-of-the-art studio boasts improved sound and lighting systems.

 “I’m here to stay, I’m not going anywhere,” Handler says. “I think for a while, I was kind of confused about what I was going to do, but now I’m not, so I’m going full throttle.

 gsalamone@nydailynews.com

 Watch an interview with Chelsea Handler on her new set here ||||| SANDRA Bullock and Chelsea Handler have stripped off for a comedy shower scene on Chelsea Lately.

 The movie star and talk show host appeared in the steamy skit together, which was shown in the US last night, to mark Chelsea's show's move to a new studio. |||||


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At a KKK rally in Anaheim, Calif., one KKK member stabbed a counter-protester with the decorative end of a flag pole, setting off a vicious brawl where three people were stabbed, one critically, and two were assaulted. (Reuters)

 In 1924, the Ku Klux Klan quietly took control of Anaheim, Calif.

 As historian Shawn Lay details in “The Invisible Empire in the West,” the Klan membership roster in Orange County was 1,280 names-strong, and it was in that same year that four of five City Council seats were occupied by Klansmen. No one had taken issue with this during the election, as the candidates were well-known and could not be definitively tied to the Klan.

 Still, Lay writes, the council’s “actions reflected the KKK’s specific and general objectives.” That summer, 10,000 Klansmen from across the state paraded through the city while a plane adorned by glowing crosses passed above. The rally ended at Anaheim City Park, where nearly 15,000 recruits were initiated into the order and celebrated with a fireworks display.

 This onetime show of strength was but a faint memory at a KKK rally in Anaheim this Saturday, when a total of six Klan members arrived at a park to denounce “illegal immigration and Muslims,” according to the Los Angeles Times.

 [Trump declines to assess white supremacy groups, including KKK, without first doing research]

 The counter-protesters, by contrast, were several dozen in number. When the Klan members pulled up in an SUV wearing black outfits with Confederate flag patches, the protesters had already been peacefully gathered for hours.

 Witnesses told Reuters and the Associated Press that the protesters began throwing sticks and other items when the KKK car appeared with signs that read “White Lives Matter.”

 The encounter quickly descended into violence, as one Klan member was seen with a knife and another using the decorative end of a flag pole as a weapon.

 One man could be heard screaming, “I got stabbed,” the AP reported, as he lifted up his T-shirt to reveal a spouting wound. A nearby fire hydrant was splattered with blood.

 By the end, three people had been stabbed, one critically. All were believed to be counter-protesters.

 Police officers investigate the scene near Pearson Park in Anaheim, Calif., on Feb. 27 after three counter-protesters were stabbed while clashing with KKK members staging a rally. (Ringo Chiu/AFP/Getty Images)

 Five KKK members were initially arrested, but they were released on Sunday because police said they acted in self-defense. Seven counter-protesters remain in custody for allegedly beating, stomping and attacking the Klansmen with wooden posts.

 At the start of the fight, three KKK members immediately fled back inside their SUV and drove off, witness Brian Levin told the Times. The remaining three were left to “fend for themselves,” said Levin, who directs Cal State San Bernardino’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism and was interviewing Klansmen at the protest.

 Levin said he pushed a ringleader of the Klan rally away from the crowd as counter-protesters approached.

 “How do you feel that a Jewish guy just saved your life?” Levin asked, referring to himself.

 To this, the man responded: “Thank you.”

 Anaheim police have been criticized for their response, which left chaos in its wake. A crowd of 100 applauded as they watched the Klansmen being arrested.

 Yet, without the authorities, Levin told the Times, the KKK members “would have been torn limb from limb.” Police said in a statement Saturday that they were aware of the planned rally and counter-protest and had assigned officers to the location.

 “Even if the vast majority of our community disagrees with a particular group who visits our city we cannot stop them from lawfully gathering to express their opinions,” Police Chief Raul Quezada said in the statement.

 Others present blamed the Klansmen for the brawl. Martin Buenorostro told the Times that his friend was the one who had been critically injured.

 “They started pulling out weapons,” Buenorostro said. “One of them had the flag, the American flag, with the pointed top and I think that’s what got my friend. It’s a serious wound. It wasn’t like the blood was dripping out. It gushed out of him.”

 The critically injured man is now in stable condition.

 KKK membership has been on the decline for decades, falling from a peak of 4 million in 1925 to between 5,000 and 8,000 Klansmen today, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Its rallies tend to attract more reporters and counter-protesters than Klansmen.

 But one Republican presidential candidate may be turning the tide for latent white nationalists.

 Rachel Pendergraft, a national organizer for a Ku Klux Klan subgroup known as the Knights Party, told The Washington Post that Donald Trump’s ascendance has opened “a door to conversation.”

 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally in Fort Worth on Feb. 26. (LM Otero/AP)

 “They like the overall momentum of his rallies and his campaign,” she said. “They like that he’s not willing to back down. He says what he believes and he stands on that.”

 Trump, who has garnered support for such proposals as building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico and barring all Muslims from entry, has made “the native tongue of disaffected whites” mainstream, The Post’s Peter Holley and Sarah Larimer wrote last week.

 [How America’s dying white supremacist movement is seizing on Donald Trump’s appeal]

 The former “Grand Wizard” of the KKK, David Duke, told his followers last week that voting for anyone other than Trump “is really treason to your heritage.”

 The GOP candidate disavowed Duke’s semi-endorsement, but said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday morning that he would have to do more research before forming an opinion on white supremacist groups.

 “You know, I know nothing about David Duke,” Trump said on the show. “I know nothing about white supremacists.”

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 ‘Help! Brother has killed everyone’: Indian man fatally slashed 14 relatives at family gathering, police say ||||| Five Ku Klux Klan members who were arrested following a vicious brawl in Anaheim were released because evidence shows they acted in self-defense, police said.

 Seven people who remained in custody were seen beating, stomping and attacking the Klansmen with wooden posts, Sgt. Daron Wyatt said Sunday.

 A police statement said the clash, which erupted after six Klan members arrived at a park Saturday for an anti-immigration rally, was started by a group of 10 to 20 counter-protesters who had "the intent of perpetrating violence."

 In witness video, protesters are seen surrounding a KKK member as protesters gathered at a KKK rally in Anaheim, Calif. Feb. 28, 2016. (AP) In witness video, protesters are seen surrounding a KKK member as protesters gathered at a KKK rally in Anaheim, Calif. Feb. 28, 2016. (AP) SEE MORE VIDEOS

 Police said the Klansmen stabbed three counter-protesters with knives and the decorative end of a flag pole.

 "Regardless of an individual or groups' beliefs or ideologies, they are entitled to live without the fear of physical violence and have the right, under the law, to defend themselves when attacked," the statement said.

 Mayhem ensued Saturday as soon as the Klan members pulled up in a black SUV and pulled out signs reading "White Lives Matter." Dozens of protesters swarmed in and someone smashed a window. The SUV then sped away, leaving three Klansmen outnumbered.

 "(The counter-protesters) were so angry, they would have torn these folks limb from limb," said Brian Levin, who directs the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino. "I was afraid for their lives."

 Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times A Ku Klux Klansman, left, struggles with a protester for an American flag after members of the KKK tried to start a "White Lives Matter" rally at Pearson Park in Anaheim on Saturday. Three people were treated at the scene for stab wounds, and 13 people were arrested. A Ku Klux Klansman, left, struggles with a protester for an American flag after members of the KKK tried to start a "White Lives Matter" rally at Pearson Park in Anaheim on Saturday. Three people were treated at the scene for stab wounds, and 13 people were arrested. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

 Levin, who went to Pearson Park expecting to record the rally for research, found himself protecting the Klansmen until police could intervene. On a video Levin shot and posted to Twitter, he later asked one of them, "How do you feel that a Jewish person helped save your life today?"

 "I thank you. I thank you," said the Klansman, waving away the question with his blood-spattered arm.

 Anaheim is known for pushing back against the Klan in 1924 when its members gained four of five City Council seats. Those Klansmen were ousted in a recall election after their Klan affiliation became public and following a nighttime KKK initiation rally that attracted an estimated 10,000 people to the same city park where Saturday's violence erupted.

 "The only reason we remember Anaheim for the Klan is because they fought the Klan so hard," said Phil Brigandi, an Orange County historian and author.

 In the near century since then, Anaheim has gone from 95 percent white to become 53 percent Hispanic and 27 percent white, according to census data.

 "We're a far cry from those terrible times and the Klan is really an anachronism," Levin said.

 When the melee started, Levin said he saw no uniformed officers. Wyatt said police were there and engaged with people at one end of the fight, and called for additional resources to deploy to the other end. The event stretched along a city block, he said.

 Police Chief Raul Quezada said his officers were able to respond quickly enough to arrest all but one of the main participants, a counter-protester who remains at-large.

 The Klan members were booked for investigation of assault with a deadly weapon before being released. The seven people who remained in custody were booked for assault with a deadly weapon or elder abuse for stomping on a Klan member who's older than 65 years old, Wyatt said.

 Though the Klan members were released, prosecutors will review the case and decide whether to file criminal charges, he said.

 Chris Barker, who identified himself as the imperial wizard of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, told The Associated Press by phone from North Carolina that his members were holding a peaceful anti-immigration demonstration and acted in self-defense.

 "If we're attacked, we will attack back," said Barker, whose organization lists Pelham, N.C., as its headquarters.

 Nationwide, the number of active KKK groups increased to 190 in 2015 after falling in 2013 and 2014, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups.

 Associated Press ||||| About 12 p.m., several men in black garb with Confederate flag patches arrived in an SUV near the edge of the park. Fighting broke out moments after they got out of the car. Some of the protesters could be seen kicking a man whose shirt read "Grand Dragon." ||||| Five KKK members are released in the investigation into a brawl at an Anaheim rally. Rick Montanez reports for Today in LA on Monday Feb. 29, 2016. (Published Monday, Feb. 29, 2016)

 After a violent brawl broke out at an Orange County park between KKK members and counter-protesters, Anaheim police released the Klan members Sunday, saying evidence supports they acted in self-defense.

 Five of the 12 originally arrested were released Sunday afternoon after detectives said they pored over videos, photos and witness interviews. The Anaheim Police Department said the KKK members were released because "the images and statements corroborate witness statements that they were acting in self-defense."

 About 10 to 20 people were involved in the incidents that resulted in three people getting stabbed. One KKK member was behind all three stabbings, according to Anaheim police Sgt. Daron Wyatt.

 "Regardless of an individual or groups’ beliefs or ideologies, they are entitled to live without the fear of physical violence and have the right, under the law, to defend themselves when attacked," Anaheim police said in a statement.

 3 Stabbed at KKK March, 12 Arrested in Orange County

 Thirteen were arrested and three stabbed when groups clash at an Orange County KKK march. Rick Montanez reports for the NBC4 News at 8 on Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016. (Published Monday, Feb. 29, 2016)

 Klan members were booked for investigation of assault with a deadly weapon before being released. The seven people who remained in custody were booked for assault with a deadly weapon or elder abuse for stomping on a Klan member who's older than 65 years old, police said.

 Police said 51-year-old Charles Edward Donner of San Francisco, 20-year-old Marquis DeShawn Turner of Anaheim, 25-year-old Randy Omarcc Felder of Lakewood and 19-year-old Guy Harris, a homeless man, were booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. They were being held on $25,000 bail.

 Hugo Contreras, 38, of Hawthorne; Nicole Rae Schop, 24, and Mark Anthony Liddell, 26, both of Los Angeles, face charges of elder abuse and were being held on $50,000 bail, police said.

 Though the Klan members were released, prosecutors will review the case and decide whether to file criminal charges, authorities said.

 The brawl broke out about 11 a.m. near the site of an planned afternoon rally at Pearson Park located in the 400 block of North Harbor Boulevard, according to Wyatt. Police had said Friday that the department was aware of a KKK "walking protest" planned at the park for 1:30 p.m. Saturday, and that the group had held similar rallies before in Orange County.

 "(The counter-protesters) were so angry, they would have torn these folks limb from limb," said Brian Levin, who directs the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino. "I was afraid for their lives."

 Levin, who went to Pearson Park expecting to record the rally for research, found himself protecting the Klansmen until police could intervene. On a video Levin shot and posted to Twitter, he later asked one of them, "How do you feel that a Jewish person helped save your life today?"

 A Klansman stabbed a counter-protester in the chest with an eagle figure at the end of the flag, according to Wyatt. The protester was transported to a hospital in critical condition.

 "As stated previously, I implore everyone to respond with peace and dignity, regardless of where your support lies," Anaheim Police Chief Raul Quezada said in a statement. "We have a unique opportunity to bond together as OUR Anaheim community."

 Rosa Madrigal, a 25-year-old mother who was at the park Sunday with her husband and three children, told The Associated Press she was shocked to even hear about the KKK holding a rally in Anaheim, let alone the violence that ensued.

 "I didn't even think it was true when I heard it," Madrigal said. "It's crazy, especially in a park where you take your kids."

 Nationwide, the number of active KKK groups increased to 190 in 2015 after falling in 2013 and 2014, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups. In January 2015, packets containing fliers from the "Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan" and condemning the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. were left in the driveways of about 40 homes in Santa Ana, about 8 miles south of Anaheim.

 California has 68 hate groups identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center, second only to Texas' 84.

 NBC4's Jonathan Lloyd contributed to this report.

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– A California Ku Klux Klan rally on Saturday ended with three anti-KKK protesters stabbed and five KKK members arrested. But Anaheim cops now say those five have been released after evidence shows they acted in self-defense, the Los Angeles Times reports. "The totality of the evidence, including videos, still pictures, and interviews, paints a pretty clear picture as to who the aggressors were," an Anaheim police sergeant says. The demonstration, which the Chicago Tribune says was meant to be an anti-immigration rally, turned violent from the get-go after six KKK members showed up around noon. Witnesses say some of the anti-protesters—who the Washington Post says numbered in the "several dozen"—started kicking a Klansman wearing a "Grand Dragon" shirt, and soon the stabbings began, including one by a KKK member using the decorative end of a flagpole. "[The counter-protesters] were so angry, they would have torn these folks limb from limb," Brian Levin, the director of Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University-San Bernardino, tells NBC Los Angeles. Levin, who was there to record the rally for research purposes, says he ended up shielding KKK members until police could get there. "I was afraid for their lives." Levin later posted on Twitter a video of him asking one of the KKK members: "How do you feel that a Jewish person helped save your life today?" (The Klansman thanked him.) "Regardless of an individual or group's beliefs or ideologies, they are entitled to live without the fear of physical violence and have the right, under the law, to defend themselves when attacked," a police statement read, per NBC. The seven counter-protesters who remain jailed are being held on charges of assault with a deadly weapon or elder abuse for attacking a Klan member older than 65. The three people stabbed were in stable condition at a local hospital.