Dr. Phil Scolded by George Michael

In front of a star-studded audience, Dr. Phil McGraw was recently taken to task by of all people George Michael.

While at a Los Angeles concert performance by Michael, Dr. Phil was chewed out over his non-sunny expression.

“I probably shouldn’t say this but it’s very me,” Michael announced from onstage.

“Dr. Phil is here, and in the sea of faces he has this miserable look – he’s been doing it for the last hour,” the singer added. “I probably shouldn’t say this, but maybe you need to see someone about that.”

Some of the concert attendees started booing the daytime TV advisor.

Celebs in the audience who may or may not have booed included Bo Derek, Pink, Sharon Stone, Randy Jackson, Cyndi Lauper and Kathy Griffin.

Guess this means all Michael concertgoers have to don happy faces or risk being singled out as sour pusses.

X Files’ Rapper-Actor Xzibit a Non-Believer in Aliens

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In the upcoming movie, “The X Files: I Want to Believe,” which is set for release in late July, a rapper with the perfect name to act in an “X-Files” flick, Xzibit, does a decent job playing an FBI agent

Xzibit, a.k.a. Alvin Nathaniel Joiner, is also known for hosting the MTV reality show “Pimp My Ride.”

When asked about his personal beliefs with respect to the existence of extra terrestrial life, Xzibit seems to have taken a cue from fellow rapper Kanye West.

“I don’t believe in aliens,” Joiner tells People magazine. “I don’t think aliens or ghosts like black people. We never get abducted; our houses never get haunted. It always happens in rural areas, where no ethnic people live. The day I see somebody from South Central Los Angeles say, ‘Man, I got abducted yesterday,’ then I’ll believe it.”

Xzibit might want to check out one of the most famous alien abductions from the 1960s; that of Barney Hill, along with his wife Betty.

Barney was an African-American that aliens apparently liked enough to have a close encounter with.

James Hirsen is a media analyst, Trinity Law School professor, and teacher of mass media and entertainment law at Biola University.

The Scarlett Johansson-Barack Obama Connection

Presumptive Democrat nominee Barack Obama is often compared to John F. Kennedy.

But one thing JFK didn’t have to contend with was email.

Scarlett Johansson’s recent revelation that Obama is her regular email pal is creating quite a stir.

The actress apparently gives the presidential candidate advice via email missives and comforts him when he’s had a tough day in the same e-way.

“You’d imagine that someone like the senator who is constantly travelling and constantly ‘on’ – how can he return these personal emails?” Johansson tells the Politico. “But he does, and in his off-time I know he also calls people who have donated the minimum to thank them.”

She also says that after a difficult debate he had, she sent Obama an email patting him on the back for “holding his ground.”

The Dem candidate emailed the actress that the questioning at the debate was “difficult” and that he was given “one silly question after another.”

Johansson says she’s not only supporting someone but is “having a personal dialog with them, and it’s amazing.”

Obama is a fan of the actress’ films, his fave being “Lost in Translation.”

He’s also a “huge movie lover” who “knows who every actor is,” Johansson says.

In the past, she joked that she was “engaged” to the Illinois Senator, quipping, “My heart belongs to Barack.”

She was also featured in his celebrity filled Internet clip, “Yes We Can,” and may be one of the reasons the clip drew more than 13 million viewers.

Johansson is ready to “do cold calls, public service announcements, all different things to help out.” She’s willing to be “part of a benefit concert or show, and then perhaps hosting after-parties or dinners beforehand,” too.

Reactions and questions are surfacing, though.

“Perhaps it’s true, power makes men stupid. Why in the world is Barack Obama emailing Scarlett Johansson?” Reny Monk at the Huffington Post asks.

“So you’ve got a 23-year-old gorgeous, blonde actress e-mailing a married presidential candidate. Well, what could go wrong there, huh?” Jay Leno inquires tongue-in-cheek.

James Hirsen is a media analyst, Trinity Law School professor and teacher of mass media law at Biola University.

Barack Obama’s Tinseltown Trip

Come late June, Barack Obama will be traveling to Tinseltown.

This time he’ll arrive as the presumptive Democrat nominee.

Now that the primary is over, Hillary’s Hollywood contingent is expected to open up its coffers for Obama.

A fundraiser is set to be held at the Los Angeles Music Center, with invites going out to the wealthiest Dem donors in So Cal.

In all probability, the H-bash will add megabucks to Obama’s already sizable war chest.

During the 2004 presidential campaign season, dreary John Kerry was able to raise $5 mill at a celebrity-laden event, which was held at one LA Music Center venue, the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Although John McCain has more buddies in Hollywood than any Republican since Ronald Reagan, any attempts to match or even come close to what Obama will tap from Tinseltown are likely to fail miserably.

As Chad Griffen, veteran political advisor to Rob Reiner, told the Los Angeles Times, “I can’t imagine anyone in the entertainment industry going from Hillary Clinton to John McCain.”

Some Operation Chaos devotees might beg to differ.

Lauren Hutton’s ‘Sex and the City’ Gripe

Who’s been influencing Lauren Hutton? The actress-model recently aired her complaints about the way women are portrayed in the “Sex and the City” TV show and new movie of the same name. Much like concerns expressed by a lot of parents, Hutton raged about the promiscuous lifestyle of the women in the storylines. Hutton blamed writers for turning the female characters into floozies. While appearing on NBC’s “The Today Show,” the actress decried “Sex and the City” for perpetuating what she sees as the myth of female sexual promiscuity somehow being a natural behavior. “It’s written by guys, who happen to be gay, who are sluts,” Hutton commented. “Let’s face it, most men are sluts. That’s what testosterone is supposed to do. As a hunter, if you stayed alive after 30, nature wanted your genes out there. Women were just trying to get the best sperm to make a masterpiece.” “You have a bunch of guys who are sluts, writing for women and telling them they are supposed to act like this,” Hutton lamented.